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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3:  Master of the Senate by: Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3: Master of the Senate
by: Robert A. Caro

Hardcover. NY, Vintage Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition.

Record # 378385

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3:  Master of the Senate by: Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3: Master of the Senate
by: Robert A. Caro

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition.

Record # 374344

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume I: The Path to Power by: Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume I: The Path to Power
by: Robert A. Caro

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 882 pages, illus., maps, bibliography, notes, index, small crease to upper corner rear cover. This first volume of Caro's epic biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Clean copy.

Record # 374342

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Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen by: Riis, Jacob A.

Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen
by: Riis, Jacob A.

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 471 pages. Jacob Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He and Theodore Roosevelt became friends when Roosevelt was the New York City Police Commissioner. Riis wrote this idolizing biography of Roosevelt which was published in March 1904, reprinted in March 1904, and published as this Special Edition in June 1904. Contains an appendix listing books by Theodore Roosevelt. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light soil.

Record # 387794

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Theodore Winthrop (SIGNED COPY)by: Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth

Theodore Winthrop (SIGNED COPY)
by: Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY AUTHOR. Portrait of Winthrop opposite title page. Darkening to title on spine, with chip missing at very top. Moderate rubbing with small section of abrasion at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611868

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There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me (SIGNED COPY)by: Brooke Shields

There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brooke Shields

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 399 pages, illustrations. SIGNED by actress Brooke Shields on a blank prelim page. A memoir of Shields life in modeling and acting through the prism of her complex relationship with her mother/manager. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom, Teri, a woman who loved the world of show business and was often a media sensation all by herself. Brooke's iconic modeling career began by chance when she was only eleven months old, and Teri's skills as both Brooke's mother and manager were formidable. But in private she was troubled and drinking heavily. As Brooke became an adult the pair made choices and sacrifices that would affect their relationship forever. And when Brooke's own daughters were born she found that her experience as a mother was shaped in every way by the woman who raised her. But despite the many ups and downs, Brooke was by Teri's side when she died in 2012, a loving daughter until the end. Clean copy.

Record # 387927

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There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendakby: Cott, Jonathan

There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
by: Cott, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1t, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 363336

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There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendakby: Cott, Jonathan

There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
by: Cott, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1t, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353287

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They Call Me Mr. Airshow by: Bill Sweet and Bob Stailey

They Call Me Mr. Airshow
by: Bill Sweet and Bob Stailey

Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Ken Cook Transnational, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, silver letters on blue cloth. 265 pages. 20 chapters, b&w photos. Tight, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Record # 374039

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Things Temporal and Things Eternal: The Life of George Cheyne Shattuck, Jr.by: Marshall, J.C. Douglas

Things Temporal and Things Eternal: The Life of George Cheyne Shattuck, Jr.
by: Marshall, J.C. Douglas

Hardcover. Chevy Chase MD, Posterity Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulously researched account of the life of the prominent New England physician and churchman. Foreword by the Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, with a preface by the Reverend Charles H. Clark. Slight cocking to front panel. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951835

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This I Saw: The Life and Times of Goya by: Antonina Vallentin/Woods, Katherine [Translator]

This I Saw: The Life and Times of Goya
by: Antonina Vallentin/Woods, Katherine [Translator]

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark red cloth, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1949. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 397308

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This Is My Story (SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)by: Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Is My Story (SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
by: Roosevelt, Eleanor

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 365 pages, b&w photographs. SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. Begins with her childhood and covers the beginnings of her own and her husband's life in politics, culminating with the Democratic National Convention of 1924. Contains over 40 photographic images of the Roosevelt family. Book very good, dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 351250

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This Is the Story by: David L. Cohn

This Is the Story
by: David L. Cohn

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Drawings by Saul Steinberg. Mississippi author, and war correspondent, who toured the World during WWII for the US Army Service Forces (Supply). Foreword says "This book is a personal record. It has to do with a journey that I made in 1944-45 to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Corsica, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, India, Burma, China."

Record # 381485

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Thomas Berry: A Biography by: Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Grim, John; Angyal, Andrew

Thomas Berry: A Biography
by: Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Grim, John; Angyal, Andrew

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 339 pages.

