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Softcover. Dekalb IL, Northern Illinois University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. Prostitutes, shoplifters, vagrants, murderesses -- Dodge tracks the history of such "improper" women as she explores the history of female incarceration in Illinois from 1835 to the present. In court and in prison, these women - some who are considered beyond all hope of reformation - have received vastly different treatment than their male counterparts. A woman's fate in court often hung on officials' estimates of her moral and sexual reputation. Alleged promiscuity, illegitimate births, venereal disease, interracial relationships, or use of alcohol could condemn her in the eyes of judge and jury. Ethnic and social prejudice played a role, too, as most incarcerated women poor, working-class, immigrants, or members of a racial minority. Highly readable yet theoretically sophisticated, Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind provides a striking collective portrait of incarcerated women. Drawn from extensive primary sources, the voices of female prisoners emerge powerfully and poignantly as individuals tell their stories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st , 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by the author. In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With this act, the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the millions of people still eager to drink it. Men like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky Johnson in Atlantic City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the waterfronts. But if you think you already know this story...think again, since you've never seen it through the eyes of one the mobsters who lived it. Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition became law. Over the next decade, Alo would work side by side with Lansky and Luciano as they navigated the brutal underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Alo's later career included prison time and the ultimate Mob tribute: being immortalized as "Johnny Ola" in The Godfather, Part II. Introduced to the 91-year-old Alo living in retirement in Florida, Dylan Struzan based this book on more than 50 hours of recorded testimony--stories Alo had never shared, and that he forbid her to publish until "after I'm gone." Alo died, peacefully, two months short of his 97th birthday. And now his stories--bracing and violent, full of intrigue and betrayal, hunger and hubris--can finally be told. With cover art and 24 interior illustrations by Drew Struzan, one of the most acclaimed movie poster painters of all time. Small remainder dot bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 326 pages. Firth Haring Fabend has studied a large colonial American family over five generations. The Haring family settled in the Hackensack Valley (on the New York/New Jersey border), where they lived, prospered, and remained throughout the eighteenth century. Fabend looks at how this ordinary family of independent, middle-class farmers coped with immigration, established themselves in a community, acquired land and capital, and took part in the social, political, economic, and religious changes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As she traces the lives of the Harings and their neighbors, Fabend focuses on their marriage and childbearing patterns, living conditions, agricultural methods, and relative economic position. She investigates inheritance patterns, concluding that the position of women deteriorated under English law. She is equally interested in the political and religious life of the family. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil checks in margins to several pages, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 201 pages. Stated first edition, 1972, but actually a book club edition with the telltale little indentation at the bottom right of the rear cover, no price on dj flap. Warren served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States. This is a great book on the foundations of our republic and on how to preserve it. Chief Justice Warren explains history and Constitutional law in common terms that are easy to digest. This book stresses the importance of civic engagement, the Bill of Rights, and the need for ethics and respect in a republic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library , reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1022 pages. Black calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library , reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker, 775 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1879 Little Brown edition. "One of the earliest American authorities still in general use. A good historical sketch of copyright and some early references to newspaper copyright." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, J. Disturnell, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A Trip Through the Lakes of North America: Embracing a full description of the St. Lawrence River, together with all the principal places on its banks, from its source to its mouth (1857). Hardcover, original blind-stamped tan cloth, 364 pages + ads. 2 maps, one large fold-out in rear of the Valley of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Country, b&w engravings. Binding worn, clean, overall Good+.

Hardcover. Denton TX, University of North Texas Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 861 pages. Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts, and Casey Tefertiller, all notable experts on Earp and the Wild West, have curated an anthology of the very best work on Earp--more than sixty articles and excerpts from books--from a wide array of authors, selecting only the best written and factually documented pieces and omitting those full of suppositions or false material. Nearly all of the selections come from the last twenty years, when a more critical eye was turned to sources of Earp history. Many articles derive from the five stellar western publications dedicated to preserving the history of the American West: True West, Wild West, WOLA Journal, NOLA Quarterly, and the Journal of the Wild West History Association. Earp's life is presented in chronological fashion, from his early years to Dodge City, Kansas; triumph and tragedy in Tombstone; and his later years throughout the West. Important figures in Earp's life, such as Bat Masterson, the Clantons, the McLaurys, Doc Holliday, and John Ringo, are also covered. Wyatt Earp's image in film and the myths surrounding his life, as well as controversies over interpretations and presentations of his life by various writers, also receive their due. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Francis Childs, 1st, 1795, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, 434 pages plus an index in rear. Maroon label on spine reads UNITED STATES LAWS in gilt. Covers all three sessions: The second on the 4th of January 1790 and the 3rd session, held in Philadelphia, on the 6th of December 1790. Covers rubbed, front board detached. First 2 pages, (the title page and the following page) have tears, pieces missing. The next page, the beginning text of the Constitution has smaller marginal damage. The rest of the text pages very good with the occasional foxing.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England's most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the "golden age" of this radically new medium. Fenton's majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain's power. But Fenton's choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members' works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book--the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years--presents eighty-five of the artist's finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career.

Softcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 303 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright duct jacket, 251 pages, b&w illustrations. For years, designers, educators, and community administrators have clamored for a book that will highlight the problems with contemporary playgrounds, tender sorely needed strategies with which to redress them, and stimulate national debate about today's crisis of undervalued public space. Susan Solomon's groundbreaking and marvelously illustrated American Playgrounds is that book. Since the 1970s, Solomon maintains, American playgrounds have degenerated into irrelevance as cultural artifacts and educational tools. Imbedded in Solomon's text is a frank indictment of American attitudes that are stunted by a heavy-handed emphasis on safety that limits the nature of play and the vitality of places for public assembly. During the past decade an elite few American architects, landscape architects, and sculptors, including Stanley Saitowitz, Walter Hood, and Mary Miss, have pioneered the restoration of aesthetic and developmental values to play areas for young people. Solomon appraises these success stories and proposes fresh and urgent remedies that blend excellent design principles, innovative planning, and affordability-a vision for the future of the playground in America. Supplementing her impeccable command of primary and secondary sources with hundreds of hours of interviews with designers and clients, the author confronts a seriously under-developed topic with powerful and complex arguments rich in social history, law, theories of play and childhood, and urbanism. Readers will be inspired-and equipped-to take up the gauntlet of advocacy for superior American playgrounds. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 77 pages, red cloth binding with blue and gilt stamping. A facsimile reprint of the London 1613 printing. Tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Printed for the Author by Hugh Maxwell, 1st, 1804, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Disbound booklet, 26 pages plus wrappers. This was Griffiths' inaugural dissertation for his degree of doctor of medicine. The title identifies him as "one of the physicians of the Philadelphia Alms-House, and honorary member of the Philadelphia Medical Society." Dr. G. offers "a few observations on the laws of animal life; then the disease is described; afterwards the causes, both general and local, are considered: and the method of treating it concludes the essay." Mild foxing.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, handsomely bound in crimson red cowhide leather lettered and decorated in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, attached ribbon bookmarks, marbled endpapers. A facsimile of the original 1861 London edition. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, 1840, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Volume one. Rebound. Some pencil underlining and notation. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Wrinkle to front top corner. Fading to covers.

Hardcover. London, 1840, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Volume Two. Rebound. Some pencil underlining and notation. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light markings to covers.

Hardcover. London, Printed for the Companie of Stationers, unknown, 1620, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rebound, black covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Soiling, ragged edges to front fly leaf and title page. Some foxing, staining to pages. Fore-edge soiled. This copy lacks year XXVII of Henry VIII. Else a nice, tight copy. Photos available.

Hardcover. Boston, William White & Co, 3rd, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Black boards with embossed pictorial border, gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, light rubbing to covers, top third of outside of front hinge cracked, mild edgewear, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta. The murdered man was the overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate, apparently killed by two runaway slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. In response to the murder, the wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and kill his ninety-nine remaining slaves in three days. Now Gordianus the Finder has been summoned from Rome by a mysterious client to find out the truth about the murder before the three days are up.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib copy with only one sticker on board spine and one sticker on rear cover board. Dust jacket has no evidence of ex-lib. Tight, clean copy, otherwise.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Created by McSweeney's in celebration of their 11th anniversary, this book showcases the independent literary publisher's award-winning art and design across all its activities, including McSweeney's books, quarterly journals, Wholphin DVDs, and The Believer magazine. Hundreds of images - from napkin sketches to final objects - offer insights into McSweeney's creative process, and a narrative history in interviews explores the incidental, accidental, and deliberate ways they have helped transform the visual experience of reading. hundreds of photos and illustrations, and interviews with the staff and writers and artists such as Rick Moody, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgeman, Lawrence Weschler, Michael Chabon, Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, and many more.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 2010-06-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Created by McSweeney's in celebration of their 11th anniversary, this book showcases the independent literary publisher's award-winning art and design across all its activities, including McSweeney's books, quarterly journals, Wholphin DVDs, and The Believer magazine. Hundreds of images - from napkin sketches to final objects - offer insights into McSweeney's creative process, and a narrative history in interviews explores the incidental, accidental, and deliberate ways they have helped transform the visual experience of reading. hundreds of photos and illustrations, and interviews with the staff and writers and artists such as Rick Moody, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgeman, Lawrence Weschler, Michael Chabon, Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, and many more.

Hardcover. London, Secker and Warburg, 1st thus, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 408 pages, orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine. B&w plates including frontispiece, spine sunned, ownership signature, otherwise clean.