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

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

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

Record # 371061

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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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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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Aftershocks: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Nadia Owusu

Aftershocks: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nadia Owusu

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a bookplate tipped onto a prelim page.

Record # 377952

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John Kenneth Galbraith His Life His Politics His Economics (SIGNED COPY)by: Parker Richard

John Kenneth Galbraith His Life His Politics His Economics (SIGNED COPY)
by: Parker Richard

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Born and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began teaching at Harvard during the Depression. He was FDR's "price czar" during the war and then a senior editor of Fortune before returning to Harvard and to fame as a bestselling writer. Parker shows how, from his early championing of Keynes to his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor," Galbraith regularly challenged prevailing theories and policies. And his account of Galbraith's remarkable friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as a close advisor while ambassador to India, is especially relevant for its analysis of the intense, dynamic debates that economists and politicians can have over how America should manage its wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life. Clean copy.

Record # 378784

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Love

Love

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Searching out the private man as well as the public figure, this biography follows Henry Murray through his discoveries and triumphs as a pioneer in the field of clinical psychology, as a co-founder of Harvard's Psychological Clinic, the co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test, and a biographer of Herman Melville. Murray's fascination with Melville's troubled genius, his wartime experiences in the OSS and his close friendships with Lewis Mumford and Conrad Aiken are employed in this reconstruction of a life. And always, at the heart of this story, Robinson finds Murray's highly erotic and mystical relationship with Christiana Morgan. 459 pages, b&w photos, index. Clean copy.

Record # 379556

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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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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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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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Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumfordby: Brown, Sanborn C.

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
by: Brown, Sanborn C.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket. 361 pages, index, b&w illustrations. Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, was one of the most fascinating and complex men of his period (1753~1814). Soldier of fortune, spy, womanizer, brilliant scientist, intriguer, autocrat, inventor, adventurer, an American expatriated to England who did his most productive scientific work in Munich and who died in France, a man devoted to relieving the suffering of the poor, Rumford was all this and more, and Sanborn Brown's biography makes clear that all these aspects merge into a whole human being. The man who conducted experiments on the caloric theory of heat and the ladies' man are one and the same. Clean copy

Record # 381621

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Lenya the Legend:  A Pictorial Autobiographyby: Farneth, David

Lenya the Legend: A Pictorial Autobiography
by: Farneth, David

Hardcover. Woodstock NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. Over 300 photographs (many in color), most never-before published, chronology, select recordings and videotapes, index. Text taken from Lenya's interviews, private conversations, letters, and other writings provide captivating glimpses into her on-stage and off-stage world. Married to Kurt Weill, the pair brought their talents to American theater when they left Nazi Germany in the 1930s. She gave unforgettable performances on stage and screen ('Threepenny Opera', 'Cabaret' etc) and established herself as one of the twentieth century's most enduring and talented performers. Clean copy.

Record # 382199

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T. E. Lawrence: An Arab Viewby: Mousa, Suleiman

T. E. Lawrence: An Arab View
by: Mousa, Suleiman

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Suleiman presents numerous corrections to the standard view of Lawrence and MidEast history. Also describes what happened after the Arabs had aided the British to win the war. At that point the Arabs effectively had lost because the territory was divided between the British and the French - during which T.E. Lawrence showed his true colors by advising the Arabs to sign. A valuable addition to the literature surrounding T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, bringing to light the actual extent of Lawrence's involvement, and how many texts fail to do justice to the Arabs themselves. 'Mr Mousa's obvious concern to be fair-minded and the weight of the evidence he produces make his book one that must be studied by all who are interested in 'Lawrence of Arabia' (front flap). Clean copy.

Record # 383229

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Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying: 40 Years of High Seas Travels and Lowbrow Talesby: Jacoby, Robert

Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying: 40 Years of High Seas Travels and Lowbrow Tales
by: Jacoby, Robert

Softcover. Cloud Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 526 pages. Based on nearly 40 hours of interviews, Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying is the memoir of a 61-year-old, life-long merchant seaman re-counting his fantastic, hilarious, and politically incorrect exploits. He's a sailor-scholar and an individualist anarchist; he's read Voltaire and The Egyptian Book of the Dead. He admits to working at his hobby, sailing, to keep up his real occupation, drinking.He's lived 40 years of adventures around the world, including an incursion into Cambodia during the Vietnam War; a prison break from a Ceylon jail; a dockside fistfight in the Philippines in 1977; a 2-week stowaway run on a British merchant ship sailing around South Africa; meeting Omar Sharif in Aqaba, Jordan; an around-the-world trip (with Greg Cousins, the third mate on the Exxon Valdez, and we learn what really happened!) that ends in Alang, India and the beaching of the ship to be cut up for scrap metal; seeing the rise and fall of communism and capitalism in Africa and the newly independent states after the Soviet Union's collapse and division; and an ammunition delivery to Kuwait on the eve of the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq.