Record # 372520

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Thomas Eakins: His Life and Artby: Homer, William Innes

Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art
by: Homer, William Innes

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Large format. Major monograph on one of the giants of 19th Century American art. Illustrated in color. In a bright dust jacket. 244 color plates, bibliography, chronology, notes. Clean copy.

Record # 370063

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Thomas Grange Simons III: His Forebears and Relations (SIGNED COPY)by: Robert Benthan Simons

Thomas Grange Simons III: His Forebears and Relations (SIGNED COPY)
by: Robert Benthan Simons

Hardcover. Charleston SC, Privately Published, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt. 211 pages, b&w frontispiece group portrait. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/COMPILER on the title page. The chronicle of a group of families associated for many generations with the Low Country of South Carolina. Clean copy.

Record # 383772

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Thomas Hart Benton: A Life by: Wolfe, Justin

Thomas Hart Benton: A Life
by: Wolfe, Justin

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages. In this definitive biography, Justin Wolff places Benton in the context of his tumultuous historical moment-as well as in the landscapes and cultural circles that inspired him. Thomas Hart Benton-with compelling insights into Benton's art, his philosophy, and his family history-rescues a great American artist from myth and hearsay, and provides an indelibly moving portrait of an influential, controversial, and often misunderstood man.

Record # 362310

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Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789by: Shackelford, George Green

Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789
by: Shackelford, George Green

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 219 pages, endpapers map. Describes Jefferson's European journeys during his time as minister to the court of Louis XVI between 1784 and 1789, and explores the significance of his travels to American culture. Illustrated with some 60 b&w images from the period, and drawing on Jefferson's account books and correspondence, shows how his experiences shaped his intellectual and aesthetic development. Clean copy.

Record # 379105

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Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanismby: Chinard, Gilbert

Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism
by: Chinard, Gilbert

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt and black stamping, 548 pages. Illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, plates. Study of Jefferson's mind based on contributions of "French thinkers" on his political philosophy. Inscription on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387797

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Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall by: Boylan, Alexis L. [Editor]

Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall
by: Boylan, Alexis L. [Editor]

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 284 pages, color and b&w illustrations.Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade's soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from Bibles to bedsheets to credit cards. Kinkade sells his work through his shopping-mall galleries, QVC, the Internet, and Christian stores. He is quite possibly the most collected artist in the United States. While many art-world and academic critics have dismissed him as a passing fad or marketing phenomenon, the contributors to this collection do not. Instead, they explore his work and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture. They consider Kinkade's imagery and career in relation to nineteenth-century Currier and Ives prints and Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, the collectibles market and the fine-art market, the Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center, and "The Village at Hiddenbrooke," a California housing development inspired by Kinkade's paintings. The conceptual artist Jeffrey Vallance, the curator of the first major museum exhibition of Kinkade's art and collectibles, recounts his experiences organizing that show. All of the contributors draw on art history, visual culture, and cultural studies as they seek to understand Kinkade's significance for both art and audiences. Along the way, they delve into questions about beauty, class, kitsch, religion, and taste in contemporary art. Clean copy.

Record # 397286

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Thomas Moran, Artist of the Mountainsby: Wilkins, Thurman

Thomas Moran, Artist of the Mountains
by: Wilkins, Thurman

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Pictorial dust jacket with light sunfading to spine; edge wear and light rubbing near extremities. Clean text.

Record # 805405

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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independenceby: Unger, Harlow Giles

Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
by: Unger, Harlow Giles

NY, Da Capo Press , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their kings, and even their gods. In an age when spoken and written words were the only forms of communication, Paine's aroused men to action like no one else. The most widely read political writer of his generation, he proved to be more than a century ahead of his time, conceiving and demanding unheard-of social reforms that are now integral elements of modern republican societies. Among them were government subsidies for the poor, universal housing and education, pre- and post-natal care for women, and universal social security. An Englishman who emigrated to the American colonies, he formed close friendships with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and his ideas helped shape the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

Record # 381237

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Thomas Pownall: British Defender of American Liberty: A Study of Anglo-American Relations in the Eighteenth Centuryby: Schutz, John A.

