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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 295 pages; Description: 295 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Alcoholics --Fiction. City and town life --Fiction. California --Fiction. Genre: Domestic fiction. 1 Kg.

Stated First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 577 pages; Description: 577 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: Fiction/Horror 1 Kg.

Two-tone paper-covered boards, 8vo, 25 cm, x, 290, [2] pp, over 60 ills. From the blurb - ".Petroski turns to the subject of books and bookshelves, and wonders whether it was inevitable that books would come to be arranged vertically as they are today on horizontal shelves. As we learn how the ancient scroll became the codex became the volume we are used to, we explore the ways in which the housing of books evolved. Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, where books were so scarce they were chained to lecterns for security. He explains how the printing press not only changed the way books were made and shelved, but also increased their availability and transformed book readers into book owners and collectors. He shows us that for a time books were shelved with their spines in, and it was not until after the arrival of the modern bookcase that the spines faced out. In delightful digressions, Petroski lets Seneca have his say on 'the evils of book collecting'; examines the famed collection of Samuel Pepys (only three thousand titles: old discarded to make room for new); and discusses bookselling, book buying, and book collecting through the centuries. Richly illustrated and wonderfully written, this is the ultimate book on the book: how it came to be and how we have come to keep it." Name on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 286 pages; Description: xvi, 286 p. , 8 leaves of plates : ill. , ports. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Brinkley, David --World War, 1939-1945 --Washington (D. C. ) . Washington (D. C. ) --History 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 331 pp., illustrations, 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index. Contents; Introduction: Changing Meanings -- 1. The Sacred Breast: Goddesses, Priestesses, Biblical Women, Saints, and Madonnas -- 2. The Erotic Breast: "Orbs of Heavenly Frame" -- 3. The Domestic Breast: A Dutch Interlude -- 4. The Political Breast: Bosoms for the Nation -- 5. The Psychological Breast: Minding the Body -- 6. The Commercialized Breast: From Corsets to Cyber-Sex -- 7. The Medical Breast: Life-Giver and Life-Destroyer -- 8. The Liberated Breast: Politics, Poetry, and Pictures -- 9. The Breast in Crisis. Subjects; Breast Social aspects. Breast in art and literature. Human body. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Subjects: Moving, Household --Trees --Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Endpages torn. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 278 pages. Subjects; Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973. Miró, Joan 1893-1983. Matisse, Henri 1869-1954 ; Biography. Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973 ; Biography. Art, European 20th century. Art, European. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Signed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 331 pages; Description: 331 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) --Baltimore (Md. ) --Fiction 1 Kg.

5th Revised Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 538 pages; Description: 538 p. : col. ill. (some folding), maps ; 23 cm. Subjects: Egypt -- Guidebooks. Series: Knopf guides. 1 Kg.

First Trade Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 260 pages; Description: 260 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Tristan (Legendary character) --Romances--Adaptations. Iseult (Legendary character) --Romances--Adaptations. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Signed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 331 pages; Description: 331 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) --Baltimore (Md. ) --Fiction 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ; (alk. paper) 301p. ; 25 cm. Box number: CNL-02.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 370 p. ; 25 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. 306 p. 25 cm. Box number: GR0050. ; First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. (alk. paper) 227 p. ; 20 cm. Box number: CNL-07.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. 1st ed. hardback vg/vg (alk. paper) ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-370) and index.; 383 p. ; 25 cm.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 206 p. ; 24 cm.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 291 p. ; 22 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. x, 395 p. map 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Box number: GR0059. ; 1st North American ed. ; Twelfth printing, August 2006.

hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. none xxxviii, 325 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xvi, 475 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Box Number: B32.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Debra Lill (Front-of-Jacket Photo); Carol Devine Carson (Jacket Design) (illustrator). 3rd Printing, February 1990. 433 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal to moderate external wear and clean text. Dj shows moderate cuts and tears around edges. Previous owner's name inside first free front-end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 280x200x19mm+747g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Alfred A Knopf; Distributed by Random House Inc. New York. 1993. First American Edition. . . A collection of twenty traditional tales from the Australian Aborigines. explaining how the world began and what followed. Australia:. 124: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted. . . Australia_Post_Zoned_International_Shipping_Rates_FOR_THIS_PARCEL . . AP-Zone1_NZ:_AU$29.20 . . AP-Zone3_Canada_USA:_AU$46.80 . . AP-Zone4_UK_Europe:_AU$53.40 . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$17.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pictorial hardcover, 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) 1 audio cassette, Cover title.Consists of pop-up, pull-out, and press-out sections on folded pages; pocket at front contains red/blue 3-D glasses; pockets at back contain 1 model for assembly, 1 sound cassette (analog), 1 pull-out folded sheet (11 x 7 cm.) with title: Timeline of architects and architecture, and 1 booklet (40 p. ; 11 x 7 cm.) with title: Glossary of architects and architecture. a clever production with some intricate paper engineering, in very good condition.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. ; 130 pages; Color illustrated. Includes bibliographical references (p. 129) . Subjects: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 --Themes, motives. O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 Homes and haunts--New York (State) --New York. 3 Kg.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. dj has one slight closed tear ; xii, 224 p. ; 22 cm.

Ford, Richard, 1944-. A multitude of sins: stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002, stated First United States Edition, 286pp., very good dust-jacket lightly worn and wrinkled along top edge, cover price $25.00, very good black and light green hardcover, tiny tear at top of one page. SIGNED simply Richard Ford in blue ink on title page. A collection of short stories that explores the theme of love and intimacy looks inside the relationships between men and women--both in and out of marriage--and the sense of right and wrong. - CONTENTS: Privacy -- Quality time -- Calling -- Reunion -- Puppy -- Crèche -- Under the radar -- Dominion -- Charity -- Abyss. 9780375412127 ISBN 0375412123.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 321 pages; Description: 321 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Man-woman relationships --Computer programmers --Villages --New England --Fiction 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 127 pp. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0394525396; 9780394525396 LCCN: 82-47834 ; OCLC: 8627839 ; "Gray, rumpled, garrulous Prof. Homer Prudhomme, apparently wandering his native New England in search of longtime (long-unfaithful) wife Priscilla, w inds up in a bar. . . and is promptly picked up, more or less, by local exterminator . More Pansy Truax, a giantess who matches Homer's arch locutions with roughly eloquent pronouncements on bumhood: "There's your four types of bums. . . the boozehound bum, the mama's boy, the bookworm, and the pillhead." Very soon, however, Kennedy shifts the tone from boisterous, just-slightly-unreal comedy to a darker, more explicitly thematic brand of whimsy, with more than a soupcon of Joyce Carol O ates. The Homer/Pansy affair quickly becomes a caricature of traditional marriage--with the sex-roles graphically reversed. Homer then flees to become the third party to a similarly imbalanced relationship: the marriage of charismatic octogenarian M rs. French and her young, pretty, effeminate, pouting husband. Later he'll take a car-ride with yet another sexually-reversed pair: black live-sex-show performers Salamandra and Queen Albert. And, throughout, Homer reminisces about his own family's sexual waywardnesses: wonderfully sensual wife Priscilla, raped by her father, later his willing mistress, and ever unfaithful to Homer ('She hadn't even unlocked her trousseau yet, and here she was, balancing the porcine belly on her forehead, serv icing an empire!'); and his Aunt Daphne, who sinned with her brother-in-law, was de-faced by a swarm of bees, and came back years later as 'a fertility goddess.'"--Kirkus reports ; VG/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American ed. ; 367 pp. ; ISBN: 067977260X, 9780679772606 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in color decorative dustjacket ; the author's sixth novel ; "Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obssese s him 30 years later" ; FINE/FINE. Book.