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Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2022 Condition: Very Good Description: Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates' enigmatic leader, Rice Fish, to arrive with a different and shocking proposition: an arranged marriage between Xích Si and herself. Rice Fish: sentient ship, leader of the infamous Red Banner pirate fleet, wife of the Red Scholar. Or at least, she was the latter before her wife died under suspicious circumstances. Now isolated and alone, Rice Fish wants Xích Si's help to find out who struck against them and why. Marrying Xích Si means Rice Fish can offer Xích Si protection, in exchange for Xích Si's technical fluency: a business arrangement with nothing more to it. But as the investigation goes on, Rice Fish and Xích Si find themselves falling for each other. As the interstellar war against piracy intensifies and the five fleets start fighting each other, they will have to make a stand-and to decide what kind of future they have together... An exciting space opera and a beautiful romance, from an exceptional SF author. Est Value: $10 - $35 101 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2025 Condition: Very Good Description: An unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks, Can love save us from ourselves? Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie he represents everything she’s ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well. Against the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains on the far side of the Wolverine River. It’s just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact, but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it’s idyllic, but soon Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have imagined, and that like the Alaska wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful. Est Value: $5 - $25 102 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2025 Condition: Very Good Description: An unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks, Can love save us from ourselves? Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie he represents everything she’s ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well. Against the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains on the far side of the Wolverine River. It’s just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact, but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it’s idyllic, but soon Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have imagined, and that like the Alaska wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful. Est Value: $5 - $25 103 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with slipcase Date Published: 1993 Condition: Very Good Description: From the Intro: Two very simple questions to deal with here before letting you get on with what really matters to you as a reader of short fiction in the horror genre. Our first easy problem to resolve: What is horror? ...No matter what these short fictions may be called today, let us hope that in years to come they will be remembered, at the very least, as tales purposely created to induce a suitable frisson. (What the French gourmets describe as that delightful chill up and down the spine when the horror finally hits home.)... Our second pressing question is to try and answer one of the hoariest questions ever put to a writer: Where do you get your ideas? ...I accepted no less than 17 new stories, with each contributor being previously informed that they must answer the classic question "Where did you get your idea?" as part of the concept. The selected responses of these writers made for a new series of After-Words, which...follow on the heels of their individual stories. ...Whether or not the personal responses made by the writers themselves shed any further light on how to label their stories: horror, dark fantasy, dark suspense, you'll have to decide for yourself. Signed by all authors and editor. Number 580 / 750 copies printed. Est Value: $25 - $50 104 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with slipcase Date Published: 1993 Condition: Very Good Description: From the Intro: Two very simple questions to deal with here before letting you get on with what really matters to you as a reader of short fiction in the horror genre. Our first easy problem to resolve: What is horror? ...No matter what these short fictions may be called today, let us hope that in years to come they will be remembered, at the very least, as tales purposely created to induce a suitable frisson. (What the French gourmets describe as that delightful chill up and down the spine when the horror finally hits home.)... Our second pressing question is to try and answer one of the hoariest questions ever put to a writer: Where do you get your ideas? ...I accepted no less than 17 new stories, with each contributor being previously informed that they must answer the classic question "Where did you get your idea?" as part of the concept. The selected responses of these writers made for a new series of After-Words, which...follow on the heels of their individual stories. ...Whether or not the personal responses made by the writers themselves shed any further light on how to label their stories: horror, dark fantasy, dark suspense, you'll have to decide for yourself. Signed by all authors and editor. Number 580 / 750 copies printed. Est Value: $25 - $50 105 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with slipcase Date Published: 1993 Condition: Very Good Description: From the Intro: Two very simple questions to deal with here before letting you get on with what really matters to you as a reader of short fiction in the horror genre. Our first easy problem to resolve: What is horror? ...No matter what these short fictions may be called today, let us hope that in years to come they will be remembered, at the very least, as tales purposely created to induce a suitable frisson. (What the French gourmets describe as that delightful chill up and down the spine when the horror finally hits home.)... Our second pressing question is to try and answer one of the hoariest questions ever put to a writer: Where do you get your ideas? ...I accepted no less than 17 new stories, with each contributor being previously informed that they must answer the classic question "Where did you get your idea?" as part of the concept. The selected responses of these writers made for a new series of After-Words, which...follow on the heels of their individual stories. ...Whether or not the personal responses made by the writers themselves shed any further light on how to label their stories: horror, dark fantasy, dark suspense, you'll have to decide for yourself. Signed by all authors and editor. Number 580 / 750 copies printed. Est Value: $25 - $50 106 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with slipcase Date Published: 1993 Condition: Very Good Description: From the Intro: Two very simple questions to deal with here before letting you get on with what really matters to you as a reader of short fiction in the horror genre. Our first easy problem to resolve: What is horror? ...No matter what these short fictions may be called today, let us hope that in years to come they will be remembered, at the very least, as tales purposely created to induce a suitable frisson. (What the French gourmets describe as that delightful chill up and down the spine when the horror finally hits home.)... Our second pressing question is to try and answer one of the hoariest questions ever put to a writer: Where do you get your ideas? ...I accepted no less than 17 new stories, with each contributor being previously informed that they must answer the classic question "Where did you get your idea?" as part of the concept. The selected responses of these writers made for a new series of After-Words, which...follow on the heels of their individual stories. ...Whether or not the personal responses made by the writers themselves shed any further light on how to label their stories: horror, dark fantasy, dark suspense, you'll have to decide for yourself. Signed by all authors and editor. Number 580 / 750 copies printed. Est Value: $25 - $50 107 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with slipcase Date Published: 1993 Condition: Very Good Description: From the Intro: Two very simple questions to deal with here before letting you get on with what really matters to you as a reader of short fiction in the horror genre. Our first easy problem to resolve: What is horror? ...No matter what these short fictions may be called today, let us hope that in years to come they will be remembered, at the very least, as tales purposely created to induce a suitable frisson. (What the French gourmets describe as that delightful chill up and down the spine when the horror finally hits home.)... Our second pressing question is to try and answer one of the hoariest questions ever put to a writer: Where do you get your ideas? ...I accepted no less than 17 new stories, with each contributor being previously informed that they must answer the classic question "Where did you get your idea?" as part of the concept. The selected responses of these writers made for a new series of After-Words, which...follow on the heels of their individual stories. ...Whether or not the personal responses made by the writers themselves shed any further light on how to label their stories: horror, dark fantasy, dark suspense, you'll have to decide for yourself. Signed by all authors and editor. Number 580 / 750 copies printed. Est Value: $25 - $50 108 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with slipcase Date Published: 1993 Condition: Very Good Description: From the Intro: Two very simple questions to deal with here before letting you get on with what really matters to you as a reader of short fiction in the horror genre. Our first easy problem to resolve: What is horror? ...No matter what these short fictions may be called today, let us hope that in years to come they will be remembered, at the very least, as tales purposely created to induce a suitable frisson. (What the French gourmets describe as that delightful chill up and down the spine when the horror finally hits home.)... Our second pressing question is to try and answer one of the hoariest questions ever put to a writer: Where do you get your ideas? ...I accepted no less than 17 new stories, with each contributor being previously informed that they must answer the classic question "Where did you get your idea?" as part of the concept. The selected responses of these writers made for a new series of After-Words, which...follow on the heels of their individual stories. ...Whether or not the personal responses made by the writers themselves shed any further light on how to label their stories: horror, dark fantasy, dark suspense, you'll have to decide for yourself. Signed by all authors and editor. Number 580 / 750 copies printed. Est Value: $25 - $50 109 / 451 -
A set of two hardcover novels from Cassandra Clare's 'The Dark Artifices' series, Includes 'Lady Midnight' (Book One) and 'Queen of Air and Darkness' (Book Three). 'Queen of Air and Darkness' features a personalized inscription 'for Erika' and author signature on the title page, along with a stamped design on the preceding page. Both books include their original dust jackets. Good condition with minor shelf wear on the dust jackets. Est Value: $25 - $50 110 / 451 -
