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The Story of a Grateful Citizen: An Autobiography [Two Volume Set] by: Williams, Clark

The Story of a Grateful Citizen: An Autobiography [Two Volume Set]
by: Williams, Clark

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, original two-tone cloth (dark green spines and light green sides). Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Memoir of a successful banker and financial businessman. Notable for his his World War 1 recollections and numerous accounts of sporting trips: trolling for lake trout and moose hunting in Quebec, dove shoots in Georgia, trout fishing and elk hunting in Yellowstone, duck shooting in Minnesota, salmon fishing in Newfoundland, grayling fishing in Yukon, black bass fishing in Canada, fishing for sailfish and dolphin off Florida. Clean bright set.

Record # 383038

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The Story of Little Black Samboby: Bannerman, Helen

The Story of Little Black Sambo
by: Bannerman, Helen

Hardcover. Philadelpha, J. B. Lippincott, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 56 pages illustrated in color. Red cloth stamped in black with $1.50 on front dj flap. No date but appears to be the 1946 edition. Back flap of jacket advertises Sambo and the Twins with blurb describing this as "this new Little Black Sambo story". Child's name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 383578

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The Story of Little Black SamboPorphyry: On Aristotle Categories (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) by: Bannerman, Helen

The Story of Little Black SamboPorphyry: On Aristotle Categories (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
by: Bannerman, Helen

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover with chipped pictorial boards. Previous owner's scribbled markings on a few pages, end papers. Pages 39-42 have chunk torn from pages on bottom about an inch wide.

Record # 354257

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The Story of My Life Together With Darrow's Plea in His Own Defense to the Jur That Exonerated Him of the Charge of Bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912by: Darrow, Cl

The Story of My Life Together With Darrow's Plea in His Own Defense to the Jur That Exonerated Him of the Charge of Bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912
by: Darrow, Cl

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full black leather with ornate gilt design on cover. all edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, raised bands. This is a facsimile of the 1932 first edition. Considered a 'sophisticated country lawyer', Darrow remains notable for his wit; he was quoted as saying, 'The trouble with law is lawyers.' Here, his autobiography, together with the additional 59-pg. Darrow's Plea, written in his own defense to the jury that exonerated him of the charge of bribery at Los Angeles, August, 1912. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 371600

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The Story of Siegfriedby: James Baldwin; Peter Hurd, illustrator

The Story of Siegfried
by: James Baldwin; Peter Hurd, illustrator

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust thus, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial paper label to front cover, gilt stamping to spine. Six color plates, title page design and 2-color endpapers art by Peter Hurd. 279 pages. Some fading tospine gilt, light shelf wear, clean copy.

Record # 380954

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The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs: The History of the Order of the Eastern Star Among Colored Peopleby: S. Joe, Mrs. Brown/Davis, Elizabet

The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs: The History of the Order of the Eastern Star Among Colored People
by: S. Joe, Mrs. Brown/Davis, Elizabet

Hardcover. New York, G. K. Hall & Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456821

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The Story of the Jamaican Peopleby: Philip Sherlock/ Hazel Bennett

The Story of the Jamaican People
by: Philip Sherlock/ Hazel Bennett

Softcover. Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 434 pages with index. The book traces the African ancestral line of Black Jamaicans through to the influence of Asian, European & Spanish rule of the island throughout the ages, culminating with early English white settlers, forging 2-types of Jamaican People. Clean, like new.

Record # 387916

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The Strange and Exciting Adventures of Jeremiah Hushby: Shulevitz, Uri

The Strange and Exciting Adventures of Jeremiah Hush
by: Shulevitz, Uri

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust dacket with light fading to spine. Jeremiah, a middle- aged proboscis monkey feels life is passing him by. Wonderful black and white illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Record # 383049

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THE STRANGE PETTINGILL PUZZLE: Two Mysteries for Boys and Girlsby: Augusta Huiell Seaman

THE STRANGE PETTINGILL PUZZLE: Two Mysteries for Boys and Girls
by: Augusta Huiell Seaman

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black, no dust jacket. Second mystery "The Curious Case of Callista" begins on page 133, b&w illustrations by Genevieve Foster. Front cover has fading/discoloration to green cloth, inside clean.

