Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 472 pages, b&w photos. Traces the landmark 1969 Supreme Court case between All-Star center fielder Curt Flood and Major League Baseball, documenting how he fought to play for the team of his choice at the cost of his career and placement in the Hall of Fame but paved the way for future players to become free agents. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Evergreen Press, 2nd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 105 pages, b&w illustrations. This pictorial history chronicles the rise and fall of the White River Valley railroad. Like new condition.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Evergreen Press, 2nd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 105 pages, b&w illustrations. This pictorial history chronicles the rise and fall of the White River Valley railroad. Like new condition.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 542 pages. Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leaver Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda ...these are only a few of the hundreds of "women's films" that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties. The films were widely disparate in subject, sentiment, and technique, they nonetheless shared one dual to provide the audience (of women, primarily) with temporary liberation into a screen dream--of romance, sexuality, luxury, suffering, or even wickedness--and then send it home reminded of, reassured by, and resigned to the fact that no matter what else she might do, a woman's most important job was...to be a woman. Now, with boundless knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, Jeanine Basinger illuminates the various surprising and subversive ways in which women's films delivered their message. Basinger examines dozens of films, exploring the seemingly intractable contradictions at the convoluted heart of the woman's genre--among them, the dilemma of the strong and glamorous woman who cedes her power when she feels it threatening her personal happiness, and the self-abnegating woman whose selflessness is not always as "noble" as it appears. Basinger looks at the stars who played these women and helps us understand the qualities--the right off-screen personae, the right on-screen attitudes, the right faces--that made them personify the woman's film and equipped them to make believable drama or comedy out of the crackpot plots, the conflicting ideas, and the exaggerations of real behavior that characterize these movies.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "A Work of Giants tells one of the most stirring chapters in the nation's history, and with the rich anecdotes and legends that enliven his fine account, Mr. Griswold offers an unusually colorful excursion into a high order of Americana." 376 pages, b&w photos. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Unpaginated. Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, an awkward young boy learns that Abraham Lincoln was called "gorilla, baboob, backwards hick." Yet along with big feet and big hands, Lincoln had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 262 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. This portrait of Disderi and the carte de visite he patented in Paris in 1854 is far more than a biography. The c-d-v, or photographic calling card, was a relatively inexpensive product that made the photographic portrait available to the middle class . McCauley's carefully documented work explores Disderi's career and oeuvre , the impact of mass-produced celebrity cartes on the social and cultural life of mid-19th-century France, and aesthetics in c-d-v portraiture. The final third of the book is an art historical evaluation of the importance of the c-d-v for portrait painting of the period . The fine bibliography, generous illustrative matter, and detailed notes add to the value of this work for the avid student of photohistory or 19th-century studies.

Hardcover. London, England, Gret Western Railway, 1st edition, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrated frontispiece, color and b/w illustrations, including several fold out blueprint diagrams, throughout. Previous owner's ID stamp on front flyleaf. Red cover boards (some fading), black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked, some light tanning from age. Binding good, spine straight. With additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson, M.A., D.LITT., F.S.A. Professor of Mediaeval History in the University of Leeds. With One Hundred Illustrations by Photographic Reproduction, fifty-six drawings, thirteen plans, seven color plates and map (in pocket on back endpapers).

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Rooney how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Theodore Girard, 1670, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown leather covers, raised bands on spine, 558 pages, FRENCH TEXT. Volume 2 only of 8 volume history of ancient Rome. Sound binding, outer leather split at spine edges but holding. rear cover with 2" x 1 1/4 " chip, rear fly leaf gone, but remarkably good condition. No foxing.

