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The Architecture of America: a Social and Cultural History

Burchard, John & Albert Bush-Brown · 1961 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.50 (€5.90 | £4.92 | ¥1,038)

Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1961. 2nd printing., Slight shelfwear otherwise near fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket., The Greeks expressed architectural ideals in terms of firmness, commodity & delight. The authors explore how architecture has meant the demands of America...

The Purpose Driven Life: Selected Thoughts and Scriptures for the Graduate

Warren, Rick · 2004 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Grand Rapids: Inspirio, 2004. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Is there life after graduation?.

Eighteenth Century Painting

Gay, Claire · 1975 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1975. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., A survey of 18th Century European painting, which was characterized as much by diversity and contrasts as by style.

Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America

Lippard, Lucy R · 1990 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: Pantheon, 1990. 1st printing of 1st edition., Diagonal crease on front wrapper (cover) otherwise good+ paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Scenes of Instruction: the Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film

Polan, Dana · 2007 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued.

The Print Collector's Quarterly Volume 24, No. 4

Subbs, AH Editor, Bender, JH Editorial Director · 1937 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Kansas City: Print Collector's Quarterly, 1937. Light edgewear otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good+ paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Contents: Wolfgang Stechow, Ludolph Buesinck; Martin Hardie, The Etched Work of James McBey; Emily Poole, C...

Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism

Meisner, Maurice · 1970 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Antheneum, 1970. 1st Antheneum paperback edition., Occassional pencil underlining otherwise a sound reading copy in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). j, Li first began organizing for the Marxist movement in 1927.

Ibn Battuta in Black Africa

Hamdun, Said & Noel King Translators · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998. revised printing with updated bibliography, Large remnant of earlier price sticker on rear cover otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Of all medieval travel writers, only...

Meditations With the Navajo

Hausman, Gerald · 1987 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$2.00 (€1.81 | £1.51 | ¥319)

Santa Fe: Bear & Co, 1987. light edgewear otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete near fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., A collection of poem, tales and meditations which capture the essence of the Navajo way of life.

Latinas: Hispanic Women in the United States

Garza, Hedda · 1994 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY: Franklin Watts, 1994. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., When western pioneers arrived in the Southwest, they found hispanic families who spoke Spanish & had lived in the southwest for two centuries. Latina women were a rich part...

Beyond Time and Place: Non-Realist Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Roberts-Jones, Philippe · 1978 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY: Oxford University Press, 1978. Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket enclosed in fine cardboard slipcase., 228 pages, illustrated.

The Construction of Memory in Interwar France

Sherman, Daniel J · 1999 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 1st edition., A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket in original shrinkwrap., An analysis of commerative practices in post-World War I France and building a common collective memory of the war's tragic events.

Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

Herbert, Christopher · 2001 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued. (in original shrinkwrap).

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

Brockman, John Editor · 2002 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$2.00 (€1.81 | £1.51 | ¥319)

NY: Vintage Books, 2002. 5th printing., Fine trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., New essays from 25 of the world's leading scientists.

Incredible Tale: the Odyssey of the Average America in the Last Half-Century

Johnson, Gerald W · 1950 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Harper, 1950. 1st printing of 1st edition., Previous owner's gift inscription on front end paper otherwise very good+ trade hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise good dust jacket., What a half-century! Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Josef Stalin.

The First Emperor of China: the Greatest Archeological Find of Our Time

Cotterell, Arthur · 1981 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1981. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In 1974 archaeologists upcovered the tomb of Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, who unified China from its feudal period, which included 7, 000 life-size terracotta soldiers, chariots a...

Leopard II: Turning the Page: Essays, Memoirs, Fiction, Poetry and One Sermon

Maclehose, Chritstopher Editor · 1901 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$3.00 (€2.72 | £2.27 | ¥479)

London: Harvill, 1901. Front end paper foxed otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi

Spence, Jonathan D · 1975 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Random House/Vintage Books, 1975. ! st Vintage edition., Light foxing along page edges (not effecting page margins or text) otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good+ paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., An excursion into the imperial world of K'...

And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa

Pheto, Molefe · 1983 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Allison & Busby, 1983. 1st printing of 1st edition., Pages beginning to darken otherwise near fine hard cover book/ slight rubbing otherwise near fine dust jacket., Pheto was a Soweto music teacher & activist and was arrested without explanation and held from nine months (...

Union Now With Britain

Streit, Clarence K · 1941 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$3.00 (€2.72 | £2.27 | ¥479)

Garden City: Doubleday, 1941. Fine trade hard cover book/ no dust jacket., A proposal for a Union of all English speaking countries to counter the threat of Nazi domination in Europe.