Record # 383047

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The Sun's Diary: A Book of Days For Any Yearby: Coatsworth, Elizabeth. Decorations by Frank MacIntosh.

The Sun's Diary: A Book of Days For Any Year
by: Coatsworth, Elizabeth. Decorations by Frank MacIntosh.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine and black lettering, black and white illustrations throughout in art deco style by Frank MacIntosh. Coatsworth won the Newbery Award in 1931. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright. No dust jacket.

Record # 372667

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The Sweeter Side of R. Crumbby: Crumb, R.

The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb
by: Crumb, R.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. The "nasty, negative, misanthropic" comic genius proves he has a sweet side. Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation? Yes indeed, there is a "sweeter side" to R. Crumb. These delectable illustrations-whether depicting Bernie the Cat pawing for his master's affection, the timeworn beauty of a French village cul-de-sac, or a quiet night chez Crumb-wonderfully exemplify the many tender moments that have, until now, played second fiddle to the cult icon's more raunchy sketches. Now Crumb harkens back to his humble American beginnings as a Cleveland greeting card illustrator, when his innate knack for the grotesque had to be suppressed for the perennial appeal of "cute." The result is this cheery and blue-skied world, where readers of every conceivable personality type, age group, even sexual persuasion can finally enjoy the artist's momentary lapse from naughty to nice. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Record # 361697

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The Sweeter Side of R. Crumbby: Crumb, R.

The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb
by: Crumb, R.

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. The "nasty, negative, misanthropic" comic genius proves he has a sweet side. Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation? Yes indeed, there is a "sweeter side" to R. Crumb. These delectable illustrations-whether depicting Bernie the Cat pawing for his master's affection, the timeworn beauty of a French village cul-de-sac, or a quiet night chez Crumb-wonderfully exemplify the many tender moments that have, until now, played second fiddle to the cult icon's more raunchy sketches. Now Crumb harkens back to his humble American beginnings as a Cleveland greeting card illustrator, when his innate knack for the grotesque had to be suppressed for the perennial appeal of "cute." The result is this cheery and blue-skied world, where readers of every conceivable personality type, age group, even sexual persuasion can finally enjoy the artist's momentary lapse from naughty to nice. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Record # 350216

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The Sweeter Side of R. Crumbby: Crumb, R.

The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb
by: Crumb, R.

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. The "nasty, negative, misanthropic" comic genius proves he has a sweet side. Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation? Yes indeed, there is a "sweeter side" to R. Crumb. These delectable illustrations-whether depicting Bernie the Cat pawing for his master's affection, the timeworn beauty of a French village cul-de-sac, or a quiet night chez Crumb-wonderfully exemplify the many tender moments that have, until now, played second fiddle to the cult icon's more raunchy sketches. Now Crumb harkens back to his humble American beginnings as a Cleveland greeting card illustrator, when his innate knack for the grotesque had to be suppressed for the perennial appeal of "cute." The result is this cheery and blue-skied world, where readers of every conceivable personality type, age group, even sexual persuasion can finally enjoy the artist's momentary lapse from naughty to nice. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Record # 350215

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The System of Dante's Hell by: LeRoi Jones (Baraka, Amiri)

The System of Dante's Hell
by: LeRoi Jones (Baraka, Amiri)

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages, in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. A novel by the African American poet and essayist set in the American South.

Record # 371856

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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbitby: Lester, Julius

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by: Lester, Julius

Hardcover. New York , Dial Books, 10th pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, B&W illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Tight copy. A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Record # 383224

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The Testimony of Steve Biko by: Arnold, Millard W. (Ed.)

The Testimony of Steve Biko
by: Arnold, Millard W. (Ed.)

Softcover. Johannesburg, Picador Africa, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on title page, Clean copy. First published in the U.S. under a different title in 1978.

