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Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans by: Hearn, Chester G.

Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans
by: Hearn, Chester G.

Hardcover. Camden NJ, International Marine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 278 pages, b&w illustrations. Navigation at sea was a matter of guesswork until well into the 19th century. Changing that became the obsession of Matthew Fontaine Maury. While others built railroads, Maury mapped highways of wind and current over the seas. Hearn uses Maury's career as a window on America's maritime development in the 19th century, including the clipper-ship era of the 1850s, the rise of steam and steel, and the Civil War. Clean copy.

Record # 382170

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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (SIGNED COPY)by: Clarke, Gerald

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (SIGNED COPY)
by: Clarke, Gerald

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 510 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY CLARKE and dated on the front fly leaf. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 358564

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Life of Oliver Hazard Perry with an Appendix, Comprising a Biographical Memoir of the Late Captain James Lawrence with Brief Sketches of the Most Prominent Events etc...by:

Life of Oliver Hazard Perry with an Appendix, Comprising a Biographical Memoir of the Late Captain James Lawrence with Brief Sketches of the Most Prominent Events etc...
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Hardcover. Hartford CT, Oliver D. Cooke, 2nd Ed., 1821, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages, frontispiece and other portrait plates, fold-out engraving "Battle of Erie" with tipped-in key to the plate. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Moderate foxing, mostly to endpapers and pages next to plates. Bound in polished brown calf with light wear to edges, gilt design and lettering to spine.

Record # 403666

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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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Bryce Harlow: Mr. Integrity (SIGNED COPY)by: Ralph G. Thompson/ Bob Burke

Bryce Harlow: Mr. Integrity (SIGNED COPY)
by: Ralph G. Thompson/ Bob Burke

Hardcover. Oklahoma Heritage Assn., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 324 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR THOMPSON on the title page.Bryce Harlow was one of the most extraordinary political figures in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. He served four presidents with great honor and distinction. His word was his bond. With his gentle manner and Oklahoma drawl, Harlow advised Presidents on more public issues than perhaps anyone in American history. Dr. Henry Kissinger says Harlow spent his entire adult life studying the ways of Washington, D.C., alternating between participant and observer. Harlow had a deep sense for the Presidency, its power, its majesty, and the awful responsibility it imposes. Clean, unread copy.

Record # 378772

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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Heroby: Peter S. Canellos

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
by: Peter S. Canellos

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 609 pages, b&w illustrations. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, John Marshall Harlan's words helped end segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom. But his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John's father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a political leader. With Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the Supreme Court. At first, John is awed by his fellow justices, but the country is changing. Northern whites are prepared to take away black rights to appease the South. Giant trusts are monopolizing entire industries. Against this onslaught, the Supreme Court seemed all too willing to strip away civil rights and invalidate labor protections. So as case after case comes before the court, challenging his core values, John makes a fateful decision: He breaks with his colleagues in fundamental ways, becoming the nation's prime defender of the rights of Black people, immigrant laborers, and people in distant lands occupied by the US. Harlan's dissents, particularly in Plessy v. Ferguson, were widely read and a source of hope for decades. Thurgood Marshall called Harlan's Plessy dissent his "Bible"--and his legal roadmap to overturning segregation. In the end, Harlan's words built the foundations for the legal revolutions of the New Deal and Civil Rights eras.

Record # 381228

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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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Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch by: Macy, John

Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch
by: Macy, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, slate gray boards. Paper label on spine, 64 pages with b&w plates. Walter James Dodd (1869 -1916) was a physician and one of the first radiologists in the United States. He was an early innovator in the use of X-rays in medicine, and suffered the consequences. He underwent over 50 surgical procedures to treat X-ray damage to his skin and had several appendages amputated. He ultimately died from X-ray induced cancer. Related clippings laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 387671

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Shepherd's Sight: A Farming Lifeby: Barbara McLean

Shepherd's Sight: A Farming Life
by: Barbara McLean

Softcover. Ontario CA, ECW Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover/Advanced Reading Copy, 228 pages. A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd. For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction. Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant prose. As she moves through the calendar year, she also reflects on years past, offering a long view on climate, stewardship and agriculture. With its vivid description and absorbing storytelling, Shepherd's Sight offers an unforgettable glimpse of a life lived on the land. Clean copy.

