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Woodrow Wilson of Princeton (SIGNED COPY)by: Lewis McMillan

Woodrow Wilson of Princeton (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lewis McMillan

Hardcover. Narberth PA, Livingston Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front flyleaf. Salmon cloth covers with black cloth inlay & gilt titles, black printed titles to spine. Frontis photograph Woodrow Wilson. Clean copy.

Record # 383349

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Eighty-Three Years a Servant or The Life of Rev. Alvah Sabin (SIGNED COPY)by: Hobart, Alvah S.

Eighty-Three Years a Servant or The Life of Rev. Alvah Sabin (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hobart, Alvah S.

Hardcover. Cincinnati OH, Review Printing Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with black stamping, 174 pages. B&w frontispiece engraving of Sabin with tissue guard. Green floral pattern on endpapers. First blank page INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, DATED 1890.

Record # 412324

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Behind the Linesby: Blechman, R.O.

Behind the Lines
by: Blechman, R.O.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 187 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. green star sticker on front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 369403

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Unknown Rockwell, The: A Portrait of Two American Familiesby: Edgerton, James "Buddy" and Nan O'Brien

Unknown Rockwell, The: A Portrait of Two American Families
by: Edgerton, James "Buddy" and Nan O'Brien

Hardcover. Essex Junction VT, Battenkill River, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An intimate look at the life of Norman Rockwell and his Arlington, Vermont neighbors, the Edgertons. Foreword by Dick Clark. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 952497

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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Stoll, David

Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Stoll, David

Softcover. Colorado, Westview Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Very slight wear to edges and corners. A few pages slightly turned down. Otherwise, a very nice, clean copy.

Record # 850111

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Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrowby: Alexander Kendrick

Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow
by: Alexander Kendrick

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and rubbed dust jacket, 548 pages. A biography of the famous CBS radio and television newsman Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965). Much of what Americans knew about the events in Europe during World War II were learned from Murrow's broadcasts. After the war, Murrow was a regular on prime-time television. B&w illustrations, index and bibliography. Spine faded. Clean copy.

Record # 381477

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Daniel Booneby: Daughterty, James

Daniel Boone
by: Daughterty, James

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color lithographs by author. Light soil to covers, mild odor, and corners bumped. Previous owner's name and bokplate on front fly leaf. Tight copy.

Record # 368968

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The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction by: Wallace, Irving

The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction
by: Wallace, Irving

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped, 316 pages. This book is a fascinating combination of literary detection and biography, capturing lives of extraordinary people who inspired memorable characters in ficiton.

Record # 373758

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William Morris: A Study in Personality.by: Compton- Rickett, Arthur

William Morris: A Study in Personality.
by: Compton- Rickett, Arthur

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton , 1st U.S., 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 325 pages. Green cloth cover, beveled edges, gilt design,some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing and shadows on front and rear endpages. With an introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Frontispiece is b&w portrait of William Morris. Binding slightly cocked. Inside pages are bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 853088

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Munch Case, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Buckeye, Robert

Munch Case, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Buckeye, Robert

Paperback. East Middlebury, VT, Amandla Publishing , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Photographic cover by Fred Cray.

Record # 40026

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Paul Revere Artisan Businessman and Patriot: The Man Behind the Myth by: N/A

Paul Revere Artisan Businessman and Patriot: The Man Behind the Myth
by: N/A

Softcover. Boston, The Paul Revere Memorial Association, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial black wrappers, 191 pages. Issued in conjunction with a 1988-1989 exhibition featuring the silver work of Paul Revere (1735-1818). With illustrated essays by Patrick M. Leehey, Janine E. Skerry, Deborah A. Federhen, Edgard Moreno, and Edith J. Steblecki. Includes a bibliography and many views of Revere's silversmithing capabilities. 236 b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 383837

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Ake: The Years of Childhoodby: Soyinka, Wole

Ake: The Years of Childhood
by: Soyinka, Wole

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 3rd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 230 pages. This autobiography covers the first eleven years in the life of the distinguished Nigerian dramatist and poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Clean copy.

Record # 380849

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One Pilot's Log: The Career of E. L. "Slonnie" Slonigerby: Jerrold Sloniger

One Pilot's Log: The Career of E. L. "Slonnie" Sloniger
by: Jerrold Sloniger

Hardcover. Howell Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, b&w illustrations. Between 1917 and 1955, E.L. "Slonnie" Sloniger was a WWI fighter pilot, a barnstormer, a test pilot, a racer, an acrobatic pilot, and a commercial pilot. Here, "Fate is the Hunter's" Old Number One tells the story in his own words, as recorded by his son.