Record # 379543

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The Thanksgiving Storyby: Alice Dalgliesh / Illustrated by Helen Sewell

The Thanksgiving Story
by: Alice Dalgliesh / Illustrated by Helen Sewell

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black in a nice dust jacket with mild soil and short closed tears. Illustrations by Helen Sewell. Reprint on the 1954 edition with a small 61 code on copyright page.

Record # 371158

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The Theatres of London by: Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson

The Theatres of London
by: Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 292 pages. Maps on the endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Timothy Birdsall. A illustrated guide to the major theatres in London along with a brief history of each. No dust jacket. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 383435

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The Things They Carried (SIGNED COPY)by: Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried (SIGNED COPY)
by: Tim O'Brien

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on the title page wih a black marker. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time, the place, and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385866

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The Third Manby: Graham Greene

The Third Man
by: Graham Greene

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray textured boards with red cloth spine stamped in black. No dust jacket. Suspense and action in post-war Vienna. True First which preceded the UK edition. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Clean copy.

Record # 381963

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The Thirty Years War: Europe

The Thirty Years War: Europe

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 997 pages, color and b&w illustrations. A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor's envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals-the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. By war's end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country's greatest disaster. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378563

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The Three Bearsby: Eulalie (illustrator)

The Three Bears
by: Eulalie (illustrator)

Softcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1st thus, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A fresh, clean, well bound copy. 6 leaves (12 pages) including the cover. Color illustrated front cover with interior of alternating spreads of color and black and white. Illustrations by Eulalie Banks. Stapled binding. Pages are clean and bright.

Record # 381883

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The Three Graces: Snapshots of Twentieth-Century Womenby: Michal Raz-Russo

The Three Graces: Snapshots of Twentieth-Century Women
by: Michal Raz-Russo

New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black cloth, 160 pages. An amazing treasure trove of unpublished images, this intriguing and entertaining book looks at how women explored their identity through popular photography in the 20th century Snapshots preserve more than individual likeness and memory. Photographs of celebrations, vacations, and gatherings of family and friends are collected with the aim of constructing and preserving a personal identity for future generations. What happens, however, when a snapshot is subsequently discarded or displaced and becomes merely an "anonymous" image? This and many other questions are discussed in this fascinating selection of anonymous images depicting three women. Presumably all taken by nonprofessionals, these snapshots were acquired over time by a private collector interested in their eclectic yet familiar details, who named the grouping after the iconic Greco-Roman motif.

Record # 381249

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The Three Mustangeersby: James, Will

The Three Mustangeers
by: James, Will

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine with a vignette in black on the front cover. Scribner seal on copyright page but no "A", copyright 1933, so assumed 2nd Printing. 'The trio of adventurous riders whose exploits are recorded in this novel of life on the Western cattle ranges are 'bad-men,' but 'bad-men' such as the reader has never met before in stories of the West. They are real, human, warm-blooded men, not the triply dyed blood-and-thunder villains of the movies, but men who were 'raised in outlaw country, amongst outlaw men, and they growed with that as natural as a hawk grows with wings.'' Spine faded, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 372321

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The Three Stooges: Book of Scriptsby: Joan Howard Maurer

The Three Stooges: Book of Scripts
by: Joan Howard Maurer

Hardcover. Secaucus NJ, Citadel Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 pages, many b&w illustrations. The movies featured are: You nazty spy, Three little pigskins, and Men in black. Clean copy.

Record # 382197

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The Tin Woodman of Oz (Books of Wonder Series)by: Baum/John R. Neill(Illustrator), Peter Glassman (Afterword) , L. Frank

The Tin Woodman of Oz (Books of Wonder Series)
by: Baum/John R. Neill(Illustrator), Peter Glassman (Afterword) , L. Frank

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. In a series of adventures sure to thrill OZ fans both old and new, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow journey across the magical Land of Oz in search of the Tin Woodman's long-lost sweetheart, a beautiful Munchkin girl. This deluxe edition of the rare first edition features all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates, along with his nearly one hundred black and white drawings, Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Record # 362691

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The Transmission of Life: Counsels on The Nature and Hygiene of The Masculine Function by: George H. Napheys

The Transmission of Life: Counsels on The Nature and Hygiene of The Masculine Function
by: George H. Napheys

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, 362 pages including index. Originally published in 1878, this is the 1889 New Edition with final corrections and additions. A Victorian era study of male sexuality. Clean copy.

