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Women in Islam - Tradition and Transition in the Middle East
by Minai, Naila
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780872236660
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$20.00
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New York: Seaview Books, 1981. Hardcover. xvi, 283p., hardbound first American edition, tan-papered boards with red cloth backstrip gilt-titled and decorated, and enclosed in the glossy dust jacket that furnishes the sole illustration, an author portrait in vignette. Minai has inscribed and signed the front free endpaper (year of publication, to -----, "with deep gratitude and best wishes". A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sceptical Essays
by Russell, Bertrand
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- 1960
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$17.00
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1960. Hardcover. 251p., later printing of the 1935 original issue, hardbound in textured dark blue papered boards lettered bronze and enclosed in the plain printed dust jacket. Leaf 31/32 had a corner-tip misfolded and protruding the textblock (presswork unaffected), which we took the liberty of submitting to a scissor-trim, imperfect but way better.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Emergence of Modern Turkey. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
by Lewis, Bernard
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- 1962
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London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Second printing of first (1961) issue: 511p., followed by several line-maps bound in at terminus, incorporating a small photo & facsimile section in inserted stock. A very presentable copy, which probably would not have fallen into our non-specialist hands but for the inked underlines throughout chapter IX (pp.288-312). Hardbound in the green-cloth OUP… Read more about this item Item Price
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Durer Today. Foreword by Max Brocker
by Bongard, Willi, and Matthias Mende
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- 1971
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Bonn-Bad Godesberg: Inter Nationes, 1971. Paperback. 96p., museum catalog in semi-gloss alkaline paperstock, softbound in glossy 9.5x9 inch decorated wraps. Mild edgewear with two corner-tip creasings and a touch of dust-soil; otherwise sound & clean, and entirely unmarked. Numerous reproductions of classic and of little-known Durer works face parody images, the strongest of which are by one Michael Mathias… Read more about this item Item Price
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Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies
by Polanyi Karl; George Dalton, editor
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- 1971
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- Paperback
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- 9780807047934
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$25.00
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1971. Paperback. liv, 346p., softbound in 8x5.5 inch stylized wraps, very good condition: quite sound, clean, unmarked in any way. Item Price
$25.00
The Logic of Modern Physics
by Bridgman, P.W.
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- 1954
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Hardcover. A much-reprinted text, publisher Macmillan continues to find it saleable although unaltered from 1927, year of first issue. Smallish hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch black cloth boards lettered gilt. A sound copy that has been varnished --successfully, no spills-- and thus is oddly shiny; a former owner has rubberstamped the front pastedown and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Greece Without Columns; The Making of the Modern Greeks
by Holden, David
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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- 9780397007790
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1972. Hardcover. 336p., furnished with a nice clear line-map and, on its dust jacket, a spooky museum photo. Hardbound first edition in pale cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. A fine copy: perfectly sound, clear and unmarked. Item Price
$15.00
The Post-American Cultural Congress. Poems
by Abrams, Sam
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- 1974
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- 9780672519277
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1974. Paperback. First printing of the softbound issue, a nice copy in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps. Contents leaf bears an inked-out stroke, appears to annul a personal accession number; back cover has a few offset smudges; item is otherwise unmarked, and is quite clean and sound. FYI, author's "note to reader" states that "Almost… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Modern Navajo Weaving [article in offprint] from Arizona Highways, September, 1964 issue](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/122/041/1583041122.0.m.jpg)
Modern Navajo Weaving [article in offprint] from Arizona Highways, September, 1964 issue
by Tanner, Clara Lee, author. Bernard M. Mergen, ADB director
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- 1960
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- Pamphlet
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$12.00
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Phoenix AZ: Arizona Development Board, 1960. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about a dozen pages in length with numerous exhibit and on-site photographs, rejiggered as a neat small pamphlet in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Margins slightly toned and edgeworn, find an inconspicuous date-stamp (personal accession?) to upper right-hand cover corner, a generally sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy. Item Price
$12.00
![American Irrigation Engineering. ADVANCE COPY [see below]. American Society of Civil Engineers. Instituted 1852. Transactions, Vol. XXIV.. 1891](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/094/041/1583041094.0.m.jpg)
American Irrigation Engineering. ADVANCE COPY [see below]. American Society of Civil Engineers. Instituted 1852. Transactions, Vol. XXIV.. 1891
by Wilson, Herman M.
