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Red-Color News Soldierby: Zhensheng, Li

Red-Color News Soldier
by: Zhensheng, Li

Softcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Softcvoer with vinyl wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. This is the first visual history of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and includes the only complete set of surviving photographs to document the entire period. It is drawn from thousands of original negatives that were hidden for nearly 40 years by photographer Li Zhensheng, at great personal risk, and accompanied by his own personal story. Zhensheng brings to light in this historical record one of the most turbulent, controversial, and under-documented periods in modern history.

Record # 352797

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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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Altmanby: Altman, Kathryn Reed/ Vallan, Giulia D'Agnolo/ Scorsese, Martin (Introduction by)

Altman
by: Altman, Kathryn Reed/ Vallan, Giulia D'Agnolo/ Scorsese, Martin (Introduction by)

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Color pictures throughout. Photographs and ephemera, many from private family albums, and personal recollections of the director. Complete visual, historical, and critical narrative of Altman?s films and his process. Introduction by Martin Scorsese.

Record # 352634

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Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hatby: McPherson, Edward

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat
by: McPherson, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Newmarket Press, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An tour of Buster Keaton's life and art. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Creasing to dust jacket front flap. Includes 40 black-and-white photographs. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951703

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Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomasby: Bobrick, Benson

Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas
by: Bobrick, Benson

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Binding tight, in excellent shape. Clean inside and out.

Record # 31136

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Memoirs of a Russian Lady: Drawings and Tales of Life Before the Revolution by: Marianna Davydoff

Memoirs of a Russian Lady: Drawings and Tales of Life Before the Revolution
by: Marianna Davydoff

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. Selected and translated by Olga Davydoff Dax. Color illustrations by the author throughout. Mariamna Davydoff, the Russian lady who wrote and illustrated this memoir of her life before the Revolution, was born in 1871 into a large, aristocratic family whose ancestors can he traced back to the eleventh century. After fleeing Russia in 1919, she eventually settled in Brittany with a sister and there reproduced, from memory, albums of detailed text and watcrcolors that had been abandoned in Russia and were later destroyed by the Bolsheviks. The result is a unique, first-hand account of a way of life that we have previously known almost exclusively through the works of Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, and a few other writers of the late nineteenth century.

Record # 380159

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Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman: The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girlby: Lamson, Mary Swift

Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman: The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl
by: Lamson, Mary Swift

Hardcover. Boston, MA, New England Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages. Hardcover. Front hinge cracked. Frontispiece (b/w) is disconnected from binding and laid in. Ex library book with expected markings, labels, etc. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover boards with black decoration. Fold out copy of original poem written by hand by author. Account of the life and education of Laura Bridgman (1829-1889), who was the first blind-deaf person to receive a formal education and whose longtime residence at the Perkins Institution for the Blind influenced a generation of students, including Anne Sullivan (who went on to fame as Helen Keller's teacher).

Record # 99186

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Jenny Lind in America (Jenny Lind's Tour Through America and Cuba)by: Rosenberg, C.G.

Jenny Lind in America (Jenny Lind's Tour Through America and Cuba)
by: Rosenberg, C.G.

Hardcover. New York, Stringer & Townsend, 1st, 1851, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 226 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Some pages show minor foxing. Light rubbing to corners and at top and base of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608323

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To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converseby: Fishman, Howard

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse
by: Fishman, Howard

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The mysterious true story of Connie Converse--a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition--and one writer's quest to understand her life This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse's voice on a recording, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense--a singer who seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana (country, blues, folk, jazz, and gospel), the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. And then there was the bizarre legend about Connie Converse that had become the prevailing narrative of her life: that in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from again. Could this have been true? Who was Connie Converse, really?

Record # 381666

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Mel Ott: THe Gentle Giant : American Sports History, No. 24by: Martin, Alfred M.

Mel Ott: THe Gentle Giant : American Sports History, No. 24
by: Martin, Alfred M.

