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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. s4 6"x9"; 350 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following essays: "Foreword" by Bill Littlefield; "Pre-Game Warm-up: Who's on First?"; "There's No Place Like Home!" by Joe Kraus; "Minnesota's 'Homer Hanky Jurisprudence': Contradiction, Ethics, and the Twins" by Paul Horan and Jason Solomon; "Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about the Nature of Faith" by Thomas D. Senor; "Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice" by Willie Young; "There Are No Ties at First Base" by Ted Cohen; "Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls" by J. S. Russell; "Baseball, Cheating, and Tradition: Would Kant Cork His Bat?" by Randolph Feezell; "There's No Lying in Basebal (Wink, Wink)" by Mark J. Hamilton; "Democracy and Dissent: Why America Needs Reggie Jackson:" by Eric Bronson; "Baseball and the Search for an American Moral Identity" by William J. Morgan; "The Negro Leagues and the Contradictions of Social Darwinism" by Alex Ruck and Bob Ruck; "We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance" by Pellom McDaniels III; "The Zen of Hitting" by Gregory Bassham; "Japanese Baseball and It's Warrior Ways" by Michael Brannigan; "The Numbers Game: What Fans Should Know about the Stats They Love" by Jay Bennett and Aryn Martin; "Women Playing Hardball" by Leslie Heaphy; "Walking Barry Bonds: The Ethics of the Intentional Walk" by R. Scott Kretchmar; "Socrates at the Ballpark" by Heather L. Reid; "Baseball and Ethics: Should Pete Rose Be in the Hall of Fame?" (Yes) by Aeon J. Skoble (No) "Baseball and Political Philosophy: Does A-Rod Deserve So Much Money?" (Yes) by by Albert Duncan (No) by Joel Shuman; "Baseball and Metaphysics: Does Superstition Help Performance?" (Yes) by Steven Streeter (No ) by Neil Feit; "Baseball and Legal Philosophy: Should Steroids Be Banned?" (Yes) by Michaelm J. McGrath (No) by Simon Eassom; "Baseball and Aesthetics: What's the Best Baseball Movie?" (The Natural 1984) by Vincent L. Toscano (It Happens Every Spring 1949) by Larry Raful; "Baseball and Education: Were Baseball Players Better Role Models Then or Now?" (Then) by Edward A. Sullivan (Now) by Graham Harman.

Hardcover. Condizione: fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First edition, Complete Numbers . NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is printed on rear of jacket.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.

136 pp.; 27.8 x 21.4 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, March 7 - June 27, 2004. Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, July 24 - October 3, 2004 and Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, June 9 - September 4, 2005. Curated and with an introduction by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston. Essay by Thomas McEvilley. Artists included: Reverend Ethan Acres, Jo Harvey Allen, Terry Allen, Eleanor Antin, Brienne Arrington, David Askevold, Lillian Ball, Cindy Bernard, Andrea Bowers, Delia Brown, Edgar Bryan, Angela Bulloch, Chris Burden, Mary Ellen Carroll, Erin Cosgrove, Michael Craig-Martin, Jeremy Deller, Sam Durrant, Jimmie Durham, Nicole Eisenman, Katharina Fritsch, Jonathan Furmanski, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Liam Gillick, James Gobel, Jack Goldstein, Scott Grieger, Andreas Gursky, James Hayward, Micol Hebron, Damien Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Darcy Huebler, Christian Jankowski, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Marky Kelly, Martin Kersels, Nicholas Kersulis, Martin Kippenberger, Rachel Lachowicz, Norm Laich, Liz Larner, Louise Lawler, Barry Le Va, William Leavitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Jen Liu, Thomas Locher, Daria Martin, T. Kelly Mason, Rita McBride, Paul McCarthy, Carlos Mollura, JP Munro, Jennifer Nelson, Eric Niebuhr, Leonard Nimoy, Albert Oehlen, Catherine Opie, Tony Oursler, Jorge Pardo, Simon Patterson, Hirsch Perlman, Luciano Perna, Renée Petropoulos, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Nicolette Pot, Richard Prince, Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz, David Reed, Victoria Reynolds, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, Nancy Rubins, Glen Walter Rubsamen, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Pauline Stella Sanchez, Kim Schoenstadt, Jim Shaw, Gary Simmons, Alexis Smith, Yutaka Sone, Thaddeus Strode, Diana Thater, Mungo Thomson, Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson in collaboration with Helena Jonsdottir, Jeffrey Vallance, John Waters, Marner Weber, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Benjamin Weissman, James Welling, Eric Wesley, John Wesley, Franz West, and Chris Wilder. Includes an index of artists. Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing of cover corners and dust soiling to text block edge. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

Softcover. 116 pp. 2000. Volume 54, Number 1 (January 2000): The City. Softcover. Very good condition; traces of wear on covers.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. UNESCO World Solar Programme 1996-2005. Dustjacket.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Eighth Printing.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hand-sewn chapbook. Condition: Very good with light wear to covers, no marks to text. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Poetry - Collectible; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. Dustjacket. LCC: 935848.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Magazine. 16mo. String bound illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Touch of wear at two corners, else fine. Poetry anthology with Sheila Nickerson, Doyle Wesley Walls, Peter Wild, William Jay Smith, John Druska, Jared Carter, Leonard Nathan, Jim Handlin, Robley Wilson, Jr., Red Saner, Merry Speece, Albert Goldbarth, Scott Simmer, John Fandel, Dennis Trudell, Jean Balderson, Frank Short, William Hoagland, Sonia Gernes, and Joseph Bruchac.

