The Commodore
New York: Norton, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo., 288 pp. The seventeenth book in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
New Arrivals
Gorky Park
New York: Random House, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo., 365 pp. Set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, this novel is the first of a series featuring Moscow homicide investigator Arkady Renko. The novel follows a case involving three corpses found in Gorky Park and the difficulties in identifying the.....
Mercy of a Rude Stream
New York: St. Martin's, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo., The first of six volumes, all published sixty years after Roth's classic 'Call It Sleep' [1934], which Alfred Kazin called 'the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American.'.
A Diving Rock on the Hudson
New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo., 413 pp. Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. Includes family trees of the character Ira Stigman. Part two of a six part epic concerning a boy's untethered morally adrift consciousness in the jungle of early.....
Black Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1971. Softcover. 8vo., 648 pp. Second Edition. Trade paperback. First published in 1965, this is the expanded and revised second edition from 1971. Contributors include: W.E.B DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Ralph J. Bunche, Thurgood Marshall, John Lewis, MLK, and many other, a total of 71 entries.
Who Needs the Negro?
Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing, 1970. Softcover. 8vo., 266 pp. Scarce title.
All the Pretty Horses
New York: Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. 8vo., 301 pp. Later print. National Book Award and national Book Critic's Circle winner. First book in the Border Trilogy.
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence Volume 2
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. Softcover. 8vo., 736 pp.
Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of 'Time on the Cross'
Champaign -Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975. Softcover. 8vo., 183 pp. Includes topics including: enslaved Afro-Americans and the 'Protestant work ethic,' positive labor incentives and slave work habits and the slave family, slave sexual behavior, and slave sales.
African American Urban History since World War II [Historical Studies of Urban America]
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Softcover. 8vo., 512 pp. Line drawings, tables. Focuses on black migration and Latino immigration, examining tensions and alliances that emerged between African Americans and other groups. Exploring the challenges of residential segregation and deindustrialization, this book also tackles such topics as the real estate.....
New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 [Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies]
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Softcover. 8vo., 391 pp. Index. Later print. Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Assess three cities that were the core of a changing economy and culture that penetrated the rural hinterland and remade the South in the decades following the Civil.....
Red Orc's Rage
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1991. Hardcover. 8vo., 282 pp.
Killer's Cookbook
London: Dennis Dobson, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo., 184 pp. Quite scarce.
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The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart [Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery]
New York: Dutton, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo., 291 pp. Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery.
The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1750-1850
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo., 205 pp. First print.
The Ainu Ecosystem: Environment and Group Structure [American Ethnological Society Monograph No. 54]
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo., 170 pp. Genealogical charts, maps and drawings. Several foldouts. First print. Monograph No. 54 of the American Ethnological Society. A broad analysis of the Ainu and throe traditional life style in the context of their environment.
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Tribes and Boundaries in Australia [Social Anthropology Series]
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies/Humanities Press, 1976. Softcover. Square 8vo., 252 pp. First print. Social Anthropology Series Number 10. Illustrated with black and white photos, line drawings and maps, Aboriginal language distribution appendix and index. This volume reproduces in rewritten form eleven of the twelve papers presented at the.....
Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and Their Transformations [Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology]
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo., 336 pp. Tables, line diagrams, bibliography, indices. Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations among hunting, pastoralism and ranching. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Justice Holmes Ex Cathedra: A Collection of the Wisdom and Humor Of and About Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Charlottesville: The Michie Company, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo., 381 pp. First print. Uncommon. Obscure publisher.
Town into City: Springfield, Massachusetts and the Meaning of Community, 1840-1880 [Harvard Studies in Urban History]
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo., 301 pp. Illustrations, Index. First print. Harvard Studies in Urban History Series.
Downtown Is
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. Hardcover. Thin 8vo., 48 pp. Illustrations. Very scarce first edition of this story about an uptown boy finding out downtown isn't all that it's cracked up to be. With atmospheric black an white illustrations by Browning.
Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn [Harvard Studies in Urban History]
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo., 301 pp. First print. Harvard Studies in Urban History Series. Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History. Uncommon hardcover edition.
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Report on the Iban [LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology 41]
London: The Athlone Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo., 317 pp. Index. Black and white photographic illustrations. First print of the LSE edition. Classic work examining the agriculture and social system of the Iban of Sarawak based on field work undertaken from 1949 to 1951. Book 40 of 77: LSE Monographs on.....
The People of Hamilton, Canada West, Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth Century City
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. 8vo., 381 pp. Index, notes, maps, figures, tables. First print. Reconstructs the social structure, life cycle, and domestic relations within a mid-nineteenth century Canadian city. The analysis draws on the records of the population found on the manuscript census, assessment rolls, city directories, newspapers, and.....
The Bayonne Bridge: A Landmark of Land, Sea and Air
New York: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 2007. Hardcover. Square 8vo., 32 pp., illustrations, map. First print. Surprisingly uncommon.