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One Rose, The: Mother of the Immortal Kewpiesby: Ruggles, Rowena Godding

One Rose, The: Mother of the Immortal Kewpies
by: Ruggles, Rowena Godding

Hardcover. Albany, CA, Rowena Godding Ruggles, 2nd, 1972, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on second front end-paper. 96 pages of text. Includes 213 plates of b&w illustrations of Kewpies. Biography of Rose O'Neill and her work, including the development of the Kewpie dolls. In very good condition. The pages are clean and book neatly and tightly cloth-bound in red covers. dust jacket clean, with minor edge-wear.

Record # 807634

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Through Nineteenth-Century Eyes: The Lives of Sarah Etta King Ames and Mary Catherine Ames Coates of New York State.by: Coates, Charlotte C.

Through Nineteenth-Century Eyes: The Lives of Sarah Etta King Ames and Mary Catherine Ames Coates of New York State.
by: Coates, Charlotte C.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Charlotte C. Coates, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages. Ex-library stamp on title page. Ex-library residue and envelope on back endpaper. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852246

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Israel Putnam: Poineer, Ranger and Major-General 1718-1790by: Livingston, William Farrand

Israel Putnam: Poineer, Ranger and Major-General 1718-1790
by: Livingston, William Farrand

Hardcover. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 442 pages, b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Light wear to edges and boards, faint foxing to a few pages. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 856013

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American Aristocracy, An: The Livingstonsby: Brandt, Clare

American Aristocracy, An: The Livingstons
by: Brandt, Clare

Softcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to paper wrappers. Faded spine. A Livingston descendant once called the Hudson Valley, Livingston Valley, and with good reason. The original 1686 Royal patent of 160,000 acres on the east side of New York's Hudson River to Scottish merchant Robert Livingston grew within two generations to nearly one million acres and included vast portions of the Catskill Mountains as well. Intermarriages with other wealthy and influential Hudson Valley families, the Roosevelts, Delanos, Van Rensselaers, Schuylers, Astors, and Beekmans, to name a few created a dynasty and a landed aristocracy on the banks of the new republic s most important river an irony embedded at the core of the American experiment. At one time forty Livingston mansions lined the east shore, and the family s reach into NYS and American politics, economics, and social scene was profound and enduring. Their influence on early American politics was pervasive, with Livingstons on the Provincial Assembly, as members of the Continental Congress, on the committee to draft a Declaration of Independence, as first Chancellor of New York State and co-drafter with John Jay of the state s Constitution, justice of the NYS Supreme Court, Minister to France the list goes on. And, of course, there was the patron of Robert Fulton who brought a revolution to commerce with the world s first steamship, known as the Clermont after the Livingston estate in Columbia County that is now a State Historic Site Text includes a map of the Hudson Valley showing Livingston family land holdings, and a family genealogy from 1654 to 1964.

Record # 4450186

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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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Dog-Team Doctor - The Story of Dr. Romig (SIGNED BY DR. ROMIG)by: Anderson, Eva Greenslllit

Dog-Team Doctor - The Story of Dr. Romig (SIGNED BY DR. ROMIG)
by: Anderson, Eva Greenslllit

Hardcover. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, INSCRIBED BY THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK, DR. J.N. ROMIG on the half-title page. Black & white photo plates, 299 pages. Dust jacket badly chipped, light water stain to top edge. Previous owner's book plate opposite half title page.

Record # 68576

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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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Arctic Rodeo, Anby: Streeter, Daniel W.

Arctic Rodeo, An
by: Streeter, Daniel W.

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

Record # 304148

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Jack Nicholson: Anatomy of an Actorby: Walker, Beverly

Jack Nicholson: Anatomy of an Actor
by: Walker, Beverly

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352020

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Edie Factory Girlby: Finkelstein, Nat and David Dalton

Edie Factory Girl
by: Finkelstein, Nat and David Dalton

Hardcover. US, VH1 Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.

Record # 352443

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

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

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

Record # 352571

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Charles Atlasby: Comer, Stuart

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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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brownby: Gary, Amy

In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
by: Gary, Amy

Hardcover. New York, Flatiron Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 353155

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Blake Millions, The: The true facts concerning the interesting case which has occupied the attention of five countries for over fifty yearsby: Scott, C.W.F.

Blake Millions, The: The true facts concerning the interesting case which has occupied the attention of five countries for over fifty years
by: Scott, C.W.F.

Hardcover. New York, C.W.F. Scott, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate soil and chipping to dust jacket, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Multiple page corners "dog-eared" folded and creased.