A set of two hardcover novels from Cassandra Clare's 'The Dark Artifices' series, Includes 'Lady Midnight' (Book One) and 'Queen of Air and Darkness' (Book Three). 'Queen of Air and Darkness' features a personalized inscription 'for Erika' and author signature on the title page, along with a stamped design on the preceding page. Both books include their original dust jackets. Good condition with minor shelf wear on the dust jackets. Est Value: $25 - $50 111 / 451 -
A set of two hardcover novels from Cassandra Clare's 'The Dark Artifices' series, Includes 'Lady Midnight' (Book One) and 'Queen of Air and Darkness' (Book Three). 'Queen of Air and Darkness' features a personalized inscription 'for Erika' and author signature on the title page, along with a stamped design on the preceding page. Both books include their original dust jackets. Good condition with minor shelf wear on the dust jackets. Est Value: $25 - $50 112 / 451 -
Type: Softcover Date Published: 2013 Condition: Very Good Description: “Gaslamp Fantasy,” or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. The Line-up: “Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells” by Delia Sherman “The Fairy Enterprise” by Jeffrey Ford “From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)” by Genevieve Valentine “The Memory Book” by Maureen McHugh “La Reine D’Enfer” by Kathe Koja “Briar Rose” by Elizabeth Wein “The Governess” by Elizabeth Bear “Smithfield” by James P. Blaylock “The Unwanted Women of Surrey” by Kaaron Warren “Charged” by Leanna Renee Hieber “Mr. Splitfoot” by Dale Bailey “Phosphorus” by Veronica Schanoes “We Without Us Were Shadows” by Catherynne M. Valente “The Vital Importance of the Superficial” by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen “A Few Twigs He Left Behind” by Gregory Maguire “Their Monstrous Minds” by Tanith Lee “Estella Saves the Village” by Theodora Goss Est Value: $25 - $50 116 / 451 -
Type: Softcover Date Published: 2013 Condition: Very Good Description: “Gaslamp Fantasy,” or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. The Line-up: “Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells” by Delia Sherman “The Fairy Enterprise” by Jeffrey Ford “From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)” by Genevieve Valentine “The Memory Book” by Maureen McHugh “La Reine D’Enfer” by Kathe Koja “Briar Rose” by Elizabeth Wein “The Governess” by Elizabeth Bear “Smithfield” by James P. Blaylock “The Unwanted Women of Surrey” by Kaaron Warren “Charged” by Leanna Renee Hieber “Mr. Splitfoot” by Dale Bailey “Phosphorus” by Veronica Schanoes “We Without Us Were Shadows” by Catherynne M. Valente “The Vital Importance of the Superficial” by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen “A Few Twigs He Left Behind” by Gregory Maguire “Their Monstrous Minds” by Tanith Lee “Estella Saves the Village” by Theodora Goss Est Value: $25 - $50 117 / 451 -
Type: Softcover Date Published: 2013 Condition: Very Good Description: “Gaslamp Fantasy,” or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. The Line-up: “Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells” by Delia Sherman “The Fairy Enterprise” by Jeffrey Ford “From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)” by Genevieve Valentine “The Memory Book” by Maureen McHugh “La Reine D’Enfer” by Kathe Koja “Briar Rose” by Elizabeth Wein “The Governess” by Elizabeth Bear “Smithfield” by James P. Blaylock “The Unwanted Women of Surrey” by Kaaron Warren “Charged” by Leanna Renee Hieber “Mr. Splitfoot” by Dale Bailey “Phosphorus” by Veronica Schanoes “We Without Us Were Shadows” by Catherynne M. Valente “The Vital Importance of the Superficial” by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen “A Few Twigs He Left Behind” by Gregory Maguire “Their Monstrous Minds” by Tanith Lee “Estella Saves the Village” by Theodora Goss Est Value: $25 - $50 118 / 451 -
Type: Softcover Date Published: 2013 Condition: Very Good Description: “Gaslamp Fantasy,” or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. The Line-up: “Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells” by Delia Sherman “The Fairy Enterprise” by Jeffrey Ford “From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)” by Genevieve Valentine “The Memory Book” by Maureen McHugh “La Reine D’Enfer” by Kathe Koja “Briar Rose” by Elizabeth Wein “The Governess” by Elizabeth Bear “Smithfield” by James P. Blaylock “The Unwanted Women of Surrey” by Kaaron Warren “Charged” by Leanna Renee Hieber “Mr. Splitfoot” by Dale Bailey “Phosphorus” by Veronica Schanoes “We Without Us Were Shadows” by Catherynne M. Valente “The Vital Importance of the Superficial” by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen “A Few Twigs He Left Behind” by Gregory Maguire “Their Monstrous Minds” by Tanith Lee “Estella Saves the Village” by Theodora Goss Est Value: $25 - $50 119 / 451 -
Type: Softcover Date Published: 2013 Condition: Very Good Description: “Gaslamp Fantasy,” or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. The Line-up: “Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells” by Delia Sherman “The Fairy Enterprise” by Jeffrey Ford “From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)” by Genevieve Valentine “The Memory Book” by Maureen McHugh “La Reine D’Enfer” by Kathe Koja “Briar Rose” by Elizabeth Wein “The Governess” by Elizabeth Bear “Smithfield” by James P. Blaylock “The Unwanted Women of Surrey” by Kaaron Warren “Charged” by Leanna Renee Hieber “Mr. Splitfoot” by Dale Bailey “Phosphorus” by Veronica Schanoes “We Without Us Were Shadows” by Catherynne M. Valente “The Vital Importance of the Superficial” by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen “A Few Twigs He Left Behind” by Gregory Maguire “Their Monstrous Minds” by Tanith Lee “Estella Saves the Village” by Theodora Goss Est Value: $25 - $50 120 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1952 Condition: Very Good Description: "It began in Union City when they brought in the man who screamed before he died, his flesh a mottled gray. Then it spread. The disease hit South Bend. Then Chicago. Men dying. Their skin a lead gray, their lips browned, and screams tearing their way up through throats that leaked blood. Always men. Never women. And then it was all so fantastically clear. Men were being exterminated, and a master race of haploid women were going to rule the world. And nobody could stop them." Est Value: $50 - $100 121 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1952 Condition: Very Good Description: "It began in Union City when they brought in the man who screamed before he died, his flesh a mottled gray. Then it spread. The disease hit South Bend. Then Chicago. Men dying. Their skin a lead gray, their lips browned, and screams tearing their way up through throats that leaked blood. Always men. Never women. And then it was all so fantastically clear. Men were being exterminated, and a master race of haploid women were going to rule the world. And nobody could stop them." Est Value: $50 - $100 122 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1952 Condition: Very Good Description: "It began in Union City when they brought in the man who screamed before he died, his flesh a mottled gray. Then it spread. The disease hit South Bend. Then Chicago. Men dying. Their skin a lead gray, their lips browned, and screams tearing their way up through throats that leaked blood. Always men. Never women. And then it was all so fantastically clear. Men were being exterminated, and a master race of haploid women were going to rule the world. And nobody could stop them." Est Value: $50 - $100 123 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2013 Condition: Very Good Description: Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, imagining a magical world of adventure and heroism. But disaster strikes when, without warning, Zach’s father throws out all his toys, declaring he’s too old for them. Zach is furious, confused and embarrassed, deciding that the only way to cope is to stop playing . . . and stop being friends with Poppy and Alice. But one night the girls pay Zach a visit, and tell him about a series of mysterious occurrences. Poppy swears that she is now being haunted by a china doll – who claims that it is made from the ground-up bones of a murdered girl. They must return the doll to where the girl lived, and bury it. Otherwise the three children will be cursed for eternity . . . Est Value: $25 - $50 124 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2013 Condition: Very Good Description: Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, imagining a magical world of adventure and heroism. But disaster strikes when, without warning, Zach’s father throws out all his toys, declaring he’s too old for them. Zach is furious, confused and embarrassed, deciding that the only way to cope is to stop playing . . . and stop being friends with Poppy and Alice. But one night the girls pay Zach a visit, and tell him about a series of mysterious occurrences. Poppy swears that she is now being haunted by a china doll – who claims that it is made from the ground-up bones of a murdered girl. They must return the doll to where the girl lived, and bury it. Otherwise the three children will be cursed for eternity . . . Est Value: $25 - $50 125 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1975 Condition: Very Good Description: Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida, is determined to find out, even at risk to his own life. Meamwhile, Jiro devotes himself to learning puppetry. Kinshi, the puppet master's son, tutors him. When his sheltered life at the theater is shattered by mobs of hungry, rioting peasants, Jiro becomes aware of responsibilities greater that his craft. As he schemes to help his friend Kinshi and to find his own parent, Jiro stumbles onto a dangerous and powerful secret.... Est Value: $25 - $50 126 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1975 Condition: Very Good Description: Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida, is determined to find out, even at risk to his own life. Meamwhile, Jiro devotes himself to learning puppetry. Kinshi, the puppet master's son, tutors him. When his sheltered life at the theater is shattered by mobs of hungry, rioting peasants, Jiro becomes aware of responsibilities greater that his craft. As he schemes to help his friend Kinshi and to find his own parent, Jiro stumbles onto a dangerous and powerful secret.... Est Value: $25 - $50 127 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1975 Condition: Very Good Description: Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida, is determined to find out, even at risk to his own life. Meamwhile, Jiro devotes himself to learning puppetry. Kinshi, the puppet master's son, tutors him. When his sheltered life at the theater is shattered by mobs of hungry, rioting peasants, Jiro becomes aware of responsibilities greater that his craft. As he schemes to help his friend Kinshi and to find his own parent, Jiro stumbles onto a dangerous and powerful secret.... Est Value: $25 - $50 128 