Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesDrawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women--whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent--to court. There they championed the creation of new laws and laid the groundwork for America's commitment to privacy. Vivid and engagingly written, this powerful work will draw scholars and students from a range of fields, including law, women's history, the history of photography, and cinema and media studies.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 346 pages. An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in a tumult -- of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. He briefly squired Sylvia Plath. He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur. Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in friendship or rivalry or both, defined the shape of American poetry at mid-century Through their eves as well as his own, and often in their words, Davison presents a sharply fresh vision of the shift from confidence to a troubled questioning that overtook America -- a transformation that was, in a sense, foreshadowed in the sensibilities, in the writings, sometimes in the lives, of some of our finest poets. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Weldon Owen , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. In 2012 Disney celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Snow White movie, a beloved classic and an important milestone in film history. This book, created with the Walt Disney Family Foundation, run by Walt's daughter, is an exploration of the making of the film that includes never-before-published facts and art. This book is the first to reconstruct that process in exacting detail, with the loving attention it deserves from an internationally noted film scholar. Author J.B. Kaufman spent years researching the film's history, interviewing participants, and studying the marvelous archival art that appears in these pages. The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of film history and as a collectable art book, a joy for anyone who loves film, animation, and the magical world that Walt Disney created.

Hardcover. NY, A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black, beveled edges, all edges gilt. 29 plates and one map, a very sound and bright copy. including Yosemite Falls of Yellowstone, upper Falls of Yellowstone, and the map of the Niagara region.

Hardcover. NY, Richard Brinkerhoff , 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original 1887 edition, maroon cloth gilt lettering on spine, no jacket, 188 pages, frontis, historical photographs and maps. Scarce genealogy of an early New York and New Jersey Dutch family, Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson Counties and surrounding areas. Title page loose but present. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Program for Dutch church service in 1894 laid-in.

Hardcover. Toronto, Key Porter Books, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 377 pages. SIGNED BY MOWAT on the title page. Blue endpaper maps, b&w photo illustrations. chronology. notes. After years of research, sparked by his discovery of roofless ruins in Hudson Bay, Farley Mowat presents a speculative history of the first Europeans in North America and a challenge to the presently held notion that the Vikings were the first to inhabit northern Canada. Carbon dating placed these ruins hundreds of years before the Vikings landed in Newfoundland, but the conventional accepted historical theory could offer no explanation for them. Mowat`s search led him to Scotland and the Northern Isles where he discovered ruins that resembled those he had seen on the other side of the Atlantic. He painstakingly researched early historical accounts from Roman and pre-Roman times for answers and was able to reconstruct the story of a forgotten people.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Benjamin Warner, 1st thus, 1817, Book: Good, Hardcover, 477 pages. Lithographed portrait frontispiece of Hamilton, two other plates with portraits of Madison and Jay, all portraits have tissue overlays. NOTE: This copy has a 1817 date on the title page, and a total of 477 pages while other books listed are dated 1818 with 504 pages. So this is the first single-volume edition minus the Appendix which was added to the 1818 edition. This is an ex-lib from Columbia University, with several stamps and thie bookplate on inside front cover. The book has been rebound in brown buckram with gilt title on spine and call numbers at bottom. The frontispiece plate has a crease through the center and all 3 plates have light foxing and an embossed stamp. Overall Good Plus with about 12 pages having some light pencil marks in margins. Binding is solid. More pictures available on request.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Two volumes bound as one. Brown calf with decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Facsimile reprint of the rare first edition. Includes the text of the United States Constitution. One of the undisputed landmarks in American political thought, The Federalist is a collected edition of essays by Hamilton. Madison and Jay that were published under the pseudonym "Publius" in several New York newspapers and journals in 1787 and 1788. Numbered copy #1778 with prior owners name typed on the publishers nameplate pasted to fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

