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Painter's Progress, A: A Portrait of Lucian Freudby: Dawson, David

Painter's Progress, A: A Portrait of Lucian Freud
by: Dawson, David

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 274 pages 210 illustrations in color. David Dawson"s photographs create an intimate portrait of the man. The final images are of the hanging of Preud"s work in his posthumous London exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Record # 352662

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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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This Is the Story by: David L. Cohn

This Is the Story
by: David L. Cohn

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Drawings by Saul Steinberg. Mississippi author, and war correspondent, who toured the World during WWII for the US Army Service Forces (Supply). Foreword says "This book is a personal record. It has to do with a journey that I made in 1944-45 to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Corsica, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, India, Burma, China."

Record # 381485

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Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (SIGNED COPY)by: Joanne Jacobson

Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (SIGNED COPY)
by: Joanne Jacobson

Softcover. Huron OH, Bottom Dog Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages. INSCRIBED BY JACOBSON on the title page. The author tells her story of growing up Jewish in Evanston, Illinois.

Record # 379553

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Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywoodby: Latham, Aaron

Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
by: Latham, Aaron

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper.

Record # 368278

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3:  Master of the Senate by: Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3: Master of the Senate
by: Robert A. Caro

Hardcover. NY, Vintage Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition.

Record # 378385

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In the Meridian of the Heart: Selected Letters of Rico Lebrunby: Lebrun, David (Editor)

In the Meridian of the Heart: Selected Letters of Rico Lebrun
by: Lebrun, David (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 99 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. These letters were written between 1950 and 1964 as Lebrun moved between the United States, Mexico and Italy and provide a glimpse into the artist's thoughts during that period.

Record # 353008

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Hot Pink: The Life and Fashions of Elsa Schiaparelliby: Rubin, Susan Goldman

Hot Pink: The Life and Fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli
by: Rubin, Susan Goldman

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Shocking pink--hot pink, as it is called today--was the signature color of Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) and perhaps her greatest contribution to the fashion world. Schiaparelli was one of the most innovative designers in the early 20th century. Many design elements that are taken for granted today she created and brought to the forefront of fashion. She is credited with many firsts: trompe l'oeil sweaters with collars and bows knitted in; wedge heels; shoulder bags; and even the concept of a runway show for presenting collections. Hot Pink explores Schiaparelli's childhood in Rome, her introduction to high fashion in Paris, and her swift rise to success collaborating with surrealist and cubist artists like Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. The book includes an author's note, a list of museums and websites where you can find Schiaparelli's fashions, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

Record # 352776

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Thomas Young Crowell 1836-1915: A Biographical Sketch by: N/A

Thomas Young Crowell 1836-1915: A Biographical Sketch
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Crowell, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 95 pages. B&w photo illustrations. A short biography of the book publisher. Clean copy.

Record # 387211

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Carolinian goes to war: the Civil War narrative of Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General, C.S.A, Aby: Manigault, Arthur Middleton

Carolinian goes to war: the Civil War narrative of Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General, C.S.A, A
by: Manigault, Arthur Middleton

Hardcover. Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, 344 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467670

Record # 467670

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So Far, So Good: A Memoir by: Burgess Meredith

So Far, So Good: A Memoir
by: Burgess Meredith

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The actor discusses his stage career in the 1920s, his film career, Hollywood parties, his blacklisting during the communist witch hunts of the 1950s, and anecdotes about Lauren Bacall, Jeff Bridges, Charlie Chaplin, Jimmy Stewart, and others. B&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 398708

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Edward Borein, Cowboy Artist:  The Life and Works of John Edward Borein, 1872-1945by: Davidson, Harold G.

Edward Borein, Cowboy Artist: The Life and Works of John Edward Borein, 1872-1945
by: Davidson, Harold G.

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1st edition after limited edition. Illustrated in color and b&w. Cloth covers with gilt lettering. In a bright, price-clipped dust jackey.