Record # 354007

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

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

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

Record # 354264

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Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family Historyby: Morgenthau, Henry III

Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History
by: Morgenthau, Henry III

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. The Morgenthaus were one of those German-Jewish families who broke through the snobbish anti-Semitism of the wasp mainstream in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to be a force in American public life. This is a charming, intimate portrayal of three fascinating generations in American history. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 359026

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Huey Long, A Biographyby: Williams, T. Harry

Huey Long, A Biography
by: Williams, T. Harry

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 884 pages, b&w photos, index. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy in blue cloth covers. Biography of the controversial Huey Pierce "The Kingfish" Long(1893-1935), Louisiana's 40th governor(1928-1932) and American Senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935 as he aspired to run for president in alliance with the far-right radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin. Long's Share Our Wealth plan was established on February 23, 1934 with the motto "Every Man a King."

Record # 359165

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One Pilot's Log: The Career of E. L. "Slonnie" Slonigerby: Jerrold Sloniger

One Pilot's Log: The Career of E. L. "Slonnie" Sloniger
by: Jerrold Sloniger

Hardcover. Howell Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, b&w illustrations. Between 1917 and 1955, E.L. "Slonnie" Sloniger was a WWI fighter pilot, a barnstormer, a test pilot, a racer, an acrobatic pilot, and a commercial pilot. Here, "Fate is the Hunter's" Old Number One tells the story in his own words, as recorded by his son.

Record # 362280

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Films of Robert Wise, Theby: Keenan, Richard C.

Films of Robert Wise, The
by: Keenan, Richard C.

Softcover. Maryland, Scraecrow Press, rep, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Some black and white photos in center.

Record # 368819

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World of Atget, Theby: Abbott, Berenice

World of Atget, The
by: Abbott, Berenice

Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket with fraying, chipping on corners. Small chunck missing on rear dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photos throughout.

Record # 369054

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Mush You Malemutes! by: Bernard R Hubbard

Mush You Malemutes!
by: Bernard R Hubbard

Hardcover. NY, The America Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 180 pages, blue cloth with gilt lettering. Scores of glossy B&W photographs from the air and ground. Maps of Alaska on both sets of end papers with airplane and dog team routes. First edition of this Jesuit priest's 1600 mile expedition memoir about mushing down the Yukon River, visiting Jesuit Missions, and into the erupting Aniackchak Crater. Accounts first published in The Saturday Evening Post. This is an ex-library copy with stamping and residue to endpapers, but clean and tight inside.

Record # 371894

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Shoemaker of Dreams: the Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo by: Ferragamo, Salvatore

Shoemaker of Dreams: the Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo
by: Ferragamo, Salvatore

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red covers with gilt on spin, front cover, 232 pages. Salvatore Ferragamo traces his life's adventures from his origins as a village shoemaker to founding what would become a major global fashion brand. B&w photos. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 374373

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The Day the Bunny Died by: Lownes, Victor

The Day the Bunny Died
by: Lownes, Victor

Hardcover. NY, Lyle Stuart, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 190 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of the rise and near-collapse of the Playboy Empire, told by the manager of Playboy's London casinos. Clean copy.

Record # 375220

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When in Doubt, Step on the Gas: a Ragged Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Echeverria, Sophie

When in Doubt, Step on the Gas: a Ragged Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Echeverria, Sophie

Softcover. Jackson Hole WY, self-published, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 341 pages, b&w illustrations. The autobiography of a successful woman rancher in Wyoming. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 378518

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Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789by: Shackelford, George Green

Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789
by: Shackelford, George Green

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 219 pages, endpapers map. Describes Jefferson's European journeys during his time as minister to the court of Louis XVI between 1784 and 1789, and explores the significance of his travels to American culture. Illustrated with some 60 b&w images from the period, and drawing on Jefferson's account books and correspondence, shows how his experiences shaped his intellectual and aesthetic development. Clean copy.

Record # 379105

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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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Ake: The Years of Childhoodby: Soyinka, Wole

Ake: The Years of Childhood
by: Soyinka, Wole

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 3rd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 230 pages. This autobiography covers the first eleven years in the life of the distinguished Nigerian dramatist and poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Clean copy.

Record # 380849

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Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dullesby: Peter Grose

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles
by: Peter Grose

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover on a lightly worn dust jacket, 641 pages, b&w illustrations. This is the first full-length biography of the man historian Michael Beschloss calls the keystone figure in the history of American intelligence. Allen Dulles (1893-1969) served in the Office of Strategic Services in Europe during WWII and was named director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953, serving under Eisenhower and Kennedy. In an overlong, sometimes tedious narrative, Grose (Israel in the Mind of America) describes how Dulles oversaw the firm establishment of the CIA in the Washington power structure during the Eisenhower years (his older brother, John Foster Dulles, was then the Secretary of State), only to be forced out after the CIA's failure in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Later appointed to the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy, Dulles became its most diligent member, according to Grose, and a supporter of the view that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Other controversial issues explored include Dulles's exploitation of ex-Nazi Reinhard Gehler's spy network in the early years of the Cold War, and whether JFK authorized, or even knew about, CIA attempts to liquidate Castro. Grose delves unenlighteningly into Dulles's shortcomings as husband and father; he kept a mistress or two and spent little time at home.

