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NY: Dutton, 2008. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright die-cut dust jacket with decorated boards. Printed on yellow paper. Colorized illustrations. Dark green ribbon page marker. Like new. Record # 372191

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 190 pages. Explores the world of the North Sea oil installations and describes the life of the men who are engaged in this business. The offshore oil rig represents one of Earth's last frontiers; the ultimate example may be found in the North Sea, 300 miles off the coast of Scotland. What's it like to live in this hostile environment, in unnatural isolation, and to work to the point of exhaustion? Curiosity prompted Alvarez (The Savage God, The Biggest Game in Town to visit the Shell installation at Brent Fields. The people best fitted for offshore work, Alvarez found, are ex-military men. He talked at length to pilots, roustabouts, managers, divers and the chief official of the Shetland Islands. It's an amazing account of humanity triumphing over the elements. Record # 374522

Algonquin Books, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie’s auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters, and moving between the past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into the divisiveness of prewar politics… Read More

NY: Holt Rinehart Winston , 1970. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Desmond Digby. Hardcover. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Award sticker on the front of dust jacket. Color illustrations by Desmond Digby. Clean copy. Record # 375221

Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover in a worn, tattered dust jacket. Novel by an American journalist about fighting in Greece during WW2. Clean copy. Record # 383873

Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan, 1962. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, 94 pages. "The story of a Scottish lassie who went to the west coast of Africa and tamed the savage tribes ..." Color frontis., Clean copy. Record # 383151

NY: Pivately Printed, 1908. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/None. Hardcover, 3/4 leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine and raised bands. 16 pages of text by W. Stanton Howard. 261 pages. Black & white plates. Card of author tipped on front end paper. Previous owner's name & stamp. Bright, sharp condition. Record # 64004

Boston: Samuel Hall, 1794. reprint. Softcover. Fair/None. Softcover 12mo, 56 pp. Small, tall 16mo, original marbled paper wrappers. First published in 1695 by Lady Mary Cressy, under the title The Whole Duty of a Woman; or, A Guide to the Female Sex, from the Age of Sixteen to Sixty, &c. For a new edition in 1753, the author was simply listed as “A Lady.” In fact, this author was William Kenrick (1725-1779), English novelist, playwright, and founder of the book review digest The London Review. Kenrick was described by Paul Fussell in PMLA (June 1951) as “one of London’s most despised, drunken, and morally degenerate hack writers in the later eighteenth century.” In this tiny volume, Kenrick assumes the persona of a fallen woman, now reformed, who wants to persuade other women to live a life of virtue. Chapters include Curiosity, Reflection, Vanity, Knowledge, Reputation, Applause, Censure, Insinuation, Affectation, Modesty, Chastity, Complacence, Acquaintance, Friendship, Elegance,… Read More

Montpelier: Miss A.M. Hemenway, 1882. 1st. Hardcover. Fair/None. 592 pages. Red cloth covers with black stamped decoration and gilt lettering. Edgewear and fraying on spine. age discoloration on pages, black & white illustrations, binding cracked, multiple pages loose and some separated. Previous owner’s marking on front end paper. Record # 408531

NY: W W Norton, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 724 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. A revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism, as told through the writings of such figures as Darwin, Marks, George Eliot, and Kipling. Clean copy. Record # 378319

NY: Freundlich Books, 1986. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 795 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy. 'A work of immense historical proportions - a biography of America's first and possibly greatest broadcast journalist.' Notes on primary manuscript sources, index, bibliography. The definitive biography of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow based on in-depth interviews and ten years of archival research, including declassified goverment documents and private files. Record # 385268

NY: Philomel Books, 1994. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BARRON on front fly leaf and also SIGNED on the tiele page. Blending Arthurian legend and modern oceanography, this lively tale boasts finely developed characters as well as fast-moving adventure. The author achieves a solid balance of mythology, environmental issues, and scientific research procedures. Clean copy. Record # 379523

NY: Penguin Press, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 642 pages. Gray cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp dust jacket with only minor wear. Very clean & unmarked. Crisp, tight copy. Record # 381543

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 260 pages. Throughout his long career, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) continually expanded the boundaries of his art. By repeating images in pairs, trios, and series, he conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting." In this fresh approach to a much-studied artist, prominent scholars from the United States and Europe examine more than sixty works in concise chapters that focus on this aspect of Matisse’s working process. From early pairs such as Young Sailor I and II (1907–8) through a series of late studio scenes from Venice (1946–48), Matisse is shown revisiting a given theme with the aim of devising innovative, often radical, solutions to such problems as how to portray light, handle paint, select colors, and manipulate perspective.New technical studies of the early paired works and photographs documenting the evolution of his… Read More

NY: Knopf, 1994. 1st. Very Good/None. Reynold Ruffins. Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. No dust jacket. From Angola to Zanzibar, this treasury is as varied and bountiful as Africa itself! Master storyteller Verna Aardema retells 12 tales of justice and revenge, greed and generosity, sly trickery, and off-the-wall silliness with her trademark humor and flair. Nearly 50 illustrations vibrantly reflect the spirit of these read-aloud delights, while a map of Africa, story source information, and a personal note from the author make this a rich volume for folk-tale lovers of all ages. Record # 203277

NY: Knopf , 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dale Gottlieb. Color illustrations by Dale Gottlieb. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and rubbing. Record # 203267

Grand Rapids MI : Eerdmans, 1993. 1st?. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Nancy L. Clouse. Really nice, new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Nancy L. Clouse. Hardbound in a bright dust jacket. Record # 109640

NY: Prentice Hall, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Describes the author's experiences traveling through Africa, meeting and talking with warriors, activists, and poachers. 334 pages, clean copy. Record # 381137

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1959. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 157 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #834. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Record # 368710

NY: Abrams, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 240 pages. Aarons, erstwhile photographer to the rich and famous, has combed his archives to compile a collection of slick, upscale snapshots that vividly capture the lives of the "polo set." After the violence he witnessed as a combat photographer in WWII¸ Aarons decided that the only beaches he wanted to invade in the future were "decorated with beautiful girls tanning in a tranquil sun"-which are amply presented here. Aarons imparts a nearly tactile quality to these razor-sharp images, and every photograph, from the 1950s through the 1980s, is richly evocative of its era. One 1955 photo captures longtime fashion icon C.Z. Guest poolside in typically modest mid-century swimming attire with her son and dogs. A 1964 spread for Town & Country pictures the deeply tanned "young matrons of Palm Beach" in day-glow floral Lilly Pulitzer dresses. In a 1968 picture, fellow photographer Lord Lichfield is shown on the Italian Riviera wearing… Read More