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The listings below are arranged under the following headings: Literature/Criticism, Books About Books, Biography/Autobiography, Cookbooks, History/Cultural Studies/Philosophy/Religion, Women's Studies, and Miscellaneous.
For information about the book pictured above, see Spence, Jonathan, in Biography, below.
NOTE: Most of our books are also listed on Alibris (http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) and/or Amazon (for titles published after 1970).
LAST UPDATED APRIL 30, 2024
Literature/Criticism
Adams, Arthur G., Editor. The Hudson River in Literature. New York: SUNY Press, 1988. Second Edition. Near fine soft cover. (Item ID: 9110; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.50
Adams, Arthur G., Editor. The Hudson River in Literature. New York: Fordham University Press, 1988. Essays by Washington Iriving, James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, etc. Near fine soft cover. (Item ID: 2361: http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.50
Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso (Three Volumes). Milan: Electa-Istituto Editoriale 1967. Lithographs by Fabrizio Clerici. Introduction by Riccardo Bacchelli. Translation into English by Barbara La Penta. Elephant Folio, 1/150 Limited Edition Hard Cover Sets. French wraps around paper-covered boards in chemise portfolios and slipcases. 158 pen/pencil/brush lithographs in 8-11 colors with descriptions in volumes 2 and 3; volume 1 text in English and Italian. Small scuff to front of volume 1 slipcase, otherwise fine. Images described as “fantastic, surrealistic.” (PVL-100) $990.00
Baudelaire, Charles. The Flowers of Evil. Illustrated by P-Y Tremois. NY: Heritage, 1971. Publisher’s promotional pamphlet laid in. Boxed. (ID: 3054S; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) Fine in near fine box. $12.00
Beckett Samuel. The Unnamable. (ID: 8933). $30.00 SOLD Alibris 2 23 23.
[Beckett, Samuel] Knowlson, James & Elizabeth, Editors. Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett. A Centenary Celebration. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. Review copy with publisher’s information laid in. ($15.00) (ID: 6106; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $19.00
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1935. Miniature Edition; gilt “Queen” to cover. No jacket, spine fading, but gilt bright. Unopened, clean, tight, very good. (ID: 10K108; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $33.00
Christie’s New York. First Editions/Second Thoughts: Sold to Benefit Pen American Center. 2 December 2014. Belinda Kitchin and Sean Kelly, Curators. Illustrated catalog for an auction. 5 x 7 postcard advertising the event and a list of author annotated first editions laid in. (ID: 6420; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Prairie. Illustrated by J. S. Curry. Avon, CT: Heritage, 1968. Publisher’s promotional pamphlet laid in. Fine in near fine box. (ID: 3055S; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.00
De Maupassant, Guy. Bel-Ami. Introduction by Alec Waugh. Illustrated by B. Lamotte. NY: Heritage, 1968. Promotional pamphlet laid in. Fine in near fine box. (ID: 3056S; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.00
Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Nw York: Riverhead Books, 2007. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. First edition, later printing. (Item ID: 5522; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $8.00
*Edel, Leon. Stuff of Sleep and Dreams. Experiments in Literary Psychology. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982. First Edition. [ISBN: 0060141299] Inscribed and signed by Edel. Five chapters on Joyce. As new, unopened hard cover in as new plastic protected dust wrapper. (ID: 10K311; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00 .
[Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre] Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Zelda. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Retrospective. Montgomery, AL: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. Foreword by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. Catalogue of exhibit. Introduction by Edward Pattillo. White glossy wrappers and pages lightly age tanned, otherwise near fine to fine. (ID: 3052) $70.00 SOLD dealer 4 17 19
*Greenblatt, Stephen. Learning to Curse. Essays in Early Modern Culture. New York: Routledge, 1990. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. Signed. (Item ID: 5548) $65.00 SOLD Alibris 6 10 20
*Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions. The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. Signed. (Item ID: 5549; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) (check back 10/15) $70;00
*Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning. From More to Shakespeare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Fine hard cover. Dust wrapper is lightly faded (more so on spine), tiny bit of tip and edge wear, otherwise very good plus to near fine. Scarce. (Item ID: 5993*) $135.00 SOLD Amazon 6 3 2020
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World. How Shakespeare became Shakespeare. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. Signed. (Item ID: 5551; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $75.00
Gruelle, Johnny. Raggedy Andy Stories. NY: Simon & Schuster 1993. Reprint Hard Cover. As new in similar dust jacket. (Item ID: 2365; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15
Gruelle, Johnny. Raggedy Ann Stories. NY: Gruelle 1947. Reprint hard cover.Near fine internals, covers worn on spine and tips. No jacket. (Item ID: 2366; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25
Havelock, Eric A. Preface to Plato. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963 (1982). Near fine soft cover. (Item ID: 5525; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster 1961. “Original edition published at $13.95” on jacket front flap. “This is a reprint edition distributed by Bookthrift, NY” inside. Fine in near fine dust jacket with spine ends slightly worn. (Item ID: 2570; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $45.00
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Remainder stamp to bottom edge, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. (Item ID: 2571; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $65.00
Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Woods. New York: Scribners, 1950. First Edition. No dust jacket. Pages tanned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Otherwise near fine, gilt bright. (Item ID: 2569; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and To Have Not. New York: Scribners, 1937. Early printing of 1st Edition. Lacks dust jacket. Very good plus. Pages tanned. Name/date to ffep. Boards slightly marked, but lettering crisp. (Item ID: 2568; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition. NY: Scribner 2009 New hard cover in new dust wrapper. Signed by editor Seán Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway’s grandson) (Item ID: 2363; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $45.00
[Hemingway, Ernest} Voss, Frederick. Picturing Hemingway. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. As new hard cover in as new Mylar-protected dust wrapper. (Item ID: 9109; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00
Irving, Washington. Gary Kelley. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. New York: Tabori, 1990. Fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper with slight edge wear and 1” closed, taped tear. (Item ID: 2397; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Jolas, Eugene, Editor. Transition No. 25 Fall 1936. New York: Transition, 1936. Wrappers, as issued, a bit soiled with a bit of spine end wear. Cover art by Joan Miró, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Dylan Thomas, etc. (ID: 8707; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $125.00
Kelliher, Hilton, & Brown, Sally. English Literary Manuscripts. London: The British Library, 1986. [ISBN: 0712301178] Near fine with slight spine end/tip wear to illustrated covers. (ID: 1116-109; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00
Kenner, Hugh. Historical Fictions. Essays on Literature. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. Near fine to fine hard cover in similar dust wrapper. (ID: 6111; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $22.00
Kenner, Hugh. A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers. Fine hard cover. Dust wrapper has large chip upper left front cover, small chip near rear cover at spine, light spine fading, o/w good. (ID: 6447) $12.00 SOLD
Kenner, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. First Bison Printing. With new preface by the author. Foreword by James Laughlin. Soft cover. Very light age tanning/soiling, but otherwise near fine. (ID: 6108; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $18.00
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers. New York: Kennerley, 1913. Very good plus volume with small stamp to rear pastedown. Lacks dust jacket. Board tips bumped and slightly stained, spine ends a bit worn. Lettering bright. (Item ID: 2565; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
[Mangan, Clarence]. Lloyd, David. Nationalism and Minor Literature. James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. [ISBN: 0520058240] First Edition, First Printing. A volume in the series The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, General Editor, Stephen Greenblatt. As new hard cover in as new, Mylar-protected dust wrapper. (ID: 1021-100; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $70.00. NEW
Putnam, Samuel, & Bronowski, J[acob]., Editors. The European Caravan: An Anthology of the New Spirit in European Literature. New York: Brewer, Warren and Putnam, 1931. Part 1: France, Spain, England and Ireland; Part 2: Never Printed. One of 2,000 copies (approximately). Mylar-protected hard cover, offsetting to endpapers, otherwise near fine. Lacks dust wrapper. Reproduces an extended portion of Joyce’s Ulysses “Proteus” episode as it appeared in The Little Review prior to the first edition. Plus essays on Joyce by Bronowski, 5 poems and short prose by Samuel Beckett, his first appearance in a U.S. publication, and excerpts from Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Dadists, et al. Scarce. (ID: 8927; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $135.00
Sayre, Gordon N. The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero. Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, From Moctezuma to Tecumseh. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. [ISBN: 0807856320] As new soft cover, first print. (ID: 6424; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach. New York: Morrow, 1957. Near fine in near fine unclipped dust jacket. Slight wear to jacket edges, slight soil to back cover. (Item ID: 2566; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00
Stephens, James. Crock of Gold. New York: Macmillan, January 1913. First American Edition. Ex libris. Spine worn, residue of library pocket rear pastedown. No dust wrapper. (ID: 3138; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00
Stephens, James. Deirdre. London: Macmillan, 1923. Very good plus, spine faded, tips a bit worn, gilt fine. Signature cracked but tight at page 113. Small Gotha Book Mart sticker in rear. (ID: 3135; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Stephens, James. Deirdre. New York: Macmillan, 1923. “Discard” stamp to top edge, spine edge and tips slightly worn, but otherwise good plus. No dust wrapper. (ID: 3136; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Stephens, James. In the Land of Youth. London: Macmillan, 1924. Covers faded, gilt bright, otherwise very good plus. Lacks dust wrapper. (ID: 3137; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Thurber, James. Further Fables for Our Time. Illustrations by Thurber. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Special printing, boxed. Spine faded, box very good, edges worn. (ID: 3060S; http://www.rmgeberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $8.00.
