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Al Smith: Hero of the Cities; A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkinsby: Josephson, Matthew & Hannah

Al Smith: Hero of the Cities; A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkins
by: Josephson, Matthew & Hannah

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 505 pages with b&w illustrations. Amazing detail, yet easily flowing narrative of the governor who preceded FDR, who--with Frances Perkins assistance as Industrial Commissioner--shaped a state's humane response to sweatshops, immigration. His 1928 presidential campaign faced burning Klu Klux Klan crosses and harrassment when he ventured outside the Northeast. After losing to Herbert Hoover he left his successor to Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a working government and blueprint for social reform that Roosevelt would later put to use as President. Name on half title page, otherwise clean internally.

Record # 386822

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Exhibiting Fashion: Before and After 1971by: Clark, Judith

Exhibiting Fashion: Before and After 1971
by: Clark, Judith

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. No dust jacket. A timely look at the evolution of fashion exhibitions, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashion: An Anthology by Cecil Beaton, " revealing it to be symptomatic of a shift in museological attitudes. Research into international exhibitions from the early 20th century to the present results in some 150 stunning illustrations, including previously unpublished exhibition photographs and out-of-print documents.

Record # 352706

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The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (SIGNED COPY)by: Nixon, Richard

The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nixon, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover First Edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR RICHARD NIXON. First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page). Blue cloth slipcase, Richard Nixon's blue ink signature appears on special leaf bound-in immediately between front free endpaper and half-title. A very good copy in a very good slipcase. No dust jacket. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.25 pounds and will require additional postage and insurance for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Record # 378805

Price: $120.00 
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The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His Worldby: Blume, Mary

The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World
by: Blume, Mary

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, photos in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga. One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Cristobal Balenciaga was, said Christian Dior, "the master of us all." Despite his extraordinary impact, Balenciaga was a man hidden from view. He saw to it that little was known about him, to the point that some French journalists wondered if he existed at all. Even his most devoted clients-Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Hutton, a clutch of Rothschilds-never met him. But one woman knew Balenciaga very well indeed. The first person he hired when he opened his Paris house was Florette Chelot, who became his top vendeuse. She witnessed the spectacular success of his first collection, and they worked closely for more than thirty years, until 1968, when Balenciaga abruptly closed his house without telling any of his staff. Youth-oriented fashion was taking over, Paris was in upheaval, and the elder statesman wanted no part of it. In The Master of Us All, Mary Blume tells the remarkable story of the man and his world. Intimate and revealing, this is an unprecedented portrait of a designer whose vision transformed an industry but whose story has never been told until now.

Record # 350234

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Andrew Wyeth: Autobiographyby:  WyethAndrew

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

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 # 381923

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And Hearing Not: Annals of an Admanby: Calkins, Earnest Elmo

And Hearing Not: Annals of an Adman
by: Calkins, Earnest Elmo

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 387 pages. The autobiography of a legendary advertising and marketing genius who was active in the early 1900s. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 201322

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Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skinby: Wilson, Andrew

Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin
by: Wilson, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470891

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George Sandby: Harlan, Ms. Elizabeth

George Sand
by: Harlan, Ms. Elizabeth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. George Sand was the most famous and most scandalous woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific. She wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange.

Record # 454436

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In and Out of Parliament. :Reminiscences of a Varied Lifeby: Farquharson, Robert

In and Out of Parliament. :Reminiscences of a Varied Life
by: Farquharson, Robert

Hardcover. London, Williams & Norgate, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth wit gilt stamping, 338 pages with index. 12 tipped-in illustrations. Autobiography of the Right Hon. Robert Farquharson, Member of Parliament. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 371375

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David Bailey: Bailey Exposedby: Bailey, David (Photographer)

David Bailey: Bailey Exposed
by: Bailey, David (Photographer)

Softcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. Color and B/W photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 352259

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T. E. Lawrence: An Arab Viewby: Mousa, Suleiman

