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WILL EISNER : A DREAMER'S LIFE IN COMICSby: Schumacher, Michael

WILL EISNER : A DREAMER'S LIFE IN COMICS
by: Schumacher, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st US , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, hardcover. 16 pages of color illustrations. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 351040

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Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novelby: Paul Levitz and Brad Meltzer

Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel
by: Paul Levitz and Brad Meltzer

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 220 pages. Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, best known for The Spirit, his iconic newspaper comic strip, and A Contract With God, the first significant graphic novel. This seminal work from 1978 ushered in a new era of personal stories in comics form that touched every adult topic from mortality to religion and sexuality, forever changing the way writers and artists approached comics storytelling. Noted historian Paul Levitz celebrates Eisner by showcasing his most famous work along-side unpublished and rare materials from the family archives. Also included are original interviews with creators such as Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Jeff Smith, Denis Kitchen, and Neil Gaiman--all of whom knew Eisner and were inspired by his work to create their own graphic novels for a new generation of readers.

Record # 369663

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Willa Cather in Europe; Her Own Story of the First Journeyby: Cather, Willa

Willa Cather in Europe; Her Own Story of the First Journey
by: Cather, Willa

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Dust jacket slightly worn and with short tears. Some foxing on endpages, top edge stained red.

Record # 511050

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Willard Memoir; or, Life and Times of Major Simon Willard: with Notices of Three Generations of His Descendants, and Two Collateral Branches in the United States; also, Some Account of the Name and Family in Europe, from an Early Day

Willard Memoir; or, Life and Times of Major Simon Willard: with Notices of Three Generations of His Descendants, and Two Collateral Branches in the United States; also, Some Account of the Name and Family in Europe, from an Early Day

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 470 pages with index, b&w frontis of an English church. A detailed history of the Willard family first published 1n 1848. Clean copy.

Record # 385787

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William Albert Allard: Five Decadesby: Allard, William Albert

William Albert Allard: Five Decades
by: Allard, William Albert

Hardcover. US, Focal Point, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature as never before seen in the pages of National Geographic. Always in search of "what is happening at the edges," his work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture -through images and narrative -of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century.

Record # 350718

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William Blake at the Huntington: An Introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calby: Essick, Robert

William Blake at the Huntington: An Introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal
by: Essick, Robert

Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.

Record # 455386

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William Blake: A New Kind of Man by: Davis, Michael

William Blake: A New Kind of Man
by: Davis, Michael

Hardcover. London, Paul Elek, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth, 181 pages. 11 color, 58 black-and-white illustrations. This account of Blake's life discusses his artistic, religious, philosophical, political and sexual ideas; his politics; his compelling myths and truths; his poems and his prophetic books; his artworks and illustrations. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 353465

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William Brewster of the Mayflower: Portrait of a Pilgrim by: Brewster, Dorothy

William Brewster of the Mayflower: Portrait of a Pilgrim
by: Brewster, Dorothy

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 116 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397477

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William Carlos Williams Review a Volume IX Numbers 1 2 Fall 1983: Centennial Issue by: GRAHAM Theodora Rapp and Peter Schmidt edited by

William Carlos Williams Review a Volume IX Numbers 1 2 Fall 1983: Centennial Issue
by: GRAHAM Theodora Rapp and Peter Schmidt edited by

Softcover. Middletown PA, Pennsylvania State University, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Red perfect bound wrappers, 176 pages. Covers with a few faint creases, spine slightly faded, mild wave to book. Prints Williams' 80-page 1914 little red notebook in exact-size facsimiles with a transcription and two additional essays from his son William Eric Williams; additional contributions by Reed Whittemore, James Laughlin, Cecelia Tichi, Peter Schmidt, Mary Ellen Solt, Henry Sayre, Emily Wallace, Louis Martz and Albert Sonnenfeld. The journal showcases scholarly essays on any aspect of the life and work of William Carlos Williams.

Record # 398059

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William de la Montagne Cary: Artist on the Missouri River (SIGNED COPY)by: Ladner, Mildred D.