Record # 381252

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The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. by: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Andrew Schlesinger (Editor)

The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
by: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Andrew Schlesinger (Editor)

NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An advisor to presidents, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and tireless champion of progressive government, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was also an inveterate letter writer. Indeed, the term "man of letters" could easily have been coined for Schlesinger, a faithful and prolific correspondent whose wide range of associates included powerful public officials, notable literary figures, prominent journalists, Hollywood celebrities, and distinguished fellow scholars. The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. reveals the late historian's unvarnished views on the great issues and personalities of his time, from the dawn of the Cold War to the aftermath of September 11. Here is Schlesinger's correspondence with such icons of American statecraft as Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and, of course, John and Robert Kennedy (including a detailed critique of JFK's manuscript for Profiles in Courage). There are letters to friends and confidants such as Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gore Vidal, William Styron, and Jacqueline Kennedy (to whom Schlesinger sends his handwritten condolences in the hours after her husband's assassination), and exchanges with such unlikely pen pals as Groucho Marx, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bianca Jagger. Finally, there are Schlesinger's many thoughtful replies to the inquiries of ordinary citizens, in which he offers his observations on influences, issues of the day, and the craft of writing history.

Record # 381544

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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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Billy Sunday Was His Real Nameby: William G. McLoughlin, Jr.

Billy Sunday Was His Real Name
by: William G. McLoughlin, Jr.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled. unclipped dust jacket. 325 pages including index. The author explores Sunday's career as the product and expression of his era. A lively account of the famous revivalist's life and the inner workings of mass revivalism. Name stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 382560

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John Carroll of Baltimore: Founder of the American Catholic Hierarchy by: Melville, Annabelle M.

John Carroll of Baltimore: Founder of the American Catholic Hierarchy
by: Melville, Annabelle M.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 338 pages including index. John Carroll (January 8, 1735 - December 3, 1815) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States. He served as the ordinary of the first diocese and later Archdiocese of Baltimore, in Maryland, which at first encompassed all of the United States and later after division as the eastern half of the new nation. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 383385

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The Maid s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream by: Mary Romero

The Maid s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream
by: Mary Romero

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 267 pages. A compelling true story of how a maid's daughter moves from a girlhood of rage and resentment to a level of empowerment, as a grown woman. Clean copy.

Record # 384032

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Life of Marie Moulton Graves Hopkins: Beloved Wife of John Henry Hopkins - The Story of Their Life and Work Together (SIGNED COPY)by: John Henry Hopkins

Life of Marie Moulton Graves Hopkins: Beloved Wife of John Henry Hopkins - The Story of Their Life and Work Together (SIGNED COPY)
by: John Henry Hopkins

Hardcover. Grans Isle VT, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 265 pages, 8 b&w plates. Signed by the author on half title page and with a letter by he author laid-in. Dust jacket is missing a few small chunks around the edges of the spine and light soil. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385782

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The Life of John Locke: Volume 2 by: H. R. Fox Bourne

The Life of John Locke: Volume 2
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, 574 pages. VOLUME 2 ONLY of a two volume set. Originally published in 1876. Clean copy.

Record # 386553

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Cyanide in My Shoe by: Josephine Butler

Cyanide in My Shoe
by: Josephine Butler

Hardcover. UK, This England Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 205 pages. The author - Josephine Butler - was recruited by Winston Churchill in 1942, and was the only woman member of his elite 'Secret Circle' - Churchill's closest ring of intelligence agents. Codenamed 'Jay Bee' she worked with the French Resistance in occupied France. Map. Clean coy.

Record # 386897

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Wilfred Grenfell; His Life and Workby: Kerr, J. Lennox

Wilfred Grenfell; His Life and Work
by: Kerr, J. Lennox

Hardcover. Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 272 pages. Map endpapers, frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Grenfell. Endpapers feature a map of Newfoundland and Labrador. The first full biography of the founder of the Grenfell Mission in Labrador and Newfoundland. Lacks dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 387367

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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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The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim: From Aviation and Rocketry to the Creation of an Art Dynasty by: Smillie, Dirk

The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim: From Aviation and Rocketry to the Creation of an Art Dynasty
by: Smillie, Dirk