Books About Books
Biography/Autobiography/Memoir/Bibliography
[Bernhardt] Ockman, Carol, and Kenneth Silver. Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama. New York: The Jewish Museum, 2005. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. (Item ID: 2421; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00[Bernstein, Leonard] Peyser, Joan.
[Bernstein, Leonard] Peyser, Joan. Bernstein: A Biography. New York: Beech Tree/Morrow, 1987. Signed by the author. As new in as new price-clipped dust wrapper. (Item ID: 2372; HP343; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00
[Carroll, Lewis] . Guiliano, Edward, Editor. Lewis Carroll Observed. A Collection of Unpublished Photographs, Drawings, Poetry, and New Essays. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Publisher, 1976. [ISBN: 051752457X] One inch of top and bottom edges of covers and margins of pages have wrinkling, but o/w very good. Price-clipped dust wrapper has chips to back and front top, some edge and tip wear, small closed tears, o/w good plus. (ID: 10K314; http://www.rmgerbebooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
[Custer, George Armstrong] Katz, D. Mark. Custer in Photographs. A Visual Portrait of One of America’s Most Intriguing Civil War Heroes. New York: Bonanza Books, 1985. First Edition. [ISBN: 051717453] Illustrated with 161 black and white photographs. Fine volume in near fine dust wrapper with slightest of tip wear, small area of price sticker residue to front cover. (ID: 2419; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00
*De Waal, Edmund. The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. First revised and illustrated American Edition. First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. (ID: 242) $75.00 SOLD
*De Waal, Edmund. The Hare with Amber Eyes: a Hidden Inheritance. New York: Picador, 2010. As new soft cover. Signed by the author on the title page. (ID: 241) $30.00 SOLD
[Gershwin, George] Peyser, Joan. The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Signed by the author. As new in as new dust wrapper. (Item ID: 2373; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Harrison, George. I. Me. Mine. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. [ISBN: 0671427873] Good plus volume with white paint stains to front cover bottom. Inscription to front pastedown, bottom tip worn, small stain (gradually diminishing in size) to lower corner of first 80 pages. Edge worn dust jacket with chips and closed tears to spine ends and cover edges, o/w good plus. (10K301;http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00
[Katz's Delicatessen] Dell, Jake. Katz’s. Autobiography of a Delicatessen. New York: Bauer and Dean/Glenn Horowitz, 2013. Photographs by Baldomero Fernandez. Signed by Dell, Fernandez, and Horowitz. As new soft cover. (ID: 238; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $75.00
[Kennedy, John F.] . Matthews, Chris. Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero. Hard cover. 10th printing. (ID: 6193) . $8.00 . SOLD Amazon . 11 3 17
[Lennon, John] Goldman, Albert. The Lives of John Lennon. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1988. [ISBN: 0688047211] First Edition, Second Printing. Fine hard cover, near fine dust wrapper with very light edge/tip wear. (ID: 1021-103; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00. NEW
[Lennon, John] . Miller, Sara Cedar. Strawberry Fields. Central Park’s Memorial to John Lennon. New York: Abrams, 2011. In Association with the Central Park Conservancy. [ISBN: 9780810997868] As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. (ID: 10K327; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00
[Lincoln, Abraham] Holzer, Harold, & Shenk, Joshua Wolf, Editors. In Lincoln’s Hand. His Original Manuscripts. New York: Bantam Books, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. [ISBN: 9780553807424] Lincoln’s original manuscripts with commentary by distinguished Americans. Foreword by James H. Billington. As new volume in similar dust wrapper. (ID: 1216-126; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00
Morgan. Benjamin Franklin. Hard cover, fine. SOLD. Amazon. 2 21 23
Mott, Michael. The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Sixth Printing. [ISBN: 0395313244] Near fine to fine hard cover. Dust wrapper has a few small closed tears and wear to spine/tip edges, otherwise very good plus. (ID: 6426; http://www.rmgerberrbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
[Nash, Graham] Nash, Graham. Wild Tales: A Rock and Roll Life. New York: Crown Archetype, 2013. Signed by Nash on the title page. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. First Edition, first printing. (ID: 239) $45.00 SOLD
Rosselini, Isabella. Some of Me. New York: Random House, 1997. Second Printing. SIgned. As new hard cover. (Item ID: 2410; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00
Spence, Jonathan. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. First Edition. [ISBN: 0670468304] Near fine hard cover with gift inscription on ffep, sticker with owner's name. Dust wrapper iis good with several closed tears, a couple of which have tape repairs. (ID: MG122-100) $ 22.00 NEW