William de la Montagne Cary: Artist on the Missouri River (SIGNED COPY)
by: Ladner, Mildred D.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. This illustrated biography describes a trip taken by William de la M. Cary and two companions by steamboat on the Missouri River. 242 pages, b&w illustrations, 16 pages of color plates. SIGNED BY LADNER on the half-title page. Book tightly bound and in near fine condition. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and fading in areas.

Record # 805016

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William de la Montagne Cary: Artist on the Missouri Riverby: Ladner, Mildred D.

William de la Montagne Cary: Artist on the Missouri River
by: Ladner, Mildred D.

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket Clean, tight copy.

Record # 4295

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William Harvey: A Life in Circulationby: Thomas Wright

William Harvey: A Life in Circulation
by: Thomas Wright

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequences for the history of science. It also had an enormous impact on culture more generally, influencing economists, poets and political thinkers, for whom the theory triumphed not as empirical fact but as a remarkable philosophical idea. In the first major biographical study of Harvey in 50 years, Thomas Wright charts the meteoric rise of a yeoman's son to the elevated position of King Charles I's physician, taking the reader from farmlands of Kent to England's royal palaces, and paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary mind formed at a fertile time in England's intellectual history. Clean copy.

Record # 378942

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William Henry Jackson - Pioneer Photographer of the Westby: Forsee/Douglas Gorsline, Aylesa

William Henry Jackson - Pioneer Photographer of the West
by: Forsee/Douglas Gorsline, Aylesa

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages. Black & white drawings by Douglas Gorsline. Back & white photos by William Henry Jackson. Dust jacket with chip to spine bottom, closed tear.

Record # 501816

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William Merritt Chaseby: Gallati, Barbara Dayer

William Merritt Chase
by: Gallati, Barbara Dayer

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 143 pages. 44 color, 59 bw plates. One of a series focusing on America's foremost artists from the colonial era to the present, this volume covers the work of American Impressionist, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). Chase worked mainly in oil, but he also used watercolour and pastel, and produced prints. Includes bibliiographical references and index. Clean copy.

Record # 397644

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William Merritt Chaseby: Pisano, Ronald G.

William Merritt Chase
by: Pisano, Ronald G.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Watson-Guptil Publications, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages with 32 full-page color plates. Includes chronology, bibliography, and index. Biography illustrated in black and white followed by full color plates on right side with author's descriptions on left. Painting on dust jacket. Overall a clean, tight, copy, dust jacket shows slight bit of wear around edges.

Record # 804978

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William Morris and the Middle Ages: A Collection of Essays Together with a Catalogue of Works Exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery September 28 to December 8 1984by:

William Morris and the Middle Ages: A Collection of Essays Together with a Catalogue of Works Exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery September 28 to December 8 1984
by:

Hardcover. UK, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 225 pages. B&w illustrations plus 8 color plates. A collection of essays together with a catalogue of works exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 28 September - 8 December 1984. The book considers the tradition in which Morris worked and the development of his attitude towards the medieval past. Art plays a central role, as it did in all Morris's thinking, since, even in his socialist years, it was always the history of art rather than political or economic history that shaped for him the pattern of history, and his vision for the future. Uncommon in hardcover. Bookplate on inside front cover, small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387679

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William Morris by Himself - Designs and Writingsby: Naylor (Ed.), Gillian

William Morris by Himself - Designs and Writings
by: Naylor (Ed.), Gillian

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A study of Morris's life through his own words and work. Contains extracts from his letters, poems, etc. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 200 color plates. Many of the illustrations have never been reproduced before

Record # 602334

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William Morris: A Study in Personality.by: Compton- Rickett, Arthur

William Morris: A Study in Personality.
by: Compton- Rickett, Arthur

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton , 1st U.S., 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 325 pages. Green cloth cover, beveled edges, gilt design,some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing and shadows on front and rear endpages. With an introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Frontispiece is b&w portrait of William Morris. Binding slightly cocked. Inside pages are bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 853088

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William Ranney: Painter of the Early Westby: Grubar, Francis S.