Hardcover. Maryland, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Hardcover with laminate covers. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 368808

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Miracle in the Hills: The Lively Personal Story of a Woman Doctor's Forty Year Crusade in the Mountains of North Carolinaby: Mary T. Sloop; Legette Blythe

Miracle in the Hills: The Lively Personal Story of a Woman Doctor's Forty Year Crusade in the Mountains of North Carolina
by: Mary T. Sloop; Legette Blythe

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 381624

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Ernest Hemingway's Apprenticeship: Oak Park, 1916-1917 (SIGNED COPY)by: Bruccoli (editor), Matthew J.

Ernest Hemingway's Apprenticeship: Oak Park, 1916-1917 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Bruccoli (editor), Matthew J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Microcard Editions, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light edgewear to cover boards, light soil to top page block. SIGNED BY BRUCCOLI on title page.

Record # 353987

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Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skinby: Wilson, Andrew

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

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352444

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Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel "Conqueror"by: Brown, Norman D.

Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel "Conqueror"
by: Brown, Norman D.

Hardcover. Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover. Southern Historical Publications No.18. Dust cover front flap price clipped. Just a bit of age wear to dust cover, but completely whole, no rips or tears (covered in plastic). Vary clean inside. "Edward Stanley was light of frame but fearless, and his aggressive electioneering and, in Congress, his temper and sarcasm brought him more than once to the verge of duels, won him the nickname "Little Conqueror," and led John Quincy Adams to call him "the terror of the Lucifer party"."

Record # 30393

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Joe Simon: My Life in Comicsby: Simon, Joe

Joe Simon: My Life in Comics
by: Simon, Joe

Hardcover. London, Titan Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures in center, black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352703

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One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowlandby: Gayle B. Montgomery , James W. Johnson, et al.

One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland
by: Gayle B. Montgomery , James W. Johnson, et al.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 361 pages. During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl Warren's appointment as chief justice, and Knowland set in motion a U.S.-China policy that remains part of our international direction today. Yet he committed suicide in 1974, following a personal decline that included political humiliation, a ruined marriage, and the loss of his family fortune. This is the first full-scale biography of Bill Knowland, written by two journalists who came to know him after he left Washington in 1958. Gayle B. Montgomery was a political editor at the Oakland Tribune, the newspaper owned by Knowland's father, the power-wielding Joseph R. Knowland. James W. Johnson was a Tribune editorial writer. Both men worked with Knowland when he returned to the newspaper after giving up his Senate seat in a failed bid to become governor of California. Knowland lost the governorship race to Edmund G. (Pat) Brown; had he won, many observers felt Knowland would have had a clear shot at the White House. This is a book not only about Mr. Republican, but also one that illuminates the strengths and deficiencies of Republican party politics during the years when the party was at its zenith. In portraying the life of Bill Knowland, the authors cast a glaring light both on the machinations of political power and on the Republican establishment's aspirations in the Warren-Eisenhower era. Clean copy.

Record # 378792

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Hollywood Doesn't Live Here Anymore by: Parrish, Robert

Hollywood Doesn't Live Here Anymore
by: Parrish, Robert

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, b&w photos. The author was an actor, film editor, and director and this book is the sequel to his first book of memoirs, Growing Up in Hollywood.

Record # 359464

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Entirely up to you, Darling (SIGNED COPY)by: Attenborough, Richard; Hawkins, Diana

Entirely up to you, Darling (SIGNED COPY)
by: Attenborough, Richard; Hawkins, Diana

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ATTENBOROUGH on title page, otherwise clean and tight copy. Pictures throughout. The long awaited autobiography by one of the world's best-loved actors and directors. The story begins in 1983 with a famously weeping Attenborough accepting two Oscars when his film Gandhi broke all previous records to win a total of eight Academy awards. Hawkins, 67, is Attenborough's publicist, confidante, co-producer and long-term business partner. Attenborough reflects on the highs and lows of a long life both in and out of the public gaze. Few know, for instance, that he once risked prison on a matter of conscience or that, as an air-gunner cameraman, he took part in bombing raids over Germany during the war. More poignantly, Attenborough will finally break his silence about his long-running friendship with Princess Diana, and the tsunami tragedy that robbed him of his eldest daughter and granddaughter in December 2004.

