Search Results: oddities from Ray Boas, Bookseller

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0393034232 A fascinating, wide-ranging, informed review of the sexual behavior of animals and primitive and modern peoples that uncovers striking similarities as well as differences among them. 431pp.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0231118767 Takes us on a journey through the Christian West with braggarts, craftsmen, soldiers, and sailors and their coarse talk. 290pp.

London: Hulton Press, 1953. HC. good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color ill.. Selections of pictures, poems and prose. 256pp.

New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1980. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0812827988 195pp.

Chicago, IL: Forbes and Company, 1915. HC. good, light blue cloth (hardcover) some edgewear to covers. 134pp.

London: Bloomsbury Books, 1979. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 1870630130 Earthquake and volcanic eruption, famine and pestilence, fire and flood, assassination and the horrors of war--this book presents a wide-ranging survey of the dramatic and disastrous events, both natural and the result of man's own actions, that have shocked humanity and even changed the course of history. 336pp.

New York: iUniverse, Inc, 2007. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0595880398 "Facts to compliment youdr daily conversations, new and exciting recipes for the palate, and a handy journal to record important lifecycle events." 389pp.

New York: Skin Art, 1993. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. 82pp.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) water stain rear board. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0710085923 WATER STAIN ON REAR BOARD UNDER DUSTJACKET The main theme of this book is the extraordinary quality to be found in the leisure culture of the major cities: a popular aesthetic, made up of scraps and pieces of dead styles, cliched ornament and plundered pastiche, revamped and revitalised with startling vulgar vitality. 152pp.

London: Greenwich Editions, 1984. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0862880939 This book is illustrated with a large number of remarkable pictures which trace the history from limestone seat to super-loo. 96pp.

New York: Kanrom, Inc, 1960. HC. very good, pictorial boards (hardcover) w/orig acetate cover. drawings by Milda Vizbar. A great and funny look at what to expect when traveling abroad! 79pp.

Newport Beach, CA: The Sangreal Press, 1996. HC. fine, yellow cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 100pp.

Wilmington, OH: Orange Frazer Press, 2003. HC. fine, pictorial boards (hardcover). color illustrations. ISBN 1882203348 CowParade, headquatered in West Hartford, Connecticut, displayed its herd of 57 spectacular cows on the streets to showcase the talents of area artists. 128pp.

Paris: Gilbert Salachas Editeur, 1983. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 2209823006 Author had some fun writing and illustrating with a typewriter. unpaginated.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1919. HC. good, pictorial boards (hardcover) w/lightly chipped dustjacket. B&W ill. by Natalie Stokes. Nice decorated boards with light edgewear - lightly chipped dustjacket - uncommon with jacket - front-free endpaper has triangular cut, obviously to remove a previous owner's name. 120oo.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0195061233 An intriguing history of marital breakdown in America, from colonial times to the present, revealing how America has become the divorce capital of the world. 262pp.

London: W. Gardiner, 1806. HC. good, bound in brown buckram cloth (hardcover) some foxing. B&W illustrations. 116pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0375410597 The amazing story of how the electric chair developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. 275pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0679451242 In telling the story of his chosen martyrs, by delving into their psyches, politics, and remarkable personalities, the author illuminates the complex and elusive subject of martyrdom as it has evolved over two and a half millennia. 433pp.

London: Souvenir Press, 1964. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Believe it or not, Dr. Guillotin did not invent the hideous machine that bears his name. In fact, he only narrowly excaped execution himself and his sole motive in suggesting the use of the guillotine was the prevention of further suffering to the victims of the French Revolution. 224pp.