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E.F. Schumacher: His Life and Thought by: Barbara Wood

E.F. Schumacher: His Life and Thought
by: Barbara Wood

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 394 pages. Gives insight into the evolution of Schumacher's philosophy and character while providing the necessary historical details and context. The author is his daughter and while Ms.Wood's love for her Dad is evident throughout, she does not appear to treat him with kid gloves. Her report of Fritz's struggles to understand his family's tacit support for Hitler and the Nazi's was an interesting revelation. According to Ms. Wood, Fritz progressed from atheism early on to membership in the Roman Catholic Church toward the end of his life. Small sticker on dj spine otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 374946

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Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Pennby: Clarkson, Thomas

Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn
by: Clarkson, Thomas

Hardcover. Dover NH, John Mann, 1st, 1820, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in one, 194 and 181 pages. Leather bound with maroon spine label with gilt lettering. Page 9/10 with a partial tear, no paper loss. Bookplates on endpapers otherwise a clean, well preserved copy with light foxing to pages.

Record # 402664

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Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Jefferson, Joseph

Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jefferson, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 501 pages. Hardcover. AUTHORS SIGNED INSCRIPTION PASTED ON TITLE PAGE. 3/4 Leather marbled sections, raised bands on spine. Gilt titles and highlights. Marbled endpapers. Gilt top edge. Light rubbing to cover edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611697

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The Day the Bunny Died by: Lownes, Victor

The Day the Bunny Died
by: Lownes, Victor

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

Record # 375220

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Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirsby: Scott, Grant F. (editor)

Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs
by: Scott, Grant F. (editor)

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 752 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470120

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Buying the Night Flight: the Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent (SIGNED COPY)by: Geyer, Georgia Anne

Buying the Night Flight: the Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent (SIGNED COPY)
by: Geyer, Georgia Anne

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY GEYER on the front fly leaf. What is it like to cover revolutions and interview the great revolutionary figures of our time? This lively firsthand account of one of our most eminent foreign correspondents, the first American woman journalist to cover the world on such a scale, provides a glimpse into this glamorous, rewarding, exhausting, and grueling life. About the Author: Georgie Anne Geyer was a foreign correspondent, an author and biographer, and a syndicated columnist for half a century. Clean copy.

Record # 381483

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

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

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

Record # 460305

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The Worlds of Lincoln Kirsteinby: Martin Duberman

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
by: Martin Duberman

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 736 pages. A rich and revelatory biography of one of the crucial cultural figures of the twentieth century. Lincoln Kirstein's contributions to the nation's life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary journal Hound and Horn, as well as the modernist Harvard Society for Contemporary Art--forerunner of the Museum of Modern Art. He brought George Balanchine to the United States, and in service to the great choreographer's talent, persisted, against heavy odds, in creating both the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Among much else, Kirstein helped create Lincoln Center in New York, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut; established the pathbreaking Dance Index and the country's first dance archives; and in some fifteen books proved himself a brilliant critic of art, photography, film, and dance. This stunning biography, filled with fascinating perceptions and incidents, is a major act of historical reclamation. Utilizing an enormous amount of previously unavailable primary sources, including Kirstein's untapped diaries, Martin Duberman has rendered accessible for the first time a towering figure of immense complexity and achievement.

Record # 361643

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Under the North Light: The Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petershamby: Webster, Lawrence

Under the North Light: The Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petersham
by: Webster, Lawrence

Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, WoodstockArts, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352579

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Maud Gonne: A Biographyby: Ward, Margaret

Maud Gonne: A Biography
by: Ward, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Pandora, 3rd pr., 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Pages have darkening on edges. A tight copy. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 4450232

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Trip, The: Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventureby: Davis, Deborah

Trip, The: Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure
by: Davis, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, ATRIA BOOKS, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Some black and white pictures.

