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Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. With the explosive early 1960s folk revival as backdrop, Hajdu entertainingly recounts this downright Shakespearean tale of Folk Queen Joan Baez falling for the Ass, Bob Dylan. Meanwhile, Joan's younger sister, Mimi, succumbs to the spell of the charming writer Richard Farina, and the two become a highly regarded folk-singing duo in their own right. Little does Mimi suspect that she is a convenient way for Richard to get closer to Joan. Tragedy strikes the foursome as Dylan dumps Baez once his fame eclipses hers, and Farina is killed in a motorcycle accident on Mimi's 21st birthday, two days after the publication of his first novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Though Dylan and Baez will sell this book, the real star is the colorful but controlling rogue, Farina, whose star was swiftly rising at the time of his death. Hajdu pulled off a coup in winning the participation of reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was a close friend of Farina's. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd Ed., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, spine stamped with gilt lettering, 325 pages. Ex-lib copy with light stamping, residue to endpapers, lettering on spine. Interior clean. Offers a detailed examination of printing types across Europe from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The author delves into the history, evolution, and use of various fonts, exploring the rise and fall of different styles and the influence of prominent printers and type foundries. The book highlights the shift in printing dominance from France to the Netherlands, emphasizing the remarkable contributions of Christophe Plantin and the Elzevir family. The narrative examines the interplay between typographic innovation and the broader cultural and religious landscape, showing how printing techniques reflected evolving aesthetic sensibilities, scholarly trends, and the political climate of the era. The book also explores the economic and social aspects of the printing industry, including the role of censorship, labor conditions, and the evolving relationship between printers, publishers, and patrons.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages. The second volume of James Lees-Milne's provocative and highly-acclaimed diaries spanning the years 1944-1945. Gives a picture of the author's work in the country and in London, where he lived during the height of the bombing, and also of the convivialities of leisure. Like Ancestral Voices, it offers sparkling entertainment as well as shrewd insights into the social and cultural life of the period.Clean copy.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 273 pages. From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism, are themselves subjected to an "empire of critique" from Israeli and Palestinian institutions, Western academics, journalists and filmmakers, and even fellow activists. Such global criticism has limited growth and led to an emphasis within the movement on anti-imperialism over the struggle against homophobia. With this book, Sa'ed Atshan asks how transnational progressive social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis. He explores critical junctures in the history of Palestinian LGBTQ activism, revealing the queer Palestinian spirit of agency, defiance, and creativity, in the face of daunting pressures and forces working to constrict it. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A handsome first edition/first printing. The second book in his "Rabbit" series, beginning with Rabbit, Run and followed by Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest, published from 1960 to 1990. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, HarperCollins, 1st CAN, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 420 pages, b&w photos. Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country. A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. She was nothing more than "a painter derailed by circumstances," she would explain. And yet, she went on to become a talented self-taught musician and a brilliant bandleader, releasing album after album, each distinctly experimental, challenging, and revealing. Her lyrics captivated listeners with their perceptive language and naked emotion, born out of Mitchell's life, loves, complaints, and prophecies. Remainder dot to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 356 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR EMILY BERNARD on the title page. Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless.Despite their differences a Van Vechten was forty-four to Hughes twenty-two when they met. Hughes and Van Vechten's shared interest in black culture lead to a deeply-felt, if unconventional friendship that would span some forty years. Between them they knew everyone from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright, and their letters, lovingly and expertly collected here for the first time, are filled with gossip about the antics of the great and the forgotten, as well as with talk that ranged from race relations to blues lyrics to the nightspots of Harlem, which they both loved to prowl. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Reno NV, University of Nevada, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 152 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS opposite the half title page. A photographic journey through Reno history then and now, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. 659 pages including index. Volume 3 covers the war's Western Theater. This book is the third report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, which was a committee of the US Congress during the American Civil War. The committee was tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct or incompetence by Union Army officers and contractors. The reports provide detailed accounts of these investigations and shed light on the political and military context of the era. Contains testimony concerning the massacre of over 100 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory, by U.S. troops under Col. Chivington and Maj. Anthony. Covers are worn and stained, first 70 pages with light stain to margins, not affecting text.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 333 pages. Reporting Always collects a wide range of Lillian Ross's New Yorker articles and "Talk of the Town" pieces spanning sixty years, bringing readers into Robin Williams's living room; Harry Winston's office; the afterschool hangouts of Manhattan private-school children; the hotel rooms of Ernest Hemingway, John Huston, and Charlie Chaplin; onto the tennis court with John McEnroe; and into the lives of many other famous and not-so-famous characters. Ross's portraits are filled with rich details that reveal her subjects in amusing and perceptive ways. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Softcover. Atlantic Highlands NJ, Humanities Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. A collection of essays on metaphysics. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages including index. First Printing stated, with the letter B at the bottom of the copyright page. Brown cloth, lacking the dust jacket. B&w illustrations, foldout map in fine condition in rear. Lawrence's firsthand account of the Arab Revolt during WWI, detailing guerrilla warfare campaigns from sabotaging the Hejaz Railway to the push toward Damascus. This book, originally written in 1919, was printed for the author and his friends, not for general publication. Lawrence abridged the original work and the present volume is about one-half the size of the original. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on the front fly leaf. Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? shakes the Eurocentric foundations of our ideas about love in the far-flung corners of the world, showing that we've been looking for love in all the wrong places. Social observers from the West, the authors contend, have projected their own rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures to which such a formula simply doesn't apply. The contributors find expressions of love almost everywhere they look, from the Inuit woman who went hunting and sealing with her husband because she could not bear to be apart from him for even an hour, to a Moroccan youth who reportedly said to his lover, "If I do not see you for just half a day I go crazy". The contributors to Romantic Passion look beyond each society's "official" institutions in their search for expressions of love. Clean copy.

