London: Watts & Co., 1949. Hardcover. The central thesis of this influential work is that hero figures of mythology had their origin in ritual drama, not historical fact. No. 133 in The Thinker's Library. 12mo... More
Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Billed as "the most definitive and extensive collection of Balkan recipes yet to be published in the English language." Includes a foreword by Alan Davidson and numerous... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The culminating work in a trilogy of books exploring the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Fried provides an entirely new understanding not... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the first collection of Chinese poetry undertaken by a group of Chinese scholars." Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. A bit... More
London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated by Tom Milne. Definitive biography of the American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause... More
Stockholm: Paul Astroms Forlag, 1988. First Edition. Wraps. "Twenty-eight papers on the phenomena of early Greek cult practice, concentrating on the Late Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods, read at an international conference in Athens; the... More
Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes a foreword by Chinua Achebe. 40 color plates, 338 textual figures, and 2 maps. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with red and white... More
Miami, Florida: Manhattan Music, Inc., 1994. Trade paperback. An in-depth study of Blakey's drumming, with a foreword by Wynton Marsalis. The audio CD is still sealed in the rear pocket. Quarto. Original glossy paper wrappers... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A crisp, near fine copy. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardcover. The first ever authoritative guide to Turner, with over 760 alphabetical entries covering every aspect of his life, art, past and present reception, and the cultural, social, and political... More
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2004. First Edition. Trade paperback. "Chilean painter Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, a major figure in the twentieth-century Surrealist movement, was one of the few Latin..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2002. Trade paperback. "This volume - widely considered the definitive study on the subject - describes in meticulous detail the ancient Peruvians' textiles and techniques." Quarto. Original pictorial paper... More
Zurich: Spring Publications, 1978. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original blue paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. More
New York: AMS Press, 1972. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1908 first edition. Small octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy. More
New York: Italica Press, 1994. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. More
London: Profile Books, 2003. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. More
London: Wisdom Publications, 1984. Trade paperback. "This volume contains the edited teachings of the Fifteenth Kopan Meditation Course. The theme is Shantideva's text Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Way of Life but the subject matter covers... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Trade paperback. Quarto. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. More
New Orleans: The Tulane University of Louisiana, 1931. First Edition. Wraps. The report of a 1927 field investigation of the Indians in the remote town of Jacaltenango, Guatemala. Middle American Research Series Publication No. 3... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,526 copies. "Houghton was a scholarly layman who had great love for the huge, land-locked area known as the Great Basin. This... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Third Edition. Hardcover. Excellent general history of the Angles and Saxons from the time when they are first mentioned among the tribes of Germany to the death of Alfred the... More
Austin: The University of Texas Press and Linguistic Society of America, 1966. Hardcover. Fifth printing. Tall octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with dark blue titles. Internally crisp and clean. The dust jacket is a bit... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, with the publisher's embossed stamp to the title page. The first book in English on the subject. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Hardcover. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. More
