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University of Chicago Press. 1946. Fine Second impression showing portrait of negro slave on front of brown cloth boards having copper lettering to spine. Good plus unclipped ($3.50) jacket shows edge-wear, small chip at top of spine, some paper loss on bottom of spine and a closed 0.75 in. cut on upper right of front. The author was the Folklore Editor of the Federal Writer's Project in 1938-1939. The book is the "unconscious history" of slavery as told by former Negro slaves. "for here the last of the ex-slaves become their own historians and record for men the world over the story of one people walking the arduous road to liberty." (jacket back). 6x9.25. 286 pg.
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Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery
by B.A. Botkin
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The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
by Al Gore
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Random House. New York. 2013. Quarter-bound in blue with blue paper boards and silver lettering to spine. Fine First edition (stated) first printing with requisite Random House number line ending in 2. Fine unclipped ($30.00) jacket protected with removalble mylar cover. Signed on half title page by author at the St. Louis County Library Foundation's "Buzz Westfall Author Series Feb. 9, 2013. Upcoming authors at this event include Richard Ford and Caroline Kennedy. Chapters that cover the six drivers are: Earth Inc., The Global Mind, Power in the Balance, Outgrowth, The Reinvention of Life and Death and The Edge. Book contains a Bibliography, Notes and an Index. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives four times, the U.S. Senate two times and served as the vice president to Bill Clinton for eight years (1993-2001). 6.5x9.5 in.
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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
by Alan Alda
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New York. Random House.2007. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering to spine. First Edition, fourth printing. Slight lean to spine. Signed on title page by author. Unclipped ($24.95) jacket with minimal shelf wear is protected with removable mylar cover. A work of non-fiction, Alada reflects on life and the meaning of life. Not as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series MASH, but as the man himself. 6.25x9.5 in. 209 pg.
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The First Circle
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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New York. Harper & Row. 1968. First Edition (stated) in maroon boards having gilt lettering to spine. Boards show shelf wear with some fading to edges. Internally, book is clean and devoid of writing, stickers and bookplates. Copyright page shows no subsequent printing(s). Unclipped ($10.00) jacket, still with unfaded color, shows shelf wear and several small chips to bottom of front, bottom of spine and upper right of front. (see photos). Jacket is protected with a removable mylar cover. The First Circle of Dante's Hell stands as a metaphor for this highly autobiographical novel about the inmates of a prison for scientists in Stalin's Russia. 6.5x9.5 in. 580 pg.
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The Man With The Golden Arm
by Nelson Algren
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Doubleday and Company. Garden City, NY. 1949. Tan cloth boards with red and green lettering to spine. Bumped edges with ghost of prior bookplate on flyleaf. First Edition (stated). Used, reading copy. Basis of the celebrated 1955 film starring Frank Sinatra, Darren McGavin and Kim Novak. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Score, Art Direction and Lead Actor for Sinatra). 5.75x8.5 in. 343 pg.
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
by Alice Walker
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Random House. New York. 1997. Spine wrapped in light purple cloth with boards in darker shade of purple paper with copper lettering to spine. Author's AW initials emprinted on front board. First Edition (stated), first printing with requisite number line for Random House ending in 2. Small po's inventory mark on flyleaf. Unclipped ($23.00) jacket shows minor shelf wear now protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in ink by author on title page. Her 1982 novel, The Color Purple won the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction becoming the first by a African American woman. TheColor Purple also won the National Book Award. This novel is in part an autobiographical essay that covers a wide range of topics including religion, writing, family, spiritual growth, race and public issues. 6.25x9.5 in. 225 pg.
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Capable Of Honor: a new political novel
by Allen Drury
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Doubleday & Company. New York. 1966. Fine First Edition (stated) with no subsequent printings listed. Date (1966) listed on both title page and copyright page. Publisher's gutter code H29 on page 531. Signed on second flyleaf by author. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped ($5.95) jacket shows minor shelf wear and chipping to upper and lower spine, else fine. Jacket protected with removable mylar cover. Capable of Honor (COH) is the second sequel to Drury's Pulitzer Prize winning book Advise and Consent. How timely, COH looks at the role journalists play during a presidential campaign. 9.5x6.25 in. 531 pg.
