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Postingsby: Heyward Isham

Postings
by: Heyward Isham

Hardcover. NY, privately printed, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 230 pages, b&w photos. Heyward Isham (1926-2009) chronicles his life as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States. His diplomatic postings spanned much of the Cold War from vantage points in Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong and Paris. Clean copy. Small printing.

Record # 383499

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Prendergast in Italyby: Mathews, Nancy Mowil

Prendergast in Italy
by: Mathews, Nancy Mowil

Hardcover. London/ New York , Merrell, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Minor bumping to corners, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457993

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Present Indicative (SIGNED COPY)by: Coward, Noel

Present Indicative (SIGNED COPY)
by: Coward, Noel

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Ltd. Ed., 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY COWARD. Cream colored cloth with NC embossed on cover, black spine label with gilt lettering that has a narrow chip down the center. Spine darkened. No. 64 of 301 signed copies. Top edge gilt. Binding tight. Red slip case has light wear. The witty English playwright, composer, director and actor Noel Coward's autobiography. With b&w photos scattered throughout, including author frontispiece photo.

Record # 383308

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Presenting Cynthia Voigtby: Reid, Suzanne Elizabeth

Presenting Cynthia Voigt
by: Reid, Suzanne Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York , Twayne, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 133 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.

Record # 175481

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Pride and Pinstripes (SIGNED COPY)by: Stottlemyre (with John Harper), Mel

Pride and Pinstripes (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stottlemyre (with John Harper), Mel

Hardcover. New York, Harper Entertainment, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STOTTLEMYRE on title page. Dust jacket and front cover board beneath on front has scratches (small tears) and groves to bottom. Remainder mark on bottom page block.

Record # 354077

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Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrowby: Alexander Kendrick

Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow
by: Alexander Kendrick

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and rubbed dust jacket, 548 pages. A biography of the famous CBS radio and television newsman Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965). Much of what Americans knew about the events in Europe during World War II were learned from Murrow's broadcasts. After the war, Murrow was a regular on prime-time television. B&w illustrations, index and bibliography. Spine faded. Clean copy.

Record # 381477

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Printer Boy, The - Or How Ben Franklin Made His Mark - An Example for Youthby: NA

Printer Boy, The - Or How Ben Franklin Made His Mark - An Example for Youth
by: NA

Hardcover. Boston, J.E.Tilton & Co., Rep., 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. (C) page states 1869. 261 pages. Red cloth with gilt illustration on spine. NIce copy.

Record # 67983

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Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographsby: Sasowsky, Norman

Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographs
by: Sasowsky, Norman

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.

Record # 362711

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Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographsby: Sasowsky, Norman

Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographs
by: Sasowsky, Norman

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.

Record # 804762

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Private Diaries of Stendhal, Theby: Sage, Robert (Ed.)

Private Diaries of Stendhal, The
by: Sage, Robert (Ed.)

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 570 pages, b&w illustrations and frontispiece. Black cloth covers w/ edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else clean and tight.

Record # 852107

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Private World of Tasha Tudor, Theby: Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard

Private World of Tasha Tudor, The
by: Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 383370

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Professional: Lyndon B. Johnson, The (SIGNED BY JOHNSON)by: White, William S.

Professional: Lyndon B. Johnson, The (SIGNED BY JOHNSON)
by: White, William S.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 4th pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red textured cloth stamped in gilt, 273 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. SIGNED BY JOHNSON on the half title page: "With best wishes, Lyndon B Johnson". While not personally inscribed, this volume comes from the library of Holmes Baldridge who worked in Truman's Justice Department in the early 1950s. Probably a secretarial signature although a check of Johnson's autograph versus suspected secretary signatures is not conclusive.

Record # 410622

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Profusely Illustrated: A Memoirby: Edward Sorel

Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir
by: Edward Sorel

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, and caricatures--and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork--Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: his poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning aunts and uncles); his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at age eight; his time as a student at New York's famed High School of Music and Art; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios, founded with fellow Cooper Union alums Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, which became the hottest design group of the 1960s; his two marriages and four children; and his many friends in New York's art and literary circles.