[Stein, Gertrude] Sawyer, Julian. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. NY: Arrow 1941. Inscribed by Sawyer. Very good plus hard cover, spine and tips a bit worn. (Item ID: 2362; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $60.00
[Wilde, Oscar] .Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. [ISBN: 0394554841] As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. (ID: 10K310) $20.00 SOLD Dealer 7 29 20
Cookbooks
Bittman, Mark. The Best Recipes in the World. New York: Broadway, 2005. Signed. 1,000 international dishes. As new, in similar dust wrapper. (ID: 8504; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00 SEE PHOTO ABOVE
Bittman, Mark. The Mini Minimalist: Simple Recipes for Satisfying Meals. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2012. Signed on the box. Four-volume boxed set, 160 recipes. As new, opened only for signing. (ID: 8505; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00
Bittman, Mark. How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food. Forest City, CA: IDG, 1998. Signed. Near fine in similar dust jacket. (ID: 8506; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Bittman, Mark. How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007. As new in similar dust wrapper. Signed. (ID: 8507; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $55.00
Bittman, Mark. Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking. New York: Macmillan, 1994. Signed. 500 recipes. As new, in similar dust wrapper. (ID: 8508; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Bittman, Mark. How to Cook Everything FAST: A Better Way to Cook Great Food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2014. [Signed. As new in similar dust wrapper. (ID: 8509; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
*Blahnik, Judith. Ruth & Skitch Henderson’s Seasons in the Country. Good Food for Family and Friends. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. [ISBN: 0670826049] Warmly inscribed and signed by bandleader Skitch Henderson and his wife, Ruth, Board President of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall . Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper. (ID: M917-104; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00 NEW
*Petroff, Bryan, & Quint, Douglas. Big Gay Ice Cream. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2015. Photographs by Donny Tsang. Illustrations by Jason O'Malley. Foreword by Anthony Bourdain. Signed by Quint and O'Malley, with a drawing by O'Malley. Stated First Edition. [ISBN: 9780385345606] As new, in color illustrated glossy covers, no dust wrapper, as issued. (ID: 6475; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
History/Current Events/Cultural Studies/Philosophy/Religion
Anderson, Perry. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism. London: Verson, 1978. (tem ID: 5538; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00
[Aristotle] The Complete Works of Aristotle. Jonathan Barnes, Editor. The Revised Oxford Translation. 2 Volumes. Princeton: Bollingen Series, 1984. Fine in fine dust wrappers. (Not available from Alibris; shipped from California) $150.00
The Bay Psalm Book. Being a Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, Printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, in New England in 1640. Prepared for The New England Society in the City of New York. [New York, 1903] Introductory essay by Wilberforce Eames, a librarian and bibliographer, who later became the Chief of the American History Division of the New York Public Library. Near fine hard cover in good plus box. Bookplate from Mt. St. Mary Normal School in Kenmore, NY saying the book had been presented by the Rt. Rev. James B. Bray. Bray was an authority on the early history of the Niagara Frontier and owned an extensive collection of first editions of historical works. This book also has the name plate of the eminent Chicago collector Abel E. Berland. (ID: 6167) $110.00 SOLD 2/4/17 (dealer)
The Bay Psalm Book. A Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition of 1640. With a Companion Volume, The Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book, by Zoltán Haraszti. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Two volumes. Near fine hard cover in very good box with slight edge wear and 2” scrape to top front. (ID: 6120; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00
Bercé, Yves-Marie. History of Peasant Revolts. Ithaca: Cornell Univeristy Press, 1990. Translated by Amanda Whitmore. Owner's name/date/place on ffep, light spine fading, otherwise near fine soft cover. (Item ID: 5640; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $18.00
Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, 1980. (Item ID: 5539; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00
Bernier, Olivier. The Eighteenth-Century Woman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1981. (Item ID: 5540; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00