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Martha Blah Blah" by Susan Meddaugh, published in 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company Boston. The interior features a signature and paw print stamp from the author on the front endpaper. This is a former library book showing typical markings, including a library checkout card pocket on the inside cover and blacked-out library stamps on the title and end pages. The dust jacket shows light wear. Est Value: $1 - $25 129 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Martha Blah Blah" by Susan Meddaugh, published in 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company Boston. The interior features a signature and paw print stamp from the author on the front endpaper. This is a former library book showing typical markings, including a library checkout card pocket on the inside cover and blacked-out library stamps on the title and end pages. The dust jacket shows light wear. Est Value: $1 - $25 130 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Martha Blah Blah" by Susan Meddaugh, published in 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company Boston. The interior features a signature and paw print stamp from the author on the front endpaper. This is a former library book showing typical markings, including a library checkout card pocket on the inside cover and blacked-out library stamps on the title and end pages. The dust jacket shows light wear. Est Value: $1 - $25 131 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published :2024 Condition: Fine Description: From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of ageing that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinised, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of that of being a 'woman of a certain age'. And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and ageing. This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live - when we get to write our own stories. With remarkable candour, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humour and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias. By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanising, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife. Est Value: $25 - $50 132 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published :2024 Condition: Fine Description: From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of ageing that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinised, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of that of being a 'woman of a certain age'. And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and ageing. This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live - when we get to write our own stories. With remarkable candour, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humour and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias. By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanising, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife. Est Value: $25 - $50 133 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2014 Condition: Very Good Description: Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for " Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of the best-selling American Freak Show--have begun an extended conversation between father and son on areas of mutual interest, agreement, and disagreement. Told in a unique back-and-forth banter style, the hilarious father-son team will laugh together at the shared journey of their relationship. They'll riff on fatherhood, religion, music, sports, summer camp disasters, driving lessons gone horribly wrong, being on TV, and their wonderfully odd family life. Think Big Russ and Me meets S*** My Dad Says, with humorous observations about professional wrestling as a worldview, raising a kid with television cameras in the kitchen, and anything and everything else that comes to their witty minds. The Geists decided to write this book so their children and grandchildren would have a record of their unusual father-son relationship. The book is remarkably funny, as well as poignant and sincere, especially in light of Bill's announcement that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's. With its lighthearted look at the crazy things fathers and sons go through and the unique bond those experiences forge, the book is sure to be a must-have gift for Father's Day. Est Value: $5 - $25 134 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2014 Condition: Very Good Description: Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for " Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of the best-selling American Freak Show--have begun an extended conversation between father and son on areas of mutual interest, agreement, and disagreement. Told in a unique back-and-forth banter style, the hilarious father-son team will laugh together at the shared journey of their relationship. They'll riff on fatherhood, religion, music, sports, summer camp disasters, driving lessons gone horribly wrong, being on TV, and their wonderfully odd family life. Think Big Russ and Me meets S*** My Dad Says, with humorous observations about professional wrestling as a worldview, raising a kid with television cameras in the kitchen, and anything and everything else that comes to their witty minds. The Geists decided to write this book so their children and grandchildren would have a record of their unusual father-son relationship. The book is remarkably funny, as well as poignant and sincere, especially in light of Bill's announcement that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's. With its lighthearted look at the crazy things fathers and sons go through and the unique bond those experiences forge, the book is sure to be a must-have gift for Father's Day. Est Value: $5 - $25 135 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1959 Condition: Good Description: From the library of Maxwell Geismar, signed to Geismar from the author. Maxwell David Geismar was an American writer, literary critic and biographer of Mark Twain Murderer? Madman? Martyr! In the hundred and ten years since John Brown was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, for his desperate attack on Harpers Ferry, the controversy and the legend have grown to superhuman proportions. As a symbol of rebellion, liberty, civil war, retributive violence, the voice of the oppressed, John Brown has proved a major force in American thought, an increasingly powerful figure in the cause of popular uprisings and militant justice for whites and blacks. This volume presents the positive impact of the man upon American life. (from the front dust cover flap) Est Value: $50 - $100 138 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1959 Condition: Good Description: From the library of Maxwell Geismar, signed to Geismar from the author. Maxwell David Geismar was an American writer, literary critic and biographer of Mark Twain Murderer? Madman? Martyr! In the hundred and ten years since John Brown was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, for his desperate attack on Harpers Ferry, the controversy and the legend have grown to superhuman proportions. As a symbol of rebellion, liberty, civil war, retributive violence, the voice of the oppressed, John Brown has proved a major force in American thought, an increasingly powerful figure in the cause of popular uprisings and militant justice for whites and blacks. This volume presents the positive impact of the man upon American life. (from the front dust cover flap) Est Value: $50 - $100 139 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1959 Condition: Good Description: From the library of Maxwell Geismar, signed to Geismar from the author. Maxwell David Geismar was an American writer, literary critic and biographer of Mark Twain Murderer? Madman? Martyr! In the hundred and ten years since John Brown was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, for his desperate attack on Harpers Ferry, the controversy and the legend have grown to superhuman proportions. As a symbol of rebellion, liberty, civil war, retributive violence, the voice of the oppressed, John Brown has proved a major force in American thought, an increasingly powerful figure in the cause of popular uprisings and militant justice for whites and blacks. This volume presents the positive impact of the man upon American life. (from the front dust cover flap) Est Value: $50 - $100 140 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1959 Condition: Good Description: From the library of Maxwell Geismar, signed to Geismar from the author. Maxwell David Geismar was an American writer, literary critic and biographer of Mark Twain Murderer? Madman? Martyr! In the hundred and ten years since John Brown was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, for his desperate attack on Harpers Ferry, the controversy and the legend have grown to superhuman proportions. As a symbol of rebellion, liberty, civil war, retributive violence, the voice of the oppressed, John Brown has proved a major force in American thought, an increasingly powerful figure in the cause of popular uprisings and militant justice for whites and blacks. This volume presents the positive impact of the man upon American life. (from the front dust cover flap) Est Value: $50 - $100 141 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1959 Condition: Good Description: From the library of Maxwell Geismar, signed to Geismar from the author. Maxwell David Geismar was an American writer, literary critic and biographer of Mark Twain Murderer? Madman? Martyr! In the hundred and ten years since John Brown was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, for his desperate attack on Harpers Ferry, the controversy and the legend have grown to superhuman proportions. As a symbol of rebellion, liberty, civil war, retributive violence, the voice of the oppressed, John Brown has proved a major force in American thought, an increasingly powerful figure in the cause of popular uprisings and militant justice for whites and blacks. This volume presents the positive impact of the man upon American life. (from the front dust cover flap) Est Value: $50 - $100 142 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1975 Condition: Very Good Description: Did Samuel Mudd have prior knowledge of the impending assassination of Abraham Lincoln and willingly provide aid to John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's murder? Historians are still divided over this issue nearly 140 years later. In 1906, Nettie Mudd published this passionate plea for her father's innocence. It includes testimony from Mudd's trial and letters written to and by him from Fort Jefferson, where he was imprisoned until 1869. Though President Andrew Johnson pardoned Mudd, the family continued to try to get the conviction overturned. