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Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television 1948-1961by: Baughman, James L.

Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television 1948-1961
by: Baughman, James L.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, James Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 443 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.

Record # 369087

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Walter Matthau by: Hunter, Allan

Walter Matthau
by: Hunter, Allan

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages, b&w photos. Here is his vivid and surprising story: his tough childhood in New York; his early jobs as boxing instructor, basketball coach, and filing clerk; his lifelong (and very expensive) addition to gambling; his heart attack; and many others. Clean.

Record # 372342

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Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixtiesby: Tariq Ali

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
by: Tariq Ali

Softcover. London/NY, Verso, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 403 pages, b&w illustrations. In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood and energy of those years as he tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement. This edition includes a new introduction, as well as the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971. Clean.

Record # 374381

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Gitta: Hidden Child of the Holocaust (SIGNED COPY)by: Rosenzweig, Gitta, and Fuller, Martha (Editor)

Gitta: Hidden Child of the Holocaust (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rosenzweig, Gitta, and Fuller, Martha (Editor)

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Gitta Rosenzweig , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 421 pages, illustrated with b&w, color photographs. A self-published memoir chronicling her family's past during the Holocaust. The author was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Poland, later immigrated to America and later returned to trace her parent's history. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 375235

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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 Royal George 1819-1904: the life of H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge by: Giles St. Aubyn

The Royal George 1819-1904: the life of H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
by: Giles St. Aubyn

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 393 pages plus a 16 page index. With eight pages of illustrations and a frontispiece. Clean copy.

Record # 379109

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Einstein Lived Hereby: Abraham Pais

Einstein Lived Here
by: Abraham Pais

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pais turns his attention to the great physicist's life outside of science, with an informal, almost kalaidoscopic portrait of Einstein--his personal life and his public persona ("my mythical namesake who has made my life so burdensome"), his scientific contributions, and his thoughts on religion, philosophy, and politics, on Israel and Zionism, on the rise of Nazism and McCarthyism, and on much more. Pais offers a candid look at Einstein's troubled personal life--his two failed marriages, his first child Lieserl, who was born out of wedlock (and of whom all trace has vanished), his estranged son Hans Albert, also a scientist, who felt his father had abandoned the family, and his son Eduard, who gradually descended into madness. Of course, any book on Einstein must touch upon science, and Pais includes several illuminating chapters, one of which offers general readers an accessible explanation of relativity, and another traces the long road to Einstein's Nobel Prize (after being nominated almost every year from 1909 to 1920, he finally won in 1921--not for relativity, but for his work on the photoelectric effect). On the lighter side, Pais includes samples from Einstein's "curiosity file," in which he kept crank letters, marriage proposals, hate mail (one began "You are the prince of idiocy, the count of imbecility, the duke of cretinism, the baron of morons"), and the like. But the heart of the book is the final section, where Pais traces Einstein's life as seen through the media. Here we not only meet Einstein the living legend--receiving the keys to New York City from flamboyant Mayor Jimmy Walker, attending the Hollywood premier of City Lights with Charlie Chaplin--but also witness his extensive involvement in the issues of his day.

Record # 380143

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Lion in the Morningby: Seaton, Henry

Lion in the Morning
by: Seaton, Henry

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

Record # 380851

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Life Size: An Autobiographyby: Maurice Beck Hexter

Life Size: An Autobiography
by: Maurice Beck Hexter

Hardcover. West Kennebunk ME, Phoenix Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. an extraordinary memoir of Maurice that recounts the strange turns and fateful encounters that led him from his newsboyhood to collaborate with some of the world's most important men and to cooperate with some of it's most determined dreamers. Clean copy.

Record # 381263

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by: Marable, Manning

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by: Marable, Manning

NY, Viking, 4th pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 594 pages, b&w illustrations. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world. Manning Marable's new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination.