Thomas Pownall: British Defender of American Liberty: A Study of Anglo-American Relations in the Eighteenth Century
by: Schutz, John A.

Hardcover. Glendale CA, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 340 pages. A biography of Thomas Pownall (1757 - 1760) who was governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony during the French and Indian War and later a member of Parliament (1767 - 1780). Pownall had sympathies for the colonial grievances and institutions. This biography is based on a study of widely scattered documentary materials and provides insight into a man of complex and contradictory ideas and actions during the pre-Revolutionary period. Includes bibliography and index. Stamping to endpapers, from an academic library.

Record # 387762

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Thomas Young Crowell 1836-1915: A Biographical Sketch by: N/A

Thomas Young Crowell 1836-1915: A Biographical Sketch
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Crowell, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 95 pages. B&w photo illustrations. A short biography of the book publisher. Clean copy.

Record # 387211

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Thornton W. Burgess, Harrison Cady : a book, magazine, and newspaper bibliography (SIGNED COPY)by: Dowhan, Michael W.

Thornton W. Burgess, Harrison Cady : a book, magazine, and newspaper bibliography (SIGNED COPY)
by: Dowhan, Michael W.

Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Carlton Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460529

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Those Glamorous Gabors: Bombshells from Budapestby: Darwin Porter

Those Glamorous Gabors: Bombshells from Budapest
by: Darwin Porter

Softcover. NY, Blood Moon, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 752 pages, b&w illustrations. Born in Central Europe during the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, three "vonderful vimmen"--Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda Gabor--transferred their glittery dreams and gold-digging ambitions to Hollywood. They supplemented America's most Imperial Age with "guts, glamour, and goulash," and reigned there as the Hungarian equivalents of Helen of Troy, Madame du Barry, and Madame de Pompadour. More effectively than any army, these Bombshells from Budapest conquered kings, dukes, and princes, always with a special passion for millionaires, as they amassed fortunes, broke hearts, and amused sophisticated voyeurs on two continents. With their wit, charm, and beauty, thanks to training inspired by the glittering traditions of the Imperial Habsburgs, they became famous for being famous. Clean copy.

Record # 398826

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Those Intriguing Indomitable Vermont Womenby: N/A

Those Intriguing Indomitable Vermont Women
by: N/A

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Vermont State Division of the American Association of University Women, 2nd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, b&w illustrations. Related newspaper clipping laid in. Mild soil to wraps, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 396537

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Three Alexander Calders: A Family Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Hayes, Margaret Calder

Three Alexander Calders: A Family Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hayes, Margaret Calder

Middlebury VT, Paul S. Eriksson, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. A memoir of the sculptor by his older sister. 300 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's inscription on lower front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 383471

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Three and Two! The Autobiography of Tom Gorman, the Great Major League Umpireby: Jerome Holtzman /Tom Gorman

Three and Two! The Autobiography of Tom Gorman, the Great Major League Umpire
by: Jerome Holtzman /Tom Gorman

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with light fading to spine, 216 pages. A view from behind the plate of baseball in the 50s, 60s,, and 70s. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396414

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Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shawby: Nolan, Tom

Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
by: Nolan, Tom

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages. During America's Swing Era, no musician was more successful or controversial than Artie Shaw: the charismatic and opinionated clarinetist-bandleader whose dozens of hits became anthems for "the greatest generation." But some of his most beautiful recordings were not issued until decades after he'd left the scene. He broke racial barriers by hiring African-American musicians. His frequent "retirements" earned him a reputation as the Hamlet of jazz. And he quit playing for good at the height of his powers. The handsome Shaw had seven wives (including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner). Inveterate reader and author of three books, he befriended the best-known writers of his time. Tom Nolan, who interviewed Shaw between 1990 and his death in 2004 and spoke with one hundred of his colleagues and contemporaries, captures Shaw and his era with candour and sympathy, bringing the master to vivid life and restoring him to his rightful place in jazz history. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387401

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Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancyby: Griffith, Bill

Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy
by: Griffith, Bill

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 265 pages illustrated in b&w. From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception to 1895 with the Yellow Kid, the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side. When Bushmiller died in 1982, Nancy was running in almost 900 daily newspapers--a number few syndicated cartoonists ever achieve. Nancy is hailed as the "perfect" comic strip by fans and cartoonists alike. The title Three Rocks refers to the trope of three hemispherical rocks often seen in a Bushmiller landscape--just enough to communicate environment to the reader. This distillation is exemplary of the iconic, diagrammatic look of Nancy, a comic strip about the nature of what it means to be a comic strip--the perfect avatar for Griffith to expand upon his philosophy of creating comics. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383995

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Through Another Lens: My Years With Edward Westonby: Wilson, Charis

Through Another Lens: My Years With Edward Weston
by: Wilson, Charis

Hardcover. US, North Point Press, 1st, 1998-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A memoir of her life in the 1930s and 1940s with photographer Edward Weston, by his wife at the time, and sometimes model, Charis Wilson. 86 photographs throughout. including many previously unpublished family pictures, photographs by friends, and many of Weston's own extraordinary images.

Record # 350068

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Through Nineteenth-Century Eyes: The Lives of Sarah Etta King Ames and Mary Catherine Ames Coates of New York State.by: Coates, Charlotte C.

Through Nineteenth-Century Eyes: The Lives of Sarah Etta King Ames and Mary Catherine Ames Coates of New York State.
by: Coates, Charlotte C.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Charlotte C. Coates, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages. Ex-library stamp on title page. Ex-library residue and envelope on back endpaper. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852246

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Through the Tempests Dark and Wild: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankensteinby: Darrow, Sharon/ Illust: Barrett, Angela

Through the Tempests Dark and Wild: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein
by: Darrow, Sharon/ Illust: Barrett, Angela

Hardcover. Boston/London, Walker Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Haunting and deeply moving - a beautifully illustrated, fictionalized account of a formative time in the life of the teenage girl who wrote our most enduring horror story. Long before Mary Shelley published her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1818, at the age of nineteen, she shared fireside ghost tales at the home of family friends in Scotland. It was there that the headstrong girl - orphaned by her mother, spurned by her stepmother, and sent away by her father - spent two of her happiest teenage years. The brooding Scottish landscape and warm family atmosphere so influenced the author's life and art that some believe her famous novel took root there. To illuminate this period in Mary Shelley's life, Sharon Darrow skillfully spins fiction from fact. Her words are masterfully matched by Angela Barrett's exquisite, atmospheric, authentically detailed illustrations. The result is a rich tapestry of stories within stories - those told, those written, and more extraordinary, those lived. Clean copy.

Record # 384456

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Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionaryby: Hooks, Margaret/Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary
by: Hooks, Margaret/Tina Modotti

Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st pbk, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations. The apt subtitle of this award-winning biography, Photographer & Revolutionary, sums up the creative tensions that characterized Tina Modotti's life and brief photographic career. Active as a photographer for only nine years, Modotti was pulled between formal and social concerns. Producing striking modernist compositions of everyday objects, photojournalism of poverty and conflict, and portraits of celebrities and common people alike, Modotti balanced political concerns with formal rigor. First published in 1993 and long out of print, Tina Modotti: Photographer & Revolutionary is the definitive portrayal of Modotti's life and work. Few photographers are more deserving of a biographical treatment than Modotti, whose work as an actress and artist's model introduced her to Edward Weston, who was to become her lover. Soon after she arrived in Mexico City with Weston, Modotti became increasingly politicized, working for the communist newspaper El Machete and establishing herself as the go-to photographer for the Mexican Muralist movement. The book includes extensive archival material, interviews with Modotti's contemporaries and many rare photographs. Clean copy.

Record # 385810

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Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everythingby: Kevin Cook

Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything
by: Kevin Cook

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Titanic Thompson is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash, this is the legendary tale of a man who was married five times to five different girls, all teenagers on their wedding day. He killed five men, though he'd say 'they'd all agree they had it coming to them'. He won and lost millions in a time when being a millionaire still really meant something.Filled with fascinating facts and famous faces - Harry Houdini, Al Capone, Lee Trevino, Arnold Rothstein and Jean Harlow all make appearances - this is a brilliant and compelling snapshot of life on the road in freewheelin' America.

