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Jahren, Hope
Lab girl
Large white octavo, 290 pages ; 25 cm. Biologists -- United States -- Biography. || Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.
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Buckley, William F.
Overdrive : a personal documentary
Octavo in black unclipped DJ, 262 pages, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Goodrich, Samuel G.
Lives of celebrated American Indians
Dark brown duodecimo, smaller than octavo, engraving illuus to boards, gilt to spine, iv, 315 pages, chiefly b&w illustrations ; 18 cm. American Indians -- Biography.
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Davis, Stephen
Bob Marley
Paperback black and colored small quarto; x, 276 pages A rebel, a visionary, an uncompromising champion of human rights-- Robert Nesta Marley rose from the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, to make reggae music and his own message of rebellion, self-determination, and the power of the individual a spiritual and political force throughout the world. The author of the highly acclaimed 'Reggae Bloodlines' has created an intimate portrait of the charismatic artist through interviews with those closest to Marley and interviews with Marley himself, including the last one before his tragic death in the spring of 1981. The Wailers' recording sessions, concerts, and life at 56 Hope Road, Marley's residence, are all part of a senstive, authoritative, and authentic look at the king of a musical movement that swept out Jamaica and into Western and Third World countries alike.
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Kerzhentsev, P. M.
Life of Lenin
Hardcover orange octavo; 336 pages ; 20 cm Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1870-1924 || Biography (bio); Russia, Communism. Political movements
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Riznik, Barnes
Mabel Wilcox, R.N. : her legacy of caring
Black octavo, xv, 214 pages, chiefly b&w illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Nurses -- Hawaii -- Biography.
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Heig, James (editor); Mitchell, Shirley (editor)
Both sides of the track : a collection of oral histories from Belvedere and Tiburon
White quarto, ix, 211 pages, b&w illustrations ; 27 cm. Oral biography, Manners and customs, Cultural Studies.
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Godoy, Jose F.
Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico, the master builder of a great commonwealth
Octavo in light brown DJ, xii, 253 pages, 61 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded), chiefly b&w illustrations, color maps, portraits ; 21 cm. Dust jacket Presidents -- Mexico -- Biography. || Contents: Birth and parentage -- school and college days. -- The war of reform. -- The war of French intervention. -- The restoration of the Republic. -- First administration of President Diaz. -- His marriage and travels. -- New presidential term from 1884 to 1888. -- From 1888 to 1892. -- From 1892 to 1896. -- From 1896 to 1900. -- From 1900 to 1904. -- From 1904 to 1910. -- Private life of President Diaz. -- The past, present, and future. -- Opinions of prominent men regarding President Diaz as a soldier and statesman. -- Appendices. Summary of message read by President Porfirio Diaz at the opening of the Mexican COngress on September 16, 1909 ; List of battles and sieges in which General Porfirio Diaz has taken part ; Medals and decorations received by President Diaz ; Banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York City on Thursday evening, November 19, 1908 ; The meeting of President Diaz and Taft at the frontier ; Mexican finances and commerce in 1909. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
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Ahlin, Janne
Sigurd Lewerentz, architect, 1885-1975
Folio in white DJ, purple spine, 191 pages, 16 pages of plates, chiefly b&w illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm. Architects -- Sweden -- Biography. || Sigurd Lewerentz (29 July 1885 ñ 29 December 1975) was a Swedish architect. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Extra shipping, heavy and oversized book.
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Sammon, Paul
Ridley Scott
Salmon large duodecimo, small octavo, 152 pages, b&w illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm. Biography. || Contents: South shields and the RCA -- Thirty seconds of perfection -- First attempts -- The beast -- Heavy metal metropolis -- Fairies with clipped wings -- Urban temptation, Asian redemption -- Two girls and a thunderbird -- A man's world -- New horizons.
