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1992UMITBOO00fpHarperPerennial 1992. Very Good. Mitchell Stephen. The Book of Job. NY: HarperPerennial 1992. 129pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. HarperPerennial paperback books
1987032115San Francisco: North Point. 1987. First thus translated by and with an introduction by Mitchell. Inscribed by Mitchell to Peter Matthiessen "in appreciation." Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. North Point paperback books
201431972NY: Random House 2014. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Mitchell on the publisher's illustrated tipped-in endpage. One of an unspecified number as such issued for promotional purposes. Publisher's price/isbn sticker affixed to dustjacket rear panel as issued. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Mitchell's sixth novel. Winner 2015 World Fantasy Award. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
201431974NY: Random House 2014. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Mitchell on the publisher's illustrated tipped-in endpage. One of an unspecified number as such issued for promotional purposes. Front board upper corner with slightest crease with corresponding tiny wrinkle on the dustjacket neither immediately apparent; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Mitchell's sixth novel. Winner 2015 World Fantasy Award. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
201481516London: Sceptre 2014. First edition first prnt. Signed by Mitchell on the page with his printed name following the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Mitchell's sixth novel. 2015 winner of the World Fantasy Award. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sceptre Hardcover books
19713735Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1971. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. "Describes England in the mid-1980s: a place where the political Right equals might." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 162. "Len Rossman dictates his recollections of life in the violent and vicious days of the European Revolution." - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 185. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 327. Reginald 10178. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3735 Doubleday & Company unknown books
2000PW1506Ann Arbor:: University of Michigan Press 2000. 2000. 8vo. xiv 299 1 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0472096591 "For years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological social and cognitive sciences while at the same time it has been curiously neglected within the humanities. The BODY AND PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE seeks to introduce the field of disability studies into the humanities by exploring the fantasies and fictions that have crystallized around conceptions of physical and cognitive difference. Based on the premise that the significance of disabilities in culture and the arts has been culturally vexed as well as historically erased the collection probes our society's pathological investment in human variability and "aberrancy." The contributors demonstrate how definitions of disability underpin fundamental concepts such as normalcy health bodily integrity individuality citizenship and morality—all terms that define the very essence of what it means to be human. The book provides a provocative range of topics and perspectives: the absence of physical "otherness" in Ancient Greece the depiction of the female invalid in Victorian literature the production of tragic innocence in British and American telethons the reconstruction of Civil War amputees and disability as the aesthetic basis for definitions of expendable life within the modern eugenics movement. With this new secure anchoring in the humanities disability studies now emerges as a significant strain in contemporary theories of identity and social marginality. Moving beyond the oversimplification that disabled people are marginalized and made invisible by able-ist assumptions and practices the contributors demonstrate that representation is founded upon the perpetual exhibition of human anomalies. In this sense all art can be said to migrate toward the "freakish" and the "grotesque." Such a project paradoxically makes disability the exception and the rule of the desire to represent that which has been traditionally out-of-bounds in polite discourse. THE BODY AND PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE has relevance across a wide range of academic specialties such as cultural studies the sociology of medicine history literature and medicine the allied health professions rehabilitation aesthetics philosophical discourses of the body literary and film studies and narrative theory." – University of Michigan Press. University of Michigan Press, 2000. unknown books
20089008281Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 2008. Uncorrected Proof. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. <br/><br/> Wesleyan University Press paperback books
19781324976New York: W.W. Norton 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine slight edgewear price-clipped clean and bright; Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and grey paper to boards slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 256 pages illustrated b&w plates. 1324976. FP New Rockville Stock. W.W. Norton hardcover books
190050543fdNew York: Century 1900. First Edition. Octavo gilt-stamped green cloth hardcover top edge gilt uncut i - x ii 149 pp. Very Good; frontis. loose. Century, 1900. First Edition. hardcover books
1900156133New York: The Century Co. 1900. Octavo pp. i-viii ix-x xi-xx 1-149 150-152: blank note: last leaf is a blank eight inserted plates with illustrations by A. J. Keller original decorated blue-green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold t.e.g. fore-edge untrimmed bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition first binding. Collects two stories. The first printing of the novelette version of "The Autobiography of a Quack" first published anonymously in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in October and November 1867. "It was a realistic account of the devices by which a dishonest and ignorant physician proceeds and it gave a veracious picture of the seamy side of life in Philadelphia and other large cities. Homeopathy spiritualism and other pet aversions of the orthodox physician were treated in a humorous way and the cold-blooded manner in which the quack tells his story made it a successful piece of irony." - Quinn American Fiction p. 311. "The Case of George Dedlow" Mitchell's first published story was published anonymously and without his knowledge in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in July 1866. It is largely a realistic story of the feelings both physical and mental of an army surgeon who lost both arms and legs in a battle which occurred during the American Civil War. The satire becomes clear at the end when Dedlow is briefly united with his legs during a spiritualistic seance. Some readers missed the point and according to Mitchell "the spiritual incident at the end of the story was received with joy by the spiritualists as a valuable proof of the truth of their beliefs." Wright III 3777. BAL 14192. A fine copy. #156133 The Century Co. unknown books