Record # 362280

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I. E. an Autobiography by Mickey Rooney by: Rooney, Mickey

I. E. an Autobiography by Mickey Rooney
by: Rooney, Mickey

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt title on spine, 249 pages., b&w plates. Written in his mid-forties, after four broken marriages and several fortunes spent, Rooney frankly discusses his own personal triumphs, tribulations and out and out disasters. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket. No printing stated.

Record # 359193

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Robert Rogers of the Rangersby: Cuneo, John R.

Robert Rogers of the Rangers
by: Cuneo, John R.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown cloth boards with small orange cannon illustration on front cover; white and orange lettering to spine. In a very worn and chipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations. An American hero of the French and Indian Wars, Rogers briefly served with the British in the American Revolution before resigning because he did not want to fight against his countrymen. He was court martialed for treason and later died in exile in England. Dust jacket poor to fair, book itself is clean and tight.

Record # 377808

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Tamayo Ilusradorby: Tamayo, Rufino

Tamayo Ilusrador
by: Tamayo, Rufino

Hardcover. Mexico, Fundacion Olga y Rufino Tamayo, Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Book text in Spanish. Former price tag residue on back of dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 470677

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A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould by: Susan Ronald

A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould
by: Susan Ronald

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 388 pages, b&w illustrations. A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frank's millions into hotels and casinos, creating a luxury hotel and casino empire. She entertained Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Kennedy, and many Hollywood stars-like Charlie Chaplin, who became her lover. While the party ended for most Americans after the Crash of 1929, Frank and Florence stayed on, fearing retribution by the IRS. During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial Nazi salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for Hermann Goring's Aerobank. Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum and New York University, among many others. It also earned her friends like Estee Lauder who obligingly looked the other way. A seductive and utterly amoral woman who loved to say "money doesn't care who owns it," Florence's life proved a strong argument that perhaps money can buy happiness after all.

Record # 379315

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Road Without Turning: The Story of Rev. James H. Robinson by: Robinson, Reverend James H.

Road Without Turning: The Story of Rev. James H. Robinson
by: Robinson, Reverend James H.

NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn, chipped dust jacket, 312 pages. This autobiography details the struggle of a young Negroe's struggle to rise from a Knoxville slum to reach the ministry in the first half of the 20th century.

Record # 382446

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I'll Never Write My Memoirsby: Jones, Grace

I'll Never Write My Memoirs
by: Jones, Grace

Hardcover. New York, Gallery Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Iconic music and film legend Grace Jones gives an in-depth account of her stellar career, professional and personal life, and the signature look that catapulted her into the stardom stratosphere.

Record # 353169

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Raymond Carver: A Writer's Lifeby: Sklenicka, Carol

Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
by: Sklenicka, Carol

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 578 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Pictures in center. Nice copy.

Record # 4450226

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J. Ross Browne - His Letters, Journals & Writingsby: Browne, J. Ross/Lina Fergusson Browne (Editor)

J. Ross Browne - His Letters, Journals & Writings
by: Browne, J. Ross/Lina Fergusson Browne (Editor)

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, First Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with photographs, illustrations of woodcuts, engravings in bw. Brown cloth boards & black titles to spine. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with toning to spine & light wear to edges. Clean & tight copy.

Record # 3340110

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Diana Vreelandby: Eleanor Dwight

Diana Vreeland
by: Eleanor Dwight

Softcover. NY, Harper Design, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. Eleanor Dwight delivers the definitive biography of Diana Vreeland, the twentieth century's most influential fashion editor. Lavishly illustrated with exclusive photographs and personal materials from the legendary style maker's private collection, and featuring a new preface from Vogue's Andre LeonTalley, Diana Vreeland is an indispensible look at a grand dame of great couture. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred drawings and photographs, many by the best fashion photographers of the time: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, and Brassai. Here, too, are the trendsetters, artists, models, and celebrities with whom Vreeland worked and played, including Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Elsie de Wolfe, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Record # 361836

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Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Openby: Hoban, Phoebe

Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open
by: Hoban, Phoebe

Hardcover. Boston, New Harvest, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Hoban has written an insightful book into what may have made Lucian Freud the great painter he came to be. From his early days in Germany with his grandfather, Sigmund Freud, to his subsequent life in London, where his family moved before the war, we see Lucian Freud gradually developing from an intense adolescent who often resorted to physical violence in conflicts with others to the powerful figure who changed the face of Realism. His many liaisons with women are described in detail: Hoban offers us a candid sketch of who the most prominent women in his life were, his problems with commitment and other moral conundrums we are forced to consider in his character, such as his questionable demand on his lovers that they use no form of birth control, resulting in at least 14 children, most out of wedlock. Along with that, Freud's gambling addiction and his love of risk are explored by Hoban in a way that allows us a glimpse into Freud's psyche that is invaluable for anyone wanting to understand in a more in depth way the factors that might have contributed to his enormous talents and output.