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Kumarin, Valentin Vasilíevich (editor); Makarenko, Anton Semenovich
Anton Makarenko : his life and his work in education
Large duodecimo in teal DJ, black spine, 393 pages, b&w illustrations ; 18 cm. Educators -- Ukraine -- Biography. || Makarenko, Anton Semenovich, 1888-1939. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Uncommon
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Polevoi, Boris Nikolaevich
A story about a real man
Octavo in white DJ, 344 pages, b&w illustrations, 21 cm. World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Fiction, Biographical. || Maresíev, Aleksei Petrovich. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
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Gorky, Maksim; Snow, C.P. (editor)
Childhood
Small duodecimo, gilt to spine, xii, 330 pages Biography. Nice copy. || Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936. || Series: World's classics.
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Fouts, Roger; Mills, Stephen Tukel; Goodall, Jane (editor)
Next of kin : what chimpanzees have taught me about who we are
Large octavo in white DJ, gilt to spine, xi, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations ; 25 cm. Experimental psychologists -- United States -- Biography. || Contents: A tale of two chimps -- Baby in the family -- Out of Africa -- Signs of intelligent life -- But is it language? -- The island of Dr. Lemmon -- House calls -- Autism and the origins of language -- A death in the family -- Like mother, like son -- And two more makes five -- Something to talk about -- Monkey business -- Home at last -- Back to Africa. || Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. His decades of groundbreaking work with these amazing animals - who share more than 98 percent of our DNA - made scientific history as their unprecedented dialogues opened a window into chimpanzee consciousness and the origins of human language and intelligence. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his personal and professional odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. At the heart of this captivating book is Fouts's magical thirty-year friendship with Washoe, whom we watch grow from a mischievous baby chimp fresh out of the NASA space program into the matriarch of a clan of chimpanzees who fill these pages with tales of humor and heartbreak, pathos and love. Living and conversing with these sensitive creatures has given Fouts a profound appreciation of how much we share with our closest biological relatives, and what they can teach us about ourselves. Fouts also describes the crisis of conscience he faced when he discovered that hundreds of chimpanzees were being subjected to perilous biomedical experimentation in laboratories across America. At significant risk to his own career, he became an outspoken advocate for improved conditions for animals in research labs, and devoted himself to rescuing this lost generation of chimpanzees. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Out of print.
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Gorky, Maksim; (Gorky, Maxim)
My universities [and five other volumes]
Small duodecimos in yellow DJs, red spine, gilt to front board and spine, 299 pages, 470 p, 293 p, 607 p, 309 p, 601 p; 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, b&w portrait, other books have b&w illus ; 17 cm. Set is as follows: My Universities, My Apprenticeship, The Three, Tales of Italy, Literary Portraits, & The Life of Matevi Kozhemyakin. || Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography. || Series: Library of selected Soviet literature. || Extra shipping for 6 books. || DJs protected in archival mylar sleeve.
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Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de
Private memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte : during the periods of the directory, the consulate, and the empire
Two large octavo brown volumes, gilt to spines, 497 p, 490 p, 25 cm. Biography, France. || Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. || By M. de Bourrienne, private secretary to the emperor. || Extra shipping for two volumes.
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Mack, John Erick, Jr.
Revolution, coffee, and crude oil a history of the Hawley/Mack family
Maroon and black quarto cloth, black and gold spine, satin bookmark ribbon bound in; b/w illustrations & portraits, genealogical table; 496 pages; 27 cm. Rare. Only 1 copy located in WorldCat. Signed by author, including a dedication note. || Family history, Businessmen. Geothermal engineering. Geothermal power plants. Petroleum industry and trade. Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae. Stanford University -- Alumni and alumnae. Unocal Corporation -- Biography. California. 1600s- 2000s. California Business History.
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Waterton, William Arthur
The quick and the dead
Orange illustrated wrappers pocketbook 12mo with illustrated cover; 237 pages; 21 cm. Describes a test pilot's life. Air pilots -- Correspondence. Airplanes -- Flight testing. Air pilots. Airplanes -- Flight testing.
