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John Quincy Adams: American Visionaryby: Kaplan, Fred

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
by: Kaplan, Fred

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 652 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. In excellent shape, binding tight, looks barely read. Clean and unmarked inside and out.

Record # 31133

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Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock (SIGNED COPY)by: Hagar, Sammy

Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hagar, Sammy

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Color illustrations throughout. From the front flap: "In Red, Sammy tells the outrageous story of his tear through rock 'n' roll, detailing the backstage antics and nonstop touring hat have made his voice instantly recognizable. Beginning with his musical coming-of-age in blue-collar towns of California, Sammy traces his rough and determined rise to fame, working harder than anyone else out there and writing songs about the things he loved--fast cars, loud parties, and lots of good times."

Record # 30442

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Gitta: Hidden Child of the Holocaust (SIGNED COPY)by: Rosenzweig, Gitta, and Fuller, Martha (Editor)

Gitta: Hidden Child of the Holocaust (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rosenzweig, Gitta, and Fuller, Martha (Editor)

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Gitta Rosenzweig , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 421 pages, illustrated with b&w, color photographs. A self-published memoir chronicling her family's past during the Holocaust. The author was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Poland, later immigrated to America and later returned to trace her parent's history. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 375235

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Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoirby: Blackburn, Henry

Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoir
by: Blackburn, Henry

New York, George Routledge, 1st , 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, 172 B&W illustrations. An exceptionally bright, tight copy. Green beveled covers with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Surprisingly scarce. First American Edition. A significant memoir, published in the year of Caldecott"s death.

Record # 303331

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Don't Come Back Without Itby: Greene, Gael

Don't Come Back Without It
by: Greene, Gael

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with spine faded. The author's first book. The book describes the experiences that "Gael Greene, girl reporter," encountered in writing her features for the New York Post. Clean copy.

Record # 381484

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The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by: Mark Ravina

The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori
by: Mark Ravina

Hardcover. Hoboken NJ, Wiley Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Last Samurai traces Saigo's life from his early days as a tax clerk in far southwestern Japan, through his rise to national prominence as a fierce imperial loyalist. Saigo was twice exiled for his political activities - sent to Japan's remote southwestern islands where he fully expected to die. But exile only increased his reputation for loyalty, and in 1864 he was brought back to the capital to help his lord fight for the restoration of the emperor.

Record # 379533

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Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screenby: David Luhrssen

Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen
by: David Luhrssen

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An Armenian national raised in Russia, Rouben Mamoulian (1897--1987) studied in the influential Stanislavski studio, renowned as the source of the "method" acting technique. Shortly after immigrating to New York in 1926, he created a sensation with an all-black production of Porgy (1927). He then went on to direct the debut Broadway productions of three of the most popular shows in the history of American musical theater: Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), and Carousel (1945). Mamoulian began working in film just as the sound revolution was dramatically changing the technical capabilities of the medium, and he quickly established himself as an innovator. Not only did many of his unusual camera techniques become standard, but he also invented a device that eliminated the background noises created by cameras and dollies. Seen as a rebel earlier in his career, Mamoulian gradually gained respect in Hollywood, and the Directors Guild of America awarded him the prestigious D. W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1983. In this meticulously researched biography, David Luhrssen paints the influential director as a socially conscious artist who sought to successfully combine art and commercial entertainment. Luhrssen not only reveals the fascinating personal story of an important yet neglected figure, but he also offers a tantalizing glimpse into the extraordinarily vibrant American film and theater industries during the twenties, thirties, and forties.

Record # 380496

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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Lifeby: Wallace, Elizabeth K.

Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
by: Wallace, Elizabeth K.

Hardcover. New York, Beaufort Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352571

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In the Meridian of the Heart: Selected Letters of Rico Lebrunby: Lebrun, David (Editor)

In the Meridian of the Heart: Selected Letters of Rico Lebrun
by: Lebrun, David (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 99 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. These letters were written between 1950 and 1964 as Lebrun moved between the United States, Mexico and Italy and provide a glimpse into the artist's thoughts during that period.

Record # 353007

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Vogue on Yves Saint Laurentby: Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha

Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent
by: Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Originally born in Algeria, Yves Saint Laurent moved to Paris when he was 18, and only three years later he was handpicked by Christian Dior to take the reins as designer of his fashion house. Over time, Saint Laurent resurrected haute couture from the casual mores that predominated in the 1960s, but also offered chic cachet to ready-to-wear clothing. He was among the earliest of designers to incorporate non- European references into his work, and in 1983 he became the first living designer to be feted with a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent is a stellar volume in the series from the editors of British Vogue, featuring 20,000 words of original biography and history and studded with more than 80 images from their unique archive of images taken by leading photographers.