Record # 352403

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George Marshall: A Biographyby: Debi Unger / Irwin Unger /Stanley Hirshson

George Marshall: A Biography
by: Debi Unger / Irwin Unger /Stanley Hirshson

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A major historical biography of George C. Marshall--the general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of post-war Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize--and the first to offer a complete picture of his life. While Eisenhower Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, MacArthur, Nimitz, and Leahy waged battles in Europe and the Pacific, one military leader actually ran World War II for America, overseeing personnel and logistics: Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945, George C. Marshall. This interpretive biography of George C. Marshall follows his life from his childhood in Western Pennsylvania and his military training at the Virginia Military Institute to his role during and after World War II and his death in 1959 at the age of seventy-eight. It brings to light the virtuous historical role models who inspired him, including George Washington and Robert E. Lee, and his relationships with the Washington political establishment, military brass, and foreign leaders, from Harry Truman to Chiang Kai-shek. It explores Marshall's successes and failures during World War II, and his contributions through two critical years of the emerging Cold War--including the transformative Marshall Plan, which saved Western Europe from Soviet domination, and the failed attempt to unite China's nationalists and communists.

Record # 381234

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Sztetl: My Life in a Small Polish Town Before the Holocaust by: Kirsten, Rose Fromm

Sztetl: My Life in a Small Polish Town Before the Holocaust
by: Kirsten, Rose Fromm

Softcover. Bloomington IN, iUniverse, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages including epilogue. This is the story of Checiny, the author's hometown in southern Poland, and of the people who lived there between the two world wars of the 20th Century. Clean copy.

Record # 381802

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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Motherby: Sturrock, Donald

Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother
by: Sturrock, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Blue Rider Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and pictures throughout.

Record # 470123

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Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny by: Alexandra Lapierre; Translator Carol Cosman

Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny
by: Alexandra Lapierre; Translator Carol Cosman

Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 556 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Robert Louis Stevenson's biographers are sharply divided over his American wife Frances (Fanny) Van de Grift (1840-1914), depicting her either as a muse, a saintly martyr or a dominating shrew. In this spellbinding biography, which is written like a romance novel, French novelist Lapierre portrays the Indiana-born farmer's daughter as an intrepid woman of rash energy, courage, violent emotion and charisma who sublimated her career as a painter in her possessive love for the tubercular Scottish novelist, children's writer and poet.

Record # 359028

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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across Americaby: Waters, John

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
by: Waters, John

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 7th pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352457

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Baseball Has Done Itby: Robinson, Jackie

Baseball Has Done It
by: Robinson, Jackie

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows chipping, and wear on edges. Covered with plastic sleeve. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf,otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 354078

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The Stolen Years by: Falkus, Hugh

The Stolen Years
by: Falkus, Hugh

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 130 pages, illustrated in b&w by David Cobb. Falkus recollects his boyhood, spent fishing, sailing and wildfowling. Clean copy.

Record # 386097

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Henry Adamsby: Samuels, Ernest

Henry Adams
by: Samuels, Ernest

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 504 pages, b&w photographs. Newspaper and magazine clippings laid in. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451530

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John Wayne: Actor, Artist, Heroby: McGhee, Richard D.

John Wayne: Actor, Artist, Hero
by: McGhee, Richard D.

Hardcover. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 383 pages, with photographs throughout. Very clean and tight copy. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 455960

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Picasso: The Communist Yearsby: Utley, Guertje

Picasso: The Communist Years
by: Utley, Guertje

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the front flap: "This stimulating book is the first comprehensive examination of Picasso's political commitment, his motivations to join the French Communist Party, and his contributions as an active member. Guertje R. Utley assesses the impact Communism had on the artist's life and explores how Picasso's political beliefs and the doctrines of the Communist Party affected his artistic production."