T. E. Lawrence: An Arab View
by: Mousa, Suleiman

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Suleiman presents numerous corrections to the standard view of Lawrence and MidEast history. Also describes what happened after the Arabs had aided the British to win the war. At that point the Arabs effectively had lost because the territory was divided between the British and the French - during which T.E. Lawrence showed his true colors by advising the Arabs to sign. A valuable addition to the literature surrounding T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, bringing to light the actual extent of Lawrence's involvement, and how many texts fail to do justice to the Arabs themselves. 'Mr Mousa's obvious concern to be fair-minded and the weight of the evidence he produces make his book one that must be studied by all who are interested in 'Lawrence of Arabia' (front flap). Clean copy.

Record # 383229

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Postingsby: Heyward Isham

Postings
by: Heyward Isham

Hardcover. NY, privately printed, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 230 pages, b&w photos. Heyward Isham (1926-2009) chronicles his life as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States. His diplomatic postings spanned much of the Cold War from vantage points in Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong and Paris. Clean copy. Small printing.

Record # 383499

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John Selden: A Life in Scholarship (Two Volumes)by: Toomer, G. J.

John Selden: A Life in Scholarship (Two Volumes)
by: Toomer, G. J.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set complete, glossy boards, 977 pages in total. Professor Toomer's two-volume set is not only an indispensable reference work but also provides the first thorough treatment of the scholarship of John Selden, acknowledged as the most learned man of 17th-century England. All of his numerous published works, especially in the fields of history, law, and Hebraica, are critically examined and described in detail. The narrative also relates his writings to contemporary events, in the Civil War and the parliaments (including the Long Parliament) in which he played a prominent part, and to the work of other scholars in Europe (notably Scaliger and Grotius) and in Britain (including Camden and Ussher). Selden's involvement with the Universities, the support of libraries, and the promotion of scholarship is discussed. The work will be an essential resource, not only for the life of a major figure of his time, but also for the intellectual history of 17th-century England in general. No djs as issued, like new.

Record # 384104

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My Brother Theodore Rooseveltby: Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt
by: Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue color with gilt stamping. 365 pages, frontispiece portrait and sixteen photographs. Clean copy.

Record # 386804

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Innocents In Africa: An American Family's Storyby: Pifer, Drury

Innocents In Africa: An American Family's Story
by: Pifer, Drury

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, 338 pages. With wry humor and sharp observation, playwright Pifer elegantly mixes memory and research to reconstruct the world of his South African boyhood from 1933 to 1945. Pifer's father, an idealistic mining engineer in search of challenge and stability during the Depression, found it in Africa, but his earnest American egalitarianism soon put him in conflict with Afrikaner mine overseers, and his career under magnate Sir Ernest Oppenheimer stalled. The author deftly evokes his family--"my mother had the freedom of a disobedient daughter"--and the isolation of the desert town of Oranjemund. The book is even more resonant in its snapshots of mid-century Southern Africa: the still-simmering enmity between Afrikaners and the English; the ripples from Hitler's war in what prior to WW I had been the German territory of South West Africa (currently Namibia). Pifer's knowing account of the travails of servants--"the chasm that exists between white mistress and African maid"--still rings true today. Clean copy.

Record # 385756

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Victoria R.I.by: Elizabeth Longford

Victoria R.I.
by: Elizabeth Longford

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2nd imp., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 635 pages. Contains black and white illustrated plates, and a pull out family tree. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386014

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Roosevelt: The Happy Warrior by: Gilman, Bradley

Roosevelt: The Happy Warrior
by: Gilman, Bradley

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 375 pages. With a frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt, and 10 other illustrations. "A biography, written con amore (with love) by a Harvard classmate, that is full of illuminating anecdotes and memories of this great American." Ink name on front fly leaf and following page. Covers show wear to edges, top of spine. Interior clea, binding solid.

