Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition in English, octavo size, 199 pp. "In 'Homo Sacer', Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics...'" (n.b., from jacket flap). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full navy blue..... More

University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Second printing, two volumes (complete), small quarto size, approx. 850 pp. "The Song of Roland" is "one of the earliest and most famous chansons de geste, based on the 8th-century Battle of Roncevaux Pass where Charlemagne's rearguard..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2000). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 755 pp. The examination by John Barrell, Professor of English, University of York, on the three years following the execution of Louis XVI and its consequences upon those in Britain. Barrell "shows how the law of treason was..... More

New Haven [and] London: Yale University Press, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo size, 181 pp. From the dust jacket flap: "This collection of papers by the art historian and critic Michael Baxandall represents his thinking over the past forty years on the relation between language and art. He offers..... More

New York [Printed in Great Britain]: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [Western Printing Services], 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 219 pp. Per "The Encyclopedia Brittanica", Pareto, " …laid the foundation of modern welfare economics… [Then later] Believing that there were problems that economics could not solve, Pareto..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 254 pp. Per the jacket flap, this work "is a vibrant and powerful contribution to the recently renewed debate over natural rights and natural rights language." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full textured black paper over boards, silver lettering and..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 185 pp. From the Clarendon Press, "This is an important work of original scholarship by two of the most distinguished East European economists, now working in the West. The authors, both of whom were involved in the Planning..... More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large octavo size, 530 pp. William Cronon (b. 1954) has earned multiple degrees and garnered multiple awards. This book, "Nature's Metropolis", won "the 1992 Bancroft Prize, the 1993 George Perkins Marsh Prize, and was a finalist for the..... More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large octavo size, 228 pp. "For Derrida, the problem of genesis in Husserl's philosophy is that both temporality and meaning must be generated by prior acts of the transcendental subject...[b]ut the book is most important in allowoing us..... More

(Cambridge): Cambridge University Press, (1999). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 194 pp. "Modest Musorgsky is Russia's greatest musical dramatist. When he died in 1881 in St. Petersburg at the age of forty-two, in poverty and relative obscurity, he was known for a single opera, 'Boris Godunov', and a...... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 507 pp. For any student of the history of Venice or the madrigal form, this scholarly work is indispensible to have a thorough understanding of such in medieval Venetian culture. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full green cloth over..... More

Eerdmans, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large quarto size, 1750 pp., three volumes in slipcase. From the web site of the publisher: "More than 400 distinguished scholars, including archaeologists, art historians, historians, epigraphers, and theologians, have written the 1,455 entries in this monumental encyclopedia - the first comprehensive reference..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small quarto size, 604 pp. Per the dust jacket flap, this work "cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music..." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound..... More