Record # 30405

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Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Lifeby: Harriot K. Hunt

Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life
by: Harriot K. Hunt

Hardcover. Boston, John P Jewett and Company, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Stated "Fourth Thousand" on title page, 418 pages. Early women's rights advocate Harriot K Hunt, considered the first female doctor in the United States. After two refusals to have her study at the Harvard Medical School, she received a private medical education and practiced with an emphasis on prevention of disease. She was a dedicated advocate for women as professionals and as an educated populace. A very early advocate for changes to voting rights and property rights for women. Each year when she paid her taxes, in fact, she issued a "taxation without representation" protest. An intriguing look at attitudes and treatment of early women's rights advocates from a well-educated and outspoken women. Light fraying to top and bottom of spine, name on inside front cover, ownership stamp to blank leaf preceding half-title page.

Record # 387261

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Man About Paris: the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye by: Knepler, Henry (Translated And Edited by)

Man About Paris: the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye
by: Knepler, Henry (Translated And Edited by)

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 350 pages, B&w frontispiece of Houssaye. A condensation of his six-volume Confessions. Entertaining observations of nineteenth century Parisian life, culture and government. Clean copy in a lightly worn dust jacket.

Record # 359021

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Private World of Tasha Tudor, Theby: Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard

Private World of Tasha Tudor, The
by: Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 383370

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Kid of Coney Island, The: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusementsby: Register, Woody

Kid of Coney Island, The: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
by: Register, Woody

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 400 pages. Price-clipped. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; clean copy. A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells Thompson's remarkable story and examines the transformation of commerce and entertainment as American society moved into an era of mass marketing and large-scale corporate enterprise. Getting his start as a promoter of carnival shows at world's fairs, Thompson was one of the principal developers of Coney Island, where he created the majestic Luna Park. Register traces Thompson's career as he built the mammoth Hippodrome Theater in Manhattan, where he mounted many productions noted for their spectacular--and spectacularly costly--staging effects. Register shows how Thompson's fantasies appealed to the growing legions of Americans who found themselves in a world that seemed increasingly "businesslike" and profit oriented. He illustrates how Thompson aggressively marketed to adult consumers a world of make-believe and childlike play, carefully crafting his own public image as "the boy who never grew up." Colorful, well-written, and insightful, The Kid of Coney Island brings to life a kaleidoscopic era in New York history as well as one of its most striking characters.

Record # 383868

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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mindby: Aldersey-Williams, Hugh

In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
by: Aldersey-Williams, Hugh

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 379834

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Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)by: Mackenzie, Alexander Siidell

Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)
by: Mackenzie, Alexander Siidell

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, b&w engraved portrait of Jones in Vol.1. Both books bound in half black leather and blue boards with gilt lettering and raised bands on spine, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers. Light foxing, mainly to preliminary pages. Beautiful set.

Record # 403683

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Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation by: Walker, Mack

Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
by: Walker, Mack

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 364 pages, b&w illustrations. As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating life is a microcosm of the life and style of the empire itself. The biography provided a comprehensive picture of the empire between the Thirty Years War and the revolutionary era. Dust jacket spine faded otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 386030

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Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends: with a Fragment of William Wottom's Lost Life of Boyleby: Boyle, Robert, Michael Hunter (Editor, introduction)

Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends: with a Fragment of William Wottom's Lost Life of Boyle
by: Boyle, Robert, Michael Hunter (Editor, introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, William Pickering, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and information on front flyleaf. Some light notations throughout (pencil). Dark blue cover boards, gilt title on red on spine. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages bright. In very good condition. "Robert Boyle was the doyen of the new, experimental science in late seventeenth-century England, author of over forty books on science, religion and their mutual relationship."

Record # 99074

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Cyanide in My Shoe by: Josephine Butler

Cyanide in My Shoe
by: Josephine Butler

Hardcover. UK, This England Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 205 pages. The author - Josephine Butler - was recruited by Winston Churchill in 1942, and was the only woman member of his elite 'Secret Circle' - Churchill's closest ring of intelligence agents. Codenamed 'Jay Bee' she worked with the French Resistance in occupied France. Map. Clean coy.

Record # 386897

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Ernest Rutherford: Atom Pioneer by: Rowland, John

Ernest Rutherford: Atom Pioneer
by: Rowland, John

Hardcover. London, Werner Laurie, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 160 pages. A biography of a much-neglected genius of 20th Century physics. Clean copy.