Record # 352774

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The Wilderness Lives Again: Carl Akeley and the Great Adventure by: Akeley, Mary L. Jobe with (F. Trubee Davison

The Wilderness Lives Again: Carl Akeley and the Great Adventure
by: Akeley, Mary L. Jobe with (F. Trubee Davison

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 3rd pr., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth stamped in black. Endpapers map, b&w photographs. 410 pages. The widow of Carl Akeley, naturalist, tells the story back of the exhibits for which he was responsible in the Natural History Museum in New York. This is virtually a biography, with that as a focus; it is a record of the uphill struggle to get the chance to do the thing for which he was gifted and trained; the experiences securing his speciments, adventures in the wilderness, African jungles, the Belgian Congo, the Uganda frontier -- and the immense concentration on details to get the exhibits together and to present them with complete fidelity. Clean copy.

Record # 380858

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Manhattan And Me by: Atkinson, Oriana

Manhattan And Me
by: Atkinson, Oriana

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with faging to spine. Illustrations and jacket art by Al Hirschfeld. One woman's humorous take on life in New York City in the early 1950s. The author was married to NYT drama critic, Brooks Atkinson, but she could write too. Clean copy.

Record # 382229

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3:  Master of the Senate by: Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3: Master of the Senate
by: Robert A. Caro

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition.

Record # 374344

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Edie Factory Girlby: Dalton, David

Edie Factory Girl
by: Dalton, David

Hardcover. US, VH1 Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352469

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Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough U.S. Navyby: Macdonough, Rodney

Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough U.S. Navy
by: Macdonough, Rodney

Hardcover. Boston, The Fort Gill Press, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard and b&w illustrations throughout. Ex-lib copy with library plate on front endpaper, number front flyleaf, and stamp on title page. on Light edgewear, rubbing to cover edges. Light fraying to top of spine. Else a clean copy.

Record # 852130

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Lone Cowboy: My Life Storyby: James, Will

Lone Cowboy: My Life Story
by: James, Will

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 433 pages, green cloth stamped in gilt and black, Scribner A on copyright page. A square and solid book with fading to spine and small stain to cover. Photo portrait of James, b&w illustrations by him. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Same page with a crease. Internally sound and clean.

Record # 409717

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Roald Dahl: The Mildenhall Treasure (SIGNED BY STEADMAN)by: Steadman, Ralph

Roald Dahl: The Mildenhall Treasure (SIGNED BY STEADMAN)
by: Steadman, Ralph

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STEADMAN. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear on covers.

Record # 354264

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Materials for a Biography of Dr Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689):a new survey of public and private archives by: Meynell, G.C.

Materials for a Biography of Dr Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689):a new survey of public and private archives
by: Meynell, G.C.

Hardcover. Kent UK, Winterdown Books, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 107 pages. Limited to 375 copies. Clean copy.

Record # 386547

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Down North on the Labradorby: Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Down North on the Labrador
by: Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 229 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates. Frontis photo portrait of Grenfell on his ship with tissue guard. 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. Owner's name and date on front fly leaf, mild soil to cover.

Record # 379970

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John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Luluby: Schelly, Bill

John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu
by: Schelly, Bill

Hardcover. Seatle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no issued dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover boards. Color pictures throughout. This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America's greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen(Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley's life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues: his childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, life with his strict Irish Catholic mother, his education at Parsons, his first job as an animator at Max Fleischer Studios, and his years working as a commercial artist, before finding his true metier in comic books during World War II (while battling clinical depression and alcoholism).

Record # 352854

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Devil and Sonny Liston, Theby: Tosches, Nick

Devil and Sonny Liston, The
by: Tosches, Nick

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black and white illustrations. Dust jacket in cream & white with photograph & only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked. A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime. By the author of Power on Earth.

Record # 3340114

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Aesthetics: A Memoirby: Brunetti, Ivan

Aesthetics: A Memoir
by: Brunetti, Ivan

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist. Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humor of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognized as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney's, among others.

Record # 352410

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Lindbergh - His Story in Picturesby: Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Lindbergh - His Story in Pictures
by: Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Anniversary Edition. 320 pages of black & white photos. In the elusive dust jacket! Light soil, fade to spine.

Record # 62624

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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and Whiteby: Tisserand, Michael

Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
by: Tisserand, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures in center. Black and white pictures throughout. Remainder dot on bottom edge.

