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Cleveland OH: New York Central Lines. nd. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, multi-panel brochure which opens up to a 34 X 20" map on one side. A promotional piece from a consortium of railroads that shows how their routes tie together the industrial heartland. Hundreds of stops listed in a detailed map. Very good condition. In a brown card folder, clean. No date but assumed 1920s. Record # 381512

NY: Random House, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 867 pages. Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific or more exposed than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence (approximately 20 million words), many of them deeply personal, keeping a copy of almost every one. Now the best of these are published most for the first time in one remarkable volume that spans seven decades and, it seems, several lifetimes. Together they form a stunning autobiographical portrait of one of the most original, provocative, and outspoken public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Compiled by Mailer s authorized biographer, J. Michael Lennon, and organized by decade, Selected Letters of Norman Mailer features the most fascinating of Mailer s missives from 1940 to 2007 letters to his family and friends,… Read More

London: Seeley Service & Co, 1918. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 349 pages, pictorial blue cloth with gilt, white and red design. Contains 35 black and white plates throughout. Paper tanning, book opened roughly at title page, blank bookplate on front fly leaf. Covers bright. Record # 371086

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 426 pages, b&w photographs. Bright, clean copy. This engaging biography of Harold Arlen charts the course of his brilliant career, from band leader in his native Buffalo, New York, to songwriter and vocalist in vaudeville, to composer of Broadway musicals and revues at Harlem's Cotton Club, to writer of the everlasting music in The Wizard of Oz and other films. Drawing on a treasure trove of family documents and memorabilia, Edward Jablonski vividly describes Arlen's life, including his loving but troubled marriage to Anya, the strained relationship with his father and brother, his alcoholism and illnesses, and his friendship with Marlene Dietrich. Populated with such greats as Johnny Mercer, George and Ira Gershwin, E. Y. Harburg, Bert Lahr, and Judy Garland, the book also captures the spirit of Arlen's times and conveys a sense of the inner workings of the music business. Record # 351126

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1971. 1st. Very Good/Good. Leo and Diane Dillon. Hardcover, 47 pages. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Translated by the author. Dust jacket good only with edgewear and front with tear and creasing to top edge and with light residue mark. Internally very good. Record # 600236

Toronto CA: Doubleday Canada, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jack won the Leacock Humour Award for his Bandy series. It's 1924, and Bandy is making a solo flight across the Atlantic in the Gander, a seaplane of his own design. Not for fame though - he's fleeing from arrest for train robbery, from his job as Minister of Defence, and from his would-be assassin and friend George Garanine. From Iceland, to Iraq, to St. Pancreas Hospital in London, Bandy's career has never been more complicated, or his luck more of a roller coaster. When he finds new employment as Deputy Supreme Being of a mercenary air force, Bandy begins to feel that the whole British Empire has a grudge against him. But at least the pay is good. Record # 378741

NY: Random House, 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The second and hardest-to-find book in Jackson's highly-praised mystery-crime series featuring Detroit Detective Sgt. Fang Mulheisen, this time dealing with the murders of five railroad trainmen in a spectacular freight train crash and a hijacked boxcar loaded with automatic rifles as well as several distractions such as a dozen Cuban revolutionaries, a greedy mob boss and a luscious Polish housewife. Light tan spotting area to front fly leaf and front board. Otherwise clean. Record # 382222

NY: Atlantic Monthly, 2002. Uncorr. Proof wraps. Softcover. Very Good/None. Paperback. Uncorrected proof. Like new.The book opens with the disappearance of a man named Franko Bradovich in Kosovo. Franko, a native Montanan posing as a local, was a spy of sorts, an operative who was helping the Lucani (a loose affiliation of DEA, FBI, CIA, etc. agents operating outside the law) bust a drug trafficking scheme from Bulgaria through Kosovo and Serbia to Europe. Franko was living with the family of a farmer named Daliljaj (and was in love with the farmer’s daughter Fedima) and an apparently helpful American-raised Slav (Bozi Bazok), who’s become part of the Serb army’s shock troops, has warned Franko that the army was headed toward them with bloodshed in mind. Later, though, Franko, who’s been posing as a drug trafficker, is brought in by local police for questioning and is beaten—making Bazok’s helpfulness questionable at best. Either way, Franko can’t really afford to stick around. Bazok… Read More