Record # 352773

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Road To Ophir: The Autobiography Of A Prospector by: Rex Tremlett

Road To Ophir: The Autobiography Of A Prospector
by: Rex Tremlett

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 190 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. A true account of the author's adventures as a young man prospecting for gold in Africa, and the region that he believes is the legendary Ophir, famous in Old Testament times for it's fine gold. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 380854

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Rod Laver, a Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Laver, Rod and Larry Writer

Rod Laver, a Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Laver, Rod and Larry Writer

Hardcover. Sydney Australia , Macmillan, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROD LAVER on title page. 32 pages of b&w and color photography. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857464

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

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

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 522 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this second installment of Caro's epic biography we witness a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new. Following Johnson through his service in the Second World War, it describes the foundation and the myths of his long-concealed fortune. The explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the shocking true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, which Johnson won with the the '87 votes that changed history.

Record # 374343

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Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931by: Kellner, Bruce

Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931
by: Kellner, Bruce

Hardcover. Columbia, Missouri, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352421

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AM. Mackay Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda. By His Sister A. M. by: Harrison, J.W [A.M.Mackay]

AM. Mackay Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda. By His Sister A. M.
by: Harrison, J.W [A.M.Mackay]

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt flower design on front cover. 480 pages, with a frontispiece portrait + a folding color map in rear. Appears to be INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on a bookplate inside front cover with a New Year's greeting and dated Dec 31 1891. Alexander Murdoch Mackay was a missionary, a teacher and an engineer who contributed tremendously to Christianity and education in Uganda. As a youth, he left Scotland and committed his life to preaching the word of God to the people of Uganda. He introduced vocational training, taught practical skills and laid the foundation of education in the Church of Uganda. He introduced a printing press which he used to print the Luganda version of the Holy Bible. Light shelf wear, fraying to top of spine.

Record # 380841

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Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolutionby: Thomas McNamee

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
by: Thomas McNamee

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, 400 pages.This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar with goat cheese, cappuccino, or mesclun. But it wasn't long before Waters and her motley coterie of dreamers inspired a new culinary standard incorporating ethics, politics, and the conviction that the best-grown food is also the tastiest. Based on unprecedented access to Waters and her inner circle, this is a truly delicious rags-to-riches saga.

Record # 372784

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Carl Schurz, Reformer (1829-1906)by: Claude M. Fuess

Carl Schurz, Reformer (1829-1906)
by: Claude M. Fuess

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 421 pages. A biography of the crusader against government corruption. Schurz left public service after the Hayes administration, but continued to attack the "spoils system" in the United States government. He also led the New York Civil Service Reform League. He served as editor of the Evening Post from 1881-1885, and as an editorial writer for Harper's Weekly. He remained politically active as a recognized leader in the German American community. Name on front fly leaf. Front hinge of book cracked and frontispiece portrait loose. Rest of volume is solid, clean.

Record # 387891

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Salvador (SIGNED COPY)by: Didion, Joan

Salvador (SIGNED COPY)
by: Didion, Joan

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION on front flyleaf. 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with some slight shelfwear. Corner fold on dust jacket front inside flap.Otherwise tight copy. Salvador is a 1983 book-length essay by Joan Didion on American involvement in El Salvador.

Record # 353031

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Heroin Diaries, The - A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Starby: Sixx, Nikki/Ian Gihins

Heroin Diaries, The - A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
by: Sixx, Nikki/Ian Gihins

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books, First Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages. Softcover with black, white & red graphic illustrations throughout. Full color illustrations to covers. Clean, bright copy, unmarked.

Record # 750686

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Edward Hopper As Illustratorby: Levin, Gail

Edward Hopper As Illustrator
by: Levin, Gail

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 509 pages. Softcover with minor wear to edges. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Color and black & white images throughout. Heavily illustrated throughout. Chapters explore Edward Hopper's career as an illustrator and his mature style. Much of the catalogue comprised of color plates. Includes magazine covers, short story illustrations and advertisements. xii, 54 pages plus 110 leaves of plates.

Record # 471020

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A Vermont Boyhoodby: Ripley, Thomas Emerson

A Vermont Boyhood
by: Ripley, Thomas Emerson

Hardcover. New York, D Appleton Century Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 234 pages. Illustrated end pages, front cover and spine slightly soiled.