Record # 397335

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Diana Vreeland: The Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years, 1936-1962by: Vreeland (Ed>), Alexander

Diana Vreeland: The Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years, 1936-1962
by: Vreeland (Ed>), Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages with 250 color and b&w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The first Vreeland book to focus on her three decades at Harper's Bazaar, where the legendary editor honed her singular take on fashion.

Record # 352543

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Plymouth, Vermont: Birthplace of President Coolidgeby:

Plymouth, Vermont: Birthplace of President Coolidge
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Softcover. Rutland, VT, Geo Chalmers Co., Inc, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 21 pages. Softcover. Commemorative pamphlet. B/w labeled illustrations ("Photo-Gravures") throughout. String bound with light blue string(see image). Tanning and other agewear throughout. Front cover has small tear at bottom left (see image). Also included: official Certificate of Membership to the "Home Town Coolidge Club" dated August 15, 1924. Published to commemorate President (1923-29) Calvin Coolidge's roots in Vermont.

Record # 367553

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When Momma Was the Landlord (SIGNED COPY)by: Blaustein, Esther

When Momma Was the Landlord (SIGNED COPY)
by: Blaustein, Esther

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. An amusing coming-of-age memoir of a young girl growing up in Newark where her mother was a landlord in an apartment building.

Record # 379129

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Isaac Collins: A Quaker Printer in 18th Century Americaby: Hixson, Richard F.

Isaac Collins: A Quaker Printer in 18th Century America
by: Hixson, Richard F.

Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. Collins conducted business in Trenton and Burlington and founded New Jersey's first regular newspaper, the "New-Jersey Gazette". Clean, bight copy.

Record # 397510

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Avedon: Something Personalby: Stevens, Norma

Avedon: Something Personal
by: Stevens, Norma

Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 353148

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Month in the Forests of France, Aby: Berkeley, Grantley F.

Month in the Forests of France, A
by: Berkeley, Grantley F.

Hardcover. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with marbled covers and page block decoration, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Previous owner's name on title page. Ex-Library with usual stamping and embossed seal on preliminary pages.

Record # 368895

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King's Daughters, The - An Intimate and Authentic Studyby: Asquith, Cynthia

King's Daughters, The - An Intimate and Authentic Study
by: Asquith, Cynthia

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, First Edition, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with moderate wear, tears to edges & chipping, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning throughout. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750657

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Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century Americaby: Patricia Cleary

Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America
by: Patricia Cleary

Softcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. One of the most compelling figures in colonial America, Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785) was a Scottish immigrant who settled in Boston in her early twenties and took up shopkeeping. For many years, she practiced her trade successfully while marrying three times, once to a much older man who left her an extremely rich widow. This biography chronicles the life of this extraordinary "ordinary" woman who tried to make a place for herself and other women in the world by asserting her own independence inside and outside of the home. As an importer and retailer of British goods, Murray conducted business with merchants and manufacturers in England and buyers in the American colonies, even traveling to London to select her own stock. Deeply satisfied by her work and the economic freedom it brought her, she acted as mentor to other women, helping them to establish shops of their own. She also protected her autonomy by demanding prenuptial agreements from her second and third husbands that gave her a measure of control over her property that was rare for a married woman of her day. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381590

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Essential Robert Indiana, Theby: Krause, Martin

