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Life and Times of Aaron Burr, Theby: Parton, J.
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Life and Times of Aaron Burr, The
by: Parton, J.

Hardcover. New York, Mason Brothers, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 696 pages, with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, edge and corner wear, small crack along top spine edge, and light foxing on some pages. Overall, in clean and tight condition.

Record # 853906

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Robert Penn Warren:: A Biographyby: Blotner, Joseph
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Robert Penn Warren:: A Biography
by: Blotner, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 585 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 2230140

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Daybooks of Edward Weston, The (2 Volumes): Mexico (Vol. 1), California (Vol. 2)by: Weston, Edward
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Daybooks of Edward Weston, The (2 Volumes): Mexico (Vol. 1), California (Vol. 2)
by: Weston, Edward

Softcover. NewYork, Aperture, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 214 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Vol. 2: 290 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Soil/stain on bottom foredge, does not affect pages. From the back cover of Vol. 1: "To see, to react, to create; these are the fundamentals of all art production. But also to share is the measure of the great artist and the great person. In both his magnificent photographs and in the confidences and clarifications of his Daybook, Edward Weston takes us into himself and shares with us his particular mirror of beauty and compassion."

Record # 30421

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Lindbergh - His Story in Picturesby: Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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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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Irishman's Story, Anby: McCarthy, Justin View larger image
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Irishman's Story, An
by: McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover with decoration. Tanning to pages and edges (agewear). Top edge gilt (faded). Binding good, spine straight. The autobiography of Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), who was an Irish politician, journalist, novelist, and historian.

Record # 99171

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Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoirby: Blackburn, Henry
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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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Cipe Pineles: A Life of Designby: Golden, Cipe Pineles and Martha Scotford
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Cipe Pineles: A Life of Design
by: Golden, Cipe Pineles and Martha Scotford

Hardcover. New York , Norton , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 190 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Cipe Pineles was art director for leading fashion magazines between 1930 and 1960. Tracing Pineles's career from young immigrant to "ranking" female in the design world, Martha Scotford chronicles a time when few women were involved in design and assesses Cipe's brilliant contributions to graphic design and magazine design in particular.

Record # 351933

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Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931by: Kellner, Bruce
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Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931
by: Kellner, Bruce

Hardcover. Columbia, Missouri, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352421

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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Lifeby: Wallace, Elizabeth K.
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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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Charles Atlasby: Comer, Stuart
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Charles Atlas
by: Comer, Stuart

Hardcover. US, Prestel USA, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, this vivid book captures the movement and pace of Charles Atlas's celebrated and highly collaborative time-based art. Looking back at a career that has spanned four decades, this beautiful volume profiles over 75 projects by Charles Atlas-including works recently exhibited at Tate Modern and the 2012 Whitney Biennial. As one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of video as a genre of expression, and especially through his long-lasting collaboration with Merce Cunningham, Atlas has teamed with numerous dancers and artists to create projects that range from feature-length documentaries to shorter media works, transforming the way performance is viewed by its audiences and the art world. In this inventive publication, Atlas's own commentary accompanies exquisite images that capture the structure and flow of his work in film, video, dance, and performance. The volume also includes interviews between Atlas and a number of writers and collaborators who have played a critical role in the development and reception of his oeuvre, as well as an array of fascinating ephemera from the artist's personal archives.

Record # 352779

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Avedon: Something Personalby: Stevens, Norma
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Avedon: Something Personal
by: Stevens, Norma

Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 353148

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Some American Peopleby: Caldwell, Erskine
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Some American People
by: Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride and CO, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Hardcover with no dust Jacket. Moderate rubbing and fraying along edges of cover boards. Sticker residue on rear end paper.

Record # 354002

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Pinkerton & Friends: A Steven Kellogg Treasury (SIGNED COPY)by: Kellogg, Steven
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Pinkerton & Friends: A Steven Kellogg Treasury (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kellogg, Steven

Hardcover. New York, DialBooks, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STEVEN KELLOGG WITH ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Dust jacket shows light rubbing. Cover boards show light edgewear, tight copy.

