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hard cover, unpaged, 9 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches, extra postage for priority or international shipping due to size, first American edition, fine book condition, fine dust jacket condition, juvenile picture book,

hard cover, light corner wear, mended tear on first end paper, unpaged, miniature book 5 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches, very good book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG, used hc, 323pp. Three-quarter beige colored paper over boards with turquoise paper and gilt text on spine; slight edge wear. Color illustrated dust jacket with white colored text on upper and black text on spine; slight edge wear; no chips or tears; not price clipped. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. x, 285 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Born into a celebrated Anglo-Irish family, the Guinnesses, Ivana Lowell tells of coming to terms with her blue-blood heritage and her own childhood traumas. This is also the story of her intense relationship with her complicated mother, writer Caroline Blackwood. A keen observer with a wicked sense of humor and no self-pity, Lowell sets scenes with an almost madcap cast of characters, introducing us to such eccentrics as her grandmother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. She takes us from the marchioness's annual ball for her old friend, the Queen Mother, to her stately Irish home, to summers in Sardinia; through moves to carelessly furnished, too-large English country houses with her mother and stepfather, the poet Robert Lowell; to working in Manhattan at Miramax Books; to her wedding at New York's Rainbow Room and finally to a life with her daughter. Ivana also has darker stories to tell including her own stints in rehab, and discovering, after her mother's death, the secret Lady Caroline had successfully kept from her." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. 254 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. *** "Author of the acclaimed The Face of Battle, and, most recently, Intelligence in War, John Keegan now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time. The Iraq War is an urgently needed, up-to-date and informed study of the ongoing conflict. In exclusive interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, Keegan has gathered information about the war that adds immeasurably to our grasp of its causes, complications, costs and consequences. He probes the reasons for the invasion and delineates the strategy of the American and British forces in capturing Baghdad; he examines the quick victory over the Republican Guard and the more tenacious and deadly opposition that has taken its place. He then analyzes the intelligence information with which the Bush and Blair administrations convinced their respective governments of the need to go to war, and which has since been strongly challenged in both countries. And he makes clear that despite the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, regime change, and the use and misuse of intelligence, the war in Iraq is an undeniably formidable display of American power. The Iraq War is authoritative, timely and vitally important to our understanding of a conflict whose full ramifications are as yet unknown. / John Keegan's books include Intelligence in War and The Mask of Command. He is the defense editor of The Daily Telegraph (London). He lives in Wiltshire, England." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xii, 242 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. *** "The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: 'Shoot the widow.' In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer ('Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll'--The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a 'life' is like working one's way through a maze, full of fall starts, dead ends, and occasional clear passages leading to the next part of the puzzle. She writes about her first book, a life of Romaine Brooks, and how she was led to Nice and given invaluable letters by her subject's heir that were slid across the table, one at a time; how she was led to the villa of Brooks' lover, Gabriele d'Annunzio (poet, playwright, and aviator), a fantastic mausoleum left untouched since the moment of his death seventy years before; to a small English village, where she uncovered a lost Romaine Brooks painting; and finally, to 20, rue Jacob, Paris, where Romaine's lover, Natalie Barney, had fifty years before entertained Cocteau, Gide, Proust, Colette, and others. Secrest describes how her next book--a life of Berenson--prompted Francis Steegmuller, fellow biographer, to comment that he wouldn't touch the subject with a ten-foot pole. For her life of British art historian Kenneth Clark, Secrest was given permission to write the book by her subject, who surreptitiously financed it in the hopes of controlling its contents; we see how Clark's plan was foiled by a jealous mistress and a stash of love letters that helped Secrest navigate Clark's obstacle course. Among the other biographical (mis)adventures, Secrest reveals: how she tracked Salvador Dali; to a hospital room, found him recovering from serious burns sustained in a mysterious fire, and learned that he was knee-deep in a scandal involving fake drawings and prints and surrounded by dangerous characters out of Murder, Inc. . . . and how she went in search of a subject's grave (Frank Lloyd Wright's) only to find that his body had been dug up to satisfy the whim of his last wife. A fascinating account of a life spent in sometimes arduous, sometimes comical, always exciting pursuit of the truth about other lives. / Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England, and now lives in Washington, D.C. She is the author of nine biographies and is the recipient of the 2006 National Humanities Medal." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. x, 273 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Published in association with the Library of Congress. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "The exhibition Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture, mounted by the Library of Congress, explores the influence of Freud and psychoanalysis on twentieth-century culture and examines some of his central ideas concerning the individual and society. Contemporary evaluations, emerging from changes in scientific knowledge and ideological priorities, have changed the way we view Freud's contributions to our understanding of self and society. This volume, meant to reflect the lively and eclectic spirit of the show, is a gathering of variously challenging, erudite, and amusing essays by scholars, critics, and writers." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Foreword, by James H. Billington; Introduction, by Michael S. Roth; "Nothing About the Totem Meal!": On Freud's Notes, by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis; Freud's World of Work, by Patrick J. Mahony; Sigmund Freud's Notes on Faces and Men: National Portrait Gallery, September 13, 1908, by Michael Molnar; Portrait of a Dream Reader, by John Forrester; Having and Being: The Evolution of Freud's Oedipus Theory as a Moral Fable, by John E. Toews; Oedipus Politicus: Freud's Paradigm of Social Relations, by Jose Brunner; From Suggestion to Insight, from Hypnosis to Psychoanalysis, by Harold P. Blum; Freud's "Dora" Case: The Crucible of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Transference, by Hannah S. Decker; Psychoanalysis and the Historian, by Peter Gay; Freud's Reception in the United States, by Edith Kurzweil; Psychoanalysis: The American Experience, by Robert Coles; Freud, Film, and Culture, by E. Ann Kaplan; Cracking Jokes: A Brief Inquiry into Various Aspects of Humor, by Art Spiegelman; The Freud Controversy: What Is at Issue?, by Frank Cioffi; A Century of Psychoanalysis: Critical Retrospect and Prospect, by Adolf Grunbaum; Freud: Current Projections, by Peter D. Kramer; Strange Hearts: On the Paradoxical Liaison Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism, by Muriel Dimen; The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist, by Oliver Sacks. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xi, 283 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "Acclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early years of the Republic. The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated group of men undertook a bold experiment in political ideals. It was a time of both triumphs and tragedies--all of which contributed to the shaping of our burgeoning nation. Ellis casts an incisive eye on the gradual pace of the American Revolution and the contributions of such luminaries as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, and brilliantly analyzes the failures of the founders to adequately solve the problems of slavery and the treatment of Native Americans. With accessible prose and stunning eloquence, Ellis delineates in American Creation an era of flawed greatness, at a time when understanding our origins is more important than ever. / Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. viii, 290 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. *** "A stunningly original account, revolutionary in technique, examining the character of the great Romantic poet Lord Byron through the lives and deadly rivalry of the two women he left behind. The heart of David Crane's account is the lifelong feud between Augusta - Byron's half sister with whom he had a passionate affair - and Annabella, his society wife, both of whom bore him daughters. Crane reimagines the famous meeting between the two women years after Byron's death, a chillingly dramatic scene through which he explores the emotional and sexual truths that lay at the center of these tragic relationships. In the encounter between the two women - one in chronic ill health, the other dying - we have the ultimate display of their mutual obsession with the memory and compulsive influence of Byron that makes their story that of the Romantic Age itself. It is a story full of dubious motives, especially Annabella's 'saving' of Augusta and her child, Medora, and her twisted revenge on them both. And as the curses of incest and abuse play themselves out in the fates of Byron's daughters, we see their lives assuming the shape of Greek tragedy. In the meeting of the two women and the consequences of their battle, Crane shows us the Romantic Age in its terrible collision with the new world of the Victorians. The Kindness of Sisters establishes Crane as a biographer of formidable gifts. / David Crane teaches English literature in London. He is the author of Lord Byron's Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny. He lives in northwest Scotland." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. 241 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Cocked spine/lean. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. 228 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** Cover photograph by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Size: 8vo.