Record # 374704

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Frank Munn: A Biodiscography of The Golden Voice of Radio by: Steiner, Rodney & Thomas A. DeLong

Frank Munn: A Biodiscography of The Golden Voice of Radio
by: Steiner, Rodney & Thomas A. DeLong

Softcover. Southport CT, Sasco Associates, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages, b&w illustrations. With extensive disography, bibliography, and indexes of song titles and names. A biography of radio's first superstar, a singer and announcer. Clean copy.

Record # 387592

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Stephen A. Douglas by: Johannsen, Robert W.

Stephen A. Douglas
by: Johannsen, Robert W.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 993 pages. A biography of the "Little Giant from Illinois", Lincoln's highly influential opponent for the Presidency in 1860. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396384

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William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer by: William Edward Farrison

William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer
by: William Edward Farrison

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 482 pages. William Wells Brown was a Black author and reformer of the nineteenth century, a Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace. The author argues for Brown's place alongside that of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Wendell Phillips. There's an extensive bibliography and an index. Name on front fly leaf, dj spine faded.

Record # 397199

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I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love Death and the Radio (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Feraca, Jean

I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love Death and the Radio (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Feraca, Jean

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Jean Feraca's road to self-fulfillment has been as quirky and demanding as the characters in her memoir. A twenty-five-year veteran of public radio broadcasting, Feraca is also a writer and a poet. She is a talk show host beloved for her unique mixture of the humanities, poetry, and journalism, and is the creator of the pioneering international cultural affairs radio program Here on Earth: Radio without Borders. In this searing memoir, Feraca traces her own emergence. She pulls back the curtain on her private life, revealing unforgettable portraits of the characters in her brawling Italian American family: Jenny, the grandmother, the devil woman who threw Casey Stengel down an excavation pit; Dolly, the mother, a cross between Long John Silver and the Wife of Bath who in battling mental illness becomes the scourge of a Lutheran nursing home; and Stephen, the brilliant but troubled older brother, an anthropologist who was adopted into a Sioux tribe. Unique, eccentric, and distinctive, I Hear Voices is a memoir that tells a universal story of a woman evolving to fully embrace her life and the world. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Handwritten letter also laid in.

Record # 398099

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Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968 by: Luisa Passerini

Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968
by: Luisa Passerini

Softcover. Wesleyan University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. This book, first published in Italy in 1988 as Autoritratto di gruppo, documents the intricate web of individual and communal experiences in the political movements of the '60s. Luisa Passerini, internationally known for her work in memory, oral history, and their intersections with social movements, sets out to rescue the "forgotten memory" of her generation and to give it literary status. The year 1968 is symbolic in Italy of a whole decade of struggles by students, women, workers, intellectuals, and technicians. Framed and illuminated by sessions of psychoanalysis, this absorbing narrative weaves episodes of Passerini's autobiography - including her involvement in the 1968 uprisings - oral histories of other participants, and Passerini's sociological observations. It raises critical questions about how we reconstruct the past and vividly illustrates the forces that shaped a generation. Clean copy.

Record # 398796

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Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britainby: Tromp, Ph.D. Marlene (editor)

Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
by: Tromp, Ph.D. Marlene (editor)

Hardcover. Columbia OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners. While "freaks" have captivated our imagination since well before the nineteenth century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, "missing links," and six-legged sheep. Indeed, this period has been described by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson as the epoch of "consolidation" for freakery: an era of social change, enormously popular freak shows, and taxonomic frenzy. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp, turns to that rich nexus, examining the struggle over definitions of "freakery" and the unstable and sometimes conflicting ways in which freakery was understood and deployed. As the first study centralizing British culture, this collection discusses figures as varied as Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man"; Daniel Lambert, "King of the Fat Men"; Julia Pastrana, "The Bear Woman"; and Laloo "The Marvellous Indian Boy" and his embedded, parasitic twin. The Victorian Freaks contributors examine Victorian culture through the lens of freakery, reading the production of the freak against the landscape of capitalist consumption, the medical community, and the politics of empire, sexuality, and art. Collectively, these essays ask how freakery engaged with notions of normalcy and with its Victorian cultural context.

Record # 470143

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Walter Camp: The Father of American Footballby: Powel, Harford

Walter Camp: The Father of American Football
by: Powel, Harford

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 238 pages. Introduction by E. K. Hall. Black & white illustrations. Corners a bit bumped. Spine sunned. Spine slightly cocked. Some markings to covers.

Record # 508384

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