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VallÈe, Rudy
Let the chips fall
Mustard cloth small quarto with orange and pink DJ; 320 pages; b/w illustrations ; 25 cm Signed by author "to the other J. B." . ll Contains b/w photographs ll "Unrestrained reminiscences through half a century of sweet and sour relationships with, people, places, and performances." ll VallÈe, Rudy, 1901-1986. Musicians; Biography. United States.
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Allen, Susan Heuck
Finding the walls of Troy Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik
Black quarto with green illustrated DJ; 409 pages, b/w illustrations, maps; 24 cm Contains b/w illustrations, photographs, maps.
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Handke, Peter
The Weight of the World
Octavo gray boards with black cloth spine in black illus dust jacket in archival mylar wrap; 243 pages ; 22 cm Translation of: Das Gewicht der Welt -- a combination of professional notebook and personal diary that records -- both in short, informal jottings and through more formal, extended meditations -- the details of Handke's daily life in Paris from November 1975 through March 1977. Along with references to such mentors as Truffaut, John Cowper Powys, Robert DeNiro and Goethe, the journal recounts Handke's passing impressions of strangers; the deep and delicate nature of his relationship with his daughter; and a brief hospital stay which stirs his ever-present fear of death.
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Thody, Philip
Sartre : a biographical introduction
Cream octavo in archival mylar wrap; 160 pages ; 21 cm A desirable copy.
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Harris, Seymour Edwin
Schumpeter, social scientist
Quarto in red DJ, x, 142 pages, b&w portraits, 29 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Schumpeter, Joseph A., 1883-1950, Essays. || Contents: pt. 1. Introductory remarks / Seymour E. Harris -- pt. 2. The man and his works. Some personal reminiscences on a great man / Ragnar Frisch ; Memorial : Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950 / Arthur Smithies ; Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950 / Gottfried Haberler ; Schumpeter as a teacher and economic theorist / Paul A. Samuelson -- pt. 3. Schumpeter's economics. Schumpeter's early German work, 1906-1917 / Erich Schneider ; Schumpeter and quantitative research in economics / J. Tinbergen ; The monetary aspects of the Schumpeterian system / Arthur W. Marget ; Schumpeter's theory of interest / Gottfried Haberler ; Schumpeter's contribution to business cycle theory / Alvin H. Hansen ; The impact of recent monopoly on the Schumpeterian system / Edward H. Chamberlin ; Schumpeter on monopoly and the large firm / Edward S. Mason ; Schumpeter's economic methodology / Fritz Machlup ; Reflections on Schumpeter's writings / Wolfgang F. Stolper -- pt. 4. Broader aspects. Joseph A. Schumpeter as a sociologist / Herbert von Beckerath ; Schumpeter on Imperialism and social classes / Paul M. Sweezy ; Historical implications of the theory of economic development / A.P. Usher ; Schumpeter's political philosophy / David McCord Wright -- pt. 5. Two great economists. Schumpeter and Keynes / Arthur Smithies.
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Wali, K. C.
Chandra : a biography of S. Chandrasekhar
Red octavo, gilt to spine, x, 341 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. Astrophysicists -- United States -- Biography. || Contents: Prologue: Tracking the Legend of Chandrasekhar -- The Simple and True -- Choosing the Unconventional: A Family Trait -- Determined To Pursue Science: Lahore and Madras, 1910-1930 -- Discoveries, Personal and Scientific: Cambridge and Copenhagen, 1930-1933 -- Fellow of Trinity College: Cambridge, 1933-1934 -- The Absurd Behavior of Stars: Eddington and the White Dwarfs: Cambridge, 1934-1935 -- "I Must Push On in My Directions": Cambridge and Harvard, 1935-1936 -- Lalitha: Madras, 1936 -- Scientist in the Midst of Political Turmoil: Williams Bay, Wisconsin, 1937-1952 -- The Autocrat of the Editor's Desk: The Astrophysical Journal: Chicago, 1952-1971 -- In the Lonely Byways of Science: Chicago, 1972-1989 -- Epilogue: Conversations with Chandra.
