Hardcover. Rome, Italy Italy Enterprises, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Clean copy.
Softcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Documents the legacy of shipwrecks and wartime encounters on Lake Champlain. Also the management of an important underwater archaeological collection. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1992, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages. Published to accompany a 1992-93 exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this book deals with the full scope of Agnes Martin's art. It includes essays that place her work in the context of American and European 20th-century art and culture. Agnes Martin's paintings, constructions, and works on paper provide a link between the chromatic abstraction of artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, her generational and ideological peers, and the Minimalist vocabulary of the 1960s. This book reproduces works made between 1957 and 1967, and better-known paintings and constructions created since 1974. A selection of Martin's writings reveals the spiritual philosophy that sustains her painting. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence and tells how the children grow into war and its aftermath. The boys flirt with revolution; Amalia marries a young German Jew; Concettina marries into a family that supports Mussolini; and Anna the youngest child, becomes pregnant when she is sixteen and is married off to Cenzo Rena, an eccentric family friend. War scatters them, but even war cannot break their bonds. All Our Yesterdays is about the endurance and resilience of people living through adolescence and early adulthood in a hostile world. Ex-lib with minor residue to rear endpaper and dust jacket taped to covers.
Softcover. San Diego CA, San Diego Museum of Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36) and index. In 1916, George Wesley Bellows, a successful painter at the height of his artistic power, turned his considerable talent to the graphic medium of lithography. Over the next nine years, until his untimely death in January 1925, Bellows created nealry 200 lithographs - an impressive body of work unparalleled in the history of American art. While some of these lithographs appeared as illustrations in contemporary periodicals , and others were graphic versions of drawings and paintings he had previously made, the majority stood as independent works. Their subjects and styles span the breadth of Bellows's artistic vision. Light sticker residue to front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Lifflin Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY AUTHOR. Color illustrations by Macaulay. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 345 pages. Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other. Newspaper review laid in, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Publisher's $2.50 price at the top of the front flap; previous owner's name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Short tape repairs to verso of dust jacket.
Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Woodcuts by Robin Eschner. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Penland, NC, Jargon Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Related news clipping laid in.
Softcover. Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages, 68 color, 14 b&w plates. Indochina Arts Project of the William Joiner Foundation. Essays by Quach Van Phong. Tran Viet Son, Lucy R Lippard and David Kunzle. Clean copy.
Softcover. Mt. Vernon NY, Italian American Writers Association, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERICONI on the title page. Limited to 1000 copies. A bibliography of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by and about Italian Americans. Mild tanning to wraps, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, ALGONQUIN BOOKS CHAPEL HILL, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR, WITH ILLUSTRATION OF A MAN OPPOSITE PAGE. Clean copy with minimal edgewear to covers. Readers copy sticker on rear dust jacket over isbn code. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Kentucky, Purple House Press, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers, otherwise clean and tight copy. 25th Year Anniversary edition.
Softcover. Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of the diaspora of Neapolitan musicians in New York. This book reviews the period from the unification of Italy to the fascist era through significant Neapolitan performers such as Gilda Mignonette and Enrico Caruso. It traces the transformation of a popular tradition written in dialect into a popular tradition, written in Italian, that contributed to the production of 'American' identity. PLEASE NOTE: ITALIAN TEXT. Simona Frasca is a lecturer on early sound reproduction and Italian migration, and a freelance music journalist. She hold a doctorate in History and Analysis of Musical Culture from La Sapienza University in Rome. Mild sunning to wraps, clean copy.
Hardcover. Annapolis MD, United States Naval Institute, Revised Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 288 pages. First published in 1943, this is the 1950 Revised Edition. During World War II, the U.S. Naval Institute created this regimen after finding the sport of boxing uniquely suited to developing essential qualities such as quick reactions, cool judgment, coordination, and grit; skills invaluable not only in combat but also in countless other sports and physical activities. Many b&w instructional photos. Bright yellow cloth, clean copy.