Record # 398209

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The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony by: Valentinus, Basilius/ commentary by Theodore Kerckringius

The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony
by: Valentinus, Basilius/ commentary by Theodore Kerckringius

Hardcover. London, Vincent Stuart, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., black cloth with gilt stamping. A nice copy of the Second Edition (1962, original published in 1894). Limited to 500 copies. Clean.

Record # 398792

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The Tunnel Mysteryby:  Lenehan, J. C.

The Tunnel Mystery
by: Lenehan, J. C.

Hardcover. NY, Mystery League, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 286 pages. Shelf-worn copy, spine faded, but otherwise a clean, sound copy. A man carrying diamonds in his pocket that are worth a fortune, is traveling in a train with only five others in the compartment. The train enters a tunnel and after a few seconds of darkness, emerges into the light. The man has a small red hole in his forehead and the diamonds are gone.

Record # 371221

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The Turba Philosophorum: Or Assembly of the Sages: Called Also the Book of Truth in the Art and the Third Pythagorical Synodby: Arthur Edward Waite

The Turba Philosophorum: Or Assembly of the Sages: Called Also the Book of Truth in the Art and the Third Pythagorical Synod
by: Arthur Edward Waite

Hardcover. London, Stuart & Watkins, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with tape repairs to rear panel, black cloth stamped with gilt. 221 pages. Originally published in 1896, this printing was limited to 500 copies. Clean. Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 - 19 May 1942), commonly known as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

Record # 398793

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The Twelfth Transforming by: Gedge, Pauline

The Twelfth Transforming
by: Gedge, Pauline

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a black-lettered leaf-green cloth spine over grass-green boards; in a illustrated dust jacket with striking artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon. Historical novel of the XVIII dynasty pharaoh, Akhenaten, told from the perspective of his strong, proud mother, Empress Tiye, who effectively ruled Egypt for years. Gedge's earlier Egyptian novel, CHILD OF THE MORNING was hailed by critics.

Record # 396676

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The Typewriter Legendby: Masi, Frank T. (Editor)

The Typewriter Legend
by: Masi, Frank T. (Editor)

Softcover. Secaucus NJ, Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, reprint, 1985, Book: Good, Softcover, 132 pages, b&w illustrations. The typewriter has had a profound effect on both the business world and social communication. This book is a treasure of well-researched information documenting the earliest introduction of a machine for impressing letters to the electronic typewriters of the early 1980s. The book contains over 100 black & white photographs tracing the history of the typewriter and is a useful resource for typewriter collectors. Spotting to edges not affecting inside pages.

Record # 381758

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The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables by: Adams, Richard

The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables
by: Adams, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 142 pages; color plates by Yvonne Gilbert and black and white illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert. 19 folk tales from across the world. Clean copy.

Record # 384343

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The Undefeatedby: Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

The Undefeated
by: Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

Hardcover. NY, Versify/Houghton, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. a poignant and powerful ode to the resilience and strength of black life and history in America. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated in 2016, the poem adopts a picture book format with a new title, accompanied by stunning oil paintings in Nelson's trademark photorealistic style. The evocative illustrations stand out against stark white backgrounds and vary in their composition. On some spreads, the focus is on a single expressive portrait; others feature collages of African American icons from various disciplines, or refer to significant historical moments. The art functions in perfect harmony with the poet's spare, striking verse to electrify the Black American experience, and to celebrate black athletes, writers, musicians, activists, and heroes. Clean copy. Caldecott Winner 2020

Record # 398539

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The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939by: Paul Robeson Jr.

