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Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 4th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HARRIS AND EGGERS on the title page. If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's in mid-stride, moving forward. But why? In this fascinating and fun take on nonfiction for kids, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential of an entire country's creation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Justin Duerr, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. large oversize volume. Crowley was an artist who created the "Wigglemuch" over 100 years ago. Hi intricate and obsessive drawings and sculptures have not been seen in many years. This book has loads of color and b&w drawings and paintings and photographs of sculptures along with biographical details.

Softcover. Toronto, Musson Book Company Limited, Revised Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original cream paper cover with light green and black lettering and decoration, and color pastedown of a painting. Ad for Chateau Frontenac inside front cover, and one for McColl-Frontenac Oil Co. Limited inside back cover. Interior is clean and free of markings. The book describes historical places of interest in the Montreal area. 96 pages including Index. Size: 6 1/4 x 9 Inches. Mild edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Red cloth with gilt titles. Covers worn with rubbing/fraying on edges, spine faded. Internally very good.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 605 pages, b&w and color diagrams and illustrations. Embossed red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. A study on heredity and genetics. Sir John Arthur Thomson (1861-1933), Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen, was a follower of August Weismann.Edge wear, light soiling to covers; spine faded. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Front hinge cracked. Else a nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 332 pages. Volume 77 in the 'Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought Series'. Through the examination of over 250 sermons by the most popular preacher in Paris before the Religious Wars, Francois Le Picart (1504-1556), this book offers a close look at religious mentalites in the French capital in these critical years and offers insight into changing definitions of orthodoxy and heresy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 394 pages, b&w illustrations. The adventures of Tintin and his dog, Snowy, have captivated people worldwide since they first appeared as an insert in the Belgian Catholic newspaper Le Vintieme Siecle in 1929. Available for the first time in English, this insightful biography delves deep into the psyche of Tintin creator Georges Remi and his public persona Herge. Author of the critically acclaimed Tintin and the World of Herge and the last person to interview Remi, Benoit Peeters tells the complete story behind Herge's origins and shows how and why the nom de plume grew into a larger-than-Remi personality as Tintin's popularity exploded. Drawing on interviews and using recently uncovered primary sources for the first time, Peeters reveals Remi as a neurotic man who sought to escape the troubles of his past by allowing Herge's identity to subsume his own. As Tintin adventured, Herge lived out a romanticized version of life for Remi.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 160 pages. ".based on the Gino Speranza Lectures delivered in Columbia University by Broadus Mitchell as a part of the national celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. In 1936, Herman Miller Inc. founder D. J. De Pree committed Herman Miller to "modern" furniture. The rest is history: their continuing collaboration with some of the giants of modern design has made Herman Miller synonymous with quality in design. Herman Miller examines the company's powerful contributions by looking at the problems that design can solve and how creative thinking can benefit the world. Aside from having produced icons of modern furniture, Herman Miller has revolutionized office systems and furniture in the workplace.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrations by F.C. Yohn. Color frontispiece. illustrated end papers. Book store stamp on rear paste-down. light edgewear, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 380 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Frontispiece and tissue guard detached. Gutter crack in multiple pages. Corners bumped and light soil. Illustrated with 16 color and 16 monochrome plates by Louis Weirter. Embossed red cloth with elaborate embossed design and bright dragon design and lettering. Fold-out virgin map in rear appears to have never been unfolded. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece of Odin and Brunhild.

Hardcover. Chicago, Bonus Books, 2nd pr., 1989, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 317 pages, b&w photos. Happy Chandler was a two-time governor of Kentucky and a U.S. Senator from the same state during World War II. And while most people credit Branch Rickey with integrating baseball, it would not have happened without this special southern politician, Albert "Happy" Chandler being the Commissioner of Baseball at that time. Chandler also had to deal with the raids on star players by the Mexican League, the controversial suspension of Brooklyn Dodger manager Leo Durocher, and the threatened player strike. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 248 pages illustrated in color. Displays Everett's brilliant cartooning and energetic storytelling growing by leaps and bounds. Never-before-reprinted, beautifully restored, full-color stories from one of comic books' greatest visionaries and accomplished artists. This book also includes an introduction about the man, his art, the history of the era, and his relationship with Marvel Comics.