Record # 750312

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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 # 381922

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Samuel F.B. Morse - A Dramatic Outline of the Life of the Father of Telegraphy & the Founder of The National Academy of Design (SIGNED COPY)by: Oakley, Violet

Samuel F.B. Morse - A Dramatic Outline of the Life of the Father of Telegraphy & the Founder of The National Academy of Design (SIGNED COPY)
by: Oakley, Violet

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Cogslea Studio Publications, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 98 pages. Illustrated with 9 drawings. Limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is: # 462. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606737

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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Yearsby: Capper, Charles

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years
by: Capper, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 423 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456608

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The Other Side of the Falklands: The Lion and the Lamb by: Edwards, Roger M.

The Other Side of the Falklands: The Lion and the Lamb
by: Edwards, Roger M.

Hampshire UK, Drift Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green wrappers, 170 pages, b&w illustrations, map. The author went to the Falklands as a young man to work on a sheep farm. His memoir offers a personal glimpse of the harsh but rewarding life of the Islands in the 1950s. Previous owner's inscription on inside cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 371061

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The Fire of Life: A Book of Memories by: Harold Spender

The Fire of Life: A Book of Memories
by: Harold Spender

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine, 328 pages, index. Spender (1864-1926) was a leading journalist in England and later ran for office (and lost) as a Liberal candidate in 1922. He covered major events in British history for major newspapers like the Manchester Guardian and Daily News from 1899 until 1914. He was the father of poet Stephen Spender. A clean copy with minor shelf wear.

Record # 371311

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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 # 352258

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The Bernie Cornfeld Storyby: Bert Cantor

The Bernie Cornfeld Story
by: Bert Cantor

Hardcover. NY, Lyle Stuart, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in dust jacket with a faded spine, 320 pages. b&w illustrations. Biography of the famous white-collar criminal who became a multi-millionaire by manipulating financial markets. Clean copy.

Record # 383174

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The Good Listener: Helen Bamber A Life Against Cruelty by: Neil Belton

The Good Listener: Helen Bamber A Life Against Cruelty
by: Neil Belton

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A magisterial achievement: part biography, part history, part moral meditation on the resurrection of torture as an instrument of political power in the twentieth century, The Good Listener tells the story of Helen Bamber, a good but complex woman now in her seventies, who has spent her life battling to bring the dark side of history into the light. In almost every situation in our century where mankind has demonstrated its capacity to intensify evil--during the Nazi Holocaust, in Algeria, Chile, Africa, the USSR, and Israel, as well as in postwar Britain and Germany--Bamber has served as a witness, an expert, or a reproach, as well as a repository of our collective memory of debasement. Her father, a Polish Jew, had been so obsessed by the Fascist threat that he would read to Helen from Goebbels' speeches, teaching her how corrupting and manipulative language can be. She went to Bergen-Belsen after World War II had ended, and upon her return to London she dedicated herself to caring for the young survivors of the camp. So began Bamber's brave devotion to the grim and dangerous task of undoing the work of the torturer--culminating, after her participation as a central force in Amnesty International, in her establishment in England of the Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Because Bamber's uncanny openness to others has been one of her great skills, Clean copy.

Record # 383495

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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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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Leeby: Riesman, Abraham

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
by: Riesman, Abraham

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. 394 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy. But what if Stan Lee wasn't who he said he was? To craft the definitive biography of Lee, Abraham Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee's life and work. True Believer tackles tough questions: Did Lee actually create the characters he gained fame for creating? Was he complicit in millions of dollars' worth of fraud in his post-Marvel life? Which members of the cavalcade of grifters who surrounded him were most responsible for the misery of his final days?