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were both sympathetic to the cause but claimed no authority in the matter. The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case. Not only is this book a well-reasoned case for Mudd's acquittal, it's a fascinating look into the Mudd family and the early attempts to clear his name. The letters from Mudd to his adored wife are very revealing of at least a part of Mudd's character. Est Value: $100 - $250 143 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1975 Condition: Very Good Description: Did Samuel Mudd have prior knowledge of the impending assassination of Abraham Lincoln and willingly provide aid to John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's murder? Historians are still divided over this issue nearly 140 years later. In 1906, Nettie Mudd published this passionate plea for her father's innocence. It includes testimony from Mudd's trial and letters written to and by him from Fort Jefferson, where he was imprisoned until 1869. Though President Andrew Johnson pardoned Mudd, the family continued to try to get the conviction overturned. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were both sympathetic to the cause but claimed no authority in the matter. The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case. Not only is this book a well-reasoned case for Mudd's acquittal, it's a fascinating look into the Mudd family and the early attempts to clear his name. The letters from Mudd to his adored wife are very revealing of at least a part of Mudd's character. Est Value: $100 - $250 144 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1975 Condition: Very Good Description: Did Samuel Mudd have prior knowledge of the impending assassination of Abraham Lincoln and willingly provide aid to John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's murder? Historians are still divided over this issue nearly 140 years later. In 1906, Nettie Mudd published this passionate plea for her father's innocence. It includes testimony from Mudd's trial and letters written to and by him from Fort Jefferson, where he was imprisoned until 1869. Though President Andrew Johnson pardoned Mudd, the family continued to try to get the conviction overturned. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were both sympathetic to the cause but claimed no authority in the matter. The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case. Not only is this book a well-reasoned case for Mudd's acquittal, it's a fascinating look into the Mudd family and the early attempts to clear his name. The letters from Mudd to his adored wife are very revealing of at least a part of Mudd's character. Est Value: $100 - $250 145 / 451 -
Type: Softcover Date Published: 2005 Condition: Very Good Description: Zebulon Northrop Tilton was a huge cross-eyed schooner captain, born in 1867 on Martha's Vineyard Island, who, it is said, could have sailed the Alice S. Wentworth to Chicago on a heavy dew. His rigorous and celebrated life afloat, his countless shenanigans ashore, his love for women and for his Alice , his enormous skill, strength and wit form the image of an unmistakably real American folk hero. Zeb and his famous coastal schooner experienced the heyday and the closing of an unforgettable era hauling all manner of freight under sail from New York's South Street Seaport to the icy Kennebec River in Maine. Polly Burroughs has faithfully recreated his incredible life and times from masses of newspaper accounts and family records, from the words of friends and cronies, and from a wealth of historic photographs, many by Alfred Eisenstaedt and other prominent photographers. The result is the true chronicle of a hard and hearty seafaring life richly and colorfully spiced with authentic Yankee humor and with the many personalities who crossed Zeb's path. Though Zeb died in 1952, his legend lives on, not only in this remarkable biography but also in two folk songs, a Martha's Vineyard country store named after him, and the countless admirers who keep his memory alive. While depicting an island icon, this book also offers a portrait of Martha's Vineyard around the turn of the century and a panoramic look at several decades of northeastern coastal life and the shipping trade. Signed by author Polly Burroughs. Est Value: $25 - $50 146 / 451 -
Type:: Paperback Date Published: 1994 Condition: Good Description: Related frankly and intimately, this is the story of a wilful young woman's journey on foot across Australia, traversing some of the most inhospitable country in the world. She endures dehydration, heat, huge blisters and hordes of flies. Est Value: $25 $50 147 / 451 -
Type:: Paperback Date Published: 1994 Condition: Good Description: Related frankly and intimately, this is the story of a wilful young woman's journey on foot across Australia, traversing some of the most inhospitable country in the world. She endures dehydration, heat, huge blisters and hordes of flies. Est Value: $25 $50 148 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2010 Condition: Very Good Description: Here is the edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter - filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world. Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders; he narrated the progress of secret negotiations, such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than 5,000 pages. But this extraordinary document has never been made public - until now. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle East. We witness his interactions with such complex personalities as Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. We get the inside story of his so-called "malaise speech", his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic nomination, and the Iranian hostage crisis. Remarkably, we also get Carter's retrospective comments on these topics and more: 30 years after the fact, he has annotated the diary with his candid reflections on the people and events that shaped his presidency, and on the many lessons learned. Carter is now widely seen as one of the truly wise men of our time. Offering an unprecedented look at both the man and his tenure, this fascinating book will stand as a unique contribution to the history of the American presidency. Est Value: $50 -- $100 149 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2010 Condition: Very Good Description: Here is the edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter - filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world. Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders; he narrated the progress of secret negotiations, such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than 5,000 pages. But this extraordinary document has never been made public - until now. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle East. We witness his interactions with such complex personalities as Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. We get the inside story of his so-called "malaise speech", his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic nomination, and the Iranian hostage crisis. Remarkably, we also get Carter's retrospective comments on these topics and more: 30 years after the fact, he has annotated the diary with his candid reflections on the people and events that shaped his presidency, and on the many lessons learned. Carter is now widely seen as one of the truly wise men of our time. Offering an unprecedented look at both the man and his tenure, this fascinating book will stand as a unique contribution to the history of the American presidency. Est Value: $50 -- $100 150 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1941 Condition: Good Description: 1st edition, inscribed and signed by author. American soprano Mary Mellish made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1918 as a choirboy in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète and sang comprimario roles there until 1923. Published in 1941, her memoir, Sometimes I Reminisce, recounts some of her experiences singing alongside Geraldine Farrar and other Metropolitan Opera stars. Est Value: $25 - $50 151 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1941 Condition: Good Description: 1st edition, inscribed and signed by author. American soprano Mary Mellish made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1918 as a choirboy in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète and sang comprimario roles there until 1923. Published in 1941, her memoir, Sometimes I Reminisce, recounts some of her experiences singing alongside Geraldine Farrar and other Metropolitan Opera stars. Est Value: $25 - $50 152 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1941 Condition: Good Description: 1st edition, inscribed and signed by author. American soprano Mary Mellish made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1918 as a choirboy in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète and sang comprimario roles there until 1923. Published in 1941, her memoir, Sometimes I Reminisce, recounts some of her experiences singing alongside Geraldine Farrar and other Metropolitan Opera stars. Est Value: $25 - $50 153 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1970 Condition: Good Description: Inscribed to Robert McLoskey (the writer and illustrator) by the author. Everett McKinley Dirksen described himself as "flexible." Others did not view his propensity for changing his mind about issues with such equanimity. They charged him with being unprincipled and lacking in political morality. Critics and cohorts agreed, however, that he was a man of large stature and, in his colorful career in the House and Senate, had wielded unique power. With dispassionate detail, Neil MacNeil, veteran political analyst and Congressional reporter for Time magazine, has compiled the story of that singular career in Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. Beginning with the Senator's Lincolnesque background in Pekin, Illinois, Mr. MacNeil follows the Dirksen Trail to political eminence. In Illinois in 1932, Dirksen, practicing his virtuoso oratorical style on Legionnaires and women's clubs, managed to ride against the Democratic tide and found himself a Republican in the Democratic Congress in 1933. Assenting to the economic measures the Democrats introduced, he held onto his seat though other Republicans lost theirs. His swing to the Right was not to come until he needed the McCormick Empire's support to stay in Washington. He then became the champion of conservatism and isolationism, supporting with flamboyant rhetoric the investigations and allegations of Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. Building his strength through the Roosevelt and Truman eras, he became a Taft man but, wooed by President Eisenhower, switched his support. It was during the Kennedy and Johnson terms, however, that his unusual skills emerged. As the leader of the minority party he became a power, sought out by the Presidents, bargaining, maneuvering, manipulating and dominating the Senate. In this period, Mr. MacNeil delineates his impact on the course of history, his capacity to act quietly and capably, using his genius gifts in practicing the "art of the possible." In Mr. MacNeil's biography, Senator Dirksen lives again--recounting his anecdotes, polishing his telling phrases; his husky voice echoes through the pages as it did in the Senate chambers, the convention halls, and in the councils of the Presidents. Est Value: $25 -$50 154 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1970 Condition: Good Description: Inscribed to Robert McLoskey (the writer and illustrator) by the author. Everett McKinley Dirksen