Record # 354259

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Back Homeby: Mauldin, Bill
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Back Home
by: Mauldin, Bill

Hardcover. NY, William Sloane Associates, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages, b&w illustrations by Mauldin. In a lightly worn dust jacket, stated First Printing on copyright page. Clean. The famous cartoon/journalist's take on post-war life for ex-GIs.

Record # 359023

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No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey From Russia to Paris to New York by: Iswolsky, Helene (Daughter Of The Last Tsarist Ambassador To France)
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No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey From Russia to Paris to New York
by: Iswolsky, Helene (Daughter Of The Last Tsarist Ambassador To France)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Winchell Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Clean. Helene Iswolsky, daughter of a Russian diplomat, grew up in Japan, Denmark, Russia, and France. In 1911, her father became Russian ambassador to France. She returned to Russia for her debut in 1914, to be presented to the Tsarina Alexandra. While there she attended the wedding of Prince Felix Yusupov, who was to murder Rasputin three years later. After the Tsar was overthrown, her father retired to Biarritz and died there in 1919, leaving unpaid debts. The author took up translating and writing. She had a religious awakening and became a Catholic. A sojourn in a Benedictine monastery left her changed, but she decided not to make the cloister her life. The author knew many notable people in the Paris area, especially writers, poets, critics, philosophers of the "new wave," Christian humanists, and Russian emigres. She attended the Sunday afternoon gatherings of Jacques Maritain and Nicholas Berdiaev, and worked on Emmanuel Mounier's journal "Esprit." When the Nazis occupied France, she escaped to America with her mother. Here she founded an ecumenical movement called "The Third Hour" and taught Russian at Fordham University and other schools. She was a close friend of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. Scarce.

Record # 359148

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Avedon: Something Personalby: Stevens, Norma
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Avedon: Something Personal
by: Stevens, Norma

Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 362264

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Chuck Berry: The Autobiographyby: Berry, Chuck
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Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
by: Berry, Chuck

Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 368818

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At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Starsby: Botto, Louis
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At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars
by: Botto, Louis

Hardcover. New York, Playbill/ Applause Thetre& Cinama Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Minor rubbing to top spine. Light soil on rear. This is the ultimate backstage tour of Broadway! AT THIS THEATRE tells the complete history of Broadway in the 20th century, theatre by theatre. This gorgeous book is now updated, revised and with a larger format, covering 1900 to 2001. PLAYBILL's columnist, Louis Botto, along with Robert Viagas, opens the doors and lets readers explore the 40 active Broadway theatres in New York. From the conception and design of the buildings, to their original creators, and on to the theatres' transformation, often under duress, from legitimate houses to vaudeville and Burlesque, to movie houses and then back to their original purpose, this book captures the magical world of Broadway. It is a complete and authoritative history that only Botto, the curator of PLAYBILL's incomparable 116-year-old archives, can tell.

Record # 369032

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Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhoodby: Delphine Red Shirt
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Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood
by: Delphine Red Shirt

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming-of-age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads together and the messages conveyed by hairstyles. At the same time, Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors.

Record # 371866

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3:  Master of the Senate by: Robert A. Caro
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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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Lincoln The Lawyer by: Hill, Frederick Trevor.
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Lincoln The Lawyer
by: Hill, Frederick Trevor.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt design to cover and spine. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. A wonderfully tight, bright first edition with gilt as bright as the day it was made. Rather uncommon, especially in such choice condition. No markings.

Record # 374947

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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 Vols.)by: Martineau, Harriet; Chapman, Maria Weston [Editor]
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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 Vols.)
by: Martineau, Harriet; Chapman, Maria Weston [Editor]

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 4th Ed., 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 594, 596 pages. Bound in 3/4 red leather over marbled boards. Top edge gilt, gilt titles on spine faded slightly. Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers, otherwise clean.