Record # 383635

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Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlifeby: Pamela Bannos

Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife
by: Pamela Bannos

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 362 pages, 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no surviving relatives. Soon the whole world knew about her preternatural work, shooting her to stardom almost overnight. But, as Pamela Bannos reveals in this meticulous and passionate biography, this story of the nanny savant has blinded us to Maier's true achievements, as well as her intentions. Most important, Bannos argues, Maier was not a nanny who moonlighted as a photographer; she was a photographer who supported herself as a nanny. In Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife, Bannos contrasts Maier's life with the mythology that strangers-mostly the men who have profited from her work-have created around her absence. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 384505

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Victoria R.I.by: Elizabeth Longford

Victoria R.I.
by: Elizabeth Longford

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2nd imp., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 635 pages. Contains black and white illustrated plates, and a pull out family tree. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386014

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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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John Drew by: Dithmar, Edward A.

John Drew
by: Dithmar, Edward A.

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with bright gilt stamping, 137 pages. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker, photographic frontispiece portrait of actor John Drew, as well as numerous photographs of John Drew (and other actresses) in various dramatic productions. Clean copy.

Record # 387029

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The World of George Perkins Marsh: America's First Conservationist and Environmentalist: An Illustrated Biography by: Curtis, Jane and Will/Frank Lieberman (designer)

The World of George Perkins Marsh: America's First Conservationist and Environmentalist: An Illustrated Biography
by: Curtis, Jane and Will/Frank Lieberman (designer)

Softcover. Woodstok VT, The Woodstock Foundation, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY JANE AND WILL CURTIS on the front fly leaf. This work was published in observance of the 100th anniversary of Marsh's death in 1882. It graphically portrays the many-faceted career of this extraordinarily versatile Vermonter. Marsh is best known for his pioneering environmental study, Man and Nature, which was first published in 1864. Marsh was a lawyer, linguist, businessman, farmer, designer, Congressman, and diplomat (he was Minister to Turkey and to the newly-united Kingdom of Italy, where he spent the last twenty-one years of his life, a tour of duty unprecedented in American diplomacy). In Congress he supported creating of the Smithsonian Institution.

Record # 387438

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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, Knopf, 3rd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 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. Small scar to front fly leaf where sticker was removed, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 387841

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Danton: A Biography by: Christophe, Robert

Danton: A Biography
by: Christophe, Robert

Hardcover. London, Arthur Baker, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with partial fading, 449 pages, b&w illustrations. The definitive biography of the larger-than-life figure of the French Revolution who was found guilty of loyalist inclinations and executed at the guillotine. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396493

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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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The Life of Margaret Fullerby: Stern, Madeleine

The Life of Margaret Fuller
by: Stern, Madeleine

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1st Revised, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, 402 pages, b&w frontis. portrait. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 398023

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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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Romantic Decatur, Theby: Lewis, Charles Lee

Romantic Decatur, The
by: Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w illustrations, dark blue cloth with gilt design on spine. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Record # 403457

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Notes of a Vagabond: Ways of Menby: Bonsels, Waldemar

Notes of a Vagabond: Ways of Men
by: Bonsels, Waldemar

Hardcover. New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in brown and gilt, 274 pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean, bright copy. In a poor dust jacket with paper loss at edges. Considered a classic of hoboing, the book chronicles the German writer's life of wandering and his spiritual growth.

Record # 412424

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North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland (SIGNED COPY)by: Mosher, Howard Frank

North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mosher, Howard Frank

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456149

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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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Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornellby: Solomon, Deborah

Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
by: Solomon, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 3rd Printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 426 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to dust jacket. Light soiling to textblock edges. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. A tight copy. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 471659

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

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

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

Record # 611868

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Tunisia - A Personal View of a Timeless Landby: Anthony, John

Tunisia - A Personal View of a Timeless Land
by: Anthony, John

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with gilt decoration to cover, gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy.

Record # 750528

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Eric Mendelsohnby: Whittick, Arnold

Eric Mendelsohn
by: Whittick, Arnold

Hardcover. New York, F. W. Dodge Corporation, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket with color illustration, 75 b&w plates, 109 b&w drawings, sketches, plans, elevations, sections, etc. Clean boards, light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, with a few half-inch tears and 3-4" tear to bottom edge of rear dust jacket panel, pages very crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 808640

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Bela Bartok: His Life in Pictures and Documents.by: Bonis, Ferenc

Bela Bartok: His Life in Pictures and Documents.
by: Bonis, Ferenc

Hardcover. New York , Belwin Mills Publishing , 1st U.S., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket is worn on edges and corners. Many b&w photographs, and reproductions of documents, throughout.

