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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Lifeby: Wallace, Elizabeth K.
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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
by: Wallace, Elizabeth K.

Hardcover. New York, Beaufort Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352571

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Odds & Endsby: Crumb, R.
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Odds & Ends
by: Crumb, R.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Comics throughout. A never-before-compiled collection from the most influential underground artist of our time. Odds & Ends is a unique book of Robert Crumb's previously unpublished, autobiographical, favorite, and most successful strips. It also contains photographs, portraits, and text by the man himself.

Record # 352783

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brownby: Gary, Amy
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
by: Gary, Amy

Hardcover. New York, Flatiron Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 353155

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy (SIGNED COPY)by: Mallon, Thomas
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Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mallon, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354015

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (SIGNED COPY)by: Lobel, Anita
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (SIGNED COPY)by: Lobel, AnitaNo Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (SIGNED COPY)by: Lobel, Anita

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lobel, Anita

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures in center. Tight copy.

Record # 354645

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoyby: Shirer, William L.
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Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy
by: Shirer, William L.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. A touching, brilliant and ground-breaking biography of one of literary history's most famous couple, at once a dual biography, a history, and the portrait of a long and stormy marriage. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Record # 359027

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

I. E. an Autobiography by Mickey Rooney by: Rooney, Mickey
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I. E. an Autobiography by Mickey Rooney
by: Rooney, Mickey

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt title on spine, 249 pages., b&w plates. Written in his mid-forties, after four broken marriages and several fortunes spent, Rooney frankly discusses his own personal triumphs, tribulations and out and out disasters. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket. No printing stated.

Record # 359193

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtisby: Craig Highberger
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
by: Craig Highberger

Hardcover. Chamberlain Bros., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Presents a biography of the cross-dressing performer who was a friend and collaborator of Andy Warhol that incorporates a time line, collected interviews, and selections from Jackie Curtis' writings.

Record # 362516

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Chuck Berry: The Autobiographyby: Berry, Chuck
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Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
by: Berry, Chuck

Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 368818

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Starsby: Botto, Louis
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At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars
by: Botto, Louis

Hardcover. New York, Playbill/ Applause Thetre& Cinama Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Minor rubbing to top spine. Light soil on rear. This is the ultimate backstage tour of Broadway! AT THIS THEATRE tells the complete history of Broadway in the 20th century, theatre by theatre. This gorgeous book is now updated, revised and with a larger format, covering 1900 to 2001. PLAYBILL's columnist, Louis Botto, along with Robert Viagas, opens the doors and lets readers explore the 40 active Broadway theatres in New York. From the conception and design of the buildings, to their original creators, and on to the theatres' transformation, often under duress, from legitimate houses to vaudeville and Burlesque, to movie houses and then back to their original purpose, this book captures the magical world of Broadway. It is a complete and authoritative history that only Botto, the curator of PLAYBILL's incomparable 116-year-old archives, can tell.

Record # 369032

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhoodby: Delphine Red Shirt
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Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood
by: Delphine Red Shirt

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming-of-age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads together and the messages conveyed by hairstyles. At the same time, Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors.

Record # 371866

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3:  Master of the Senate by: Robert A. Caro
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 3: Master of the Senate
by: Robert A. Caro

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition.

Record # 374344

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Lincoln The Lawyer by: Hill, Frederick Trevor.
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Lincoln The Lawyer
by: Hill, Frederick Trevor.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt design to cover and spine. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. A wonderfully tight, bright first edition with gilt as bright as the day it was made. Rather uncommon, especially in such choice condition. No markings.

Record # 374947

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 Vols.)by: Martineau, Harriet; Chapman, Maria Weston [Editor]
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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 Vols.)
by: Martineau, Harriet; Chapman, Maria Weston [Editor]

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 4th Ed., 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 594, 596 pages. Bound in 3/4 red leather over marbled boards. Top edge gilt, gilt titles on spine faded slightly. Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers, otherwise clean.