Essential Robert Indiana, The
by: Krause, Martin

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Decoding Robert Indiana's work for a new generation, this revelatory book explores previously unknown autobiographical elements in the work of the Pop artist and printmaker. Famously proclaiming himself to be "an American painter of signs," Robert Indiana has created an enormous body of work, much of it boldly colored abstractions. In this incisive new examination of the artist, based on ongoing conversations with Indiana, art historian Martin Krause sifts through autobiographical clues within the artist's work and finds a wealth of affecting and affectionate references to Indiana's childhood, literary heroes, and the cultural icons of his generation. In addition, a penetrating essay by Pop art scholar John Wilmerding deconstructs Indiana's use of geometric shapes, making unexpected connections that enhance Krause's thesis. Accompanied by reproductions of more than 50 prints from the period 1960-2010--and focusing specifically on series such as Decade: Autoportraits, Vinalhaven Suite, and The Hartley Elegies as well as the "Love" and "Hope" images and studies of Marilyn Monroe, Picasso, and the Brooklyn Bridge--Krause's decryption of Indiana's visual language provides telling insight into the work of this quintessentially American artist.

Record # 352261

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Photographic Memoriesby: Delano, Jack

Photographic Memories
by: Delano, Jack

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellowing to top edge of dust jacket. Rubbing to rear. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Jack Delano's "Photographic Memories" include the struggles of migrant workers and the homefront contributions of ethnic and minority groups living in the shadow of the Depression. Employed as a photographer by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Delano later settled in Puerto Rico, where he has been a constant participant in the island's cultural life. This memoir includes rare photos from his FSA years, along with cartoons, personal snapshots and film stills.

Record # 353344

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Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographsby: Cunningham, Bill

Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
by: Cunningham, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust Jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 368229

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Charles II: King of England, Scotland, and Irelandby: Hutton, Ronald

Charles II: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
by: Hutton, Ronald

Hardcover. New York, Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. A touch of soil to foreedge, otherwise clean. Pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition.

Record # 32382

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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

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Artist Within, Theby: Preston, Greg

Artist Within, The
by: Preston, Greg

Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.

Record # 352450

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Commodore John Rodgers: Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Navy 1773-1838, A Biographyby: Paullin, Charles Oscar

Commodore John Rodgers: Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Navy 1773-1838, A Biography
by: Paullin, Charles Oscar

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 434 pages. Minor cover corner and spine edge wear. Gilt top edge and titles on spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece portrait of Commodore Rodgers. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852538

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The Second Handshakeby: Fowler, Will

The Second Handshake
by: Fowler, Will

Secaucus NJ, Lyle Stuart , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 301 pages. Will was Gene Fowler's son. Gene Fowler went from journalist in Denver to an in-demand scriptwriter in Hollywood, where he married. His "rat-pack" friends included John Barrymore and W. C. Fields. Here are his son's memoirs of life among such as Ring Lardner, W.C. Fields, William Faulkner, Damon Runyon, Jack Dempsey and others.

Record # 382548

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Montgomery as Military Commander by: Ronald Lewin

Montgomery as Military Commander
by: Ronald Lewin

Hardcover. NY, Stein & Day, Book Club Ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397531

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Carrie Catt: Feminist Politicianby: Fowler, Robert Booth

Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician
by: Fowler, Robert Booth

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern University, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket, spine slightly sunned. Fowler attempts to restore to Catt her central role in the suffragist movement in the United States and in the founding of the League of Women Voters. Although the first three chapters do recount her life, the author himself notes that this is not a conventional biography. Rather, the work aims primarily at an analysis of Catt as a political leader and political visionary.

Record # 450116

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Beginning (SIGNED COPY)by: Branagh, Kenneth

Beginning (SIGNED COPY)
by: Branagh, Kenneth

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. As both star and director of the acclaimed film Henry V, young Branagh has had his career compared to that of Lawrence Olivier. Full of charm, humor, and insight into an actor's craft, Branagh's intriguing autobiography tells of his childhood in Belfast, his training at the Royal Academy of Drama, and his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.INSCRIBED BY BRANAGH on front fly leaf.