Record # 378513

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Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78 by: Ian Davidson
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Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78
by: Ian Davidson

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1753, Voltaire -- playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe -- was forced by Louis XV into exile, where he remained for the last twenty-five years of his life. These years heralded a startling new beginning for this remarkable man. Voltaire carved out a new and vibrant world in his isolation, becoming a successful entrepreneur and writing his masterpiece Candide. In Voltaire in Exile, Ian Davidson re-creates this period in the life of one of the giants of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles, and the French intellectual elite, Davidson allows us to discover Voltaire the artist, the campaigner, the aesthete, the lover, the humorist. The result is a wonderfully vivid portrait of this extraordinarily funny, iconoclastic, complex, and, above all, ferociously intelligent individual. Clean copy.

Record # 378946

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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles by: Mark Rozzo
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
by: Mark Rozzo

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 454 pages, b&w, color illustrations. Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple--Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--lived out the emblematic love story of '60s L.A. The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills became the era's unofficial living room, a kaleidoscopic realm--"furnished like an amusement park," Andy Warhol said--that made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it. Hopper and Hayward, vanguard collectors of contemporary art, packed the place with pop masterpieces by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Warhol, and welcomed a who's who of visitors, from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns, Joan Didion to Tina Turner, Hells Angels to Black Panthers. In this house, everything that defined the 1960s went down: the fun, the decadence, the radical politics, and, ultimately, the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the project that made his career, became the cinematic symbol of the period, and blew their union apart--Easy Rider.

Record # 380135

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AM. Mackay Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda. By His Sister A. M. by: Harrison, J.W [A.M.Mackay]
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AM. Mackay Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda. By His Sister A. M.
by: Harrison, J.W [A.M.Mackay]

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt flower design on front cover. 480 pages, with a frontispiece portrait + a folding color map in rear. Appears to be INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on a bookplate inside front cover with a New Year's greeting and dated Dec 31 1891. Alexander Murdoch Mackay was a missionary, a teacher and an engineer who contributed tremendously to Christianity and education in Uganda. As a youth, he left Scotland and committed his life to preaching the word of God to the people of Uganda. He introduced vocational training, taught practical skills and laid the foundation of education in the Church of Uganda. He introduced a printing press which he used to print the Luganda version of the Holy Bible. Light shelf wear, fraying to top of spine.

Record # 380841

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Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everythingby: Kevin Cook
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Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything
by: Kevin Cook

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Titanic Thompson is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash, this is the legendary tale of a man who was married five times to five different girls, all teenagers on their wedding day. He killed five men, though he'd say 'they'd all agree they had it coming to them'. He won and lost millions in a time when being a millionaire still really meant something.Filled with fascinating facts and famous faces - Harry Houdini, Al Capone, Lee Trevino, Arnold Rothstein and Jean Harlow all make appearances - this is a brilliant and compelling snapshot of life on the road in freewheelin' America.

Record # 381239

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Victoria: A Life by: A. N. Wilson
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Victoria: A Life
by: A. N. Wilson

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 642 pages. Gray cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp dust jacket with only minor wear. Very clean & unmarked. Crisp, tight copy.

Record # 381543

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The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 by: Cecil Beaton/Vickers, Hugo(Editor)
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The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
by: Cecil Beaton/Vickers, Hugo(Editor)

Softcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, Softcover, 500 pages. A twentieth-century photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton's estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds, at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London. Clean copy.

Record # 381922

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The Second Handshakeby: Fowler, Will
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The Second Handshake
by: Fowler, Will

Secaucus NJ, Lyle Stuart , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 301 pages. Will was Gene Fowler's son. Gene Fowler went from journalist in Denver to an in-demand scriptwriter in Hollywood, where he married. His "rat-pack" friends included John Barrymore and W. C. Fields. Here are his son's memoirs of life among such as Ring Lardner, W.C. Fields, William Faulkner, Damon Runyon, Jack Dempsey and others.

Record # 382548

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Private World of Tasha Tudor, Theby: Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard
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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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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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Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca by: Stuart Stirling
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Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca
by: Stuart Stirling

Hardcover. UK, Sutton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 243 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 385773

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The Life of John Locke: Volume 1 by: H. R. Fox Bourne
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The Life of John Locke: Volume 1
by: H. R. Fox Bourne

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes, reprint , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 488 pages. VOLUME 1 ONLY of a two volume set. Originally published in 1876. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to about 25 pages.