Record # 378513

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78 by: Ian Davidson
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Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78
by: Ian Davidson

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1753, Voltaire -- playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe -- was forced by Louis XV into exile, where he remained for the last twenty-five years of his life. These years heralded a startling new beginning for this remarkable man. Voltaire carved out a new and vibrant world in his isolation, becoming a successful entrepreneur and writing his masterpiece Candide. In Voltaire in Exile, Ian Davidson re-creates this period in the life of one of the giants of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles, and the French intellectual elite, Davidson allows us to discover Voltaire the artist, the campaigner, the aesthete, the lover, the humorist. The result is a wonderfully vivid portrait of this extraordinarily funny, iconoclastic, complex, and, above all, ferociously intelligent individual. Clean copy.

Record # 378946

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles by: Mark Rozzo
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles by: Mark RozzoEverybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles by: Mark Rozzo

Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
by: Mark Rozzo

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 454 pages, b&w, color illustrations. Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple--Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--lived out the emblematic love story of '60s L.A. The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills became the era's unofficial living room, a kaleidoscopic realm--"furnished like an amusement park," Andy Warhol said--that made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it. Hopper and Hayward, vanguard collectors of contemporary art, packed the place with pop masterpieces by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Warhol, and welcomed a who's who of visitors, from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns, Joan Didion to Tina Turner, Hells Angels to Black Panthers. In this house, everything that defined the 1960s went down: the fun, the decadence, the radical politics, and, ultimately, the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the project that made his career, became the cinematic symbol of the period, and blew their union apart--Easy Rider.

Record # 380136

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Ake: The Years of Childhoodby: Soyinka, Wole
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Ake: The Years of Childhood
by: Soyinka, Wole

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 3rd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 230 pages. This autobiography covers the first eleven years in the life of the distinguished Nigerian dramatist and poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Clean copy.

Record # 380849

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dullesby: Peter Grose
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Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles
by: Peter Grose

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover on a lightly worn dust jacket, 641 pages, b&w illustrations. This is the first full-length biography of the man historian Michael Beschloss calls the keystone figure in the history of American intelligence. Allen Dulles (1893-1969) served in the Office of Strategic Services in Europe during WWII and was named director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953, serving under Eisenhower and Kennedy. In an overlong, sometimes tedious narrative, Grose (Israel in the Mind of America) describes how Dulles oversaw the firm establishment of the CIA in the Washington power structure during the Eisenhower years (his older brother, John Foster Dulles, was then the Secretary of State), only to be forced out after the CIA's failure in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Later appointed to the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy, Dulles became its most diligent member, according to Grose, and a supporter of the view that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Other controversial issues explored include Dulles's exploitation of ex-Nazi Reinhard Gehler's spy network in the early years of the Cold War, and whether JFK authorized, or even knew about, CIA attempts to liquidate Castro. Grose delves unenlighteningly into Dulles's shortcomings as husband and father; he kept a mistress or two and spent little time at home.

Record # 381252

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. by: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Andrew Schlesinger (Editor)
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The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
by: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Andrew Schlesinger (Editor)

NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An advisor to presidents, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and tireless champion of progressive government, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was also an inveterate letter writer. Indeed, the term "man of letters" could easily have been coined for Schlesinger, a faithful and prolific correspondent whose wide range of associates included powerful public officials, notable literary figures, prominent journalists, Hollywood celebrities, and distinguished fellow scholars. The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. reveals the late historian's unvarnished views on the great issues and personalities of his time, from the dawn of the Cold War to the aftermath of September 11. Here is Schlesinger's correspondence with such icons of American statecraft as Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and, of course, John and Robert Kennedy (including a detailed critique of JFK's manuscript for Profiles in Courage). There are letters to friends and confidants such as Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gore Vidal, William Styron, and Jacqueline Kennedy (to whom Schlesinger sends his handwritten condolences in the hours after her husband's assassination), and exchanges with such unlikely pen pals as Groucho Marx, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bianca Jagger. Finally, there are Schlesinger's many thoughtful replies to the inquiries of ordinary citizens, in which he offers his observations on influences, issues of the day, and the craft of writing history.

Record # 381544

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 by: Cecil Beaton/Vickers, Hugo(Editor)
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The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
by: Cecil Beaton/Vickers, Hugo(Editor)

Softcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, Softcover, 500 pages. A twentieth-century photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton's estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds, at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London. Clean copy.

