New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular—rather than an ecclesiastical—viewpoint. MacMullen’s provocative conclusion is..... More
Harvard Univ. Press, 1994. Softcover. More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Extra shipping fee for heavy item. Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the coolest and best- known label in jazz, this book celebrates over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has stayed true to its founders' commitment..... More
Knoxville, TN: Whittle Direct Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). Part of The Larger Agenda Series. More
Abacus, 2002. Paperback. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. First Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded into Paris seeking fame..... More
New York: Penguin Compass, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. Lourdes was at the very center of 19th century debates on religion, science, and medicine. Both the Church and secularists championed the "miracle" town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body, and spirit. Since the "visions" of Bernadette..... More
New York: The New American Library Inc., 1956. Erwin Raisz (maps). Paperback. A Mentor Book no. M181. More
London: National Gallery Company, 2019. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Extra shipping fee for heavy item. The National Gallery houses a notable collection of pictures associated with the Barbizon School, including works by Courbet, Daubigny, Millet and Rousseau and a significant and representative collection of pictures by Corot, ranging from an..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1966. Antonio Frasconi (cover design). Reprint. First Atheneum Edition. Softcover. Atheneum book no. 94. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. Stock photo. Multimedia DVD enclosed. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local delivery. As one of Lyndon B. Johnson's first presidential acts following the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy, he ordered a secret taping system installed in..... More
London: Eyre Methuen, 1974. New paperback edition. Paperback. Vivian Rowe guides the reader with wit and humour from the source of the Loire in the Vivarais mountains thirty miles west of the Rhône, to its estuary on the western coast of Brittany, for six hundred miles through provinces famous for..... More
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). Contains a "compliments of the W.W. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan" slip. On photo credits page: "Lithographed in U.S.A." "By Speaker-Hines & Thomas Inc." More
Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies / University of Hawaii, 2005. Santos Barbasa Jr. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. A review of the book from the Japan Times by Donald Richie: Relations between Japan and China may be troubled right now, but then they often have..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. The Autobiography of William O. Douglas. More
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