Record # 351356

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Douglas Fairbanksby: Vance, Jeffrey

Douglas Fairbanks
by: Vance, Jeffrey

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with 237 b&w photos. Much has already been written about early motion picture pioneers like D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, but their invaluable partner, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr has been overlooked and neglected - until now. With this very attractive and professional book, author Jeffrey Vance has given due credit to one of early cinema's most brilliant stars and dynamic personalities who not only had true star power but was a driving force behind the scenes as well. Often remembered these days only for his successful 1920s costume adventure dramas such as "The Mark of Zorro", "Robin Hood" and "The Three Musketeers" to name a few, Douglas Fairbanks had a varied, interesting and successful career well before this period, and also contributed greatly to the development of Hollywood. He was one of the founders of United Artists, he and wife Mary Pickford were the first `golden couple' of Hollywood who established Beverley Hills as the suburb of movie stars;

Record # 351915

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Tobacco Parish: A Collection of South Windsor's Memories (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by: Daley, Barney E.

Tobacco Parish: A Collection of South Windsor's Memories (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Daley, Barney E.

Hardcover. South Windsor, CT, Barney E. Daley, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300+ pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Bound in green cloth; gilt lettering & design on spine and front cover. From the introduction (Evan Lawn): "Whether one reads straight through or reads here and there in a checkered fashion, every reader will enjoy meeting Barney. ...And if the reader happens to be an historian, these memoirs will be prized as a treasure trove of living information about rural, daily life before electricity and indoor plumbing."

Record # 30391

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Sketches and Poems: 1845-1920by: Hinchman, Walter

Sketches and Poems: 1845-1920
by: Hinchman, Walter

Hardcover. self-published, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt rules and a drawing of a fern on front cover, "WH" with dates on spine. 253 pages, an exceptionally bright copy with no markings and a like-new binding, appearance. 1st Ed., portraits, maps, plates. Howes H-500. Privately printed for friends. Hinchman was with Palmer on the 1867 surveying expedition to find the best route for a railroad to California thru Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. A most interesting account, various Indian troubles including the attack of the Apaches in Sycamore Canyon Arizona. Much on ranching, Indians including Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Sioux, Comanche, Crow, Blackfoot, and Kiowa. Profusley illustrated with drawings and nature studies by Hinchman, many in color. Very scarce item.

Record # 383313

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Fazkilsby: Evans, Dick

Fazkils
by: Evans, Dick

Softcover. Createspace Independent Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sodtcover, 254 pages. Actor, director, writer Evans connect his dots and long dashes through a life both creative and chaotic. Family, career, and cancer bump heads in a runaway boxcar full of colorful entanglements with the famous and the foolish. Tracing his family history through the years from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression to the tragedy of the Hindenburg, and his early childhood in Japan before WW2, Evans cleverly sets the stage for what follows. His career as an actor ultimately clashed with an early marriage and fatherhood, providing many temptations that carried Evans to Mexico, Arizona, Ohio, Delaware, Kauai, Hawaii, and points beyond. Working in films with stars Jack Nicholson, George C. Scott, David Hemmings, and Michael J. Pollard were high points in his 50-year career that led to a love affair with France and La Nouvelle Vague and the writing, production and direction of his own films and plays. After a season as series regular Paul Hanley opposite Mia Farrow in tv's Peyton Place, Evans moved from early shows like Mr. Novak, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza to an episode of Star Trek with Shatner and Nimoy. Countless other roles sent him on his way to features including major roles in Islands in the Stream, The Nickel Ride, Dirty Little Billy and Synanon, productions that brought him together with many of Hollywood's top directors including Richard Rush, Robert Mulligan, Stan Dragoti and Richard Quine. As his wife, Jo, frequently reminds us, "Dick has made many things, but never without the help of others." Clean copy.

Record # 383728

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Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal & Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796by: (Ed.) Raymond J. DeMallie et al

Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal & Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796
by: (Ed.) Raymond J. DeMallie et al

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 693 pages with index, 16 pages of plates. A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully modern and magisterial edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers in understanding Truteau's travels and encounters with the numerous Native peoples of the region, including the Arikaras, Cheyennes, Lakotas-Dakotas-Nakotas, Omahas, and Pawnees. Truteau's writings constitute the very foundation to our understanding of the late eighteenth-century fur trade in the region immediately preceding the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803. French and English text. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 384498

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The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport by: Samson Kambalu

The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport
by: Samson Kambalu

Softcover. London, September Publishing, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 302 pages. A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi, by the award-winning conceptual artist. Clean copy.

