Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown patterned cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in slipcase. Maya Angelou's autobiographical account of her childhood and early youth growing up in 1930's America, is an evocation of a black girl's struggle against her oppressors. A great American classic, Maya Angelou's powerful and perceptive memoir forged a path for Black American women's writing and made her an international icon. Written in 1969, it recounts her early experiences as a woman of color in the segregated Deep South where, surrounded by bigotry and poverty, daily life was lived on a knife-edge.

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg. 170 duotone illustrations, chronology. Published in conjunction with a series of retrospective exhibitions chronicling forty years of the author's photographs of industrial and rural landscapes. Clean copy.

Chicago, University of Chicago , 6th pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, b&w illustrations. The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with red lettering, 298 pages. Illustrated with 88 b&w photos. A famous naturalist tells of his adventures in central Africa, accompanied by his photographs. Name and address on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 283 pages. "During the Age of Jackson, New Hampshire was one New England state that was consistently and firmly Democratic. The only study of the state's politics during the first half of the 19th century, the author's book points out the significant, though often overlooked, influence of New Hampshire Democrats on the national Jacksonian movement- and influence far out of proportion to the size of the state." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, printed silk bound boards with gilt buckram title stamp to spine. Housed in a red cardboard slipcase. 642 pages. Collected and edited by Deirdre Le Faye. Index. Color frontispiece. Color plates which illustrate objects, people, places mentioned in the letters or associated with Jane Austen. Her letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the intimate and gossipy, observant and informative--they read much like the novels themselves. They bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events, all with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Most important, we recognize the unmistakable voice of the author of such novels as Pride and Prejudice and Emma. We see the shift in her writing from witty and amusing descriptions of the social life of town and country, to a thoughtful and constructive tone while writing about the business of literary composition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) was driven not just to be an actress but to be a star. One of the most influential sex symbols of her time, she was known for her platinum blonde hair, hourglass figure, outrageously low necklines, and flamboyant lifestyle. Hardworking and ambitious, Mansfield proved early in her career that she was adept in both comic and dramatic roles, but her tenacious search for the spotlight and her risque promotional stunts caused her to be increasingly snubbed in Hollywood. In the first definitive biography of Mansfield, Eve Golden offers a joyful account of the star Andy Warhol called "the poet of publicity," revealing the smart, determined woman behind the persona. She discusses Mansfield's childhood, her many loves -- including her famous on-again, off-again relationship with Miklos "Mickey" Hargitay -- her struggles with alcohol, and her sometimes tumultuous family relationships. She also considers Mansfield's enduring contributions to American popular culture and celebrity culture. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good dust jacket with mild fading to spine. 184 pages plus index, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, protected by mylar cover. A very clean, tight copy. Written from personal recollection and years of research by the friend and writer Steinbeck knew would one day be his biographer. Emphasizes Steinbeck's formative years: boyhood in Salinas, farmhand, seaman, road-gang flunkie, hod carrier, dam builder and pursuit of wine, women and song.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Story based on the popular radio series, Captain Midnight. World War II adventure novel for young adults, set on a hidden air force base in the South Pacific. Paper tanning, name on front fly leaf.

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 351 pages. George Wilkins Kendall, who founded the New Orleans Picayune in 1837, was a restless, impatient, and colorful character in an exciting era. For thirty years he guided the Picayune and built it into a powerful force in behalf of America's westward expansion. Kendall's vigorous editorials championed the cause of the infant Republic of Texas. When the Texan Santa Fe Expedition was organized in 1841, for the purpose of occupying New Mexico (then still under Mexican rule), Kendall left his editorial chair to participate--and was marched off to Mexico as a captive for seven months when the expedition was overwhelmed at Santa Fe. A few years later, when Kendall accompanied American forces invading Mexico during the Mexican War, he became America's first war correspondent--reporting directly from the battlefront. His effective "courier expresses" brought the first news of each battle to an eager nation, including President Polk, who often read news of the war in Kendall's Picayune before hearing it from his field commanders. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 290 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Kiki was once the symbol of bohemian Paris. But if she is remembered today, it is only for posing for several now-celebrated male artists, including Amedeo Modigliani and Alexander Calder, and especially photographer Man Ray. Why has Man Ray's legacy endured while Kiki has become a footnote? Kiki and Man Ray met in 1921 during a chance encounter at a cafe. What followed was an explosive decade-long connection, both professional and romantic, during which the couple grew and experimented as artists, competed for fame, and created many of the shocking images that cemented Man Rays reputation as one of the great artists of the modern era. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1899, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Full-page color frontispiece with five full-page color plates and numerous black-and-white line illustrations throughout. [19] leaves, printed recto only. Cloth spine gone leaving both covers detached, covers edgeworn, especially corners. Interior of book sound, clean with bright plates.