Bozeman, Dwight. Protestants in an Age of Science. The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977. As new hard cover. Dust wrapper has sunned spine, minor edge wear and fading; owner's name, otherwise near fine. (Item ID: 5530; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Brown, Michelle. The Lindisfarne Gospels. Society, Spirituality & the Scribe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture. [ISBN: 0802085970] Near fine soft cover, minor stain to spine bottom. Unopened. (ID: 317-104; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00 NEW
Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. (Item ID: 5544; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $18.00
Cassirer, Ernst. Kant's Life and Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Fine hard cover. dust wrapper has lightly sunned spine, minor edge wear, otherwise near fine. (Item ID: 5531; http://wwwrmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Darby, H. D., and Harold Fullard, editors. The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19870. (Item ID: 5546; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Galliou, Patrick, and Michael Jones. The Bretons. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Limited, 1996. In The Peoples of Europe series. Fine soft cover. (Item ID: 5642; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Hareven, Tamara K., & Langenbach, Randolph. Amoskeag. Life and Work in an American Factory City. New York: Pantheon, 1978. [ISBN: 0394488417] First Edition. Focuses on the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, at one time the largest textile factory in the world, located along the Merrimack River in Manchester, NH. Descriptions of mill life from the wealthy Boston-based executives to the families of Scottish weaving girls, French-Canadian farmers, Irish immigrants. Over 70 photographs. Near fine hard cover. Dust wrapper has several closed tears and small chips, but o/w good plus to very good. (ID: 6414; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa Victoria. Barbershops, Bibles, and BET. Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 6th Paperback Printing. Fine soft cover. (5626) $20.00 SOLD
Jaeger, Werner. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture. Gilbert Highet, Translator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960. 3 Volumes. 2nd Edition. Some underlining, owner's name on ffep. Dust wrappers a bit worn. (Not available from Alibris. Shipped from California) $125.00
[Jefferson] Stein, Susan R. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. New York: Abrams, 1993. As new soft cover. (Item ID: 2420; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $35.00
[Korea] Breen, Michael. The Koreans. Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. [ISBN: 0312242115] First edition, first printing. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. (ID: M917-100; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.50 NEW
Kelly, Tom. The Imperial Post. The Meyers, the Grahams and the Paper That Rules Washington. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1983. {ISbn: 0688019196] Stated First Edition. Near fine hard cover with gift inscription on half title. Dust wrapper is price clipped, light age soiling, small closed tears/chips to spine ends and tips, o/w good plus to very good. (ID: 6419; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
Laird, Carobeth. Encounter With An Angry God. Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington. Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press,1975. Foreword by Harry Lawton. Decorations by Don Perceval. Near fine card cover with very light tanning to cover edges, in good plus dust wrapper with 2” and 1” chips to back cover, smaller chips, closed tears, and some edge/tip wear. (ID: 639) $25.00 SOLD. Alibris 9 15 22
[Lindisfarne Gospels. See Brown, Michelle, above, and Art Books web page.]
Lurie, Alison. The Language of Clothes. New York: Random House, 1981. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. In Mylar. (Item ID: 5529; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
*Maddow, Rachel. Drift. The Unmooring of American Military Power. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. Unopened fine hard cover in fine, Mylar-protected dust wrapper. Signed by Rachel Maddow. A six-inch plastic Maddow photo/ad by MSNBC is tipped in. (Item ID: 5639; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $90.00
May, William W., Editor. Vatican Authority and American Catholic Dissent. The Curran Case and Its Consequences. New York: Crossroad, 1987. Fine hard cover. Dust wrapper has some rubbing, very light edge wear, but otherwise fine. (Item ID: 5533; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
McBrien, Richard P. Catholicism. Study Edition. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981. [ISBN: 0866836012] First printing. Heavy paperback (1290 pages) Owner’s name/place on half title, o/w near fine. Includes new preface by McBrien. The New York Times obituary (1/20/15) laid in. (ID: 6425; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00
[Merton, Thomas] The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, by Michael Mott. See Biography/Autobiography above.