Record # 373437

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

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

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

Record # 853906

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Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographsby: Bill Cunningham

Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
by: Bill Cunningham

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 256 pages, b&w photos. For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. But his desires were a source of shame for his family, and after dropping out of Harvard, he had to fight them tooth-and-nail to pursue his love. When he arrived in New York, he reveled in people-watching. He spent his nights at opera openings and gate-crashing extravagant balls, where he would take note of the styles, new and old, watching how the gowns moved, how the jewels hung, how the hair laid on each head. This was his education, and the birth of the democratic and exuberant taste that he came to be famous for as a photographer for The New York Times. After two style mavens took Bill under their wing, his creativity thrived and he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.--because designing under his family's name would have been a disgrace to his parents--Bill became one of the era's most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Bill's mission was to bring happiness to the world by making women an inspiration to themselves and everyone who saw them. These were halcyon days when fashion was all he ate and drank. When he was broke and hungry he'd stroll past the store windows on Fifth Avenue and feed himself on beautiful things. Fashion Climbing is the story of a young man striving to be the person he was born to be: a true original. But although he was one of the city's most recognized and treasured figures, Bill was also one of its most guarded. Written with his infectious joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored away in his lifetime. He held off on sharing it--and himself--until his passing. Between these covers, is an education in style, an effervescent tale of a bohemian world as it once was, and a final gift to the readers of one of New York's great characters.

Record # 378510

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

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

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

Record # 354259

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Victoria's Heir: The Education of a Prince (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by: Dangerfield, George

Victoria's Heir: The Education of a Prince (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Dangerfield, George

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine, faded. Covers have some age wear. Age yellowing to edges and pages.

Record # 31012

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Down to the Seaby: Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Down to the Sea
by: Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 226 pages, 12 photographic plates. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 -1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. Frontis photo shows Grenfell and Perry (back from the N. Pole) on the deck of the 'Roosevelt'. This is a collection from six periodicals of 14 sketches by the 'Labrador Doctor.' He has fascinating stories to tell about the natives, the sailors, fishermen, the climate and his doctoring. Small tan stain affecting 10 pages, only in margin. Otherwise clean.

Record # 379971

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Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitressby: Taylor, Candacy A.

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
by: Taylor, Candacy A.

Softcover. New York, ILR Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Color pictures throughout. "Career waitresses do more than just serve food. They are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend, and they serve every walk of American life: from the retired and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and from the working class to the wealthy. The classic diner waitress is an icon of American culture.... This book takes a moment to honor and recognize waitresses' contribution to our communities. Doing this project has helped me to redefine my perspective on life, work, and happiness. It has made me reevaluate the myth of the American dream that says you need to have an 'important' job to be happy."

Record # 352877

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Blue Dogby: Rodrigue, George; Freundlich, Lawrence S

Blue Dog
by: Rodrigue, George; Freundlich, Lawrence S

Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket in a slipcase. Clean, tight copy with only light fading to slipcase. Paper on top of slip case is starting to become unglued. Bright colorful pictures throughout.

Record # 750333

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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographerby: Lubow, Arthur

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
by: Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 2016, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 734 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352416

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World of Robert Flaherty, Theby: Griffith, Richard

World of Robert Flaherty, The
by: Griffith, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacekt. black & white photos, 165 pgs. dust jacket chipped, worn.

Record # 107935

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Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew With an Introduction By Her Son John Drewby: Drew, John Mrs.; Douglas Taylor, Biographical Notes

Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew With an Introduction By Her Son John Drew
by: Drew, John Mrs.; Douglas Taylor, Biographical Notes

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 199 pages. Biographical notes by Douglas Taylor. the subject was an American actress, friend of Fanny Kemble, Edwin Booth, Edwin Forrest (all 3 pictured in the book) and many others. Illustrations, hardcover bound in coarse tan cloth with mounted leather spine label. Previous owner's bookplate, inscription on front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 380931

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Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1905-1941by: Dwight David Eisenhower, Daniel D. Holt, James W. Leyerzapf

Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1905-1941
by: Dwight David Eisenhower, Daniel D. Holt, James W. Leyerzapf

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 576 pages. Dwight D. Eisenhower's meteoric rise to prominence during World War II was not -- as popular myth would have us believe -- accidental, but the logical outcome of years of preparation. Eisenhower had enormous talents, opportunities to develop them, and an attentive corps of senior officers who watched and encouraged his ascent to high command. The diaries, letters, and documents assembled in this volume for the first time present a fresh, detailed examination of Dwight D. Eisenhower's formative years and the evolution of his genius for organization, logistics, and strategy.

