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Mount Vernon/New York. 1957. Peter Pauper Press. 1st of This Edition. Very Good in Hardcover and Worn Dustjacket With Many Pieces Missing . Illustrated by Stanley Wyatt. 62 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mathematics Puzzles Games. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A collection of 113 brain teasers, or as the author (or rather, collector and editor) calls it - recreational mathematics, to be solved by clear thinking, arithmetic, or algebra.Solutions provided to most. inventory #47700

Brooklyn. 2016. December 2016. Berghahn Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781785334351. 188 pages. paperback. keywords: . FROM THE PUBLISHER - There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed fills that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon. Edited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib, the essays collected here offer a critique of such an absence, exploring its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork-based anthropological projects conducted by colleagues from outside the U.S. This volume contains an introduction written by the editors and fieldwork-based essays written by Helena Wulff, Jasmin Habib, Limor Darash, Ulf Hannerz, and Moshe Shokeid, and reflections on the broad issue written by Geoffrey White, Keiko Ikeda, and Jane Desmond. Suitable for introductory and mid-level anthropology courses, America Observed will… Read More

Berkeley. 2014. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With A Small Tear at the Front Middle Spine. 9780520281677. 6 x 9. 322 pages . hardcover. keywords: Christianity U S History Religion . FROM THE PUBLISHER - By expanding and complicating the terrain of American religious history to include a group not usually seen to be a carrier of religious beliefs and rituals, That Religion in Which All Men Agree shows how Freemasonry's American history contributes to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture. inventory #40731 ISBN: 9780520281677.

Princeton. 2009. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Foxing Along the Edge. 9780691128061. 18 halftones. 312 pages. hardcover. Cover artwork by David Hockney. keywords: History Literature Elizabeth I Shakespeare. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? There is no evidence of such a meeting, yet for three centuries writers and artists have been provoked and inspired to imagine it. SHAKESPEARE AND ELIZABETH is the first book to explore the rich history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how and why the mythology of these two charismatic and enduring cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. Helen Hackett follows the history of meetings between Shakespeare and Elizabeth through historical novels, plays, paintings, and films, ranging from well-known works such as Sir Walter Scott's KENILWORTH and the film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE to lesser known but… Read More

New York. 2003. July 2003. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385509456. 226 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design By Michael Ian Kaye. Jacket Illustration By Alejanoro Cardenas For Art Department. Author Photograph (c) Clare Mcnamee . keywords: Literature America Autism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order, and predictability shelter him from the messy wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and… Read More

New York. 2006. Doubleday. Advacne Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0385520514. 372 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. ‘The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting re-married, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has ‘strangler's hands.' Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother… Read More

San Francisco. 1975. Momo's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Very Slightly Worn Wrappers. unpaginated. paperback. The cover photo is by Adal. Signed by the Author. keywords: Poetry America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn's work was first heralded by Kenneth Rexroth in the now well-known McGraw-Hill book, FOUR YOUNG WOMEN: POEMS. Her childhood in the Philippines and addiction to popular rock ‘n roll and black soul music made for the tense lyric beauty in poems about her ambiguous arrival and coming of age in America. DANGEROUS MUSIC moves back and forth between the Philippines, San Francisco and New York. It, too, is a celebration of music, this time Latin soul and avantgarde jazz as a way into the exploration of ancestral roots, love, mysticism, sex & drugs. The Blossoming of Bong Bong, the one story in the book, is the tragi-comic adventure of a young man who comes from Manila to San Francisco and finds himself totally unable to relate to the culture,… Read More

