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224. (INVENTIONS)...Page, James K., Director - Smithsonian Exposition Books
(Bourne, Russell, Senior Editor). THE SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF INVENTION. New
York, Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated
cloth, Small sq quarto. Very good condition in lightly worn/edgetorn dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photographs.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 photographs, art works and drawings.
Dazzling collection of artifacts from medieval clocks to space satellites,
from Newtonian glass prisms to fiber optics, From the Wright Brothers Flyer
to Helen Keller's Watch. A momument to human technology & ingenuity. With
Appendix, Index, Time Chart. Tight well-bound volume. 256 pages......$25.00
225. (IOWA)...(Adams Press) Introduction by Engle, Paul. Photographs by
Zielinski, John M. and others. PORTRAIT OF IOWA. Minneapolis, Adams Press,
1974. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in
worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very light cover wear.
Corners lightly bumped. Color & Black & white photos. Many full page color
photographs. SIGNED BY PAUL ENGLE AND JOHN M. ZIELINSKI. Beautiful
illustrated portrait - with text... of the farmscapes, cityscapes,
countryside, people and historical sites of Iowa. Tight well-bound copy.
Scarce. 176 pages......$30.00
226. (IRISH IN AMERICAN)...Coffey, Michael (Editor) Golway, Terry (Text). THE
IRISH IN AMERICA. New York, Hyperion Publishers, 1997. 1st edition. Hardcover
- 1/2 cloth/boards, Quarto. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Color & Black & white photographs. Lavishly illustrated with
hundreds of photographs & plates. Fascinating, detailed history of the Irish
in America. A celebration of Irish accomplishments commemorating the 150th
anniversary of the potato famine in ireland, which led to one of the largest
migrations of a people in history. Large volume. Tight, well-bound. 272
pages......$30.00
227. (IRISH RICH)...Birmingham, Stephen. REAL LACE: AMERICA'S IRISH RICH. New
York, Harper & Row, 1973. 4th printing. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very
good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Faint cover wear. Black
& white photographs. Indexed. Good tight copy. 322 pages......$10.00
228. (ISRAELI AFFILIATION)...Drinan, Robert F. (Foreword by Wiesel, Elie).
HONOR THE PROMISE: AMERICA'S COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL. New York, Doubleday, 1977.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Faint cover wear. PERSIBAKKT
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Good tight copy. 250 pages......$20.00
229. (JEWS IN AMERICAN LIFE)...Levitan, Tina. JEWS IN AMERICAN LIFE (FROM
1492 TO THE SPACE AGE). New York, Hebrew Publishing Co, 1969. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in lightly worn/chipped
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white plates. Bios of 90
prominent American Jewish figures. Good tight copy. 253 pages......$20.00
230. (JOHN CONNALLY - BIOGRAPHY)...Reston, James Jr. THE LONE STAR: THE LIFE
OF JOHN CONNALLY. New York, Harper & Row, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. Superbly readable
biography of Texas Governor John Connally. With Notes, Bibliography, Index.
691 pages......$15.00
231. (JOURNAL - ERIC HOFFER)...Hoffer, Eric. WORKING AND THINKING ON THE
WATERFRONT: JUNE 1959 - MAY 1959. New York, Harper & Row, 1969. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth/boards, Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corners very slightly bumped.
Longshoreman-Philosophy Hoffer's Diary during a critical period in U.S.
history. Fascinating piece of Biography/Americana. Good tight copy. 180
pages......$15.00
232. (JOURNALISM)...Austin, James C. FIELDS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY: LETTERS
TO AN EDITOR 1861 - 1870. San Marino CA, The Huntington Library, 1953. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Story of Fields,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly & portrait of the magazine's exciting years. A
vivid time when the writings of authors Holmes, Hawthorne & Emerson appeared
within its pages. Also, a broad view of the careers of those whom Fields
served & published such as Longfellow, Lowell, Dickens, Browning, Tennyson &
the Transcendentalists. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 445 pages......$18.00
233. (JOURNALISM)...Baker, Russell. THERE'S A COUNTRY IN MY CELLAR. New York,
William Morrow & Co, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large
octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. America in
the '60 and beyond as portrayed in over 120 of the author's columns which
appeared in the New York Times. 432 pages......$12.50
234. (JOURNALISM)...Berger, Meyer. THE STORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:
1851-1951. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1951. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large
octavo. Very good condition. Signature front endpaper. Black & white photos.
