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Softcover, trade paperback. Condition: Good. An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds & Contexts, Criticism. 461 pages. Edited by Phillip Mallett. A Norton Critical Edition, Second Edition. Hard bump to back, dinged & creased. Hardy, 1840-1908, was an English novelist and poet, best known for his novels of the Wessex countryside.

Softcover. Condition: Good. A Norton Critical Edition, edited by David Scott Kastan. A Two Text Edition, with one from 1604 and one from 1616, plus context, sources, and criticism. Previous owner's name, brief notes and marginalia. 430 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. P6 - DJ has crease on the back inside flap, light crease on the front and back, light discoloration and normal shelf wear otherwise good. Book has light discoloration and normal shelf wear otherwise very good. Glasmost is dead, and the cold war rages on in the pages of this elegantly suspenseful cloak-and-dagger adventure. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Covers European relations & Western influence on Chinese civilization. 322 pages, further reading, index. Some wear to head & tail of jacket spine. Dust Jacket condition very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xxix, 507 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "A history of the Bolshoi Ballet from its dubious beginnings in 1776 to the present, exploring its political ties and importance under various Russian regimes and how it came to define both Russian culture and ballet itself." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The swindling magician; Napoleon and after; Fleet as lightning: the career of Ekaterina Sankovskaya; Imperialism; After the Bolsheviks; Censorship; I, Maya Plisetskaya; Epilogue. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. xix, 287 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear, age toning. Another copy available. *** CONTENTS: The auction; The crit; The fair; The prize; The magazine; The studio visit; The biennale. "The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 245 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. McDermid, Leonard (illustrator). 1st. 256 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. Illustrated by Leonard McDermid. *** CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. A Biography of Place; 2. The Role of London in Virginia Woolf's Writing; 3. Symbolic Landscape; 4. Some Virginia Woolf Walks; 5. Virginia Woolf's Other Houses; Bibliography; Index. Size: 8vo.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. G6 - Book has crease on the front left side, light crease on the spine, some chipping on the top and bottom edges and sides, discoloration and normal shelf wear othewise very good. Capturing a crucial moment in history of exploration-the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the Arctic-Andrea Barrett's compelling novels tells the story of a fateful expedition. Through the eyes of. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Prepared by the editors for the American Association of State and Local History. Includes museums, historic houses, history of the state as part of the American nation. States and the Nation Series, with a historical guide. Top edge spotted.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Ed. 344 pages. Thomas Jefferson.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover olive boards with black titling on the spine with decorated endpapers. Includes Foreword by Julie Moir Messervy, color photographs, maps and Index, 206 pages. The DJ is in Fine condition. Size: 8 1/4" x 8 1/2".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Hardcover lime green boards with blue lettering on the spine. Includes numerous color photographs byChristopher Hirsheimer and Index, 336 pages. The exception to the condition is bumped/dented bottom corners/tips. The DJ is in Very Good + condition with the exception of bumped tips and wear to the extremities.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Softcover includes Bibliography, 194 pages. The exception to the condition is toning.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Softcover, 270 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover beige boards with navy blue spine and gilt lettering on the spine and cover, 322 pages. The DJ is in Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover blue boards with blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Includes References and Index, 231 pages. The exception to the condition is light fading on the top/bottom of the boards. The DJ is in Very Good condition with the exception of a closed tear on the front wrapper.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover book is a clean unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Softcover Edition. Softcover book has some scattered markings in text and and marked out name on bottom page edges and back cover side.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Good softcover with some wear on covers, particularly corners. Edgewear, bumped corners, scratches to covers. Pages thumbed but clean save small notes and bookstore stamped price on half title. A very useful copy. ; Vol. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 215, [8] pages of color plates, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Tight, clean text. Previous owner's signature/inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "Describes Grant Wood's portrait of Iowa farmers, and documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the often-parodied American heartland." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xv, 765 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "Here, celebrated drama critic John Lahr gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds light on Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life, this book is as much a biography of the man as it is a trenchant exploration of his plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just his tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a theater biography like no other." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xxv, 774 pages, [16] pages, illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. *** "In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval tactics were brought to bear, along with such unheard-of weapons as rockets, torpedoes, and submarines. The war on land saw the rise of the greatest soldier the world had ever known--Napoleon Buonaparte--whose vast ambition was thwarted by a genius he never met in person or in battleL: Admiral Horatio Nelson" - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: I. THE TACTICAL EVOLUTION. II. THE GREAT WAR, FIRST PHASE, 1793-1805. III. THE CONCLUSIVE STRUGGLE, 1805-1816. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. xix, 287 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. *** CONTENTS: The auction; The crit; The fair; The prize; The magazine; The studio visit; The biennale. "The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, xxxi, 334 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tips lightly bumped. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Another copy available. *** "The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises. In James Grant's colorful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was influential in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone--and enemies: Lord Overstone, Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide-ranging topics, he won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day, and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xiv, 525 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Bumped corners. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political and military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300,000 men in four days--surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xxxi, 334 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises. In James Grant's colorful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was influential in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone--and enemies: Lord Overstone, Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide-ranging topics, he won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day, and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. x, 452 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In [this book], Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant writers and editors" - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. xxvi, 388 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket lightly soiled on the back cover. *** "A portrait of nineteenth-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker describes their rise from savvy side-show celebrities to wealthy Southern gentry and discusses how their experiences reflected America's historical penchant for objectifying differences." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.