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Engels, Friedrich; Lafargue, Laura Marx; Kapp, Yvonne (translator)
Correspondence : Volumes 2 (1887-1890) and 3 (1891-1895)
Two grey octavos, 445 pages, 634 pages ; 21 cm. Socialists -- Biography. || ** Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**
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Stewart, J. I. M.
Myself and Michael Innes a memoir
Octavo in red DJ, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of b&w plates, b&w illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. Authors, Scottish -- 20th century -- Biography. Stewart, J. I. M. (John Innes Mackintosh), 1906-1994. Detective and mystery fiction.
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Johnson, Sargent; Montgomery, Evangeline J. (editor)
Sargent Johnson, retrospective the Oakland Museum, Art Division Special Gallery, February 23 to March 21, 1971
Brown octavo, library rebound with original cardboard cover pasted to front, sturdy 3-stapled binding, 35 pages, b&w illustrations ; 23 cm. Scarce. || Johnson, Sargent, 1888-1967 -- Exhibitions, Biography of Artist. African American Artists. Black Artists
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Catherine, of Siena, Saint; Scudder, Vida Dutton (editor and translator)
Saint Catherine of Siena as seen in her letters
Dark blue octavo, gilt to spine, gilt design of book and flower to front board, x, 352 pages, 21 cm. Bookseller sticker to rear pastedown. || Women saints -- Correspondence, Biography. Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380.
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Bolek, Francis
Who's who in Polish America a biographical directory of Polish-American leaders and distinguished Poles resident in the Americas
Green octavo, gilt to spine, 579 pages ; 24 cm. Lacking DJ. || Polish Americans -- Biography.
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Carswell, John
The romantic rogue being the singular life and adventures of Rudolph Eric Raspe, creator of Baron Munchausen
Octavo in white DJ, vi, 277 pages, b&w illustrations ; 23 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Librarians -- Germany -- Biography.
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Bogdan, Radu J.
Patrick Suppes
Orange octavo, x, 264 pages, b&w illustrations ; 23 cm. Series: Profiles, volume 1. Philosophers -- United States -- Biography.
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Moore, Kenny
Bowerman and the men of Oregon the story of Oregon's legendary coach and Nike's cofounder
Octavo in white DJ, xvi, 432 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. Signed and inscribed by author. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. With the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, plus years of taped interviews with friends, relatives, students, and competitors, two-time Olympic marathoner Kenny Moore -- himself one of Bowerman's champion athletes -- brilliantly re-creates the legendary track coach's life. - Publisher. Examines the life and work of the famous track coach, including his team titles and record feats at the University of Oregon, his role in the 1972 Olympics, his founding of Nike, and his relationship with runner Steve Prefontaine. Contents: Introduction : Men of Oregon -- That wild yearning -- Lizzie and the governor -- Wild Bill meets a mule skinner -- Barbara -- The University of Oregon -- Bill Hayward -- Medford -- The Tenth Mountain Division -- First principles -- A friend, a son, a community -- A dynasty begins -- Rome -- Innovation -- The 1962 season -- The AAU dictatorship -- Jogging -- The birth of BRS -- Tokyo -- A curious mind -- Rites of passage -- Lessons inserted -- Mexico City -- Enter, Prefontaine -- BRS becomes Nike -- Munich -- Transit and sorrow -- Legacy -- Rajneeshpuram -- Builderman -- Immortal messages. Track and field coaches -- United States -- Biography.
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Hay, Millicent V.
The life of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (1563-1626)
Octavo in green DJ, 260 pages, b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Out of print. || Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (19 November 1563? 13 July 1626), second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and an interesting poet. His mother, Mary Sidney nÈe Dudley, was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I and a sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, an advisor and favourite of the Queen."--Wikipedia. Soldiers, Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Lewis, Flora
Red pawn the story of Noel Field
Octavo in red DJ, 283 pages, b&w portrait ; 22 cm DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Field, Noel Haviland, 1904-1970. Spies, Communists -- United States -- Biography.
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Thomas, J. C.
Chasin' the Trane the music and mystique of John Coltrane
Quarto in white DJ, John Coltrane color illus to front DJ, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Jazz musician, Coltrane, John, 1926-1967, Biography.
