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The Correspondence of John Locke: Volume 8: Letters 3287-3618 Covering the Years 1686-1689 (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)by: Locke, John Beer/ E. S. d

The Correspondence of John Locke: Volume 8: Letters 3287-3618 Covering the Years 1686-1689 (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)
by: Locke, John Beer/ E. S. d

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn dust jacket. A large part of the correspondence of John Locke is extant. The letters range in date from 1652 to 1704. They constitute the principle authority for Locke's biography, more especially in so far as they show his environment - material, intellectual, and spiritual. They bring together the ordinary course of his life and many of the great issues of his time. Locke had many interests, including medicine, education, discovery and expansion overseas, the foundations of government, and more especially religion, and the conciliation of Christian revelation with the contemporary advances in scientific knowledge and thought. The Enlightenment is coming into being; here its emergence can be watched through the eyes of its great progenitor. This is Volume 8 only of an 8 volume set. 462 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384162

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The Crazy Wisdom: Memoir of a Friendship (SIGNED COPY)by: Christopher Shaw

The Crazy Wisdom: Memoir of a Friendship (SIGNED COPY)
by: Christopher Shaw

Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Outskirts Press , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SHAW. like new. Shaw's memoir and account of his friendship with Jon Cody, an older one-armed dope dealer and leather craftsman in the Adirondack backcountry.

Record # 373737

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The Day the Bunny Died by: Lownes, Victor

The Day the Bunny Died
by: Lownes, Victor

Hardcover. NY, Lyle Stuart, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 190 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of the rise and near-collapse of the Playboy Empire, told by the manager of Playboy's London casinos. Clean copy.

Record # 375220

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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynanby: Tynan, Kenneth] Lahr, John (Ed.)

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
by: Tynan, Kenneth] Lahr, John (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario who created "Oh Calcutta". He was a notorious eccentric, a louche sophisticate: connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. Where else could you find such a judicious blend of aesthetics, theatre lore, love, marriage, sex and politics? These sizzling diaries will remind older readers of a man whose reputation as the greatest critic of the twentieth century is still unchallenged and introduce younger readers to an electrifying writer who simply could not be boring. B&w photos, 439 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 374500

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The Diaries of Lord Lugard, 4 Volume Set by: Lord Lugard/Margery Perham and Mary Bull (edited by)

The Diaries of Lord Lugard, 4 Volume Set
by: Lord Lugard/Margery Perham and Mary Bull (edited by)

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1959-1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes: Vol. 1, East Africa November 1889 to December 1890, 432 pages. Vol. 2, East Africa December 1890 to December 1891, 481 pages. Vol. 3, East Africa January 1892 to August 1892, 454 pages. Vol. 4, Nigeria 1894-5 and 1898, 444 pages. Black-and-white illustrations and maps; Bindings vary: Vols. 1, 3 and 4 are matching green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Vol. 2 is terra-cotta cloth with a black clorh spine. Previous owner'e signature in 1 and #. Otherwise clean and tight set.

Record # 380842

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The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course 1954 1955 by: Hagerty, James C/Robert Ferrell(Ed.)

The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course 1954 1955
by: Hagerty, James C/Robert Ferrell(Ed.)

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an dust jacket with mild fading to spine. A valuable record of the first Presidency of the TV age. Hagerty was President Eisenhower's only press secretary. Clean copy.

Record # 378780

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The Diary of John Evelyn: Volume 1: Introduction and De Vita Propria by: Evelyn, John

The Diary of John Evelyn: Volume 1: Introduction and De Vita Propria
by: Evelyn, John

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 171 pages. Volume 1 ONLY of a six volume set. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 386771

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The Diary of John Evelyn: Volume 3: Kalendarium 1650-1672  by: Evelyn, John

The Diary of John Evelyn: Volume 3: Kalendarium 1650-1672
by: Evelyn, John

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 639 pages. Volume 3 ONLY of a six volume set. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386772

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The Diary of Virginia Woolf | Volume Three | 1925-1930by: Woolf, Virginia/Annie Olivier Bell (Ed.)

The Diary of Virginia Woolf | Volume Three | 1925-1930
by: Woolf, Virginia/Annie Olivier Bell (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 384 pages. Bookplate on inside front cover, small name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387716

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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzenby: Kelly, Aileen M.

