![Sha-Girl Set of 10 Books: Sha-Girl Special Volumes 1, 1976-1987, and 2, 1988-1993, Sha-Girl '92, Sha-Girl '93, Sha-Girl '94, Sha-Girl '95, Sha-Girl '96, Sha-Girl '97, Sha-Girl '98, and Sha-Girl '99 [10 Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/531/326/1196326531.0.l.jpg)
Sha-Girl Set of 10 Books: Sha-Girl Special Volumes 1, 1976-1987, and 2, 1988-1993, Sha-Girl '92, Sha-Girl '93, Sha-Girl '94, Sha-Girl '95, Sha-Girl '96, Sha-Girl '97, Sha-Girl '98, and Sha-Girl '99 [10 Volume Set]
by Araki, Nobuyashi; Bourgeois, Jean Pierre; Clergue, Lucien; Fontana, Franco; Giacobetti, Francis; Hosoe, Eikoh; Ionesco, Irina; Jacques, Serge; Ommer, Uwe; Pawelec, Wladyslaw; Ueda, Shoji
Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1999. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. A very nice run of "Japan's standard in nudity," Sha-Girl, gathering together exceptional photographs of Asian and Caucasian women from prize-winning photographs taken each year from the Annual Kaigo no hana Photographer's Club (KPC) Contest, featuring the work of amateur photographers alongside artists such as Nobuyashi Araki, Jean Pierre Bourgeois, Lucien Clergue, Franco Fontana, Francis Giacobetti, Eikoh Hosoe, Irina Ionesco, Serge Jacques, Stephen Lupino, Michael Moreau, Uwe Ommer,... Read More
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![Our Journeys of Love [Aijo Ryoko]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/339/372/1330372339.0.l.jpg)
Our Journeys of Love [Aijo Ryoko]
by Araki, Nobuyoshi; Araki, Yoko
Tokyo: Magazine House, 1989. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8" X 5 3/4". Text in Japanese. Color pictorial dust jacket over printed wraps. Lacking obi. Mild wear to dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A pleasing example from 1989 of the work of Japanese erotic photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940), featuring black-and-white photographs while travelling, featuring several erotic photographs of Yoko Araki, with her notes.
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![I Am Photography [Watashi ga Shashin da; I'm Photography]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/342/372/1330372342.0.l.jpg)
I Am Photography [Watashi ga Shashin da; I'm Photography]
by Araki, Nobuyoshi; Takahashi, Katsumi; Nishii, Kazuo
Tokyo: Mure Shuppan, 1982. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 6 7/8". Text in Japanese. Color pictorial dust jacket over pictorial wraps. Mild shelfwear to binding with bumping to top corner. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This book features photographs devoted to the Japanese erotic photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940), featuring a mix of black-and-white portraits of the artist, candids of the artist in action and in social life, and erotic and... Read More
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![The Past [Kako]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/917/421/1332421917.0.l.jpg)
The Past [Kako]
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Tokyo: Byakuya Shobo, 1993. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 11 5/8" X 8 1/4". Brief text in Japanese. Pictorial dust jacket with obi, over red wraps. Creasing to obi. Mild edgewear to wraps. A nice example of the black-and-white street photography of Japanese erotic photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940).
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![Love Labyrinth: Kyoto White Sentiment [Kyoto Hakujo]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/948/834/1334834948.0.l.jpg)
Love Labyrinth: Kyoto White Sentiment [Kyoto Hakujo]
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1996. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 3/4" X 7 1/4". Brief text in Japanese. Pictorial dust jacket with obi, over white wraps. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with toning to rear panel. Pencilled mark to front free endpaper. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable example of the work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940), featuring black-and-white and color erotic photography, as well as street and nightlife photography. ... Read More
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Femme de Mouche
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Tokyo: Mizuki, 1994. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. Hardcover. 11 7/8" X 9 1/4". Two pages of text in Japanese, else completely in photographs. Pictorial dust jacket with obi, over paper boards. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with 1" closed tear to upper edge of rear panel. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An appealing example, in full color and in black-and-white, of the erotic photogaphy of Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940).
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![Summer Novel: Retrographs [Natsu Shosetsu]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/084/960/1334960084.0.l.jpg)
Summer Novel: Retrographs [Natsu Shosetsu]
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1998. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". Text in Japanese. Pictorial dust jacket with obi, over white textured paper boards. Mild edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A bright example of the work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940), featuring photographs of erotic, kinbaku (bondage), candids, and street scenes in black-and-white and in full color.
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Mystical Anthropology: Authors from the Low Country
by Arblaster, John; Faesen, Rob (Eds.)
New York and London: Routledge, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". x, 191pp. Bound in pictorial printed paper over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in white. Mild edgewear to binding, with bumping to extremities and dust soiling to fore-edge. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice first printing of this study of mystical anthropology, exploring the most important mystical authors and texts from... Read More
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The Winter of the Witch (Book Three of The Winternight Trilogy) FIRST EDITION
by Arden, Katherine
New York: Del Rey, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 372pp. Creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Shallow tears to jacket at top of spine and bottom edge of rear cover. Gentle bumps and shelf wear to corners and edges of paper over boards. Faint smudge and previous owner's name in ink to front free... Read More
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Aristophanes: Birds
by Aristophanes; Dunbar, Nan (Ed.; Intro.)
Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". xvii, 782pp. First edition thus, with full number line indicating first printing. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. MIld wear to dust jacket, with gentle bumping to extremities. Bound in navy-gray buckram over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean... Read More
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A Friend to God's Poor
by Armstrong, William H.
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiii, 518pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in orange cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Slight lean to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A Friend to God's Poor is the first full-length biography of Edward Parmelee Smith (1827-1876), a Congregational minister from... Read More
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A Social History of Engineering (Second Edition)
by Armytage, W.H.G.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8" X 5 1/2". 278pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: How social and economic conditions have precipitated advances in engineering. A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implications in... Read More
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A Social History of Engineering
by Armytage, W.H.G.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 378pp. Mild rubbing, toning, and wear to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. Rubbing and toning to edges of blue cloth over boards. Gentle bumps to corners of boards. Stamp from the Department of Physiological Hygene to front free endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "A Social History of Engineering" shows how social and... Read More
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Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
by Arnold, David (Ed.); Blackburn, Stuart (Ed.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". x, 323pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Life histories have a wide, if not universal, appeal. But what does it mean to narrate the story of a life, whether one's own or someone else's, orally or in writing? Which lives are worth telling, and... Read More
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Destiny and Golden Thoughts
by Arnold, Edwin; Van Dyke, Henry; Manning, Cardinal; Carlyle, Thomas; Eliot, George; Temple, W.
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1912. Leather_bound. Good. Leather_bound. 7" X 4 3/4". Unpaginated. Rubbing, toning,Light soiling, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of leather wraps. Inked gift inscription dated 1912 to front endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. A solid copy of this 1912 book of poetry.
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Selected Criticism of Matthew Arnold
by Arnold, Mathew; Ricks, Christopher (Ed.)
New York: New American Library, 1972. Paperback. Fair. Paperback. 7" X 4". xxv, 492pp. Rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to pictorial paper flaps. Creasing to spine. Ink mark to page xv, pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. An illustrated page has been partially torn out between pages 248 and 249; however all of the text remains. Binding is sound.
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Dawn Aronson: Photographs 1997-1999
by Aronson, Dawn; Plumb, David J. (Design)
Bradford: Christoper Hunt, 2001. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8" X 8 1/4". 48pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing to covers and edges. Faint dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Produced as a private memorial for Dawn Aronson's (1953-1999) family and friends by her husband Christopher Hunt.
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The Red Clay Survey: A Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art
by Huntsville Museum of Art
Huntsville: Huntsville Museum of Art, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 11". 45pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this catalogue published for an exhibition at the Huntsville Museum of Art. The Red Clay Survey is a major recurring regional competition sponsored by the Huntsville Museum of Art that "takes the pulse"... Read More
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On Time (1975 Appointment Calendar)
by The Museum of Modern Art
New York: The Junior Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 1974. Spiral_bound. Good. Spiral_bound. 8" X 9". Unpaginated. Wear to paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Glossy plastic covering is peeling away at covers. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Metal spiral binding is slightly bent in some places. Portions of calendar have been filled out by an unknown previous owner. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Museum... Read More
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Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism (With a Revised and Updated Foreword By the Author) THE FOLIO SOCIETY
by Ascherson, Neal
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xviiii, 283pp. Bound in black rear cloth over board with front cover bound in pictorial paper. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is square and sound. Slipcase is clean and undamaged. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Black Sea is at once homage to an ocean and its shores, and an amazingly readable meditation... Read More
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The Brain & Belief: Faith in the Light of Brain Research
by Ashbrook, James B.
Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 1988. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". vi, 362pp. Creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and shelf wear to paper wraps. Creasing along bottom edge of front wrap. Slight curl to front wrap. Mild toning and creasing to rear wrap. Faint sunning to spine. Faint dust-spotting to text block. Mild creasing to some pages. A few instances of inked underlining and marks to margins of pages. Underlining does not... Read More
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Blue Ambition: The Unauthorized Biography of Kemi Badenoch
by Ashcroft, Michael
London: Biteback Publishing, 2024. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xiii, 267pp. Mild creasing, rubbing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Rubbing to front and rear of jacket. Creasing to bottom edges of jacket. Creasing to head and tail of spine. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.... Read More
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Fantastic Voyage: A Novel
by Asimov, Isaac
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 239pp. Rubbing, toning, creasing, and wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Toning and gentle bumps to covers and edges of gray paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A fabulous adventure into... Read More
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The Dimensions of Parking (Second Edition)
by Urban Land Institute; National Parking Association
Washington DC: ULI-The Urban Land Institute / NPA-National Parking Association, 1983. Second Edition. Paperback. Good +. Second Edition. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". vii, 152pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light toning and rubbing to covers. Dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A collaborative effort between the Urban Land Institute and the National Parking Association, this book covers every aspect of parking, including planning, design, and... Read More
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Starside SIGNED DELUXE FIRST EDITION
by Aster, Alex
New York: Avon Books, 2026. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Alex Aster to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 497pp. Mild shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket, with gentle bumping to extremities, particularly to tail of spine. Bound in silver-foiled black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Mild shelfwear to binding, with gentle... Read More
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