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Hurry Up America & Spit
Bailey, Pearl
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Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
1976 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Slight fading of top board edges. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small, closed tear of spine; in a clear protective cover. SIGNED by Pearl Bailey. Prescriptions for American society by the famous vocalist. SINGERS,AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN CULTURE Book #3336 |
US$42.00 |
Oil Notes
Bass, Rick
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Houghtin Mifflin / Seymour
Lawrence First Edition 1989 ISBN: 0395486750 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. A trace of edge spotting - else fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Oil Notes is about the excitment of the earth below us, the passing of time, and oil... Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist's craft. MEMOIRS,GEOLOGY,GEOLOGISTS,ENVIRONMENT,SCIENCE,OIL BUSINESS Book #6240 |
US$14.50 |
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
Bellow, Saul
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Viking First Edition
1994 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Near Fine DJ. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ has a small dent - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. "Now, in his first nonfiction collection, Bellow's learned and original mind shines through over four decades of reflection on literature, on the state of the artist in the "violent uproar" of contemporary life, and on life itself, "the mysteries of our common human nature." LITERATURE,POLITICS,CHICAGO Book #2165 |
US$15.50 |
What Am I Doing Here
Chatwin, Bruce
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Viking First American Edition
1989 ISBN: 0670825085 Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Gift inscription and date on front endpaper - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ is price clipped-else Fine; in a clear protective cover. His personal selection of his own stories, profiles and travelogues by the author of In Patagonia and The Songlines. He died in 1989. TRAVEL,EXPLORATION,MEMOIRS Book #2024 |
US$27.50 |
The Death of Picasso: new & selected writing
Davenport, Guy
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Shoemaker and Hoard
2003 ISBN: 1593760027 New Unread Hardcover in no dustjacket as issued. Decorative laminated binding. Unmarked. A collection of essays and stories in the Davenport style ranging from aspects of the lives of Kafka, Van Gogh and others to scenes of erotic passion between young men. WRITERS,AUTHORS,MALE HOMOSEXUALITY Book #7724 |
US$12.00
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The Jane Addams Reader
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
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Basic Books 2001
ISBN: Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Jane Addams, the pioneering founder of Hull-House, tireless anti-war activist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize for Peace, was one of the leading public intellectuals of her day and a prolific and elegant writer. In The Jane Addams Reader, Jean Bethke Elshtain, a philosopher and the author of Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, introduces us to the impressive range of Addam's writings and the complexities of her thought. HISTORY,PHILOSOPHY,SOCIOLOGY,SOCIAL WORK,SOCIAL HISTORY,WOMEN'S STUDIES,WOMEN'S ISSUES, FEMINISM,HULL-HOUSE,CHICAGO,ROCKFORD FEMALE SEMINARY,ROCKFORD COLLEGE Book #3934 |
US$14.50 |
Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life
Hoagland, Edward
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Lyons Press 2000
ISBN: 1585741825 New Unread Trade Paperback. Book has a lower edge remainder mark. Otherwise unmarked. A selection of essays from one of America’s most distinguished essayist-naturalists. NATURALISTS,ESSAYISTS Book #7433 |
US$6.00 |
A Certain Climate: Essays in History, Arts,and Letters
Horgan, Paul
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Wesleyan University Press First
Edition 1988 ISBN: 081955202X New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Cloth binding with gilt lettering. Unmarked. “This book by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner treasures books and those who write them. It is a work of literature about literature.” LITERATURE,WRITERS,HISTORY,ART,ARTISTS Book #7206 |
US$14.00 |
The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction 1959-1991
Jenkins, McKay (edit.)