Softcover. Beirut, Plan Bey, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages. Color plates. Limited to 300 copies. Lebanese artist, critic and poet Samir Sayegh is a pioneer of modernism in the Arab world. Often uniting ornamentation with calligraphic script, he has developed a distinctive practice. This catalog is printed in offset in three Pantone colors on special Fabriano Ingres laid finished drawing paper with Japanese hand binding. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, 186 pages. The title of this book refers to the meetings in London taverns and private houses, beginning about 1650, of English scientists and men of means and philosophical interests. At these meetings a great deal was eaten and drunk, discussion and even experimentation took place. It was from this nucleus that the Royal Society was formed in 1662. After that an inner circle still dined before the meetings of the Society and in 1725 formed a dining club. Dean Slichter, in the first two essays of this volume sketches the parallel early histories of the Royal Society and of the Club, stressing the importance for science of the patronage of the men of wealth and social position who belonged to these organizations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 258 pages, b&w illustrations. Records in detail Watson's heroic war against the whalers and seal hunters who are decimating the animal populations. The young Canadian conservationist, is determined to stop that, even if it costs him his life. Three times, on the ice floes off Labrador, he threw himself between baby harp seals and their killers. He sprayed the pups with a harmless red dye, rendering their white pelts commercially useless. He was beaten, nearly drowned, jailed. Against Soviet and Japanese whalers, he raced his kamikaze inflatable dinghy to a blocking position between harpooner and whale. Then, which his own boat, the Sea Shepherd, supported by the Cleveland Amory's Fund for Animals, Watson rammed the pirate whaler Sierra off Portugal. Bookplate on inside front cover, light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages. Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacan. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to the peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Cardenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture. Clean copy

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends astute analysis, robust polemic, ethnography, and personal narrative to delve into the complicated relationship between sexuality and punishment in our society. Drawing on classical social science, critical legal studies, and queer theory, he tracks the rise of a modern suburban culture of fear and develops new insights into the punitive logic that has put down deep roots in everyday American life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "In 'Shakespeare After All,' Marjorie Garber - professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University gives us a magisterial work of criticism, authoritative and engaging, based on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years. Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half of the twentieth century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays in chronological sequence". 989 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, green cloth stamped in gilt, 393 and 426 pages, Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. Dickens first published book from 1837--sketches originally published in various London newspapers and periodicals between 1833-1837, to the delight of Londoners. Tales, stories, portraits of life and cultural mores, characters, places in London in early 19th century, often hilarious, from farce to tragedy. With the original illustrations, most by George Cruikshank. Reprinted from the 1867 and 1868 editions published by Chapman and Hall. Light shelf wear, Vol. 1 with fraying to top of spine. Spine cloth faded to tan color. These are heavy and oversized books and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 355 pages. An illustrated collection of thrilling tales from science fiction masters such as Bradbury, Asimov, and Vinge focuses on life in space habitats and includes essays by scientists that discuss the potential realities of space stations and homes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 386 pages,b&w illustrations. They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. Todd S. Purdum's portrait of these two men, their creative process, and their groundbreaking innovations will captivate lovers of musical theater, lovers of the classic American songbook, and young lovers wherever they are. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, with fading to spine. The sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1985.The poems in the collection are generally focused on the role of the poet and their relationship to history and politics but, more specifically, are also a platform through which Heaney can examine his own complex relationship with the sectarian violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland (including his decision to move his family out of the north to the Republic of Ireland in 1972). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 337 pages, b&w illustrations. Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch's life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway's great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fateful move to New York City, where she studied alongside Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte. We accompany Elaine through her jagged rise to fame, to Hollywood and London, and across her later years, when she enjoyed a stunning renaissance, punctuated by a turn on the popular television show 30 Rock. We explore the influential-and often fraught-collaborations she developed with Noel Coward, Tennessee Williams, and above all Stephen Sondheim, as well as her courageous yet flawed attempts to control a serious drinking problem. And we see the entertainer triumphing over personal turmoil with the development of her Tony Award-winning one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which established her as an emblem of spiky independence and Manhattan life for an entirely new generation of admirers. Remainder dot on top edge, otherwise clean.