New York. 2003. October 2003. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670884588. 329 pages. hardcover. Jacket art - Visayan Woman, 1903/Jonathan Best. Jacket design by Michelle Ishay. keywords: Literature Philippines Women America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Two seemingly unrelated events occur in the Philippines-the discovery of the Taobo, an ancient lost tribe living in a remote mountainous area, and the arrival of an American, celebrity-studded film crew, there to make an epic Vietnam War movie. But the 'lost tribe' just might be a clever hoax masterminded by a brooding wealthy iconoclast-and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and their own egos. As the consequences of these events play out, four unforgettable characters find themselves drawn together, sometimes passionately, sometimes violently. The iconoclast playboy, Zamora de Legazpi, renowned for being the first outsider to make contact with the Taobo… Read More

Boston. 1996. August 1996. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0395754127. 311 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. Front jacket art: ‘Time’ (1965) by Mati Klarwein. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jessica Hagedorn's first novel, Dogeaters, was nominated for the National Book Award and hailed by Robert Stone as ' the definitive novel of the encounter between the Philippines and America.' Hagedorn's long-awaited second novel, The Gangster of Love, is equally compelling as she continues to illuminate flamboyantly that intersection where American pop culture and local Filipino tradition commingle. Alternating between the Philippines and the United States, The Gangster of Love is the story of Rocky Rivera, who plays in a dissolute rock band with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Elvis Chang. Rocky's spirited and deeply traditional mother, Milagros, her troubled and bedeviled brother, Voltaire, her wonderfully… 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

San Francisco. 1981. Momo's Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Hardcover.No Dustjacket. 0917672151. 90 pages. hardcover. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - PET FOOD AND TROPICAL APPARATIONS collects examples of Hagedorn's sexually-charged poetry, including a depiction of a transvestite with a blue wig, an earthy hymn to reggae singer Bob Marley, and a sado-masochistic declaration of female liberation. The collection also presents the comic novella Pet Food, which follows George Sand, a Filipino American teenager who lives a bohemian lifestyle in San Francisco, surrounded by street denizens, artists, pornographers, and drug abusers. inventory #15455 ISBN: 0917672151.

New York. 1994. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0671792350. 271 pages. hardcover. keywords: Autobiography Family Race Black Women America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Growing up in Connecticut in the 1940s and 1950s, the daughter of a prominent black Baptist minister, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip enjoyed a position of privilege and security in her identity that for many years she took for granted. For her mother, Margaret, and the rest of the Morris family, fair skin had been a double-edged legacy, a contrast to the Reverend Taylor's dark, proud, and successful clan. Light enough to 'pass,' Margaret's father and surviving siblings, descendants of an Irish immigrant and a mulatto slave, had disappeared into the white world, abandoning her and cutting themselves off from their tangled roots. Shirlee grew to adulthood moving easily between the black world and the white, but with an unfulfilled dream of discovering what had become of her mother's family. As Margaret… Read More

New York. 1988. Dutton. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0525444084. 32 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children . FROM THE PUBLISHER - An exciting, full-color photographic book about painted faces from around the world for children to look at, read about, and be inspired by. Some have meaning in other cultures. Some are children's own designs. inventory #11175 ISBN: 0525444084.

New York. 1993. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark On Bottom Edge. 0679415270. 187 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Indian Women Essays. FROM THE PUBLISHER - These autobiographical essays by a member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe interweave personal experiences with striking portraits of relatives, both living and dead, to form a rich tapestry of history, storytelling, and remembrance. Hale's is a story of intense and resonant beauty. Breathtaking in its range and authority, Bloodlines is an important addition to the literature of women of color. 'In this set of eight brooding but brave essays, she confronts the painful facts not only of her life but of the tragically difficult lives of several generations of her female relatives. As Hale delves into her past, she perceives the deep roots of her struggle for survival and achievement, and recognizes the unseverable bond that connects her to her culture.' -Booklist. inventory #18282 ISBN: 0679415270.

