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New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to special themed bookplate at front free endpaper. First Edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 150pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unlcipped dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A highly presentable signed first printing of this newest novella by James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past Is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world. The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot,… Read More

Prime Books, 2004. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 181pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A scarce 2004 title from the James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente, here introduced by Jeff VanderMeer. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here Monsters are hidden ... A lyrical anti-quest through a conscious maze without center, borders, or escape--a dark pilgrim's progress through a landscape of vicious Angels, plague houses, crocodile-prophets, tragic chess-sets, and the mind of an unraveling woman, driven on by the mocking guide who seeks to destroy as much as save. Enter the world of the Labyrinth, where Doors do not wait to be opened, but hunt you in the night. This is Zarathustra in Wonderland, a puzzle which… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1962. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xi, 438pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with toning and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The experimental study of aesthetics was a field particularly associated with the name of C.W. Valentine, who in this book provided a critical review of research carried out since the end of the nineteenth century principally by British and American psychologists. The investigations described, many of them conducted by the author, are concerned with individual responses to what is commonly regarded as beautiful in painting, music, and poetry, an important distinction being made between the perception of objects as ‘beautiful' as opposed to ‘pleasing'. The reactions of children and adults, and of people having different ethnic and social backgrounds, are explored in a variety of… Read More

n.p.: Old Hickory Publishing Company, 1974. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 200pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with dust soiling, rubbing to extremities, and creasing to spine. Binding remains firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Ink to pages is very occasionally lighter than elsewhere in the publication. A solid copy of this 1974 collection of traditional, century-old "potions, concoctions, and methods that were used to accomplish tasks during the time when self reliance, indiviudal fortitude and ingenuity was required," including household recipes like "lemonade for invalids," "gooseberries, to dry," and "celebrated moth and freckle lotion," handyman instructions for such tasks as making a hydrometer from catgut and a straw, making fertilizer from carcasses, and making cements, varnishes, and peach tree gum, and remedies, including tinctures, essences, and elixirs, along with explosives, homemade fireworks, and much, much more.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6". xv, 606pp. Wear to machine-clipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges. Toning to spine of jacket. Toning, rubbing, and gentle bumps to covers and edges of green cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to gutters of endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: These readings consist of 27 abstracts of 24 articles, four of these coming from parts of Clark L Hull's article, "Quantitative Aspects of the Evolution of Concepts." Four abstracts are on the general subject of reaction times and a fifth, "The Accuracy of Timing with a Stop Watch," is very closely related. There are two studies on hunger behavior, one on sensori-motor responses in infants and two on emotional behavior, one of these being Mandel Sherman's study of emotional responses in infants. There are two articles on delayed responses, one on… Read More

London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xiii, 212pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Erased pencil marks to title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember her name." Lots of people have difficulty remembering people's names, even though they can easily recall other information about the person. As memory and retrieval processes are central to cognitive psychology and neuropsychology the study of proper names makes a fascinating and practical focus of study. Using an information processing approach, Valentine, Brennen and Bredart consider evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new functional model of the production and recognition of people's names. This book will be valuable to all those studying cognitive psychology, cognitive… Read More

London: The Aquarian Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. First Edition. Hardcover. A first printing of the first published work of the "Mother of Modern Witchcraft" Doreen Valiente and "one of the first three books to be published on the subject" of Wicca according to historian Ronald Hutton. In Where Witchcraft Lives, Valiente presents her original research into the history and folklore of witchcraft in her home county of Sussex. Valiente served as the High Priestess of Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven and wrote a great deal of the early religious liturgy within the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". xi, 7-112pp. Presents nicely in archival sleeved dust jacket. Heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with 1" X 3" open tear to bottom edge of front panel, 1/4" loss to head of spine, small tears to edges and corners, rubbing to edges, dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Bound in pale blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with… Read More

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1982. Leather_bound. Very good. Leather_bound. 12 1/4" X 9". 95pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of green leather over boards. Speckles of white paint to bottom edges of boards. All-edge gilt. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this collection of works by French painter Henri Rousseau. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". x, 403pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in brown paper over boards with spine lettered in red. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Dispelling common myths about the first US president and revealing the real George Washington. Winner of the George Washington Prize by George Washington's Mount Vernon George Washington hero of the French and Indian War, commander in chief of the Continental Army, and first president of the United States died on December 14, 1799. The myth-making began immediately thereafter, and the Washington mythos crafted after his death remains largely intact. But what do we really know about Washington as an upper-class man? Washington is frequently portrayed by his biographers as America at its unflinching best: tall, shrewd, determined, resilient, stalwart, and tremendously effective in… Read More

Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 204pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Although scholars have adequately covered Thomas Jefferson's general ideas about human nature and race, this is the first book to examine what Maurizio Valsania terms Jefferson's "philosophical anthropology"—philosophical in the sense that he concerned himself not with describing how humans are, culturally or otherwise, but with the kind of human being Jefferson thought he was, wanted to become, and wished for citizens to be for the future of the United States. Valsania's exploration of this philosophical anthropology touches on Jefferson's concepts of nationalism, slavery, gender roles, modernity, affiliation, and community. More than that, Nature's Man shows how… Read More

