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Man Ray: Writings on Artby: Ray, Man; Mundy, Jannifer (editor)

Man Ray: Writings on Art
by: Ray, Man; Mundy, Jannifer (editor)

Hardcover. US, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Record # 8230011

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

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

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

Record # 369024

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Robert H. Lowie, Ethnologist: A Personal Recordby: Lowie, Robert H.

Robert H. Lowie, Ethnologist: A Personal Record
by: Lowie, Robert H.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Luella Cole Lowie. Illustrated with 24 b/w photographs. Chronological biography, bibliography. Lowie wrote this book to document ethnographic study in the early 20th century; to put his own professional life on record; to stress methods of field work and their application under very different circumstances.

Record # 380320

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Hefner's Gonna Kill Me When He Reads Thisby: Byer, Stephen

Hefner's Gonna Kill Me When He Reads This
by: Byer, Stephen

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

Record # 381506

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Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonistby: Maslin, Michael

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist
by: Maslin, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352696

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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 # 380136

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Recreations of a Psychologistby: Hall, G. Stanley

Recreations of a Psychologist
by: Hall, G. Stanley

Hardcover. New York , Appleton, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, 336 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth covers with black lettering. Minor wear, clean copy.

Record # 407700

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

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

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

Record # 610475

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Battling For Peace: A Memoir (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by: Peres, Shimon

Battling For Peace: A Memoir (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Peres, Shimon

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. B/w illustrations throughout. Front flaps very lightly yellowed at top, otherwise clean inside and out. previous bookseller tag on back. From the dust jacket front flap: "As we follow Peres from his ancestral home in Poland to Israel, from the youth village of BenShemon to Kibbutz Alumot, from the youth movement leader to prime minister, we are introduced both to a man and to a nation."

Record # 30298

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In Like a Lamb Out Like a Lion: The Story of John Buffumby: Grimshaw, Tom

In Like a Lamb Out Like a Lion: The Story of John Buffum
by: Grimshaw, Tom

Hardcover. Charlotte Harbor FL, Tabby House Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards with matching dust jacket. 301 pages, Illustrated with color and b&w photos. The career of the international rally race champion, as told by his navigator and co-driver. Scarce. Small repaired tear to edge of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Record # 374192

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Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Theby: III., Philip Kunhardt (Preface)

Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, The
by: III., Philip Kunhardt (Preface)

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photographs of President Abraham Lincoln spanning over 20 years. Tight copy.

Record # 352997

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

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

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

Record # 807703

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50 Years a Truckmanby: Merrill, Paul E.

50 Years a Truckman
by: Merrill, Paul E.

Hardcover. Portland, Paul E. Merrill, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages plus additional 28 page pamphlet laid-in. Hardcover. Both hardcover and pamphlet illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Both book and pamphlet have musty odor. Dust jacket with wear and tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613688

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Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the Worldby: Downey, Lynn

Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
by: Downey, Lynn

Hardcover. Boston, University of Massauchusetts Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs in center. Little to no wear to edges.

Record # 369090

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The Natural Bent:The Memoirs of Dr. Paul B. Barringer by: Barringer, Paul B.

The Natural Bent:The Memoirs of Dr. Paul B. Barringer
by: Barringer, Paul B.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill , University of North Carolina, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth, gilt lettering, design on spine, 280 pages. "The story of a Confederate childhood, a Reconstruction boyhood, and the education of a medical pioneer in the new South." This book is first of all a personal narrative that is alternately dramatic, thoughtful, and hilariously funny. It is also a vivid picture of plantation life before and during the Civil War and the beginnings of the building of a New South. Clean copy, spine a bit darkened.

