Reference Data for Radio Engineers, Fourth Edition
New York: International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, 1957. Hardcover. Thick 8vo., 1121 pp. One large folding table in color plus hundreds of diagrams.
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Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard?
New York: Macmillan, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Mid Century New York City. Huxtable was a Pulitzer Prize winner for Distinguished Criticism. Very good with ink and pencil notations on first few pages in a very good dust jacket with a few chips and general wear. Good resource.
Best Game Ever: How Frank McGuire's '57 Tar Heels Beat Wilt And Revolutionized College Basketball
Guilford: Lyons, 2006. Hardcover. A look at the University of North Carolina Tar Heels' 1956-57 season, one of the most storied in college basketball history, which developed into what many sports historians believe was the start of college basketball hysteria not only on Tobacco Road, but nationwide. The 1956-57 Tar.....
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Hardcover. 8vo., 280 pp. Eight [8] page insert of black and white photographs. Brings together, for the first time, many of Albert Murray's finest interviews and essays on music, most never before published, as well as rare liner notes and prefaces. Murray was a......
Fine Points of Furniture: Early American
New York: Crown, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo., 303 pp. Third printing. A thorough analysis of the various elements of design, decoration, craftsmanship, construction, and finish of early [18th and early 19th century] American furniture. More than 100 types are discussed and 675 examples are illustrated, including some of the most notable.....
The Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish
Chicago: Quadrangle, 1972. Hardcover.
Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities
New York: Anchor, 1993. Softcover. 8vo. Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, this is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. The work was.....
Impressions of Old New Orleans: A Book of Pictures
New York: George Doran, 1926. Hardcover. 4to., 250 pp. unpaginated. 100 black and white plates. 100 full page black and white photographic reproductions printed on rectos only, including many candid portraits of local African Americans, as well as architectural studies, street and garden views. Genthe [January 8, 1869 August 9.....
Maine Place Names & the Peopling of its Towns: Illustrated County Edition; Hancock
Freeport: Bond Wheelwright, 1970. Softcover. Four [4] by Six [6]" 65 pp. Booklet in wraps.
Roundwood Timber Framing: Building Naturally Using Local Resources
East Meon: Permanent Publications, 2010. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 168 p. Includes companion CD-ROM. Since building his famous Woodland House from his own woodland, author Ben Law has evolved his own style of natural building, now tried and tested on many other builds across England. Law has built houses, workshops, a......
Testaments of Honour: Personal Histories of Canada's War Veterans
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002. Hardcover. Large 8vo., 341 pp. Includes chronology, name index, photo gallery, and photo credits. Numerous black and white photos. A first hand record of WWII by Canadian veterans.
Tim Leonard: Son of the Panhandle
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing, 2022. Hardcover. 8vo. 368 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper: "To xx / Best Wishes / Bob Burke."
One Long River of Song
New York: Little Brown, 2019. Hardcover. 8vo., 251 pp. Book of essays from Doyle, who left behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of the 21st.....
Dealing Crack: The Social World of Streetcorner Selling
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. Softcover. 8vo., 163 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Study based on field research conducted in one of the most socially distressed and impoverished neighborhoods in St. Louis. Drawing on interviews with active dealers, as well as on his own eyewitness observations of transactions and encounters with.....
Images of Appalachian Coalfields
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Quarto, 124 pp. Edited by Douglas Harper. With an introduction by Helen Matthews Lewis and a foreword by Cornell Capa. Inscribed by Builder Levy.
Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz. The Swing Years
New York: Schirmer, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. 381 pp. Illustrated with black and white photos. Index, Bibliography, Discography. Well-regarded history.
Handbook of Old Pottery and Porcelain Marks
New York: Tudor, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo., 176 pp., later printing. Index. 44 black and white illustrations on 12 double-sided plates. nearly 4000 text illustrations.
Wolves
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1989. Hardcover. Folio., 160 pp., Fully illustrated with color photographs.
Essence of Beaufort and the Lowcountry
Beaufort: K.C. Newham, 1999. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 174 pp. With illustrations - photos and drawings. Foreword by Pat Conroy.
The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison
Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Hardcover. 8vo., 214 pp. Index. Jeffersonian America Series. Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf and Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Editors.
The Irish Museum Of Modern Art Catalogue Of The Collection: May 1991-May 1998
Dublin: Irish Museum Of Modern Art, 1998. Softcover. 4to., 96 pp. Black and white and color Illustrations. Catalogue of contemporary artworks in the permanent collection along with proposals, models and documentation of artworks.
The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie
Little Brown: New York, 2006. Hardcover. 336 pp. 8vo. Memoirs, finally published here, formed the basis for the cult comedy classic.
War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iran: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007
Falls Church: Office of the Surgeon General, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
The Dell Book of Great American Folk Songs
New York: Dell, 1963. Softcover. 8vo., 255 pp.
The Man Who Invented Hollywood: The Autobiography Of D. W. Griffith
Louisville: Touchstone, 1972. Hardcover. 4to., 170 pp. Illustrated with black and white photos. The autobiography was never finished [Griffith died in 1948]. He was the leading exponent in the 'blockbuster' genre of popular film.. Chronologic listing of his innovative works, all profusely illustrated.