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Haddox, John H.
Vasconcelos of Mexico, philosopher and prophet
Octavo in blue DJ, ix, 103 pages, b&w portrait ; 21 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || JosÈ Vasconcelos CalderÛn (28 February 1882? 30 June 1959) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern Mexico. His philosophy of "indigenismo" affected all aspects of Mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies. Contents: Patriot-educator-philosopher -- Aesthetic monism -- Synthesis of the heterogeneous? -- Philosopher-prophet of Mexico -- True prophet of Mexico? -- One, yet many. Series: Texas Pan-American series. Biography.
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Parks, Gordon
Flavio An Evocative Statement about Love, Pain, Hunger, and Despair-and at last about Hope
Octavo in white DJ, deckled edges, 198 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Children with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Biography.
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Blau, Evelyne
Krishnamurti 100 years
Large quarto in blue illus DJ, sky-tree boards and endpapers, xi, 284 pages, b&w illustrations ; 29 cm. To tell Krishnamurti's vast, even mythic life story, Blau turns to a group of "witnesses" such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Henry Miller, and Van Morrison, who reveal their personal recollections of him. Through various passages of his own writings, readers hear his authentic voice, unadultered by interpretation. 100 photos. Biography.
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Signorelli, Olga
Eleonora Duse Leben und Leiden der grossen Schauspielerin
Large red octavo, 180 pages, b&w illustrations, portraits, 25 cm. In German. || Lacking DJ. Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924. Biography. Actress Actors Drama Italy
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Lahr, John
Prick up your ears the biography of Joe Orton
Large octavo in dark green DJ, deckle edges, xiii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations ; 25 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || This is the story of murder/suicide of playwright Joe Orton and his lover, Ken Halliwell. When Orton, after years of unsuccessful collaboration with Halliwell, breaks away and achieves fame and fortune on his own, Halliwell cracks, hammers Orton to death and then kills himself. Orton, Joe, 1933-1967. Dramatists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Graves, Richard Perceval
Robert Graves and the white goddess, 1940-85 London
Octavo in white DJ, color portrait to front and rear DJ, white spine, xxi, 618 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || "It was in 1940, after fourteen turbulent years with his muse, the American poet Laura Riding, that Robert Graves (1895-1985) settled down to begin raising a second family with his new partner Beryl Hodge in Devon. There he wrote a series of best-selling historical novels, including most notably Wife to Mr. Milton (1943) and the Golden Fleece (1944). But the shadow of Laura Riding was never far away; and in 1944 Graves was seized by a compulsion to write The White Goddess, his classic work on what it is to be a romantic or 'muse-inspired' poet." "But the muse is always 'the other woman'; and after returning in 1946 to the Majorcan home that he had once shared with Riding, Graves's devotion to the muse led him and his close family into the most extraordinary difficult situations. In this volume, the story of his stormy relationships with four muses - Judith Bledsoe, Margot Callas, Cindy Lee and Juli Simon - is told in full for the first time. They were relationships which inspired him to write some of the finest love poems of the twentieth century."--Jacket. Contents: Book One. The shadow of the past 1940-43 -- Book two. The white goddess 1943-46 -- Book three. Watch the north wind 1946-50 -- Book four. Judith 1950-53 -- Book five. Ambassador of otherwhere 1953-60 -- Book six. Margot and 'inexorable need' 1960-63 -- Book seven. Cindy and poetic truth 1963-66 -- Book eight. Juli 1966-75 -- Book nine. Death's narrow sea 1975-85. Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Knight, Curtis
Jimi an intimate biography of Jimi Hendrix
Octavo in multicolored DJ, Jimi portrait to front and rear DJ, 223 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, 22 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Coleman, Janet; Young, Al
Mingus/Mingus two memoirs
Large duodecimo or small octavo in blue-pink DJ, Mingus portrait to front and rear DJ, 164 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, 19 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Signed by Al Young. || Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Carpenter, Humphrey
A serious character the life of Ezra Pound
Octavo in black DJ, xii, 1005 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, portraits, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.** || Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Pollard, Patrick
AndrÈ Gide homosexual moralist
Octavo in yellow DJ, xvi, gilt to spine, 498 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Homosexuality and literature -- France.