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- 1891
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- Original Wraps
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not stated: American Society of Civil Engineers [unpublished], 1891. Original Wraps. 56p., tentative text with only one page showing corrections (in pencil, grammatical errors only), coverless signatures sewn with tough thread in good shape, the usual govt or quasi-govt publication in 9x6 inch self-wraps. Front cover (i.e., first page) bears an old ownership in pen & ink, dust-soil, handling… Read more about this item Item Price
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The art of baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
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- 2002
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$75.00
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New York: Francis M Naumann, Fine Art, LLC, 2002. Pamphlet. 25p., [i.], 7x8.75 inch pictorial wraps; in very good condition. Item Price
$75.00
Nathan Cabot Hale, Sculptor, on the Removal of Fig Leaves
by Hale, Nathan Cabot
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- 1961
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- Pamphlet
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[Place of publication not identified]: Nathan Cabot Hale, 1961. Pamphlet. 31, [1]p., illustrations, wraps. 7 x 5 in. A few small stains on front cover, otherwise Very Good. Art criticism. The author praises nineteenth century painters and attacks 20th century movements such as abstract expressionism, especially the New York school. Item Price
$18.00
Humanist Manifestos I & II
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- 1973
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- Paperback
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Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1973. Paperback. 31, [1]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Minor shelf wear, but overall a Very Good copy. The text of both the 1933 and 1973 Humanist Manifestos, with an introduction by Paul Kurtz and a printed list of signers (B.F. Skinner, Gunnar Myrdal, Isaac Asimov, etc.). Item Price
$20.00
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Fire & the Feminine: Myths Animated in Clay. Introduction by Suzanne Wolfe; Forward by Les Manning
by Witten, Carol
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- 2014
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- Paperback
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- 9781491297315
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$22.00
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El Cerrito CA: Apple Blossom, Inc. Publisher, 2014. Paperback. 148p., profuse color exhibit photos, mostly of Witten's figurines but there are other subjects as well, softbound first edition in 8.5-inch-square colorphoto wraps. Inside front cover Witten has inscribed "to a partner in clay" her gratitude, signing as "Carol". Nice copy: sound, clean, and else unmarked. Item Price
$22.00
Die Schriftentwicklung / The Development of Writing / Le developpement de l'ecriture
by Meyer, Hans, editor
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- 1959
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Zürich: Graphis Press Zurich, 1959. Paperback. 48p., displays of various fonts on recto pages, captioned, with further commentary on opposite versos. Softbound, an upright booklet in 11.5x6 inch black wraps titled white, elegantly designed of course, this copy somewhat edgeworn with abrasion to spine panel and a couple of dings to the matte-black cover-fields. Publikation No. 98. Editor Meyer… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Intercollegiate Review A Journal of Scholarship and Opinion. Volume 3, No. 1, September-October 1966
by Ritchie, Robert, editor
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- 1966
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- Magazine
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Philadelphia: E. Victor Milione, 1966. Magazine. 54p., illustrated with scattered public-property photos, softbound in 10x7 inch decorated wraps. Front cover bears mild splash-stains and smudges, back cover a quarter-inch marginal tear, entirely sound and clean within, free of markings. Masthead lists some 24 persons on the Editorial Advisory Board, three of whom are Hoover Institute fellows, including Richard V.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hymns to St. Geryon & Dark Brown
by McClure, Michael
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- 1980
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San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1980. Paperback. ix., 91p., shelfworn covers otherwise very good first edition. Item Price
$15.00
What Does Not Change The Significance of Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers
by Maud, Ralph
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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- 9780838637319
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$45.00
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New Jersey: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. Hardcover. 176p., previous owner's pencil notes on rear free endpaper, slight musty odor otherwise very good condition in lightly shelfworn jacket with a 3/4 inch closed tear and associated wrinkling to top rear panel. Item Price
$45.00
Weaving a Persian Heartbeat - A Photo Story of Orley Shabahang Persian Carpet Weaving. Photographs by Ethan S. Orley in Association with Vignelli Associates
by Orley, Geoffrey and Bahram Shabahang
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- 2009
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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New York: Orley Shabahang, 2009. Paperback. Unpaginated, about seventy pages, fullsize captioned color and b&w photos throughout on fine alkaline paperstock, find a rear pocket containing five 9x6 inch color design cards (as called for; mostly modernist & abstract). Item is an 8.5x11 inch oblong softbound in fine shape: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. These rug entrepreneurs found five… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dream visions and other selected stories
by Cankar, Ivan; Anton Druzina, trans
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- 1982
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- Hardcover
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Willoughby Hills, OH: Slovenian Research Center of America, Inc, 1982. Hardcover. xii, 203p., illustrated boards, no dust jacket; illustrations throughout, in very good condition. Item Price
$45.00
