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Over 160 new arrivals. A lot of memoirs, diaries, and biographies covering a wide-range of people and time frames. You have to make choices, time being an issue. But you wish you could have known them all…almost all. Other non-fiction covers Sciences, Social Sciences, and History, (European, American, Asia, Africa). Fiction includes novels, science fiction, short stories and mysteries (including a number by Gaboriau, the father of the roman policier in France). This group also has a spattering of children’s, art, religion, philosophy, theatre, agriculture and the usual odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See all these New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Howard S. Russell spent over a half century systematically examining every account left by early inhabitants of New England to create this almost encyclopedic reference work.
A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England

Howard S. Russell spent over a half century systematically examining every account left by early inhabitants of New England to create this almost encyclopedic reference work. Read More


$30.00

Blacksad series is a gritty, violent and charmingly confident noir storyline, told through gorgeous artwork that perfectly embodies the genre with a cast of anthropomorphic characters.
Blacksad: Somewhere within the Shadows

A comic series set in 1950s America. Detective John Blacksad, an anthropomorphic cat, has all the tough guy coolness and confidence of Phillip Meowlowe Marlowe. Engaging wit. Gorgeous artwork. Read More


$28.00

Born in Beirut, Sayegh studied art history at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Paris. He has numerous publications and books on contemporary Arab art, Islamic art, and Sufi poetry. He was a lecturer at the American University of Beirut between 2003 and 2007.
Samir Sayegh Calligraphy

Through the formal elements of line and space, Sayegh abstracts Arabic letters and words into dynamic geometric compositions, bridging calligraphy and geometric minimalism. Read More


$80.00

Strasburger, Pfeiffer & Co. sold a wide variety of merchandise from glassware and china to musical instruments and pipes. It's toy department was especially large. This volume contains prices and many b&w engraved illustrations of it's offerings.
Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue: Strasburger, Pfeiffer & Co.

This Department Store sold a wide variety of merchandise. It’s large toy department had “mechanical” toys with both black and white people represented as well as devices and animals. Read More


$300.00

Since water management is essential in this semi-arid region, it is important to try to understand how it functions as well as to articulate the principles on which the relationships among the different levels operate.
Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands

Water management is essential in the Colca valley of Peru. “Covering Ground” examines how it works through a system interdependent among households, the community, and the state. The first detailed ethnographic account. Read More


$35.00

1st New Hampshire Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was mustered in on September 21, 1861, for three years service under Captain George A. Gerrish.
The First New Hampshire Battery, 1861-1865 (SIGNED COPY)

The 1st New Hampshire Artillery, which served for three years in the Union Army during the Civil War, was organized in Manchester, New Hampshire and mustered in on September 21, 1861, under Captain George A. Gerrish. Read More


$50.00

A quail hunting plantation is a large tract of land typically with a natural wooded and grass habitat for the purpose of recreational hunting of bobwhite quail. Foshalee Plantation is a historic quail hunting estate located in northern Leon County, Florida, approximately 12 miles north of Tallahassee
Foshalee: Quail Country Plantation (SIGNED COPY)

Foshalee Plantation is a historic quail hunting estate located in northern Leon County, Florida, approximately 12 miles north of Tallahassee. Its history reflects the broader shift in the region from agriculture to sporting conservation. Read More


$120.00

Throughout civilization, man has found his roots in the organization of the family. Here is a source for families from Leslie County, formed in 1878. It is located in the Eastern Coal Field region of Kentucky.
Pioneer Families of Leslie County (SIGNED COPY

Great source for researching the genealogy of Leslie County, located in the Eastern Coal Field region of Kentucky. It was organized from parts of Clay, Harlan and Perry Counties in 1878. Read More


$90.00

The Vinland Map is a 20th-century forgery purporting to be a 15th-century mappa mundi with unique information about Norse exploration of North America. In addition to showing Africa, Asia and Europe, the Vinland Map depicts a landmass south-west of Greenland in the Atlantic labelled as Vinland (Vinlanda Insula).
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation

The fake Vinland Map was a sensation in 1965, when presented to the public as a “genuine” pre-Columbian map. It seemed to be proof that Norsemen reached North America decades before Columbus sailed in 1492. Read More


$35.00

The city is named after Civil War Union major general Jesse L. Reno, who was killed in action during the American Civil War at the Battle of South Mountain, on Fox's Gap.
Reno Now and Then (SIGNED COPY)

A comprehensive look at the evolution of Reno, the “Biggest Little City in the World.” It’s the third most populous city in Nevada and home to outdoor adventure, a thriving cultural scene, major financial perks and slot machines. Read More