Hardcover. John Wiley and Sons, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with white lettering, 261 pages. INSCRIBED BY ORGANSCHI on the half-title page. A comprehensive approach to design that integrates sustainable principles and design strategies for decarbonized construction. Offers professionals in the field an approach to sustainable design that embraces building science principles, life-cycle analysis, and design strategies in carbon neutral construction. The book also contains background information on carbon in construction materials and in the building design process. This book is filled with illustrative diagrams and drawings that help evaluate the potential impact of design decisions for creating carbon emissions. Written by and for designers and builders, the book includes a compelling pair of case studies that explore carbon-reducing strategies, suggests steps for assessing a building's carbon footprint, and reviews carbon storages and circulation of materials. Clean copy, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 3rd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 204 pages. When 16 year old Catrin went for a short visit to Wales before settling down for work in London, she little suspected she would stay for the summer and longer because of a sick aunt. How she coped with the situation, became the custodian of an historic building, overcame the wariness of the villagers, participated in the Welsh national life, and found friendship and romance in the colorful, picturesque community.
Softcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY DELANTY on the title page. Bringing Greg Delanty's six books together, this book contains poems that draw on an inheritance from the different worlds that Delanty moves in: Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 192 pages, b&w white illustrations. The history of a small volcanic island, 24 miles in circumference, that was settled by an English soldier and his family in 1816. And what happened in 1961 when it's descendants, cut off from civilization for 150 years, were rescued after a volcanic eruption into the modern world.
Hardcover. New York, M. Evans & Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, red cloth covers with black lettering and illustration of an aardvark on front. Pictures by Wendy Watson. Front hinge shows light tearing.
Softcover. Bennington VT, Bennington Historical Museum and Art Gallery, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, cream color card wrappers, 67 pages, frontispiece of the author. "From several points of view, I think the strange story of David Redding, the mystery surrounding his trials and condemnation, is as interesting as any in our history. From my study I can look out upon the place where stood the gallows upon which David Redding was executed. These pages contain the result of many years' study of this man's tragic story." - from the Foreword. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Hennessey & Ingalls, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, b&w and color photographs. A pictorial study of dead factories, rail-yards, harbors, and aircraft boneyards, originally published in Germany in 1981. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Scalo, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 308 pages. In 1987 Dirk Reinartz set out on his sad itinerary: Dachau, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, Treblinka. The list goes on. Seven years later he compiled this series of 200 black-and-white photographs of the 24 ruins of the death camps. In 279 chilly, gray photographs taken at 25 different Nazi concentration camps, Reinartz successfully portrays the very purpose--death--of these horrific places. In the photographs, no figure intrudes on the stark emptiness and brutal orderliness of the camps' architecture. The photographs are carefully composed, and their tonal range deliberately compressed, so that there is no brightness in them, only shades of gray. Nor is there any shred of sentiment, only emptiness and silence. In his text, Krockow contrasts the truth of the pictures and the superficial, "amusement park" ambiance that greets actual visitors to the camps today. He meditates as well on the failings of the human mind that allowed the power to kill to go unchecked. Disturbing photographs, thoughtful text. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 116 pages illustrated in color. Documents the superb and amazing Art Deco buildings of Miami Beach. Bright and beautiful full color photos feature mainly the exteriors of these gems. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 259 pages, photographic frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates; original blue cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, Autobiography of the English writer and founder of the Hogarth Press with his wife Virginia Woolf. The fourth volume of the autobiography. Remainder line to edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1st, 1928, Two hardcover volumes 291/266 pages. Black cloth spine with gilt decoration over boards with patterned batik paper. Limited numbered set #2025/2050, signed by the publishers on the limitation page. 24 two-color semi-erotic plates by Ralph Barton. Edgewear to cardboard covers and corners worn. Some gutter cracks throughout. Overall, a good plus set.