Record # 511037

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Aesthetics: A Memoirby: Brunetti, Ivan

Aesthetics: A Memoir
by: Brunetti, Ivan

Hardcover. New Haven , Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist. Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humor of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognized as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney's, among others.

Record # 352409

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Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everythingby: Kevin Cook

Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything
by: Kevin Cook

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Titanic Thompson is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash, this is the legendary tale of a man who was married five times to five different girls, all teenagers on their wedding day. He killed five men, though he'd say 'they'd all agree they had it coming to them'. He won and lost millions in a time when being a millionaire still really meant something.Filled with fascinating facts and famous faces - Harry Houdini, Al Capone, Lee Trevino, Arnold Rothstein and Jean Harlow all make appearances - this is a brilliant and compelling snapshot of life on the road in freewheelin' America.

Record # 381239

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White African: An Early Autobiographyby: Leakey L. S. B.

White African: An Early Autobiography
by: Leakey L. S. B.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Schenkman Publishing, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly faded dust jacket. Written in 1936, long before his fame as a archeologist and anthropologist. He tells the story of his life as an African in White Africa from the time he left his family in search of a new life until he returned as a successful scientist. Leakey vividly describes his experiences as a hunter, gatherer, and farmer, and his encounters with the natural world and the people he met there. He also describes the challenges he and his fellow Africans faced in trying to establish themselves as a minority community in a hostile environment. Clean copy.

Record # 381138

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The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course 1954 1955 by: Hagerty, James C/Robert Ferrell(Ed.)

The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course 1954 1955
by: Hagerty, James C/Robert Ferrell(Ed.)

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an dust jacket with mild fading to spine. A valuable record of the first Presidency of the TV age. Hagerty was President Eisenhower's only press secretary. Clean copy.

Record # 378780

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Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family Historyby: Morgenthau, Henry III

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

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

Record # 359026

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James Ensor: The Complete Paintingsby: Tricot, Xavier

James Ensor: The Complete Paintings
by: Tricot, Xavier

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with slip case. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color/ Black and white pictures throughout. Coinciding with renewed interest in James Ensor, this catalogue raisonne comes as an essential and definitive volume for Ensor buffs and all serious libraries of modern art. A legend in his own lifetime, Ensor (1860-1949) was--alongside Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch--a fearless independent whose work led directly to the development of German Expressionism and French Surrealism. Ensor achieved fame as the "painter of masks," and for his bizarre still lifes and grotesque carnival scenes, in harsh, contrasting, brilliant colors, evolving out of the traditional Flemish dance of death. Now, the reader can explore the Belgian painter's oeuvre thoroughly, in this opulently illustrated, full-color, slipcased catalogue raisonne. A comprehensive illustrated chronology offers additional details about the artist's life and work, and forms an integral part of this splendid, highly valuable contribution to art historical research, ensuring the legacy of a great artist who continues to inspire contemporary art.

Record # 352470

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On Board The "Rocket"by: Adams, Robert C.

On Board The "Rocket"
by: Adams, Robert C.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt and black, b&w plates, 335 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Light shelf wear otherwise clean, very good. A shiphand's account of life in the early merchant marine.

Record # 412223

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Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The: Written by Himself with Prefatory Memoirby: Herbert, Edward Lord

Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The: Written by Himself with Prefatory Memoir
by: Herbert, Edward Lord

Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co., Rebound first edition, 1809, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece portrait of author. Agewear throughout. Rebound with brown boards, Navy blue quarter cloth, title paste down on spine. Binding good. Spine straight. Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury was an English soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.

Record # 99162

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Atheist, The : Madalyn Murray O'Hairby: Le Beau, Bryan F.

Atheist, The : Madalyn Murray O'Hair
by: Le Beau, Bryan F.

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else very good.

Record # 454238

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Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacyby: Horwitt, Sanford D.

Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy
by: Horwitt, Sanford D.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 595 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight. In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies-from Catholic clergymen to labor unionists and black activists-in battles waged against opponents from slumlords to the Eastman Kodak corporation. The range of Alinsky's activities, the intensity of his beliefs, and his exhilarating mixture of crudeness and calculation almost vibrate off the pages of this passionate and inspiring biography.