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
by: Kelly, Aileen M.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 592 pages. Alexander Herzen-philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century-was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are so numerous. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called "the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought." In an era dominated by ideologies of human progress, Herzen resisted them because they conflicted with his sense of reality, a sense honed by his unusually comprehensive understanding of history, philosophy, and the natural sciences. Following his unconventional decision to study science at university, he came to recognize the implications of early evolutionary theory, not just for the natural world but for human history. In this respect, he was a Darwinian even before Darwin. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387400

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The Doors: Dance on Fireby: Clarke, Ross

The Doors: Dance on Fire
by: Clarke, Ross

Softcover. London, Castle Communications/Penguin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, Fantastic collection of color & black & white photos with lots of info about the band. Contains color reproductions of psychedelic posters for The Doors concerts. Discography. Light chipping to paper spine, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 379961

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The Duke of Newcastleby: Browning, Reed

The Duke of Newcastle
by: Browning, Reed

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with a faded spine. 388 pages, b&w frontis. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396470

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The Earl Covey Story: A Biographyby: Francis A. Covey

The Earl Covey Story: A Biography
by: Francis A. Covey

Hardcover. NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 164 pages, portrait frontis. and section of b&w photos. A nice clean, tight and unmarked text of this scarce biography of the noted Adirondack woodsman and builder.

Record # 398468

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The Edge of the Woods: A Memoirby: Watson, Hildegarde Lasell

The Edge of the Woods: A Memoir
by: Watson, Hildegarde Lasell

Hardcover. Lunenburg VT, Stinehour Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and color label on front cover. 165 pages, b&w photos. Hildegarde Lasell was a concert singer. "Miss Lasell sang with refinement and cultivation," commented a reviewer in 1936, "she is obviously a serious student of the meaning and values of the music she interprets." She appeared in her husband's two short avant-garde films. She played Madeline Usher in the silent horror film The Fall of the House of Usher (1928),and Lot's wife in the Biblical adaptation Lot in Sodom (1933).In the 1950s, she persuaded composer Alec Wilder to write an original soundtrack for the 1928 film. Watson was vice-president of the Rochester (NY)Historical Society, and wrote the history of the society's Woodside mansion in 1962. She received a medal from the Rochester Museum and Science Center in 1972, alongside fellow recipients including Robert Jastrow, Roger Tory Peterson, and Yousuf Karsh. Her memoir, The Edge of the Woods: A Memoir (1979) was published posthumously. Some of her correspondence with poet Marianne Moore was also published posthumously. Limited to 1,000 copies. Clean.

Record # 385478

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The Education of John Dewey: A Biographyby: Jay Martin

The Education of John Dewey: A Biography
by: Jay Martin

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 562 pages. During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896) thrives still and is a model for schools worldwide, especially in emerging democracies. But how was this lifetime of thought enmeshed in Dewey's emotional experience, in his joys and sorrows as son and brother, husband and father, and in his political activism and spirituality? Acclaimed biographer Jay Martin recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing important themes through the philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Clean copy.

Record # 378811

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The Education of Shakespeareby: Plimpton, George A.

The Education of Shakespeare
by: Plimpton, George A.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 140 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354267

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The Fabulous Life of Diego Riveraby: Bertram D. Wolfe

The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera
by: Bertram D. Wolfe

Hardcover. NY, Stein & Day, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Quarter bound in publisher's gray cloth over brick boards, gilt lettering on brown panel on spine, author's facsimile signature, gilt, on cover, green endpapers, 457 pages with 164 black & white plates and 39 black & white line drawings. Red top edge. Corners a bit rubbed. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tear.

Record # 396747

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The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction by: Wallace, Irving

The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction
by: Wallace, Irving

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped, 316 pages. This book is a fascinating combination of literary detection and biography, capturing lives of extraordinary people who inspired memorable characters in ficiton.

Record # 373758

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The Female Soldier; Or The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell (1750 )by: Snell, Hannah/ Dugaw, Dianne (introduction)

The Female Soldier; Or The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell (1750 )
by: Snell, Hannah/ Dugaw, Dianne (introduction)

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, The Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 257. Facsimile of the 1750 version of the 'conventionalized' story of Hannah Snell, who was a real person (1723-1792). Introduction by Dianne Dugaw. xiii, iv, 42 pages. Heroines such as Hannah Snell actually surface as commonplace, particularly in works catering to the lower classes. In 1750 the London printer Robert Walker, an important early newspaper publisher, presented his readers with two anonymous versions of The Female Soldier, the 46-page unillustrated octavo reproduced here and a more developed 187-page book which included engraved illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386966

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The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Periodby: Edmund Wilson; Leon Edel Introduction

The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
by: Edmund Wilson; Leon Edel Introduction

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 663 pages. Clean copy. Edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. This is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties and it is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade.