Softcover. The Norton Gallery of Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Here the Norton Gallery of Arts Museum shows the exhibition of works by the distinguished Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch. For him, art must do nothing less than reveal the essential human condition. Having emerged as an accomplished Naturialist painter in the 1880s, he rejected Naturalism in his artistic manifesto of 1889-90. He began to paint images reflecting the stormy human psyche, and arranged his paintings into friezes to better communicate their meaning. At his death in 1944, his legacy included several thousand oil prints, reams of drawings, literary fragments, photographs and sculpture. Light sticker residue to front cover otherwise clean and bright.
Softcover. Washington DC, The Corcoran Gallery Of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in stapled gray wraps 24 pages, color plates. Introduction by Paige Turner. Clean, like new exhibition catalog.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1985, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, square format, 114 pages. This handsome book provides a first-time look at the black-and-white artistry of one of the century's master photographers. Ninety-one images, some going back almost fifty years, together with a richly evocative text by the author, record an authentic vision of the American Southwest - past and present. Large book measures about 12 x 11, introduction section of 25 pages followed by section of 88 b&w plates (total 91 plates in book). Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sei Swann, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. SIGNED BY HEYERT on the front fly leaf and dated 03/01/2003, difficult to see against the black endpapers. Stated first edition. Essay by John Guare. Conversation with Elizabeth Heyert and Stacey d'Erasmo. Illustrated throughout in black & white with Heyert's photographs. 12" high X 10" wide, 63 pages. Laid in is a receipt for purchase of the book from the Edwynn Houk Gallery in NY city dated 6/16/05. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket with mild tanning, 254 pages. Bound in bright blue cloth in white dust jacket printed in red and black. First Printing stated. A collection of Isherwood's writings from nearly four decades. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 253 pages, First edition, trade paperback issued simultaneous with the hardcover. Crowe's first book, for which he spent a year "undercover" as a student in high school despite being twenty two. The book inspired the popular movie of the same name. Crowe also wrote the screenplay for the popular and funny movie directed by Amy Heckerling, the film debut of Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker, and Anthony Edwards. First book by the Academy Award-winning writer and director of such films as *Jerry McGuire* and *Almost Famous*. Spine is slightly cocked, mild wear, no markings.
Hardcover. White River Junction VT, Chelsea Green Publishing , 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we've made--including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction--have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California Condors. In the Rocky Mountains, the cloud forests of Hawaii, and the Grand Canyon, Sophie and her colleagues work day-to-day to try to reintroduce these birds to the wild, even when it seems that the odds are steeply stacked against their survival.With humor and suspense, Feather Trails introduces us to the fascinating behaviors and unique personalities of Sophie's avian charges and shows that what endangers them ultimately threatens all life on our planet. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Land's End Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 1968 stated on both the cover and copyright pages. 13 x 9.5 inches, black cloth with gilt design and lettering to the cover and spine. 288 pages. Wrapped in a worn and chipped dust-jacket with a nude illustration in black and white covering the lower 2/5 of the cover. This book provides a selection of Rops' graphics with notes on his life by Lee Revens. Felicien Rops (1833 1898) was a prominent figure in 19th-century Belgium. His art is characterized by satirical, demonic, and erotic themes, often challenging societal norms and hypocrisy. Rops works hold a mirror to contemporary society, exposing its repressive standards and moral contradictions. His art oscillates between sensuality, death, and satanism, making him a key figure in the late 19th-century decadent movement. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 381 pages. From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American female journalist killed while covering combat. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Ames IA, Iowa State University, 1ST, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, The author of aviation books and the "Flying Carpet" column in AOPA Flight Training magazine entertainingly shares "some lessons a pilot never forgets." Illustrations include maps of US destinations and b&w photos of his planes and family.