Record # 381505

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The Moon Man: A Biography of Miklouho-Maclayby: E. M. Webster

The Moon Man: A Biography of Miklouho-Maclay
by: E. M. Webster

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in dust jacket with some fading to edges, spine. 421 pages, b&w illustrations. ."This story of an outstandingly strange and interesting man is a triumph of modern biography. Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) was one of the most extraordinary of all the nineteenth-century savant-adventurers. a brilliant student of Ernst Haeckel, he embraced the natural sciences at a time when the genius of Darwin was revolutionizing Western cosmology. In his short lifetime he made the whole world his laboratory: sponges in the Red Sea, and the ancestry of sharks, head measurements in New Guinea; Negrito races in Malay jungles; marine life in Sydney Harbor -- all these and a hundred other topics and places engaged his curiosity. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 381861

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Campfires Along the Appalachian Trail (SIGNED COPY)by: Raymond Baker

Campfires Along the Appalachian Trail (SIGNED COPY)
by: Raymond Baker

NY, Carlton Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with edgewear. 120 pages with b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY BAKER on the front fly leaf. The author's account of his 2,000 mile trek from Georgia to Maine in 1964. Scarce.

Record # 382378

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Ho Chi Minh: A Political Biographyby: Jean Lacouture

Ho Chi Minh: A Political Biography
by: Jean Lacouture

NY, Random House, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green on front, gilt on spine. 313 pages. Lacouture's biography of Ho Chi Minh examines the North Vietnamese leader's political development from his early years in France, through World War Two, and up until 1968 when this book was first published. Lacouture doesn't avoid the negative aspects of his political career, but these negatives (e.g. harsh control of the starving North Vietnamese in the 50s) only help to put in perspective Vietnam's similarly harsh treatment by Western and Eastern powers alike. A former Le Monde correspondent, author has also written books on Vietnam and DeGaulle. Internally bright and clean.

Record # 383318

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Mine Enemy Grows Older by: King, Alexander

Mine Enemy Grows Older
by: King, Alexander

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 11th pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Alexander King, one of the first editors of Life magazine, a collaborator on plays with Clare Booth Luce, and a book illustrator, tells, among other things, of undergoing four "cures" for drug addiction in a ten-year period. Dedicated nonconformist King describes his life and those around him with irony and humor. Paper tanning, clean copy.

Record # 383848

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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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A. James Prins: A Life in Literatureby: Kathleen Verduin/Christopher Prins (Ed.)

A. James Prins: A Life in Literature
by: Kathleen Verduin/Christopher Prins (Ed.)

Hardcover. Holland MI, Hope College , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 554 pages. Memorial biography of a beloved teacher of literature at Hope College in Maryland.

Record # 386543

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My Brother Theodore Rooseveltby: Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt
by: Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue color with gilt stamping. 365 pages, frontispiece portrait and sixteen photographs. Clean copy.

Record # 386804

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Safari of Discovery: The Universe of Albert Schweitzerby: Phillips, Herbert M.

Safari of Discovery: The Universe of Albert Schweitzer
by: Phillips, Herbert M.

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages, b&w photographs. An account of the author's trip to French Equatorial Africa and Albert Schweitzer's jungle hospital (Lambarene), the author's stay there and conversations with Dr. Schweitzer. The author convinced Schweitzer to lend his name to an educational movement in the U.S. (the nominal reason for the trip), and states that he believes Schweitzer is a much needed Prophet of the divided Western world. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387297

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Mountain Charley or the Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin who was Thirteen Years in Male Attireby: Guerin, E.J. (introduction by Fred W. Mazzulla and William Kostka)

Mountain Charley or the Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin who was Thirteen Years in Male Attire
by: Guerin, E.J. (introduction by Fred W. Mazzulla and William Kostka)

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st thus, 1968, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Astonishing autobiography of a woman who married at 12, had two children by age 15 or 16, then widowed after the birth of her 2nd child and spends a dozen or so years searching for her husband's murderer, posing as a man most of the time. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 387624

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The Private Correspondence of Henry Clayby: Colton, Calvin (Henry Clay)

The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay
by: Colton, Calvin (Henry Clay)

Hardcover. Boston, Frederick Parker, reprint, 1856, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth, 636 pages. B&w frontis with a tissue guard. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers. Spine cloth chipped along edges, corners bumped. Internally clean, sound copy.

