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Berkeley . 2004. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520242459. Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project. 208 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature American Mark Twain Humor. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook-an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race-contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twain's personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain's characteristic ebullience for life. They… Read More

Princeton. 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691137308. 178 pages. hardcover. 0. keywords: History-American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark, 'The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past.' In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. Obama's journey to the White House undoubtedly marks a watershed in the history of race in America. Yet even in what is being hailed as the post-civil rights era, racial divisions--particularly between blacks and whites--remain deeply entrenched in American life. Sugrue traces Obama's evolving understanding of race and racial inequality throughout his career, from his early days as a community organizer in Chicago, to his time as… Read More

New York. 1994. Free Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 002916706x. 351 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Diedra Harris-Kelley. keywords: Black Politics History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In an unprecedented tour through a previously hidden layer of history, RACE REBELS demonstrates exactly how the cultural world can be a political one. Robin D. G. Kelley makes visible hidden streams of black working-class resistance in the United States, and sheds new light on aspects of black politics and culture that most scholars have dismissed as marginal to the ‘main events.' Examining the words and deeds of African Americans who often found themselves at odds with the black middle class as well as with racist whites, Kelley argues that these men and women created strategies of resistance, and even entire subcultures, that have remained outside mainstream African American politics. They rebelled against both racist oppression and middle-class ‘race politics', and - in the South,… Read More

New York. 1998. Knopf. Uncorrected Proof. Small Stain Mark on Front Cover, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0375401423. 295 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Everything's a racket for Jeffty Kittridge, a thirty- seven-year-old ex-wannabe scriptwriter living on the skids in Hollywood-the two-bit cons he pulls for spending money; the way he convinces himself that he's not a drunk between every shot of booze he kicks back; the way he tries to assure Dumas, the local shark, that he's just about to pay off his 15K debt . Except he's not good at any of that. He's been in jail twice (and the state's got a bad attitude about seeing someone the third time); that bug he just felt crawling up his neck is most likely the first installment of the DTs; and Dumas recently delivered a fairly emphatic payment-due reminder: a couple of his goons busted two of Jeffty's fingers. The fact is, Jeffty's a loser, big as they come, and things aren't… Read More

New York. 1998. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0375401423. 295 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. keywords: Literature Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Everything's a racket for Jeffty Kittridge, a thirty- seven-year-old ex-wannabe scriptwriter living on the skids in Hollywood-the two-bit cons he pulls for spending money; the way he convinces himself that he's not a drunk between every shot of booze he kicks back; the way he tries to assure Dumas, the local shark, that he's just about to pay off his 15K debt . Except he's not good at any of that. He's been in jail twice (and the state's got a bad attitude about seeing someone the third time); that bug he just felt crawling up his neck is most likely the first installment of the DTs; and Dumas recently delivered a fairly emphatic payment-due reminder: a couple of his goons busted two of Jeffty's fingers. The fact is, Jeffty's a loser, big as they come, and things aren't about to… Read More

New York. 1968. May 1968. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 184 pages. hardcover. keywords: History America Radicalism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current of American political thought. Stemming back to the seventeenth-century English Revolution, many questioned private property, the sovereignty of the nation-state, and slavery, and affirmed the common man s ability to govern. By the time of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine was the great exemplar of the alternative intellectual tradition. In the nineteenth century, the antislavery movement took hold of Thomas Paine s ideas and fashioned them into an ideology that ultimately justified civil war. inventory #18053

Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520235908. 250 pages. paperback. keywords: Media Radio Advertising Consumer Activism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Radio Active tells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. While cultural historians have seen this period as one of failed reform–focusing on the failure of activists to win significant changes for commercial radio–Kathy M. Newman argues that the 1930s witnessed the emergence of a symbiotic relationship between advertising and activism. Advertising helped to kindle the consumer activism of union members affiliated with the CIO, middle-class club women, and working-class housewives. Once provoked, these activists became determined to influence–and in some cases eliminate–radio advertising. As one example of how radio consumption was an active rather than a passive process, Newman cites The Hucksters, Frederick… Read More

