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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown publishers, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Since 1950 this couple has fascinated individuals, and now the author chronicles the most successful public marriage in recent American history. Their story is told in great detail, how they withstood the tumult of the 1960's and early '70's, the inside story of the assassination attempt that nearly ended the Reagan presidency, and their love, which grew stronger with every trial they overcame together. The jacket has a bit of white paint on the spine. 216 pages, 10 pages of photographs. Price not clipped; prior owner's names written on fep. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002. First Thus. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. ArtNews said of this book: "Likely to be the Whistler biography for some time to come. . . a generally absorbing, readable, and informative book." From Whistler's childhood in Tsarist Russia to his military training at West Point, then on to a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris during the 1850's and a controversial career in Victorian London as a painter and printmaker, he himself continually cultivated the myth that has long clouded his artistic achievement and misguided his biographers. Now, in a probing revisionist account, the authors seek out theprivate man and uncover the serious artist beyond Whistler's fabulously crafted public persona as a witty, irascible dandy endlessly feuding witht he art establishment or anyone else who stood in his way. Exploring his friendships with painters like Courbet, Fantin-Latour, Rossetti, Millais, Manet, Monet, and Degas as well as poets and aesthetes such as Baudelaire, Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, and Mallarme, the authors illuminate in full Whistler's pivotal role in bridging the prolific and immensely different art worlds of London and Paris in the 19th century. 544 pages including notes and an index; 20 pages of photographs, six in full color. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Orphaned at the age of six, Charles Miller spent his adolescence riding the rails under the self-styled moniker "Kansas Charley." On a September evening in 1890, when he was only 15 years old, he shot and killed two young men in a boxcar headed for Wyoming. His trial lasted just 3 days, ending in a death sentence that resulted in his controversial 1892 hanging in Cheyenne. This book brings vividly to life a thought-provoking chapter in American history and in the history of the juvenile justice system. It also sheds light on our contemporary predicament, encouraging us to think about what it means to continue upholding the juvenile death penalty in the 21st century. 273 pages including an index and notes. 16 pages of photographs, drawings, posters, and newspaper articles are included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Oxford, United Kingdom: Clio Press, Ltd., 1994. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. The work of J. Craig Annan (1864-1946) all but disappeared after his death, strangly so, considering his reputation and the important international role he played in the fight for the recognition of photography as an art in its own right. Annan, a son of the photographer Thomas Annan, became a leading member of the Linked Ring. He exhibited widely in both Europe and America. In 1901, he organized a huger international exhibition of Pictorial Photography in Glasgow. His superb photogravures often capture fleeting moments and imbue them with a quiet resonance. They were beautifully published in both Die Kunst in der Photographie and Camera Work, and several are reproduced in this book. 192 pages including an index and bibliography. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. The history of law can be viewed as a tale of human choices about the preservation of life, protection of property, exercise of individual liberty, fashioning of creative knowledge, and other basic social concepts. This book gives readers a comprehensive, authoritative, and accesible guide to this ongoing saga, in the form of 468 alphabetically arranged entries written by hundreds of respected scholars about a wide variety of pertinent subjects. 912 pages with a case index and general index. One page came torn, and has been properly repaired. This is a superb, concise source for lawyers, students, scholars, and lay people. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Random House, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. McKnight Kauffer, E.. Originally published in 1914 under a different publisher. The book, on front and back, illustrates the core meaning in the book. The cover is dark green with darker colors as the forest and lightening coursing through the trees and vines. The cover has minor dings on the corners, and about a square inch of the front cover was removed (sticker or price torn off). Cloth binding is very tight. Illustrations inside are magnificent, beautiful color artwork telling the story without words. Forward written in 1914 by John Galsworthy, said little of the book and praised the author in every aspect. 303 pages, all fine, no writing or dog ears noted. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. This is a family chronicle of the Woodrows who lived in a semi-rural village life around the turn of the century. The Woodrows, a Mormon family, were a lusty bunch, had a host of children, some "owned" and some "borrowed" when nieces, nephews, and grandchildren were taken into the brood. Papa rules the roost with a firm hand, and Kate - Mama - is simply a great woman. The Woodrows are people who have fire, character, charm, and for whom both duty and rebelliousness are virtues. They are a family full of grace. Papa didn't practice polygamy, but Grandfather did. He had two loved and loving wives and numerous children whom he cherished. Uncle Jo Campbell practiced it even more; he had six wives and 37 children - before the Manifesto abolished polygamy. A wonderful biography in turn humorous and occasionally sad. 240 pages, fine cover with embossed design on the front. Jacket has some wear at the spine ends and light edge wear. Book shop stamp on the back inside board. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" tall more information

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Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Press, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Almost everyone in prison is either making art or buying it," notes Phyllis Kornfeld as she uncovers the alternative artworld flourishing today in American prisons. This book not only represents some of the most inventive and gripping examples of outsider art, but also offers an unprecedented account of prison art in particular as a subject worthy of serious consideration. Kornfeld presents the artists whose works offer freshness and surprise and tells the moving stories behind them. The traditional prison arts such as soap carving and tattoo are covered, but Kornfeld devotes a major section to paintings, where we see miniatures depicting themes of alienation and escape, idyllic landscapes framed by bars, and portraits of women living in a fantasy world. The brief vivid biographies of each artist portray that individual's experience of crime, prison, and art itself. 86 pages with notes and index; color and b&w. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Near Fine. Who was the mysterious Count Cagliostro? Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer and mystic or a dangerous charlatan whose revolutionary notions and influences threatened to undermine the monarchies of France and Russia. He was the leader of an exotic brand of Freemasonry, and was indisputably one of the most influental and notorious figures of the latter eightenth century, overcoming poverty and ignoble birth to become the darling - and bane - of upper-crust Europe. The author documents how Cagliostro crossed paths - and often swords - with Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and Pope Pius VI. in London, Warsaw and St. Petersburg he established "healing clinics" for the poorest of the poor, a radical notion at that time, and his dexterity in the worlds of alchemy and spiritualism won him acclaim among the nobility across Europe. In 1791 he was arrested for heresy, and spent the last five years of his life in solitary confinement. A fascinating biography of a man whose influential actions still reverberate today. 272 pages, including endnotes and black and white portraits. Dust jacket has very light rubbing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Near Fine. Who was the mysterious Count Cagliostro? Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer and mystic or a dangerous charlatan whose revolutionary notions and influences threatened to undermine the monarchies of France and Russia. He was the leader of an exotic brand of Freemasonry, and was indisputably one of the most influental and notorious figures of the latter eightenth century, overcoming poverty and ignoble birth to become the darling - and bane - of upper-crust Europe. The author documents how Cagliostro crossed paths - and often swords - with Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and Pope Pius VI. in London, Warsaw and St. Petersburg he established "healing clinics" for the poorest of the poor, a radical notion at that time, and his dexterity in the worlds of alchemy and spiritualism won him acclaim among the nobility across Europe. In 1791 he was arrested for heresy, and spent the last five years of his life in solitary confinement. A fascinating biography of a man whose influential actions still reverberate today. 272 pages, including endnotes and black and white portraits. Dust jacket has very light rubbing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. This book has never been read. The price is not clipped. The jacket is near fine. There is a mark on the front from a sticker, and the back has two places where the finish on the paper is wrinkled; also a few scuff marks. 254 pages including an index. No other marks or tears noted. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Press, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Sloan, John; Henri, Robert . An introduction by Mrs. John Sloan is included. In the sata of American art's coming-of-age, Robert Henri and John Sloan stand tall among those in the vanguard of the campaign. These two major American artists were kindred spirits who maintained a special friendship throughout their lives, from the moment they met in 1892 until Henri's death 37 years later. This volume offers the first publication of the full correspondence between the two painters, capturing the opinions, work habits, and various traumas of Henri and Sloan, thus casting a new light on their lives and art. Many of the letters are illustrated with previously unpublished drawings - Henri's quickly sketched caricatures and Sloan's more carefully detailed compositions. As the leaders of the Ashcan School, they proclaimed that all life was fit subject matter for the artist, and organized a landmark exhibition of The Eight - a group that included Maurice Prendergast and Arthur B. Davies - in 1908. These letters also mention other prominent artists of the Henri-Sloan circle. 350 pages including a chronology and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Reaktion Books, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs and Drawings. This book describes and sets into context the obsession of a Victorian gentleman and civil servant, Arthur Munby (1828-1910), with the bodies of working-class and disfigured women. It was a fascination that led to his eventual secret marriage to the maidservant Hannah Cullwick - a relationship grounded in a complex interweaving of class, gender and racial hierarchies. Although the story of Munby's obsessions has been told before, Barry Reay provides a totally new approach, drawing on a vast archive of letters, photographs, poems and sketches. His book details Munby's fixation with female bodies, in particular with the daily disruptions of Victorian male ideals of femininity through bodily exertion, dirt and deformity. However, Watching Hannah is far more than an account of a fetishist of hard-working female hands. Reay unpacks one man's fantasies to reveal wider male preoccupations with femininity, the body, deformity, masculinity, and - most of all - sexuality during a pivotal point in European history. 200 pages, including references and an index. Bound in black cloth with 95 illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2001. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. Gaugin, Paul. Still in publisher's plastic. To fully understand the scope and originality of the art of Paul Gauguin, one must consider not only his paintings but also his prints, ceramics, sculptures, and drawings. The Art Institute of Chicago's collection of works by Gauguin is one of the most important in the United States, including examples from nearly every material in which he worked and from every period of his career. This selection of almost 40 works of art are reproduced here in full-color. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Macmillan and Company, 1892. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. This is written as a biography and it may be; it has an epilogue finalizing the fates of the main characters. The novel (?) is complete in one volume. The corners are worn through, and the spine ends are bent and worn. The bottom edges have light to medium wear. The cloth binding is somewhat loose and cocked. 576 pages, slight yellowing, a few pages are chipped. The inside back has several closed tears between the binding and pages, although it appears to have been repaired. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Viking, 1999. 8th Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. McCarty, Peter. This slim volume tells the story of the first nurse to go into the Applachian mountains to provide medical care to the isolated inhabitants. Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the mountains and never looked back. Instead, she spent her life fording icy streams and climbing untracked mountains to bring medical help to those in need. In these well-crafted stories, the author has created three beautifully realized characters. Through their eyes, young readers will see the enormous goodness and vitality of this undercelebrated American heroine. 53 pages, illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Mcgraw Hill, 1963. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fair. This is a biography of a very intelligent, warm and determined woman. A daughter of a plantation owner in South India, Mary Verghese decided early in life that she wanted to be useful to her newly independent country. She went to medical school and became a surgeon, but shortly after graduation she was in an accident that made her a paraplegic. How she reconstructed her life and learned to perform delicate surgery while seated in a wheel chair and indeed became a fully qualified rehabilitation specialist are just some of the tremendous successes included. The tan and marbled binding has no wear but the spine is tilted forward a bit. The jacket has two tears about 1" long, and the back appears to have gotten wet. This did not damage the book at all. The spine is lightly sunned on the jacket. 216 pages, no marks or tears. An inscription is written in the front end papers. Price not clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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