Record # 385691

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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby: Robert A. Caro

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by: Robert A. Caro

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modem age. A masterpiece." This volume follows Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career. It tells the story of his volatile relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy during the fight they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president and through Johnson's unhappy vice presidency. It gives us for the first time the story of the assassination from the viewpoint of Lyndon Johnson himself. And with the depth of insight, the profound grasp of both the life and times of his subject that Robert Caro has consistently brought to this mesmerizing biography, it reveals what it was like to suddenly become president in a time of great crisis.

Record # 386536

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Monticello: A Family Story: An Intiate Portrait-In-Depth of Thomas Jefferson and His Familyby: Langhorne, Elizabeth

Monticello: A Family Story: An Intiate Portrait-In-Depth of Thomas Jefferson and His Family
by: Langhorne, Elizabeth

Hardcover. North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.

Record # 99033

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The Life of Henry More: Parts 1 and 2by: Richard Ward / Hutton, Sarah / Courtney, Cecil / Courtney, Michelle/ Crocker, Robert / Hall, Rupert (Editors)

The Life of Henry More: Parts 1 and 2
by: Richard Ward / Hutton, Sarah / Courtney, Cecil / Courtney, Michelle/ Crocker, Robert / Hall, Rupert (Editors)

Hardcover. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 408 pages. The only biographical account of More by one of his contemporaries. Ward's almost hagiographical tone is testimony to the high regard in which More was held by his admirers. This account testifies to the continuing impact of More's ideas in the enlightenment. This volume prints the only modern edition of Ward's biography printed in 1710 together with the manuscript account of More's writings published here for the first time. Clean copy.

Record # 386774

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A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age by: Joao Magueijo

A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
by: Joao Magueijo

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 280 pages. On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Joao Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research group, "the Via Panisperna Boys," who discovered atomic fission in 1934. As Majorana, the most brilliant of the group, began to realize the implications of what they had found, he became increasingly unstable. Did he commit suicide that night in Palermo? Was he kidnapped? Did he stage his own death? A Brilliant Darkness chronicles Majorana's invaluable contributions to science -- including his major discovery, the Majorana neutrino -- while revealing the truth behind his fascinating and tragic life.

Record # 374547

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Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoirby: Robbins Jerome / Vaill Amanda Editor

Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir
by: Robbins Jerome / Vaill Amanda Editor

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages. The titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor and director, now revealed in his own words--the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiography--from his voluminous letters, journals, notes, diaries, never before published. Robbins was famous for reinventing the Broadway musical, creating a vernacular American ballet, pushing the art form to new boundaries where it had never gone before, integrating dance seamlessly with character, story and music, and as Associate Artistic Director, Ballet Master, and Co-Artistic Director, with George Balanchine, shaping the New York City Ballet with daring and brio for more than five decades through his often startling choreography in ballet's classical idiom. He was known as the king of Broadway, the most sought-after director-choreographer and show doctor who gave shape to On the Town (1944), Call Me Madam (1950), The King and I (1951), Wonderful Town (1953), Peter Pan (1954), The Pajama Game (1954), Silk Stockings (1955), West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Funny Girl (1964), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and many other classic musicals, winning four Tony Awards, two Oscars, and an Emmy. He shocked and betrayed those he loved and worked with by naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. ("I betrayed my manhood, my Jewishness, my parents, my sister," he wrote in a diary. "I can't undo it.") Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387412

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Roosevelt in the Bad Landsby: Harmann Hagedorn

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
by: Harmann Hagedorn

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering and medallion on the front panel. 491 pages, frontispiece, 53 black and white illustrations throughout. "Hagedorn gathered bit by bit the story of Roosevelt's life as a ranchman; but the main sources of material were the men and women who were Roosevelt's companions and friends. This book details Theodore Roosevelt's experience in the Badlands of North Dakota after the deaths of his mother and wife. It gives a picture of what life was like in that area with the scenery, the hunting, the cattle business and other adventures." This is an ex-lib copy with stamping, name and residue to the endpapers. Interior is clean, very good. Rear endpaper with right side of Badlands map missing.