Record # 381653

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Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuildingby: Gaines, Charles; Butler, George

Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding
by: Gaines, Charles; Butler, George

Softcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 5th pr., 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Softcover with minior wear to paper wrappers. Gutter glue slightly dry, cracking on rear hinge and page 120. Otherwise clean. Cover features Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Record # 368269

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Putting Myself in the Pictureby: Spence, Jo

Putting Myself in the Picture
by: Spence, Jo

Softcover. US, Real Comet Press, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. "This book is based on Jo Spence's 'Review of Work', a retrospective exhibition in 1985 which covered her career from high street photographer to critic - still using her camera - of NHS treatment of cancer patients. Far from a conventional book of photography, what emerges is a political, personal and photographic autobiography. It is impossible to separate the strands. Her photography is as much a part of her as her brain, her politics and her subjectivity. As she says: 'I put myself in the picture.'"

Record # 350722

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Queen of Burlesque: The Autobiography of Yvette Paris by: Yvette Paris

Queen of Burlesque: The Autobiography of Yvette Paris
by: Yvette Paris

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Prometheus Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages, b&w photos. "At night she was a loving wife and mother. During the day, she'd put her children on the school bus, pack her sequined G-strings and feather boas, and leave for New York City - to take her place in the world of Times Square as the 'Queen of Burlesque. '...Paris refused to compete on an X-rated level, presenting her audiences with old-fashioned burlesque: the gowns, the gloves, the feather fans. Much to her surprise, she beceme the favorite stripper on the New York circuit." Clean copy.

Record # 385349

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Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985by: McCourt, James

Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985
by: McCourt, James

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 608 pages. A startling anecdotal history of gay life in twentieth-century New York explores the confluence of historical and social factors that made Manhattan a mecca for homosexuals in the second half of this century.

Record # 374124

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Quest into the Unknown: My life as a climbing nomadby: Tony Howard

Quest into the Unknown: My life as a climbing nomad
by: Tony Howard

Softcover. Sheffield UK, Vertebrate Publishing Ltd , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 425 pages, color photos. In 1965 Tony Howard made the first British ascent of Norway's Troll Wall. He went on to found Troll Climbing Equipment but never stopped exploring. Quest into the Unknown, his autobiography, covers his extensive travels in North Africa, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Canada and much more. Clean copy.

Record # 378517

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Quiet Pilgrimageby: Vining, Elizabeth Gray

Quiet Pilgrimage
by: Vining, Elizabeth Gray

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 410 pages, b&w illustrations. Best known as the author of "Windows for the Crown Prince, " an account of her years as English tutor to Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, Elizabeth Gray Vining now tells the full story of her life, including impressions of Japan that she omitted from her earlier book. Previous owner'e signature on Front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 379071

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R. S. Surteesby: Cooper, Leonard.

R. S. Surtees
by: Cooper, Leonard.

Hardcover. London, Arthur Baker, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor, worn dust jacket with a large chunk gone from front panel. Book is bright and clean, 180 pages. Illustrated with color and b&w plates by John Leech. A biography of the novelist who wrote of country sports like hunting in a comical way.

Record # 382884

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Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legendby: Patrick Smithwick

Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legend
by: Patrick Smithwick

Hardcover. Lexington KY, Eclipse Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Patrick Smithwick has written an unusually moving memoir about growing up in the hell-bent-for-leather world of Thoroughbred racing as the son of Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey A.P. "Paddy" Smithwick. Racing My Father is the story of a son working alongside his father throughout summer mornings, and then hopping in a "hot car," windows up, heater blasting - so his father can sweat off a few more pounds - and driving his father to the track where the races will be held in the afternoon. Paddy Smithwick was a natural. He was a charismatic figure. He was the greatest steeplechase rider in America in the 1950s and '60s, winning all the big races, leading the country in raes won four times, dominating the sport with his style, ability, heart, and gentlemanly demeanor. Patrick Smithwick is also a natural. As a jockey, he won steeplechase races. As a writer, he's won awards. There are hints of the innocence of Huck Finn as Smithwick starts off his account of serving his apprenticeship with his father. The innocence ends when his father is paralyzed in a bad fall. Yet, the youthful Smithwick helps his father work his way back into racing, and the father-son, trainer-rider team ends up in the winner's circle at Saratoga Springs. Smithwick has recreated his own Yoknapatawpha County - with its gritty backsides and polished clubhouses, its knotty characters and sleek racehorses. Clean copy.

Record # 379581

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Ralph Lauren by Ralph Laurenby: Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren by Ralph Lauren
by: Ralph Lauren

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Large volume, 15.25 x 11.75" in a slipcase. Color drawings of fashion on endpapers, color and b&w photographs throughout of Ralph Lauren and his world. Foreword by Audrey Hepburn. Clean copy. Due to size and weight this volume is domestic shopping only.