Record # 381923

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Billy Sunday Was His Real Nameby: William G. McLoughlin, Jr.
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Billy Sunday Was His Real Name
by: William G. McLoughlin, Jr.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled. unclipped dust jacket. 325 pages including index. The author explores Sunday's career as the product and expression of his era. A lively account of the famous revivalist's life and the inner workings of mass revivalism. Name stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 382560

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

John Carroll of Baltimore: Founder of the American Catholic Hierarchy by: Melville, Annabelle M.
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John Carroll of Baltimore: Founder of the American Catholic Hierarchy
by: Melville, Annabelle M.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 338 pages including index. John Carroll (January 8, 1735 - December 3, 1815) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States. He served as the ordinary of the first diocese and later Archdiocese of Baltimore, in Maryland, which at first encompassed all of the United States and later after division as the eastern half of the new nation. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 383385

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 
 
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The Maid s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream by: Mary Romero
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The Maid s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream
by: Mary Romero

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 267 pages. A compelling true story of how a maid's daughter moves from a girlhood of rage and resentment to a level of empowerment, as a grown woman. Clean copy.

Record # 384032

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 
 
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Mengele: The Complete Story by: Gerald L. Posner, John Ware
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Mengele: The Complete Story
by: Gerald L. Posner, John Ware

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hatdcover, 364 pages, b&w photo illustrations. notes. bibliography. index. This is the definitive life story of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious "Angel of Death" Responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz, Mengele vanished into South America after World War II, where he remained free for more than three decades. How did he escape from the Allies? And how did he elude his pursuers? Granted exclusive and unrestricted access to the Mengele family papers and diaries, Posner and Ware have sifted through more than 5,000 pages of Mengele's writings to construct this extraordinary record of his life~from his childhood in Germany to the horrors of Auschwitz to his years in exile. previous owner's name, notation on front endpapers. Otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 385708

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson: With a Fragment of Autobiography (of the Life of Lucy Hutchinson) by: Hutchinson, Lucy/(edited by James Sutrherland)
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Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson: With a Fragment of Autobiography (of the Life of Lucy Hutchinson)
by: Hutchinson, Lucy/(edited by James Sutrherland)

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 347 pages. Map endpapers, 13 b&w reproductions, appendices, notes, and index - printed throughout on superior cream stock. The major part of Lucy Hutchinson's Life of her husband covers the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642 when Hutchinson held Nottingham Castle and Town for parliament, until the day he added his signature to the death warrant of Charles I in 1649. Her account forces upon the reader the realization of what life is like when neighbours take up arms against each other and fight it out to the death. This text reproduces the complete original manuscript for the first time.

Record # 386544

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Al Smith: Hero of the Cities; A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkinsby: Josephson, Matthew & Hannah
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Al Smith: Hero of the Cities; A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkins
by: Josephson, Matthew & Hannah

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 505 pages with b&w illustrations. Amazing detail, yet easily flowing narrative of the governor who preceded FDR, who--with Frances Perkins assistance as Industrial Commissioner--shaped a state's humane response to sweatshops, immigration. His 1928 presidential campaign faced burning Klu Klux Klan crosses and harrassment when he ventured outside the Northeast. After losing to Herbert Hoover he left his successor to Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a working government and blueprint for social reform that Roosevelt would later put to use as President. Name on half title page, otherwise clean internally.

Record # 386822

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Old Country Doctor (SIGNED COPY)by: Winfield Scott Nay
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The Old Country Doctor (SIGNED COPY)by: Winfield Scott NayThe Old Country Doctor (SIGNED COPY)by: Winfield Scott Nay

The Old Country Doctor (SIGNED COPY)
by: Winfield Scott Nay

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing Co,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 87 pages, limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY NAY on the half-title page. "This is the real authentic story of an old Vermont country doctor written not as fiction but as the life of one of Vermont's oldest physicians....that beloved figure, the old-fashioned country doctor..." Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 387346

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Kendall of the Picayuneby: Copeland, Fayette
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Kendall of the Picayune
by: Copeland, Fayette

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 351 pages. George Wilkins Kendall, who founded the New Orleans Picayune in 1837, was a restless, impatient, and colorful character in an exciting era. For thirty years he guided the Picayune and built it into a powerful force in behalf of America's westward expansion. Kendall's vigorous editorials championed the cause of the infant Republic of Texas. When the Texan Santa Fe Expedition was organized in 1841, for the purpose of occupying New Mexico (then still under Mexican rule), Kendall left his editorial chair to participate--and was marched off to Mexico as a captive for seven months when the expedition was overwhelmed at Santa Fe. A few years later, when Kendall accompanied American forces invading Mexico during the Mexican War, he became America's first war correspondent--reporting directly from the battlefront. His effective "courier expresses" brought the first news of each battle to an eager nation, including President Polk, who often read news of the war in Kendall's Picayune before hearing it from his field commanders. Clean copy.

