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Portland: Paul E. Merrill, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. 166 pages plus additional 28 page pamphlet laid-in. Hardcover. Both hardcover and pamphlet illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Both book and pamphlet have musty odor. Dust jacket with wear and tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages. Record # 613688

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt flower design on front cover. 480 pages, with a frontispiece portrait + a folding color map in rear. Appears to be INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on a bookplate inside front cover with a New Year's greeting and dated Dec 31 1891. Alexander Murdoch Mackay was a missionary, a teacher and an engineer who contributed tremendously to Christianity and education in Uganda. As a youth, he left Scotland and committed his life to preaching the word of God to the people of Uganda. He introduced vocational training, taught practical skills and laid the foundation of education in the Church of Uganda. He introduced a printing press which he used to print the Luganda version of the Holy Bible. Light shelf wear, fraying to top of spine. Record # 380841

New York: New Directions, 1983. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 255 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 456722

Philadephia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Comapny, 1913. 6th pr.. Hardcover. Good/None. 192 page. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Gutter cracked on title page with fabric showing through. Spine lettering faded. Clean copy. Record # 369292

NY: Atheneum, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with edge wear, short closed tears. The first full-length biography--and likely the authoritative one for years to come--of the flamboyant black congressman who, as civil-rights gadfly and as libertine, exemplified the gap between our nation's ideals and practices that was given a name in Gunnar Myrdal's ``American Dilemma.'' Blessed with good looks, eloquence, and a bully pulpit (he succeeded his father as head of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the nation's largest black congregation), Powell became ``Mr. Civil Rights'' in the pre-King era by combining agitation and electoral politics. As congressman from Harlem, Powell denounced racist southern colleagues and introduced the ``Powell Amendment'' to deny federal funds to projects or organizations that practiced discrimination. In 1960, he became chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, then the strongest position ever held by a black… Read More

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist. Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humor of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognized as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney’s, among others. Record # 352410

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist. Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humor of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognized as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney’s, among others. Record # 352409

Minneapolis, MN: North Loop Books, 2016. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Record # 352564

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from original French by James Kirkup, Preface by Jean Malaurie, Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland & knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed & superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all. B&w illustrations. Clean copy. Record # 381133

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2021. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a bookplate tipped onto a prelim page. Record # 377952

NY: Free Press , 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 464 pages, b&w illustrations. A great but frequently overlooked figure in America during the early decades of the 19th century now gets his due. Military historian Eisenhower (son of the late president) describes a natural leader of imposing stature, overweening pride, exceptional courage, and wide learning, who possessed considerable organizational and diplomatic skills along with outstanding martial instincts. As the nation's youngest general, Scott distinguished himself in the War of 1812, and he was a hero of the Mexican War in the 1840s. After a brilliant campaign fought entirely on foreign soil, he stormed and captured Mexico City despite considerable political maneuvering on the battlefield and the homefront by a variety of influential enemies. In peacetime, he served successfully as a diplomat to the Canadians, the British, the Seminoles, and the Cherokees. Clean copy. Record # 381235

NY: Random House , 1981. 3rd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/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

NY/Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1915. 10th pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/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

London: Picador , 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 757 pages, b&w illustrations. Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him and Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Spandau Prison at the Nuremberg Trails, Speer attempted to progress from moral extinction to moral self-education. How he came to terms with his own acts and failures to act and his real culpability in Nazi war crimes are the questions at the centre of this book. The author had access to Speer, his family and friends and his private papers. Clean copy. Record # 385057

New York: Scribner, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy. Record # 470891

NY: Scribner, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 352444

NY: Penguin Press, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, 400 pages.This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar with goat cheese, cappuccino, or mesclun. But it wasn't long before Waters and her motley coterie of dreamers inspired a new culinary standard incorporating ethics, politics, and the conviction that the best-grown food is also the tastiest. Based on unprecedented access to Waters and her inner circle, this is a truly delicious rags-to-riches saga. Record # 372784

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2012. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 352 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. With his life’s work, and in All Told, LeRoy Neiman captured sports heroes, movie stars, presidents, dishwashers, jet-setters, jockeys, and more than a few Bunnies at the Playboy Mansion. Record # 353166

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A few black and white pictures throughout. Record # 470410

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 333 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Color pictures throughout. Photographs and ephemera, many from private family albums, and personal recollections of the director. Complete visual, historical, and critical narrative of Altman?s films and his process. Introduction by Martin Scorsese. Record # 352634