Record # 386633

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The Life of Mr. Richard Savage (1727)by: N/A

The Life of Mr. Richard Savage (1727)
by: N/A

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 29 pages. A facsimile reprint of a pamphlet published in 1727. The subject was a friend of Samuel Johnson who was pardoned after being sentenced to death for a murder in a coffeehouse altercation. The pamphlet, published anonymously, was a defense of Savage based on his character. Clean copy.

Record # 386951

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In the Arms of the Mountain: An Intimate Journal of the Great Smokies by: Elizabeth Seeman

In the Arms of the Mountain: An Intimate Journal of the Great Smokies
by: Elizabeth Seeman

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 251 pages. An true account of a couple's settling in the Great Smokey Mountains after living in the big city. Very detailed depiction of Appalachian life and written with humor. B&w illustrations by Glen Rounds.Clean copy.

Record # 387296

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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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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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Lafcadio Hearn's American Days (SIGNED COPY)by: Tinker, Edward Larocque

Lafcadio Hearn's American Days (SIGNED COPY)
by: Tinker, Edward Larocque

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED AND NUMBERED #90/150 opposite title page. Moderate wear to page edges,. gutter cracked on page 161.

Record # 354172

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Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biographyby: Lowe, Sue Davidson

Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
by: Lowe, Sue Davidson

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 456 pages, b&w illustrations. Very good in a similar dust jacket. Authored by Stieglitz's grandniece.

Record # 357610

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Growing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY)by: Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

Growing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY)
by: Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

Softcover. Bennington, VT, Bertani Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 90 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO IRVING ADLER on front fly leaf, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 457142

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Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruchby: Mary E. Miller

Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch
by: Mary E. Miller

Softcover. Columbia SC, University of South Carolina Press, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Foftcover in pictorial wraps, 212 pages with index. Belle W. Baruch (1899-1964) could outride, outshoot, outhunt, and outsail most of the young men of her elite social circle-abilities that distanced her from other debutantes of 1917. Unapologetic for her athleticism and interests in traditionally masculine pursuits, Baruch towered above male and female counterparts in height and daring. While she is known today for the wildlife conservation and biological research center on the South Carolina coast that bears her family name, Belle's story is a rich narrative about one nonconformist's ties to the land. In Baroness of Hobcaw, Mary E. Miller provides a provocative portrait of this unorthodox woman who gave a gift of monumental importance to the scientific community. Clean copy.

Record # 386077

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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibberby: Cibber, Colley

An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
by: Cibber, Colley

Hardcover. London, Dent / Everyman's Library, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn blue dust jacket with fading to spine. 302 pages. The author was an actor, dramatist and theatrical manager and gives an account of the British stage in the first half of the Eighteenth century. First published in 1740. Clean copy.

Record # 379854

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Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979: A Retrospectiveby: Buckberrough, Sherry A.

Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979: A Retrospective
by: Buckberrough, Sherry A.

Softcover. Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, reprint, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Softcover with paper wrapper. Light musty odor. Tight copy. Color pictures throughout.

Record # 369018

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Bettie Page: The Lost Yearsby: Brem, Ron

Bettie Page: The Lost Years
by: Brem, Ron

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Hundreds of never before seen black & white photographs and private letters spanning 1949 - 2000.

Record # 353415

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by: Marable, Manning

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by: Marable, Manning

NY, Viking, 4th pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 594 pages, b&w illustrations. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world. Manning Marable's new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination.

Record # 381505

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Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadourby: Rickie Lee Jones

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
by: Rickie Lee Jones

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 364 pages. Last Chance Texaco is the first ever no-holds-barred account of the life of one of rock's hardest working women in her own words. With candor and lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey of her exceptional life: from her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers, to her father's abandonment of the family and her years as a teenage runaway, her beginnings at LA's Troubadour club, to her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, and longevity as a woman in rock and roll. These are never-before-told stories of the girl in "the raspberry beret," a songwriter who inspired American culture for decades.

