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Albuquerque: Liberotica, 2001. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 11 7/8" X 8 1/2". 189pp. Pictorial paper over boards. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping to extremities and light surface wear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A nice copy of this collection of erotic fetish photography by Wolfgang Pablik. This book is oversize and will require additional shipping charges to ship internationally or priority. Please contact us for a shipping quote if you require international or priority shipping.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2017. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xvi, 157pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond to the challenges of college and provides a framework for understanding why students find academic life so arduous. Teachers can help their pupils overcome obstacles by identifying bottlenecks to learning and systematically exploring the steps needed to overcome these obstacles. Often, experts find it difficult to define the mental operations necessary to master their discipline because they have become so automatic that they are invisible. However,… Read More

New York: North-South Books, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 13 1/2" X 8 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. String is broken and disconnected from book. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An acting troupe performs a special show for the moon when he comes down for a visit. Features split pages that can be flipped to combine different characters and costumes and die-cut pages with a moon on a string.(Publisher).

Ravensburg, Germany: Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier GmbH, 1990. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10 3/4" X 7 3/4". Unpaginated. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light crubbing, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Pop-ups and interactive flaps are functional, clean, and unworn. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this French, children's pop-up book about numbers. Text is in French. This book is from the estate collection of prominent pop-up book collector and longtime Movable Book Society member Geraldine Lebowitz.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 287pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Mild rubbing and gentle bumps to covers and edges of brown cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature, and considers the relationship between early Spanish ideas of the world and the origins of European colonialism. Spanish mapmakers and writers, as Padrón shows, clung to a much older idea of space that was based on the itineraries of travel narratives and medieval navigational techniques. Padrón contends too that maps and geographic writings heavily influenced the Spanish imperial imagination. During the early modern period, the idea of "America" was still something being invented in the minds of Europeans. Maps of the New World,… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 322pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This work presents a systematic analysis of the psychological phenomena associated with the concept of mental representations--also referred to as cognitive or internal representations. A major restatement of a theory the author first developed in his 1971 book (Imagery and Verbal Processes), Mental Representation covers phenomena from the earlier period that remain relevant today but emphasizes cognitive problems and paradigms that have since emerged more fully. The author proposes that performance in memory and other cognitive tasks is mediated not only by linguistic processes but also by a distinct nonverbal imagery model of thought as well. He discusses the philosophy of science associated with the dual coding approach, emphasizing the advantages of empiricism in the study… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxii. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Black paper over boards with spine backed in brown and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 179pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Black paper over boards with spine and front cover lettered in silver. Very small red scuff mark to fore edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart—and boudoir. Soon, Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in an upcoming musical… Read More

New York: Crown Journeys, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8" X 5 1/4". 175pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Yellow paper over boards with spine lettered in black. Gentle bump to tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck's debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Café? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult… Read More

Guilford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. First Edition. Very good/very good. First Edition. First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 306pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. White cloth over boards with spine lettered in red. Bump to bottom edge of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr., came along, letters from New York City children to Santa Claus were destroyed, unopened, by the U.S. Post Office. Gluck saw an opportunity and created the Santa Claus Association. The effort delighted the public, and for fifteen years money and gifts flowed to the only group authorized to answer Santa's mail. Gluck became a Jazz Age celebrity, rubbing shoulders with the era's movie stars and politicians, and even planned to erect a vast Santa Claus monument in the center of Manhattan-until Gotham's crusading charity commissioner discovered some dark secrets in Santa's workshop. The rise and… Read More

