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Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. Selection of the writings of Henry William Massingham (1860-1924), an English journalist and editor of The Nation from 1907 to 1923. 368 pages, frontis portrait. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor foxing to front flyleaf. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Black and white photographs throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.

Softcover. Old Lyme CT, Lyme Historical Society, 1995, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 162 pages. Part of the Lyme Heritage Series: a series of essays about Hamburg Cove, Lyme, Connecticut, accompanied by photographs/paintings in b&w and color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 214 pages. Over the past couple of decades, our national debt has become a favorite political football for Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet few Americans seem aware that the debt has a long and (mostly) honorable history. Alexander Hamilton considered it a kind of political Krazy Glue, which would also spur American industry by keeping taxes high. This borrowing power enabled the North to win the Civil War without wrecking its economy and rescued us from the Great Depression. John Steele Gordon doesn't deny the dangers of an entire nation living on credit; indeed, he believes that our fiscal affairs are a mess. But he puts this mess in fascinating perspective. And he's quick to see the human side of economic behavior: "One problem," he writes, "is that human nature predisposes us to recognize depression easily and quickly, but prosperity, like happiness, is most easily seen in retrospect." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Fold-out frontis, b&w Illustrations, very nice, clean copy. Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs" arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Illustrated with a four-fold engraved frontispiece, depicting several of the school's buildings as seen from the water, and many other engravings. An interesting account of the school, including a brief history of Virginia and of slavery and its aftermath in that state, and one of the earliest publications of slave music.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book features specially commissioned photographs of an extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that date from the 16th century to the present day. It has been acquired for exhibition in the first museum devoted to the handbag, in Seoul, South Korea. The project is a commission undertaken by experimental exhibition-maker Judith Clark, whose innovative practices are revealed in Handbags.

Softcover. Plymouth MA, Rogers Print, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, stapled booklet, many b&w illustrations, including tombstones. Previous owner's signature on index page. Minor wear.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. 986 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps (some fold-out) and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. This is Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143; 818 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Washington DC, United States Air Force, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, approximately 300 stapled pages. A guide to the SAC's worldwide bases, circa 1959. 8 1/2 X 11", three hole punched. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos of airfields, barracks, NCO clubs, housing for airmen and other facilities covering bases in the states, England, Guam, Germany, etc. Also maps showing locations. Not classified in the early days of the Cold War. Front fly leaf with and introduction by Thomas Power, Commanding General.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Copybooks and the Palmer method, handwriting analysis and autograph collecting - these words conjure up a lost world, in which people looked to handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-HIll Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 412 pages with index, b&w photos. A chronicle of the Hollywood that was, a mythic playground where cinema of both enduring and dubious value was created. .Into this world of illusion and disillusion came some of the greatest literary figures in our history. This is their story, from the 1930's and the early days of sound to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, edgeworn dust jacket, 271 pages with b&w illustrations. No markings.

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Opper was already a quite successful cartoonist/illustrator for the prestigious Puck magazine when William Randolph Hearst lured him out to create a comic strip for the New York Journal. While a step down from (relatively) high to low brow, Opper jumped at the chance and out came ?Happy Hooligan" an un-heroized vagrant who ends up very badly at the end of each strip, no matter how much good he might mean. His perennial demise surely went on to inspire Wile E. Coyote or Mr. O, especially as his own cowardice and unworthiness contributes to his hilarious woes. This second entry in ?Forever Nuts' presents a collection of the better early full color Sundays. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 458 pages. Through furniture, this exhibition catalogue will explore the cultural identity of a little-studied region of 18th and 19th century New England: southeastern Massachusetts, an area that stretches from just south of Boston to Providence, east to the tip of Cap Cod, and includes the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The era between 1710 and 1850 was marked by enormous changes in the landscape, population, and economy of this area, as well as in the activities of furniture craftsmen and the purchasing patterns of local residents. Three themes are paramount here: 1. Regionalism in the character of furniture made in the area and the forces that shaped that identity. 2. Fashion, changing tastes and the growing affluence of local residents over time. 3. Shop practices and the evolving craft practices of furniture makers through the recreation of two shops, the rural handcraft tradition of Samuel Wing of Sandwich in 1800 and the mechanized operation of a New Bedford or Fall River chair factory in 1850. The exhibition will include approximately 75 pieces of furniture from private and institutional collections, tools and equipment from the Samuel Wing cabinet shop (now owned by Sturbridge Village), and selected household furnishings depicting interiors in southeastern Massachusetts during the 18th and 19th centuries. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every dayaEUR"in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. The authenticity of his book is heightened by the many drawings that a comrade, Charles W. Reed, made in the field. This is the story of how the Civil War soldier was recruited, provisioned, and disciplined. Described here are the types of men found in any outfit; their not very uniform uniforms; crowded tents and makeshift shelters; difficulties in keeping clean, warm, and dry; their pleasure in a cup of coffee; food rations, dominated by salt pork and the versatile cracker or hardtack; their brave pastimes in the face of death; punishments for various offenses; treatment in sick bay; firearms and signals and modes of transportation. Comprehensive and anecdotal, Hardtack and Coffee is striking for the pulse of life that runs through it.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, BC Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Copyright page states first printing, but no price on flap, probably a book club edition. Colorfully illustrated boards with black cloth spine, with gilt lettering; white DJ with red and orange illustration and lettering; 255 pages, profusely illustrated. Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the red-hot real estate market of Manhattan, it was a metaphor for African American culture at its richest. Allon Schoener's celebrated Harlem on My Mind is the classic record of Harlem life during some of the most exciting and turbulent years of its history, a beautiful and poignant reminder of a powerful moment in African America history. Including the work of some of Harlem's most treasured photographers, among them James Van Der Zee and Gordon Parks, there are photographs of Harlem's literary lights Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Richard Wright; its politicians Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and its musicians Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday. The book also includes the photographs of the everyday folk who gave life to this legendary community. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Naperville IL, Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 502 pages, b&w illustrations. For three decades after World War I, Harlem was the site of burgeoning racial and cultural awareness and ambitions among African Americans. In the opening section of this book, Wintz provides the historical context for what became known as the Harlem Renaissance. In separate sections devoted to poetry, music, politics, art, and the phenomenon of the New Negro, contributors profile many of the era's major figures, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, W. E. B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, A. Phillip Randolph, and Marcus Garvey. The essays place the Harlem Renaissance in the broader context of an awakening of black culture throughout the U.S. The book contains references to the accompanying CD, which offers 60 minutes of music, poetry, interviews, performances, and speeches, giving voice to the vibrant life of Harlem. Photographs, drawings, book covers, and posters add to the richness of this collection. A fabulous resource on the Harlem Renaissance.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Brassey's , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations, 293 pages. The 369th became one of the few U.S. units that American commanding general John J. Pershing agreed to let serve under French command. Donning French uniforms and taking up French rifles, the men of the 369th fought valiantly alongside French Moroccans and held one of the widest sectors on the Western Front. The entire regiment was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the French government's highest military honor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Wandering the streets of Harlem for the past forty years, Camilo Vergara has noticed and miraculously recorded those moments of great human invention that have been largely overlooked by the official chronicles of architecture and urban history. For this reason, his photographs are unique and indispensable.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 257 pages, b&w illustrations. The Turbulent And Colorful History - 400 years long of the clown Harlequin - one of the most magical figures ever created in the theatre. No markings.