Record # 853154

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Man Who was Uncle, The: The Biography of a Master Spyby: Blythe, Peter

Man Who was Uncle, The: The Biography of a Master Spy
by: Blythe, Peter

Hardcover. London, Author Baker Limited, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 186 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy fraying on top and spine, protected with plastic sleeve. Previous owner's sticker and stamp on end papers, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 951698

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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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Battling For Peace: A Memoir (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by: Peres, Shimon

Battling For Peace: A Memoir (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Peres, Shimon

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. B/w illustrations throughout. Front flaps very lightly yellowed at top, otherwise clean inside and out. previous bookseller tag on back. From the dust jacket front flap: "As we follow Peres from his ancestral home in Poland to Israel, from the youth village of BenShemon to Kibbutz Alumot, from the youth movement leader to prime minister, we are introduced both to a man and to a nation."

Record # 30298

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James Russell Lowell and His Friendsby: Hale, Edward Everett

James Russell Lowell and His Friends
by: Hale, Edward Everett

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout (plates). Tissue guard on frontispiece. Deckled edges. Boards bound in dark green, gilt title on spine and front cover with decoration. Top edge gilt. Edges and pages have some tanning. Binding tight. Spine slightly frayed at top and bottom. Clean inside. Beautiful old book.

Record # 31187

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Woman I Wanted to Be, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: von Furstenberg, Diane

Woman I Wanted to Be, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: von Furstenberg, Diane

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) Color illustrations throughout. White cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, has previous bookstore's label on back cover.

Record # 99039

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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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This Is My Story (SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)by: Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Is My Story (SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
by: Roosevelt, Eleanor

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 365 pages, b&w photographs. SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. Begins with her childhood and covers the beginnings of her own and her husband's life in politics, culminating with the Democratic National Convention of 1924. Contains over 40 photographic images of the Roosevelt family. Book very good, dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 351250

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Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Work: Theatre, Opera, Filmby: Zeffirell, Franco

Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Work: Theatre, Opera, Film
by: Zeffirell, Franco

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 511 pages. Hardcover, slipcase, ribbon marker. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Candid accounts of the people, hit movies, and adventures that have shaped his career enliven these memoirs from the director of Romeo and Juliet, Endless Love, and Jesus of Nazareth. 24 black-and-white, 16 color illustrations.

Record # 352263

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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across Americaby: Waters, John

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
by: Waters, John

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 7th pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352457

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Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook, and Meby: McNeill, Malcolm

Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook, and Me
by: McNeill, Malcolm

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures throughout. The author's memoir of the seven years spent in collaboration with Burroughs.

Record # 352690

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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. NY, 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 # 352878

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I Remember Balanchine: Recollections of the Ballet Master by Those Who Knew Himby: Mason, Francis

I Remember Balanchine: Recollections of the Ballet Master by Those Who Knew Him
by: Mason, Francis

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1991, 604 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light yellowing and wear to top edge of dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Recollections by fellow artists and collaborators elucidate the life of teacher and choreographer George Balanchine.

Record # 353351

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Pride and Pinstripes (SIGNED COPY)by: Stottlemyre (with John Harper), Mel

Pride and Pinstripes (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stottlemyre (with John Harper), Mel

Hardcover. New York, Harper Entertainment, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STOTTLEMYRE on title page. Dust jacket and front cover board beneath on front has scratches (small tears) and groves to bottom. Remainder mark on bottom page block.

Record # 354077

Price: $30.00 
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Roald Dahl: The Mildenhall Treasure (SIGNED BY STEADMAN)by: Steadman, Ralph

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

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

Record # 354264

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Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family Historyby: Morgenthau, Henry III

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

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

Record # 359026

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Huey Long, A Biographyby: Williams, T. Harry

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

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

Record # 359165

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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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North to the Orient (SIGNED BY BOTH LINDBERGHS)by: Lindbergh, Anne Morrow and Charles

North to the Orient (SIGNED BY BOTH LINDBERGHS)
by: Lindbergh, Anne Morrow and Charles

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with chipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND CHARLES LINDBERGH ON TITLE PAGE. Maps by Charles Lindbergh. Dust jacket has moderate tears and chipping aling spine.

Record # 368834

Price: $1,000.00 
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