Iselin, New Jersey: Kates-Boyston Publications, 2000. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/4". 80pp. Mild edgewear to printed pictorial wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. The Funerals of the Famous series showcases the colorful details of each individual's death, funeral service, and burial, compiled by the editors of American Funeral Director Magazine. Volume 3 includes the funeral accounts of the following famous figures: Thomas Jefferson, Diana, Princess of Wales, Walt Whitman, Elvis Presley, Robert F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Buddy Holly, Tennessee Williams, Robert E. Lee, Lizzie Borden, Tony Conigliaro, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Harlow, The Unknown Solider of World War I, and Theodore Roosevelt, illustrated in black-and-white images throughout.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 10" X 7". x, 267pp. Mild wear to paper over boards with rubbing and bumps to corners and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Problem-based learning (PBL) has excited interest among educators around the world for several decades. Among the most notable applications of PBL is the approach taken at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Starting in 1974 as a medical school, the faculty embarked on the innovative pathway of problem-based learning, trying to establish a medical training program which applied recent insights of education which would be better adapted to the needs of the modem physician. The medical school, currently part of the FHML, can be considered as an 'established' school, where original innovations and educational changes have become part of a routine. The first book to bring this wealth of information together,… Read More

Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1977. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". v, 141pp. Heavy rubbing and toning to covers of pictorial paper wraps. Crease to spine. Light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Occasional inked underlining to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book presents a detailed psychopathological analysis of a single theoretical case of neurosis. The ambiguities resulting from the indiscriminate use of psychological categories are discussed, and it is shown how phenomenological concepts can clarify a client's understanding of himself and the world. A historical summary of relevant literature is also included.(Publisher).

Wheaton: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1968. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 7" X 4 3/4". 234pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Creasing and lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text blcok. Penciled notation to inside of rear cover and occasionally to pages throughout. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A clear exposition on the nature of illusion and the need to pierce its veil and find the reality that exists at every moment of time. " We always seek in the wrong direction," says Dr. Van der Leeuw, "we always want more time, we demand even endless time in our quest of immortality. Yet the infinitely greater Reality is ever ours to enter if we but will." Chapters include: The Quest of Life; From the Unreal to the Real; Intuition and Intellect; The Mystery of Creation; Spirit and Matter; The Immortality of the Soul; and The Light of the Eternal.(Publisher).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5 1/4" xiii, 296pp. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board stamped in cream and gilt with laurel and fleur-de-lis device. Title label to spine chipped and heavily toned. Heavy scattered rubbing to upper board, chipping to head and tail of spine, and mild edgewear. Front hinge cracked and attached by strings. Title page loose and laid in. First gathering coming loose. Pages are unmarked. Newspaper clipping entitled "A Feeble Clerical Philosopher" laid in, a very critical and lengthy review of a sermon given by Van Dyke at Chicago University entitled "Democracy and Culture." Clipping is in several pieces and very brittle. An admittedly worn but still quite charming first edition of Van Dyke's essays on the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 1997. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 12" X 9 1/4". 259pp.; 288pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jackets. Gentle rubbing and bumps to covers and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. Volumes 1 and 2 of the 8 volume set. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THESE BOOKS: Vincent van Gogh's work has had a profound influence on twentieth-century art, and his extraordinary life is almost as renowned as his paintings. A prolific artist, he produced hundreds of paintings and drawings in a career lasting a mere ten years - the last ten years of his life. The largest and most representative collection in the world of Van Gogh's work once belonged to the Van Gogh family, and is now held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The collection comprises some… Read More

Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6". xiv, 386pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket with creasing, chipping, and tears to edges, rubbing and toning to covers, and sunning to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to front free end paper. Underlining and notation to pages. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: As man becomes more aware of himself and his relation to the world, the resultant new attitude toward reality inevitably influences all areas of science. The author re-examines scientific psychology in this light and comes up with a new, comprehensive anthropological psychology.(Publisher).

Brussels: World Scientific, 2007. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 235pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This volume focuses on the importance of historical enquiry for the appreciation of philosophical problems concerning mathematics. It contains a well-balanced mixture of contributions by internationally established experts, such as Jeremy Gray and Jens Hoyrup; upcoming scholars, such as Erich Reck and Dirk Schlimm; and young, promising researchers at the beginning of their careers. The book is situated within a relatively new and broadly naturalistic tradition in the philosophy of mathematics. In this alternative philosophical current, which has been dramatically growing in importance in the last few decades, unlike in the traditional schools, proper attention is paid to scientific practices as informing for philosophical accounts.(Publisher).

Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". xxii, 328pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities. Especially aimed at students and scholars of Literature, Applied Linguistics, and Film and Media, it stimulates readers to reflect on the problems and possibilities of testing the empirical assumptions and offers hands-on learning opportunities to develop empirical studies. It explains a wide range of methods, from interviews to observation research, and guides readers through the choices researchers have to make. It discusses the essence of experiments, illustrates how studies are designed, how to develop questionnaires, and helps readers to collect and analyze data by themselves. The book presents qualitative approaches to research but focuses… Read More

New York: Ecco, 2022. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink with doodle at special publisher's page. Publisher issued sticker says signed first edition but New York Times Bestseller statement on front panel indicates later printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 360pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today "Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender." — Washington Post For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After… Read More