Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes chapters on the music culture of Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenia, Tajikstan, and Uzbekistan, respectively. Edited and Annotated by Mark Slobin. Translated from the Russian by Mark..... More
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "...describes the religious society known as the midewiwin as it has existed among the Ojibwa ... presents conditions of Ojibwa life during the 1930's as..... More
Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Stobe Talbott on the front flyleaf. "...revealing, authoritative account of the intensive talks that the United States conducted on parallel tracks with the South..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Omnibus of five of the author's most popular works: Many Cargoes (1896), Sea Urchins (1898), Odd Craft (1903), Light Freights (1901), and Short Cruises (1907). Of..... More
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. The Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist Joan Miro (1893-1983) developed an imaginary and impulsive style that reflected his views of the harshness of modern life. His..... More
Munchen: Shirmer/Mosel, 1986. Hardcover. Drtikol (1883–1961) was a Czech photographer known for his nudes and portraits. Text in German. Quarto: 200 p. with 100 duotone images and 81 figures. Original black cloth binding, with blind-stamped..... More
New York: August Editions, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Presents an encounter between two California-based artists who never met but whose work shares a deep affinity in material and sensibility: contemporary sculptor and designer Alma Allen..... More
London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. The first survey of this iconic figure in Northwest Coast art, bringing together the largest number of Edenshaw works ever assembled, and offering a rare opportunity to view his..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Ironic novel about eroticism and exoticism in the milieu of quaint but lewd old British ladies at an English spa resort. Valmouth is noted for its florid..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ann Beattie on the front flyleaf. The author's first novel. It served as the basis for the Joan Micklin Silver romantic..... More
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. "Originally published in 1806 A Voyage to Cochinchina reflects the interest of that period in travel to distant places in all parts of..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith's acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Volstead Act (Prohibition). Illustrated..... More
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. A paranoid tour de force of political noir, this novel skips back and forth in time, interspersing newspaper clippings and court transcripts with the reactions and reminiscences..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. A whimsical story for children by American writer best known for his Topper novels. Octavo: 240 p. with a color frontispiece and..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1953. Hardcover. An early printing, lacking the Rinehart seal on the copyright page. Signed by Polly Adler on the front flyleaf. Memoirs of the most celebrated brothel keeper in..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A photographer's freak accident in the darkroom produces a chemical concoction causing him and his dog to randomly switch back and forth..... More
New York: Tibet House New York in association with Abradale Press, 1996. Expanded Edition. Hardcover. "...this landmark book was expanded to illuminate an enlarged international version of the most important and comprehensive exhibition of Tibetan..... More
Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum, 2004. First Edition. Wraps. The catalogue of an 2004-05 exhibition at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California. "Encompassing masterpieces of Tibetan furniture design and decoration in all its forms, the..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Historical novel set in England and Spain at the time of the Armada. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with orange titles. A near fine..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Dizzy Gillespie on the front pastedown. Autobiographical recollections of trumpeter John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie (1917-1993). The youngest of nine children, Gillespie..... More
Nebraska City: Printed by Thomas Morton, "Nebraska City News" 1861. First Edition. Wraps. The first of the General Laws establishes "that slavery or involuntary servitude, except for the commission of crime whereof the party shall..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The twenty-fifth book in the Freddy the Pig series, a Cold War yarn in which the "Renaissance Pig" must keep a set of flying saucer plans..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Rafael Sabatini on the title page. Andre Louis again dons his famous and much-admired disguise to embark upon a new adventure in..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's best-known work, an assortment of childhood reminiscences and yarns and characters from his newspaper days. Featuring an introduction by Fred..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Hardcover. A semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1857. Tom Brown is an early, well-drawn character in what was to become a familiar genre in English fiction: a...... More