Record # 381860

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The Films of Ingrid Bergmanby: Quirk, Lawrence J.

The Films of Ingrid Bergman
by: Quirk, Lawrence J.

Hardcover. NY, Citadel Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. Profusely illustrated review of Ingrid Bergman's films in the classic Citadel Press style. 242 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 382207

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The Films of Lon Chaneyby: Michael F. Blake

The Films of Lon Chaney
by: Michael F. Blake

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Vestal Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 226 pages with b&w illustrations. This volume presents "the most complete filmography of Chaney's work ever compiled. For each of the actor's 158 known film appearances, [the author] includes cast and crew lists, plot synopsis, critical comments, and behind-the-scenes information. Complementing the text are 120 photographs, most of which are published here for the first time."

Record # 387949

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The Fire of Life: A Book of Memories by: Harold Spender

The Fire of Life: A Book of Memories
by: Harold Spender

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine, 328 pages, index. Spender (1864-1926) was a leading journalist in England and later ran for office (and lost) as a Liberal candidate in 1922. He covered major events in British history for major newspapers like the Manchester Guardian and Daily News from 1899 until 1914. He was the father of poet Stephen Spender. A clean copy with minor shelf wear.

Record # 371311

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The First Napoleon: Some Unpublished Documents from the Bowood Papers by: The Earl of Kerry (Editor)

The First Napoleon: Some Unpublished Documents from the Bowood Papers
by: The Earl of Kerry (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt medallion on front cover. 355 pages, color frontispiece. Illustrated with several B&W maps and reproductions. Mild fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 383418

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The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker - Volume Six, Part One: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Introductions, Commentary, Books I-IV by: Rich

The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker - Volume Six, Part One: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Introductions, Commentary, Books I-IV
by: Rich

Hardcover. Binghamton NY, Medieval & Rennaissance Texts & Studies, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. 652 pages. Identical binding to the Harvard University Press set. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386147

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The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker - Volume Six, Part Two: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Books V- VIII by: Richard Hooker/ P.G. Stanwoo

The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker - Volume Six, Part Two: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Books V- VIII
by: Richard Hooker/ P.G. Stanwoo

Hardcover. Binghamton NY, Medieval & Rennaissance Texts & Studies, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. pages 653-1247. Identical binding to the Harvard University Press set. Errata slip taped to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 386146

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The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker - Volume Three: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Books Vi VII VIII by: Richard Hooker/ P.G. Stanwood (E

The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker - Volume Three: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Books Vi VII VIII
by: Richard Hooker/ P.G. Stanwood (E

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. The writings of Richard Hooker are of central interest to those studying English Renaissance thought and literature. In this, the third volume of a much-needed critical edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, are the posthumous books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Hooker planned the Laws in eight books, but he died shortly after publication of Book Five. Books Six, Seven, and Eight, which contain his analysis of jurisdiction, episcopacy, and the royal supremacy, are here transcribed from versions that have the most authority. The volume also includes Hooker's autograph notes toward those texts (brought to light by P. G. Stanwood in the course of his research) and the contemporary notes by George Cranmer and Edwin Sandys on a lost draft of Book Six. Mr. Stanwood's introduction lays to rest all doubts about the authenticity of the last three books as we have them, doubts current since publication of Walton's Life of Hooker in 1662.Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386145

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The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker-Tractates & Sermons - Volume 5 (V)by: Richard Hooker/ Laetitia Yeandle (Editor), Egil Grislis (Commentaries

The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker-Tractates & Sermons - Volume 5 (V)
by: Richard Hooker/ Laetitia Yeandle (Editor), Egil Grislis (Commentaries

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover, 926 pages. Although Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is now known principally as the author of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in his lifetime the Tractates and Sermons brought him greater notoriety. Hooker's views on justification, the perseverance of faith, and the relationship of the Church of Rome to the reformed Church of England were widely reported, and texts of the tracts were extensively circulated in manuscript. Thanks to the meticulous editing of Laetitia Yeandle, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the contemporary impact of these debates can now be appreciated for the first time. These tracts provide a unique perspective on the turbulent world of late Elizabethan theology. In addition, they lay the doctrinal foundations of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity itself and-with the excellent commentary of Egil Grislis, Professor of Theology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, enable us to trace the intellectual formation of sixteenth-century England's most innovative and provocative theologian. The volume includes a newly discovered letter; three newly attributed sermon fragments; and analysis by P. F. Forte of Hooker's distinctive preaching style. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386144

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The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidencyby: Smith, Kathryn

The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
by: Smith, Kathryn

Hardcover. NY, Touchstone, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?s administration, Marguerite "Missy" LeHand, FDR?s de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history until now. If you wanted access to Franklin, you had to get through Missy. She was one of his most trusted advisors, affording her a unique perspective on the president that no one else could claim, and she was deeply admired and respected by Eleanor and the Roosevelt children. Clean copy.