Record # 378789

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Tony Curtis: The Autobiographyby: Tony Curtis; Barry Paris

Tony Curtis: The Autobiography
by: Tony Curtis; Barry Paris

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 3rd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, b&w photos. The Autobiography pulls no punches: Curtis debunks myths of stardom and glamour with a raw, uncensored, street-honed New York bite. The scope of his memoirs includes: rooming with Marlon Brando in Hollywood in the late forties; a glamorous marraige to Janet Leigh in 1951, and the extraordianry days during his first flush of success.a fully detailed description of his descent into alcohol and cocaine addiction in the 1970s and 1980s; and his therapeutic, ongoing work as a visual artist. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 359465

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Walker Evansby: Mellow, James R.

Walker Evans
by: Mellow, James R.

Hardcover. New York , Basic Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 651 pages, landmark biography of photographer Walker Evans, once labeled a propagandist, but in reality, was an observer of the true nature of things. Based on unrestricted access to all of Evan's diaries, letters, work logs and contact sheets as well as the diaries of Lincoln Kirstein. Clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 352488

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Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times 1613-1662by: Adamson, J. H. & H. F. Folland

Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times 1613-1662
by: Adamson, J. H. & H. F. Folland

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Emissar of Charles the First, second governor of Massachusetts, pillar of the Protectorate, and victim of Charles the Second, atypical Puritan and passionate lover, Sir Harry Vane was a man of peace who initiated genocide in the New World and found martyrdom in the Old. His experience reaches from Indian wigwam to royal palace. This is an unparalleled picture of a formative age which is with us yet. Clean copy.

Record # 381896

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Looking For the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcottby: Hendrickson, Paul

Looking For the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott
by: Hendrickson, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. b&w photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 404441

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Edie: Girl on Fireby: Painter, Melissa and David Weisman

Edie: Girl on Fire
by: Painter, Melissa and David Weisman

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated with color, b&w photos throughout. A visual biography of Edie Sedgwick, 60's fashion and film icon. Like new in an acetate dust jacket.Model, film star, socialite, friend, lover, addict, Edie Sedgwick was the first "it" girl of the Andy Warhol Factory scene and later muse to Bob Dylan. The arc of Edie's life traced the rise and fall of the 1960s from idyllic experimentation to dissolute recklessness. After being toasted by the whole of New York City, Edie died alone of a drug overdose in California at the age of 28. David Weisman (with John Palmer) filmed Edie for the last five years of her life in his cult film Ciao! Manhattan. When he recently uncovered lost footage of Edie, David was inspired to create Edie: Girl on Fire, a book and a documentary film that explores Edie's true story. He and coauthor Melissa Painter have tracked down and interviewed many of Edie Sedgwick's surviving intimates, including Danny Fields, Baby Jane Holzer, and Ultra Violet. They also unearthed hundreds of never-before-published photos portraits, professional ad shoots, and heartbreaking snapshots of the girl who won New York's heart and nearly burned down the Chelsea hotel. The book also features a CD with Edie's last interview ever, a riveting account of a rollercoaster life.

Record # 850631

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Day at the Beach, A - Recollectionsby: Wolff, Geoffrey

Day at the Beach, A - Recollections
by: Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a victory over the chaos of drink to a life-affirming surrender to the majesty of the Matterhorn; and from a foundering friendship to the transcending love of family.

Record # 53274

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Allegany To Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteersby: Dunham, Valgene

Allegany To Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers
by: Dunham, Valgene

Hardcover. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A few black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470410

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Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist: A Graphic Memoirby: Griffith, Bill

Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist: A Graphic Memoir
by: Griffith, Bill

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Invisible Ink unfolds like a detective story, alternating between past and present, as Griffith recreates the quotidian habits of suburban Levittown and the professional and cultural life of mid-century Manhattan in the 1950s and '60s as seen through his mother's and his own then-teenage eyes.

Record # 352226

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The Story of a Grateful Citizen: An Autobiography [Two Volume Set] by: Williams, Clark

The Story of a Grateful Citizen: An Autobiography [Two Volume Set]
by: Williams, Clark

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, original two-tone cloth (dark green spines and light green sides). Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Memoir of a successful banker and financial businessman. Notable for his his World War 1 recollections and numerous accounts of sporting trips: trolling for lake trout and moose hunting in Quebec, dove shoots in Georgia, trout fishing and elk hunting in Yellowstone, duck shooting in Minnesota, salmon fishing in Newfoundland, grayling fishing in Yukon, black bass fishing in Canada, fishing for sailfish and dolphin off Florida. Clean bright set.

