James Joyce, Common Sense and Beyond -- Fourth Printing
Random House, 1966, February 1977. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear to cover. Superficial vertical crease to spine. A few marginal markings within. [232 pages]. More
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The Lost Museum -- Glimpses of Vanished Originals
A Studio Book/ The Viking Press, June 1980. First Edition. Cloth. Folio. In edgeworn jacket with marginal darkening and small tears. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Viking Press 9' x 7' promotion card with information, a preproduction of Courbet's 'The Stone..... More
The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/4' x 9 1/2'] First edition. Complete number line. In heavily edgeworn DJ with tears small & medium, chipping & creasing. Burgundy cloth covered spine with gold lettering and tan paper covered boards. Previou reader's name in ink..... More
Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism
Univ of California Pr, September 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Surface and symbol: The consistency of James Joyce's Ulysses (A Galaxy book -- GB1780
Oxford University Press, January 1967. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo trade paperback with light soiling and darkening. Heavy wear to spine with superficial creasing and one-inch tear at bottom spine edge of front cover. Moderate dog-eared fore-edge corners top & bottom. [290 pages plus five page list of available Galaxy titles.]..... More
The Poetical Manuscripts of Mark Akenside in the Ralph M. Williams Collection, Amherst College Library:(Reproduced in Facsimile)
Amherst College Press, April 1988. Oversize Softcover. Oversized softcover {10' x 12'} Pale blue cardstock cover with sunning to margins & spine. [29 pp.]. More
Alain on Happiness
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
Chicago's Grand Hotels: The Palmer House, the Drake, and the Hilton Chicago
Arcadia Publishing, November 2005. First Thus. Paper Back. Architecturally imposing, historically rich, and socially important, Chicago's magnificent grand hotels have fascinated generations of Chicagoans and have pleased generations of guests. The Palmer House Hilton, The Drake, and The Hilton Chicago have come to represent a collective formal living room for..... More
The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Paper Back. Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new..... More
Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life After Death
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 1992. Trade Paperback. In a style that is both philosophically sophisticated and accessible to general readers, Robert Almeder introduces readers to the vigorous debate in the scientific community about the possibility of personal survival after death. He argues that belief in some form of personal..... More
The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical Introduction (APQ Library of Philosophy)
Rowman and Littlefield, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket mildly edge-worn/rubbed, jacket spine significantly sun-faded w/ title illegible; ; An excellent copy, despite jacket flaws. More
Civil War Justice: Union Army Executions Under Lincoln
White Mane Pub, April 1989. Hardcover. A factual account of how Lincoln's lack of management skills, his vacillation over decisions of military justice, and his complete disregard for the Constitution caused the deaths of many Union soldiers off the battlefield. This book is not another biography of Lincoln, nor is..... More
Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
Touchstone Books, June 1990. Paper Back. A distinguished critic rescues literature from the ivory tower and reestablishes reading as a personal source of complex pleasure and insight. Octavo. Trade paperback with slight curl to textblock Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. Sticker residue back cover. [250 pages]. More
Japan and Zen (University of Cincinnati. Occasional papers)
University of Cincinnati, January 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket is missing. Octavo {6' x 8 & 1/2'}; Spine is darkened/tanned and boards are likewise darkened/tanned at margins. Damp stains top right corner affecting first to leafs of text. Signed & inscribed by authors on front free end page: 'For the..... More
Classics of Analytic Philosophy (Hackett Classics)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., August 1990. Paper Back. This anthology of the central writings of the analytical tradition is widely regarded as the most useful such volume for teaching purposes. Clustered around issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, many of the pieces were written in..... More
Hazlitt on Theatre -- a dramabook
Hill and Wang, 1957. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened & edgeworn cover. Cover curling at fore-edge. [211 pp.]. More
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (V-286)
Vintage Books, July 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the..... More
Krishnattam
South Asia Books, September 1993. Cloth. More
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link/Myth-Nomers and Impervections 2-In-1
Ace Books, August 2002. Mass Market PaperBack. Two classic Myth books are together in one volume. In M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link, former magician's apprentice Skeeve tumbles up the corporate ladder, but that doesn't keep him from sleuthing around some dangerous dimensions. And in Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections, Skeeve's demon cohort, Ahaz, leaves..... More
Myth-Ing Persons/Little Myth Maker
Berkley Pub Group, 2002-07-01. Mass Market PaperBack. The third omnibus edition of Asprin's popular Myth tales contains Myth-Ing Persons, which finds Skeeve searching for his missing partner Ahaz in another dimension where his magic won't work. In Little Myth Marker, Skeeve bluffs his way into a high-stakes poker game, but..... More
The Act of Will
Penguin Books, August 1974. Trade Paperback. More
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
Three Rivers Press, January 2003. Trade Paperback. In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA's efforts to root out the world's deadliest terrorists, allowing..... More
Coral Island (Abridged)
Puffin Books, June 1994. Trade Paperback. When the three sailor lads, Ralph, Jack and Peterkin are cast ashore after the storm, their first task is to find out whether the island is inhabited, and then to find a way of staying alive. They go hunting and learn to fish, explore..... More
Portable World Bible
Penguin, 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. The Portable World Bible presents the fundamental tenets of the world's basic source religions. Contemporary readers are offered, in concise, authoritative translations, the religious thought of the ages, selected, interpreted, and arranged in view of modern man's quest for ultimate truths and values. Robert O...... More
Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in Ulysses
Cornell Univ Pr, February 1991. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