Condizione: New. In.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Selected and with an introduction by William Logan. Pictorial wrappers. Small faint stain on the cover, slightly toned spine, near fine. New Irish Poetry issue with poems by Michael Longley, Seamus Deane, Derek Mahon, Frank Ormsby, Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Jeremy Nelson, Paul Mariani, William Harmon, Judith Baumel, James Galvin, Cynthia Huntington, Michael Collier, William Young, Albert Goldbarth, Scott Ruescher, and Dennis Hinrichsen. Fiction by Mary Morris, L.M. Rosenberg, Richard Pevear, and Sven Birkerts.

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 80pp (plus 32pp audio supplement), stapled wrappers. Issue includes a Time of the Assassins column by William Burroughs (Schottlaender C382); cover reads "Wm Burroughs on Acid"). Also includes an early piece by Tom Waits and a cover feature on Eric Clapton, other prime content. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. ONCE AGAINST THE LAW, Macmillan, 1968, first edition, fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper with a small very gentle bump to the lower front fore edge corner tip. Twenty-two tales of mystery and suspense dedicated to the proposition that great writers, when they write mystery stories, write great mystery stories. Contributions from John Steinbeck (HOW MR. HOGAN ROBBED A BANK), Jorge Luis Borges, Sinclair Lewis, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ogden Nash, Stephen Crane, James T. Farrell, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Herber Gold, Honor Balzac, Albert Maltz, Robert M. Coates, W.S. Gilbert, Leo Tolstoy, Alberto Moravia, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Cary, Peter Ustinov & Luigi Pirandello. From the collection of author William Tenn. Nice association thus.

Condizione: New. In.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition ; xvii, 348 p. illus. 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0060117478; 9780060117474 LCCN: 72-9121 ; OCLC: 722814 ; LC: GB604; Dewey: 796.5/25 ; white cloth with brown and green lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; numerous photos and cave maps ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good -. No Jacket. First Edition. Explores the fundamentals of obstetrics and gynecology, based on a course of lectures given at the medical school of the University of Toronto. Covers normal obstetrics, abnormal obstetrics, operative obstetrics, and gynecology. Illustrated. Light exterior marks/soils. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 266 pp ; color photographic cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Difference of opinion / John R. Patterson -- The lazy man grows roses / C. Hugh Blair -- Note on rose Anthracnose / Dr L M Massey -- Foliar fertilization of garaden roses / Dr Griffith J Buck -- The roses in the vase (poem) / Sylvia Merles -- That northeast corner / Mrs. Fred Jewett -- Growing roses in the high country /Mrs. William S. Corey -- How to predict rose lead rust / Dennison Morey -- We live with roses every day / Helen D Carswell -- Fungicide-Insecticide combinations for garden roses / Dr. L M Massey, Dr John A Naegele, J S Melchin, Harold Allen -- Roses grow in western Kansas / Maxine Graces -- Wear a rose (poem) / Hallie Mercer -- how to name a plant -- Roses flourish in Ohio / Elton Millman -- Beauty is essential / Mrs. Edward L Alexander -- Bake oven roses / William C McDonald -- Winter-hardy roses for the Great Plains / Glenn Viehmeyer -- Better roses for Tennessee / Dave Guyton, Jack Adamo -- A farmer grows roses / Albert E Morris -- Rose classifications revised / Roy E. Shepherd -- September roses (poem) / Maureen Fleming -- Experience and questions of a novice / M A Minns -- Rosebush in December (poem) / Louise Darcy -- Roses in Wisconsin / Dr Leo Cogan, Ann Cogan -- Common Rosarian mistakes / Harold H Allen -- In the heart of a flower (poem) / Allen E Woodall -- How to grow roses in Illinois / Dr Henry H Morrison -- Proof of the pudding -- A fancy from Fontenelle (poem) / Austin Dobson -- New rose patents -- Ode to a rose (poem) / Marion Voigts -- New rose sof the world -- Valiance (poem) / Nina Satirah Woodford -- Rose growing on the Central Plains / Kenneth Scott -- How I became interested in growing roses / Frank Rehberger -- A gardener's prayer (poem) / Helen Axtell -- Index -- Illustrations : John R. Patterson -- Mycelium of Elsinoe Rosarum -- Gold Cup -- Azte -- White Knight -- Reno -- Isobel Harkness -- Sterling Silver -- Don Juan -- Starlet -- Encore -- Sunlight -- Dian -- Magic Wand -- Arlene Francis -- Lavender Girl -- Gail Borden -- Lionel Barrymore -- Fusilier -- Cover: Tom Tom. ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 243-485pp. Corners bumped, else very good. A collections of poetry, short stories, and essays with contributions by Kathleen Raine, Anne Tyler, Reynolds Price, May Swenson, William Stafford, Robert Wallace, Ann Stanford, Eliseo Vivas, Josephine Herbst, Morris Philipson, J.M. Cohen, Larry Rubin, Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, Jaime Sabines, Concha Zardoya, Willis Barnstone, Albert Sonnenfeld, John Hazard Wildman, N. Scott Momaday, Ann Hayes, David Levin, Richard Eberhart, Samuel French Morse, Richard P. Adams, Frederick J. Hoffman, and Ronald Moran.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Hooper, E. (drawings) (illustratore). Reprint. 390pp.incl.index; HB beige w/blk.&gilt; rubbed&soiled w/spine darkened; wear on edges&corners; PONstamps,endpapers; some tan on pastedwns.; slightly loose hinges w/clean,tight pgs. Fundamentals of Obstetrics & Gynecology. "126 Illustrations on 91 Figures, 13 in Colors".

mass market paperback. Condizione: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 542 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; spine starting and slanting; crease and stain to cover; tips bumped and chips; nicks and chips to cover edges; tanning pages; edges factory coloring some fade; few faint stains to edges; otherwise clean pages; prompt shipping wtih tracking.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.