Record # 387880

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The Memoirs of Chief Justice Earl Warren by: Warren, Earl

The Memoirs of Chief Justice Earl Warren
by: Warren, Earl

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 394 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 396629

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Turbulent Era: A Record of Forty Years in the U.S. Diplomatic Service, 1904-1945 (2 Volume set)by: Grew, Joseph C. , Walter Johnson (editor)

Turbulent Era: A Record of Forty Years in the U.S. Diplomatic Service, 1904-1945 (2 Volume set)
by: Grew, Joseph C. , Walter Johnson (editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd., 1st Edition, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 Volume Set, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. 1560 total pages. Hardcovers. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light tanning from age to pages. Bindings good. Spines straight. A record of one of America's most distinguished diplomatic careers.

Record # 99250

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My Father's Eyes: A Memoirby: Mary Bonina

My Father's Eyes: A Memoir
by: Mary Bonina

Softcover. Somerville MA, Cervena Barva Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.

Record # 398253

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No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey From Russia to Paris to New York by: Iswolsky, Helene (Daughter Of The Last Tsarist Ambassador To France)

No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey From Russia to Paris to New York
by: Iswolsky, Helene (Daughter Of The Last Tsarist Ambassador To France)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Winchell Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Clean. Helene Iswolsky, daughter of a Russian diplomat, grew up in Japan, Denmark, Russia, and France. In 1911, her father became Russian ambassador to France. She returned to Russia for her debut in 1914, to be presented to the Tsarina Alexandra. While there she attended the wedding of Prince Felix Yusupov, who was to murder Rasputin three years later. After the Tsar was overthrown, her father retired to Biarritz and died there in 1919, leaving unpaid debts. The author took up translating and writing. She had a religious awakening and became a Catholic. A sojourn in a Benedictine monastery left her changed, but she decided not to make the cloister her life. The author knew many notable people in the Paris area, especially writers, poets, critics, philosophers of the "new wave," Christian humanists, and Russian emigres. She attended the Sunday afternoon gatherings of Jacques Maritain and Nicholas Berdiaev, and worked on Emmanuel Mounier's journal "Esprit." When the Nazis occupied France, she escaped to America with her mother. Here she founded an ecumenical movement called "The Third Hour" and taught Russian at Fordham University and other schools. She was a close friend of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. Scarce.

Record # 359148

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Bill Peet: An Autobiographyby: Peet, Bill

Bill Peet: An Autobiography
by: Peet, Bill

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, March 27, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket; small tear on rear cover. Light foxing on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452923

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Court and Times of James the First - Illustrated by Authentic and Confidential Letters, from Various Public and Private Collections - 2 Volumes, Theby: Williams, Robe

Court and Times of James the First - Illustrated by Authentic and Confidential Letters, from Various Public and Private Collections - 2 Volumes, The
by: Williams, Robe

Hardcover. London, Henry Colburn, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. 1/2 leather bindings with gold marbled covers and end papers. Gilt top edges. Volume 1 - 476 pages plus 16 pages of ads. Raised bands on spine. Rubbing to edges. Clean, unmarked text. Volume 2 - 510 pages. Raised bands on spine. Rubbing to edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 801762

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The Old Country Doctor (SIGNED COPY)by: Winfield Scott Nay

The Old Country Doctor (SIGNED COPY)
by: Winfield Scott Nay

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing Co,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 87 pages, limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY NAY on the half-title page. "This is the real authentic story of an old Vermont country doctor written not as fiction but as the life of one of Vermont's oldest physicians....that beloved figure, the old-fashioned country doctor..." Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 387346

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

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

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

Record # 8230011

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

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

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

Record # 369024

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

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

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

Record # 380320

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