Record # 385391

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Willard Memoir; or, Life and Times of Major Simon Willard: with Notices of Three Generations of His Descendants, and Two Collateral Branches in the United States; also, Some Account of the Name and Family in Europe, from an Early Day

Willard Memoir; or, Life and Times of Major Simon Willard: with Notices of Three Generations of His Descendants, and Two Collateral Branches in the United States; also, Some Account of the Name and Family in Europe, from an Early Day

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 470 pages with index, b&w frontis of an English church. A detailed history of the Willard family first published 1n 1848. Clean copy.

Record # 385787

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Jipping Street - Childhood in a London Slumby: Woodward/Leon Underwood, Kathleen

Jipping Street - Childhood in a London Slum
by: Woodward/Leon Underwood, Kathleen

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped in frontis by Leon Underwood. Light edgewear, rubbing to cover label, spine label mostly gone, stamp on front fly leaf. 150 pages. At the age of 12, Woodward (1896-1961) had begun working in a London factory, and just one year later she had left home to take up another factory job making collars for men's shirts. Later she took positions as a receptionist and a freelance journalist, and allied herself with various socialist, suffrage, and free-thought groups. Jipping Street is "a graphic and absorbing account of growing-up in a London slum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... [it is] a psychic reconstruction of childhood rather than a chronological narrative".

Record # 200307

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

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

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

Record # 362086

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

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

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

Record # 387273

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

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

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

Record # 387578

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A Son of the Middle Border by: Garland, Hamlin

A Son of the Middle Border
by: Garland, Hamlin

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth boards with red lettering and gilt decoration; b&w plates, frontis. by Alice Barber Stephens. Small bookplate on inside front cover. A memoir of growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, Garland recalls individuals, their relationships, and the colorful drama that made up their daily lives offers a glimpse into pioneer life in 19th-century mid-America. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396399

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Country Schoolma'amby: Della T. Lutes

Country Schoolma'am
by: Della T. Lutes

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 328 pages. The uncommon autobiography by the author of "The Country Kitchen". An account of her life in the 1880s when she became a country school teacher. Clean copy.

Record # 397430

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Garibaldi by: Ridley, Jasper

Garibaldi
by: Ridley, Jasper

Softcover. London, Phoenix Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 718 pages. One of history's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won his first battle against Aegean Pirates, his last battle against German Dragoons. He went to jail in Russia and led Brazilian rebels in the field. He was twice an admiral and seven times a general, a high government official in at least five countries, became Commander in Chief of the Uruguayan Army, Dictator of Sicily and Freeman of the City of London.

Record # 398106

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Father, The: A Life Of Henry James Sr by: Habegger, Alfred

Father, The: A Life Of Henry James Sr
by: Habegger, Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 578 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Of all the biographies of Henry James, Sr., the father of William, James, Jr. and Alice, this is the first one that attempts to capture the bewildering complexities of the James father's public and private history -- his early engagement with a radically deviant Calvinism, his stunning embrace of both authoritarian and democratic systems of ruling, his rich humanity and comic gifts, and his dealing with the most interesting people of his time.

Record # 359146

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Mint, The: A day-book of the RAF Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/C Rossby: Lawrence, T.E.

Mint, The: A day-book of the RAF Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/C Ross
by: Lawrence, T.E.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 205 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Darkening around edges of dust jacket, light wear on cloth cover boards, light soil on dust jacket, now protected in plastic. Previous owner's signature on end paper. Tight copy.

Record # 353989

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Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgeman - The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girlby: Lamson, Mary Swift

Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgeman - The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl
by: Lamson, Mary Swift

Hardcover. Boston, New England Publishing Company, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 373 pages. Illustrated with 2 black & white plates. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607368

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A Critical Introduction to Khomeiniby: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