Record # 373410

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John Kenneth Galbraith His Life His Politics His Economics (SIGNED COPY)by: Parker Richard

John Kenneth Galbraith His Life His Politics His Economics (SIGNED COPY)
by: Parker Richard

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Born and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began teaching at Harvard during the Depression. He was FDR's "price czar" during the war and then a senior editor of Fortune before returning to Harvard and to fame as a bestselling writer. Parker shows how, from his early championing of Keynes to his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor," Galbraith regularly challenged prevailing theories and policies. And his account of Galbraith's remarkable friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as a close advisor while ambassador to India, is especially relevant for its analysis of the intense, dynamic debates that economists and politicians can have over how America should manage its wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life. Clean copy.

Record # 378784

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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by: Millard, Candice

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
by: Millard, Candice

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 381 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Record # 359135

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James Ensor: The Complete Paintingsby: Tricot, Xavier

James Ensor: The Complete Paintings
by: Tricot, Xavier

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with slip case. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color/ Black and white pictures throughout. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Coinciding with renewed interest in James Ensor, this catalogue raisonne comes as an essential and definitive volume for Ensor buffs and all serious libraries of modern art. A legend in his own lifetime, Ensor (1860-1949) was--alongside Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch--a fearless independent whose work led directly to the development of German Expressionism and French Surrealism. Ensor achieved fame as the "painter of masks," and for his bizarre still lifes and grotesque carnival scenes, in harsh, contrasting, brilliant colors, evolving out of the traditional Flemish dance of death. Now, the reader can explore the Belgian painter's oeuvre thoroughly, in this opulently illustrated, full-color, slipcased catalogue raisonne. A comprehensive illustrated chronology offers additional details about the artist's life and work, and forms an integral part of this splendid, highly valuable contribution to art historical research, ensuring the legacy of a great artist who continues to inspire contemporary art.

Record # 352471

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The Moon Man: A Biography of Miklouho-Maclayby: E. M. Webster

The Moon Man: A Biography of Miklouho-Maclay
by: E. M. Webster

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in dust jacket with some fading to edges, spine. 421 pages, b&w illustrations. ."This story of an outstandingly strange and interesting man is a triumph of modern biography. Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) was one of the most extraordinary of all the nineteenth-century savant-adventurers. a brilliant student of Ernst Haeckel, he embraced the natural sciences at a time when the genius of Darwin was revolutionizing Western cosmology. In his short lifetime he made the whole world his laboratory: sponges in the Red Sea, and the ancestry of sharks, head measurements in New Guinea; Negrito races in Malay jungles; marine life in Sydney Harbor -- all these and a hundred other topics and places engaged his curiosity. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 381861

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Yours Pictorially - Illustrated Letters of Randolph Caldecottby: Hutchins, Michael (Ed.)

Yours Pictorially - Illustrated Letters of Randolph Caldecott
by: Hutchins, Michael (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. B&W, color illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 305428

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Edie: Girl on Fireby: Painter, Melissa and David Weisman

Edie: Girl on Fire
by: Painter, Melissa and David Weisman

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated with color, b&w photos throughout. A visual biography of Edie Sedgwick, 60's fashion and film icon. Like new in an acetate dust jacket.Model, film star, socialite, friend, lover, addict, Edie Sedgwick was the first "it" girl of the Andy Warhol Factory scene and later muse to Bob Dylan. The arc of Edie's life traced the rise and fall of the 1960s from idyllic experimentation to dissolute recklessness. After being toasted by the whole of New York City, Edie died alone of a drug overdose in California at the age of 28. David Weisman (with John Palmer) filmed Edie for the last five years of her life in his cult film Ciao! Manhattan. When he recently uncovered lost footage of Edie, David was inspired to create Edie: Girl on Fire, a book and a documentary film that explores Edie's true story. He and coauthor Melissa Painter have tracked down and interviewed many of Edie Sedgwick's surviving intimates, including Danny Fields, Baby Jane Holzer, and Ultra Violet. They also unearthed hundreds of never-before-published photos portraits, professional ad shoots, and heartbreaking snapshots of the girl who won New York's heart and nearly burned down the Chelsea hotel. The book also features a CD with Edie's last interview ever, a riveting account of a rollercoaster life.

Record # 850631

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Day at the Beach, A - Recollectionsby: Wolff, Geoffrey

Day at the Beach, A - Recollections
by: Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a victory over the chaos of drink to a life-affirming surrender to the majesty of the Matterhorn; and from a foundering friendship to the transcending love of family.

