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Red-Color News Soldierby: Zhensheng, Li
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Red-Color News Soldier
by: Zhensheng, Li

Softcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Softcvoer with vinyl wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. This is the first visual history of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and includes the only complete set of surviving photographs to document the entire period. It is drawn from thousands of original negatives that were hidden for nearly 40 years by photographer Li Zhensheng, at great personal risk, and accompanied by his own personal story. Zhensheng brings to light in this historical record one of the most turbulent, controversial, and under-documented periods in modern history.

Record # 352797

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I'll Never Write My Memoirsby: Jones, Grace
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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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Stardust Lounge, The; Stories from A Boy's Adolescenceby: Digges, Deborah
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Stardust Lounge, The; Stories from A Boy's Adolescence
by: Digges, Deborah

Softcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Softcover with CD of author and her son reading selections from the book. Clean, tight copy. Soil on bottom of page block.

Record # 354000

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Black Border, The: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coastby: Gonzales, Ambrose E.
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Black Border, The: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast
by: Gonzales, Ambrose E.

Hardcover. Columbia, SC, State Company, 2nd, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Hardcover with black stamped lettering on front. Rear top corner bumped. Light foxing on page block and internal pages. Light fading on edges of cover.

Record # 354208

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Man About Paris: the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye by: Knepler, Henry (Translated And Edited by)
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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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Cardigan: A Life Of Lord Cardigan Of Balaclava by: Thomas, Donald
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Cardigan: A Life Of Lord Cardigan Of Balaclava
by: Thomas, Donald

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w plates. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Story of the nineteenth century aristocratic life of the leader of the "Charge of the Light Brigade".

Record # 359139

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Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir 1930 -1951by: Che, Sunny
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Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir 1930 -1951
by: Che, Sunny

Hardcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland & Co., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Part 1: A Korean Childhood in Japan, 1930-1944; Part 2: Growing Up in Korea, 1944- 1951. No Dust jacket issued.

Record # 362075

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Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Theby: Theroux, Alexander
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Strange Case of Edward Gorey, The
by: Theroux, Alexander

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Black and white illustrations by Gorey. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 368484

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Gabriel De Saint : Aubin 1724-1780by: Bailey, Colin B.
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Gabriel De Saint : Aubin 1724-1780
by: Bailey, Colin B.

Softcover. US, Somogy Art Publishers , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover with little to no wear on edges. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Bringing the famed Parisian illustrator to light, this biography centers on Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, who studied at the prestigious Royal Academy but failed to win the coveted Prix de Rome. The study relates that the subject reacted to this disappointment by throwing aside all hopes of a traditional artistic career and hastening out into the thoroughfares of Paris to sketch everything in sight, living an errant, bohemian existence and succumbing increasingly to an obsession with drawing. Detailed and engaging, this recollection demonstrates that, despite his personal eccentricities, Saint-Aubin was employed as an artist all his life.

Record # 369024

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The Story of My Life Together With Darrow's Plea in His Own Defense to the Jur That Exonerated Him of the Charge of Bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912by: Darrow, Cl
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The Story of My Life Together With Darrow's Plea in His Own Defense to the Jur That Exonerated Him of the Charge of Bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912by: Darrow, ClThe Story of My Life Together With Darrow's Plea in His Own Defense to the Jur That Exonerated Him of the Charge of Bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912by: Darrow, Cl

The Story of My Life Together With Darrow's Plea in His Own Defense to the Jur That Exonerated Him of the Charge of Bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912
by: Darrow, Cl

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full black leather with ornate gilt design on cover. all edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, raised bands. This is a facsimile of the 1932 first edition. Considered a 'sophisticated country lawyer', Darrow remains notable for his wit; he was quoted as saying, 'The trouble with law is lawyers.' Here, his autobiography, together with the additional 59-pg. Darrow's Plea, written in his own defense to the jury that exonerated him of the charge of bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 371600

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume I: The Path to Power by: Robert A. Caro
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume I: The Path to Power
by: Robert A. Caro

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 882 pages, illus., maps, bibliography, notes, index, small crease to upper corner rear cover. This first volume of Caro's epic biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Clean copy.

