Recent Arrivals from Collettes Books

Offprint of the paper "The Vrysoula Classical Deposit from Ancient Corinth" by Elizabeth Gummey Pemberton (1940-2024), signed by the author (as "Betsy") to fellow archaeologist Jack. L. Benson. Pemberton was a noted classical archaeologist, and this article summarizes work done in the 1960s at Ancient Corinth, Greece. In Good condition with tight staple binding. Includes a handwritten page of notes… Read more about this item

Offprint from the journal Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia Della Scienza, Vol. XXXI, New Series, Issue 3. Signed on title page by co-author Alan Bowen as "Alan," with inscription to "Professor Pritchett," likely William Kendrick Pritchett, scholar of ancient Greek history. Uncommon as signed. Good, with tight binding. Light edge wear, marks, and rubs to covers, a few inked notations… Read more about this item

Copy of First Edition (1963) in Good condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Report on the excavation of the Corn Creek Dunes site northwest of Las Vegas in the early 1960s. Some edge wear, rubs, scuffs, sunning to covers and spine. From an institutional library with stamps and bar code on front. Text is unmarked and pages are fairly… Read more about this item

Uncommon 1st Ed. (1939) in Good+ condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Pages are bright and clean and uncut (unopened) and therefore unread. Very light edge wear and rubs to covers. From a non-circulating institutional library with withdrawal stamp on front; except for stamp would grade as Very Good. Report on archaeological survey and excavation in 1936-37 in the… Read more about this item

Issue devoted to various aspects of art forgery, including a lead article by Director Thomas Hoving. Good, with tight binding. Some edge wear, rubs, and sunning to covers, faded inked name on front, corners bumped, inked notation in text. Includes seven articles, four of which were originally presented at a series of seminars at the Museum in 1967. Well illustrated… Read more about this item

Ex-library copy of 1st Edition (1932) in Good condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Softcover that has been rebound in hardcover library (buckram) binding. Has usual library stamps and stickers to spine, back cover, textblock edges, front pastedown, and some pages. Also some edge wear and rubbing to covers, spine slant, discard stamp on top textblock edge, small tape… Read more about this item

Uncommon copy in Good-minus condition with some edge wear and rubbing to covers and spine, page corners bumped, owner's name on front cover, some underlining and inked notations in text, wear/abrasion to lower fore corner of pages (does not affect text). Still a useful, readable reference. First Edition (1939)--not a later reprint. Includes large, oversize color map of soil units.… Read more about this item

Uncommon copy with tight binding and unmarked text; contains all fold-out tables. Good condition. Some small marks on covers, light edge wear, sunning to spine. Pages are clean and quite readable. Noted as a "Revision of the Turner Method." From the library of geologist Wendell Duffield, with his last name lightly penciled on title page. Printed orange wraps (softcover), viii,… Read more about this item

Uncommon copy in Good+ condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Light edge wear and rubbing to covers, inked notation on spine. A solid, clean copy. This was the Spring, 1990 issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination, with 6 papers and Editor's Comment focused on the literary and philosophical writings of Mikhail Bakhtin Green. Printed wraps (softcover), 127 pp,… Read more about this item

Uncommon copy of Cielos y Gentes ('Heaven and People') in Fair condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Some edge wear (inc. a few small open tears) and rubbing to covers and tips of spine, crease on back, toning to pages. Spanish language text. Stated First Edition from 1964. A scarce title by author, journalist, art critic and professor Clemente… Read more about this item

Uncommon copy of stated 2nd Ed. (1979) edition in Good condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Text in Spanish. Shows some edge wear, scuffs, and rubbing to covers, toning to covers and pages, inked notations on half title page. Interesting stories, anecdotes, and information on the cultural milieu of Baja, California, La Paz, with photos. Pictorial wrappers (softcover), 218… Read more about this item

Uncommon copy in Good condition with tight binding. An overview of Baja California Sur with b/w photos circa early 1980s. Some edge wear and rubbing to covers, surface tear to back, light crease to front, ex-owner's name on first blank, small amount of underlining and notations in text. Text in Spanish. Pictorial wraps (softcover), 163 pp, illustrated, 20.5 cm. [z2]

Good hardcover with no dust jacket (possibly as issued). Copy has tight, square binding. Some highlighting, primarily in two chapters. Light edge wear and rubbing to covers, front free endpaper is a bit creased, slight bow to boards. Still a solid, readable copy. Edited volume with nine papers. Hardcover. [z2]

Uncommon signed copy in Very Good condition with tight binding, bright covers, and unmarked text. Signed with inscription on first blank. Light edge wear and rubs to covers, small sticker on back. A personal history of Montana's Race to the Sky sled dog racing event. Softcover, 93 pp, illus, 23 cm. [z2]

Copy of 1st Ed. (1953) in Good+ condition with tight staple binding and unmarked text. Light edge wear and rubs to covers, light sunning to spine, lower fore corner bumped. Pages are clean and fairly bright given age. Printed tan wraps (softcover), 18 pls., 93 pp., 22 cm. [z2]

Hardcover (with dust jacket) German language edition of Fante's "Full of Life." As New in publisher's shrink wrap. Hint of edge wear to corners and tips of spine from storage. 281 pp [z2]

Signed by author Richard Bocking on title page and signed again with inscription to friends on front free endpaper. Account of a journey down the Fraser River in British Columbia by the author. Very Good hardcover in VG dust jacket. Light edge wear to corners and tips of spine, slight bow to back board, else tight binding and clean, unmarked… Read more about this item

Copy has tight binding and clean, unmarked text. Light edge wear to covers, ex-owner's stamp on textblock edges and half title page. Good+ condition. Kent's groundbreaking work on the use of space by modern Navajo and Euroamerican households. Illustrated wraps (softcover), 259 pp, 23 cm. [z2]

Copy in Good+ condition with tight binding and unmarked text. Some edge wear and rubs to covers. Pages are bright and clean. A study of Greek seals of the 7th to 6th Centuries BC. Uncommon in the US. Printed white wraps (softcover), 176 pp : illus. with 20 b/w plates; 22 cm. [z2]

Scarce copy in Very Good condition with tight binding and unmarked text. This directory (2000) was extracted by Sheila Martin for the Genealogical Society of Ireland from "The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, Compiled by John Watson Stewart, for the Year of Our Lord 1798." A valuable genealogical resource that lists over 4,800 people who worked in diverse merchant and trade… Read more about this item