Hardcover. NY, Grand Central Publishing, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 388 pages. Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this "monumental origin story" celebrates the legacy of the Velvet Underground, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century. Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen--whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s--the Velvet Underground represents ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang around a psychedelic rock and roll band--a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol's Factory--the Velvets were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line-up. They never smiled in photographs, wore sunglasses indoors, and invented the archetype that would be copied by everyone from Sid Vicious to Bobby Gillespie. They were avant-garde nihilists, writing about drug abuse, prostitution, paranoia, and sado-masochistic sex at a time when the rest of the world was singing about peace and love.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Like new in unclipped dust jacket. A foray into the "war summer" of 1968 that illuminates the complexities, sensibilities, and passions of the time.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A massive novel illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. John Gardner's final novel follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal descent, which he seems powerless to arrest, he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, which seems to be haunted by the ghosts of an incestuous family. Mickelsson's farmhouse sanctuary was (it turns out) not only the residence of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, but the scene of a murder; the place is haunted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt. 358 pages. Map endpapers, frontispiece, notes, map, appendices. Introduction by Edward Garnett. Frontispiece of the author on a horse as Sheikh Mohammed El Fasi. Mild fade to spine lettering, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Thames And Hudson, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages, 91 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 298 pages. Name on front fly, also the next blank page. Otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Charlotte VT, Camden House Publishing, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Extensive color photography by Richard Brown throughout. Offers advice on photographing people, landscapes, and animals, discusses composition, light, and equipment, and discusses the background of a variety of photographs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Ltd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Burgundy cloth, gilt spine and front facsimile signature; signed by author in black ink to limitation page, copy #310/500; 2 sections of black & white photographs; tan paper covered slipcase. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966-1968 and held the position of United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages illustrated in color. This authoritative yet accessible study begins with an overview of the aesthetics, meanings, functions, and techniques of Mesoamerican architecture, and then proceeds to survey the historical development of the builder's art in each of the region's cultural areas. As readers travel from the Maya heartland of Guatemala and the Yucatan to the Aztec stronghold of the Valley of Mexico, and all the way to the northern hinterlands of Mesoamerica, they will gain an appreciation of both the unity and the diversity of the region's architecture. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Vermont Printing Co., 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Related ephemera laid in. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise a super clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 170 pages. Having previously published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, here Rabinow describes in straight-forward language a series of encounters with his informants, from a French innkeeper holding on to the vestiges of a colonial past to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. The unfolding of these encounters over the length of the author's stay in Morocco develops the book's main theme, that the collection of cultural data shapes and informs that material and its participant observer as well.

Hardcover. NY, Wilfred Funk, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 634 pages, mild shelf wear. An incredible chronologically arranged, unedited and indexed collection of FDR's Foreign Policy, National Defense Policy, Public Letters & Papers, Messages to Congress, Executive Orders, Proclamations, Fireside Chats & Public Addresses. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 94 pages. Brown cloth covers, beveled edges, gilt titles to spine and front cover, lovely gilt pictorial to front, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 10 full-page color plates (1 plate torn in half) and numerous b&w illustrated figures, by Frances Brundage and M. Bowley. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, light edgewear to covers, endpapers lightly discolored with age, chipping and tear to first plate, half of 9th color plate torn off, a few pages separate from page block.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 419 pages. Saint-Gaudens was one of the major artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; his outstanding craftsmanship remains a tremendous influence on American sculpture to this day. Fifty-five b/w illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 340 pages. The majority of the letters in this collection pertain to Reznikoff's personal life, addressed chiefly to his wife, Marie Syrkin, and his lifelong friend and sometime employer in Hollywood, Albert Lewin.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages, color and b/w photographs, b/w sketches by the author. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. As the longtime editor of Safari magazine, Quimby had the chance to hunt on multiple continents for all the sundry game animals found there. In this book he tells us of hunts across North and South America; South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other parts of Africa; Spain; Mongolia; and New Zealand. Also included is Quimby's successful quest to become one of the very few to take all ten of Arizona's big-game species. Several of his hunts were memorable for what went wrong. A horse panicked and fell off a series of ledges during a hunt for a mountain lion, which led to Quimby and a friend spending a cold New Year's Eve on a ridge without shelter or fire. Then, after he had waited thirty-nine years to draw an Arizona desert sheep tag, Bill is changing a tire on the first day of hunting when a bumper jack slips and breaks his arm. (He shot his ram and completed his "Big Ten" quest twelve days later by firing his rifle one-handed.) Some other stories include the time an Indian guide fell from a boat in the Northwest Territories and drowned on the author's caribou hunt; the time a storm on a Yukon moose hunt kept Quimby and his guide snowbound in a plywood shack for nine days. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The story of the Ill-fated Donner Party and the ordeal of being stuck in the Sierras through winter in the 1840's. The late author lived in the house once occupied by Patty Reed, the Donner party survivor whose family is the subject of the book.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Penguin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 5 3/4" X 4 3/4". Bantock trains his hilariously skewed 3-D vision on Mother Goose. At Bantock's hand, Solomon Grundy is spared nothing, his six-day life described as a wicked downward spiral, complete with a running gag and a haunting finale. 6 full-color pop-ups, all working perfectly.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 95 pages. Ex-lib with residue, stamping to endpapers. Interior clean, probably a rebound softcover published in 1906.