Record # 374342

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Citizen Coors: An American Dynastyby: Dan Baum
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Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty
by: Dan Baum

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, pages. Citizen Coors is the riveting saga of an American dynasty. From the moment the destitute Prussian Adolph Coors stows away on a Baltimore-bound ship in 1868 to the worldwide expansion of the billion-dollar Coors Brewing Company, Citizen Coors is a headlong American tale of triumph over bare-knuckle competition. The Coors family does it the old-fashioned way, through fearsome devotion to product, rejection of modern marketing, and refusing to borrow so much as a nickel. But the family almost rides its principles into the ground. "Nobody will ever choose a beer on the basis of a thirty-second ad," Bill Coors is fond of saying at a time when his two main competitors, Anheuser-Busch and Miller, are spending upward of a billion dollars a year on ads. He won't even allow a ring-pull can. The brewery's decline and recovery are dizzying. But Citizen Coors is more than a business story. Here is Adolph, the founder,in 1929, distraught over Prohibition, hurling himself to his death from a hotel balcony. Here is Bill,ten years later, yearning for the wider world but forced back to the brewery by a single glance from his father. Here is Joe, Jr., raised to rule yet suddenly banished for marrying without permission. Here is Peter, prevented from rescuing the company precisely because he has been trained to do so. Here is kidnapping and murder. Here are generations of Coors men broken against the iron will of their fathers. Here is a second suicide, eerily similar to the first.

Record # 374767

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Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (Three Volumes Complete)by: Campbell Thomas; Beattie William Editor
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Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (Three Volumes Complete)by: Campbell Thomas; Beattie William Editor Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (Three Volumes Complete)by: Campbell Thomas; Beattie William Editor

Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (Three Volumes Complete)
by: Campbell Thomas; Beattie William Editor

Hardcover. London, Edward Moxon, 1st, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcovers bound in polished calf, gilt rules to covers, black leather labels on spine with orate gilt decorations. Pages: xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index. Marbled endpapers and text edges. Aside from previous owner's bookplate on inside cover of each volume, a bright, clean set. Biography of the Scottish poet, incorporating many of his letters.

Record # 378495

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Caesars Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughterby: Caesar, Sid; with Eddy Friedfeld
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Caesars Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter
by: Caesar, Sid; with Eddy Friedfeld

Hardcover. NY, PublicAffairs, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary television star tells the backstage stories of the classic comedy of Your Show of Shows, Caesar's Hour , and other landmark programs. It is no exaggeration to say that without Sid Caesar, comedy in America would have been a lot less funny. He was the star and guiding force behind Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour , two of the most innovative programs in the Golden Age of Television, and the writers and stars of those shows went on to create the plays, movies, and sitcoms that we now think of as classic American comedy. So many of our greatest comedy writers - Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen -were part of Sid Caesar's creative troupe. Sid was a master not only of comedic performance, but also of developing characters that the audience could relate to, finding the humor in ordinary situations rather than through vaudeville-type gags. His was a comedy truly drawn from the human condition. Caesar's Hours is Sid Caesar 's artistic autobiography, his account of how these great routines were fashioned and performed, and the interactions that gave birth to them. He takes us inside the famed writers' room, the rehearsal studios, and onto the stage itself, where some of the funniest moments in television history came to life. To read his book is to learn why his intelligent and sensitive brand of humor resonates so much with us, even half a century later. Remainder line to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Record # 378812

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Down to the Seaby: Grenfell, Wilfred T.
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Down to the Sea
by: Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 226 pages, 12 photographic plates. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 -1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. Frontis photo shows Grenfell and Perry (back from the N. Pole) on the deck of the 'Roosevelt'. This is a collection from six periodicals of 14 sketches by the 'Labrador Doctor.' He has fascinating stories to tell about the natives, the sailors, fishermen, the climate and his doctoring. Small tan stain affecting 10 pages, only in margin. Otherwise clean.

Record # 379971

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My Lifeby: Duncan, Isadora
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My Life
by: Duncan, Isadora

Hardcover. NY, Boni And Liveright, Ltd. Ed., 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, top edge gilt. Limited Edition. Number 569 of 650 copies. Facsimile signature of Duncan on front free endpaper. This book was published posthumously on the basis of Duncan's handwritten text and illustrated with 24 black and white photographs of her (two by Arnold Genthe). As one of the great free spirits of the early 20th century, Duncan's account of her life was as uninhibited as her career. This is one of the "presentation copies" published as a limited edition for authors and other friends of Boni and Liveright. Red leather label missing from spine, bookplate inside front cover, light wear to beveled covers.