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Mariani, Paul L.
William Carlos Williams a new world naked
Large octavo in dark red DJ, gilt to spine, xv, 874 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, 25 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.** || William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) emerged alongside Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, and Yeats as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Paterson, Williams's epic masterpiece, raised everyday American speech to the highest levels of poetic imagination. A finalist for the national Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked is a remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship. From a small-town doctor who delivered more than 3,000 babies to an extraordinary revolutionary, Paul Mariani unfolds Williams' life and times while simultaneously letting the reader inside the poet's mind and language in this definitive masterwork. Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Griffiths, Ralph A.
The reign of King Henry VI the exercise of royal authority, 1422-1461
Large octavo in white DJ, color illus to front DJ, xxiv, 968 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, 25 cm. **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.** || Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461. History, Biography.
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Grumet, Robert Steven
Northeastern Indian lives, 1632-1816
Brown octavo, gilt to spine and front board, xi, 393 pages, b&w illustrations, maps, 24 cm. No DJ. Series: Native Americans of the Northeast. This collection of fifteen essays examines the lives of important but relatively unknown Native Americans. The chapters explore the complexities of Indian-colonial relations from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, from Maine to the Ohio Valley. The volume is interdisciplinary, drawing on the methods and insights of social history, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and the study of material culture. Contents: Lost opportunities : Miantonomi and the English in the seventeenth-century Narragansett country /; Paul A. Robinson --; Uncas and the politics of contact /; Eric S. Johnson --; Wyandanch : Sachem of the Montauks /; John A. Strong --; Legacy of Robun Cassacinamon : Mashantucket Pequot leadership in the historic period /; Kevin A. McBride --; Chief Rawandagon, alias Robin Hood : native "lord of misrule" in the Maine wilderness /; Harald E.L. Prins --; Suscaneman and the Matinecock lands, 1653-1703 /; Robert S. Grumet --; Putting a face on colonization : factionalism and gender politics in the life history of Awashunkes, the "Squaw Sachem" of Saconet /; Ann Marie Plane.; "Standing by his father" : Thomas Waban of Natick, circa 1630-1722 /; Daniel Mandell --; Daniel Spotso : a Sachem at Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, circa 1691-1741 /; Elizabeth A. Little --; Theyanoguin /; Dean R. Snow --; Shickellamy, "a person of consequence" /; James H. Merrell --; Moses (Tunda) Tatamy, Delaware Indian diplomat /; William A. Hunter --; Pisquetomen and Tamaqua : mediating peace in the Ohio country /; Michael N. McConnell --; Molly Brant : her domestic and political roles in eighteenth-century New York /; Lois M. Feister and Bonnie Pulis --; Walking the medicine line : Molly Ockett, a Pigwacket doctor /; Bunny McBride and Harald E.L. Prins. Indians of North America -- Northeastern States -- Biography.
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Gardner, Charles
William Blake, the man
Octavo in custom brown paper DJ, 202 pages, b&w illustrations, 23 cm. Custom brown paper DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Blake, William, 1757-1827. Biography.
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De Kooning, Willem; Rosenberg, Harold
De Kooning
Oblong folio in white color illus DJ, 293 pages, chiefly b&w illustrations (some color), 31 x 34 cm. **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.** || The Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey offers the full text of the 2000 paper entitled "Proximity of White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus, Ranges to Wolf, Canis lupus, Pack Homesites," written by Michael E. Nelson and L. David Mech. The authors observed the behavior of seven adult female white-tailed deer in northeastern Minnesota who lived near a wolf pack. Most of the deer survived without leaving their home site. Contents: Willem de Kooning -- Interview with the artist -- Statements by the artist. What abstract art means to me ; Content is a glimpse -- Chronology. De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997. Biography.
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