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Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
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Viking,2011. Near fine First Edition (stated), first printing with requiste number line ending in "1". Repaired 1 in. paper defect on front paste-down shows well with no paper loss. Quarter-bound in dark gray with gray boards with gold lettering to front and spine. Unclipped ($26.95) jacket has minor shelf wear and an inapparent Autographed Copy sticker "ghost" on front of jacket. Jacket protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in black ink on the half title page with an added stamp of the Graf Zeppelin above the title. Perhaps better known as the author of A Gentleman In Moscow (2016), this is the author's first novel. Set in 1937 it is the story of twenty-five year old Katey Kontent as she moves through the social strata of New York City. Will her best choice(s) turn into her worst regret(s). 9.25x6.25
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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
by Amor Towles
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New York. Viking. 2021. Bright blue boards with copper lettering to spine shows one small (0.25 in) dent on front board, else fine. Assumed First Edition with First Printing stated on copyright page. Unclipped ($30.00) jacket has 1021 printer's code on front flap and is protected with removable mylar cover. Signed by author on second front free endpaper. The road between Times Square (NYC) and Lincoln Park in San Francisco is the Highway dedicated in 1913. For Iowa, drive Hwy 30 to cover the old route for the Lincoln Hwy. But this is not about road construction. This NY Times Best Seller is the story about the road trip four young men took in 1954. Much can happen when taking ten days to go from Nebraska to New York City. 6.25x9.25 in. 576 pg.
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Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Biography
by Amy Frykholm
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Brewster,MA. Paraclete Press. 2010. Red paper boards with copper lettering to spine. As new, First Edition, first printing (stated) with requisite number line ending in 1. Unclipped ($19.99) jacket is likewise as new and protected with removal mylar cover. Inscribed by author on half title page and sigend by author on title page. Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 - after 1416), wrote the earliest surviving works in the English language (Revalations of Divine Love) by a woman. Her work was done while an anchoress (someone who for religious reasons withdraws from society to lead a life guided by prayer). As such, she lived in permanent seclusion in a cell attached to St. Julian's Church, Norwich. 5.5x8.5 in. 147 pg.
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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Slight shelf wear to DJ. Not price clipped, full number line ending in "1". 8vo. 358 pp. pp. Set in San Francisco and in a remote village in southern China, this a tale of American pragmatism shaken, and soothed, by Chinese ghosts.
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Moon River and Me
by Andy Williams
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Viking, New York. 2009. Black boards with embossed "AW" initials on front board with gold lettering to spine. This is the autobiography of Andy Williams which tells the story of his time in show business. Included is the invitation to the Andy Williams Moon River Theatre in Branson, MO in 2009 (year of publication). Fine First Edition with number line ending in "1" in fine unclipped ($25.95) jacket now protected with removable mylar cover. Signed on title page by author. 308 pg.
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography
by Angela Yvonne Davis
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Random House, 1974. First Edition with requisite Random House number line (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 ) for being a First printing. Lacks First Edition under number line so later printing. Very good book with author's name embossed on front. Red boards, black end papers and with black lettering to spine showing some edge wear. Good unclipped ($8.95) jacket shows shelf wear consistent with age of book and several chips to edge(s) and one closed tear on jacket back. Prior owner "ghost" on front flap and ink on half title page.An American Marxist, feminist political activist and philosopher her involvement in the Communist Party USA led to her being fired in 1969 as an assistant professor at UCLA. The courts ruled that was illegal so she was fired by the Board of Regents for using inflammatory language. In 1970 guns found belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, CA. Four people were killed and Davis was prosecuted and jailed for over a year before being acquitted of all… Read More
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
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Random House. New York. 1976. Quarter-bound in red with orange paper boards and gilt lettering on front (author initials) and spine. Copy is fine but downgraded to good plus due to PO name on flyleaf and footband. Jacket, now protected with removable mylar cover is clipped and has wear to bottom corner as well as a 0.75 in. cut on back of jacket. Inscribed and dated 8/28/82 on half title page by author. Ms. Angelou (1928-2014) published seven autobiographies, this being the third. Starting with a job working for a white women in a record shop the story moves to a marriage to a white customer to working as a "shake" dancer in sleazy bars to signing in popular nightclubs to becoming a featured dancer in Porgy and Bess. Porgy and Bess was the 1959 Musical that won the Academy Award for Best Origina Musical and starred Sidney Poitier (Porgy), Dorathy Dandridge (Bess), Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Claude Akins, Nichelle Nichols, Maya Angelou. 5.75x8.5 in. 269 pg.