Midrash Rabbah. Rabbi Dr. H. Freedman, Translator. London & New York: Soncino Press, 1983. 10 volumes. 3rd Edition. Fine. No dust wrappers. (not available from Alibris; shipped from Illinois) $300.00
Mousnier, Roland. Social Hierarchies. 1450 to the Present. New York: Schocken Books, 1972. Translated from the French by Peter Evans. Edited by Margaret Clarke. Owner's name/date/place on ffep, otherwise fine hard cover. Dust wrapper has price sticker on from and slight bit of edge/tip wear, otherwise near fine. (Item ID: 5641; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $18.00
Norton, Lucy. The Sun King and His Loves. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. In Mylar. (Item ID: 5509; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $18.00
Pelosi, Nancy. Know Your Power. A Message to America’s Daughters. New York: Doubleday, 2008. With Amy Hill Hearth. SIGNED and inscribed by former Speaker Pelosi on the title page. Sharpie pen ink bleed to copyright page, otherwise fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper. (ID: 6300; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $30.00 NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Ranum, Orest. Artisans of Glory. Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper. (Item ID: 5555; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Ranum, Orest, Editor. National Consciousness, History, & Political Culture in Early-Modern Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Essays by Felix Gilbert, William F. Church, John Pocock, Helmut Koenegsberg, and others. Fine hard cover with owner's name on ffep. Dust wrapper has some closed tears and light tanning, but otherwise very good to near fine. (Item ID: 5643) $18.00 SOLD Alibris 5 9.20
Rochlin, Harriet and Fred. Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West. Boston: Houghton, 1984. Book stamp to FFEP, otherwise near fine, in wrappers as issued. (Item ID: 2418; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00
Stevenson, David. The Origins of Freemasonry. Scotland's Century. 1590-1710. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Owner's name/date/place on ffep, light tanning, otherwise near fine soft cover. (Item ID: 5691; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00
Tackett, Timothy. Priest and Parish in Eighteenth-Century France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper. (Item ID: 5557; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Warren, Elizabeth. A Fighting Chance. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, 2014. Signed. As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper. (ID: 8035; http://www.rmgerbebooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Watts, Alan. Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen. $17.50 (ID: 8308). SOLD Alibris August 26, 2022
Watts, Alan. Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen. $22.50 (ID: 710). SOLD Alibris August 27, 2022
Watts, Alan. Does Is Matter? Essays in Man’s Relation to Materiality. New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1972. Stated first printing. Near fine hard cover, slight toning to pages with a bit of spine ends and tip wear to Mylar-protected near fine dust wrapper. (ID: 216-103) $85.00 SOLD 3/16/1
Watts, Alan. The Way of Liberation. Essays and Lectures on the Tranformation of the Self. New York: Weatherhill, 1983. First Edition. [ISBN: 0834801817] As new. Glossy stiff French wrap covers. (ID: 917-101; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.00
Wolfson, Henry Austrun. Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Henry Austryn Wolfson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947 (1982) 5th Printing. Fine. (Not available from Alibris; shipped from California) $150.00
Women's Studies
Aisenberg, Nadya. Ordinary Heroines: Transforming the Male Myth. New York: Continuum, 1994. As new in similar dust jacket. (ID: 438; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00
Miscellaneous
[Beatles] Snow, Mat. The Beatles Solo. New York: Race Point, 2013. 4 volumes in slipcase. As new hardcover. (ID: 217-100/199; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00
Grof, Stanislaus. LSD Psychotherapy. Pomona, CA: Hunter House, 1980. [ISBN: 0897930088] As new in as new Mylar-protected dust wrapper. (ID: 10K302; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com0 $75.00 .
[Ravel, Maurice] Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique. Maurice Ravel. 1875-1975. Paris: SACEM, 1975. [ISBN: 2901047017] In French. Introductory note by Georges Auric. “Maurice Ravel et La S.A.C.E.M.” by Jean-Loup Tournier. Introduction by François Lesure of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Includes autobiographical sketch and a critical sketch. Color and b/w photos. Near fine hard cover; no dust wrapper. (ID: 917-104; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $50.00
Rogers, Barbara Radcliffe, & Rogers, Stillman. New Hampshire Off the Beaten Path. Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1992. First Edition, Second Printing. Signature and inscription on the ffep, light tanning, o/w very good to near fine soft cover (ID: 6415; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00
Wharton, Edith, and Codman, Ogden, Jr. The Decoration of Houses. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. Sixth printing. The Classical America Series in Art and Architecture. Introductory notes by John Barrington Bayley and William A. Coles. Facsimile reprint of Wharton and Codman’s 1902 classic. One hundred photos, 15 in color. Slightest of tip wear, o/w fine soft cover. (ID: 991; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00
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