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Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 109 pages. Dedicated to Duras' companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andrea Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andrea and a seaside romance observed - or imagined - by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister's murder at the hands of a German soldier. Memory blurs into desire as the summer of 1980 flows into 1944. An enigmatic elegy of history, creation, and raw emotion. Clean copy.

Softcover. Jamaica NY, Queens-Nassau Medical Society, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages, b&w photographs, softcover booklet. A roster of physicians who practiced in Queens and Nassau Counties from 1806-1920. Light dust soiling otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Westport, Greenwood Press, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Clean, bright copy. Hardcover, no dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 85 pages, b&w photographs. Minor fading along cover edges and spine. Otherwise, in clean condition.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in black. A fascinating collection. It features the cartoons of David Low, most from the London Evening Standard, from Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 through the surrender of Japan in 1945, in chronological order. They are each accompanied by text by Quincy Howe, which explains the context of each cartoon. The reader can follow the events in the order that they happen from the build-up to the war through its conclusion, in an easy-to-read format. Howe has also written a chronology of the period, which appears at the end of the book. No dust jacket. The cloth spine has wear to top and bottom, Firm binding and the interior is clean and bright.

Softcover. Caldwell ID, Caxton Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages. illustrated frontispiece. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men. His story is one that had never been told and will never be told again. A first person account, through author L.V. McWhorter of the Nez Perce's ill-fated battle for land and freedom. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd, Revised, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, ex-lib with light marking. B&W illustrations, 530 pages. Folding color maps present, top edge gilt, blue cloth covers with light edgewear, light water stain to margin of frontispiece.

Hardcover. London/Syracuse, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright , price-clipped dust jacket, 260 pages. Foreword by Sir John Macpherson and Introduction by Margery Perham. A history of the Colonial Administrative Service in Britain from 1900-1945. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2003-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Three scratches to fore-edge. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages, illustrated with many b&w line engravings by various artists. Light tan cloth covers with bright gilt and dark brown design. Copyright page states 1888, so assumed a reprint. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar and Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages, b&w line illustrations, some two-color by Robert Fawcett. Maroon cloth with paper labels on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with wear, chipping. Previous owner's signature crossed out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. Illustrated with halftone drawings by Carse. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with chipping, edgewear, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, R. H. Woodward Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w and with color lithographs that are bright & clean. Edges lightly foxed. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 528 pages, b&w illustrations. Martha Gellhorn was a strong-willed, self-made, modern woman whose journalism, and life, were widely influential at the time and cleared a path for women who came after her. An ardent anti-fascist, she abhorred "objectivity shit" and wrote about real people doing real things with intelligence and passion. She is most famous, to her enduring exasperation, as Ernest Hemingway's third wife. Long after their divorce, her short tenure as "Mrs. Hemingway" from 1940 to 1945 invariably eclipsed her writing and, consequently, she never received her full due. Gellhorn's work and personal life attracted a disparate cadre of political and celebrity friends, among them, Sylvia Beach, Ingrid Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Norman Bethune, Robert Capa, Charlie Chaplin, Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang, Colette, Gary Cooper, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Maxwell Perkins, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Orson Welles, H.G. Wells -- the people who made history in her time and beyond. Yours, for Probably Always is a curated collection of letters between Gellhorn and the extraordinary personalities that were her correspondents in the most interesting time of her life. Through these letters and the author's contextual narrative, the book covers Gellhorn's life and work, including her time reporting for Harry Hopkins and America's Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the 1930s, her newspaper and magazine reportage during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War, and her relationships with Hemingway and General James M. Gavin late in the war, and her many lovers and affairs.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 421 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, no rips or tears. B/w illustrations. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In very good shape. The first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history and that of its ethnic mosaic.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Also small tear with piece missing from dust jacket bottom fore edge front. The photographer Pierre Yves-Petit, who called himself "Yvon," wandered the streets of Paris between the world wars looking for the moment when the shifting light and clouds would perfectly reveal the city?s ephemeral, iconic beauty. The dramatic images of the city and its people that he made during those years would become the most popular postcards in France. Yvon?s Paris reproduces more than one hundred of his loveliest images, many made from recently discovered glass negatives.

Hardcover. NY, Merrell Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. In the early twentieth century Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869?1933) was one of the busiest photographers in New York City, maintaining a fashionable studio on Fifth Avenue, exhibiting her distinctly modern portraits across America, Europe and Russia, and publishing work in many magazines. Her self-portraits also challenged traditional perceptions of female identity. This striking book celebrates Ben-Yusuf ?s achievement, showcasing a significant selection of her elegant and compelling portraits featuring prominent artistic and political figures of the day, including Lincoln Steffens, Edith Wharton, Elsie de Wolfe and Robert Henri.

Softcover. London, Longman, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Negro Universities Press , reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Light edgewear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. The Previously Unpublished Introduction, Commentary and Script for the Film VIVA ZAPATA! Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An intricately woven tapestry of friendship and love follows Zazoo, who lives with her adoptive grandfather in his village in France, as she learns about the history of World War II and Vietnam through her Grand-Pierre and, with the help of Marius, the bicycle boy, and the local pharmacist, makes a startling discovery that forces her to face the past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 532 pages. The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6--by the Pulitzer Prize winner.

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Swift & Chipman, 2nd American from the 7th London Edition, 1811, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather cover boards, front cover board slightly bowed (see image), gilt title on spine with gilt bands. Binding tight. Spine straight. Some appropriate agewear throughout: tanning, foxing, etc. A series of graphic and interesting scenes illustrating the temper and conduct of the pilgrim on his way to Zion.