New York. 1993. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0679415270. 187 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Indian Women Essays. FROM THE PUBLISHER - These autobiographical essays by a member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe interweave personal experiences with striking portraits of relatives, both living and dead, to form a rich tapestry of history, storytelling, and remembrance. Hale's is a story of intense and resonant beauty. Breathtaking in its range and authority, Bloodlines is an important addition to the literature of women of color. 'In this set of eight brooding but brave essays, she confronts the painful facts not only of her life but of the tragically difficult lives of several generations of her female relatives. As Hale delves into her past, she perceives the deep roots of her struggle for survival and achievement, and recognizes the unseverable bond that connects her to her culture.' -Booklist. inventory #22753 ISBN: 0679415270.

New York. 1998. Scribner. Uncorrected Proofs. Very Good in Wrappers. 0684834715. 393 pages. paperback. keywords: Black Autobiography America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - She vowed to find a better world for her children.  Even if she had to make it herself. A sweeping epic of contemporary history by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley, this magnificent novel weaves an unforgettable story of one family, three generations, and their search for the American dream. She is the heart and soul of her family who, through faith and courage, drives herself, her children, and her grandchildren onward, determined to propel them to a better place. Mama Flora, born to poor sharecroppers in Tennessee, is forced to raise her children alone after the murder of her husband. But it will not be Willie, her son, who fulfills her ambitions, but Ruthana, the niece she raises as her own. Inspired by her love for the radical poet Ben, Ruthana seeks her soul in Africa even as Willie's son and daughter embrace Black… Read More

New York. 1998. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684834715. 394 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & illustration by Honi Werner. keywords: Black Autobiography America History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - She vowed to find a better world for her children.  Even if she had to make it herself. A sweeping epic of contemporary history by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley, this magnificent novel weaves an unforgettable story of one family, three generations, and their search for the American dream. She is the heart and soul of her family who, through faith and courage, drives herself, her children, and her grandchildren onward, determined to propel them to a better place. Mama Flora, born to poor sharecroppers in Tennessee, is forced to raise her children alone after the murder of her husband. But it will not be Willie, her son, who fulfills her ambitions, but Ruthana, the niece she raises as her own. Inspired by her love for the radical poet Ben, Ruthana seeks her soul… Read More

Boston. 2016. March 2016. David Godine. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781567925616. 164 pages. paperback. keywords: Books Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Let the buyer beware. Flush with $400,000 dollars from selling his great great grandfather's correspondence with Victorian authors, Larry Dickerson, retired bank clerk, amateur editor, and literary neophyte, needs a creative outlet for his newly acquired funds and quickly escalating love of all things bookish. His journey begins with collecting rare editions of Victorian novelists and spirals rapidly into the extensive abyss of New Yorker authors, his obsession growing with each new purchase. James Thurber, E B White, Vladimir Nabokov, J D Salinger, and Dorothy Parker all find their way onto Larry's shortlist, standing alongside previously acquired Victorian greats: Trollope, Dickens, Thackeray, and Hardy. Larry approaches the biggest names in rare book collecting with a childish glee, and with refreshing brashness, finds… Read More

New York. 1983. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Slight Wear to Top Edge Of Boards,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670411140. 502 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - JUST RELATIONS is set in the town of Whitey's Fall, a declining former gold town peopled by a set of aging eccentrics, whose only religion is ‘Remembering.' The townspeople include - Felicia Brinsmead, a seventy-three-year old spinster who has never had her hair cut so that it hangs over her like a huge, dirty web and who believes that she is the mother of a twelve-year-old boy, Fido; The narcissistic Mr. Ping, who willfully destroys his fading beauty; And there is the spirit of Kel McAlon, who has killed himself. Into this community comes beautiful thirty-four-year-old Vivien Lang, with whom the teenager Billy Swan falls in love, to the scandal of some of the town. To it also comes Senator Frank Halloran to inform the community that a highway is being built through to bring the town… Read More

New York. 1988. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0374181586 . 622 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in the near future, this Australian writer's thrid novel begins with a referendum to declare independence for Australia. It is a warning of sorts, an expansive book about the seductions and dissatisfactions of power and its intangible but transforming effect on character. inventory #11096 ISBN: 0374181586 .