London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, circa 1920. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, mustard cloth with full color pastedown, Illustrated with 8 color plates and a color title page by Murray Urquhart. Sir Walter Scott's novel retold for children. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Endpapers with darkening from publisher's paste, otherwise clean. Record # 385209

New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1940. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Leroy Jackson. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Reprint of 1918 edition. B/W and color illustrations by Leroy Jackson. Dust jacket torn and taped. Pages very clean. Record # 801938

San Francisco: Ten Speed Press, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 128 pages. A GRAND TOUR OF ASIA recreates a time and a place that no longer exists except in the lyrical images so lovingly preserved by the lens of a wandering American, and so wryly captured in the prose of his mysterious companions nearly a century ago. Christian Rub, a character actor in Hollywood films, presented the intriguing album to its current owner, Hania Tallmadge, in 1949, when she was a child.A historically unique collection of photographs taken in the spring of 1910 on a four-month tour of the Far East, presented in an exquisite facsimile edition of the album in which they were originally discovered.Includes more than 150 images reproduced in their actual size, their hand-tinted colors authentic and un-retouched. Even the handwritten script has been carefully replicated. Record # 372061

London: Princeton University Press, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Volume 13. 420 pages. Dust jacket spine shows sun-fade, light rubbing and some edgewear. Book itself is in very good condition with only minor foxing to the top edge. Clean, tight copy. Record # 459631

US: Stern Portfolios; Bilingual edition, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 96 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated boards. Record # 369098

NY: Atlantic Monthly , 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge. Record # 3435

NY: Harcourt Brace, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY JACKSON on the half title page. Cows munch, meander, sleep, sun themselves, and wade through vibrant Vermont landscapes before gathering for a kick-up-your-hooves barn dance. This bold, bovine twist on counting is sure to amuse little ones just learning their numbers. Record # 374519

Dublin NH: William L Bauhan, 2001. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 163 pages. An unconventional family idyll in pastoral Bucks County, Pennsylvania of the 1930Â’s is suddenly broken to pieces by the arrival of a band of writers led by poets Robert Graves and especially Laura Riding. Told from the perspective of her 12-year-old self, the author paints an evocative portrait of a family, friends, childhood adventures and events against the background of a countryside still threaded with dirt roads winding past meadows and woodland, not a shopping mall in sight. Record # 385685

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY JACKSON on the half-title page. An alphabet book for young readers presents the black-and-white Holstein cow in the setting of the lush Vermont countryside throughout the changing seasons of the year. Record # 374286

NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 304 pages. The 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers won 33 consecutive regular season games on their way to a championship. The team, built around future Hall-of-Famers Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West, was coached by a third Hall member, Bill Sharman. Rosen, author of five novels and coauthor, with Phil Jackson, of More Than a Game (2001), traces the team from training camp through the start of the next season. His dual focal points are Sharman and Chamberlain. Sharman, who played with Bill Russell in Boston, convinced Chamberlain to play a more Russell-like style, emphasizing passing and teamwork. Rosen provides background for all the principals, context for games in the streak, as well as an account of the team's play-off run to the championship. This is wonderful reading for NBA history buffs, replete with anecdotes, humor, and revealing profiles. Mild soil, shelf wear, no… Read More

Jefferson NC: McFarland, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 223 pages, b&w photos. Eugene Jackson became a child star in 1924 playing "Pineapple" in the original "Our Gang" comedy shorts. Join him as he shares his life story -- a story that preserves the history of vaudeville and early Hollywood as well as chronicles the African American experience in the entertainment business. Record # 359014

Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 339 pages. Although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes of the Appalachians, Thomas Jefferson must take his place alongside Zebulon Pike, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and Lewis and Clark--the men who blazed the great western trails. Donald Jackson cogently recounts Jefferson’s fundamental role in promoting and shaping the exploration, settlement, and development of the Trans-Mississippi West. Clean, bright copy. Record # 374732