Book Beat 137
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Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America, Begun and held at the City of New York On Wednesday the Fourth of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine…. Read More
$500.00
Tyler presided over many important trials like that of Stephen Jacob in 1802, involving slavery, and that of the Black Snake crew in 1808, dealing with smuggling on Lake Champlain. Read More
$300.00
Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution. He rose from slavery to establish a monarchy in northern Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820. Read More
$80.00
Born a slave in 1861, Murphy still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Read More
$20.00
A brief, charming story told in the first person of a truffle hunting artist, a small terrier. Kipling’s last piece of fiction, published in the Atlantic in the US in 1936. Read More
$35.00
Everyone loves Woody don’t they! Woody gets a new job and finds an inadvertent way to cheer a friend. Another Tell-a-Tale book with great pictures. Read More
$12.00
One of the earlier accounts of the imperial contact with India, unadulterated by some of the later reconstructions of the history of the subcontinent. Read More
$30.00
Book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author’s work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy and religion. Read More
$28.00
Description of the pre-20th century residential and commercial building of each town in Addison County Vermont. Building by building. Read More
$70.00
A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. Read More
$35.00
Reprints of the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Flash continues as the original guardian of the galaxy. Read More
$70.00
Terry and the Pirates is an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff, which originally ran from October 22, 1934, to February 25, 1973. Read More
$150.00
Art and politics reside in Ai Weiwei’s work. Through sculpture, film, installation, photography and architecture he has campaigned for human rights. He was allowed to leave China in 2015. Read More
$80.00
Leo Steinberg, American art critic and art historian, evaluates Rauschenberg’s silk-screen prints of the 1960s to the vegetable dye transfer prints of the 1990s. Read More
$12.00
Viola argues that the peasants did in fact actively resist collectivization, and that their unrest sprung from the “culture of peasant resistance” which led to earlier rebellions in Russia. Read More
$35.00
The book examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political culture, the work of disaffected writers and thinkers. Read More
$60.00
Meta-utopian narratives examine the complexities and contradictions of the singular vision of utopia. They explore themes of disorientation and the fragmented nature of contemporary society. Read More
$28.00
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia’s great musical figures. Largely self-taught, and one of the famed “Mighty Handful” of Russian nationalist composers. Read More
$35.00
Civil War history focused on time of collaboration between General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson when the Confederacy dominated the battlefields. Read More
$30.00
The fourth installment of the Thursday Next series. It brings together all the plot lines set out earlier are woven together introducing political satire to the series. Read More
$30.00
Carrie became critically and commercially successful, grossing over $33.8 million against its $1.8 million budget. Many think it’s one of the greatest horror films ever made. Read More
$400.00
An aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the job of keeping him ready and sober for the broadcast. Read More
$100.00
Three working women (played by Fonda, Tomlin, and Parton) live out their fantasies of getting even with and overthrowing their company’s hypocritical bigot” vice president. Read More
$100.00
A chronological look at the European conceptions of madness from ancient Greece until the late 20th century, particularly as they appear in medicine and in literature. An excellent reference source. Read More
$60.00
Hired to do chores for a farmer and his wife, young Jenny, scrapes the wax from the hearth every night but every morning, the wax is there again What is going on? Read More
$12.00
Richly-colored, detailed illustrations by Hyman enhance this lovely retelling of the classic Repunzel, the girl who’s trapped in a tower until rescued by a handsome prince. Read More
$18.00
A picture book that teaches you to think out a logic using a fun simple math experiment you can re-create. Clever and thorough. Read More
$15.00
A rags-to-riches Cinderella story about a boy and his cat. This has a basis in old English folk tales. Selected as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1951. Read More
$12.00
A naive little Bumble Bee searchs for a new and more exciting identity. But as “Sumble” gains experience in the world, he discovers that the nicest things begin with a B(ee). Read More
$18.00
Evokes the spirit of an ancient city, recalling David, Nebuchadnezzer, Herod, Hadrian, Constantine, Saladin, Sulieman, and many more who came to conquer. Read More
$12.00
When the magic mouse warns them that the town below will flood from a rain that will last 30 days, she asks her pet alligator, Alexander, to go warn the town’s mayor. Read More
$18.00
The classic story for children, about persevering in the face of difficulty. ” I think I can, I think I can ” (sounding like a train chugging along) vs. “I cannot, I cannot.” (as the train slows down.) Read More
$12.00
Beautiful collection of the classic marketing posters used to promote destinations throughout Northwest Indiana for the Chicago to South Bend South Shore line. Read More
$50.00
Collection of popular pirate stories, which mostly center around brave non-pirates who crossed paths with an infamous pirate and lived to tell the tale. Read More
$130.00
Illustrated with Otto Kuhler’s drawings, provides a history of American locomotives from the ”Best Friend of Charleston” through the ”stream-styled” ones he designed. Read More
$28.00
Story of an Englishman, Amyas Leigh, who leaves his English town searching for maritime adventure and to avenge the death of his brother by the Spanish Inquisition. Read More
$20.00
Detailed tracking down and recording the pictures and history of Colorado ghost towns – some of which now have no trace left. Great reference book of Colorado’s historical ghost towns. Read More
$18.00
The Turba Philosophorum, also known as Assembly of the Philosophers, is one of the oldest European alchemy texts, translated from Arabic. Read More
$80.00
Life of novelist, journalist, and intrepid war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), told through a captivating selection of her letters to friends, family, husbands, and lovers. Read More
$25.00
A valuable resource regarding polar exploration and Soviet history. Exposes development of Gulags while Arctic Exploration adventures became popular rage. Read More
$50.00