Record # 379559

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The Good Listener: Helen Bamber A Life Against Cruelty by: Neil Belton

The Good Listener: Helen Bamber A Life Against Cruelty
by: Neil Belton

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A magisterial achievement: part biography, part history, part moral meditation on the resurrection of torture as an instrument of political power in the twentieth century, The Good Listener tells the story of Helen Bamber, a good but complex woman now in her seventies, who has spent her life battling to bring the dark side of history into the light. In almost every situation in our century where mankind has demonstrated its capacity to intensify evil--during the Nazi Holocaust, in Algeria, Chile, Africa, the USSR, and Israel, as well as in postwar Britain and Germany--Bamber has served as a witness, an expert, or a reproach, as well as a repository of our collective memory of debasement. Her father, a Polish Jew, had been so obsessed by the Fascist threat that he would read to Helen from Goebbels' speeches, teaching her how corrupting and manipulative language can be. She went to Bergen-Belsen after World War II had ended, and upon her return to London she dedicated herself to caring for the young survivors of the camp. So began Bamber's brave devotion to the grim and dangerous task of undoing the work of the torturer--culminating, after her participation as a central force in Amnesty International, in her establishment in England of the Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Because Bamber's uncanny openness to others has been one of her great skills, Clean copy.

Record # 383495

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The Good, the Bad, and Me; In My Anecdotage by: Eli Wallach

The Good, the Bad, and Me; In My Anecdotage
by: Eli Wallach

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 312 pages, b&w illustrations. This is the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his acting craft which began in Brooklyn and grew in his college years in Texas. He has worked with many of the stars in movies and has been in many well-known movies, but he will always be remembered as a Western badman in the Spaghetti Westerns of the 60s and 70s. Clean copy.

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The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly (SIGNED COPY)by: Richard Korman

The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly (SIGNED COPY)
by: Richard Korman

Hardcover. San Francisco, Encounter Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures in center. Goodyear was an entrepreneur who actually made good on the ever-popular claim that his company would change the world. Korman, senior editor of Engineering News-Record, dryly traces the life of the rubber pioneer and American industrial legend in this part scientific history lesson and part American business story. Goodyear (1800-1860) became an inventor not out of any great scientific thirst; he was self-taught and wanted to make money. He earned success, but endured continual patent monopoly battles and numerous trips to debtors' prison as he steadfastly and compulsively held onto his dream of using rubber to change just about every aspect of life. (According to Korman, Goodyear frequently wore a coat made of rubber in his early inventing days to underscore the versatility of his product.) Korman waxes scientific at times, offering in-depth descriptions of how Goodyear cooked rubber and sulfur compounds, yet his technical discourses are not so esoteric that they will turn away amateurs. His book is also valuable for its accurate portrayal of factory life in the 1830s and '40s; his accounts of the aproned men who chopped rubber with axes and knives and the machines that ground it are lively examples of industrial age America. Clean copy.

Record # 396666

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The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly by: Richard Korman

The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
by: Richard Korman

Hardcover. San Francisco, Encounter Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures in center. Goodyear was an entrepreneur who actually made good on the ever-popular claim that his company would change the world. Korman, senior editor of Engineering News-Record, dryly traces the life of the rubber pioneer and American industrial legend in this part scientific history lesson and part American business story. Goodyear (1800-1860) became an inventor not out of any great scientific thirst; he was self-taught and wanted to make money. He earned success, but endured continual patent monopoly battles and numerous trips to debtors' prison as he steadfastly and compulsively held onto his dream of using rubber to change just about every aspect of life. (According to Korman, Goodyear frequently wore a coat made of rubber in his early inventing days to underscore the versatility of his product.) Korman waxes scientific at times, offering in-depth descriptions of how Goodyear cooked rubber and sulfur compounds, yet his technical discourses are not so esoteric that they will turn away amateurs. His book is also valuable for its accurate portrayal of factory life in the 1830s and '40s; his accounts of the aproned men who chopped rubber with axes and knives and the machines that ground it are lively examples of industrial age America. Clean copy.