Softcover. NY, O'Quinn Studios, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 66 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Articles include: Guides to all 79 Episodes of Star Trek. Shatner "Shakespeare to the Stars", Nimoy "The Man Behind the Ears" News regarding Sci Fi Movies, TV, Books, Records, Etc. Building the Bionic Woman (Lyndsay Wagner). Will the changes help Space 1999?, Two new "Kongs" challenge the King. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, O'Quinn Studios, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Articles include: The Prisoner, The Computer's Game, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Makeup Men, Star Trek Report. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, O'Quinn Studios, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Articles include: The Outer Limits, Space 1999, Six Million Dollar Man, Frederic Brown's Arena. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, O'Quinn Studios, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Articles include: Star Wars, Robby the Robot, Kelly Freas, Rocketship X-M, David Gerrold Goes Ape. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, O'Quinn Studios, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 66 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Articles include: Robots on Film. Meteor-The FX Story, Star Trek Lost Designs, Buck Rogers, Andy Probert Interview, others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MD, Cornell Maritime Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photographs. The story of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company's "Old Bay Line"that maintained faithful and uninterrupted service on the Chesapeake Bay from its founding in 1840 until operations suspended in 1962. The line line offered transportation of passengers and frieght between Norfolk and Baltimore. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 2nd Ed., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Second Edition stated, 10-5 L-U, (November 1945), the classic children's novel, 131 pages. Tan cloth binding with illustration in dark green and white on front cover. Garth Williams drawings. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that has light edgewear and chipping. A 4 1/2" X 6 1/2" color photo laid in, depicts Gloria Swanson surrounded by family members on Christmas Eve, 1966 (per pencil handwritten note on rear/ NOT in Swanson's hand). Book was a gift to a family friend after the actress's death in 1983. A thank you note from her daughter (Gloria Daly) is taped to prelim page addressed to Helen and Homer.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Additionally with a note to the title page stating she has hand-corrected some 20 errors in the printed text, unique thus. An epic poem "on the lives of a young composer-aviator and his intimates and casual acquaintances the accumulated wisdom and lore of the world in which we live." Winner of the Yale Poetry Award. No dust jacket. Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, this being the result. Spine gilt faded.

Softcover. Nairobi, East African Publishing House, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 162 pages, index, genealogy of kings and chiefs, bibliography, chronology, notes. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st Illust., 1912, Hardcover, originally written in 1886, this is a 1912 printing, a more scarce edition featuring the pen-and-ink sketches & color (black/gray/white/red) illustrations by artist Katharine R. Wireman. 91 pages. Small hardcover 8vo (6.75" x 8.5"), green cloth over boards with red & lighter green illustrations of birds, candles, & holly & red script lettering to front & spine. Front fly leaf gone, spine with mild fading.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. Unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover with the flaps glued to cover. Won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a best first novel in 1988

Softcover. Williston VT, privately printed, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wraps, 74 pages, b&w illustrations. Due to cheap binding several pages in rear loose. Book bright and clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket In this book, 380 pages, illustrated in color. The award-winning historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk traces the relationship of color and commerce, from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design, describing the often unrecognized role of the color profession in consumer culture. Blaszczyk examines the evolution of the color progression from 1850 to 1970, telling the stories of innovators who managed the color cornucopia that modern artificial dyes and pigments made possible. These color stylists, color forecasters, and color engineers helped corporations understand the art of illusion and the psychology of color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 513 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable story: the arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 384 pages. Bookplate on inside front cover, small name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 431 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 735 pages. light stamp to top edge. Exceptionally nice condition.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st illust. thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated blue cloth in a slipcase. 254 pages, 10 b&w illustrations by Paul Hogarth. Introduction by Antonia Fraser. First published in 1948. This is the story of an investigation of a kidnapping of a young woman and the abuse by a mother and daughter who live in a house called The Franchise. The young woman gives a detailed description of the attic room where she was supposedly kept and abused, but, Inspector Alan Grant of the Scotland Yard is not so sure.