Record # 387637

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Senator From Vermont (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Flanders, Ralph E.
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Senator From Vermont (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Flanders, Ralph E.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some light tape repairs. 312 pages, INSCRIBED BY FLANDERS on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 387938

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XIIby: Cornwell, John
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Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII
by: Cornwell, John

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 430 pages. In this book, backed by a wealth of new research, the author tells for the first time the story of the career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who as Pius XII was Pope during the Second World War and arguably the most powerful churchman in modern history. Adding to the continuing debate about collective guilt and the Holocaust this is an extraordinary and explosive history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young lawyer, Pacelli helped shape an ideology of unprecedented papal power; during the 1920s he employed cunning and moral blackmail to impose that power in Germany. In 1933 Hitler became his perfect negotiating partner and a concordat was established that granted religious and educational advantages to the Catholic Church in exchange for Catholic withdrawal from social and political action. This 'voluntary' abdication of political Catholicism imposed from Rome facilitated the rise of Nazism. Clean copy.

Record # 396693

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Bonhoeffers: Portrait of a Family by: Sabine Leibholz-Bonhoeffer
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The Bonhoeffers: Portrait of a Family
by: Sabine Leibholz-Bonhoeffer

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 203 pages, b&w illustrations. Memoir by sister of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Previous owner's stamp otherwise clean, Lacks dust jacket.

Record # 397552

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

To You, Redskin From Me, Paleface by: Barrington, Inez B. 'The Indian Lady'
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To You, Redskin From Me, Paleface
by: Barrington, Inez B. 'The Indian Lady'

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 398205

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Confucius: The Man and the Mythby: H. G. Creel
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Confucius: The Man and the Myth
by: H. G. Creel

Hardcover. NY, John Day, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Explores the life and teachings of the ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius. The book delves into Confucius' background, upbringing, and the cultural and political context in which he lived. It also examines the various interpretations of Confucianism throughout history and how his teachings have influenced Chinese society and beyond. The author offers a critical analysis of Confucius' philosophy and challenges some of the popular myths and misconceptions that have surrounded him. Mild musty smell, clean copy.

Record # 399133

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by: Paul Hendrickson
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
by: Paul Hendrickson

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 600 pages. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home.In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. Clean copy.

Record # 399648

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Pennby: Clarkson, Thomas
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Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn
by: Clarkson, Thomas

Hardcover. Dover NH, John Mann, 1st, 1820, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in one, 194 and 181 pages. Leather bound with maroon spine label with gilt lettering. Page 9/10 with a partial tear, no paper loss. Bookplates on endpapers otherwise a clean, well preserved copy with light foxing to pages.

Record # 402664

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Notes of a Vagabond: Ways of Menby: Bonsels, Waldemar
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Notes of a Vagabond: Ways of Men
by: Bonsels, Waldemar

Hardcover. New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in brown and gilt, 274 pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean, bright copy. In a poor dust jacket with paper loss at edges. Considered a classic of hoboing, the book chronicles the German writer's life of wandering and his spiritual growth.

Record # 412424

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland (SIGNED COPY)by: Mosher, Howard Frank
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North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mosher, Howard Frank

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456149

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times (SIGNED COPY)by: Stanley, Ralph
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Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stanley, Ralph

Hardcover. New York, Gotham, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 453 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrated endpages and flyleaves. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465899

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

God's Eugenicist: Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Declineby: Reggiani, Andres Horacio
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God's Eugenicist: Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline
by: Reggiani, Andres Horacio

Hardcover. New York, Berghahn Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Small corner bump on front top right corner. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471099

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Son of of the Middle Border, A (SIGNED COPY)by: Garland, Hamlin

Son of of the Middle Border, A (SIGNED COPY)
by: Garland, Hamlin

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 467 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - ("SPECIAL AUTOGRAPHED EDITION"). Previous owners notes and related clippings adhered to inside front cover and front endpaper. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Covers show light wear, with some rubbing to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 609285

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New Englandby: Warren, James A.
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God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
by: Warren, James A.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to cover boards.