Hard Back. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Trade Edition Stated. 289 Pages. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. But Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying supernatural realm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. 241 pages; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First North American Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. *** "Like all of V. S. Naipaul's 'travel' books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization. The Masque of Africa is a masterly achievement by one of the worlds keenest observers and one of its greatest writers. / V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, A Turn in the South and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xiv, 320 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, Joseph Ellis paints a full portrait of George Washington's life and career - from his military years through his two terms as president. Ellis illuminates the difficulties the first executive confronted as he worked to keep the emerging country united in the face of adversarial factions. He richly details Washington's private life and illustrates the ways in which it influenced his public persona. Through Ellis's artful narration, we look inside Washington's marriage and his subsequent entrance into the upper echelons of Virginia's plantation society. We come to understand that it was by managing his own large debts to British merchants that he experienced firsthand the imperiousness of the British Empire. And we watch the evolution of his attitude toward slavery, which led to his emancipating his own slaves in his will. Throughout, Ellis peels back the layers of myth and uncovers for us Washington in the context of eighteenth-century America, allowing us to comprehend the magnitude of his accomplishments and the character of his spirit and mind. / Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, and their youngest son, Alex." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xv, 457 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Everywhere regarded as one of our most brilliant composers--more than nine hundred published songs, forty Broadway musicals, numerous films, every award conceivable--Richard Rodgers, the man, has nonetheless been consistently misunderstood--seen as the almost stolid opposite of what he really was. Now Meryle Secrest--biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Bernstein--brings her extraordinary skills to this full-scale life of Rodgers. She shows us for the first time the complexities of his nature, his emotional fault lines, and, most important, the wellsprings of his art. She writes of his childhood and how he learned at an early age to mask his feelings, escaping into the world of operetta--of Franz Lehar and Jerome Kern. She follows his close and wonderfully productive working relationship with Lorenz Hart--a collaboration that resulted in more than thirty Broadway and West End musicals, including Babes in Arms and Pal Joey, but was ultimately undone by Harts drinking. She evokes Rodgerss triumphant second collaboration, with the gifted--and happily stable--Oscar Hammerstein, which gave us Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and more. She explores Rodgerss own problems with alcohol as well as his periodic breakdowns; and she illuminates the deep-rooted tensions that underlay his forty-nine-year marriage to Dorothy Feiner. Somewhere for Me is both a lively portrait of the American musical theatre and a revelation of the brilliant, passionate, moody, and mercurial artist who was one of its greatest figures. / Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England, and now lives in Washington, D.C. She has written biographies of Romaine Brooks, Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark, and Salvador Dali, among others." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 494 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. *** "This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner.In the years after World War II, Georgetowns leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of cold warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and well-connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Vietnam, and the endgame of Watergate. This Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of the Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the countrys premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of diplomats, spies, and scholars. It was a time when presidents made foreign policy in consultation with reporters and professorsoften over martinis and hors d'oeuvres and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next days newspapers. Gregg Herken illuminates the drama of these years and brings this remarkable roster of men and women and their world not only out into the open but vividly to life." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 1st. 148 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. With photographs by Schector Lee. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. *** "This comprehensive guide to yellowware and spongeware features more than one hundred photographs of such objects as bowls, pie plates, jelly jars, gravy boats, and tooth brush holders." - Publisher. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xii, 412 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards. Stated First United States Edition. Fine DJ. *** "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized her extraordinarily colorful, peripatetic life and dramatic family history. Born just outside Berlin, she lived alternately in Baden, the south of France, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and London. As an adolescent she was mentored by Aldous Huxley . . . Martha Gellhorn convinced her to write her first novel, A Legacy, which would finally be published in 1956 . . . in the 1960s she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials including that of Auschwitz officials, and Jack Ruby's for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald . . . she was an important figure in the lesbian community in Europe and America . . . and though she often found herself in dire financial straits, her life was just as often underwritten by devoted men or her women lovers. She was possessed of a fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, compassion, and unstinting engagement with all the vagaries and variety of life. And Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. 