Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. 230 pages including index. Illustrated with musical scores. A study of the lied's evolution in Germany between 1750 to 1900, discussing problems in the art form as well as specific songs from Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. GOOD jacket... More
Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. Trade Paperback. 313 pp. A philosophical and theoretical analysis of radicalized discourse and racist expression, showing how racism becomes normalized through social conceptions and categories. GOOD condition. Some scuffing and fading to the covers and extremities. Some pencil underlining and bracketing in the text. More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cloth. Black cloth in unclipped jacket. 598 pp. A few black and white photos and maps throughout. A history and reassessment of World War II in Africa, drawing on documents from German and Italian records to provide a more complete view of the war... More
New York: Brooklyn Museum/Bulfinch Press, Publishers, 2004. Cloth. Brown cloth in unclipped jacket. Small, square folio. 256 pp. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. A work issued to coincide with an exhibition of paintings by American painter John Singer Sargent, focusing on his portraits of children, and examining the... More
No Place: No Publisher. Soft Cover. No maker given, although a logo is present on the rear cover. No place or date. Cardboard rear cover. No front cover, as issued. 11 samples of varying colors of Granada antique satin. Textile fabric swatch book. GOOD condition. Some staining and discoloration to... More
No Place: No Publisher. Cloth. No publisher, place or date. Green cloth binding. 7 ¾ by 3 ¼ inches. 15 samples of Ravenna antique satin in various colors. GOOD condition. General fading and minor spotting to the covers. Minor soiling. More
Worcester, MA: The Geo. C. Whitney Co., Publisher, 1922. Wraps. 1922 (based on date on order sheet). Gray printed wraps, side sewn. 11 ½ by 8 inches. 42 pages, including covers. A sample book of Christmas and Halloween cards made by the Geo. C. Whitney Company, circa 1922. Predominately Christmas... More
New Haven: The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University, 1967. Hard Cover. Orange-yellow paper covered boards in dust jacket. Folio. 73 pp., plus several pages of plates at the rear. A look at the archaeology and finds at the Arminna West site, discussing the find and their aid... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Wraps. no date, perhaps 1870s. Red and black side sewn wraps. 4 ½ by 3 ½ inches. 16 pp., including covers. Red and black illustrations throughout. A toy book issued by the McLoughlin Bros., containing rhymes musing on good and bad behavior by boys, including greed... More
Cambridge: Harvard University, presumed Publisher, 1942. Cloth. Navy blue pebbled cloth. 135 pp., plus ads. Black and white portrait photos throughout. A yearbook style work depicting all members of the Naval Training School at Harvard University. Alphabetically arranged, giving civilian occupations of the members, as well as rosters of the... More
No Place: Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Publisher. Wraps. No place or date, presumed circa 1935 based on dates in the interior. Black and white photo illustrated wraps. 16 pp., including covers. Black and white photos throughout. A magazine devoted to aviation, primarily innovations in airplanes, with this issue discussing plans for... More
St. Louis: Wabash Railway Company, Presumed Publisher. Cloth. no date, circa 1924. Narrow, black cloth covers. 2-41, plus 6 pp. of supplements laid in. Also present is a few pieces of railway/railroad ephemera, essentially 2 loose papers with times; a small paper with The Carnegie Steel Company Limited, Route of... More
Tokyo: Sampoh Publishing Co, 1999. Hard Cover. White dust jacket over white paper covered boards, in glassine jacket, presumably as issued. 475 pp. Text in Japanese and English. A collection of meditations or prayers that offer one perspective on living and achieving a spiritual life, following the teachings of the... More
Chicago: Harriet Monroe, Publisher, 1923. Wraps. Printed wraps. Single issue of this little magazine, focusing on younger (newer?) poets, with a section of "established poets." This section includes work by Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale Vachel Lindsay, Witter Bynner and others, with the "Youth of Today" section having poems... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Cloth. Blue cloth in unclipped jacket. Oblong folio. 250 pp. Color reproductions of paintings throughout, as well as black and white illustrations. A work issued to coincide with an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Dutch artist Jan van der Heyden. With several essays... More
New Haven: Furioso, 1939. Wraps. Wraps. Cover design by Graham Peck. 28 pp. First issue of this little magazine founded by James Angleton and E. Reed Whittemore, serving as a "meeting place for the major figures of the 'poetic renaissance' of the 1940s" (Hoffman pp 345-346). Of note is a.... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam. 1845. Quarter Leather. Quarter green leather with marbled boards. 110, 100 pp. Two novels that explore social vices. By Martin Farquhar Tupper, an English author perhaps best known for his work, Proverbial Philosophy. GOOD+ condition. Minor to moderate scuffing to the leather and extremities. Minor... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. Cloth. Stated second edition, revised and corrected. Green cloth. 455, 570 pp. A few fold out maps and illustrations throughout. Memoirs by General William Tecumseh Sherman, touching on the Mexican War, time in California, but primarily focused on the Civil War and his... More
Ottawa, ON, Canada: Feminist History Society, 2011. Cloth. 333 pp. Black and white photos throughout. A collection of the author's columns in the Toronto Star, essays and reflections on her experiences documenting and participating in the women's movement, feminist and women's rights activities, primarily in Canada from the 1960s on... More
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002. Cloth. Blue cloth in unclipped jacket. Quarto. 318 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout, with a section of color illustrations. A detailed analysis and study of the architecture and decoration of the final chapel of Louis XIV, finished around 1710. The work draws on... More
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1930. Wraps. Blue wraps. 31 pp. A short work on venereal diseases, addressing cultural perceptions of sex as being immoral, a sin, and unclean, and how those can lead to the spread of disease. With short discussion of prostitution, as well as sections on male and... More
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1931. Wraps. Blue wraps. 32 pp. A collection of short pieces on sex and morality, including a look at the psychological impact of suppressing the sexual impulses (based on two case studies of woman, and with a seeming stereotypical view of women) by Frank Waddy. Also present... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1845. Wraps. Printed wrappers. 142 pp., plus 16 pp. Of ads. Double columned text. A novel exploring family life while travelling abroad (in Italy). By English author Sarah Stickney Ellis, known for her promoting a traditional role for women in adhering to domestic duties, but... More
No Place: Chronicle Office, Printer, 1866. Pamphlet. Pamphlet. 8 pp. Double columned text. A speech by Republican Roswell Hart of New York, cautioning against allowing Southern states back into the Union without first establishing that they will adhere to constitutional principles and establish in law rights for all, regardless of... More
Providence RI: Providence Athenaeum, Publisher, 2000. First Edition. Wraps. First edition. Wraps. SIGNED, with a short inscription, by the author. 26 pp. The author's first published collection of poetry, selected as recipient for the Philbrick Poetry Award by Robert Creeley. With a short blurb by Creeley on the rear cover... More