Record # 53274

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Allegany To Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteersby: Dunham, Valgene

Allegany To Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers
by: Dunham, Valgene

Hardcover. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A few black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470410

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Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist: A Graphic Memoirby: Griffith, Bill

Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist: A Graphic Memoir
by: Griffith, Bill

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Invisible Ink unfolds like a detective story, alternating between past and present, as Griffith recreates the quotidian habits of suburban Levittown and the professional and cultural life of mid-century Manhattan in the 1950s and '60s as seen through his mother's and his own then-teenage eyes.

Record # 352226

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The Story of a Grateful Citizen: An Autobiography [Two Volume Set] by: Williams, Clark

The Story of a Grateful Citizen: An Autobiography [Two Volume Set]
by: Williams, Clark

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, original two-tone cloth (dark green spines and light green sides). Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Memoir of a successful banker and financial businessman. Notable for his his World War 1 recollections and numerous accounts of sporting trips: trolling for lake trout and moose hunting in Quebec, dove shoots in Georgia, trout fishing and elk hunting in Yellowstone, duck shooting in Minnesota, salmon fishing in Newfoundland, grayling fishing in Yukon, black bass fishing in Canada, fishing for sailfish and dolphin off Florida. Clean bright set.

Record # 383038

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The Tall Voyagers: The Story of Barney Burnett by: Rankin Claire

The Tall Voyagers: The Story of Barney Burnett
by: Rankin Claire

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Story of a real sailor, Capt. Barney Burnett, aboard the four-masted bark Astral. The ship is smashed and dismasted. at Cape Horn. The crew laboriously clear away the wreckage, rerig the shattered masts, and sail on to San Francisco through the teeth of the gale. Much related ephemeral material laid-in, including correspondence by Burnett.

Record # 362793

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Paperboy - Confessions of a Future Engineerby: Henry Petroski

Paperboy - Confessions of a Future Engineer
by: Henry Petroski

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Henry Petroski has been called 'the poet laureate of technology.' He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past. Petroski grew up in the Cambria Heights section of New York City's borough of Queens during the 1950s, in the midst of a close and loving family. Educated at local Catholic schools, he worked as a delivery boy for the Long Island Press. The job taught him lessons about diligence, labor, commitment, and community-mindedness, lessons that this successful student could not learn at school. From his vantage point as a professor, engineer, and writer, Petroski reflects fondly on these lessons, and on his near-idyllic boyhood.

Record # 383936

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Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XIIby: Cornwell, John

Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII
by: Cornwell, John

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 430 pages. In this book, backed by a wealth of new research, the author tells for the first time the story of the career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who as Pius XII was Pope during the Second World War and arguably the most powerful churchman in modern history. Adding to the continuing debate about collective guilt and the Holocaust this is an extraordinary and explosive history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young lawyer, Pacelli helped shape an ideology of unprecedented papal power; during the 1920s he employed cunning and moral blackmail to impose that power in Germany. In 1933 Hitler became his perfect negotiating partner and a concordat was established that granted religious and educational advantages to the Catholic Church in exchange for Catholic withdrawal from social and political action. This 'voluntary' abdication of political Catholicism imposed from Rome facilitated the rise of Nazism. Clean copy.

Record # 396693

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Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967by: Renza, Louis A.

Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967
by: Renza, Louis A.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with no visible wear. Price sticker to back cover. Otherwise a tight copy. Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as "poems." Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan's 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal "autobiography" in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.

Record # 471315

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Autobiography of Pel. Verjuice, Theby: Pemberton, Charles Reece

Autobiography of Pel. Verjuice, The
by: Pemberton, Charles Reece

Hardcover. London, Scholartis Press, limited, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limited edition, 1 of 1,000. 313 pages. Orange cloth covers w/ fraying to spine. Small stain on rear cover. Foxing to pages and edges. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 851870

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Houdini's Escapes and Magicby: Walter B. Gibson

Houdini's Escapes and Magic
by: Walter B. Gibson

Hardcover. NY, Blue Ribbon Books, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black, 316 pages, b&w illustrations. Provide the most complete description available of Houdini's feats and how he performed them. In effect, this is the work that Houdini himself would have written, if only he had lived long enough. Here are the details of the spectacular Walking Through a Brick Wall, The Spanish Maiden Escape, The Milk Can Challenge, and many more such marvelous feats. Prepared from Houdini's Private Notebooks and Memoranda with the Assistance of Beatrice Houdini, Widow of Houdini, and Bernard M. L. Ernst, President of the Parent Assembly of the Society of American Magicians. Name on inside front cover, mild shelf wear.

