New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Second Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth cover is clean with very minimal wear. Corners sharp. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Some pages are still unopened. There is tanning on the endpapers. Lacking DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages . ... more information

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New York: Henry Holt and Company. New. (1998). Trade paperback. 080506172x . New book in as new condition. Not a remainder. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages . ... more information

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Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005 Mark Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen to listen closely to what he has to say."-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, The New Yorker. Life today for citizens of the developed world is far safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history. Modern medicine has all but wiped out many diseases that once were common killers. Modern intelligence gathering can pinpoint t... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr, 1998 For most of the 20th century, social thinkers devoted their attention mainly to the issues of economic class. They generally dismissed the more primordial bonds of racial, ethnic, and national anachronisms that either communism or the liberal frameworks of democracy would dissolve. Today, communism is nearly dead and liberalism is on the wane. At the same time, older ethno-racial tribalisms, along with some newly invented ones, have shattered our illusions ... more information

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Cumberland, Maryland, U.S.A.: Portfolio Press, 1999 Doll collectors and scholars alike will welcome this colection of 35 articles by the renowned John Darcy Noble, curator emeritus of the prestigious Toy Collection at the Museum of the City of New York. This group of articles focuses on some of Mr. Noble's favorite antique dolls. Gathered here for the first timer, these articles cover a wide range of important antiques, from the very earliest rare 17th- and 18th-century woodens to the popular 19th-centu... more information

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Washington, D. C.: Robbins Center for Cross-Cultural Communication. Very Good+. (2005). Trade paperback. Binding sound and tight without spine crease. Cover has minimal wear and a crease lower front corner. Pages clean and unmarked. ; Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages; Signed by Editor . ... more information

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Columbus, OH: Ohio State University. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. [1986]. Hardcover. 0814204155 . Book is fine. Signed by author on ffep. DJ has wear and a few short closed tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages; Signed by Author . ... more information

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London: Methuen & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Small white spot to front cover. DJ has edgewear; chipping and wear to spine ends; darkening to spine; chip to lower front corner. ; Diverse essays, letters, and other prose from English periodicals from 1710-1790. Exerpted from The "Tatler," The Spectator, The Guardian, The Freeholder, The Freethinker, The Champion, The Rambler, The Covent Garden World, The World, The Connoisseur, The Idler, T... more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. 4 3/4" 7 3/4". First printing. Book is crisp and clean, as is unclipped dust jacket. A handsome copy. 248 pp. ... more information

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Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1924. Third Printing. Hardcover. Binding sound and tight. Cover is red cloth with gilt letters. Spine sunned and gilt lettering faded, although lettering on front cover bright and fresh. Pages clean and unmarked other than previous owner's name on front and rear paste down end papers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 115 pages . ... more information

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Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1894. Hardcover. Good. Facsimile signed and inscribed by the author Donald G. Mitchell (aka IK. Marvel); Inscription reads '' -- as much truth in them as in most Reveries'' There is a second (handsigned) signature under Mitchell's but I am unable to work out the name from it... Condition: book block is clean and tight with a small amount of yellowing; boards are a bit rubbed, corners bumped. spine edges a worn - particularly at the ends. Bottom edge ... more information

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Westport, CT: Praeger. Very Good-. [1999]. First Edition; First Printing. Trade paperback. 0275962466 . One sentence underlined otherwise would be near fine. ; 0.78 x 9.19 x 6.07 Inches; 264 pages . ... more information

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London: The Folio Society. Good+. 2002. Hardcover. Book and slipcase clean and unworn. There is a small amount of underlining in the introduction as the first two essays. Previous owner's name at top of half-title page. Slipcase is fine-as new. ; Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages . ... more information

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New York: W W Norton & Co Inc., 2006 A sharp examination of the idea of liberty in the modern, democratic state.Liberty is fortunate to have such a reasoned and persuasive voice as its champion." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review). How has the modern welfare state redefined our notion of individual liberty. Are we free to express ourselves in speech, at work, or through sex? In this book, the fourth volume in Norton's ongoing "Issues of our Times" series, Fried shepherds the reader thr... more information

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Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. [1978]. Hardcover. 0877221405 . Book and DJ as new. Not a remainder. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages . ... more information

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Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. Fine in Fine dust jacket. [1980]. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0813114454 . First edition, first printing as a book (first appeared in the New Yorker) in 1980. DJ protected in Brodart. ; 0.64 x 8.83 x 4.98 Inches; 114 pages . ... more information

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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006 This book brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays - some classic, some less known, some new - trace a powerful intellectual trajectory as Shohat rigorously teases out the consequences of a deep critique of Eurocentric epistemology. This volume not only illuminates many of the concerns that have ... more information

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New York: Doubleday, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. First printing. SIGNED by author. Fine condition in near fine dust jacket. Cover is faintly rubbed, with one small puncture on front toward spine. Witty, wry essays by one of Ira Glass's favorite guests on "This American Life." 228 pp. ... more information

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine in very good unclipped dust jacket. Some light scuffing at corners and at spine, and several closed tears (one with light riffling at one side of tear). Essays by Maugham about his own work and the work of other writers. 158 pp. including book lists. In protective Mylar. ... more information

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London: Bloomsbury, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. 12mo. First printing. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket. Both are pristine. Red ribbon marker sewn in. Essays and drawings by the noted novelist. 55 pp. In protective Mylar. ... more information

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