Record # 397721

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The Great American Rascal: The Turbulent Life of Aaron Burr by: Vail, Philip

The Great American Rascal: The Turbulent Life of Aaron Burr
by: Vail, Philip

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn Books, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, in a bright , price-clipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 359134

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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Heroby: Peter S. Canellos

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
by: Peter S. Canellos

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 609 pages, b&w illustrations. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, John Marshall Harlan's words helped end segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom. But his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John's father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a political leader. With Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the Supreme Court. At first, John is awed by his fellow justices, but the country is changing. Northern whites are prepared to take away black rights to appease the South. Giant trusts are monopolizing entire industries. Against this onslaught, the Supreme Court seemed all too willing to strip away civil rights and invalidate labor protections. So as case after case comes before the court, challenging his core values, John makes a fateful decision: He breaks with his colleagues in fundamental ways, becoming the nation's prime defender of the rights of Black people, immigrant laborers, and people in distant lands occupied by the US. Harlan's dissents, particularly in Plessy v. Ferguson, were widely read and a source of hope for decades. Thurgood Marshall called Harlan's Plessy dissent his "Bible"--and his legal roadmap to overturning segregation. In the end, Harlan's words built the foundations for the legal revolutions of the New Deal and Civil Rights eras.

Record # 381228

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The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home (SIGNED COPY)by: Mosher, Howard Frank

The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mosher, Howard Frank

NY, Crown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MOSHER on the title page. Documents the author's road trip across twenty-first-century America, where he shared personal encounters with homeless people, country performers, and readers and writers from all walks of life. Clean copy.

Record # 378145

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The Great Nowitzki: Basketball and the Meaning of Lifeby: Pletzinger, Thomas

The Great Nowitzki: Basketball and the Meaning of Life
by: Pletzinger, Thomas

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Advance Reading Copy, 408 pages. The seven-foot Dirk Nowitzki is one of the greatest players in basketball history. The Dallas Maverick's legend revolutionized the sport, redefining the role of the big man in the modern game. Dirk moved differently: flexible and fast, confident and in control. He thought differently, too. On the court, his shots were masterful-none more venerated than his signature one-legged flamingo fadeaway, a move that lives on in the repertoire of today's most skilled NBA players. How did this lanky kid from the German suburbs become an all-time top ten scorer and NBA champion? How can a superstar stay so humble? Award-winning novelist and sportswriter Thomas Pletzinger spent over seven years traveling with Nowitzki. He witnessed Dirk's summer workouts, involving fingertip pushups and the study of the physics, and spent days discussing literature and philosophy with Holger Geschwindner, Dirk's enigmatic mentor and coach. Watching Nowitzki in empty gyms and in packed arenas with 30,000 fans, Pletzinger began to understand how Dirk and Holger's philosophical insights on performance, creativity, and freedom enabled his success and longevity. This proof edition lacks the photo section. Clean copy.

Record # 397923

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The Groucho Phile: An Illustrated Life by: Marx, Groucho

The Groucho Phile: An Illustrated Life
by: Marx, Groucho

Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright but edgeworn dust jacket. In this, his illustrated life, Groucho Marx shares the glories of the most beloved and durable career in show business, offers glimpses of his private life, and tells never-before-published anecdotes about the great people of his time. Groucho's inimitable words complement the more than 700 photographs, line drawings, posters and letters that have been culled from the massive Groucho Marx collection. 384 pages, index. Light spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 382216

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The Happy Warrior: The Story of My Father, Alfred E. Smith by: Warner, Emily Smith, with Hawthorne, Daniel

The Happy Warrior: The Story of My Father, Alfred E. Smith
by: Warner, Emily Smith, with Hawthorne, Daniel

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 396404

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The Historical World of Frederick Jackson Turner: With Selections from his Correspondence by: Wilbur R. Jacobs

The Historical World of Frederick Jackson Turner: With Selections from his Correspondence
by: Wilbur R. Jacobs

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, 289 pages, b&w illustrations. Turner's work on the frontier and on sectional development helped transform the teaching and writing of American history. Here are 150+ letters excerpted or given in full (to Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Schlesinger, Carl Becker, Merle Curti and others.

Record # 396615

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The Hitler File: A Social History of Germany and the Nazis, 1918-45by: Frederic V. Grunfeld

The Hitler File: A Social History of Germany and the Nazis, 1918-45
by: Frederic V. Grunfeld

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 373 pages. Color and b&w photographs. Water stain on back cover. Dust jacket has some small tears. A pictorial record, with accompanying text, of German society, culture, and politics, from the Weimar Republic to Hitler's last public appearence, detailing the rise of Nazism and Hitler's public and private lives.