Record # 387914

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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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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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Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant by: Marie Hall Ets

Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant
by: Marie Hall Ets

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press., reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, an Italian woman who came to the United States in 1884, one of the peak years in the nineteenth-century wave of immigration. A vivid, richly detailed account, the narrative traces Rosa's life in an Italian peasant village and later in Chicago. Marie Hall Ets, a social worker and friend of Rosa&;s at the Chicago Commons settlement house during the years following World War I, meticulously wrote down her lively stories to create this book. Clean copy.

Record # 398137

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Campby: Michael D. Eisner

Camp
by: Michael D. Eisner

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Camp is Eisner's ode to Keewaydin--a Vermont camp that four generations of the Eisner family have attended for 100 years--as well as a guide to growing up, building relationships, and developing the tools of leadership. Through heartwarming anecdotes from his time spent at Keewaydin and stories from his life in the upper echelons of American business that illustrate the camp's continued influence, Eisner creates a touching and insightful portrait of his own youth, as well as a resounding declaration of summer camp as an invaluable national institution. Clean copy.

Record # 399108

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Edison: A Biographyby: Josephson, Matthew

Edison: A Biography
by: Josephson, Matthew

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 511 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 399552

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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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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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Growing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY)by: Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

Growing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY)
by: Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

Softcover. Bennington, VT, Bertani Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 90 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO IRVING ADLER on front fly leaf, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 457142

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Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Forkby: Matthiessen, Peter

Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork
by: Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Hardcover with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf and signature. Otherwise clean.

Record # 469844

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American Indian, Theby: Northey, Sue

American Indian, The
by: Northey, Sue

Hardcover. Springfield, Ma, Milton Bradley and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Illustrated by George Gray. Red cloth boards with title on front and spine. Some fading on front and back endpapers. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Flyleaf has childrens crayon drawing of cowboy and indian. Illustrated dust jacket has minor chipping. Still a very nice copy.

Record # 509321

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Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais - 2 Volumes, Theby: Millais, John Guille

Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais - 2 Volumes, The
by: Millais, John Guille

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Covers are 3/4 leather with marbled sections. Spine with raised bands, title and decoration in gilt. Marbled endpapers. This set Previously owned by Charles B. Woodcock Savage who achieved notoriety as the lover of King Karl of Wurttemberg and features his signature at the top of preliminary page in each volume. Gift inscription to Savage from Nellie on front endpapers of both volumes. Top edges gilt. Features 316 black & white illustrations. Volume 1 - Light wear. Clean, tight. Volume 2 - front cover hinge cracked, with loosening to spine strip up to 1" from top - hinge tender. Light wear otherwise. Overall, very good.

Record # 611998

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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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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Stoll, David

Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Stoll, David

Softcover. Colorado, Westview Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Very slight wear to edges and corners. A few pages slightly turned down. Otherwise, a very nice, clean copy.

Record # 850111

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Belinda of the Red Crossby: Hamilton, Robert W.

Belinda of the Red Cross
by: Hamilton, Robert W.