Record # 386552

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The Life of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne by: Luce, A. A.
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The Life of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne
by: Luce, A. A.

Hardcover. UK, Routledge/Thoemmes, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. A reprint of the 1949 edition with a new introduction by David Berman. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386853

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Improve Perfect & Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education by: Constance E. Putnam/ Oliver S. Hayward

Improve Perfect & Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education
by: Constance E. Putnam/ Oliver S. Hayward

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 362 pages. This is the first full-scale biography of Nathan Smith -- medical pioneer, founder of Dartmouth Medical School and cofounder of three other medical schools (Yale, Vermont, and Bowdoin), and progenitor of a long line of physicians. Smith was a central figure in early American medical education, from 1787 when he began practicing in New Hampshire, to his death in New Haven in 1829. In his day, Smith was probably the nation's leading physician, surgeon, and medical educator, and well ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care. In the process of telling Smith's life and story, authors Hayward and Putnam fill out in new ways the picture of medical treatment and medical education in post-Colonial America.

Record # 387362

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Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch by: Macy, John
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Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch
by: Macy, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, slate gray boards. Paper label on spine, 64 pages with b&w plates. Walter James Dodd (1869 -1916) was a physician and one of the first radiologists in the United States. He was an early innovator in the use of X-rays in medicine, and suffered the consequences. He underwent over 50 surgical procedures to treat X-ray damage to his skin and had several appendages amputated. He ultimately died from X-ray induced cancer. Related clippings laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 387671

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Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III by: Greenfield, Robert
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Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
by: Greenfield, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures in the cultural revolution that changed both America and the world during the 1960s.Owsley's high-octane rocket fuel enabled Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters to put on the Acid Tests. It also powered much of what happened on stage at Monterey Pop. Owsley turned on Pete Townshend of The Who and Jimi Hendrix. The shipment of LSD that Owsley sent John Lennon resulted in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album and film.Convinced that the Grateful Dead were destined to become the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, Owsley provided the money that kept them going during their early days. As their longtime soundman, he then faithfully recorded many of the Dead's greatest live performances and designed the massive space-age system that came to be known as the Wall of Sound.Award-winning author and biographer Robert Greenfield's definitive biography of this Grateful Dead legend masterfully takes us through Owsley's incredible life and times to bring us a full picture of this fascinating man for the first time. The definitive biography of the reclusive and mysterious Grateful Dead benefactor and renowned LSD chemist without whom the counterculture would never have been born. Clean copy.

Record # 396264

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Lafayette by: Harlow Giles Unger
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Lafayette
by: Harlow Giles Unger

Softcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,452 pages, b&w illustrations. Harlow Unger's Lafayette is a remarkable and dramatic account of a life as fully lived as it is possible to imagine, that of Gilbert de Motier, marquis de Lafayette. To American readers Unger's biography will provide a stark reminder of just how near run a thing was our War of Independence and the degree to which our forefathers' victory hinged on the help of our French allies, marshaled for George Washington by his 'adopted' son, Lafayette. But even more absorbing and much less well known to the general reader will be Unger's account of Lafayette's idealistic but naive efforts to plant the fruits of the American democracy he so admired in the unreceptive soil of his homeland. Short inscription to half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396702

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The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly by: Richard Korman

The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
by: Richard Korman

Hardcover. San Francisco, Encounter Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures in center. Goodyear was an entrepreneur who actually made good on the ever-popular claim that his company would change the world. Korman, senior editor of Engineering News-Record, dryly traces the life of the rubber pioneer and American industrial legend in this part scientific history lesson and part American business story. Goodyear (1800-1860) became an inventor not out of any great scientific thirst; he was self-taught and wanted to make money. He earned success, but endured continual patent monopoly battles and numerous trips to debtors' prison as he steadfastly and compulsively held onto his dream of using rubber to change just about every aspect of life. (According to Korman, Goodyear frequently wore a coat made of rubber in his early inventing days to underscore the versatility of his product.) Korman waxes scientific at times, offering in-depth descriptions of how Goodyear cooked rubber and sulfur compounds, yet his technical discourses are not so esoteric that they will turn away amateurs. His book is also valuable for its accurate portrayal of factory life in the 1830s and '40s; his accounts of the aproned men who chopped rubber with axes and knives and the machines that ground it are lively examples of industrial age America. Clean copy.