Record # 381239

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Titian and Venetian Painting, 1450-1590 by: Cole, Bruce

Titian and Venetian Painting, 1450-1590
by: Cole, Bruce

Hardcover. Boulder CO, Westview Press, 2nd pr., 1999, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian painting from Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Sometimes referred to as the founder of modern painting Titian's legacy and influence was immense and continuing?: Italian Baroque painting, El Greco, Rubens, Rembrandt and Dutch painting, French 18th century painting, Velazquez, and Picasso. There are 119 black and white illustrations integrated with the text and 8 plates in full color, a selected bibliography and index. Clean copy.

Record # 387597

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To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converseby: Fishman, Howard

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse
by: Fishman, Howard

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The mysterious true story of Connie Converse--a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition--and one writer's quest to understand her life This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse's voice on a recording, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense--a singer who seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana (country, blues, folk, jazz, and gospel), the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. And then there was the bizarre legend about Connie Converse that had become the prevailing narrative of her life: that in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from again. Could this have been true? Who was Connie Converse, really?

Record # 381666

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To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown by: Oates, Stephen B.

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
by: Oates, Stephen B.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. 434 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a full-scale biography of John Brown. "John Brown was a profoundly religious man dedicated to emancipation and Negro rights..." He "tried to overthrow slavery in the South itself by attacking Harpers Ferry and inciting a slave insurrection."Was Brown a vicious fanatic, or the greatest abolitionist hero in history?" This history is based on "contemporary letters, diaries, journals, newspapers, published reports, and recollections of eyewitnesses, this book is especially notable for providing the first really full account ever written of Brown's career before he went to Kansas..." Bold presentation inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396460

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To You, Redskin From Me, Paleface by: Barrington, Inez B. 'The Indian Lady'

To You, Redskin From Me, Paleface
by: Barrington, Inez B. 'The Indian Lady'

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 398205

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Tobacco Parish: A Collection of South Windsor's Memories (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by: Daley, Barney E.

Tobacco Parish: A Collection of South Windsor's Memories (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Daley, Barney E.

Hardcover. South Windsor, CT, Barney E. Daley, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300+ pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Bound in green cloth; gilt lettering & design on spine and front cover. From the introduction (Evan Lawn): "Whether one reads straight through or reads here and there in a checkered fashion, every reader will enjoy meeting Barney. ...And if the reader happens to be an historian, these memoirs will be prized as a treasure trove of living information about rural, daily life before electricity and indoor plumbing."

Record # 30391

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Told Round a Brushwood Fire: the Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki by: Arai Hakuseki /Joyce Ackroyd (Translator)

Told Round a Brushwood Fire: the Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki
by: Arai Hakuseki /Joyce Ackroyd (Translator)

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1979, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 347 pages. This work is the autobiography of Arai Hakuseki, the celebrated Confucian scholar who holds a prominent position in Japanese history as the influential adviser to Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu and his successor Ietsugu. Hakuseki's administrative reforms, his voluminous writings, and his advice on a multitude of topics--coinage, foreign trade, taxation, diplomatic protocol, justice, the samurai code and benevolent government, for example. governed most of the policies implemented during Ienobu's rule and influenced many of those of his successors. The book contains notes, biographical notes, appendices, a chronology, maps, and an index. Name on front flyleaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 396627

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Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by: Lyle Leverich

Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
by: Lyle Leverich

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 644 pages, b&w illustrations. After a protracted squabble over private papers with the playwright's estate, Leverich delivers this hefty first volume of a projected two-volume life of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). In it, Leverich, who produced several of Williams's plays and calls himself Williams's "chosen biographer", covers the years through 1945, when The Glass Menagerie opened on Broadway. Treated are Williams's youth in Mississippi and St. Louis; the college years at the universities of Missouri and Iowa; bumming around (but always writing) in New Orleans and Greenwich Village; the disaster of his first Broadway play (it closed in Boston); script writing, or avoiding it, at MGM's Hollywood mill; and, finally, the evolution of Menagerie, a wonderfully detailed and dramatic case history in itself. Leverich's overworked conceit, which he restates at intervals, is that this is the life of Tom Williams, a "repressed puritan" poet, who in time created a more flamboyant public persona called Tennessee. A few matters are set straight. Leverich maintains his subject's active homosexual life started in his late 20s, later than Williams stated in his memoirs, and that his sister's infamous lobotomy came later than his mother claimed. Although the accumulation of information is impressive, the lower Leverich keeps his own profile and editorial commentary the better his book is, which means it is at its best when it simply reproduces Williams's sporadically kept journal. If you believe that all the details of a life are but preparation for a single event, in this case, the opening of a remarkable play, this is an impressively argued biography.

Record # 378817

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Tomie de Paola - His Art & His Storiesby: Elleman, Barbara

Tomie de Paola - His Art & His Stories
by: Elleman, Barbara

NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Over 200 Illustrations, 218 pages includes a bibliography of the writer and illustrator's book

Record # 75319

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Tony Curtis: The Autobiographyby: Tony Curtis; Barry Paris

Tony Curtis: The Autobiography
by: Tony Curtis; Barry Paris

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 3rd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, b&w photos. The Autobiography pulls no punches: Curtis debunks myths of stardom and glamour with a raw, uncensored, street-honed New York bite. The scope of his memoirs includes: rooming with Marlon Brando in Hollywood in the late forties; a glamorous marraige to Janet Leigh in 1951, and the extraordianry days during his first flush of success.a fully detailed description of his descent into alcohol and cocaine addiction in the 1970s and 1980s; and his therapeutic, ongoing work as a visual artist. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 359465

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Toots (SIGNED BY TOOTS SHOR)by: Considine, Bob

Toots (SIGNED BY TOOTS SHOR)
by: Considine, Bob

Hardcover. NY, Meredith Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 214 pages, b&w photos. INSCRIBED on half title as follows " ___________, I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did living it" and signed Toots. Tight binding text unmarked, closed tears repaired internally to back panel of jacket.

Record # 375395

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Torrey's Narrative: Or, The Life and Adventures of William Torreyby: Torrey, William

Torrey's Narrative: Or, The Life and Adventures of William Torrey
by: Torrey, William

Hardcover. Boston, A.J. Wright, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages, illustrated with 6 b&w engravings from sketches done by the author. Interesting sailing, whaling adventures by a 14-year veteran seaman. Embossed brown cloth with gilt design on cover, gilt lettering and design on spine. Spine cloth chipped, worn at top and bottom. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Corners show wear, internally very good with only minor foxing.

Record # 404527

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Toulouse-Lautrec by: Mack, Gerstle

Toulouse-Lautrec
by: Mack, Gerstle

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 370 pages. Index, illustrated with black and white plates. Has folding genealogical chart, bibliography and index. Declared as "the first complete biography in English" of the notorious French painter (1864-1901), with new material from letters, interviews with surviving contemporaries, etc. Clean copy.

Record # 396778

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Toys of a Lifetimeby: Gingrich, Arnold

Toys of a Lifetime
by: Gingrich, Arnold

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly soiled dust jacket. Yellow cloth stamped in purple and black; 370 pages, illustrated with drawings by Leslie Saalburg. Here Gingrich, the publisher of Esquire, shares his feelings on food, automobiles, smoking pipes, violins, haberdashery and a litany of other esoteric subjects.

Record # 384836

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Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans by: Hearn, Chester G.

Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans
by: Hearn, Chester G.

Hardcover. Camden NJ, International Marine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 278 pages, b&w illustrations. Navigation at sea was a matter of guesswork until well into the 19th century. Changing that became the obsession of Matthew Fontaine Maury. While others built railroads, Maury mapped highways of wind and current over the seas. Hearn uses Maury's career as a window on America's maritime development in the 19th century, including the clipper-ship era of the 1850s, the rise of steam and steel, and the Civil War. Clean copy.

Record # 382170

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