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Vintage First Edition
2000 ISBN: 0375702725 Very Good Trade Paperback. Some wear of wraps and previous owner's last name printed small on front endpaper. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Perhaps no writer has better articulated our relationship to the environment than Peter Matthiessen. Here are essays and excerpts that highlight the spiritual, literary, and political daring so crucial to Matthiessen's vision. ENVIRONMENT,ENVIRONMENTALISM,CONSERVATION,NATURE,WILDLIFE,AFRICA Book #3169 |
US$8.00 |
From the Stump: Thoughts of a Naturalist
Jenning, Bob
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Mary K. Oxley Nature
Center ISBN: Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "In a gentle blend of the philosophies and literary styles of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold and Garrison Keillor, each essay takes us into the world of nature, a journey into a most personal and private experience." ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,ENVIRONMENTALISM,CONSERVATION,WILDLIFE,WILDERNESS,NATURE, NATURALISTS,TULSA,OKLAHOMA Book #5596 |
US$10.00 |
Christopher Morley's Philadelphia
Kalfus, Ken (edit.)
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Fordham University Press First
Paperback Printing 1992 ISBN: Very Good Trade Paperback. Non-authorial gift note on front endpaper - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Meditations upon the city of his birth by the author of Parnassus On Wheels. Gleaned from his writings by Ken Kalfus. Period illustrations by Walter Jack Duncan and Frank H. Taylor. PENNSYLVANIA,KITTY FOYLE,PARNASSUS ON WHEELS,U.S.HISTORY,AMERICAN HISTORY,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #3569 |
US$10.25 |
Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
Koppel, Ted
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Alfred A. Knopf First Edition
2000 ISBN: 0375410775 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Here, closely observed from an insider's viewpoint, are the significant matters of 1999 - from the Clinton impeachment and the war in Kosovo to the mass-marketing of Viagra. BROADCAST JOURNALISM,JOURNALS,CURRENT EVENTS,POLITICS,GOVERNMENT,AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN SOCIETY,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #5710 |
US$15.00 |
Pure Drivel
Martin, Steve
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Hyperion First Edition
1998 ISBN: 0786864672 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers of The New Yorker magazine already know: that Martin is a master of the written word. HUMOR,IRONY Book #5936 |
US$14.00 |
In Defense of Women
Mencken, H.L.
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Time-Life 1982
ISBN: 0809437228 Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The thoughts of the "Sage of Baltimore" on women. JOURNALISTS,BALTIMORE,SUFFRAGE,FEMINISM,WOMEN'S RIGHTS,WOMEN'S STUDIES,WOMEN'S ISSUES Book #7159 |
US$8.00 |
The Rants
Miller, Dennis
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Doubleday Book Club Edition
1996 ISBN: 0385478046 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a tiny, closed tear; in a clear protective cover. Dennis Miller takes no prisoners. POLITICS,GOVERNMENT,AMERICAN SOCIETY,HUMOR,SATIRE Book #5753 |
US$7.00 |
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
Nin, Anais
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Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
1976 ISBN: 0156444453 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Slight wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. In more than twenty essays, Anais Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. LITERATURE,EROTICISM,WOMEN'S STUDIES,WOMEN'S ISSUES,FEMINISM,WRITING,MUSIC,FILMS Book #5177 |
US$12.00 |
The O’Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life
O’Reilly, Bill
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Broadway Books First Edition
2000 ISBN: 0767905288 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. POLITICS,AMERICAN CULTURE,AMERICAN SOCIETY,FOX NEWS,TELEVISION COMMENTATORS Book #7150 |
US$14.00 |
Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut: Twenty-five Years of P.J. O'Rourke
O'Rourke, P.J.
