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20022292399Basic Books 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 1st printing. Edge wear. 2002 Trade Paperback. xii 318 pp. Basic Books paperback books
2005UDIALAS00LRScribner 2005. Fine. Diamant Anita. The Last Days of Dogtown. New York City: Scribner 2005. 263pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine with light bumping to corners. Scribner hardcover books
2005214653New York: Times Books 2005. First. hardcover. very good-/very good. 8vo two-toned boards d.w. front flyleaf lightly soiled. New York: Times Books 2005.<br/><br/> Times Books unknown books
2012190204Viking 2012-12-31. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2012 first edition. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Dust jacket shows mind edgewear and creasing is attached to boards. A few very light smudges to page edge. HB HS Viking hardcover books
2004132556San Francisco: Manic D Press 2004. Paperback. 168p. introduction memoirs essays stories poemsadditional resources very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Manic D Press paperback books
2003Embry 173052Basic Books 2003. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by the author. Basic Books, 2003. First edition, first printing. unknown books
20052311160New York: Viking 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Jacket bumped. 2005 Hard Cover. xi 575 pp. "In his million-copy bestseller Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin and what can we learn from their fates As in Guns Germs and Steel Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage climate change rapid population growth and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant illuminating and immensely absorbing Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide Viking hardcover books
2005UDIACOL03jknViking 2005. Very Good. Diamond Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York NY: Viking 2005. 1st edition. 575pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. In protective cover. Viking hardcover books
2005UDIACOL01MELViking 2005. Very Good. Diamond Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York NY: Viking 2005. 1st edition. 575pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Viking hardcover books
2003031874NY: Basic Books. 2003. Inscribed by the author to Peter Matthiessen. Remainder stripe; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Basic Books hardcover books
2005046953New York: Viking 2005. xiii 575 1p. b/w illus. maps dj. Viking unknown books
2013Embry 193157Viking 2013. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Viking, 2013. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2003242480London: Anthem Press 2003. First. hardcover. very good/near fine. Illus. some in color. 8vo black cloth d.w. London: Anthem Press 2003. Very good<br/><br/> From the library of Wendell Garrett with his ownership signature.<br/><br/> Anthem Press unknown books
2007169515Portland OR: Nazraeli Press 2007. First edition. Hardcover. The 44th entry in the One Picture Book series. Number 116 from an edition of 500 copies. Includes 10 duotone plates along with a tipped in original black and white photograph. A very fine copy in the publisher's original ziploc bag. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Diamond on the verso of the photograph. An as new copy. Nazraeli Press unknown books
2008265856Toronto: Sykes press 2008. Paperback. 65p. very good first edition stated trade paperback in cream pictorial wraps. Posthumous publication of the gay Lansing painter & poet's brief memoir of the novelist Wescott in his later years. Mentions Ian Young. Sykes press paperback books
200646362NY: Bulfinch Press 2006. Hardcover. Very good. 271pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Bulfinch Press hardcover books
20079010122New York: Oxford University Press 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
20191338665London: Routledge 2019. Softcover. Octavo; VG; Paperback; Spine grey with grey red and white print; Cover is clean and bright; Text block clean and tight but for light smudge to fore edge; xiii 253 pages illustrated b&w. 1338665. FP New Rockville Stock. Routledge unknown books
20051335107New York: Viking 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; pp 575; black and white pictorial spine with copper black and white text; dust jacket shows light wear to exterior; cloth has minimal wear to exterior; minor wear spine edges; strong boards; text block has light smudges to exterior edges; illustrated; interior clean; tight binding; signed by author. 1335107. FP New Rockville Stock. Viking hardcover books
20051327585New York: Viking 2005. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine grey with brown and white print; DJ is clean and bright; Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and grey paper to boards slight wear to spine tail but clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; xi 575 pages illustrated maps b&w plates. 1327585. FP New Rockville Stock. Viking hardcover books
20019004051N. p: Scribner's 2001. Fine Condition. Manuscript draft bound in white wrappers with the spine taped in black and with the front cover stamped in black. The book measures 8.5 inches by 11 inches. <br/><br/> Scribner's unknown books
2008276144Washington: Smithsonian 2008. paperback. fine. Profusely illustrated. 4to stiff pictorial wrappers sealed in original shrink wrap. Washington: Arthur M. Sackler/Smithsonian Institution Press 2008. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Smithsonian unknown books
2003114099Cambridge: The MIT Press 2003. First edition of these lectures by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Peter Diamond on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. In this book Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives to delay retirement beyond the earliest age of eligibility for benefits. Before analyzing these models Diamond presents introductions to optimal income tax theory and the theory of incomplete markets. He incorporates recent theoretical developments such as time-inconsistent preferences into his analyses and shows that distorting taxes and a measure of progressivity in benefits are desirable. Diamond also discusses social security reform with a focus on Germany. The MIT Press hardcover books
