Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 16 pages illustrated in color by Ethel Bonney Taylor. Well-known nursery rhymes set to a musical score. No markings.
Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. including index. Black and white illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Little Brown, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is a biography of C.L. Franklin, one of the black preachers in American history. It tells the story of black migration and activism, alongside the rise of gospel, blues, and soul music, with a cast of characters including Martin Luther King, Jr., B.B. King, Art Tatum, and Coleman Young.
Hardcover. NY, Junior Books/ Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 245 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings by Carl Moon. Soiling and spotting to edges. Spine darkened. Red top edge. Corners bumped.
Softcover. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of the circus parade and the beautifully decorated wagons that were a part of them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, California, Parnassus Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by John Larrecq. Very minor wear and soiling to dust jacket, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Medford OR, Webb Research Group, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 127 pages, b&w illustrations. Fascinating history of the Rogue River Valley Railway which connected Jacksonville and Medford, Oregon and the Southern Oregon Traction Co., an electric street railway that served Medford. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, locomotive roster, timetables, and bibliography. 127 pages with index. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, barely scraping by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse--as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead...and 16 ounces of pure heroin missing. On the run from the law, desperate to prove his innocence, Ray also faces another foe, merciless and unforgiving: his fierce and growing craving for a fix. Ed McBain was one of the most popular mystery writers of all time, creator of the 87th Precinct series and recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. SO NUDE, SO DEAD was his very first crime novel--and this is its first appearance in print in more than half a century. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise very good.
NY, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 361 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY JANIS IAN on the title page. The legendary singer and songwriter of the 70s gives us her memoir in the music business. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY RUSSO on the title page. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool. Russo, who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for "Empire Falls", has added this third novel to his stories about life in Bath, New York. It's been about 30 years first novel, "Nobodys fool" that turned into a movie starring Paul Newman and Jessica Tandy (in her final performance) and so a number of the characters are now dead, but their presence echoes through the minds of their children and friends who are now the central characters in "Everybody's Fool." Russo masterfully tells a story about a single weekend in a town that has been consumed by its bigger and more robust town to the north effectively erasing it from maps. His characters are fully developed and by the time we finish the book we know them all well. And we like most of them and even relate to some of them. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, BC Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 349 pages, b&w photos. One of the most endearing of American heroes, Casey Stengel guided the New York Yankees to ten pennants in twelve seasons. Here is the brilliant manager stripped naked--the person underneath all the clowning, mugging, and double-talking. Robert Creamer shows us Casey at twenty-two, famous from his very first day in the big leagues. We see Casey's playing career fall apart as he is traded, shunted to last-place teams, hampered by injuries, considered finished--until he bats a glorious home run in the 1923 World Series. Here are Casey's managing successes and failures--dismissed by the Yankees, he returns to the limelight with his new and inept New York Mets, the team he single-handedly lifts into the nation's consciousness. Clean copy, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 300 pages, b&w illustrations. The children's book author has won the Newberry Medal and National Book Award. Now in these fascinating stories from her life, she reveal the origins of her book characters from events in her life; from China with missionary parents to single life in Japan to life in Maryland with four children. Filled with personal photos and letters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Modern Library, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Three novels in one volume: Young Lonigan (201 pages); The Young Manhood Of Studs Lonigan (412 pages); Judgment Day (465 pages). Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to create a single, powerful work of art that would fully expose the evils of capitalism and lead to a political and economic overhaul of the American system. Farrell chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a portrait of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Irish-American Roman Catholic Church of that era are described at length, and faulted. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in in a bright dust jacket., 764 pages. Superman continues to battle social injustice and political corruption, fighting for the common man. No wonder he remains America's favorite hero during World War II. While the Allies fought the Axis powers in Europe and the Pacific, Superman was dealing with threats at home like his old foe Lex Luthor, conman J. Wilbur Wolfingham, and that pesky imp from the fifth dimension, Mister Mxyzptlk! But the Man of Steel isn't the only one capturing the hearts and minds of America, as Lois Lane finally stars in her fist solo adventure and her niece Susan Tompkins makes her debut! These groundbreaking classic stories--which cemented Superman's place as the medium's most enduring hero--are gathered for the first time in this singular, expansive collection! SUPERMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS VOL. 4 collects all of the Metropolis Wonder's tales from ACTION COMICS #66-85, SUPERMAN #25-33 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #11-18 and includes a foreword by legendary comics writer Roy Thomas. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Burbank CA, DC Comics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. These groundbreaking classic stories--which cemented Superman's place as the medium's most enduring hero--are gathered for the first time in this singular, expansive collection. Collects all the Man of Steel's tales from ACTION COMICS #48-65, SUPERMAN #16-24 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #6-10 and includes a foreword by legendary Superman editor Mike Carlin. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Sanbornton, Sant Bani Press, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Softcover. Full page, full color illustrations and a few in bw. Interviews & reflections with Kirpal Singh, Baba Sawan & Sant Ajaib. Light wear to spine edges, light sunfading to lower spine. Discolored smudge to top edge. Previous owner's signature to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages illustrated in b&w and some color. In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content available when and how viewers want it. With this phenomenon now a common cultural theme, a writer of David Thomson's stature delivering a critical history, or "biography" of the six-decade television era, will be a significant event which could not be more timely. With Television, the critic and film historian who wrote what Sight and Sound's readers called "the most important film book of the last 50 years" has finally turned his unique powers of observation to the medium that has swallowed film whole. Over twenty-two thematically organized chapters, Thomson brings his provocatively insightful and unique voice to the life of what was television. David Thomson surveying a Boschian landscape, illuminated by that singular glow-always "on"-and peopled by everyone from Donna Reed to Dennis Potter, will be the first complete history of the defining medium of our time. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 412 pages illustrated in color and b&w. In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content available when and how viewers want it. With this phenomenon now a common cultural theme, a writer of David Thomson's stature delivering a critical history, or "biography" of the six-decade television era, will be a significant event which could not be more timely. With Television, the critic and film historian who wrote what Sight and Sound's readers called "the most important film book of the last 50 years" has finally turned his unique powers of observation to the medium that has swallowed film whole. Over twenty-two thematically organized chapters, Thomson brings his provocatively insightful and unique voice to the life of what was television. David Thomson surveying a Boschian landscape, illuminated by that singular glow-always "on"-and peopled by everyone from Donna Reed to Dennis Potter, will be the first complete history of the defining medium of our time. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, The catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, May 16 - June 30, 1974. Features the work of 10 artists: Milton Avery (15 works), Charles Burchfield (14 works), Charles Demuth (20 works), Arthur Dove (15 works), Winslow Homer (14 works), Edward Hopper (16 works), John Marin (19 works), Maurice Prendergast (13 works), John Singer Sargent (14 works), Andrew Wyeth (18 works). With 52 color Illustrations and 106 in black and white. Clean copy.
 "Singing America - Poems that Define a Nationby: Philip, Neil (Ed.) Michael McCurdy")
 "Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of Americaby: Nick Salvatore")
 "Singing Sandsby: Moon, Grace and Carl")
 "Singing the Sadnessby: Hill, Reginald")
 "Single Speckled Egg, Aby: Levitin, Sonia and John Larrecq")
 "SO NUDE, SO DEADby: Ed McBain")
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