Record # 380625

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

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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Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of a Cameramanby: Gavin Thurston

Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of a Cameraman
by: Gavin Thurston

Hardcover. London, Seven Dials , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 427 pages, color illustrations. From Gavin Thurston, the award-winning Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II cameraman with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough comes extraordinary and adventurous true stories of what it takes to track down and film our planet's most captivating creatures. Gavin has been a wildlife photographer for over thirty years. Against a backdrop of modern world history, he's lurked in the shadows of some of the world's remotest places in order to capture footage of the animal kingdom's finest: prides of lions, silverback gorillas, capuchin monkeys, brown bears, grey whales, penguins, mosquitoes - you name it-he's filmed it. No dj issued.

Record # 377864

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Man on Mao's Right, Theby: Chaozhu, Ji

Man on Mao's Right, The
by: Chaozhu, Ji

Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750679

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Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of Americaby: Nick Salvatore

Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
by: Nick Salvatore

Hardcover. NY, Little Brown, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is a biography of C.L. Franklin, one of the black preachers in American history. It tells the story of black migration and activism, alongside the rise of gospel, blues, and soul music, with a cast of characters including Martin Luther King, Jr., B.B. King, Art Tatum, and Coleman Young.

Record # 381611

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First Lady of the Renaissance - A Biography of Isabella d'Esteby: Meyer, Edith Patterson

First Lady of the Renaissance - A Biography of Isabella d'Este
by: Meyer, Edith Patterson

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with gilt titles. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with tears, creasing along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614452

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Savage : Life & Times of Jemmy Button by: Hazelwood, Nick

Savage : Life & Times of Jemmy Button
by: Hazelwood, Nick

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 359132

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Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir by: Timberg, Robert

Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir
by: Timberg, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 304 pages, b&w illustrations. Acclaimed journalist Robert Timberg's extraordinary, long-awaited memoir of his struggle to reclaim his life and find his calling after being severely burned as a young Marine lieutenant in Vietnam In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat tour ended. He had thirteen days to go before he got to go back home to his wife in Southern California. That homecoming would eventually happen, but not in thirteen days, and not as the person he once was. The moment his vehicle struck a Vietcong land mine divided his life into before and after.

Record # 381209

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Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and Londonby: Santamaria, Giuseppe

Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and London
by: Santamaria, Giuseppe

Hardcover. London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color pictures throughout. Photographer, art director and fashion enthusiast Giuseppe Santamaria takes us to the streets of six incredible cities to showcase the unique and stylish women that inhabit these towns. From classic elegance to menswear-inspired casual, a woman's dress style speaks volumes about her personality - and the city she inhabits. Featuring interviews with the everyday women whose distinctive styles cut a fine figure in the world of women's fashion, this striking photographic collection will take you on a global sartorial adventure.

Record # 352711

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The Education of John Dewey: A Biographyby: Jay Martin

The Education of John Dewey: A Biography
by: Jay Martin

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 562 pages. During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896) thrives still and is a model for schools worldwide, especially in emerging democracies. But how was this lifetime of thought enmeshed in Dewey's emotional experience, in his joys and sorrows as son and brother, husband and father, and in his political activism and spirituality? Acclaimed biographer Jay Martin recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing important themes through the philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Clean copy.

Record # 378811

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Charlotte Perriand: A Life of Creationby: Perriand, Charlotte

Charlotte Perriand: A Life of Creation
by: Perriand, Charlotte

Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 383 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. "Born in Paris in 1903, she was hired as an assistant to the famously visionary modern architect Le Corbusier when she was just twenty-four. She soon became one of his closest collaborators, and their ten year working relationship yielded some of the best-known icons of modern furniture. Perriand went on to become a world renowned designer in her own right, at a time when that was almost unheard of for a woman."

Record # 350283

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Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollinsby: Blumenthal, Bob

Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins
by: Blumenthal, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A celebration of jazz legend Sonny Rollin's incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation in pictures and words combines the images of John Abbott, who was Rollin's photographer of choice for the past twernty years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic who has chronicled Rollins and his art for nearly four decades.