Record # 457144

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Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsburyby: Burke, Carolyn

Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
by: Burke, Carolyn

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. Rear of dj has a crimp at top and a short trar at spine edge.

Record # 371135

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Memories of My Lifeby: Novikoff, Boris

Memories of My Life
by: Novikoff, Boris

Softcover. Los Angeles, privately printed, 1st, circa 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Softcover with light blue paper wrappers. Black and white pictures in rear. Faded wrappers, and abrasion on first few pages. Previous owner's name in upper right corner of title page. Boris Novikoff was a ballet dancer and the brother of the ballet master, Ivan Novikoff.

Record # 354104

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Vivien : The Life of Vivien Leigh by: Walker, Alexander

Vivien : The Life of Vivien Leigh
by: Walker, Alexander

Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, b&w photos. Alexander Walker draws on the memories and anecdotes of her family, friends and fellow players as well as on his own conversations with Vivien Leigh just before her death to create a fascinating picture of a complex and unique woman. Clean copy in a very good dust jacket.

Record # 359467

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

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

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

Record # 383385

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Dan Bied's 1945 A Remembrance (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Dan Bied

Dan Bied's 1945 A Remembrance (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Dan Bied

Softcover. Burlington IA, Craftsman Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 190 pages, b&w illustrations. An infantryman's memoir of World War II in Europe's waning months. INSCRIBED BY BIED on half-title page. Clean copy.

Record # 383878

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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mindby: Aldersey-Williams, Hugh

In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
by: Aldersey-Williams, Hugh

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 379834

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Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)by: Mackenzie, Alexander Siidell

Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)
by: Mackenzie, Alexander Siidell

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, b&w engraved portrait of Jones in Vol.1. Both books bound in half black leather and blue boards with gilt lettering and raised bands on spine, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers. Light foxing, mainly to preliminary pages. Beautiful set.

Record # 403683

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Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation by: Walker, Mack

Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
by: Walker, Mack

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 364 pages, b&w illustrations. As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating life is a microcosm of the life and style of the empire itself. The biography provided a comprehensive picture of the empire between the Thirty Years War and the revolutionary era. Dust jacket spine faded otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 386030

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Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends: with a Fragment of William Wottom's Lost Life of Boyleby: Boyle, Robert, Michael Hunter (Editor, introduction)

Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends: with a Fragment of William Wottom's Lost Life of Boyle
by: Boyle, Robert, Michael Hunter (Editor, introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, William Pickering, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and information on front flyleaf. Some light notations throughout (pencil). Dark blue cover boards, gilt title on red on spine. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages bright. In very good condition. "Robert Boyle was the doyen of the new, experimental science in late seventeenth-century England, author of over forty books on science, religion and their mutual relationship."

Record # 99074

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Cyanide in My Shoe by: Josephine Butler

Cyanide in My Shoe
by: Josephine Butler

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

Record # 386897

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by: Carr, Cynthia

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
by: Carr, Cynthia

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 417 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York's early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol's films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play. Yet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: "I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me." Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, just as conversations about gender and identity were beginning to enter the broader culture. She never knew it, but she changed the world. Clean copy.

Record # 396687

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All Will Yet Be Well: The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952by: Bunkers, Suzanne L.

All Will Yet Be Well: The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952
by: Bunkers, Suzanne L.

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Sarah Gillespie Huftalen led an unconventional life for a rural midwestern woman of her time. Born in 1865 near Manchester, Iowa, she was a farm girl who became a highly regarded country school and college teacher; she married a man older than either of her parents, received a college degree later in life, and was committed to both family and career. A gifted writer, she crafted essays, teacher-training guides, and poetry while continuing to write lengthy, introspective entries in her diary, which spans the years from 1873 to 1952. In addition, she gathered extensive information about the quietly tragic life of her mother, Emily, and worked to preserve Emily's own detailed diary. Taken together, Emily's and Sarah's extraordinary diaries span nearly a century and thus form a unique mother/daughter chronicle of daily work and thoughts, interactions with neighbors and friends and colleagues, and the destructive family dynamics that dominated the Gillespies. Sarah's consciousness of the abusive relationship between her mother and father haunts her diary, and this dramatic relationship is duplicated in Sarah's relationship with her brother, Henry, Suzanne Bunkers' skillful editing and analysis of Sarah's diary reveal the legacy of a caring, loving mother reflected in her daughter's work as family member, teacher, and citizen. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387556

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Stepping Westwardby: Richards, Laura E.