Record # 386581

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Banksy: The Man Behind the Wallby: Will Ellsworth-Jones

Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall
by: Will Ellsworth-Jones

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 333 pages. Now, in the first ever full-scale investigation of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. He talks to his friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early, unnoticed days, and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his newfound fame and success. And he explores the contradictions of a champion of renegade art going to greater and greater lengths to control his image and his work.

Record # 362086

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Barbary General: The Life of William H. Eatonby: Edwards, Samuel

Barbary General: The Life of William H. Eaton
by: Edwards, Samuel

Hardcover. New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket that's lightly soiled and spine faded, 277 pages. Eaton (b. 1764) was a flamboyant hero who was America's "Lawrence of Arabia" and defeated the Barbary Pirates at Derna. Front fly leaf with bookseller's old price in red pencil, otherwise clean.

Record # 387273

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Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian: Volume IIby: O'Connor, T. P.

Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian: Volume II
by: O'Connor, T. P.

Hardcover. NY, D Appleton and Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt lettering, 342 pages. Frontis. portrait, 3 other b&w plates. Thomas Power O'Connor (1848-1929) was a journalist and Irish nationalist who served in Parliament for five decades. A close associate of Parnell, O'Connor had published a history of the Parnell movement in 1886. VOL 2 ONLY. Clean copy.

Record # 387578

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Alfred E. Smith: A Critical Study by: Henry F. Pringle

Alfred E. Smith: A Critical Study
by: Henry F. Pringle

Hardcover. NY, Macy-Masius Publishers, 3rd pr., 1927, Hardcover in gray cloth covers with gold paper label on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Tipped-in b&w frontispiece of Smith's portrait by Wilfred Jones. Biography of four time Governor of New York and 1928 Democratic Presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396401

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Lord North (2 Volume Set)by: Valentine, Alan

Lord North (2 Volume Set)
by: Valentine, Alan

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two Volume set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Volume 1: 568 pages. Volume 2: 517 pages. Hardcovers. In slipcase, very good. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated edges. Black cloth cover boards. Pages clean and bright. Spines straight. Bindings tight. North's reputation among historians has varied wildly, reaching its lowest point in the late 19th century, when he was depicted as a creature of the king and an incompetent who lost the American colonies.

Record # 99248

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Garibaldi: Invention of a Heroby: Lucy Riall

Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero
by: Lucy Riall

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 482 pages with index. The first sustained analysis of the cult of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in Sicily and provoked the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the overthrow of papal power in central Italy, and the creation of the Italian nation state. It made him a global icon, representing strength, bravery, manliness, saintliness, and a spirit of adventure. Handsome, flamboyant, and sexually attractive, he was worshiped in life and became a cult figure after his death in 1882. Lucy Riall shows that the emerging cult of Garibaldi was initially conceived by revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the status quo, that it was also the result of a collaborative effort involving writers, artists, actors, and publishers, and that it became genuinely and enduringly popular among a broad public. 33 b&w illustrations.

Record # 398112

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Norman Rockwell at Home in Vermont: Arlington Years, 1939-53by: Murray, Stuart

Norman Rockwell at Home in Vermont: Arlington Years, 1939-53
by: Murray, Stuart

Softcover. Bennington, VT, Images from the Past, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 86 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 369093

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Robert Morris: Patriot and Financierby: Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon

Robert Morris: Patriot and Financier
by: Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 372 pages, with illustrations, gilt top edge and faded gilt title on spine, gold cloth bound. Light spine edge fray and corner bumps, minor rubbing, light tape repair to front fly leaf with previous owner's bookplate. Overall, internally clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 855353

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Across the Everglades: A Canoe Journey of Exploration by: Willoughby, Hugh L.

Across the Everglades: A Canoe Journey of Exploration
by: Willoughby, Hugh L.

Hardcover. Philadephia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Comapny, 6th pr., 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 page. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Gutter cracked on title page with fabric showing through. Spine lettering faded. Clean copy.

Record # 369292

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Arctic Rodeo, Anby: Streeter, Daniel W.

Arctic Rodeo, An
by: Streeter, Daniel W.

Hardcover. New York , G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 356 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. 46 B&W photos and a map. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, soiled. Light flecking to cloth blue color. Tight copy. Greenland expedition in the Effie M. Morrissey, commanded by Capt. Bob Bartlett. Streeter's account featuring the Montana Cowboy, Carl Dunrud, who came aboard the arctic exploration vessel, Morrissey, specifically for the purpose of roping and bringing back live polar bears and other Arctic animals. Numerous black and white photographs showing various scenes of Greenland and native Inuit costumes and habits.

Record # 304148

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