Record # 397721

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My Father's Eyes: A Memoirby: Mary Bonina
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My Father's Eyes: A Memoir
by: Mary Bonina

Softcover. Somerville MA, Cervena Barva Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.

Record # 398253

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Circle of Sawdust: A Circus Memoir of Mud, Myth, Mirth, Mayhem and Magic by: Mermin, Rob

Circle of Sawdust: A Circus Memoir of Mud, Myth, Mirth, Mayhem and Magic
by: Mermin, Rob

Softcover. Rootstock Publishing, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 316 pages, b&w illustrations. Circle of Sawdust is a uniquely personal story of the wild characters, fascinating personalities, remarkable histories, and behind-the-scenes world of traditional traveling circuses. Here is a true-life tale about a boy's impulse to run off and join the circus and then-through doubt, failure, loss, and tragedy-pursue the implausible vision of starting his own circus! With humor and passion, founder of Circus Smirkus Rob Mermin writes about the precarious life of a creative artist, the ups and downs of taking risks, and the idealistic struggle to hold onto a dream. Clean copy.

Record # 399187

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Tomie de Paola - His Art & His Storiesby: Elleman, Barbara

Tomie de Paola - His Art & His Stories
by: Elleman, Barbara

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Over 200 Illustrations, 218 pages includes a bibliography of the writer and illustrator's book bibliography. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, wrinkle to front flap of dj, otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 399669

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Life and Character of Stephen Decatur, Late Commodore and Post-Captain in the Navy of the United Statesby: Waldo, S. Putnam
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Life and Character of Stephen Decatur, Late Commodore and Post-Captain in the Navy of the United States
by: Waldo, S. Putnam

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Clark & Lyman, 2nd Ed., 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages, frontispiece plus 3 other engraved plates. Rebound with new cloth spine and endpapers, original calf covers present. The frontispiece has some loss to the gutter edge and has been reattached. Image not affected. Moderate foxing throughout.

Record # 403668

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Henry Adamsby: Samuels, Ernest
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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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Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares (SIGNED COPY)by: Valladares, Armando
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Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares (SIGNED COPY)
by: Valladares, Armando

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 380 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, translated by Andrew Hurley. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, small water stain on top and bottom spine edge, otherwise, internally very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456654

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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy (SIGNED COPY)by: Tucker, Michael
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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy (SIGNED COPY)
by: Tucker, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MICHAEL TUCKER AND JILL EIKENBERRY (Author dedicated book to wife, Jill) on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468057

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Drawn From Lifeby: Shepard, Ernest H.
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Drawn From Life
by: Shepard, Ernest H.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. Black & white line drawings by Shepard. Black & white photo on frontispiece. Blue cloth binding with gold spine lettering. English artist Shepard's (1879-1976) life story from 1890 on, a sequel to Drawn from Memory. The famed illustrator of the Winnie-the-Poo stories tells his story, with many vignettes of Milne and his books. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 503257

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Theodore Winthrop (SIGNED COPY)by: Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth
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Theodore Winthrop (SIGNED COPY)
by: Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY AUTHOR. Portrait of Winthrop opposite title page. Darkening to title on spine, with chip missing at very top. Moderate rubbing with small section of abrasion at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611868

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Tunisia - A Personal View of a Timeless Landby: Anthony, John
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Tunisia - A Personal View of a Timeless Land
by: Anthony, John

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with gilt decoration to cover, gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy.

Record # 750528

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Eric Mendelsohnby: Whittick, Arnold
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Eric Mendelsohn
by: Whittick, Arnold

Hardcover. New York, F. W. Dodge Corporation, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket with color illustration, 75 b&w plates, 109 b&w drawings, sketches, plans, elevations, sections, etc. Clean boards, light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, with a few half-inch tears and 3-4" tear to bottom edge of rear dust jacket panel, pages very crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 808640

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