Record # 380632

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George Marshall: A Biographyby: Debi Unger / Irwin Unger /Stanley Hirshson
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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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Hefner's Gonna Kill Me When He Reads Thisby: Byer, Stephen
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Hefner's Gonna Kill Me When He Reads This
by: Byer, Stephen

Chicago, Allen-Bennett, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear, chipping. 240 pages. This book is a good behind the scenes look at the business of Playboy and Hugh Hefner in the '60s and early '70s. The major focus is on the business side of the industry, Byer was a corporate Vice President of Marketing for the Playboy empire. Clean copy.

Record # 381506

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Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times 1613-1662by: Adamson, J. H. & H. F. Folland
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Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times 1613-1662
by: Adamson, J. H. & H. F. Folland

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Emissar of Charles the First, second governor of Massachusetts, pillar of the Protectorate, and victim of Charles the Second, atypical Puritan and passionate lover, Sir Harry Vane was a man of peace who initiated genocide in the New World and found martyrdom in the Old. His experience reaches from Indian wigwam to royal palace. This is an unparalleled picture of a formative age which is with us yet. Clean copy.

Record # 381896

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Paul Robesonby: Martin Bauml Duberman
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Paul Robeson
by: Martin Bauml Duberman

NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Passionate and enormously talented, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Duberman's classic biography is a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality. Drawing on a vast archive of family papers and interviews with friends and relatives as well as FBI files, Paul Robeson charts the heroic and tragic course of Robeson's life: from his early days as the son of a former slave to his rise to unprecedented international acclaim as a stage actor and singer, and from his political awakening to his downfall as a victim of McCarthyism and the efforts of the U.S. government to destroy him. Clean copy.

Record # 382445

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Napoleon The Last Phase by: Lord Rosebery
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Napoleon The Last Phase
by: Lord Rosebery

Hardcover. London, Arthur L Humphreys, 2nd pr., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt staping. 261 pages including index. 261 pages. Written almost 80 years after the Emperor's death, the author attempts to bring together all the contemporary biographies and memoirs relating to the sojourn on St Helena. Mild foxing, otherwise clean.

Record # 383327

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Kid of Coney Island, The: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusementsby: Register, Woody
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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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Mengele: The Complete Story by: Gerald L. Posner, John Ware
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Mengele: The Complete Story
by: Gerald L. Posner, John Ware

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hatdcover, 364 pages, b&w photo illustrations. notes. bibliography. index. This is the definitive life story of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious "Angel of Death" Responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz, Mengele vanished into South America after World War II, where he remained free for more than three decades. How did he escape from the Allies? And how did he elude his pursuers? Granted exclusive and unrestricted access to the Mengele family papers and diaries, Posner and Ware have sifted through more than 5,000 pages of Mengele's writings to construct this extraordinary record of his life~from his childhood in Germany to the horrors of Auschwitz to his years in exile. previous owner's name, notation on front endpapers. Otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 385708

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Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson: With a Fragment of Autobiography (of the Life of Lucy Hutchinson) by: Hutchinson, Lucy/(edited by James Sutrherland)
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Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson: With a Fragment of Autobiography (of the Life of Lucy Hutchinson)
by: Hutchinson, Lucy/(edited by James Sutrherland)

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 347 pages. Map endpapers, 13 b&w reproductions, appendices, notes, and index - printed throughout on superior cream stock. The major part of Lucy Hutchinson's Life of her husband covers the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642 when Hutchinson held Nottingham Castle and Town for parliament, until the day he added his signature to the death warrant of Charles I in 1649. Her account forces upon the reader the realization of what life is like when neighbours take up arms against each other and fight it out to the death. This text reproduces the complete original manuscript for the first time.

Record # 386544

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The Hunting and Exploring Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt: Told in His Own Words by: Roosevelt, Theodore/Donald Day (Ed.)
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The Hunting and Exploring Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt: Told in His Own Words
by: Roosevelt, Theodore/Donald Day (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray boards with a red cloth spine, 431 pages. Clean copy. Book opens to half-title page, so assumed front fly leaf gone.

Record # 386807

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Crowded Hours: Reminiscencesby: Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Crowded Hours: Reminiscences
by: Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with cover and spine lettered in gilt, 16 pages of b&w plates. Popular memoirs of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980), eldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. Rubbing and fading to boards and spine. Internally clean, Sound copy.