William Ranney: Painter of the Early West
by: Grubar, Francis S.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of American Painter William Ranney with catalog of his works and 53 b&w as well as 2 color reproductions. Softcover with flaps. Some wear along the spine and markings on back cover, overall in very good condition.

Record # 805215

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William Shakespeare And The Globe by: Aliki

William Shakespeare And The Globe
by: Aliki

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Aliki. With her characteristically sprightly words and pictures, Aliki brings Shakespeare's life, times, and legacy to life in this highly acclaimed information-packed treasury that is truly for readers of all ages. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare's world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater.

Record # 373682

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William Shirley: King's Governor of Massachusettsby: Schutz, John A.

William Shirley: King's Governor of Massachusetts
by: Schutz, John A.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, 292 pages, b&w plates. ISBN number on copyright page denotes a reprint. Clean, bright copy, lacks dust jacket.

Record # 397695

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William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer by: William Edward Farrison

William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer
by: William Edward Farrison

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 482 pages. William Wells Brown was a Black author and reformer of the nineteenth century, a Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace. The author argues for Brown's place alongside that of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Wendell Phillips. There's an extensive bibliography and an index. Name on front fly leaf, dj spine faded.

Record # 397199

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Wilson Harrisby: Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Wilson Harris
by: Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages, green cloth covers. A scarce study of the Caribbean writer which has been heavily annotated and underlined by Joyce Adler, the previous owner. Adler was a literary scholar and published two books on Harris herself.

Record # 404508

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Wilsonby: Berg, A. Scott

Wilson
by: Berg, A. Scott

Hardcover. NY, Putnam , Book Club Ed., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 818 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462950

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Wilt Chamberlainby: George Sullivan

Wilt Chamberlain
by: George Sullivan

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 183 pages, 4 pages of b&w photos up front. light rubbing to covers.

Record # 381293

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Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting by: Goodyear III Frank; Byrd, Dana E.

Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
by: Goodyear III Frank; Byrd, Dana E.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy. One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer's understanding of the camera's ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America's most original painters.

Record # 369084

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Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting by: Goodyear III, Frank; Byrd, Dana E.

Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
by: Goodyear III, Frank; Byrd, Dana E.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy. One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer's understanding of the camera's ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America's most original painters.

Record # 383281

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Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870sby: Conrads, Margret C.

Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s
by: Conrads, Margret C.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. illustrated mainly in color. Black cloth. Brand new copy still in original shrink wrap. Beautifully illustrated dust jacket. Gives an insight to Homers artistic growth trough the eyes of his critics.

Record # 605079

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Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of Americaby: Doig, Ivan

Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America
by: Doig, Ivan

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Light rubbing, soiling to price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy. The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.

Record # 451448

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With Cortes the Conquerorby: Watson, Virginia, Frank Schoonover

With Cortes the Conqueror
by: Watson, Virginia, Frank Schoonover

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing , 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Frank Schoonover. White stamped lettering, decoration worn on front, light fraying to green cover boards, light soil. Internally good.

Record # 368240

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Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza by: Gullan-Whur, Margaret

Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza
by: Gullan-Whur, Margaret

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2000, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 398 pages. The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that human beings are parts of a single, unified nature, that God is identical with nature, and that reason, not revelation, supplies the truth of any aspect of God. Undeterred, he made this thesis the basis for a rational crusade against superstition and prejudice. Dr Gullan-Whur's biography, the first for twenty-eight years, shows how Spinoza's central philosophical beliefs developed within the context of his own life. Drawing on very recent scholary research and making detailed reference to primary sources, some not previously explored, the author focuses on the philosopher's attempt to act solely through reason in the face of turbulent personal and national circumstances. This new approach demolishes the myth that Spinoza was a lofty ascetic. It exposes his emotional and sexual vulnerabilit arrogance and misogyny, yet shows his living philosophical experiment to be shrply relevant today. Clean copy.

