Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Illustrated by Barnett Plotkin. Published in 1978 this psychological drama and character-driven novel explores themes of midlife crisis, self-discovery, and personal morality. Anderson, known for his plays like Tea and Sympathy and I Never Sang for My Father, brings his skill in intimate.....

Middlesex: Penguin, 1950. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. #1954/2000. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCELucius Apuleius’ The Golden Ass stands as the only complete Latin novel to survive from antiquity, offering a vivid blend of satire, mythology, eroticism, and religious transformation. Its episodic structure and fantastical tone influenced later European narrative.....

New York: Penguin Books, 1985. Illustrated Wraps. The Fourth book in the Thieves' World anthology series.Stories portray the strange adventures of petty thieves, swordsmen, and wizards as war comes to the small town of Sanctuary.In Storm Season, immortal warrior Tempus Thales and his nemesis, the crime lord Jubal, go head.....

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1942. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — Jacob Epstein was a lightning rod for the modernist movement. By the time this book was inscribed to Ben Raeburn in 1947, Raeburn was already beginning to cement his reputation as a publisher who valued artistic integrity over commercial safety. This copy.....

New York: Pyramid Books, 1968. Cover Photo Mort Engel. With a title like "The Star Stalker" any reader familiar with Robert Bloch's work would assume that the book revolved around a psychotic stalking a starlet. The assumption would be wrong, The Star Stalker is an entirely different kind of book.....

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Reprint of the 1888 edition. The Pied Piper of Hamelin, narrative poem of 303 lines by Robert Browning, published in 1842 in Dramatic Lyrics, part of the Bells and Pomegranates series. The poem, one of Browning’s best-known works, relates the.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. A collection of Stevenson's poetry and prose for the young reader.

London: Hutchinson & CO., 1957. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear with rubbed spine tips. Lacking Dust Jacket. 11.25 inches tall. 118 pages. Fully illustrated in B/W drawings. First Edition - First Printing.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Explores the origins and meanings of common English metaphors and expressions. Comprehensive and interesting with great short synopsis of each phrase. An engaging resource for understanding hidden poetry in everyday language.

New York: The Grolier Society, 1977. Illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith & Walter Crane. The Grolier Society's 1967 edition of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and Best Loved Fairy Tales, featuring illustrations by Walter Crane, and Jessie Wilcox Smith is a beautifully crafted volume that brings.....

Massachusetts: Brookings Institution Press & MIT Press, 1996. "Growing Artificial Societies" is a milestone in social science research. It vividly demonstrates the potential of agent-based computer simulation to break disciplinary boundaries. It does this by analyzing in a unified framework the dynamic interactions of such diverse activities as trade, combat.....

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Produced under the editorial direction of Robert Fossier, one of the leading medieval historians of the twentieth century, this series reflects the strengths of the French historical tradition while incorporating contributions from numerous specialists. The result is a broad, interdisciplinary examination of.....

SCHOLARLY SIGNIFICANCE Rare pre-1949 visual documentation of Yunnan and Sichuan temple polychromy before mid-century repainting. Provides material for comparative studies of southwest Buddhist iconography, architectural syncretism, and Republican modernization. Complements field work of Joseph F. Rock and Harvard–Yenching expeditions while offering a distinct regional perspective.Complete Summary via this PDF - Click.....