Record # 380660

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Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoirby: Blackburn, Henry

Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoir
by: Blackburn, Henry

New York, George Routledge, 1st , 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, 172 B&W illustrations. An exceptionally bright, tight copy. Green beveled covers with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Surprisingly scarce. First American Edition. A significant memoir, published in the year of Caldecott"s death.

Record # 303331

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Rattigan Version, The:  Sir Terrence Rattigan and the Theatre of Characterby: Young, B. A.

Rattigan Version, The: Sir Terrence Rattigan and the Theatre of Character
by: Young, B. A.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. In a clean, unclipped dust jacket. Rattigan was a renowned English playwright, the author of 22 plays.

Record # 358584

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Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry by: Marinescu, Andreea (Editor), and Lopez-Vicuna, Ignacio (Editor)

Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry
by: Marinescu, Andreea (Editor), and Lopez-Vicuna, Ignacio (Editor)

Softcover. Detroit MI, Wayne State University Press , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b/w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY LOPEZ-VICUNA, the co-editor.

Record # 370227

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Rauschenberg (Third Edition): Art and Lifeby: Mary Lynn Kotz

Rauschenberg (Third Edition): Art and Life
by: Mary Lynn Kotz

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 3rd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and the art he made over his career. From the age of 38, when he received the grand prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964, Rauschenberg was a pivotal figure in the creative explosion of art following WWII. This revised edition of the classic biography of the artist adds a new chapter covering the significant moments in the final years of his life, and offers an in-depth look at his legacy and continued influence on the postmodern art world. It includes new photography and interviews with friends, colleagues, critics, and art historians.

Record # 370708

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Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinemaby: Vanessa Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema
by: Vanessa Harryhausen

Softcover. Edinburgh, National Galleries Of Scotland, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Special-effects superstar Ray Harryhausen elevated stop-motion animation to an art during the 1950s to 1980s. With material drawn from his incredible archive, his daughter, Vanessa, selects 100 creatures and objects, in chronological order, that meant the most to her as she watched her father make world-famous films that changed the course of cinema. Ray Harryhausen's work included the Sinbad films of the 50s and 70s, One Million Years B.C. and Mighty Joe Young, as well as a wider portfolio including children's fairy tales and commercials. He inspired a generation of film-makers such as Peter Jackson, Aardman Animation, Tim Burton, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and his influence on blockbuster cinema can be felt to this day. Some of the objects featured in the book, such as Talos from Jason and the Argonauts, are world famous, while others are less well known but hold special personal significance to Vanessa. Many newly restored works that have never previously been seen are included.

Record # 379940

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Raymond Carver: A Writer's Lifeby: Sklenicka, Carol

Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
by: Sklenicka, Carol

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 578 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Pictures in center. Nice copy.

Record # 4450226

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Recollections and Other Writings (SIGNED COPY)by: Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Edited by Carlton J. Pinheiro

Recollections and Other Writings (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Edited by Carlton J. Pinheiro

Hardcover. Briston RI, Herreshoff Marine Museum Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 126 pages, b&w illustrations. Memoir by one of the great American yacht & marine designers & builders. "This book is an insider's account of many years of work at the core of America's Cup contests". SIGNED BY HERRESHOFF on title page. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 359301

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Recollections of a Life Photographerby: Kirkland, Wallace

Recollections of a Life Photographer
by: Kirkland, Wallace

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. Kirkland was a photographer for Life magazine when it started in 1937. Dust jacket with edge wear, chipping.

Record # 357553

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Recreations of a Psychologistby: Hall, G. Stanley

Recreations of a Psychologist
by: Hall, G. Stanley

Hardcover. New York , Appleton, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, 336 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth covers with black lettering. Minor wear, clean copy.

Record # 407700

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Red and the Blacklist, The: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate by: Barzman, Norma

Red and the Blacklist, The: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate
by: Barzman, Norma

Hardcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press; Nation Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 464 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As the McCarthyite witch hunt gathered momentum in the postwar years, screenwriter Norma Barzman and her husband were driven from Hollywood into an emotionally difficult thirty-year exile in France. The Red and the Blacklist is a unique record of the political tempests of the time, marked by the author's dazzling power of reflection and insight, and animated by a larger-than-life cast of supporting characters including Pablo Picasso, Harold Robbins, Sophia Loren, Charlton Heston, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Losey, John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Groucho Marx and--in a delightful cameo--a very young Marilyn Monroe.

