Search Results: Scholarly Miscellany from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Liverpool/London: Edward Howell/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,  1908 1st ed.  90pp. illus. hardback sm 8vo in pictorial paper-covered boards: covers are quite worn but text & illus. are complete & tight; a useful reading and reference copy.

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 1963. 347pp. red & black cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a near Very Good dj in poly cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. 328pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [hint of edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy] A compendium of Latin phrases, some famous some not, with phonetic pronunciations and definitions in English. Cover praise from John Ciardi and Stuart Flexner.

New York: The Ecco Press, Spring 1980. Issue No. 37. 159pp. plus ads. paperback tall 8vo: Good [covers are age darkened; edges are age foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Contains fiction by Paul Bowles, R. K. Narayan, Tobias Wolff, et al., poetry by Derek Walcott, Christopher Buckley, et al., and a feature section on the poetry of Stanley Kunitz.

New York: Random House, 2003 reprint. 241pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [several tiny foxed spots on top & fore edges; a turned page corner; else a nice crisp copy] Advance jacket praise for this "luminous and accessible" history of early Christian thought from Karen Armstrong, Krister Stendahl, et al.

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press. 1975 1st ed. 454pp. illus. cloth 8vo: ex lib. copy; usual stickers & stamps from a library deletion; rear pastedown is scuffed from a card pocket having been lifted; else a complete & tight reference copy. This is Volume II: Marvin Jackman to Ron Zuber.

Macon, GA: Mercer Univ. Press, 1982. 42pp. green and blue cloth tall 8vo: near Fine/no dj.

New York: Harper Perennial Library, 1988 1st ed. thus. 289pp. paperback 8vo: Good [text is age browned with browning and foxing to edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A pathologist examines a dozen historical cases in attempting to show "how medical information and insights can illuminate and perhaps resolve certain literary problems." Subjects range from Boswell to Keats, Chekhov, Socrates, et al.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Pelican original, 1971 reprint. 1971 reprint. 282pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; foxing to edges; else a clean, uncreased copy]

New York: St. Martin's Press. 1974. 371pp. green cloth 8vo: Good+ in a Good+ dj [foxing of edges; small speck on fore edge; bookplate; a portion of both title p. & last p. has been clipped out; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A professor’s primer.

Oxford, UK: Tallis Press. 1966 1st ed. 128pp. illus. paperback: Good [bit of cover wear; text is age browned; else a complete & tight copy] The first in a projected series of books on crime & criminology by leading authorities. The individual chapters on such topics as hanging, fingerprints, police dogs, etc. are intended to be understood by laymen.

Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. 1953. 157pp. grey cloth 8vo: Very Good/no dj [endpp. are age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Dutton. 1961 1st ed. thus. 210pp. illus. paperback: Good+ [top & fore edges are age foxed; else a complete & tight copy] A useful collection of some 5,000 words and phrases of French slang (as of the late 1950s).

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1974 1st ed. 380pp. paperback: Good [couple of small stain spots top edge; text is age browned; short closed tear @ top edge of front cover; else a complete & tight copy] A scholarly analysis of the subject in which the "classic" Marxist concept of the connection between capitalism and imperialism is criticized from the standpoints of neo-classical and Keynesian theory as well as from within the Marxist tradition.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin/Pelican Books, 1955 1st ed. 159pp. illus. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else G+] A history of the subject.

Topsfield, MA: Salem House, 1988 1st Am. ed. 279pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1980 book club ed. 392pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Good+ dj [ink inscription ffep; else VG+]

New York: American Federation of Arts. 1962 1st ed.  51pp. illus. brown cloth sq. tall 8vo: Very Good+/no dj [cover cloth is slightly faded; few foxed spots within; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A lecture given at The Hopkins Center of Dartmouth College, November 26, 1962 by Stanton (1908-2006), who was president of CBS during some high water years from 1946-71.

New York: Harper & Row, 1977 1st Am. ed. 684pp. red cloth tall 8vo: near Very Good in a Good dj [edges are a bit age darkened; else nrVG; dj = slightly torn @ spine ends and a corner; foxing on spine strip; else G] Some 4,000 key terms from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, the natural and social sciences, history and politics, the arts, religion and other disciplines large and small, put into context by 140 leading British and American experts.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993 1st ed. 269pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [some light age browning of edges; else VG; dj = p-c; else nrF]