Record # 383038

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The Tall Voyagers: The Story of Barney Burnett by: Rankin Claire

The Tall Voyagers: The Story of Barney Burnett
by: Rankin Claire

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Story of a real sailor, Capt. Barney Burnett, aboard the four-masted bark Astral. The ship is smashed and dismasted. at Cape Horn. The crew laboriously clear away the wreckage, rerig the shattered masts, and sail on to San Francisco through the teeth of the gale. Much related ephemeral material laid-in, including correspondence by Burnett.

Record # 362793

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Paperboy - Confessions of a Future Engineerby: Henry Petroski

Paperboy - Confessions of a Future Engineer
by: Henry Petroski

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Henry Petroski has been called 'the poet laureate of technology.' He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past. Petroski grew up in the Cambria Heights section of New York City's borough of Queens during the 1950s, in the midst of a close and loving family. Educated at local Catholic schools, he worked as a delivery boy for the Long Island Press. The job taught him lessons about diligence, labor, commitment, and community-mindedness, lessons that this successful student could not learn at school. From his vantage point as a professor, engineer, and writer, Petroski reflects fondly on these lessons, and on his near-idyllic boyhood.

Record # 383936

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Famous Women (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)by: Giovanni Boccaccio /Virginia Brown [Translator]

Famous Women (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)
by: Giovanni Boccaccio /Virginia Brown [Translator]

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spin, 530 pages. After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Famous Women, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Castiglione's Courtier. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin. Clean copy.

Record # 386680

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Francis of Assisiby: Fortini, Arnaldo

Francis of Assisi
by: Fortini, Arnaldo

Softcover. Crossroad Pub Co, reprint, January 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 720 pages. Light wear, creasing, rubbing to wrappers, faint soil to edges, small dent to spine. Previous owner's notation in ink on contents-page.

Record # 457242

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As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy by: Wohl, Alice Sedgwick

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy
by: Wohl, Alice Sedgwick

Softcover. NY, Picador, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 259 pages. The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life.

Record # 386043

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Bill Sewall's Story of T.R. by: Sewall, William Wingate, and Hagedorn, Hermann (Introduction by)

Bill Sewall's Story of T.R.
by: Sewall, William Wingate, and Hagedorn, Hermann (Introduction by)

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt lettering, oval image of Roosevelt on front cover, 116 pages, Bill Sewall was a frontier guide and friend of Roosevelt. Much on ranching, exploration and hunting. "M-T"..." published September, 1919". Cover label with small white chip to T.R.'s face. Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 386579

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All in the Familyby: Roosevelt, Theodore

All in the Family
by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue pebbled cloth, 189 pages, b&w illustrations. "Here is the delightful, informal story of a famous American family at home--the Roosevelts." Name on front fly leaf. otherwise clean.

Record # 386805

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Citizen Coors: An American Dynastyby: Dan Baum

Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty
by: Dan Baum

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, pages. Citizen Coors is the riveting saga of an American dynasty. From the moment the destitute Prussian Adolph Coors stows away on a Baltimore-bound ship in 1868 to the worldwide expansion of the billion-dollar Coors Brewing Company, Citizen Coors is a headlong American tale of triumph over bare-knuckle competition. The Coors family does it the old-fashioned way, through fearsome devotion to product, rejection of modern marketing, and refusing to borrow so much as a nickel. But the family almost rides its principles into the ground. "Nobody will ever choose a beer on the basis of a thirty-second ad," Bill Coors is fond of saying at a time when his two main competitors, Anheuser-Busch and Miller, are spending upward of a billion dollars a year on ads. He won't even allow a ring-pull can. The brewery's decline and recovery are dizzying. But Citizen Coors is more than a business story. Here is Adolph, the founder,in 1929, distraught over Prohibition, hurling himself to his death from a hotel balcony. Here is Bill,ten years later, yearning for the wider world but forced back to the brewery by a single glance from his father. Here is Joe, Jr., raised to rule yet suddenly banished for marrying without permission. Here is Peter, prevented from rescuing the company precisely because he has been trained to do so. Here is kidnapping and murder. Here are generations of Coors men broken against the iron will of their fathers. Here is a second suicide, eerily similar to the first.