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

Softcover. Quezon City, Malaya Books, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out map in front. A 1970 reprint of a title first published in 1900. Clean copy, light edgewear to wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 276 pages with over 400 b&w photographs. Foreword by Lillian Gish. A definitive pictorial and critical account of all the features, with a comprehensive illustrated general survey of the Biographs with a foreword by Lillian Gish. The book provides credits, plot summaries, and rare illustrations for every film he made; it is outstanding for its thoughtful and penetrating critical evaluation of each film. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 83 pages. Black & white illustrations by Douglas Gorsline. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Softcover. NY, Applause, 1st pbk, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 896 pages. A facsimile edition of the original 1623 publication of the bard's works. Recounts the background of the first folio, the earliest and most authoritative collection of Shakespeare's thirty-six plays.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 430 pages. Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Jerusalem, Ariel Publishing House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 380 pages. Photo-album of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the second half of 19th to beginning of 20th centuries. Includes an introductory essay in Hebrew and English about "The Pioneers of Photography in the Holy Land, 1840-1930" by Dan Kyram. The photographs depict the physical and cultural landscape of Ottoman Palestine: from the villages, cities and holy sites to photographs of the customs and attire of the various inhabitants of the land. The photographs are accompanied by captions in English and Hebrew, and appended by a short introduction in English and a slightly longer one in Hebrew. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Printed for I. Riley and Co, 2nd Ed., 1806, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The First Settlers of Virginia, an Historical Novel, Exhibiting a View of the Rise and Progress of the Colony at James Town, a Picture of Indian Manners, the Countenance of the Country, and its Natural Productions. Hardcover, Second edition, considerably enlarged. Contemporary calf over boards. Octavo. xii, [13]-284 pages. PLEASE NOTE: No frontispiece engraving of Pocahontas rescuing John Smith. No signs of extraction, so probably never bound in. A reproduction of the frontis laid in. This is one of the earliest American romantic novels about Native Americans. Davis was an English immigrant with literary aspirations who lived in Philadelphia at the beginning of the 19th century. He was acquainted with the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. He originally adapted this material from his 1803 "Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America" and published it in 1805 as "Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas: An Indian Tale." This expanded version includes Davis's autobiography, "A Memoir of the Author" (pp. {275]-284). Includes "Errata" on page [274]. Clean, no markings.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, John Howell-Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Limited to 5000 copies. 130 pages. 6 color illustrations. Color frontispiece. The original narrative, hitherto unpublished by Father Vicente Maria and further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters. Illustrations by Louis Choris in brush and pencil who was at San Francisco in 1816. Blue dust jacket with wear. Sun-fading to spine. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and front. Previous owner sticker on front flyleaf. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages. When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, a banana hauler, a dockside hustler, and a plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. Rich Cohen's brilliant historical profile unveils Zemurray as a hidden kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary, driven by an indomitable will to succeed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 403 pages. Hardcover. 65 illustrations, 40 in full color. Price clipped dust jacket worn with tape repairs, fading - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. "An account of the life and death of an art, of the men who made it and of the lusty age in which they flourished. 65 illustrations, including 40 in full color." Index, glossary, bibliography, appendices, artist biographies, chronology. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, 402 pages. Translated form the Italian by Maria Sermolino. An account of WW1 by an officer in the Italian Army. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 294 pages, b&w photos. Sam Kleiner's The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma. In the wake of the disaster at Pearl Harbor this motley crew was the first group of Americans to take on the Japanese in combat, shooting down hundreds of Japanese aircraft in the skies over Burma, Thailand, and China. At a time when the Allies were being defeated across the globe, the Flying Tigers' exploits gave hope to Americans and Chinese alike. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 735 pages. light stamp to top edge. Exceptionally nice condition.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He convincingly dispels many received notions about the routes Acadians traveled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, their original settlement sites, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within the state, and closely examines the relations of Louisiana's Acadians with their black, Spanish, Indian, and Creole neighbors. In adapting to subtropical Louisiana, with its turmoil of alternating French and Spanish regimes, the Acadians exhibited industry, pragmatism, individualism, and the ability to close ranks in the face of a general threat. As Brasseaux reveals, Acadians' cohesiveness and insularity preserved the core elements of their culture and helped them adjust to new physical and social demands. Names, inscription to front fly leaf, interior clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A volume in the Mainstream of Americas Series, edited by Lewis Gannett. Between the period of settlements in colonial America and the time of the Revolutionary War, English and French interests clashed in a struggle to determine who would rule the New World. It was a time from which a great deal of fiction draws inspiration, an exciting and dramatic period well~salted with the Washingtons, Johnsons, Frontenacs, Amhersts, Wolfes, and Montcalms who so greatly influenced the early growth of our land. Edward Hamilton has reconstructed this absorbing story of wilderness, forts, and weapons with a scholarly respect for minute detail. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean copy.