$35.00

A major modern biography of one of the leading prose writers of the Romantic period. Traces Hazlitt's development from his intellectual apprenticeship through his career in the trade of letters, his emergence as a critic of painting, theatre, Shakespeare, and English literature.
William Hazlitt

Scholarly biography of William Hazlitt who is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language. He’s placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Read More


$20.00

Wilde was his own worst enemy: he impetuously challenged Queensberry's denunciation of him as a "sodomite," forcing his own testimony under oath, in which he attempted to win the case through wit and insouciance - allowing Queensberry's brilliant attorney, Sir Edward Carson, to destroy him on cross examination.
The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Recreates the famous playwright’s libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, and his subsequent prosecution and imprisonment on charges of “gross indecency.” Read More


$35.00

Beatrice Webb authored several popular books, her most notable being The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain and Industrial Democracy, co-authored by her husband Sidney Webb, where she coined the term "collective bargaining."
The Diaries of Beatrice Webb (4 Volumes)

Beatrice Webb was an extremely accomplished English sociologist, economist, feminist, socialist thinker and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics. Read More


$150.00

Gaboriau was the first French novelist to write detective novels. His Lecoq uses reasoning with mathematical precision. He influenced later detective fiction writers, notably Conan Doyle, who acknowledged his debt to Gaboriau.
Monsieur Lecoq

Gaboriau was the first French novelist to write detective novels. His Lecoq uses reasoning with mathematical precision. He influenced later detective fiction writers, notably Conan Doyle. This is Lecoq’s first case. Read More


$15.00

In 1956 Elvis exploded on the American entertainment scene from every angle imaginable—on the record charts, on TV, in movie theaters, and live on stage—he was everywhere.
Elvis Close-Up: Rare, Intimate Photographs of Elvis Presley in 1956

In 1956 Elvis exploded on the American entertainment scene from every angle imaginable. During the year he placed 17 different songs on Billboard’s Top 100 singles chart, including 3 singles that reached #1. Read More


$30.00

The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. The Earthfall series is science fiction but also a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon.
Earthfall (Homecoming Vol. 4)

Although the Homecoming saga is science fiction, Book 4 really hammers home the themes of the LDS – referring to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Read More


$25.00

Three original novella-length science fiction stories by three authors: Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr., each of them legendary in their own right.
The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction

This triptych collection of novellas was published in 1975. Coincidentally, each of the three works and the collection received nominations for the 1976 Locus awards which Le Guin won for Best Novelette. Read More


$12.00

Isaiah Berlin rightly said that Popper produced one of the most devastating refutations of Marxism. Popper challenged some of the ruling orthodoxies of philosophy: logical positivism, Marxism, determinism and linguistic philosophy.
The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism

Popper argued that there are no subject matters but only problems and our desire to solve them. He said that scientific theories cannot be verified but only tentatively refuted. Read More


$150.00

Starts with a brief introduction to the basic laws of physics, and the search for an ultimate theory to explain the physical reality. However, when describing the string theory, things get complicated.
The Little Book of String Theory

This book starts with a brief introduction to the basic laws of physics, and the search for an ultimate theory to explain the physical reality. But when it comes to describing string theory, it gets complicated. Read More


$15.00

Uses include: Packaging: Used for protective and lightweight packaging solutions. Aerospace: Integral in the design of lightweight structures for spacecraft and satellites. Manufacturing: Employed in processes like coating and molding to create complex shapes.
Proceedings of the I.U.T.A.M. Symposium on the Theory of Thin Elastic Shells

They’re essential in many fields, including: packaging, aerospace, and manufacturing – thin elastic shells. Look around. They’re everywhere. Here’s an early survey at their history through symposium papers. Read More


$50.00

McGill University removed political science professor William Clare Roberts from his role as co-chair of the Committee on Student Discipline after social media posts surfaced in which he said he favored “full economic and military support for Hamas and Hezbollah."
Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

Robert’s premise is that Marx deliberately modeled “Capital” on Dante’s “Inferno.” Roberts built his observations about the evolution of Socialist thought starting from Fourier. Read More


$20.00

Stories of the "worthy people" of Tranquillity Township which is located on the southeastern side of Lake Champlain, in the State of Vermont. Few books have captured the real New England life so poignantly as the Tranquillity trilogy.
Tranquillity Series (3 Volumes)

“Tranquillity” is the name of a fictional township in Vermont where there are but two seasons; hunting and fishing. A classic trilogy that has been a favorite for over 75 years. Read More


$90.00

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