Hardcover. Staten Island NY, Center Migration Studies , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 359 pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. West LafayetteIN, Bordighera, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. The biography of an Italian actress, playwright, and lecturer. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Phoenix Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 718 pages. One of history's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won his first battle against Aegean Pirates, his last battle against German Dragoons. He went to jail in Russia and led Brazilian rebels in the field. He was twice an admiral and seven times a general, a high government official in at least five countries, became Commander in Chief of the Uruguayan Army, Dictator of Sicily and Freeman of the City of London.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 482 pages with index. The first sustained analysis of the cult of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in Sicily and provoked the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the overthrow of papal power in central Italy, and the creation of the Italian nation state. It made him a global icon, representing strength, bravery, manliness, saintliness, and a spirit of adventure. Handsome, flamboyant, and sexually attractive, he was worshiped in life and became a cult figure after his death in 1882. Lucy Riall shows that the emerging cult of Garibaldi was initially conceived by revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the status quo, that it was also the result of a collaborative effort involving writers, artists, actors, and publishers, and that it became genuinely and enduringly popular among a broad public. 33 b&w illustrations.
Hardcover. London/NY, Hamlyn, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth with silver lettering, 96 pages, Illustrated profusely with 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, The Drawing Centre, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Penone's sculptures, installations, and drawings are distinguished by his emphasis on process and his use of natural materials, such as clay, stone, metal, and wood. Exhibition catalog. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker & Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards with blue cloth spine, 150 pages, b&w illustrations. A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions. James Salter is considered one of America's greatest prose stylists. The Arm of Flesh (later revised and retitled Cassada ) and his first novel, The Hunters, are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of flying and aerial combat. A former Air Force pilot who flew F-86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration of the pilot's life. This book collects passages from two other books he wrote about his military flight career and entries from his personal journal kept during his tours of military flying duty through flight training in late WWII, into combat duty in Korea in 1952, and through his post war flying up into the early 1960s. Masterfully edited by Jessica and William Benton, it has been organized chronologically and simply is wonderful. You can read from the journal entry, and then it is followed by fiction he created using that experience. No dust jacket, clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH MOSHER AND MILLER on the half-title page. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.
Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, pages illustrated in color and b&w. Hollywood Fashion explores the art and legacy of the cinematic costume designer, starting with the birth of the modern motion picture industry on a prime piece of California real estate known as Hollywood. Readers will discover how film clothing evolved from actors selecting items from their home wardrobes to outfits customized for their roles -- everything from suits of armor to ball gowns to office attire to lingerie, all created by a studio designer and a dedicated staff of costumers.
Hardcover. Santa Monica CA, Angel City Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 159 pages. HOLLYWOOD RIDES A BIKE shows classic stars -- from Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, and Brigitte Bardot to Bogie, Gable, and Bing -- on wheels, then proves there's way less than six degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and all the best bikes Hollywood prop shops have to offer. One hundred twenty-five rare vintage photographs will make bicycle lovers drool over classic models and one-of-a-kinds. Then, especially for cycling aficionados, there's a special index just about the bicycles! Not to disappoint movie fans, another index is devoted to the book's Who's Who of Hollywood stars. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Jean Feraca's road to self-fulfillment has been as quirky and demanding as the characters in her memoir. A twenty-five-year veteran of public radio broadcasting, Feraca is also a writer and a poet. She is a talk show host beloved for her unique mixture of the humanities, poetry, and journalism, and is the creator of the pioneering international cultural affairs radio program Here on Earth: Radio without Borders. In this searing memoir, Feraca traces her own emergence. She pulls back the curtain on her private life, revealing unforgettable portraits of the characters in her brawling Italian American family: Jenny, the grandmother, the devil woman who threw Casey Stengel down an excavation pit; Dolly, the mother, a cross between Long John Silver and the Wife of Bath who in battling mental illness becomes the scourge of a Lutheran nursing home; and Stephen, the brilliant but troubled older brother, an anthropologist who was adopted into a Sioux tribe. Unique, eccentric, and distinctive, I Hear Voices is a memoir that tells a universal story of a woman evolving to fully embrace her life and the world. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Handwritten letter also laid in.