Record # 358572

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Red Grange-Football's Greatest Halfbackby: Schoor, Gene (with Henry Gilfond)

Red Grange-Football's Greatest Halfback
by: Schoor, Gene (with Henry Gilfond)

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. 186 pages, clean copy.

Record # 381792

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Red Man's Bones, The: George Catlin, Artist and Showmanby: Eisler, Benita

Red Man's Bones, The: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
by: Eisler, Benita

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353483

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Red-Color News Soldierby: Zhensheng, Li

Red-Color News Soldier
by: Zhensheng, Li

Softcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Softcvoer with vinyl wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. This is the first visual history of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and includes the only complete set of surviving photographs to document the entire period. It is drawn from thousands of original negatives that were hidden for nearly 40 years by photographer Li Zhensheng, at great personal risk, and accompanied by his own personal story. Zhensheng brings to light in this historical record one of the most turbulent, controversial, and under-documented periods in modern history.

Record # 352797

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Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock (SIGNED COPY)by: Hagar, Sammy

Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hagar, Sammy

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Color illustrations throughout. From the front flap: "In Red, Sammy tells the outrageous story of his tear through rock 'n' roll, detailing the backstage antics and nonstop touring hat have made his voice instantly recognizable. Beginning with his musical coming-of-age in blue-collar towns of California, Sammy traces his rough and determined rise to fame, working harder than anyone else out there and writing songs about the things he loved--fast cars, loud parties, and lots of good times."

Record # 30442

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Reed Crandall: Illustrator of the Comics (with author-signed bookplate)by: Hill, Roger

Reed Crandall: Illustrator of the Comics (with author-signed bookplate)
by: Hill, Roger

Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing , 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 256 pages, illustrated in color. From the 1940s to the '70s, Reed Crandall brought a unique and masterful style to American comic art. Using an illustrator's approach on everything he touched, Crandall gained a reputation as the "artist's artist" through his skillful interpretations of Golden Age super-heroes Doll Man, The Ray, and Blackhawk (his signature character); horror and sci-fi for the legendary EC Comics line; Warren Publishing's Creepy, Eerie, and Blazing Combat; the THUNDER Agents and Edgar Rice Burroughs characters; and even Flash Gordon for King Features. Comic art historian Roger Hill has compiled a complete and extensive history of Crandall's life and career, from his early years and major successes, through his tragic decline and passing in 1982. This full-color softcover includes never-before-seen photos, a wealth of rare and unpublished artwork, and over eighty thousand words of insight into one of the true illustrators of the comics. Bookplate signed by Roger Hill laid in.

Record # 369417

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Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind (SIGNED COPY)by: Nizer Louis

Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nizer Louis

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with black cloth spine. 469 pages. INSCRIBED BY NIZER on half-title page. Business card of Ben Bodne, owner of the Algonquin Hotel, stapled to title page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 383686

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Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930

Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 301 pages, b&w photos. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 358385

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Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portraitby: Ficowski, Jerzy

Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portrait
by: Ficowski, Jerzy

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Remainder marks on top edge at spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614462

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Reluctant Activist: The Spiritual Life and Art of John Howard Griffin (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Bonazzi, Robert

Reluctant Activist: The Spiritual Life and Art of John Howard Griffin (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Bonazzi, Robert

Softcover. Ft., Texas Christian University, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 435 pages. INSCRIBED BY BONAZZI on the title page. This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, is based on John Howard Griffin's Journals from 1950-1980. Griffin was blinded in the South Seas during WWII, but regained sight in 1957, after which he wrote the classic Black Like Me. Bonazzi follows Griffin year by year after 1961, when Griffin toured the globe as a lecturer on human rights.

Record # 397992

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Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century by: Pauline Wengeroff

Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century
by: Pauline Wengeroff

Softcover. University Press of Maryland, 2000, Softcover, 306 pages. Memoir (translated from the German by Henny Wenkart) of a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, with scholarly introduction and analysis. Pauline Wengeroff's memoir tells what it was like to be a Jewish girl and a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, as foundations of faith and tradition eroded around her. Clean copy.

Record # 380148

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Reminiscences of a Portrait Painterby: Healy, George P.A.

Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
by: Healy, George P.A.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805229

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Rene Herbst: Pioneer of Modernismby: Guillemette Delaporte

Rene Herbst: Pioneer of Modernism
by: Guillemette Delaporte

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Rene Herbst's enduring furniture designs provide fundamental lessons for today's interior designers. A staunch modernist, Herbst was a founding member and later president of the Union des artistes modernes (UAM) in France, which sought to make domestic comfort accessible to all, regardless of class. The diversity of his work is testament to his prolific and creative output, and his design is marked by its simplicity and functionality. The French architect turned designer was nicknamed the "man of steel" because he pioneered the use of the material for furniture years before mass production on a large scale was possible. In 1929 he created several versions of his celebrated Sandow Chair, which ignited his research into serial production and inaugurated the era of mass production. This book presents a selection of the best works from the Herbst Collection held by the library of the Musee des Arts decoratifs in Paris, and demonstrates how Herbst was the catalyst of a new style of living that spurred the birth of modernity.

Record # 361144

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Restless Genius: Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thoughtsby: Drake, Ellen Tan

Restless Genius: Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thoughts
by: Drake, Ellen Tan

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, 386 pages. "This book interprets Hooke's Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes, and Subterraneous Eruptions (1667-1694). The volume consists of the original text of the Discourses transposed into modern type and paired with explanatory annotations; a brief up-to-date biography of Hooke, with emphasis on his geological contributions; and a comparison of selected passages from James Hutton, to show the transmission of ideas and Hooke's influence on later geologists. It will attract Earth scientists and science historians, along with general readers interested in the history of geology" (the publisher). Name and date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 386473

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Reunion in Sicilyby: Jerre Mangione

Reunion in Sicily
by: Jerre Mangione

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty color cloth stamped in red and blue, 277 pages. To write this, his third book, the author lived in Sicily itself for several months on a Guggenheim Fellowship. There he found the humor and romance, the places and the people that figured in the legends of his childhood. During his extensive travel on the island, he also discovered some of the realities of post-war and post-fascism reconstruction. Mild shelf wear, dust jacket flaps laid in.

Record # 383755

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Revolution For The Hell Of Itby: Abbie Hoffman

Revolution For The Hell Of It
by: Abbie Hoffman

Softcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 259 pages. While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humour, theatre, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his legendary adventures, from the activism that led to the founding of the Youth International Party,or Yippies!, to the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ("a Perfect Mess") that resulted in his conviction as part of the Chicago Seven. Clean. bright copy.

Record # 374701

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Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screenby: Ruth Barton

Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen
by: Ruth Barton

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations. Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (18931950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of the silent cinema. Ingram briefly studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art after emigrating from Ireland to the United States in 1911; but he was soon seduced by the new medium of moving pictures and abandoned his studies for a series of jobs in the film industry. Over the next decade, he became one of the most popular directors in Hollywood, directing smash hits such as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), and Scaramouche (1923). n Rex Ingram, Ruth Barton explores the life and legacy of the pioneering filmmaker, following him from his childhood in Dublin to his life at the top of early Hollywood's A-list and his eventual self-imposed exile on the French Riviera. Ingram excelled in bringing visions of adventure and fantasy to eager audiences, and his films made stars of actors like Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro, and Alice Terry-his second wife and leading lady. With his name a virtual guarantee of box office success, Ingram's career flourished in the 1920s despite the constraints of an increasingly regulated industry and the hostility of Louis B. Mayer, who regarded him as a dangerous maverick. Barton examines the virtuoso director's career and controversial personal life-including his conversion to Islam, the rumors surrounding his ambiguous sexuality, and the circumstances of his untimely death. This definitive biography not only restores the visionary filmmaker to the spotlight but also provides an absorbing look at the daring and exhilarating days of silent-era Hollywood.

Record # 371927

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Richard Neutra : Complete Worksby: Barbara Mac Lamprecht, (Photography) Julius Shulman, (Editor) Peter Goessel

Richard Neutra : Complete Works
by: Barbara Mac Lamprecht, (Photography) Julius Shulman, (Editor) Peter Goessel

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 464 pages. Original publisher's faux wood boards, lettered orange at the spine and front cover. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Text in English, German and French. Many photographs By Julius Shulman. Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style. Neutra had a keen appreciation for the relationship between people and nature; his trademark plate glass walls and ceilings which turn into deep overhangs have the effect of connecting the indoors with the outdoors. Neutra's ability to incorporate technology, aesthetic, science, and nature into his designs brought him to the forefront of Modernist architecture. For the first time, all of Neutra's works (nearly 300 private homes, schools, and public buildings) are gathered together in one volume.

Record # 351322

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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Stoll, David

Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Stoll, David

Softcover. Colorado, Westview Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Very slight wear to edges and corners. A few pages slightly turned down. Otherwise, a very nice, clean copy.

Record # 850111

Price: $60.00 
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