A Critical Introduction to Khomeini
by: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 318 pages. As the architect of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini remains one of the most inspirational and enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. The revolution placed Iran at the forefront of Middle East politics and of the Islamic revival. Twenty years after his death, Khomeini is revered as a spiritual and political figurehead in Iran and in large swathes of the Islamic world, while in the West he is remembered by many as a dictator and as the instigator of Islamist confrontation. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam brings together both distinguished and emerging scholars in this comprehensive volume, which covers all aspects of Khomeini's life and critically examines Khomeini the politician, the philosopher, and the spiritual leader. The book details Khomeini's early years in exile from Iran, the revolution itself, and events that took place thereafter including the hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Lastly, the book considers his legacy in Iran - where Khomeini's image has been used by both reformist and conservative politicians to develop their own agendas - and further afield in other parts of the Islamic world and in the West. Written by scholars from varying disciplinary backgrounds, the book will prove invaluable to students and general readers interested in the life and times of Khomeini and the politics of Islam that he inspired.

Record # 378320

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Coppermine: The Far North of George M. Douglasby: Mallory, Enid

Coppermine: The Far North of George M. Douglas
by: Mallory, Enid

Hardcover. Canada, Broadview Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust cover slightly yellowed, but clean inside. In good shape. From the dust cover front flap: " This book presents a compelling view of one of the great travelers of this century and of the last days of "the Old North."

Record # 30381

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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventureby: Cooper, Artemis

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
by: Cooper, Artemis

Hardcover. New York, New York Review Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white photos in center. Two pages wrinkled and stuck together in the middle of picture pages. Otherwise tight.

Record # 369012

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True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Breytenbach, Breyten

True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Breytenbach, Breyten

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers and dust jacket.

Record # 368820

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Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People by: Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson

Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People
by: Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages, b&w illustrations. The personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary interracial New York City night clubs Cafe Society Downtown and Cafe Society Uptown and their successor, The Cookery. Famously known as 'the wrong place for the Right people', Cafe Society featured the cream of jazz and blues performers--among whom were Billie Holiday, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Big Sid Catlett, and Mary Lou Williams--as well as comedy stars Imogene Coca, Zero Mostel, and Jack Gilford, the boogie-woogie pianists, and legendary gospel and folk artists. Spanning half a century from the 1930s to the 1980s, Josephson's narrative depicts both the business and the artistic sides of Cafe Society while exposing the tensions between the club's own progressive interracial openness and the more restrictive social and political climate in which it evolved. Publisher's stamp on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Record # 381504

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Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine : A Biographical Appreciation of the Inventor on His Centennialby: Basil Charles Kahan and Basil Bahan

Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine : A Biographical Appreciation of the Inventor on His Centennial
by: Basil Charles Kahan and Basil Bahan

Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Ottmar Mergenthaler is considered one of America's greatest inventors. The German immigrant revolutionized the printing and publishing industry with the invention of an automatic typesetting machine which became known as the Linotype. This remarkable machine made it possible to eliminate the laborious hand setting of lead type by allowing one Linotype operator to do the work of a half-dozen typographers.This compelling work chronicles Mergenthaler's struggles to get his invention accepted, and his battles with the typographical unions and with his financiers.

Record # 361642

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

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

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

Record # 611868

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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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Henry Patrick Raleigh: The Confident Illustratorby: Raleigh, Christopher (Introduction)

Henry Patrick Raleigh: The Confident Illustrator
by: Raleigh, Christopher (Introduction)

Hardcover. US, Auad Publishing, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944) was an American illustrator whose drawings of society life defined the Gatsby era. He rose from school dropout at age 12 to esteemed Saturday Evening Post illustrator within the span of two decades. During his nearly forty-year career, Raleigh served as one of the highest paid newspaper and magazine artists in the United States, the lithographer behind many of the United States' government's iconic World War I propaganda posters, and arguably the most prominent story illustrator of the Jazz Age.

Record # 352766

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Lion in the Morningby: Seaton, Henry

Lion in the Morning
by: Seaton, Henry

London, John Murray, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 229 pages illustrated in b&w by Victor Ambrus. The early (1914-34) and very readable Kenya memoirs of an administration official. Seaton presents his own particular vision of East Africa as it was from 1913 to 1926, the unsophisticated Africa with its peoples and wild life, before the golden age came to an end. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 380851

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