described himself as "flexible." Others did not view his propensity for changing his mind about issues with such equanimity. They charged him with being unprincipled and lacking in political morality. Critics and cohorts agreed, however, that he was a man of large stature and, in his colorful career in the House and Senate, had wielded unique power. With dispassionate detail, Neil MacNeil, veteran political analyst and Congressional reporter for Time magazine, has compiled the story of that singular career in Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. Beginning with the Senator's Lincolnesque background in Pekin, Illinois, Mr. MacNeil follows the Dirksen Trail to political eminence. In Illinois in 1932, Dirksen, practicing his virtuoso oratorical style on Legionnaires and women's clubs, managed to ride against the Democratic tide and found himself a Republican in the Democratic Congress in 1933. Assenting to the economic measures the Democrats introduced, he held onto his seat though other Republicans lost theirs. His swing to the Right was not to come until he needed the McCormick Empire's support to stay in Washington. He then became the champion of conservatism and isolationism, supporting with flamboyant rhetoric the investigations and allegations of Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. Building his strength through the Roosevelt and Truman eras, he became a Taft man but, wooed by President Eisenhower, switched his support. It was during the Kennedy and Johnson terms, however, that his unusual skills emerged. As the leader of the minority party he became a power, sought out by the Presidents, bargaining, maneuvering, manipulating and dominating the Senate. In this period, Mr. MacNeil delineates his impact on the course of history, his capacity to act quietly and capably, using his genius gifts in practicing the "art of the possible." In Mr. MacNeil's biography, Senator Dirksen lives again--recounting his anecdotes, polishing his telling phrases; his husky voice echoes through the pages as it did in the Senate chambers, the convention halls, and in the councils of the Presidents. Est Value: $25 -$50 155 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1970 Condition: Good Description: Inscribed to Robert McLoskey (the writer and illustrator) by the author. Everett McKinley Dirksen described himself as "flexible." Others did not view his propensity for changing his mind about issues with such equanimity. They charged him with being unprincipled and lacking in political morality. Critics and cohorts agreed, however, that he was a man of large stature and, in his colorful career in the House and Senate, had wielded unique power. With dispassionate detail, Neil MacNeil, veteran political analyst and Congressional reporter for Time magazine, has compiled the story of that singular career in Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. Beginning with the Senator's Lincolnesque background in Pekin, Illinois, Mr. MacNeil follows the Dirksen Trail to political eminence. In Illinois in 1932, Dirksen, practicing his virtuoso oratorical style on Legionnaires and women's clubs, managed to ride against the Democratic tide and found himself a Republican in the Democratic Congress in 1933. Assenting to the economic measures the Democrats introduced, he held onto his seat though other Republicans lost theirs. His swing to the Right was not to come until he needed the McCormick Empire's support to stay in Washington. He then became the champion of conservatism and isolationism, supporting with flamboyant rhetoric the investigations and allegations of Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. Building his strength through the Roosevelt and Truman eras, he became a Taft man but, wooed by President Eisenhower, switched his support. It was during the Kennedy and Johnson terms, however, that his unusual skills emerged. As the leader of the minority party he became a power, sought out by the Presidents, bargaining, maneuvering, manipulating and dominating the Senate. In this period, Mr. MacNeil delineates his impact on the course of history, his capacity to act quietly and capably, using his genius gifts in practicing the "art of the possible." In Mr. MacNeil's biography, Senator Dirksen lives again--recounting his anecdotes, polishing his telling phrases; his husky voice echoes through the pages as it did in the Senate chambers, the convention halls, and in the councils of the Presidents. Est Value: $25 -$50 156 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1970 Condition: Good Description: Inscribed to Robert McLoskey (the writer and illustrator) by the author. Everett McKinley Dirksen described himself as "flexible." Others did not view his propensity for changing his mind about issues with such equanimity. They charged him with being unprincipled and lacking in political morality. Critics and cohorts agreed, however, that he was a man of large stature and, in his colorful career in the House and Senate, had wielded unique power. With dispassionate detail, Neil MacNeil, veteran political analyst and Congressional reporter for Time magazine, has compiled the story of that singular career in Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. Beginning with the Senator's Lincolnesque background in Pekin, Illinois, Mr. MacNeil follows the Dirksen Trail to political eminence. In Illinois in 1932, Dirksen, practicing his virtuoso oratorical style on Legionnaires and women's clubs, managed to ride against the Democratic tide and found himself a Republican in the Democratic Congress in 1933. Assenting to the economic measures the Democrats introduced, he held onto his seat though other Republicans lost theirs. His swing to the Right was not to come until he needed the McCormick Empire's support to stay in Washington. He then became the champion of conservatism and isolationism, supporting with flamboyant rhetoric the investigations and allegations of Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. Building his strength through the Roosevelt and Truman eras, he became a Taft man but, wooed by President Eisenhower, switched his support. It was during the Kennedy and Johnson terms, however, that his unusual skills emerged. As the leader of the minority party he became a power, sought out by the Presidents, bargaining, maneuvering, manipulating and dominating the Senate. In this period, Mr. MacNeil delineates his impact on the course of history, his capacity to act quietly and capably, using his genius gifts in practicing the "art of the possible." In Mr. MacNeil's biography, Senator Dirksen lives again--recounting his anecdotes, polishing his telling phrases; his husky voice echoes through the pages as it did in the Senate chambers, the convention halls, and in the councils of the Presidents. Est Value: $25 -$50 157 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2017 Condition: Fine Description: A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC’s Hardball. With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America’s most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby Kennedy, Matthews returns with a gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the great figures of the American twentieth century. Overlooked by his father, and overshadowed by his war-hero brother, Bobby Kennedy was the perpetual underdog. When he had the chance to become a naval officer like Jack, Bobby turned it down, choosing instead to join the Navy as a common sailor. It was a life changing experience that led him to connect with voters from all walks of life: young or old, black or white, rich or poor. They were the people who turned out for him in his 1968 campaign. RFK would prove himself to be the rarest of politicians—both a pragmatist who knew how to get the job done and an unwavering idealist who could inspire millions. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the public and private worlds of Robert Francis Kennedy. He shines a light on all the important moments of his life, from his early years and his start in politics to his crucial role as attorney general in his brother’s administration and his tragic run for president. This definitive book brings Bobby Kennedy to life like never before and is destined to become a political classic Est Value: $10 - $35 158 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2017 Condition: Fine Description: A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC’s Hardball. With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America’s most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby Kennedy, Matthews returns with a gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the great figures of the American twentieth century. Overlooked by his father, and overshadowed by his war-hero brother, Bobby Kennedy was the perpetual underdog. When he had the chance to become a naval officer like Jack, Bobby turned it down, choosing instead to join the Navy as a common sailor. It was a life changing experience that led him to connect with voters from all walks of life: young or old, black or white, rich or poor. They were the people who turned out for him in his 1968 campaign. RFK would prove himself to be the rarest of politicians—both a pragmatist who knew how to get the job done and an unwavering idealist who could inspire millions. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the public and private worlds of Robert Francis Kennedy. He shines a light on all the important moments of his life, from his early years and his start in politics to his crucial role as attorney general in his brother’s administration and his tragic run for president. This definitive book brings Bobby Kennedy to life like never before and is destined to become a political classic Est Value: $10 - $35 159 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2003 Condition: Fine Description: The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (* The New York Times Book Review ). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Signed by the author Est Value: $100 - $200 162 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2003 Condition: Fine Description: The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (* The New York Times Book Review ). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Signed by the author Est Value: $100 - $200 163 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2003 Condition: Fine Description: The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (* The New York Times Book Review ). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Signed by the author Est Value: $100 - $200 164 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published 2008 Condition: Very Good Description: The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself Making Freedom is the first in-depth exploration of the life of Venture Smith (1728–1805), a New England slave who was sold into bondage as a boy in Africa and labored for nearly a quarter-century before purchasing his own freedom and transforming himself into a highly respected American citizen. Drawing on years of research and documentation, including Venture Smith's rare personal autobiography, Saint and Krimsky vividly recount the extraordinary challenges he overcame. They cast a rare light on what it was like to be an African American in the north during the Colonial era. This story's relevance today prompted the BBC to produce a documentary on scholars' efforts to learn more about Venture Smith, his life, and family. The book includes a wealth of illustrations, a timeline, and Smith's original 1798 narrative in facsimile form. Est Value: $5 - $25 165 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published 2008 Condition: Very Good Description: The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself Making Freedom is the first in-depth exploration of the life of Venture Smith (1728–1805), a New England slave who was sold into bondage as a boy in Africa and labored for nearly a quarter-century before purchasing his own freedom and transforming himself into a highly respected American citizen. Drawing on years of research and documentation, including Venture Smith's rare personal autobiography, Saint and Krimsky vividly recount the extraordinary challenges he overcame. They cast a rare light on what it was like to be an African American in the north during the Colonial era. This story's relevance today prompted the BBC to produce a documentary on scholars' efforts to learn more about Venture Smith, his life, and family. The book includes a wealth of illustrations, a timeline, and Smith's original 1798 narrative in facsimile form. Est Value: $5 - $25 166 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published 2008 Condition: Very Good Description: The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself Making Freedom is the first in-depth exploration of the life of Venture Smith (1728–1805), a New England slave who was sold into bondage as a boy in Africa and labored for nearly a quarter-century before purchasing his own freedom and transforming himself into a highly respected American citizen. Drawing on years of research and documentation, including Venture Smith's rare personal autobiography, Saint and Krimsky vividly recount the extraordinary challenges he overcame. They cast a rare light on what it was like to be an African American in the north during the Colonial era. This story's relevance today prompted the BBC to produce a documentary on scholars' efforts to learn more about Venture Smith, his life, and family. The book includes a wealth of illustrations, a timeline, and Smith's original 1798 narrative in facsimile form. Est Value: $5 - $25 167 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1956 Condition: Good+ Description: Many American pre-Gold Rush pioneers in California embraced aspects of the Spanish culture but modified it by Yankee enterprise. William Heath Davis was one of these. Son of a Yankee father and a Hawaiian mother, he lived on the island of Oahu until he was sixteen years old. At that time, in the year 1838, after two trips to California aboard his stepfather's trading vessels, he was apprenticed to his uncle Nathan Spear, a prosperous merchant in San Francisco. Later, Davis himself engaged in the mercantile trade. From a modest beginning he, with various partners, established what became San Francisco's largest trading emporium. He earned early prominence and a quick fortune. For a decade, Davis kept various vessels engaged at California's "leeward ports," and as far away as Hawaii, China, Peru, and Boston. Circumstances and errors in judgment combined to make his success shortlived. Early in 1850 Davis became interested in a plan to found a new city on the ocean side of the old pueblo of San Diego. Davis was well acquainted with the area and knew the old town was handicapped by its distance from the water. It was an ambitious and expensive venture and although he built a considerable community and a $60,000 wharf, the town failed. Still, he is considered by some to be the father of San Diego. The costly speculations there, coupled with his losses in the great San Francisco fire of 1851, left him only the lands of the Estudillos, the illustrious family of which his wife was a member. Davis became a ranchero, managing the family estates in Alameda County. It was during this period that he founded San Leandro. Sensing also that one day the oak-covered slopes along the eastern shoreline of San Francisco Bay would support a large population, Davis tried to purchase these attractive sites. Had he been successful, he might also have become the founder of Oakland. The research upon which this book is based covers many important aspects of the economy of California and Hawaii before 1850. This authoritative biography of a California pioneer also sheds light on special areas of interest, such as the New England-Canton trade, Russian activity along the Northwest Coast and Alaska, the Hawaiian sandalwood traffic, which Davis's father virtually controlled, the Pacific Coast hide and tallow commerce, the Gold Rush, and California's rancho society and later urbanization. Davis's career as ship- and landowner, trader, civic official, town founder, and ranchero faithfully mirrors the role he and his contemporaries played in paving the way for California's transition from frontier province to modern state. Est Value: $50 - $100 172 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1956 Condition: Good+ Description: Many American pre-Gold Rush pioneers in California embraced aspects of the Spanish culture but modified it by Yankee enterprise. William Heath Davis was one of these. Son of a Yankee father and a Hawaiian mother, he lived on the island of Oahu until he was sixteen years old. At that time, in the year 1838, after two trips to California aboard his stepfather's trading vessels, he was apprenticed to his uncle Nathan Spear, a prosperous merchant in San Francisco. Later, Davis himself engaged in the mercantile trade. From a modest beginning he, with various partners, established what became San Francisco's largest trading emporium. He earned early prominence and a quick fortune. For a decade, Davis kept various vessels engaged at California's "leeward ports," and as far away as Hawaii, China, Peru, and Boston. Circumstances and errors in judgment combined to make his success shortlived. Early in 1850 Davis became interested in a plan to found a new city on the ocean side of the old pueblo of San Diego. Davis was well acquainted with the area and knew the old town was handicapped by its distance from the water. It was an ambitious and expensive venture and although he built a considerable community and a $60,000 wharf, the town failed. Still, he is considered by some to be the father of San Diego. The costly speculations there, coupled with his losses in the great San Francisco fire of 1851, left him only the lands of the Estudillos, the illustrious family of which his wife was a member. Davis became a ranchero, managing the family estates in Alameda County. It was during this period that he founded San Leandro. Sensing also that one day the oak-covered slopes along the eastern shoreline of San Francisco Bay would support a large population, Davis tried to purchase these attractive sites. Had he been successful, he might also have become the founder of Oakland. The research upon which this book is based covers many important aspects of the economy of California and Hawaii before 1850. This authoritative biography of a California pioneer also sheds light on special areas of interest, such as the New England-Canton trade, Russian activity along the Northwest Coast and Alaska, the Hawaiian sandalwood traffic, which Davis's father virtually controlled, the Pacific Coast hide and tallow commerce, the Gold Rush, and California's rancho society and later urbanization. Davis's career as ship- and landowner, trader, civic official, town founder, and ranchero faithfully mirrors the role he and his contemporaries played in paving the way for California's transition from frontier province to modern state. Est Value: $50 - $100 173 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1956 Condition: Good+ Description: Many American pre-Gold Rush pioneers in California embraced aspects of the Spanish culture but modified it by Yankee enterprise. William Heath Davis was one of these. Son of a Yankee father and a Hawaiian mother, he lived on the island of Oahu until he was sixteen years old. At that time, in the year 1838, after two trips to California aboard his stepfather's trading vessels, he was apprenticed to his uncle Nathan Spear, a prosperous merchant in San Francisco. Later, Davis himself engaged in the mercantile trade. From a modest beginning he, with various partners, established what became San Francisco's largest trading emporium. He earned early prominence and a quick fortune. For a decade, Davis kept various vessels engaged at California's "leeward ports," and as far away as Hawaii, China, Peru, and Boston. Circumstances and errors in judgment combined to make his success shortlived. Early in 1850 Davis became interested in a plan to found a new city on the ocean side of the old pueblo of San Diego. Davis was well acquainted with the area and knew the old town was handicapped by its distance from the water. It was an ambitious and expensive venture and although he built a considerable community and a $60,000 wharf, the town failed. Still, he is considered by some to be the father of San Diego. The costly speculations there, coupled with his losses in the great San Francisco fire of 1851, left him only the lands of the Estudillos, the illustrious family of which his wife was a member. Davis became a ranchero, managing the family estates in Alameda County. It was during this period that he founded San Leandro. Sensing also that one day the oak-covered slopes along the eastern shoreline of San Francisco Bay would support a large population, Davis tried to purchase these attractive sites. Had he been successful, he might also have become the founder of Oakland. The research upon which this book is based covers many important aspects of the economy of California and Hawaii before 1850. This authoritative biography of a California pioneer also sheds light on special areas of interest, such as the New England-Canton trade, Russian activity along the Northwest Coast and Alaska, the Hawaiian sandalwood traffic, which Davis's father virtually controlled, the Pacific Coast hide and tallow commerce, the Gold Rush, and California's rancho society and later urbanization. Davis's career as ship- and landowner, trader, civic official, town founder, and ranchero faithfully mirrors the role he and his contemporaries played in paving the way for California's transition from frontier province to modern state. Est Value: $50 - $100 174 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1960 Condition: Good - Description: Inscribed to the Junior American Citzens Poster Contest 3rd place winner by the author. The biography aims to look past the political blame often associated with the 31st President regarding the Great Depression. Instead, it highlights his earlier life and immense pre-presidential achievements Est Value: $5 - $40 175 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1960 Condition: Good - Description: Inscribed to the Junior American Citzens Poster Contest 3rd place winner by the author. The biography aims to look past the political blame often associated with the 31st President regarding the Great Depression. Instead, it