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st UK, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation from a private person into the founder and leader of a political movement which made the quest for a Jewish state into a player in international politics. Contrary to the conventional view which saw the Dreyfus affair as the trigger for Herzl's loss of belief in the promise of Jewish emancipation, Avineri shows how it was the political crisis of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Empire, torn apart by contending national movements, which convinced Herzl of the need for a Jewish polity. In response to the wide resonance for his 1896 The Jewish State, Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, which established the World Zionist Organization with its representative and elected institutions; this in turn became the foundation for Israel's democratic political system. In his efforts to gain international support for a Jewish state, Herzl met with the Ottoman Sultan, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, Pope Pius X, British, Russian and German ministers, as well as an enormous number of other government and public opinion leaders of most European countries. By the time of his early death in 1904 at the age of 44, Herzl succeeded in putting Zionism on the map of world politics, no longer an esoteric idea held by a small group of Jewish intellectuals in Eastern Europe. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Fort Lee NJ, Barricade Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ALLEN on the title page. An autobiography covering Allen's fifty years in radio and T.V. Allen was the creator and first host of the Tonight Show. B&w illust., 308 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Prague, Twisted Spoon Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 150 pages. B&w frontis. The works of the Czech Symbolist Otokar Brezina (1868-1929), a writer twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, influenced an entire generation of artists in Bohemia and Moravia. Hidden History (published posthumously in 1935) is one of the most important works of 20th century Czech prose and represents the apotheosis of Brezina's endeavors in the essay form. In this finely crafted collection, he discusses the role of art as a vanguard of developments in science and as a force for social change. These essays also contribute to an understanding of Brezina's poetry, for which he is better known. They comprise the most systematic exposition of his aesthetic creed, which served to inspire the Czech writers and literary critics who followed in his footsteps. This edition is the first complete English translation of any complete volume of Brezina's work. Afterword by Petr Holman. Light foxing, no markings.

Hardcover. Utica NY, North Country Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of how Adirondack forests lured investments from financial centers; how roads pushed deep into the wilderness; how tanneries were built in remote places and how towns sprang up around them; how hides were shipped to canal ports in Warrensburg or along the Erie Canal and how teamsters drove great distances to reach the tanneries. A largely forgotten history is brought to life in this well-researched book of an industry that disappeared in the 1890s.

Hardcover. Proctor VT, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A unique personal diary filled with written entries, ephemera and photographs, all related to the Class of 1918 at Proctor High School in Vermont. Inscriptions and messages from teachers and classmates. Dozens of photographs, programs, clippings, tickets, etc. The owner, Nina Eckley (1900-1989) is listed in a couple school play programs. The "Commencement Memory Book" was published by Dodd Mead in 1916. This item captures the spirit of the times better than any scholarly work.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages, This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 25,000-object collection comprises fashionable women's and men's garments and accessories from the 18th through the 20th century.

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 274 pages, b&w photos. 1942: Americans suddenly found themselves at war but were not about to be distracted from the National Pastime. The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St. Louis was determined to stop them. With only one player older than thirty, the St. Louis Cardinals were the youngest team to win the National League pennant and World Series. Built on good pitching and tremendous speed on the base paths and in the field, the team featured rookie Stan Musial, future Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter, and ace pitcher Mort Cooper, the National League's Most Valuable Player of 1942. With their winningest season ever, posting 106 victories, the 1942 Redbirds have been called the greatest Cardinal team of all time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Farquhar Payson, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with black titles, 141 pages. Foreword by Walter Lippmann. A selection of his editorial cartoons which appeared in The World newspaper. Each drawing has a page of text opposite, giving background and context to the cartoon. Light shelf wear, clean interior.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Joan Sandin. Every day is the same for Pablo's father. Then one afternoon the ground growls, hisses smoke, and swallows up his plow. A volcano is erupting in the middle of his cornfield! The story is based on reports of the eruption of Paricutin volcano on Feb. 29, 1943. It came up in the Mexican state of Michoacan, in the cornfiled of a Tarascan Indian Named Dionisio Pulido. No one was killed, but more that 2000 people are said to have lost their homes. An I Can Read History Book. Light stamp on rear endpaper, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 3rd Edition reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 741 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Pages clean, unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. Dark blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has some agewear, price-clipped. An impressive eye-witness account of life in India at the turn of the century. It combines descriptions of the Hindu religion and Hindu sociology with masterful portraits of the intimate lives of the people among whom the author lived.