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Atlantic Monthly Press First
Edition 1995 ISBN: 0871136090 Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "A quarter century of previously uncollected fulminations, diatribes, philippics, raspberries, animadversions, bullyrags, readings of the riot act, middle-finger flag downs, scoffings, slanders, calumnies, and licks with the rough side of the tongue." GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN CULTURE,SATIRE,IRONY,HUMOR Book #5599 |
US$7.50 |
Living Out Loud
Quindlen, Anna
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Fawcett Columbine 1994
ISBN: Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's columns. BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,FAMILY Book #3952 |
US$8.00 |
Deadlines & Datelines
Rather, Dan
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William Morrow First Edition
1999 ISBN: 0688165664 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. For the first time, Deadlines and Datelines gathers together essays by the bestselling author and CBS Evening News anchorman. U.S.HISTORY,TWENTIETH CENTURY,AMERICAN SOCIETY,POLITICS, GOVERNMENT,JOURNALISM, BROADCAST JOURNALISM,NEWS,BROADCAST NEWS,TELEVISION,TELEVISION NEWS Book #3424 |
US$12.50 |
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father
Rodriguez, Richard
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Viking First Edition
1992 ISBN: 0670813966 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In Days of Obligation, Mexico and the United States are portrayed as rivals upon the landscape of Mr. Rodriguez's beloved California. Mexico wears the mask of tragedy, the United States wears the mask of comedy. By the end of the book the reader recognizes an historical irony... UNITED STATES,MEXICO,AMERICAN SOCIETY,SPIRITUALITY Book #5567 |
US$12.00 |
One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko
Royko, Mike
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University of Chicago Press First
Thus 1999
ISBN 0226730719 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A selection of the best columns of the legendary Chicago newspaperman and columnist. Foreword by Studs Terkel. Illustrated. CHICAGO,NEWSPAPERS,PRINT JOURNALISM,COLUMNISTS,AMERICAN SOCIETY Book# 6946 |
US$14.00 |
This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings
Styron, William
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Random House First Edition
1982 ISBN: 039450934X Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Cloth binding with slight wear. Mild warping of front board. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with gentle creasing of flaps; in a clear protective cover. Styron's first book of nonfiction; a stimulating potpourri of reminiscences, reviews and reflective essays. AMERICAN SOCIETY,WRITERS,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #3078 |
US$12.00 |
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Thomas, Lewis
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Viking First Edition
1983 ISBN: 0670703907 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a tiny closed tear - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. A collection of essays by the eminent physician and author of The Lives of a Cell. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE,NUCLEAR WAR,NUCLEAR WEAPONS,BIOLOGY Book #2533 |
US$12.00 |
Lanterns & Lances
Thurber, James
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Time-Life 1980
ISBN: Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A reprint of the last of Thurber’s books published in 1961. HUMOR,HUMORISTS,BIOGRAPHY,LITERARY CRITICISM,FICTION Book #7153 |
US$8.00 |
Metropolis Found: New York Is Book Country 25th Anniversary Collection
Various
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New York Is Book Country First
Edition 2003 ISBN: 0974061409 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Slik bookribbon sewn in. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. An anthology of short pieces about New York by a large collection of New York writers - including Maya Angelou, Pete Hamill, Robert Pinsky, and Frank McCourt - celebrating the annual festival known as New York Is Book Country. NEW YORK CITY,NEW YORK WRITERS,NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Book #7496 |
US$11.00 |
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982)
Vidal, Gore
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Random House First Edition
1982 ISBN: 0394522656 Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. A trace of very faint edge spotting - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover. "These nineteen essays richly confirm Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist, and are further evidence of his intelligence and wit." LITERATURE,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN SOCIETY,F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,THEODORE ROOSEVELT, EDMUND WILSON,CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD,BERT LANCE,L. FRANK BAUM,MOVIES,HOLLYWOOD Book #5301 |
US$14.00 |
Jesus of Nazareth And Other Writings
Wagner, Richard
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University of Nebraska Press
1996 ISBN: 0803297807 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period of triumph. MUSIC HISTORY,MUSIC CRITICISM,OPERA,GERMAN HISTORY,NINETEENTH CENTURY Book #7290,7763 |
US$10.00 |
That Mighty Sculptor, Time
Yourcenar, Margaret
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Noonday / Farrar, Straus and
Giroux 1993 ISBN: 0374523754 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Philosophic reveries and poetic meditations on the brevity of human life by the late, renowned author and essayist. PHILOSOPHY,HISTORY,LITERARY CRITICISM,LITERATURE,THE DARK BRAIN OF PIRANESI Book #7073 |
US$12.00 |