highlights his earlier life and immense pre-presidential achievements Est Value: $5 - $40 176 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover Date Published: 1960 Condition: Good - Description: Inscribed to the Junior American Citzens Poster Contest 3rd place winner by the author. The biography aims to look past the political blame often associated with the 31st President regarding the Great Depression. Instead, it highlights his earlier life and immense pre-presidential achievements Est Value: $5 - $40 177 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1965 Condition: Very Good Description: A study by Gerald R. Ford that examines the psychology, movements, and personal history of Lee Harvey Oswald. The book draws on Warren Commission evidence to support the conclusion that Oswald acted alone without a grand conspiracy. Signed first edition. Est Value: $200 - $400 178 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1965 Condition: Very Good Description: A study by Gerald R. Ford that examines the psychology, movements, and personal history of Lee Harvey Oswald. The book draws on Warren Commission evidence to support the conclusion that Oswald acted alone without a grand conspiracy. Signed first edition. Est Value: $200 - $400 179 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1965 Condition: Very Good Description: A study by Gerald R. Ford that examines the psychology, movements, and personal history of Lee Harvey Oswald. The book draws on Warren Commission evidence to support the conclusion that Oswald acted alone without a grand conspiracy. Signed first edition. Est Value: $200 - $400 180 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published :2024 Condition: Fine Description: From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of ageing that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinised, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of that of being a 'woman of a certain age'. And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and ageing. This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live - when we get to write our own stories. With remarkable candour, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humour and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias. By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanising, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife. Est Value: $25 - $50 181 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published :2024 Condition: Fine Description: From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of ageing that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinised, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of that of being a 'woman of a certain age'. And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and ageing. This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live - when we get to write our own stories. With remarkable candour, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humour and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias. By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanising, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife. Est Value: $25 - $50 182 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House" by Nancy Pelosi. Published by Simon & Schuster. The title page features a signature in blue ink by Nancy Pelosi. Includes the original dust jacket. The book appears to be in excellent, like-new condition with no visible wear, tears, or damage. Est Value: $1 - $100 183 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House" by Nancy Pelosi. Published by Simon & Schuster. The title page features a signature in blue ink by Nancy Pelosi. Includes the original dust jacket. The book appears to be in excellent, like-new condition with no visible wear, tears, or damage. Est Value: $1 - $100 184 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1999 Condition: Fine Description: From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of ’49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the insider knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on some of the most mythic players and teams in the annals of American sports. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls he has given himself the greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph. In Playing for Keeps, Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordan’s epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and human drama, brimming with revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights, the book chronicles the forces in Jordan’s life that have shaped him in to history’s greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world. Fine bindings signed by author. Est Value: $100 - $150 185 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1999 Condition: Fine Description: From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of ’49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the insider knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on some of the most mythic players and teams in the annals of American sports. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls he has given himself the greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph. In Playing for Keeps, Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordan’s epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and human drama, brimming with revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights, the book chronicles the forces in Jordan’s life that have shaped him in to history’s greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world. Fine bindings signed by author. Est Value: $100 - $150 186 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1999 Condition: Fine Description: From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of ’49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the insider knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on some of the most mythic players and teams in the annals of American sports. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls he has given himself the greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph. In Playing for Keeps, Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordan’s epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and human drama, brimming with revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights, the book chronicles the forces in Jordan’s life that have shaped him in to history’s greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world. Fine bindings signed by author. Est Value: $100 - $150 187 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf" as told to Dwayne Netland, featuring a foreword by President Gerald R. Ford. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1985. The title page features a bold signature by Bob Hope. Includes the original dust jacket. Shows minor shelf wear and light aging to the dust jacket, but overall in very good vintage condition. Est Value $1 -$50 188 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf" as told to Dwayne Netland, featuring a foreword by President Gerald R. Ford. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1985. The title page features a bold signature by Bob Hope. Includes the original dust jacket. Shows minor shelf wear and light aging to the dust jacket, but overall in very good vintage condition. Est Value $1 -$50 189 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass" by Robert Koch, published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. This copy features a hand-written inscription and signature by the author, Robert Koch, dated March 24, 1966, dedicated to Donald T. Buck. The book contains over 350 illustrations, many in full color, detailing the life and works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The dust jacket shows significant wear, including a large tear across the front cover and some chipping along the edges. The interior pages and binding appear to be in good, clean condition. Est Value: $5 -$25 190 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass" by Robert Koch, published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. This copy features a hand-written inscription and signature by the author, Robert Koch, dated March 24, 1966, dedicated to Donald T. Buck. The book contains over 350 illustrations, many in full color, detailing the life and works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The dust jacket shows significant wear, including a large tear across the front cover and some chipping along the edges. The interior pages and binding appear to be in good, clean condition. Est Value: $5 -$25 191 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass" by Robert Koch, published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. This copy features a hand-written inscription and signature by the author, Robert Koch, dated March 24, 1966, dedicated to Donald T. Buck. The book contains over 350 illustrations, many in full color, detailing the life and works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The dust jacket shows significant wear, including a large tear across the front cover and some chipping along the edges. The interior pages and binding appear to be in good, clean condition. Est Value: $5 -$25 192 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass" by Robert Koch, published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. This copy features a hand-written inscription and signature by the author, Robert Koch, dated March 24, 1966, dedicated to Donald T. Buck. The book contains over 350 illustrations, many in full color, detailing the life and works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The dust jacket shows significant wear, including a large tear across the front cover and some chipping along the edges. The interior pages and binding appear to be in good, clean condition. Est Value: $5 -$25 193 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2011 Condition: Good Description: The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. "People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than you’ve been through," Mira Bartók is told at her mother’s memorial service. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Before she was struck with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen, beautiful piano protégé Norma Herr had been the most vibrant personality in the room. She loved her daughters and did her best to raise them well, but as her mental state deteriorated, Norma spoke less about Chopin and more about Nazis and her fear that her daughters would be kidnapped, murdered, or raped. When the girls left for college, the harassment escalated--Norma called them obsessively, appeared at their apartments or jobs, threatened to kill herself if they did not return home. After a traumatic encounter, Mira and her sister were left with no choice but to change their names and sever all contact with Norma in order to stay safe. But while Mira pursued her career as an artist--exploring the ancient romance of Florence, the eerie mysticism of northern Norway, and the raw desert of Israel--the haunting memories of her mother were never far away. Then one day, Mira’s life changed forever after a debilitating car accident. As she struggled to recover from a traumatic brain injury, she was confronted with a need to recontextualize her life--she had to relearn how to paint, read, and interact with the outside world. In her search for a way back to her lost self, Mira reached out to the homeless shelter where she believed her mother was living and discovered that Norma was dying. Mira and her sister traveled to Cleveland, where they shared an extraordinary reconciliation with their mother that none of them had thought possible. At the hospital, Mira discovered a set of keys that opened a storage unit Norma had been keeping for seventeen years. Filled with family photos, childhood toys, and ephemera from Norma’s life, the storage unit brought back a flood of previous memories that Mira had thought were lost to her forever. The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. Through stunning prose and original art created by the author in tandem with the text, The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how much exists--or is lost--between them. Signed by author. Dust jacket shows some signs of water damage, interior is in fine condition. Est Value: $5 - $25 194 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2011 Condition: Good Description: The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. "People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than you’ve been through," Mira Bartók is told at her mother’s memorial service. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Before she was struck with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen, beautiful piano protégé Norma Herr had been the most vibrant personality in the room. She loved her daughters and did her best to raise them well, but as her mental state deteriorated, Norma spoke less about Chopin and more about Nazis and her fear that her daughters would be kidnapped, murdered, or raped. When the girls left for college, the harassment escalated--Norma called them obsessively, appeared at their apartments or jobs, threatened to kill herself if they did not return home. After a traumatic encounter, Mira and her sister were left with no choice but to change their names and sever all contact with Norma in order to stay safe. But while Mira pursued her career as an artist--exploring the ancient romance of Florence, the eerie mysticism of northern Norway, and the raw desert of Israel--the haunting memories of her mother were never far away. Then one day, Mira’s life changed forever after a debilitating car accident. As she struggled to recover from a traumatic brain injury, she was confronted with a need to recontextualize her life--she had to relearn how to paint, read, and interact with the outside world. In her search for a way back to her lost self, Mira reached out to the homeless shelter where she believed her mother was living and discovered that Norma was dying. Mira and her sister traveled to Cleveland, where they shared an extraordinary reconciliation with their mother that none of them had thought possible. At the hospital, Mira discovered a set of keys that opened a storage unit Norma had been keeping for seventeen years. Filled with family photos, childhood toys, and ephemera from Norma’s life, the storage unit brought back a flood of previous memories that Mira had thought were lost to her forever. The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. Through stunning prose and original art created by the author in tandem with the text, The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how much exists--or is lost--between them. Signed by author. Dust jacket shows some signs of water damage, interior is in fine condition. Est Value: $5 - $25 195 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 2011 Condition: Good Description: The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. "People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than you’ve been through," Mira Bartók is told at her mother’s memorial service. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Before she was struck with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen, beautiful piano protégé Norma Herr had been the most vibrant personality in the room. She loved her daughters and did her best to raise them well, but as her mental state deteriorated, Norma spoke less about Chopin and more about Nazis and her fear that her daughters would be kidnapped, murdered, or raped. When the girls left for college, the harassment escalated--Norma called them obsessively, appeared at their apartments or jobs, threatened to kill herself if they did not return home. After a traumatic encounter, Mira and her sister were left with no choice but to change their names and sever all contact with Norma in order to stay safe. But while Mira pursued her career as an artist--exploring the ancient romance of Florence, the eerie mysticism of northern Norway, and the raw desert of Israel--the haunting memories of her mother were never far away. Then one day, Mira’s life changed forever after a debilitating car accident. As she struggled to recover from a traumatic brain injury, she was confronted with a need to recontextualize her life--she had to relearn how to paint, read, and interact with the outside world. In her search for a way back to her lost self, Mira reached out to the homeless shelter where she believed her mother was living and discovered that Norma was dying. Mira and her sister traveled to Cleveland, where they shared an extraordinary reconciliation with their mother that none of them had thought possible. At the hospital, Mira discovered a set of keys that opened a storage unit Norma had been keeping for seventeen years. Filled with family photos, childhood toys, and ephemera from Norma’s life, the storage unit brought back a flood of previous memories that Mira had thought were lost to her forever. The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. Through stunning prose and original art created by the author in tandem with the text, The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how much exists--or is lost--between them. Signed by author. Dust jacket shows some signs of water damage, interior is in fine condition. Est Value: $5 - $25 196 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today" by actress Chrissy Metz (This is Us TV show) published by Dey Street Books (2018). The title page features a hand-signed autograph by Chrissy Metz with "xo". The book and dust jacket appear to be in very good, lightly handled condition. Est Value: $5 - $25 197 / 451 -
A hardcover copy of "This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today" by actress Chrissy Metz (This is Us TV show) published by Dey Street Books (2018). The title page features a hand-signed autograph by Chrissy Metz with "xo". The book and dust jacket appear to be in very good, lightly handled condition. Est Value: $5 - $25 198 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1943 Condition: Good Description: Equal parts nostalgic, witty, self-serving, and frank, Connecticut Yankee is an entertaining and informative memoir of the state and a scholar who shaped it. Connecticut native, Yale graduate, Yale professor and dean, and finally, unlikely Governor of the State of Connecticut during the crucial Depression years, Wilbur L. Cross’s autobiography tells a great American story. As a Yale professor, a writer, and an editor, Wilbur L. Cross devoted himself to the English language, and specifically to understanding how novels were capable of capturing the human condition. His autobiography, Connecticut Yankee is in many ways a novel itself. The protagonist is Cross and the plot is his education. Wilbur Lucius Cross was a most unlikely politician. A noted author and literary critic who had been a professor of English, editor of the Yale Review, and finally, Dean of the Yale Graduate School, his quiet character and almost poetic oration would seem at odds with the cut-throat world of state politics. But is was just this stoic demeanor and inquisitive intelligence, that would help him make a mark on Connecticut politics during his four terms of office, from 1931 to 1939. During his time as governor, he suffered the hardest years of the Depression and worked to implement President Roosevelt’s New Deal, fought for the abolition of child labor, instituted a minimum wage, improved working conditions in factories, and guided the state’s recovery from the devastation of the Great New England Hurricane. He also strove to reorganize the state government, and would help revitalize Connecticut’s Democratic Party, which had been torn by internal strife. Cross was an excellent writer, and here—updated with a new foreword by Yale Law School graduate and author Justin Zaremby—is his compelling account of life from a childhood in the bucolic town of Mansfield, through the hallowed halls of learning at Yale University, to the highest office in Connecticut. Signed Limited Edition. Ex-Library with expected markings. Title page appears to be copy tipped in. Else in good to very good condition Est Value: $25 - $75 199 / 451 -
Type: Hardcover with dust jacket Date Published: 1943 Condition: Good Description: Equal parts nostalgic, witty, self-serving, and frank, Connecticut Yankee is an entertaining and informative memoir of the state and a scholar who shaped it. Connecticut native, Yale graduate, Yale professor and dean, and finally, unlikely Governor of the State of Connecticut during the crucial Depression years, Wilbur L. Cross’s autobiography tells a great American story. As a Yale professor, a writer, and an editor, Wilbur L. Cross devoted himself to the English language, and specifically to understanding how novels were capable of capturing the human condition. His autobiography, Connecticut Yankee is in many ways a novel itself. The protagonist is Cross and the plot is his education. Wilbur Lucius Cross was a most unlikely politician. A noted author and literary critic who had been a professor of English, editor of the Yale Review, and finally, Dean of the Yale Graduate School, his quiet character and almost poetic oration would seem at odds with the cut-throat world of state politics. But is was just this stoic demeanor and inquisitive intelligence, that would help him make a mark on Connecticut politics during his four terms of office, from 1931 to 1939. During his time as governor, he suffered the hardest years of the Depression and worked to implement President Roosevelt’s New Deal, fought for the abolition of child labor, instituted a minimum wage, improved working conditions in factories, and guided the state’s recovery from the devastation of the Great New England Hurricane. He also strove to reorganize the state government, and would help revitalize Connecticut’s Democratic Party, which had been torn by internal strife. Cross was an excellent writer, and here—updated with a new foreword by Yale Law School graduate and author Justin Zaremby—is his compelling account of life from a childhood in the bucolic town of Mansfield, through the hallowed halls of learning at Yale University, to the highest office in Connecticut. Signed Limited Edition. Ex-Library with expected markings. Title page appears to be copy tipped in. Else in good to very good condition Est Value: $25 - $75 200 / 451
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