Record # 750280

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

One Rose, The: Mother of the Immortal Kewpiesby: Ruggles, Rowena Godding
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One Rose, The: Mother of the Immortal Kewpies
by: Ruggles, Rowena Godding

Hardcover. Albany, CA, Rowena Godding Ruggles, 2nd, 1972, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on second front end-paper. 96 pages of text. Includes 213 plates of b&w illustrations of Kewpies. Biography of Rose O'Neill and her work, including the development of the Kewpie dolls. In very good condition. The pages are clean and book neatly and tightly cloth-bound in red covers. dust jacket clean, with minor edge-wear.

Record # 807634

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Commodore John Rodgers: Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Navy 1773-1838, A Biographyby: Paullin, Charles Oscar
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Commodore John Rodgers: Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Navy 1773-1838, A Biography
by: Paullin, Charles Oscar

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 434 pages. Minor cover corner and spine edge wear. Gilt top edge and titles on spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece portrait of Commodore Rodgers. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852538

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Bound for Gloryby: Guthrie, Woody
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Bound for Glory
by: Guthrie, Woody

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 2nd Printing, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 428 pages, illustrated by the author. Scarce in this edition. Dark gray cloth with gilt titles, no dust jacket. Light fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856301

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914by: Houfe, Simon
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Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914
by: Houfe, Simon

Hardcover. England, Antiques Collectrors Club, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 520 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib with usually stamps and markings on end papers, front fly leaf and spine. Faded dust jacket spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 4450196

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Meyerhold the Directorby: Rudnitsky, Konstantin
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Meyerhold the Director
by: Rudnitsky, Konstantin

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis, 1st English, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 565 pages. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Dust Jacket shows some wear due to age: yellowing, fraying and chipping to edges of front, spine and back, but still in tact. Cover boards clean, covered in teal fabric and in good shape. Pages clean, edges slightly yellowed. From the front flap: "...a landmark work in Russian theater scholarship, this study reveals Meyerhold in the context of his time, as seen by friends and enemies, actors and critics, and analyzes the development of his remarkable career as Russia's most celebrated and influential experimental director."

Record # 30439

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Alaska Days With John Muirby: Young, S. Hall
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Alaska Days With John Muir
by: Young, S. Hall

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Fleming H. Revell, 10th pr., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Black & white frontis photograph of Muir (repeated on dust jacket). 11 other plates plus map. Dust jacket worn, chipped (about half of spine missing).

Record # 68371

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)
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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)
by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Appleton and Company, 1st Edition, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. Volume 1: 558 pages. Volume 2: 562 pages. Both volumes: B/w frontispiece. Dark red cover boards, black design on front covers, gilt title on spines. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. Tanning to edges and pages from age. Spines straight. Binding good. Biography of Charles Darwin, including correspondence, edited by his son, Francis Darwin. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99172

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Arctic Rodeo, Anby: Streeter, Daniel W.
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Arctic Rodeo, An
by: Streeter, Daniel W.

Hardcover. New York , G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 356 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. 46 B&W photos and a map. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, soiled. Light flecking to cloth blue color. Tight copy. Greenland expedition in the Effie M. Morrissey, commanded by Capt. Bob Bartlett. Streeter's account featuring the Montana Cowboy, Carl Dunrud, who came aboard the arctic exploration vessel, Morrissey, specifically for the purpose of roping and bringing back live polar bears and other Arctic animals. Numerous black and white photographs showing various scenes of Greenland and native Inuit costumes and habits.

Record # 304148

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Cipe Pineles: A Life of Designby: Golden, Cipe Pineles and Martha Scotford
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Cipe Pineles: A Life of Design
by: Golden, Cipe Pineles and Martha Scotford

Hardcover. New York , Norton , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 190 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Cipe Pineles was art director for leading fashion magazines between 1930 and 1960. Tracing Pineles's career from young immigrant to "ranking" female in the design world, Martha Scotford chronicles a time when few women were involved in design and assesses Cipe's brilliant contributions to graphic design and magazine design in particular.

Record # 351933

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 


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