Record # 387344

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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amielby: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (translator)

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel
by: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (translator)

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1891 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 318 pages, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, handwritten poem on front end paper. Foxing, soiling to end papers and first few pages. Else pages clean and crisp. Mrs. Ward has inserted many new passages taken from the last French edition. Amiel was a Swiss poet & philosopher, professor of aesthetics and moral philosophy at Geneva Academy, author of this introspective diary.

Record # 387625

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Aiken: Senate Diary: January 1972-January 1975 (SIGNED COPY)by: Aiken, George D.
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Aiken: Senate Diary: January 1972-January 1975 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Aiken, George D.

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Green Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AIKEN on half title page. Additionally INSCRIBED BY RALPH NADING HILL on the front fly leaf. Appears that Hill obtained signed copies and gave them out to friends. Enclosed is publisher's promotional schedule.

Record # 387933

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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs by: Young, Marguerite
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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
by: Young, Marguerite

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 599 pages. Don't pick up this fascinating, deeply eccentric book expecting to find a conventional biography of Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926). The fiery American labor leader who founded the Socialist Party of America is not so much the subject as the central figure in a group portrait of utopian dreamers--including Karl Marx, Brigham Young, abolitionist Wendell Phillips, poet James Whitcomb Riley, and detective-agency founder Allan Pinkerton--from the time of the French Revolution through the dawn of the 20th century. Author Marguerite Young is a legendary Greenwich Village bohemian who died in 1995. She devoted the last 25 years of her life to this volume, which was intended as a recapitulation of the issues that had engaged Debs - justice for workers, peace for everyone, racial equality - and continued to galvanize America in the 1960s and beyond. Young doesn't provide a lot of straight factual information about Debs's life, but takes instead a snapshot of his soul as it was formed by reading and experience. The narrative closes (sort of) with the national railroad strike of 1877, a bitter defeat for labor that turned railroad worker and union activist Debs toward greater radicalism. Though not a work for the traditionally minded, Young's genre-bending book will thrill students of American social and socialist history. Clean copy.

Record # 396692

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Montgomery as Military Commander by: Ronald Lewin

Montgomery as Military Commander
by: Ronald Lewin

Hardcover. NY, Stein & Day, Book Club Ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397531

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Wildfire: On the Front Lines with Station 8by: Hansen, Heather
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Wildfire: On the Front Lines with Station 8
by: Hansen, Heather

Hardcover. Seattle, Mountaineers Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 302 pages. Every year wildfires ravage forests, destroy communities, and devastate human lives, with only the bravery of dedicated firefighters creating a barrier against even greater destruction. Throughout the 2016 wildfire season, journalist Heather Hansen witnessed firsthand the heroics of the Station 8 crew in Boulder, Colorado. She tells that story here, layered with the added context of the history, science, landscape, and human behavior that, year-by-year, increases the severity, frequency, and costs of conflagrations in the West. She examines the changes in both mindset and activity around wildfires and tracks the movement from wildfire as something useful, to something feared, to something necessary but roundly dreaded. Clean copy.

Record # 398150

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The Illustrated West With the Nightby: Beryl Markham, Linda Sunshine (Editor)

The Illustrated West With the Night
by: Beryl Markham, Linda Sunshine (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. A special illustrated edition of this travel classic first published in the early 1940s. The author describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic from east to west. This edition with 75 duo tone photographs. Clean copy.

Record # 399128

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Jail Journal: With an Introductory Narrative of Transactions in Ireland by: Mitchel, John

Jail Journal: With an Introductory Narrative of Transactions in Ireland
by: Mitchel, John

Hardcover. Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 463 pages. numerous b&w illustrations. Described as "Original Edition With a Continuation of the Journal in New York and Paris, a Preface, Appendices and Illustrations". The Journal of an Irishman who fell foul of English rule in the mid-19th century, was transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and escaped. No date but probably late 1940s. Mild musty odor.

Record # 399594

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Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopherby: Coffin, Tristram
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Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher
by: Coffin, Tristram

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 378 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgwear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 403640

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We call him "Big" Joe!: Big horn, big soul, big man: a musician's odyssey, memoirs of "Big" Joe Burrell (SIGNED COPY)by: Burrell, Big Joe
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We call him "Big" Joe!: Big horn, big soul, big man: a musician's odyssey, memoirs of "Big" Joe Burrell (SIGNED COPY)
by: Burrell, Big Joe

Softcover. Lake Front Editions, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Memoirs of Vermont's own "Big" Joe Burrell with inscription by Big Joe on front fly leaf. Illustrated with photos in b&w. Light wear and rubbing to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 450141

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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Yearsby: Capper, Charles
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years
by: Capper, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 423 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456608

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Without Stoppingby: Bowles, Paul
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Without Stopping
by: Bowles, Paul

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen Publishers, 1st UK , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 379 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear to top edge of cover and dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 467086

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Walt Frazier: One Magic Season and a Basketball Life (SIGNED COPY)by: Offen, Neil
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Walt Frazier: One Magic Season and a Basketball Life (SIGNED COPY)
by: Offen, Neil

Hardcover. New York, Times Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR OFFEN ON FRONT FLYLEAF.