332 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "The River's Tale is a deeply informed personal chronicle of a remarkable journey down the Mekong River as it runs through China, Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. In it Edward A. Gargan tells a stirring tale of adventure that reveals the Mekong's many worlds. Beginning in 1998, Gargan was at last able to pursue his long-held dream of traveling the three thousand miles of the river and lingering where he wished. He was, in a sense, coming to terms with places and peoples with which he had already linked his life. His youthful opposition to the Vietnam War had been the first manifestation of his passionate interest in Asia, where he subsequently spent much of his career as a New York Times correspondent. His travels show us a kind of modernity settling uneasily on regions still mired in backwardness and poverty, and shadows that linger so many years after the end of the Vietnam War. We visit Internet caf s in dirt-streeted towns near thatched-hut villages without electricity. The magnificent Angkor Wat, a hub of tourism, is surrounded by the ruins engendered by Pol Pot's genocidal reign. We see plodding mule trains caravanning sacks of opium through Burma on their way to China to be processed and distributed to the West. Tibetan horsemen adorned in silver and amber jewelry herd yaks across endless grasslands as their ancestors did, though their culture is under siege by the Chinese. Vietnamese salesmen scooter around Saigon hawking American soaps, passing by outcast children fathered by American soldiers and left behind. Buddhism flowers in a Laos ravaged by communism. Sex tourism thrives in prosperous Thailand, a trade chiefly involving teenagers, who pay a deadly price. And throughout, there is the Mekong--shaping landscapes, linking cultures, sustaining populations, showcasing spectacular beauty. Edward Gargan is an acutely observant, sympathetic guide to a fascinating world, and he has written a powerful and lyrical book. / Edward A. Gargan worked as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times in West Africa, China, India, and Hong Kong, was a magazine writer for the Los Angeles Times, and now covers Asia for Newsday. He was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of China's Fate. He is based in Beijing and has a home on Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xxii, 464 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. ** "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xiii, 346 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Foreword by Sara Bloomfield; 1. November 1938; 2. Visa lines; 3. FDR; 4. Kippenheim; 5. Flight; 6. Save our souls; 7. Fifth column; 8. Gurs; 9. Marseille-Martinique; 10. Les milles; 11. Enemy aliens; 12. To the East; 13. Epilogue: Remembering. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xviii, 634 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Good+. Spine slightly rolled at the crown, front hinge starting. Unmarked. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson and of Kenneth Clark gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan, Frank Lloyd Wright. Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright in full scale - the brilliant, outrageous, fascinating man; the giant who changed modern architecture; the standard-bearer for the new, quintessentially American vision; the artist who never, during a seventy-year career, abandoned his principles of design; the radical, the Bohemian - the visionary who was one of the central figures of twentieth-century American culture, society and politics. We see Frank Lloyd Wright's Midwestern boyhood - the son of a Harvard-educated preacher/musician/circuit rider.his seven-year apprenticeship with the great Louis Sullivan.his three marriages - the first at twenty-one to a Chicago society woman and dutiful wife; the second to a woman slightly mad; the third to a fiercely independent woman: an acolyte of Gurdjieff, a dancer, a woman who was Wright's counterpart and peer. We see Wright's evolution from impeccably dressed young architect, living in the right suburb, cultivating rich clients, to true bohemian living by his own rules. Meryle Secrest follows the course of Wright's struggle against all that was middlebrow in America - his opposition to the architectural trend that resulted in 'coffin-like houses and topless towers' and his insistence on expressing the unique in human experience." "We see Wright creating his famous and seminal houses, among them the Winslow house he designed at age twenty-seven.his long-dreamed-of Taliesin (when it burned to the ground, set blaze by an insane servant, Wright rebuilt it on the same spot).the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (the only building left standing after the 1923 earthquake) . . . the famous Fallingwater . . . the mammoth and idiosyncratic Guggenheim Museum in New York . . . Meryle Secrest is the first biographer to have full access to the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Her life of the architect, more than five years' work and illustrated with 121 photographs, is a stunning feat of biographical narrative, sustained analysis and compassionate insight. With her extraordinary grasp of the man and his art, she gives us Frank Lloyd Wright close up - a creature of boundless energy and indomitable appetite for experience, a man whose limitless belief in his own rightness carried him through bankruptcy, arrest, fire, divorce and years of social ostracism. A riveting portrait of a genius." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. xvi, 595 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Age toning. Fine DJ. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xxiii, 493 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A near-fine copy of the first printing. *** "This is a full-scale history of the people of the American West, from the ancestral Paleo-Indians, to the Spanish conquistadores and settlers, to the gold rushers, to the myriads who came from every direction in the twentieth century, right up to the late 1990s. Everyone is here -- whites from all over Europe and the United States, Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, and Native Americans. Some went west to homestead; others to find gold or, later, oil or the wealth of Silicon Valley; others followed California dreams, some out of Old West mythology; still others simply came to make better lives. This is a story of those millions who came -- on foot, on horseback, in wagons, by train, by car, by plane -- into the West. Walter Nugent offers a new and fascinating perspective on all the groups who settled and transformed the region. He explains how California became not only the most urban state in the West but also the most populous and most ethnically mixed state in the country. He explores such questions as why African-Americans in the early 1900s regarded Oakland and Denver as more tolerant than San Francisco or Los Angeles; what happened to the second generation of Mormons after the large western migration of the 1840s; who the real "Dust Bowl migrants" of the 1930s were; and how the New Deal, as well as federal laws on homesteading, irrigation, defense, and immigration, changed the face of the West. Here as well are the tribulations of the many involuntary migrants to, within, or out of the West: Native Americans moved in the 1830s and again in the 1870s and 1880s; Mexicans 'repatriated' between 1929 and 1933; Japanese-Americans interned during World War II; and Vietnamese forced to move after 1973. Finally, Nugent examines the West of today: why the coastal and Sunbelt West and the interior West are experiencing such a radical cultural divergence. And he tells us what he projects, on the basis of recent trends, is likely to happen to the people of the West in the next half century. For several hundred years, the West has been a microcosm of the American ideal of e pluribus unum--making many into one. Will it continue to follow this course? With 32 pages of photographs and 17 maps." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. 413 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First United States Edition. Fine DJ. *** "The remarkable story of Sir William Temple and Dorothy Osborne's life together offers a rare glimpse into the heart and spirit of one of the most turbulent and intriguing eras in British history." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xvi, 318 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** A biography of the glamorous Mitford sister who became Hitler's friend and married the leader of Britain's Fascists. *** "Much has been written about and by the Mitford sisters, who variously dazzled and shocked their contemporaries in England and abroad: Nancy, as a celebrated novelist (The Pursuit of Love); Deborah, as Duchess of Devonshire; Unity, famously infatuated with Hitler; Jessica, as a young Communist, and then as the queen of muckrakers (The American Way of Death). But until now there has been no biography of one of the most extraordinary of them, the beautiful and ambitious Diana. Married at eighteen into the enormously wealthy Guinness family, Diana had it all -- brains, beauty, social position and money. She bore two sons and created a sparkling society circle that included such artists and intellectuals of the interwar years as Cecil Beaton, Lytton Strachey and Evelyn Waugh (who dedicatedVile Bodiesto her). But after only three years she was swept up in the love affair that would change her life: with Sir Oswald Mosley, MP, womanizer and charismatic founder of the British Union of Fascists. Jan Dalley's careful and dedicated research -- which included many interviews and conversations with the subject herself, now nearly ninety and living in France -- enables her to tell Diana Mosley's story in fascinating, and sometimes grim, detail. Growing enthusiasm for the Nazis spurred frequent visits to Germany and meetings with Hitler and other leaders (the Mosleys were actually married in Goebbels's house in 1936); there were struggles to raise money for Mosley's organization and, finally, after war was declared, years of internment in Holloway prison. Yet at the same time there were friendships with people like Winston Churchill (whose affectionate nickname for her was "Dinamite") and, after the war, a comfortable, if controversial, return to respectability. Hailed on publication in Britain last year as 'a triumph: reflective, considered, intelligent,' Diana Mosley brings an unforgettable figure to life, and at the same time throws a bright light onto an exceptionally dark episode of British social history. / Jan Dalley is the literary editor of the Financial Times. She has translated several books from the French and worked as a book editor. She lives in London with her three children and her husband, the poet and biographer Andrew Motion." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 383 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. *** "Abraham Lincoln's remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wilson shows us in Honor's Voice, Lincoln's transformation was not one long triumphal march, but a process that was more than once seriously derailed. There were times, in his journey from storekeeper and mill operator to lawyer and member of the Illinois state legislature, when Lincoln lost his nerve and self-confidence - on at least two occasions he became so despondent as to appear suicidal - and when his acute emotional vulnerabilities were exposed. Focusing on the crucial years between 1831 and 1842, Wilson's skillful analysis of the testimonies and writings of Lincoln's contemporaries reveals the individual behind the legends. We see Lincoln as a boy: not the dutiful son studying by firelight, but the stubborn rebel determined to make something of himself. We see him as a young man: not the ascendant statesman, but the canny local politician who was renowned for his talents in wrestling and storytelling (as well as for his extensive store of off-color jokes). Wilson also reconstructs Lincoln's frequently anguished personal life: his religious skepticism, recurrent bouts of depression, and difficult relationships with women - from Ann Rutledge to Mary Owens to Mary Todd. Meticulously researched and well written, this is a fascinating book that makes us reexamine our ideas about one of the icons of American history. / Douglas L. Wilson is Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. 429 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Gay Talese was a reporter for The New York Times from 1956 to 1965. Since then he has written for the Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, and other national publications. He is the author of eleven books. He lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. "A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected --how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back." Ted Conover's travels to Peru, East Africa, the West Bank, Ladakh (India), China, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xvi, 441 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.