Record # 377887

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

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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Life Size: An Autobiographyby: Maurice Beck Hexter

Life Size: An Autobiography
by: Maurice Beck Hexter

Hardcover. West Kennebunk ME, Phoenix Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. an extraordinary memoir of Maurice that recounts the strange turns and fateful encounters that led him from his newsboyhood to collaborate with some of the world's most important men and to cooperate with some of it's most determined dreamers. Clean copy.

Record # 381263

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

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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Hans Krebs: Volume 2: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism, 1933-1937by: Holmes, Frederic Lawrence

Hans Krebs: Volume 2: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism, 1933-1937
by: Holmes, Frederic Lawrence

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 481 pages. Clean and unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket with minor sun-fade to spine.

Record # 454102

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God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New Englandby: Warren, James A.

God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
by: Warren, James A.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to cover boards.

Record # 750280

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Unknown Rockwell A Portrait of Two American Families (SIGNED)by: Edgerton, James A & O'Brien, Nan

Unknown Rockwell A Portrait of Two American Families (SIGNED)
by: Edgerton, James A & O'Brien, Nan

Hardcover. Essex, VT, Battenkill River Press, 2nd printing, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE.

Record # 352963

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Paul Robesonby: Martin Bauml Duberman

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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Beaufort of the Admiraltyby: Friendly, Alfred

Beaufort of the Admiralty
by: Friendly, Alfred

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Incorporated, 1st Am, August 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages. Light edgewear, small closed tear to dust jacket. Light smudges on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 455047

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Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television 1948-1961by: Baughman, James L.

Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television 1948-1961
by: Baughman, James L.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, James Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 443 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.

Record # 369087

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Drawn From Lifeby: Shepard, Ernest H.

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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Memoir of Col. Ethan Allen: Containing the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with his Private and Public Careersby: Moore, Hugh

Memoir of Col. Ethan Allen: Containing the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with his Private and Public Careers
by: Moore, Hugh

Hardcover. Plattsburgh, NY, O.R. Cook, 1st, 1834, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Original muslin boards with printed paper label on spine. Pages 153 and 154 missing. Front and rear hinges cracked and fragile. Light soil of cover boards. Foxing on pages.

Record # 354250

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Condemned to Devil's Island-The Biography of an Unknown Convictby: Blair Niles

Condemned to Devil's Island-The Biography of an Unknown Convict
by: Blair Niles

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 5th pr., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with orange lettering on front cover and spine. B&w illustrations and photos. 376 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 380254

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Bolivar - American Liberatorby: Arana, Marie

Bolivar - American Liberator
by: Arana, Marie

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 603 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750678

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Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: The Biography of a Black Cowboy by: Hanes, Bailey C.

Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: The Biography of a Black Cowboy
by: Hanes, Bailey C.

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 207 pages, b&w illustrations. Few of rodeo's early heroes matched the achievements of the black cowboy Bill Pickett, and his story is recounted here for the first time in book form. Pickett grew up in Texas in the 1880s, the child of former slaves, to become nationally famous as the star of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show. Pickett was associated with such western figures as Tom Mix, Will Rogers, Milt Hinkle, and Lucille Mulhall, and earned a reputation as an all around cowboy of legendary abilities. His greatest claim to fame is as the originator of steer wrestling, the only rodeo event to the traced to one individual. Audiences all over the United States, South America, Canada, and England were amazed to see the "Dusky Demon" fell on thousand-pound steers and bring them down bite-'em style with his teeth. Clean copy.

Record # 381610

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A Vermont Boyhoodby: Ripley, Thomas Emerson

A Vermont Boyhood
by: Ripley, Thomas Emerson

Hardcover. New York, D Appleton Century Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 234 pages. Illustrated end pages, front cover and spine slightly soiled.

Record # 511037

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Aesthetics: A Memoirby: Brunetti, Ivan

Aesthetics: A Memoir
by: Brunetti, Ivan

Hardcover. New Haven , 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 # 352409

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

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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