Hardcover. New York, Sully and Kleinteich, 3rd, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt, red and white decoration, 342 pages, with frontispiece portrait of Belinda Melnotte by A. O. Scott. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853432

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Man Ray: Self Portraitby: Ray, Man

Man Ray: Self Portrait
by: Ray, Man

Softcover. Boston MA, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, paperback. Man Ray's extraordinary autobiography, which reveals the entertaining life and times of the remarkable artist. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Lower fore edge corner slightly creased. Light pen mark to front flyleaf. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952470

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Art of Reginald Heade, The Volume Twoby: Walker, Stephen James; Chibnall, Steve

Art of Reginald Heade, The Volume Two
by: Walker, Stephen James; Chibnall, Steve

Hardcover. Kent UK, Telos Publishing, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 8230007

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Picasso: The Communist Yearsby: Utley, Guertje

Picasso: The Communist Years
by: Utley, Guertje

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the front flap: "This stimulating book is the first comprehensive examination of Picasso's political commitment, his motivations to join the French Communist Party, and his contributions as an active member. Guertje R. Utley assesses the impact Communism had on the artist's life and explores how Picasso's political beliefs and the doctrines of the Communist Party affected his artistic production."

Record # 30405

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Francis Bacon - His Life & Violent Timesby: Sinclair, Andrew

Francis Bacon - His Life & Violent Times
by: Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York , Crown, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages, color & black and white plates. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Traces the development of the painter's art and the course of his life, discussing his earliest memories, Sinn Fein uprisings in Ireland, World War I, Paris of the surrealists, and England during World War II.

Record # 53571

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Loving Ghosts: How the Dead Transformed My Lifeby: May, Robin

Loving Ghosts: How the Dead Transformed My Life
by: May, Robin

Softcover. Robin May, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Softcover. Pages clean. Binding good. Wrapper very good. In very good condition. The magic of May's journey portrayed in these pages will answer so may of our questions about the paranormal, while assuaging many of our fears about death and that which comes after.

Record # 99082

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

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

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

Record # 200307

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Backing Into Forward: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Feiffer, Julius

Backing Into Forward: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Feiffer, Julius

Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.

Record # 351792

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Aesthetics: A Memoirby: Brunetti, Ivan

Aesthetics: A Memoir
by: Brunetti, Ivan

Hardcover. New Haven CT, 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 # 352410

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Walker Evansby: Mellow, James R.

Walker Evans
by: Mellow, James R.

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

Record # 352488

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

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

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

Record # 352766

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

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

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

Record # 353008

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

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

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

Record # 353989

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India and its Inhabitantsby: Wright, Caleb

India and its Inhabitants
by: Wright, Caleb

Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, J.A. Brainerd, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy wear to bottom spine, fabric cover frayed. Corners heavy rubbing and bumped. Gutter cracked in multiple places. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light pencil markings.

Record # 354191

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Colonel The: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson 1867 -  1950 by: Hodgson, Godfrey

Colonel The: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson 1867 - 1950
by: Hodgson, Godfrey

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 402 pages, b&w illustrations. The biography of a seminal figure in American public life, whose active career spanned the years from Theodore Roosevelt through the early Cold War. Stimson was an intimate friend of Theodore Roosevelt's, and was the crucial figure linking Roosevelt's imperialist expansionism to the world of Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

Record # 359020

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Black Iceby: Cary, Lorene

Black Ice
by: Cary, Lorene

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

Record # 359138

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Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneerby: Joan Simon, Jane M. Gaines, et al.

Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer
by: Joan Simon, Jane M. Gaines, et al.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 148 pages. This book celebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. From 1896 to 1907, she created films for Gaumont in Paris. In 1907, she moved to the United States and established her own film company, Solax. From 1914 to 1920, Guy Blache was an independent director for a number of film companies. Despite her immensely productive and creative career, Guy Blache's indispensable contribution to film history has been overlooked. She entered the world of filmmaking at its nascent stage, when films were seen primarily as a medium in the service of science or as an adjunct to selling cameras. Working with Gaumont cameramen and cameras and the new technical advances for the projection of film, she became one of the film pioneers ushering in the new era of motion pictures as a narrative form. Written by cinema history experts and curators, this handsome volume brings to light a critical new mass of Guy Blache's film oeuvre in an effort to restore her to her rightful place in film history.

Record # 362037

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