Softcover. North Clarendon, VT, Periplus, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Softcover with little to no wear on edges. Clean, tight copy with color pictures throughout. Includes CD. Absolut Sequel is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, Absolut Book. This companion volume provides a definitive illustrated history of the last ten years of one of the most successful ad campaigns in history. Since Absolut Book's release, the Absolut advertising campaign has broadened its scope from movies to websites and gone global with its international reach. The clever ads found in Absolut Sequel are organized into themes including Cities, Artists, Writers, Album Covers, Collectors, Movies, and the Internet.This is the ultimate collection of the last ten years of Absolut ads, many never before seen, including controversial advertising created, but never used in print. Absolut Sequel is sure to make readers fall in love with the ads, and the vodka, all over again. As Goran Lundquist, president of Absolut, says about the Absolut sensation, "the consumers drink the ads as much as they drink the vodka."

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 553 pages, b&w illustrations. A spectacular reading of Western philosophy, religion, and mythology that draws on early maps and atlases, Plato, Kant, and Wittgenstein, Thomas Pynchon, Gilgamesh, and Marcel Duchamp, Abysmal is itself a minimalist guide to the terrain of Western culture. Olsson roams widely but always returns to the problems inherent in reason, to question the outdated assumptions and fixed ideas that thinking cartographically entails. A work of ambition, scope, and sharp wit, Abysmal will appeal to an eclectic audience--to geographers and cartographers, but also to anyone interested in the history of ideas, culture, and art. Name written on front fore-edge of book, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 579 pages. B&w photographs. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Light foxing to top edge. Wear, chipping to dust jacket. A nice, clean copy.

Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages, pictorial wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Photo-Engravers Association, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, simulated leather decorated in blind and stamped with a red and yellow eagle on the front cover, top edge gilt. 488 pages.A massive compendium of articles and illustrations concerning the arts of photo-engraving and printing. Numerous printers submitted various inserts that to the Photo-engraver's and Printer's Union for compilation in this huge book. Hundreds of inserts from printers across the country reflect everything from black and white to eleven color zinc plate printing. This work offer a nice overview of the various printing techniques of the early twentieth century. Publisher's rare prospectus laid-in. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's critial essays on the theatre. Originally published in 1970. CONTENTS: The stages: geography of action; A psychological case; From play acting to self; Criticism-action; Actor in history; Guilt to the vanishing point; Missing persons. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages. The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied public interest in Abstract Expressionism and sparked rancorous debate? Drawing on recent critical, historical and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers a sharp new focus on a pivotal art movement.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Francis Childs, 1st, 1795, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, 434 pages plus an index in rear. Maroon label on spine reads UNITED STATES LAWS in gilt. Covers all three sessions: The second on the 4th of January 1790 and the 3rd session, held in Philadelphia, on the 6th of December 1790. Covers rubbed, front board detached. First 2 pages, (the title page and the following page) have tears, pieces missing. The next page, the beginning text of the Constitution has smaller marginal damage. The rest of the text pages very good with the occasional foxing.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 349 pages. Dual biography of two authors of the Declaration of Indepenence, their subsequent feud, and reconciliation. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 390 pages. With 30-page booklet outlining speeches laid-in, containing a number of press blurbs supporting Hoover's ideas. Scribner's colophon on copyeight page but no A, so assumed 2nd printing. Clean copy.

Softcover. East Hampton CT, Podskoch Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, History, Memories & Legacy of the CCC. Softcover, 347 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. This book is full of Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) history, memories and the legacy left by them. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public works program that operated from 1933 to 1942, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees signed up for 6 months and worked a 40-hour week for $30/mo. The government sent $25 to the enrollees, family and the enrollee received $5. Clean copy.

Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Snowy Owl Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Ice has determined the course of Adirondack history in many surprising ways: from landscape to wildlife, harvesting to logging, barrel jumping to ice climbing and hail damage to ice storms. These accounts trace the history of that influence. The 360 page, soft cover book of personal stories, observations and over 200 photos, is the author's tribute to a fast disappearing era. Cover wrappers with mild wear, corner creases. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Title on spine label slightly chipped away. Small stain on back cover. Pages untrimmed. Some foxing Inside, but otherwise crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.