New York. 1961. Viking Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 152 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Technically Matthiessen's neatest explication of character occurs in RADITZER. The figure who gives his name to the book is a passive-aggressive, physically weak and socially a parasite, yet able to strike through the mask of civilized respectability and mastery to reveal in those he victimizes a deep-seated guilt and bewildering remorse. The kinship Raditzer insists he shares with the respectable Navy men whose tenuous security he undermines conveys, as in RACE ROCK, Matthiessen's perception of the split between thought and action that manifests itself in the indecisiveness of American men. The tight narrative construction enforcing psychological parallels goes beyond the earlier novel, however, making it evident in RADITZER through the substance of style that the leading characters of the book amalgamate into a general type.'… Read More

New York. 2003. February 2003. Simon & Schuster. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684870657. 333 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Kai Chu. Jacket illustration: Getty Images. keywords: History America Black Slavery Underground Railroad. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. The decades preceding the Civil War were rife with fierce sectarian violence along the borders between slave and free states. The Ohio River was one such border. Here in the river towns of Ohio and Kentucky, abolitionists and slave chasers confronted each other during the ‘war before the war.' Slave masters and bounty hunters chased runaway slaves from Kentucky into Ohio, hoping to catch their quarry before the slaves disappeared on the underground path to freedom. In the river town of Ripley, the slave hunters inevitably confronted John Rankin and his determined, courageous colleagues. One… Read More

Berkeley. 2013. April 2013. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520270947. An Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book 7 x 10. 8 color photos. 88 b/w photos. 1 map. 286 pages . hardcover. keywords: United States History Photography . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Iron Muse provides a unique look at the production, distribution, and publication of images of the transcontinental railroad: from their use as an official record by the railroad corporations, to their reproduction in illustrated press and travel guides. Willumson provides a comprehensive portrayal of the creation and evolution of an important slice of American visual culture. inventory #40434 ISBN: 9780520270947.

Boston. 2002. Little Brown. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 674 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery Washington DC America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - HELL TO PAY - Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their bestselling debut in RIGHT AS RAIN, are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. It's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world - but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory they are intruding upon. Their mission is fractured by a violent criminal act against a young player from the neighborhood football team that Strange coaches. Tracking down the perpetrators becomes a point of honor for Strange and Quinn, and their investigation leads them deep inside the city's… Read More

Boston. 1995. Little Brown. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0316132764. 542 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Steve Snider. keywords: Literature India America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain is an unforgettable reading experience, a contemporary Thousand and One Nights - with an eighteenth-century warrior-poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America switching off as our Scheherazades. Ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV, Chandra's novel is engrossing, enthralling, impossible to put down - a remarkable meditation on quests and homecomings, good and evil, storytelling and redemption. inventory #8812 ISBN: 0316132764.

Boston. 1959. Little Brown. 1st American Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 248 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS was originally published by The New Yorker magazine. Like many of the other Glass family stories, Raise High is narrated by Buddy Glass, the second of the Glass brothers, and describes Buddy's visit on Army leave (during World War II, in 1942) to attend the wedding of his brother Seymour, and tells of the events that follow the wedding's non-occurrence. The events that occur in this story set the stage for Seymour's suicide in 1948. In the later story ‘Hapworth 16, 1924' Buddy asserts the letter is reproduced ‘word for word' as to assure the reader these are Seymour's thoughts and not his. By then the membrane separating the two brothers was nearly indistinguishable, and Salinger realized this, as exemplified in the story that followed ‘Raise High,' ‘Seymour: An… Read More

Berkeley. 1988. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket with a Small Slice Mark On Front. 0520064127. 172 pages. hardcover. keywords: India History . FROM THE PUBLISHER - As rich and varied as India itself, these accounts bring to the reader the Indian perspective on the British Raj. Included are the memories and experiences of more than fifty Indian men and women who worked under the British, made friends with them, and then fought to throw them out. They describe the role of apprentice under the sahibs, the complex racial barriers that divided the rulers from the ruled, the Western education which eventually encouraged rebellion, and the ways in which liberal British political arguments were turned against the Raj by nationalist campaigns to force the British to quit India. inventory #11397 ISBN: 0520064127.