New York: Springer Heidelberg, 2013. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". ix, 429pp. Mild wear to paper over boards with light rubbing to covers and gentle bumps to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In light of mounting fishing pressures, increased aquaculture production and a growing concern for fish well-being, improved knowledge on the swimming physiology of fish and its application to fisheries science and aquaculture is needed. This book presents recent investigations into some of the most extreme examples of swimming migrations in salmons, eels and tunas, integrating knowledge on their performance in the laboratory with that in their natural environment. For the first time, the application of swimming in aquaculture is explored by assessing the potential impacts and beneficial effects. The modified nutritional requirements of "athletic" fish are reviewed as well as the effects of exercise on muscle composition and meat quality using… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 425pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Red paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in silver. Head and tail of spine are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A highly presentable first printing of this 2004 Nobel Prize winning novel by Orhan Pamuk. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings - for love, art, power, and God - set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order; by the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings-for love, art, power, and God-set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to… Read More

New York: Asia Publishing House, 1965. Hardcover. Very good/good. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 5 7/8". 96pp. Heavy wear to dust jacket, with rubbing, tearing along edges, and mild dust soiling. 2 1/2" tear to top of front cover, no losses. Mild rubbing to edges of gray hardcover binding, with gentle bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Spine lettered in black. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean and unmarked. From front flap: "Based on a random sample of 423 families in the seaport of Mahuva, Saurashtra, this book presents a neat little study about the changing economy of the community, approaching the subject from the points of view of the persons engaged in different activities of production.

Dusselfdorf: Drei Eulen Verlag, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 12" X 8 1/2". 134pp. Wear to brown paper over boards with toning, rubbing, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Boards are exposed at corners and in some places along edges. Paper at spine is completely missing. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper. Age-toning to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Hinges feel a touch tender; however, binding remains sound. Text is in German. An admittedly worn, but overall solid copy of this collection of paintings by German painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Otto Pankok (1893-1966).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 688pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in mauve paper over boards with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With Eragon art print by Sidharth Chaturvedi. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air—and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alagaësia. So begins an epic journey into lands both… Read More

Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xxxii, 372pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: To reach the highest standards of instrumental performance, several years of sustained and focused learning are required. This requires perseverance, commitment and opportunities to learn and practise, often in a collective musical environment. This book brings together a wide range of enlightening current psychological and educational research to offer deeper insights into the mosaic of factors and related experiences that combine to nurture (and sometimes hinder) advanced musical performance. Each of the book's four sections focus on one aspect of music performance and learning: musics in higher education and beyond; musical journeys and educational reflections; performance learning; and… Read More

n.p.: n.p., 2000. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/8" X 8 1/8". Unpaginated, 25 pages. Pictorial paper over boards. Moderate wear to binding with bumping to extremities and light scuffing. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A beautiful set of meticulously scored paper-cuts designed by Xinyyuan Paper-cut studio from ancient Chinese bronzewear, introducing the line ornaments of traditional Chinese bronzeware. Each of these twelve paper-cuts is introduced by a short description of the ancient bronzeware that features them.

Rome: Contrasto, 2014. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 12". 135pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Tim Parchikov has developed a conceptual approach out of his travel experiences, capturing the world with an uneasy and curious eye, rendering it at the same time hyper-real and yet pictorial. The Suspense project is the visual manifesto of the new "lost" generation of young people who, at the turn of the century, acquired complete freedom of information and movement as well as the illusion of all-pervasive communication, yet forfeited an integrated system of value judgement and were unexpectedly confronted by complete isolation. Their lives turned into a lonely journey in search of lost self-identification. Any halting point and encounter with reality during this journey became a form of suspense.(Publisher).

London: Sadie Fields Production Ltd, 1990. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9" X 9". 12pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper over boards with light rubbing and gentle bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Moveable scenes and pull-tags are all clean, functional, and un-worn. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this movable book of Christmas songs with Japanese text. This book is from the estate collection of prominent pop-up book collector and longtime Movable Book Society member Geraldine Lebowitz.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 536pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of black cloth over boards. Lean to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: World's fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations, each exposition showcased commercial and cultural exhibits, entertainment concessions, national and corporate displays of wealth, and indigenous peoples from the colonial empires of the host country. As scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. Anthropology Goes to the Fair takes readers through the… Read More