Record # 471629

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Drawn from New England: Tasha Tudor - A Portrait in Words and Picturesby: Tudor, Bethany
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Drawn from New England: Tasha Tudor - A Portrait in Words and Pictures
by: Tudor, Bethany

Hardcover. Cleveland, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs and art by Tasha Tudor. Dust jacket worn with Short closed tears along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610475

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Andrew Wyeth: Autobiographyby:  WyethAndrew
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Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography
by: WyethAndrew

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light yellowing to top and bottom of dust jacket, front and back, otherwise clean tight copy.A dazzling book that looks back at six decaders of paintings by one os America's favorite artists. What makes the book truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting- an "autobiography" told through conversations with Thomas Hoving, the former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - which offer fascinating and sometimes unexpected facts about Wyeth's life and art.

Record # 750329

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On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Pictureby: Young, Art
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On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Picture
by: Young, Art

Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 302 pages. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Black boards with white binding, small gilt pictorial to front cover, many page ends uncut, black book ribbon, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, burgundy slip case with black pasted labels. Light soiling to spine, very slight rubbing to boards, pages crisp and unmarked, edgewear to slipcase. Fascinating work being a diary written by the famous American cartoonist between September 1st 1925 and March 1st 1926. It is profusely illustrated with numerous in-text b/w drawings along with 17 full-page line and 20 full-page halftone illustrations.

Record # 807703

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James Durand, An Able Seaman of 1812: His Adventures on "Old Ironsides" and as an Impressed Sailor in the British Navyby: Brooks (Ed.), George S.
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James Durand, An Able Seaman of 1812: His Adventures on "Old Ironsides" and as an Impressed Sailor in the British Navy
by: Brooks (Ed.), George S.

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 139 pages. Gilt title on spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852975

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Rod Laver, a Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Laver, Rod and Larry Writer
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Rod Laver, a Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Laver, Rod and Larry Writer

Hardcover. Sydney Australia , Macmillan, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROD LAVER on title page. 32 pages of b&w and color photography. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857464

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Raymond Carver: A Writer's Lifeby: Sklenicka, Carol
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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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Picasso: The Communist Yearsby: Utley, Guertje
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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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Francis Bacon - His Life & Violent Timesby: Sinclair, Andrew
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Francis Bacon - His Life & Violent Times
by: Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York , Crown, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages, color & black and white plates. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Traces the development of the painter's art and the course of his life, discussing his earliest memories, Sinn Fein uprisings in Ireland, World War I, Paris of the surrealists, and England during World War II.

Record # 53571

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Loving Ghosts: How the Dead Transformed My Lifeby: May, Robin
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Loving Ghosts: How the Dead Transformed My Life
by: May, Robin

Softcover. Robin May, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Softcover. Pages clean. Binding good. Wrapper very good. In very good condition. The magic of May's journey portrayed in these pages will answer so may of our questions about the paranormal, while assuaging many of our fears about death and that which comes after.

Record # 99082

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Rockwell Portrait, A - An Intimate Biography by: Walton, Donald
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Rockwell Portrait, A - An Intimate Biography
by: Walton, Donald

Kansas City, Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white photos and Illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket has small chip missing on front bottom.

Record # 201253

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Georges Braque: A Lifeby: Danchev, Alex
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Georges Braque: A Life
by: Danchev, Alex

Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st us, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This biography examines Braque's creativity, his personal and professional relationships (with Beckett, Cezanne, Giacometti, Matisse, Miro, Picasso etc) and enriches our understanding of France's early 20th century art culture.

Record # 351906

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Warhol: Headlinesby: Donovan, Molly
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Warhol: Headlines
by: Donovan, Molly

Hardcover. New York, Prestel Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 214 pages, color plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and three other institutions between Sept. 25, 2011 and Jan. 6, 2013.

Record # 352414

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