Record # 352448

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Angel of the Battlefield: The Life of Clara Barton by: Ross, Ishbel

Angel of the Battlefield: The Life of Clara Barton
by: Ross, Ishbel

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 305 pages, 16 pages of b&w illustrations. A legend in her own time, Clara Barton, comes to life in these pages. One can almost sense the death and destruction of the battlefields (American Civil War) and disasters to which Barton was the first to bring aid and comfort to the suffering. Barton's life is great testimony as to the powerful influence that one person can have on the outcome of history, and was achieved in an age when women were secondary figures. A diminutive five-foot tall, she rose as a giant among her historical peers (e.g., Susan B. Anthony and Dorothea Dix, et al.) and forever shaped the topography of American society, healthcare, and emergency relief, by founding the American Red Cross [1881] at age 59. Clean copy.

Record # 382310

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Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures with Fleetwood Mac (SIGNED COPY)by: Fleetwood, Mick; Stephen Davis

Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures with Fleetwood Mac (SIGNED COPY)
by: Fleetwood, Mick; Stephen Davis

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Very good dust jacket with minor rubbing on rear bottom edge and top edge spine. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and tight interior. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, MICK FLEETWOOD opposite title page. Black and white photos in center.

Record # 408622

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Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolutionby: Tuck, Jim

Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution
by: Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. US, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462953

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Lady of Beauty, Theby: Hamel, Frank

Lady of Beauty, The
by: Hamel, Frank

Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1912, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages. 16 B&W illustrations. Brown cover with gilt title to spine. Sun-fading and spotting. Unfinished front edge. Heavy foxing to all edges. Ex-Lib sticker on front end page. Tissue-protected frontispiece. Soiling to end pages. Overall, a clean, tight copy. A biography of Agnes Sorel, known by the sobriquet Dame de beaute, was a favorite and chief mistress of King Charles VII of France, by whom she bore four daughters. She is considered the first officially recognized royal mistress of a French king.

Record # 850427

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The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power Wealth Celebrity and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decadeby: Tina Brown

The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power Wealth Celebrity and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade
by: Tina Brown

Softcover. NY, Picador, 1st pbk, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 436 pages, color and b&w photos. It's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the hope that she can save Conde Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is plunged into the maelstrom of competitive New York media. She survives the politics and the intrigue by a simple stratagem: succeeding. Here are the inside stories of the scoops and covers that sold millions: the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. Written with dash and verve, the diary is also a sharply observed account of New York and London society. In its cinematic pages the drama, comedy and struggle of raising a family and running an 'it' magazine come to life. The irreverent diaries of Tina Brown's eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387733

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Chuck Berry: The Autobiographyby: Berry, Chuck

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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Lawrence of Arabia and His Worldby: Richard Perceval Graves

Lawrence of Arabia and His World
by: Richard Perceval Graves

London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. 126 pages: 98 black and white illustrations and maps. Synopsis: A richly illustrated account of the historical background to, and life of T. E .Lawrence. Clean copy.

Record # 383253

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Smile Please by: Mildred Spurrier Topp

Smile Please
by: Mildred Spurrier Topp

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. An uncommon biography of strong-willed Greenwood, Mississippi professional studio photographer Lillian Spurrier with the autobiographical musings of her like-mannered daughter, Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963), who taught creative writing at Ole Miss, authored one book of fiction titled IN THE PINK (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), was a close friend of Eudora Welty, and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1935. Topp family b/w portrait images upon front and rear endpapers.

Record # 383518

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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)
by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Appleton and Company, 1st Edition, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. Volume 1: 558 pages. Volume 2: 562 pages. Both volumes: B/w frontispiece. Dark red cover boards, black design on front covers, gilt title on spines. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. Tanning to edges and pages from age. Spines straight. Binding good. Biography of Charles Darwin, including correspondence, edited by his son, Francis Darwin. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99172

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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (SIGNED COPY)by: Lobel, Anita

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lobel, Anita

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures in center. Tight copy.