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The Romanian Cook Book: For Gourmets And All Who Love Exquisite Cooking
by Anisoara Stan
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The Citadel Press. New York. 1951. First Edition hardcover in grey boards with red lettering; age toned pages, else fine. Unclipped ($3.00) jacket has several small chips on jacket edge(s), linear cut to jacket edge but still attached and large 1 in. chip missing on top of spine. Jacket " Here is the first book published in English which tells how to make the dishes for which the Romanians are so famous." Book includes 450 recipes. 220 pg.
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Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
by Anne Rice
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New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket, dated 9/94. First edition, so stated. Not price clipped ($25.00). 8vo 467 pp. Taltos is the third novel in the late Anne Rice'sThe Mayfair Witches. The story revolves around a young Taltos named Ashlar, who seeks answers about his past and his people from Rowan Mayfair, a powerful witch. Together, they must confront dangerous enemies and uncover long-buried secrets about the Taltos and the Mayfair family. The book explores themes of love, betrayal, and the consequences of meddling with powerful forces.
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Lasher
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New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1993. Black paper boards with spine wrapped in black cloth and gilt lettering to spine. First Edition (stated), first printing with minor shelf wear to boards and slight push to bottom of the spine. Small dent in lower right dedication page. Pages bright without foxing. Unclipped ($25.00) jacket, protected with removable mylar cover, shows little evidence of shelf wear in an edition prone to show considerable wear. Inscribed on flyleaf by author in black marker with "For Tom, Happy Birthday". Ann Rice (1941-2021) was best known for The Vampire Chronicles, the series of books that included the best seller, Interview with the Vampire (1994). Alone with The Witching Hour and Taltos, Lasher forms a triad of novels called the Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven must flee from Lasher, the demon that Rowan finds irresistible. The last sentence begs the question of what happened in the preceeding 577 pages: "I'll put her in the earth myself". Pages…
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The Amityville Horror: A True Story
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Prentice Hall.1977. Very good - book in fine brown boards with gold lettering to spine but weak hinges and age-toned paper. First edition with requesite number line running from 10 to 1. Book store (FIrst Edition Book Shoppe) on bottom of front paste-down.Unclipped ($7.95) jacket shows small chips with paper loss on top and bottom of spine & a 1 in. linear cut on bottom of back board. Several closed tears on back of jacket. Jacket is protected with removable mylar cover. If you're looking at the book you likely know the story of the Lutz family. Moving into the house where a mass murder took place is not for the faint of heart, especially when the house does not want you living there. The Lutz family lived in the house for only 28 days; apparently terrorized by a paranormal phenomena. Book is "the rest of the story" not told on national TV, magazine(s) or film. The first of what appears to be 44 movies related to "Amityville" was released in 1979. The Amityville Horror starred James Brolin, Margot…
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A Golfer's Life (Random House Large Print)
by Arnold Palmer; James Dodson
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Random House Large Print. 1999. Signed by lengendary golfer, "The King" (1929-2016) was the first sport's superstars of the televison age. Winner of 62 PGA Tour events (incluiding the Masters in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964), 2 European Tour events as well as 33 other events. Bonus, included is the (unsigned) First Edition, first printing of the hardcover edition (Ballantine Books, 1999) in unclipped ($26.95) jacket.
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The Shelters of Stone: Earth's Children
by Jean M. Auel
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Crown Publishing. New York. 2002. Quarter-bound in tan with author's name embossed on (front) off-white boards and silver lettering to spine. Stated First Edition has a small reminder mark, else fine with First printing confirmed with correct 10...1 number line on copyright page. Unclipped ($28.95) jacket has minor shelf wear, else fine. The fifth book in the Earth's Children series.
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