The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939
by: Paul Robeson Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Wiley, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist. The first volume of this major biography breaks new ground. The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. Now his son, Paul Robeson Jr., traces the dramatic arc of his rise to fame, painting a definitive picture of Paul Robeson's formative years. His father was an escaped slave; his mother, a descendent of freedmen; and his wife, the brilliant and ambitious Eslanda Cardozo Goode. With a law degree from Columbia University; a professional football career; title roles in Eugene O'Neill's plays and in Shakespeare's Othello; and a concert career in America and Europe, Robeson dominated his era. 383 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 381578

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The Unquotable Trumpby: R. Sikoryak

The Unquotable Trump
by: R. Sikoryak

Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. The master of the comic book mash-up finds the POTUS to be his ultimate super-villain R. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Comics or even using comics to visualize the iTunes Terms and Conditions contract. Now in these uncertain times, cartoonist R. Sikoryak draws upon the power of comics and satire to frame President Trump and his controversial declarations as the words and actions of the most notable villains and antagonists in comic book history. Reimagining the most famous comic covers, Sikoryak transforms Wonder Woman into Nasty Woman; Tubby Tompkins into Trump; Black Panther into the Black Voter; the Fantastic Four into the Hombres Fantasticos and Trump into Magneto fighting the Ex-Men.

Record # 377881

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The Urban Millennium : The City-Building Process from the Early Middle Ages to the Presentby: Josef W. Konvitz

The Urban Millennium : The City-Building Process from the Early Middle Ages to the Present
by: Josef W. Konvitz

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. The Urban Millennium focuses upon the spatial adaptation of cities as a factor in urbanization. Konvitz explores how the evolution of city building strategies has accompanied and facilitated other aspects of urban development. By taking a long historical perspective, he shows that cities were more easily adapted to changing circumstances before and dur-ing the industrialization. Konvitz also draws out the implica-tions of his analysis for contemporary urban problems. He challenges many contemporary assumptions of architec-ture and city planning and suggests that we should learn to appreciate an ap-proach to building which allows for the continual modification of individual structures and districts, and which places more control over the environ-ment in the hands of the users. Blacked out name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383943

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The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographiesby: Ilaria Serra

The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies
by: Ilaria Serra

Hardcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. The writer Giuseppe Prezzolini said that Italian immigrants left behind tears and sweat but not "words," making their lives in America mostly in silence, their memories private and stories untold. In this innovative portrait of the Italian-American experience, these lives are no longer hidden. Ilaria Serra offers the first comprehensive study of a largely ignored legacy-the autobiographies written by immigrants. Here she looks closely at fifty-eight representative works written during the high tide of Italian migration. Scouring archives, discovering diaries, and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers, Serra recovers the voices of the first generation-bootblacks and poets, film directors and farmers, miners, anarchists, and seamstresses-compelled to tell their stories. Mostly unpublished, often thickly accented, these tales of ordinary men and women are explored in nuanced detail, organized to reflect how they illuminate the realities of work, survival, identity, and change.

Record # 398031

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The Vanishing Americanby: Zane Grey

The Vanishing American
by: Zane Grey

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Missing front fly leaf, clean copy.

Record # 398231

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The Varmintby: Owen Johnson

The Varmint
by: Owen Johnson

Hardcover. NY, Baker & Taylor Company, 2nd pr., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated olive cloth covers with titles in black in ruled border. Titles on spine in orange. 396 pages. Five black & white illustrations plus frontispiece with tissue guard by F.R. Gruger. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Rubbing to corners and spine. Otherwise clean.

Record # 397520

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The Verb 'Be' In Ancient Greekby: Charles H. Kahn

The Verb 'Be' In Ancient Greek
by: Charles H. Kahn

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped with black lettering, 486 pages. A reprint, with new introductory essay, of the D. Reidel edition of 1973. This reissue of Charles Kahn's classic work includes a substantial new introductory essay, which presents a reformulation of the theory of syntactic and semantic unity for the system of uses of the verb be in Greek (conceived primarily as a verb of predication), and hence a defense of the conceptual unity for the notion of Being in Greek philosophy. The book offers a systematic description of the use and grammar of the verb to be in Ancient Greek, before the philosophers took it over to express the central concepts in Greek logic and metaphysics. Evidence is taken primarily from Homer but supplemented by specimens from classical Attic prose. Topics discussed include the original status of the verb in Indo-European, as well as the logical and syntactic relations among copula, existential, and veridical uses. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386377

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The Vision of Columbus; A Poem in Nine Booksby: Barlow, Joel

The Vision of Columbus; A Poem in Nine Books
by: Barlow, Joel

Hardcover. Hartford, Joel Barlow, 1st, 1787, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Red leather covers with gilt lines along cover edges, and decorations on spine. Covers with light rubbing to edges and at corners. Title on spine in gilt on black. Marbled endpapers. Previous owners name on preliminary page and at top of title page. Includes Dedication to The King of France, and Introduction. All edges gilt.