Record # 374767

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Boris Godunov: The Tragic Tsarby: Ian Grey

Boris Godunov: The Tragic Tsar
by: Ian Grey

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages, b&w illustrations, endpapers map. Rear of dj with 2"X1" piece missing from bottom edge. Otherwise very good.

Record # 387616

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Stephen A. Douglas by: Johannsen, Robert W.

Stephen A. Douglas
by: Johannsen, Robert W.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 993 pages. A biography of the "Little Giant from Illinois", Lincoln's highly influential opponent for the Presidency in 1860. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396384

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William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer by: William Edward Farrison

William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer
by: William Edward Farrison

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 482 pages. William Wells Brown was a Black author and reformer of the nineteenth century, a Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace. The author argues for Brown's place alongside that of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Wendell Phillips. There's an extensive bibliography and an index. Name on front fly leaf, dj spine faded.

Record # 397199

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I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love Death and the Radio (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Feraca, Jean

I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love Death and the Radio (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Feraca, Jean

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Jean Feraca's road to self-fulfillment has been as quirky and demanding as the characters in her memoir. A twenty-five-year veteran of public radio broadcasting, Feraca is also a writer and a poet. She is a talk show host beloved for her unique mixture of the humanities, poetry, and journalism, and is the creator of the pioneering international cultural affairs radio program Here on Earth: Radio without Borders. In this searing memoir, Feraca traces her own emergence. She pulls back the curtain on her private life, revealing unforgettable portraits of the characters in her brawling Italian American family: Jenny, the grandmother, the devil woman who threw Casey Stengel down an excavation pit; Dolly, the mother, a cross between Long John Silver and the Wife of Bath who in battling mental illness becomes the scourge of a Lutheran nursing home; and Stephen, the brilliant but troubled older brother, an anthropologist who was adopted into a Sioux tribe. Unique, eccentric, and distinctive, I Hear Voices is a memoir that tells a universal story of a woman evolving to fully embrace her life and the world. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Handwritten letter also laid in.

Record # 398099

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Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968 by: Luisa Passerini

Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968
by: Luisa Passerini

Softcover. Wesleyan University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. This book, first published in Italy in 1988 as Autoritratto di gruppo, documents the intricate web of individual and communal experiences in the political movements of the '60s. Luisa Passerini, internationally known for her work in memory, oral history, and their intersections with social movements, sets out to rescue the "forgotten memory" of her generation and to give it literary status. The year 1968 is symbolic in Italy of a whole decade of struggles by students, women, workers, intellectuals, and technicians. Framed and illuminated by sessions of psychoanalysis, this absorbing narrative weaves episodes of Passerini's autobiography - including her involvement in the 1968 uprisings - oral histories of other participants, and Passerini's sociological observations. It raises critical questions about how we reconstruct the past and vividly illustrates the forces that shaped a generation. Clean copy.

Record # 398796

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Black Iceby: Cary, Lorene

Black Ice
by: Cary, Lorene

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Memoir of an African-American woman when she was a student at a formerly all white male private prep school.

Record # 359138

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WILL EISNER : A DREAMER'S LIFE IN COMICSby: Schumacher, Michael

WILL EISNER : A DREAMER'S LIFE IN COMICS
by: Schumacher, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st US , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, hardcover. 16 pages of color illustrations. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 351040

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Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir 1930 -1951by: Che, Sunny

Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir 1930 -1951
by: Che, Sunny

Hardcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland & Co., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Part 1: A Korean Childhood in Japan, 1930-1944; Part 2: Growing Up in Korea, 1944- 1951. No Dust jacket issued.

Record # 362075

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Alaska Days With John Muirby: Young, S. Hall

Alaska Days With John Muir
by: Young, S. Hall

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Fleming H. Revell, 10th pr., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Black & white frontis photograph of Muir (repeated on dust jacket). 11 other plates plus map. Dust jacket worn, chipped (about half of spine missing).

Record # 68371

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Desde el mirador de Prospero: La Vida de Luis A. Ferre: Vol. 1 1904-1968by: Baralt, Guillermo A

Desde el mirador de Prospero: La Vida de Luis A. Ferre: Vol. 1 1904-1968
by: Baralt, Guillermo A

Hardcover. San Juan, P.R., Fundacion El Nuevo Dia, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 375 pages, Spanish text with copious photographs throughout. Volume 1 only. Light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456616

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