NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue-green cloth with maroon lettering and drawing. Three-color, b&w illustrations by Margaret Van Doren. Front fly leaf gone, light soil, small mark to covers. Otherwise very good, clean. A spirited black puppy learns to make friends with two kittens in his new home.
Hardcover. NY, One World/Ballantine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A fictional narrative base on the life of America's first black female millionaire. Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. Renowned author Alex Haley became fascinated by the story of this extraordinary heroine, and before his death in 1992 he embarked on the research and outline of a major novel based on her life. Now with The Black Rose, critically acclaimed writer Tananarive Due brings the work to inspiring completion. "I got my start by giving myself a start," Madam C.J. was fond of saying as she recounted her transformation from the uneducated laundress Sarah Breedlove to a woman of wealth, culture, and celebrity. Madam C.J. was nearing forty and married to a maverick Denver newspaperman when the wonder-working hair care method she discovered changed her life. Seemingly overnight, she built a marketing empire that enlisted more than twenty thousand bright young African American women to demonstrate and sell her products door-to-door. By the time she died in 1919, Madam C.J. Walker had constructed her own factory from the ground up, established a training school, and built a twenty-room mansion at Irvington on the Hudson, New York, called Villa Lawaro.
NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career "It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere." So begins The Black-Eyed Blonde, a new novel featuring Philip Marlowe-yes, that Philip Marlowe. Channeling Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back to life for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City, California. It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Marlowe sets off on his search, but almost immediately discovers that Peterson's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest families and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket pristine. Color illustrations by Brusca. A familiar folktale motif is that of the clever man who outwits the devil. In this zesty retelling, based on an Argentinian source, that man is Juan Pobreza, a poor blacksmith who reshoes a mule belonging to St. Peter and charges nothing for the job. Touched, St. Peter asks the man to name three wishes. Juan, sure that Peter is not who he claims to be, makes three seemingly senseless wishes that help him out later when he must deal with the agents of the devil. In the twist at the end, Pobreza finds himself barred from both heaven and hell.
Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with gilt lettering, design on spine. 216 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. Color frontis. and 11 b&w illustrations by Rowland Hilder. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild wear to spine cloth. This is the more elusive first printing with the color plate in front, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin, reprint., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 244 pages. The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (ne Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, ibooks, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages. The Bloody Streets of Paris is a classic detective story set against the Nazi occupation of Paris. Newly discharged from a WWII prisoner of war camp, Nestor Burma finds himself unraveling a convoluted mystery surrounding the death of an associate. Tardi's black and white illustrations brilliantly evoke the gritty urban atmosphere of forties' Paris. Small dog-ear crease to corner of rear cover, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Co. Crime Club, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in black cloth with red stamping. Poor dust jacket with chunks gone from front panel and spine. A group of jewel collectors and dealers gather in the Adirondacks to bid on the mysterious Blue Rajah diamond. Naturally, a murder ensues.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 352 pages, b&w illustrations. The first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James 'Cool Papa" Bell (1903-1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightning fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell's speed was extraordinary; as Satchel Paige famously quipped, he was so fast he could flip a light switch and be in bed before the room got dark. Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player, a key member of some of the greatest Negro League teams in history. Born to sharecroppers in Mississippi, Bell was part of the Great Migration, and in St. Louis, baseball saved Bell from a life working in slaughterhouses. Wheeler charts Bell's ups and downs in life and in baseball, in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, where he went to escape American racism and MLB's color line.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. n the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, some forty-five thousand veterans of World War I descended on Washington, D.C., from all over the country to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. They lived in shantytowns, white and black together, and for two months they protested and rallied for their cause-an action that would have a profound effect on American history. Clean copy.
NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Color, black & white illust. Previous owner's signature front fly-leaf. Tri-color decoration on front cover. Light soil to back cover.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with brown lettering, 187/189 pages. Lyrics with music and a preface of the songs. Two volumes in one. No dust jacket. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, University Books, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, original $10 price intact. 337 pages, b&w illustrations. An Influential occult study synthesizing medieval and Renaissance magical texts, ceremonial rites, conjurations, and ritual symbolism. One of Waite's most significant works on Western esotericism. A solid first University Books edition of a cornerstone 20th-Century occult text. Foreword by John C. Wilson. 1961 reissue of the Revised and expanded edition. The original version was titled "The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts" (London, 1898).
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth decorated in dark green, black and gilt, 418 pages. From the sword in the stone and the founding of Camelot to the famed Round Table and the Lake of Enchantment, the legend of King Arthur will never lose its magic. Though simpler, this version includes all the wonderful stories-such as King Arthur's winning of Guenievere and Merlin's tragic downfall at the hands of the evil Vivien. B&w drawings throughout by A. G. Walker. Introduction by John W. Hales. Undated, circa 1900, front hinge partially cracked, title page tanned from frontis. tissue-guard. Small gouge to spine, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Constable, reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover, 567 pages. Over 500 drawings by author, whose life work is the development or revival of Woodcraft, that is outdoor life in its greatest sense, as a school for manhood. He defends Indians and their traditions, as he sees them as a model for outdoor life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst and Co., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in the original white pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar, Pictorial cloth covers decorated in red, brown and black. 312 pages. B&w frontispiece, 3 b&w illustrations by Charles Wrenn. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 310 pages. B&w illustrations by Norman Price.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of an industrious little boy who listens to too many peoples' advice! Set in Ireland. Color and 2-color illustrations throughout by Ervine Metzl. Dj price blacked out, mild soil to rear of jacket otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Saxonville MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards with a black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Eve Tharlet, translation by Athena Bell. Children will be charmed by Bell's translation of the tale about the tailor who advertised his prowess by embroidering a sash proclaiming "Seven at a Blow." The narrative respects the original story; the text is not diluted, and it is lengthy. Vocabulary such as courtiers, contemptuously, and desperate adds to the vitality of the story. The settings and clothing in Tharlet's detailed and appropriate soft-toned watercolor washes suggest the Middle Ages.
Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown of stagecoach on cover, black lettering and design. Gilt title on spine. 232 pages, 4 color plates including frontis of airships, many b&w illustrations throughout. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 150 pages. Superbly illustrated in full color throughout, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes major treasures such as the Domesday Book and the Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's calling card and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 150 pages. Superbly illustrated in full color throughout, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes major treasures such as the Domesday Book and the Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's calling card and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Clean copy.
Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina , 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, cream paper covers with red and black titling, 137 pages. There is underlining and notations to text in red ink to about half the pages.
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