Stepping Westward
by: Richards, Laura E.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st Edition, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled edges. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Some tanning to edges, lighter tanning to pages, though unmarked. Gray cover boards, blue quarter cloth. Slight agewear. Autobiography of childrens' author.

Record # 99213

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Chita: A Memoir by: Rivera, Chita

Chita: A Memoir
by: Rivera, Chita

Hardcover. NY, HarperOne, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 300 pages, b&w illustrations. The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera-three-time Tony Award-winner, Kennedy Centers honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero-until the entertainment world renamed her. But Dolores-the irreverent side of the sensual, dark and ferocious Chita-was always present center stage, and was influential in creating some of Broadway most iconic and acclaimed roles, including Anita in West Side Story the part that made her a star-Rosie in Bye Bye, Birdie, Velma in Chicago, and Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Written in gratitude to her fans and with the hope that new generations may learn from her extraordinary experience, Chita takes us behind the curtain to reveal the highs and lows of one extraordinary show business career-the creative fermentation, the ego clashes, the miraculous discoveries, the exhilaration when it all went right, and the disappointment when it all went wrong. Clean copy.

Record # 396842

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Aubrey's Brief Lives: Edited from the Original Manuscripts by: Aubrey, John / Oliver Lawson Dick (Ed.)

Aubrey's Brief Lives: Edited from the Original Manuscripts
by: Aubrey, John / Oliver Lawson Dick (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Secker and Warburg, 1st thus, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 408 pages, orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine. B&w plates including frontispiece, spine sunned, ownership signature, otherwise clean.

Record # 397869

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Eye to I: An Autobiography of a Photographerby: Blumenfeld, Erwin

Eye to I: An Autobiography of a Photographer
by: Blumenfeld, Erwin

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs throughout. Light wear ton dust jacket. The life of Erwin Blumenfeld, one of the century's best-known photographers, was by no means conventional. By turns acerbic, self-mocking, playful, even absurd, his autobiography is a compelling, virtuoso account of an extraordinary man. All his subjects--his Jewish family, the Germans, the Vichy French, his models, New York publishers--are dealt equal measures of wit, mockery, and merciless irony. He spares himself least of all. Born in turn-of-the-century Berlin, Blumenfeld was drafted to serve in the First World War, first as an ambulance driver (although he couldn't drive) and then as a bookkeeper in a field brothel, and he was awarded the Iron Cross for giving his sergeant French lessons. Between the wars he was part of an avant-garde circle that included such artists as Else Lasker-Schler, George Grosz, and members of the Dada movement. During the Second World War, Blumenfeld was interned in a series of French camps but eventually arrived in New York, where he found work with Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, producing many of their most memorable covers and becoming fashion's highest-paid photographer. From the creator of some of the most striking and influential photographs ever taken, Blumenfeld's autobiography--published here in English for the first time--is a biting and iconoclastic take on the century, and the insightful, gripping story of an exceptional life. Remainder line to bottom edge.

Record # 398483

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Ladies of the White House, Theby: Holloway, Laura Carter

Ladies of the White House, The
by: Holloway, Laura Carter

Hardcover. San Francisco, H.H Bancroft, 1st, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 658 pages. Hardcover. Beveled green covers with gilt decoration of White House. 15 steep engravings (with library stamped on rear) of portraits of Presidential wives. Ex-library with stamping on pages, paper pocket residue on rear end paper, previous owner's signature on both end papers. Corners bumped, cloth fraying. Spine cracked in a few pages.

Record # 101500

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

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

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

Record # 614003

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