Record # 354645

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Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca by: Stuart Stirling

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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Letters Home: Memoirs of One Army Nurse in the Southwest Pacific in World War II (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Pullman, Sally Hitchcock

Letters Home: Memoirs of One Army Nurse in the Southwest Pacific in World War II (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Pullman, Sally Hitchcock

Softcover. AuthorHouse, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper and pages clean. This book is the story of just one newly graduated nurse told in her own words in her letters home saved by her parents and friends. It is one of the few stories of nurses in the Pacific area.

Record # 99008

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Isaac Vossius (1618-1689): Between Science and Scholarshipby: Jorink, Eric (Editor), Dirk Van Miert (Editor)

Isaac Vossius (1618-1689): Between Science and Scholarship
by: Jorink, Eric (Editor), Dirk Van Miert (Editor)

Hardcover. Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill, 1st edition, 2012, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards, excellent. Very clean pages, edges. Biding tight. Spine straight. Like new. most remembered for his biblical criticism, Vossius played a central role in the early modern European world of learning.

Record # 99179

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Two Dialogues: Of the Want of Respect Due to Age and Concerning Education (Second Edition, 1751)by: Hyde, Edward / Earl of Clarendon

Two Dialogues: Of the Want of Respect Due to Age and Concerning Education (Second Edition, 1751)
by: Hyde, Edward / Earl of Clarendon

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. A facsimile reprint from the pages of the author's Miscellaneous Works (pages 285-348) published in 1751. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386956

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Safari of Discovery: The Universe of Albert Schweitzerby: Phillips, Herbert M.

Safari of Discovery: The Universe of Albert Schweitzer
by: Phillips, Herbert M.

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages, b&w photographs. An account of the author's trip to French Equatorial Africa and Albert Schweitzer's jungle hospital (Lambarene), the author's stay there and conversations with Dr. Schweitzer. The author convinced Schweitzer to lend his name to an educational movement in the U.S. (the nominal reason for the trip), and states that he believes Schweitzer is a much needed Prophet of the divided Western world. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387297

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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Goreyby: Mark Dery

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
by: Mark Dery

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown, 3rd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 503 pages. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? Dery draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Gorey. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 387829

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The Happy Warrior: The Story of My Father, Alfred E. Smith by: Warner, Emily Smith, with Hawthorne, Daniel

The Happy Warrior: The Story of My Father, Alfred E. Smith
by: Warner, Emily Smith, with Hawthorne, Daniel

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 396404

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Wapiti Wildernessby: Margaret & Olaus Murie Murie

Wapiti Wilderness
by: Margaret & Olaus Murie Murie

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 302 pages. A follow-up to Margaret Murie's classic Two in the Far North about their earlier life in Alaska, this book set in and around Jackson Hole was co-authored with her husband Olaus, who died before its publication. In alternating chapters, Olaus, a renown wildlife biologist, writes about his animal studies, especially of elk (wapiti), and Margaret writes more generally about "their life together, on the trail, in the various camps, and nature adventures in the wilderness during four seasons." The Muries were pivotal in the wilderness movement and lived at the base of the Tetons in Moose, Wyoming. Their home is now the Murie Center in the National Park. Margaret has been called "the grandmother of the conservation movement." With photographs and illustrations by Olaus. Clean copy.

Record # 397434

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First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle Trailblazing Female War Correspondent by: Lorissa Rinehart

First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
by: Lorissa Rinehart

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 381 pages. From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American female journalist killed while covering combat. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Record # 398119

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Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (SIGNED COPY)by: Amestoy, Jeffrey L.

Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (SIGNED COPY)
by: Amestoy, Jeffrey L.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press], 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. Dana's sense of justice made him a lawyer who championed sailors and slaves, and his extraordinary advocacy put him at the center of some of the most consequential cases in American history.

Record # 359136

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

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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Lincoln The Lawyer by: Hill, Frederick Trevor.

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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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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