Record # 386469

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Without Stoppingby: Bowles, Paul

Without Stopping
by: Bowles, Paul

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen Publishers, 1st UK , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 379 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear to top edge of cover and dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 467086

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Wodehouse: A Lifeby: Robert McCrum

Wodehouse: A Life
by: Robert McCrum

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 530 pages. An affectionate portrait of the prolific twentieth-century comic writer discusses his creation of such characters as Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings; describes his contributions to Broadway and the London stage; details his internment in Berlin during World War II; and reveals a following of literary figures who are among his top fans.

Record # 372331

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Woman I Wanted to Be, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: von Furstenberg, Diane

Woman I Wanted to Be, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: von Furstenberg, Diane

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) Color illustrations throughout. White cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, has previous bookstore's label on back cover.

Record # 99039

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Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Usby: Bergstein, Rachelle

Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us
by: Bergstein, Rachelle

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 284 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Rachelle Bergstein brings readers along on a unique and delightful romp through the history of shoes, the women who wear them, and the profound impact they have on our lives. Women from the Ankle Down includes interviews and cameos with influential figures ranging from Lisa Mayock of Vena Cava to Oscar Award-winning costume designer Patrizia van Brandenstein, from Doc Martens historian Martin Roach to Fashion Institute of Technology museum director Valerie Steele; from Marilyn Monroe and Jane Fonda to Salvador Ferragamo and Christian Dior; from Judy Garland to Wonder Woman.

Record # 350221

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Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and Londonby: Santamaria, Giuseppe

Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and London
by: Santamaria, Giuseppe

Hardcover. London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color pictures throughout. Photographer, art director and fashion enthusiast Giuseppe Santamaria takes us to the streets of six incredible cities to showcase the unique and stylish women that inhabit these towns. From classic elegance to menswear-inspired casual, a woman's dress style speaks volumes about her personality - and the city she inhabits. Featuring interviews with the everyday women whose distinctive styles cut a fine figure in the world of women's fashion, this striking photographic collection will take you on a global sartorial adventure.

Record # 352711

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Women Then: Photographs 1954-1969by: Morton, Julia and Jerry Schatzberg

Women Then: Photographs 1954-1969
by: Morton, Julia and Jerry Schatzberg

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A collection of rarely seen black-and-white photographs taken of women in the 1950s and 1960s, captured by the renowned New York City fashion photographer and filmmaker. Designed by Ruth Ansel, this elegantly produced volume captures the romance and glamour of women in the 1950s and 1960s. A mix of fashion and portraiture, it includes intimate and striking portraits of Nico, Faye Dunaway, Edie Sedgwick, Sharon Tate, and Catherine Deneuve. Jerry Schatzberg's moody snapshots of a more innocent and whimsical New York on the brink of the important societal changes of the sixties form a compellingly nostalgic portrait of a stylish moment. Images of jetsetters at an airport terminal, lovers embracing in Central Park, and a woman waltzing in the street in the Financial District portray a time as well as a style. A New York City native, Schatzberg documented the period with the insider's sensibility of Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese, but with the high-fashion style of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. With a keen eye for the magic of the in-between moment, Schatzberg stealthily captured the elegance and beauty of a woman as her role was redefined in the sixties, while at the same time retaining an element of humor and surprise.

Record # 352073

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Woodrow Wilson of Princeton (SIGNED COPY)by: Lewis McMillan

Woodrow Wilson of Princeton (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lewis McMillan

Hardcover. Narberth PA, Livingston Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front flyleaf. Salmon cloth covers with black cloth inlay & gilt titles, black printed titles to spine. Frontis photograph Woodrow Wilson. Clean copy.

Record # 383349

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Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People by: Christensen, Bonnie

Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People
by: Christensen, Bonnie

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Woody Guthrie spent his life putting into words and music what the rest of America was thinking. He roamed from coast to coast and captured the despair of those displaced by the Great Depression and the dust bowl, eulogized workers, and celebrated the great natural beauty of America. This is an introductory biography presented as a picture book with a brief lyrical text and powerful, hand-tinted, woodcut-like illustrations by the author. It includes the complete lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" and excerpts from his other songs.