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 338 pages, b&w illustrations. At the turn of the last century, the Guggenheim family ran the most powerful mining conglomerate on earth. Decades later came the Guggenheim museum, which became the hub of the world's most powerful art brand. In between, the Guggenheim name was uttered in every field from aviation to politics, from journalism to rocketry. But who was behind this epic sphere of influence? It took three generations of Guggenheims to build the wealth in its first era. Yet it was the singular force of Harry Guggenheim who would guide the family's next generation of businesses into modernity. Part angel investor, part entrepreneur, part technologist, Harry launched businesses whose impact on 20th century America went far beyond the Guggenheims' mines or museum. His visionary investments continue to profoundly influence our world and hold valuable business lessons for billionaire dynasty builders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. A flawed but brilliant man, Harry Guggenheim was the confidante to five American presidents and a key financial force behind commercial aviation and space exploration, two innovations that catapulted the nation into the future. Clean copy.

Record # 396319

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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by: Rembert, Winfred/Kelly, Erin I.

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by: Rembert, Winfred/Kelly, Erin I.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 284 pages, color illustrations. Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsys encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. Chasing Me to My Grave presents Remberts breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgias Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. Pulitzer Prize sticker on dj. Foreword by Bryan Stevenson. Clean copy.

Record # 396703

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Girl in the Belgian Resistance: A Wakeful Eye in the Underground (SIGNED COPY)by: Fernande K. Davis

Girl in the Belgian Resistance: A Wakeful Eye in the Underground (SIGNED COPY)
by: Fernande K. Davis

Hardcover. Beach Lloyd Publishers, 2nd Ed., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. pictorial boards, 142 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. I had all kinds of courage and guts; I don t know where that came from, says Fernande Keufgens Davis ( Freddie ) of the risks that she took as a teenager in the Belgian Resistance of World War II. After the shock of finding her formerly occupied village annexed as part of Germany, Davis was drafted to work in a German munitions factory. Determined not to aid the enemy, she jumped from the train and went underground. Clean copy.

Record # 397811

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 2:  Means Of Ascent by: Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 2: Means Of Ascent
by: Robert A. Caro

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 522 pages, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, In this second installment of Caro's epic biography we witness a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new. Following Johnson through his service in the Second World War, it describes the foundation and the myths of his long-concealed fortune. The explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the shocking true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, which Johnson won with the the 87 votes that changed history. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 398311

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I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spyby: Diana Mara Henry

I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy
by: Diana Mara Henry

Hardcover. Chiselbury, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 356 pages. An amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France. The life of 'André' Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any work of fiction. His true-life story of derring-do starts as a Jewish youth in Munich, whose family moves to France in 1933 to escape the Nazi tide. He joins the French army at the outbreak of WW2 and escapes from a prisoner-of war camp after the bitterly brief fight for France in the summer of 1940. André becomes a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French whilst working undercover as translator and liaison with the German high command at the Brittany headquarters of the French National Railroads. Summoned by the British, he clandestinely crosses the Channel for initiation and training as an MI6 agent in England. His network betrayed during his absence, he is arrested on his return to France. André then begins an even more perilous journey with interrogation in Gestapo prisons and the little-known Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace, before being transferred to Dachau and Allach, ahead of the advancing Allies. Illustrated with over 120 vintage and color photographs and letters. Clean copy.

Record # 399193

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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

Price: $40.00 
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Cinquant Anni a Londraby: Franzero, Carlo Maria

Cinquant Anni a Londra
by: Franzero, Carlo Maria

Softcover. Torino, Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1st Italian, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, illustrated wrappers. An Italian journalist's memoir of a half century living in London. With a SiGNED letter laid in to the previous owner Cecil Roberts from the author. ITALIAN TEXT.

Record # 405513

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Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Deathby: Davies, Peter J.

Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death
by: Davies, Peter J.

Hardcover. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1st, May 30, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, several b&w photographs and illustrations. Small stain on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454380

Price: $70.00 
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Naturalist and Other Beasts, A : Tales from a Life in the Fieldby: Schaller, George B.

Naturalist and Other Beasts, A : Tales from a Life in the Field
by: Schaller, George B.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460305

Price: $18.00 
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Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945by: Roberts, Andrew

Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945
by: Roberts, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470156

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Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlittby: MacLean, Catherine MacDonald

Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlitt
by: MacLean, Catherine MacDonald

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st US, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 631 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket slightly worn and soiled with small tears to upper edge of spine, in clear brodart cover.

Record # 606682

Price: $15.00 
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Jasper Douthit's Story - The Autobiography of a Pioneerby: Douthit's, Jasper

Jasper Douthit's Story - The Autobiography of a Pioneer
by: Douthit's, Jasper

Hardcover. Boston, American Unitarian Association, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover. No date of publication. Ex-library copy with bookplate on inside front cover and label at bottom of spine. Top edge gilt. Black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614003

Price: $40.00 
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