London. 1982. Bodley Head. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 037030456x. Preface by Paul Theroux. 271 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature India Raj Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This anthology of short stories showcases a large and fascinating body of Anglo-Indian fiction. All the stories presented show interesting interaction between the British and Indian people. Includes stories by Rudyard Kipling, Leonard Woolf, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. inventory #27006 ISBN: 037030456x.

New York. 1964. July 1964. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0451502558. Afterword By John Barth. 480 pages. paperback. CT255. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback England Literature 18th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is for sheer narrative pleasure and exuberant inventiveness that we read Smollett, master of the picaresque. Of his novels, none better typifies his art than this chronicle of the career of Roderick Random, pursuing love and fortune through every conceivable twist and turn of fate. Before this indomitable protagonist achieves his final vindication, the reader is offered an unforgettable journey through a lusty, brawling Hogarthian world, in a work that stands as the very embodiment of that age's unflagging energy and boundless appetite for life. In the words of John Barth: 'Sailors, soldiers, fine gentlemen and ladies, whores, homosexuals, cardsharpers, fortune hunters, tradesmen of all description, clerics,… Read More

Princeton. 2011. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780691135595. 425 color plates. 450 halftones. 192 pages. paperback. keywords: Field Guides Birds. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The ultimate must-have guide for identifying migrant raptors, Hawks at a Distance is the first volume to focus on distant raptors as they are truly seen in the field. Jerry Liguori, a leading expert on North American raptors, factors in new information and approaches for identifying twenty-nine species of raptor depicted in various lighting situations and settings. The field guide's nineteen full-color portraits, 425 color photos, and 450 black-and-white images portray shapes and plumages for each species from all angles. Useful flight identification criteria are provided and the accompanying text discusses all aspects of in-flight hawk identification including flight style and behavior. Concentrating on features that are genuinely observable at a distance, this concise and practical field… Read More

New York. 1996. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684814870. 270 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Mary Schuck. keywords: Literature America Women African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE #1 BLACKBOARD BESTSELLER. Meet Jazmine Deems: she's twenty-six, steppin' out from under her overprotective preacher father, and determined to escape the streets of South Central and realize her dream of making it in the music business. Meet X-Man: he's embroiled in the violence of the streets, and seems destined for a life spent hangin' with his homies -- until his talent as a tapper attracts the attention of a big-lime record producer. Fate brings Jazmine and X-Man together as promising young stars for the same record company. They thrive on the excitement of their new careers and passionate love, until a power-hungry executive pits them against each other, jeopardizing both their musical careers and romantic future. Follow Jazmine and X-man as they discover that with… Read More

New York. 1996. Simon & Schuster. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0684814870. 270 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE #1 BLACKBOARD BESTSELLER. Meet Jazmine Deems: she's twenty-six, steppin' out from under her overprotective preacher father, and determined to escape the streets of South Central and realize her dream of making it in the music business. Meet X-Man: he's embroiled in the violence of the streets, and seems destined for a life spent hangin' with his homies -- until his talent as a tapper attracts the attention of a big-lime record producer. Fate brings Jazmine and X-Man together as promising young stars for the same record company. They thrive on the excitement of their new careers and passionate love, until a power-hungry executive pits them against each other, jeopardizing both their musical careers and romantic future. Follow Jazmine and X-man as they discover that with the right mix of love and… Read More

Baton Rogue. 1995. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition. Small Stain Mark On Bottom Edge,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket . 0807120049. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane. Winner Of The Pegagus Prize for Literature. 552 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Eighteenth-century Europe, where the neoclassical ideals of balance and harmony are in tragic contrast with the squalor and violence of daily life, where the notion of a social contract emerges against a background of public torture and shameless political cynicism, where unprecedented advances in the sciences are besieged by militant superstition and religious bigotrythis is the Enlightenment, and Francisco Rebolledo's astonishing novel chronicles a soul's voyage through its hazards. The soul is that of Fausto Rasero, a young Spaniard hungry for wisdom. And what a peculiar hero Rasero is - bald since birth, sexually and intellectually precocious at his wet… Read More