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Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
Dover Publications, June 1968. Trade Paperback. All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables -- in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark -- with a Calder drawing for each fable and 12 additional vignettes. Includes -The Lion in Love- and -The..... More
Indulge: 100 Perfect Desserts
Whitecap Books, January 2010. Hardcover. Learn to craft desserts from a master patissier. Claire Clark is the pastry chef at The French Laundry (Napa Valley in California), one of America's most renowned restaurants. Its innovative and creative menus always deliver the highest standards of quality and great taste. Its celebrated..... More
Feathered Dinosaurs
A shuffaloff/Eternal Network Joint, 2012. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Rome and a Villa
Atheneum, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with dark stains on cover. Moderate edgewear. A previous owner's name written in ink first inside pa[303 pages plus one page list of Atheneum titles availble]. More
Penance
Harper, September 2023. Hardcover. One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 "Eliza Clark's writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence."--Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 "Chilling, clever, and unputdownable."--Guardian From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling..... More
The Nude: A Story in Ideal Form (A 168) 298 Illustrations
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Worn at edges with chipped spine corners. Dust stained textblock edges with small, grey smudges. Previous owner's name stamped verso of front cover. (575 pages.). More
The Puzzles of Childhood
Penguin, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Pages toned. Gift inscription on verso of front cover. More
The Torturer in the Mirror
Seven Stories Press, August 2010. Paper Back. Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture--and could that line be..... More
The Works of Man
Viking Adult, September 1985. Cloth. Nice red cloth binding lettered in silver along the spine. More
My Century in History: Memoirs
University Press of Kentucky, August 2006. First Edition. Cloth. When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but..... More
Ox-Bow Incident
Modern Library, March 2001. Trade Paperback. Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order..... More
The Discovery of Dura-Europos
Yale University Press, November 1979. Cloth. From the third century A.D. until the 1920s, the ancient city of Dura, which the Greeks called Europos, lay covered by the sands of time. Today, hardly a book that touches on the ancient Eastern Mediterranean or on the development of art and religion..... More
The Smell Of Us: The Fashion Catalog
J. W. Anderson, London, England, January 2015. Soft Cover. More
Lewis and Clark Expedition: Selections from the Journals, Arranged by Topic
Bedford Books, February 1998. Trade Paperback. This is the story of a two-year journey in the time of President Thomas Jefferson along the Missouri and Columbia rivers, and over the Rocky Mountains, in search of a navigable waterway to the Pacific Ocean. This selection of journal entries provides insight into..... More
The Islandian World of Austin Tappan Wright
Horace F. Turner, 1957. First Edition. Pamphlet. Talk given to the Zamorano Club in April 1957 by the Librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles, Lawrence Clark Powell. Stapled pamplet (with 2 staples) in brick red cloth covered porfolio [7 & 7/8' x 11'] with pocket and paper..... More
Life And Work Of James A Garfield, Twentieth President Of The United States. & Tragic Story Of His Death - Memorial Edition
P.W. Ziegler, 1881. Reprint. Cloth. Brown cloth with gold and black decorations and borders. Portrait of Garfiled in circlular emblem. Raised brown lettering in rectangular gold backgrounds. Floral designs in black. End pages are chocolate brown. Heavily worn ato top and bottom of spine with frayed edge. Front end page..... More
A Treasury of Damon Runyon (Modern Library, No. 53)
Random House/The Modern Library, January 1958. Hardcover. 12mo. in jacket with moderate shelf wear. Front flap is not clipped. Jacket verso shows 385 available Modern Library titles. Red cloth covered boards with tiny gold lettering framed within rectangles of black. Kent end pages in grey ink. Textblock top edge tinted..... More
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Chelsea Publishing Co. Leather. No date, but was possibly printed in 1930s. Author not listed, but Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736 – 1794) was German writer credited with this classic adventure tale, and Rapse is discussed at length in Thomas Seccombe's introduction. The translator is unnamed. Navy blue leather cover deeply..... More
Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation (Second Edition)
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, January 1980. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Dustjacket is duststain with soiling, darkening at margins. Edgeworn with several tears along the top. Damp staining. Flap is not clipped. Red cloth with red & black cloth with gold lettering on spine and..... More