Record # 374236

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The Hitler of History by: John Lukacs

The Hitler of History
by: John Lukacs

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Dangerously, the cumulative portrait that begins to emerge can suggest the face of a mythic antihero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest. By reversing the process, by making Hitler's biographers--rather than Hitler himself--the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history. Like an attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial. He gives a masterly account of all the major works and of the personalities, methods, and careers of the biographers (one cannot separate the historian from his history, particularly in this arena); he looks at what is still not known (and probably never will be) about Hitler; he considers various crucial aspects of the real Hitler; and he shows how different biographers have either advanced our understanding or gone off track. By singling out those who have been involved in, or co-opted into, an implicit "rehabilitation of Hitler," Lukacs draws powerful conclusions about Hitler's essential differences from other monsters of history, such as Napoleon, Mussolini, and Stalin, and--equally important--about Hitler's place in the history of this century and of the world.

Record # 380367

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The Home of the Brontes: A Paper Read Before the Kit-Kat Club on Thursday, December Second, Nineteen Fifteen (SIGNED COPY)by: Meeker, Claude

The Home of the Brontes: A Paper Read Before the Kit-Kat Club on Thursday, December Second, Nineteen Fifteen (SIGNED COPY)
by: Meeker, Claude

Hardcover. Columbus OH, College Printers at The Champlin Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition, hardcover in wood-grain paper, gilt lettering on cover, 22 pages, b&w frontis. Signed by Meeker and # 92 of 200 on a limitation page. Bottom corner of front cover worn otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 398479

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The Honest Rainmaker; The Life And Times Of Colonel John R Stingo by: Liebling, A.J.

The Honest Rainmaker; The Life And Times Of Colonel John R Stingo
by: Liebling, A.J.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with titles in black and blue on spine, no dust jacket, 317 pages. These are the life and times of Col. John R. Stingo, fabulous figure of track and ring. The Colonel who Was a raconteur In The Grand Tradition; He shares his tales Oo rainmaking, horse racing, newspaper writing; and other exploits of his long and kaleidoscopic career. Paper tanning slightly but a clean copy.

Record # 378504

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The House Guests by: MacDonald, John D.

The House Guests
by: MacDonald, John D.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 180 pages. The author of the Travis McGee series relates his family's experiences with and high jinx of their pets, two tomcats and a goose. 4 leaves of b&w photo plates. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 387254

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The House of Quiet: An Autobiographyby: Benson, Arthur Christopher

The House of Quiet: An Autobiography
by: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated frontispiece etching of Blenheim. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decoration, top edge gilt. The memoirs of the author of "Land of Hope and Glory." Clean, bright copy.

Record # 371171

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The House of the Singing Winds: The Life and Work of T.C. Steele by: Steele, Selma N.; Steele, Theodore L.; Peat, Wilbur D.

The House of the Singing Winds: The Life and Work of T.C. Steele
by: Steele, Selma N.; Steele, Theodore L.; Peat, Wilbur D.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 209 pages. A revised edition of a book first published in 1966, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Biography of Theodore Steele, a popular regional artist from Indiana who specialized in landscapes as well as portraits. Clean copy.

Record # 373503

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The House That Shadows Builtby: Irwin, Will

The House That Shadows Built
by: Irwin, Will

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark blue lettering, 293 pages. Early book on Adolph Zuckor & the pioneer days of the motion picture industry. 15 photos. Zukor was a Hungarian-American who produced one of the first feature-length films (The Prisoner of Zenda, 1913) and was one of the three founders of Paramount Studios. The book covers his rise from nickelodeon arcades to the heights of Hollywood. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 384802

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The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution by: Ira D. Gruber

The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution
by: Ira D. Gruber

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 396 pages including index. By focusing on the Howe brothers, their political connections, their relationships with the British ministry, their attitude toward the Revolution, and their military activities in America, Gruber answers the frequently asked question of why the British failed to end the American Revolution in its early years. This book supersedes earlier studies because of its broader research and because it elucidates the complex personal interplay between Whitehall and its commanders. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397511

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The Hunting and Exploring Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt: Told in His Own Words by: Roosevelt, Theodore/Donald Day (Ed.)

The Hunting and Exploring Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt: Told in His Own Words
by: Roosevelt, Theodore/Donald Day (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray boards with a red cloth spine, 431 pages. Clean copy. Book opens to half-title page, so assumed front fly leaf gone.

Record # 386807

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