New York: Sheridan House, 1928. Hardcover. The first in a trilogy of exotic fantasy novels concerning Cartaphilius (alias Isaac Laquedem), an elegant and immortal young man who was the wanderer of ancient myth. Octavo. Original..... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. "...charts the scientific controversies over the evolution of language from Darwin’s day to our own, resurrecting the forgotten debts of psychology, anthropology, and..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. This rich collection is concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symbolic action," and to show..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "Comprising approximately seventy works on paper, this exhibition provides the first opportunity in this country to examine the full extent of Artaud's graphic work..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing in the first state (silver) dust jacket. Review copy, with the publisher's press release and press photograph of Hawking laid in. A landmark..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), the American art collector who designed and donated the building in Pasadena, California that is now home to the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "...the first ever to examine the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Examines how three twentieth-century German historians dealt with the problem of translating and interpreting the past when the passage of time and man's inclination..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. An engaging examination of The Maid of Orleans through a study of the companions, both rough soldiers and those high in authority, with whom she lived and..... More
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thomey on the front flyleaf. A member of the 28th Marines regiment that fought at Iwo Jima and raised the flags on Mt. Suribachi..... More
Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book endeavors to point out what the writer believes to be the ultimate basis of unity, a basis that has always existed, but concerning..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. Hardcover. Second printing. Posthumously published collection of 21 articles on aspects of the geography, ethnology, and linguistics of the California Indians. In the decades between 1910 and 1942, Merriam..... More
Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad - a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. Foreword by..... More
New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. Reprint of 1909 first edition, two volumes in one. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967. Hardcover. Second printing. This collection of eight essays represent all of Collingwood's earlier work in the philosophy of history and precede his landmark book The Idea of History (1946)."..... More
London: Prospect Books, 1989. First Edition. Trade paperback. Quarto. Original red paper wrappers. Light bump to the bottom corner of the contents; else near fine. More
London: Prospect Books, 1988. First Edition. Trade paperback. Quarto. Original blue paper wrappers. Light fading along the extremities; else near fine. More
Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom: Prospect Books, 1994. First Edition. Trade paperback. Quarto. Original lavender paper wrappers. Light bump to the bottom corner of the contents; else a crisp and clean copy. More
Chicago: Art Media Resources, Ltd., 1997. First Edition. Trade paperback. Signed and dated by Lawrence on the title page. "The first book in the Encyclopedia of Japanese Art series is devoted to Hirado porcelain and..... More
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Bushell on the half-title. "In a delightfully lucid manner, the basics of netsuke are presented - definition, origin, development, materials..... More
Pasadena, California: Pacific Asia Museum in association with Meilinki Enterprises Ltd., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 56 of 200 copies signed by the author. This copy is additionally inscribed on the title page..... More
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Mandel on the half-title. The delightful story of how young Chi Po, aided by the sorcerer Bu Fu..... More
Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999. First Edition. Trade paperback. Presentation copy, signed by Welch and inscribed by Sharen to noted collector Virginia Atchley on the title page. Lavishly printed in full color, this..... More
1980. First Edition. The complete set of sixteen postcards, signed by Gorey as Dogear Wryde (Edward Gorey backwards) on the original illustrated envelope. Tiny bit of edgewear; else fine. More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1983. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Original illustrated paper wrappers. A fine copy. More