Record # 381339

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Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowellby: Travisano, Thomas (Ed.)

Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
by: Travisano, Thomas (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 873 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters-they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing-and often very funny-interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.

Record # 459831

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Work and Play of Winnicottby: Simon A. Gronlnick

Work and Play of Winnicott
by: Simon A. Gronlnick

Hardcover. NY, Jason Aronson, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Donald Woods Winnicott (1896 - 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. Clean, like new.

Record # 379202

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World of Atget, Theby: Abbott, Berenice

World of Atget, The
by: Abbott, Berenice

Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket with fraying, chipping on corners. Small chunck missing on rear dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photos throughout.

Record # 369054

Price: $65.00 
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World of Gene Krupa: That Legendary Drummin' Manby: Bruce H. Klauber

World of Gene Krupa: That Legendary Drummin' Man
by: Bruce H. Klauber

Softcover. Ventura CA, Pathfinder Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of the career, music, and life of the man who made drums a solo instrument, symbolized the swing era, and is still internationally recognized as "the world's greatest drummer." Book was once owned by a smoker and has odor.

Record # 384327

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World of Robert Flaherty, Theby: Griffith, Richard

World of Robert Flaherty, The
by: Griffith, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacekt. black & white photos, 165 pgs. dust jacket chipped, worn.

Record # 107935

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World of Robert Flaherty, Theby: Griffith, Richard

World of Robert Flaherty, The
by: Griffith, Richard

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 70 b&w photos in text, dj soiled, worn.

Record # 370749

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World of William Notman, The: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lensby: Triggs, Gordon Dodds; Roger Hall; Stanley

World of William Notman, The: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lens
by: Triggs, Gordon Dodds; Roger Hall; Stanley

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, gilt design, very little wear. Dust jacket with minor wear. Many b&w photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. The story of William Notman and his sons and proteges who for over 60 years chronicled North America ( Canada and continental United States ) through the eye of a camera. He gives an invaluable view of what was like to live in the latter part of the Victorian era.

Record # 455393

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Writing About Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collectionby: Foster, Kathleen A. and Cheryl Leibold

Writing About Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection
by: Foster, Kathleen A. and Cheryl Leibold

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Universityof Pennsylvania Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. A guide to over 1,000 documents relating to the artist and his family. Like new in a dust jacket protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 512715

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Wyatt Earp by: Ketchum, Philip

Wyatt Earp
by: Ketchum, Philip

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, illustrated by Robert Doremus. 282 pages. Tight, bright copy.

Record # 387911

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Wyeths, The: The Intimate Correspondence of N. C. Wyeth 1901-1945 by: Wyeth (Ed.), Betsey James

Wyeths, The: The Intimate Correspondence of N. C. Wyeth 1901-1945
by: Wyeth (Ed.), Betsey James

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, heavy cloth covered boards with a blue and gilt title block on the spine and a gilt facsimile of N.C. Wyeth's signature on the front board. Worn dust jacket with 1" triangular chip gone from top front panel tear, mild shelfwear. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 858 pages, stated 1st edition. A fascinating insight into Wyeth's life, interspersed with photos and color reproductions. N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces the development and flowering of the Wyeth tradition over the course of several generations. No markings.

Record # 382878

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Wyeths, The: The Intimate Correspondence of N. C. Wyeth 1901-1945 by: Wyeth (Ed.), Betsey James

Wyeths, The: The Intimate Correspondence of N. C. Wyeth 1901-1945
by: Wyeth (Ed.), Betsey James

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fine in heavy cloth covered boards with a blue and gilt title block on the spine and a gilt facsimile of N.C. Wyeth's signature on the front board. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket although lightly soiled at the folds. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 858 pages, stated 1st edition. A fascinating insight into Wyeth's life, interspersed with photos and color reproductions.

Record # 352489

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