Record # 609284

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The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection by: Maria Morris Hambourg Pierre Apraxine Malcolm Daniel Jeff L. Ros

The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection
by: Maria Morris Hambourg Pierre Apraxine Malcolm Daniel Jeff L. Ros

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3rd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, numerous photographic illustrations in black & white and color. 384 pages. The 253 works in the exhibition, many of them rare or unique and all of exceptional print quality, have been culled from the more than five thousand that comprise the legendary but seldom exhibited Gilman Paper Company Collection, the most important private collection of photographs in the world. Assembled over the past two decades, the collection is composed of images both ravishing and historically significant, setting the standard of connoisseurship in the field and illuminating the aesthetics of the medium. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398336

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The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One - Immortality of the Soulby: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translator: Feldman, Seymour

The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One - Immortality of the Soul
by: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translator: Feldman, Seymour

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, lacks dust jacket, 256 pages. A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world. It is devoted to a demonstration that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy. Volume 1 ONLY. Clean copy.

Record # 386950

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The Way Out - A Forecast of Coming Changes in American Business and Industry by: Filene, Edward A.

The Way Out - A Forecast of Coming Changes in American Business and Industry
by: Filene, Edward A.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, title on spine faded, 306 pages. Stated first edition. Signs of former library book but clean internally. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Record # 378075

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The Way Some People Dieby: Ross Macdonald

The Way Some People Die
by: Ross Macdonald

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as 'crazy for men' and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series. Clean copy.

Record # 374762

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The Well of St. Clareby: France, Anatole & Pape, Frank

The Well of St. Clare
by: France, Anatole & Pape, Frank

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, octavo, black cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt decoration, title and spine titles. 302 pages. Uncut edges. With twelve full page engravings, capitals and decorations by Frank C. Pape. In a black paper dust jacket with red decoration, with a chip to top of spine at front edge. The cover gilt is bright but there is some flecking/discoloration to the black cloth in areas. Interior is clean and bright.

Record # 372751

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The Whisper of a Million Leaves by: HAVERICH, Beatrice.

The Whisper of a Million Leaves
by: HAVERICH, Beatrice.

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Damiani, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 100 pages. Original publisher's illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Beatrice Haverich believes that "trees embody life. They show us the seasons in a city landscape, and they provide us with wood, food and shelter. Their silence demands our respect." Her subjects, for whom she has the utmost sympathy, are survivors, stalwarts: for example, the Yew trees in Kingsley Vale, UK, are 4,000 years old. Among these portraits, she observes branches molded by the wind into lopsided hairstyles, and roots exposed by the rain. Some trees survive in cement planters or remain in the bounds of their sidewalk squares, but others reclaim their habitat, taking over old greenhouses and popping the glass panes one by one as they grow. Up from sand and boulders and cliffs and pavement, Haverich's trees are shaped by their landscape, but they persist in shaping it as well.

Record # 361153

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The White Dawn; An Eskimo Saga by: Houston, James

The White Dawn; An Eskimo Saga
by: Houston, James

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. Blue cloth lettered in silver and copper on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white drawings by the author. In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world. Clean copy.

Record # 385411

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The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum Southby: Friedman, Lawrence J.

The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South
by: Friedman, Lawrence J.

Softcover. NY, Prentice Hall, 1st pbk, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War and examines their racial fantasies and the social and psychological roots of those fantasies. He reveals how a complex set of anxieties and repressions in Southern life led whites to need "Negro" Inferiority." Name on title page otherwise clean.

Record # 387773

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