1976108142London: The Arts Council of Great Britain 1976. Softcover. Good: some scuffing to covers. Brown wraps with gold Islamic motif on front cover; 396 pp. with 641 items described and numerous color and bw illustrations. Includes a glossary. The Arts Council of Great Britain paperback books
1985293790London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985. hardcover. Edited by Jones curator of the exhibition. Illustrated with 80 beautifully photographed color plates numerous in-text photos and drawings. 248pp. Square 4to black cloth d.w. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Inscribed by Mitchell on front endpaper to Kitty Carlisle.<br/><br/> Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
19622894New York: Loring & Mussey 1962. Black and white illustrated; 128 pages indexed; Wear and chipping to dustjacket; volume in very good condition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Loring & Mussey Hardcover books
2015163470Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015. Hardcover. As new but not in shrinkwrap. Color-illustrated boards with black lettering 271 pp. color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2015-2016 exhibition. With thematic and illustrated essays by Mark D. Mitchell Carol Troyen Bill Brown and Katie A. Pfohl. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 130 examples of still life. Includes an extensive bibliography. Much to see here. Philadelphia Museum of Art hardcover books
2015154782Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015. Hardcover. New in shrink wrap. Color-illustrated boards with black lettering 271 pp. color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2015-2016 exhibition. With thematic and illustrated essays by Mark D. Mitchell Carol Troyen Bill Brown and Katie A. Pfohl. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 130 examples of still life. Includes an extensive bibliography. Much to see here. Philadelphia Museum of Art hardcover books
200146509Atlanta: Golden Coast Publishing Company 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. 181pp indices. Very good hardback in a very good jacket. Signed by Mitchell on the title page. <br/><br/> Golden Coast Publishing Company hardcover books
1997291508Ann Arbor.: The University of Michigan Press. 1997. 3rd printing. Black cloth silver spine title. Fine tight and unmarked in a fine dust jacket. 26x18 cm. weight: 1.4 lb. 22 pages black and white illustrations. The University of Michigan Press. hardcover books
19669632Garden City: Doubleday 1966. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG owner sig on ffep/VG. 329 pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
1844015512Oxford: John Henry Parker 1844. Octavo. Text in Greek with English notes 151pp. with a blank leaf interspersed after every page with students to take notes bound in3/4 burgundy morocco over cloth raised bands title gilt within one compartment marbled endpapers all edges marbled a few pencil notations within the text but all blank leaves unmarked. A handsome copy. John Henry Parker unknown books
18982307428New York: The Century Co 1898. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Spine lightly toned front hinge starting ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi 321 pp. EXCERPT: "In the summer of the year 1777 a lad of about ten years clad in a suit of gray was playing in the high-walled garden of the Benedictine Asylum for Orphans in Paris. The sun was pleasant the birds sang overhead the roses were many for the month was June. A hundred lads were noisily running about. They had the look of being well fed decently clothed and kindly cared for. An old priest walked to and fro at times looking up from his breviary to say a pleasant word or to check some threatening quarrel. Presently he paused beside the boy who was at the moment intently watching a bird on a branch overhead. As the priest turned the boy had thrown himself on the grass and was laughing heartily. "What amuses thee my son" said the father. "I am laughing at the birds." "And why do they make thee laugh Fran The Century Co unknown books
1898WRCLIT56446New York: Century Co. 1898. Decorated cloth. Frontis and plates. First edition one of three printings dated 1898 which BAL was unable to differentiate. Spine a bit sunned cloth a bit hand-soiled; a good sound copy. BAL 14184. WRIGHT III:3776. Century Co. hardcover books
1896110203New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1896. Octavo pp. 1-4 i-vi vii-viii 1-2 3-177 178-180: blank note: last leaf is a blank illustrations by C. D Gibson A. B. Frost F. T. Richards and J. A. Mitchell original pictorial green cloth front panel stamped in white and gold spine panel stamped in gold t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. First edition second printing with half title reading "That First Affair / And Other Sketches" and "Trow" imprint on copyright page. A collection of five short stories all but one fantastic or supernatural the first middle and last bringing various perspectives to bear on the subject of romantic love while the other two act as intermezzos. The title story provides a decidedly un-Biblical and revisionary telling of the story of Adam and Eve artfully blending irony and pathos and sidestepping pitfalls that would have ruined most writers. "Mrs. Lofter's Ride" delicately vivisects the snobbery of the New York 400 generating some surprisingly vital comedy along with the satire. In the middle piece "The Portraits" an old thwarted love affair between two now elderly people is reprised by their grandchildren and finally consummated -- with supernatural help effected through the mechanism of two portraits on either side of the Atlantic. "The Man Who Vanished" is a mordant confection about sport with a talking bear that might have been called "The Hunted and the Hunters." The last story "A Bachelor's Supper" is a bittersweet glance at the fate of an old bachelor who invites the shades or are they just memories of his seven old lovers to a midnight supper. The gentle wistfulness of the tone receives a turn of the screw in the last sentence. This final story makes a nice bookend to the collection's first tale each painting the joys and agonies of an alternate approach to life -- marriage vs. celibacy -- and together reinforcing the old saw about women and the impracticability of living either with them or without them. An excellent collection. Mitchell brings a sure and light touch to material that is not at all lightweight. The results are amusing provocative and oddly moving. Bleiler 1978 p. 141. Reginald 10186. BAL 14039. Wright III 3772. A bright clean very good copy. #110203 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1896407317New York: Charles Scribner's Sons University Press: John Wilson and Son 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first edition. Decorative green cloth stamped in white and gilt top edge gilt. Illustrated by C.D. Gibson A.B. Frost F.T. Richards and the author. Contemporary owner's name on front fly gutter cracked with spine cocked edges a bit worn still a very good copy. Charles Scribner's Sons (University Press: John Wilson and Son) hardcover books
1931184993Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 1931. ix 92p. original blue cloth binding a bit stained corners slightly bumped clean text block old price stamp on front blank end paper. The University of North Carolina social studies series. The University of North Carolina Press unknown books