With fold-out facsimile page. Good tight copy. 589 pages......$17.50
235. (JOURNALISM)...Canfield, Chris. UP AND DOWN AND AROUND: A PUBLISHER
RECOLLECTS THE TIME OF HIS LIFE. New York, Harper's, 1971. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in lightly
worn/chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photos. Life of Harper's publisher, Canfield thru 3 colorful decades of
American History. Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 272 pages......$14.00
236. (JOURNALISM)...Canham, Erwin D. COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITER. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1958. 1st printing.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis & photographs. Full
story of the Moniter, visualized & established by Mary Baker Eddy in her
eighty-eighth year. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 454 pages......$15.00
237. (JOURNALISM)...Carver, Charles (Introduction by Bedochek, Roy). BRANN
AND THE ICONOCLAST. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1957. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped/edgetorn
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis &
photographs. Story of William Cowper Brann, 1890s Texas newspaperman who
built a world-wide circulation for his controversial paper... and was
murdered for his efforts. Indexed. Good tight copy. 196 pages......$20.00
238. (JOURNALISM)...Conrad, Harold (Introduction by Schulberg, Budd. Foreword
by Mailer, Norman). DEAR MUFFO: 35 YEARS IN THE FAST LANE. New York, Stein &
Day, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black
and white photographs. Fascinating memoirs of legendary newspaperman, Harold
Conrad. With Index. Good tight copy. 276 pages......$18.00
239. (JOURNALISM)...DeArmond, R.N. (editor). 'STROLLER' WHITE: TALES OF A
KLONDIKE NEWSMAN. Vancouver Canada, Mitchell Press Ltd, 1969. 1st. Hardcover
- cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly edge-stained dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Good tight copy.
182 pages......$15.00
240. (JOURNALISM)...Frank, Gerry. GERRY FRANK'S FRIDAY SURPRISE: A COLLECTION
OF HIS COLUMNS FROM THE OREGONIAN. Salem OR, Gerry's Frankly Speaking, 1995.
1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. Memories,
individuals, families, generations & events in Oregon's past & present.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 262 pages......$20.00
241. (JOURNALISM)...Kobler, John. LUCE: HIS TIME, LIFE, AND FORTUNE. London,
Macdonald, Publisher, 1968. 1st British edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. First biography of the Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc., and the
fascinating story of his publishing empire. Good tight copy. 296
pages......$16.50
242. (JOURNALISM)...Linn, James Weber. JAMES KELLY NEWSPAPERMAN.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1937. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very
good condition. Slight cover/edg wear, fading. Lightly bmped. Signatur endpr.
Black & white photos. Good tight copy. 286 pages......$20.00
243. (JOURNALISM)...Lyons, Louis M. NEWSPAPER STORY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE
BOSTON GLOBE. Cambridge MA, Belkna pages Press of Harvard, 1971. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Light shelfwear. Black
& white photos. Centennial celebration of the Boston Globe. Accounts of
famous stories - i.e. Lizzie Bordon, Sacco/Vanzetti, Coconut Grove, etc.
Profiles of distinguished Globe journalists. Inside details of Globe
publishers, editors, profits/losses, staff upheavals & much more. Includes
listing of Awards, Sources. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 482
pages......$18.00
244. (JOURNALISM)...Powell, Jody. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY. New York,
William Morrow & Co, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Journalism in American politics & government. Good tight copy. 322
pages......$10.00
245. (JOURNALISM)...Sabato, Larry J. FEEDING FRENZY: HOW ATTACK JOURNALISM
HAS TRANSFORMED AMERICAN POLITICS. New York, The Free Press, 1991. 4th
printing. Wrapped boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. With Notes, Bibliography, Name Index, Subject Index. Good
tight copy. 306 pages......$11.00
246. (JOURNALISM)...Seltzer, Louis B. (Introduction by Catton, Bruce). THE
YEARS WERE GOOD. Cleveland/New York, World Publishing Co, 1956. 1st edition.
Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly
chipped/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photographs. Autobiography of Louis Seltzer, Editor Cleveland Press. Goood
tight copy. 316 pages......$14.00
247. (JOURNALISM)...Spivak, John L. A MAN IN HIS TIME. New York, Horizon
Press, 1967. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Large octavo. Very
good condition in worn/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Signature endpaper. One of America's most courageous reporters reveals the
whole story behind his exposes of sinister forces & events. With Index. Good
tight copy. 479 pages......$20.00
248. (JOURNALISM)...(The New York Times). PAGE ONE: MAJOR EVENTS 1920-1995 AS
PRESENTED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. New York, Times Books, 1995. 1st Galahad
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Folio. Very good condition. Rear corner lightly
bumped. Black & white news photos. Reduced front page facsimiles of the New
York Times. Each with major events from 1920-1983. Tight well-bound volume.
302 pages......$18.00
249. (JUDAICA)...(Congregation Emanu-el). WHEN YESTERDAY BECOMES TOMORROW:
125th Anniversary Celebration: CONGREGATON EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
1845-1970. New York, Congregation Emanu-el of NYC, 1971. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Edges slightly bumped. Black & white
photo frontis. Good tight copy. 205......$15.00
250. (JUDAICA)...Miller, Alan W. GOD OF DANIEL S: IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN
JEW. New York, Macmillan, 1969. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corners faintly bumped.
With Bibliography. Good tight copy. 245 pages......$15.00
251. (JUDGES)...Jackson, Donald Dale. JUDGES (AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE AGONIES
AND EXCESSES OF AN AMERICAN ELITE). New York, Atheneum, 1974. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good+ in lightly chipped dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Compelling documentary of the nation's
judges - and the private ways they come to terms with their consciences...
and with the pressures of the impossible task allotted to them to perform -
that of doing justice. With Notes, extensive Index. Good tight copy. 433
pages......$25.00
252. (KENNEDY)...(Kennedy, John F.) Polley. Robert L., Editor. AMERICA THE
BEAUTIFUL: IN THE WORDS OF JOHN F. KENNEDY. Elm Grove WI, Country Beautiful
Foundation, 1964. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in lightly
worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white
photographs. With over 40 pgs of full color. Dramatic illustrations of
Kennedy & America presented as a tribute to the memory of JFK. Division of
Mr. Kennedy's words in three parts - Man and the Land, Man and the Arts, Man
and his Dignity. Good tight copy. 98 pages......$15.00
253. (KENNEDY FAMILY)...Collier, Peter & Horowitz, David. THE KENNEDYS: AN
AMERICAN DRAMA. New York, Summit Books, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white
photographs. Massive, definitive book on the history of the Kennedy family.
With extensive Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 575 pages......$12.50
254. (KENNEDYS)...Sandak, Cass R. THE KENNEDYS. New York, Crestwood House,
1991. 1st edition. Pictorial boards, octavo. Very Good condition+. Color &
Black & white photos. A photo album (with text) of the Kennedy's from "Young
Jack" through the funeral. With Index. From the First Families series. With
Index. Good tight copy. 48 pages......$12.50
255. (KENTUCKY DYNASTY)...Tifft, Susan E., & Jones, Alex S. THE PATRIARCH:
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BINGHAM DYNASTY. New York, Summit Books, 1991. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good+ in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs.
Fascinating detailed chronicle of the Bingham empire and family & business -
one of the nation's preeminent newspaper companies. With extensive Notes &
Index. Good tight copy. 574 pages......$12.50
256. (KOREA/U.S. RELATIONS)...(Yonhap News Agency). KOREA - U.S.A.
CENTENNIAL: 1882-1982. Seoul Korea, Yonhap News Agency, 1982. 1st edition.
Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Gift inscription half-title. Light creasing
several pages. Color & Black & white photographs. Decorated endpapers.
Lavishly photo-illustrated commemorative issue of 100 years of Korean /
American relations. Contents include: History of Korean/US involvement,
Koreans in America (with text & photo spreads of many prominent Korean
Americans), American Influence in Korea, Partners in Progress, Partners in
War and conflict, The Centennial year. With Appendix, Chronology. Good tight
copy. 194 pages + ads......$20.00
257. (LAKE WOBEGONE)...Keilor, Garrison. LAKE WOBEGON DAYS. New York, Viking
Press, 1985. 1st/11th printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Garrison
Keillor's America. Good tight copy. 337 pages......$10.00
258. (LAW)...Hanna, John Paul (Foreword by Clark, Justice Tom). THE COMPLETE
LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO THE LAW. New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1974. Later printing.
Wrapped boards, octavo. Very good+ in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Very slight edgewear. Huge volume. Practical
handbook covering virtually every legal problem the average citizen is likely
to face. With Glossary, Index. Good tight copy. 513 pages......$18.00
259. (LEFTIST)...Gannon, Francis, X. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE LEFT
(Vol. IV). Belmont MA, Western Island Publishers, 1973. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Owner stamp endpapers. Edge stripe. Massive volume containing background
information on many of the most influential early leaders of the Left. With
Index of Organizations, Index of Organizations. Good tight copy. 667
pages......$18.00
260. (LEGENDS & FOLKLORE)...Carmer, Carl (Decorations by Cosgrave II, John
O'Hara). DARK TREES TO THE WIND: A CYCLE OF YORK STATE YEARS. New York,
William Sloane Associates, 1949. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Bookplate endpaper. Black & white drawings. A treasury of New York folklore.
Good tight copy. 370 pages......$18.00
261. (LEGISLATORS)...Trippett, Frank. THE STATES: UNITED THEY FELL.
Cleveland/New York, World Publishing Co, 1967. 1st printing. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Penetrating but comic look at the never-never
land inhabited by our state legislators. Good tight copy. 232
pages......$12.50
262. (LESBIANISM - UNITED STATES)...Martin, Del & Lyon, Phyllis.
LESBIAN/WOMAN (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION). Volcano CA, Volcano Press,
1993. Revised edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. With Update, List of Acronyms. Good tight
copy. 428 pages......$15.00
263. (LETTERS - WILLIAM A. WHITE)...White, William Allen (Edited & with an
introduction by Johnson, Walter). SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
1899 - 1943. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1947. 1st printing. Hardcover
- cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Light cover wear. Tipped in
frontis photo. Cream of letters from the White collection. Comments on the
swiftly changing American scene from the famous spokesman of small-town and
rural America. Indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 460 pages......$25.00
264. (LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE)...Bechham, Stephen Dow (Photography by Reynolds,
Robert M.). LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE. Portland OR, Lewis & Clark College, 1991.
1st edition. Wrapped boards, Quarto. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Gilt owner stamps on cover/dust wrapper edge.
Color & Black & white photographs. Magnificently illustrated history of Lewis
& Clark College. 122 full-color photos... 32 black & white archival
photographs... Selected quotations.. Overseas program journal entries..
Poetry selections from professors.. College chronology. Elegant, tight
well-bound volume. 160 pages......$30.00
265. (LIBERALISM)...Angst, Dr. Ernst (With a special Introduction by Gold,
Victor). SO YOU WANT TO BE A LIBERAL?: THE DO-IT-YOURSELF PRIMER FOR THOSE
WHO WANT TO DO-IT-FOR-OTHERS. New York, Arlington House, 1969. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Covers/edges lightly bumpd. Black &
white drawings. One of the great humorous conservative documents ever written
- at least by the pseudonymonious Dr. Angst. Good tight copy. 127
pages......$15.00
266. (LIGHTHOUSES)...Grant, John and Jones, Roy. LEGENDARY LIGHTHOUSES. Old
Saybrook CT, Globe Pequot Press, 1998. 1st printing. Qlty paperback, Quarto.
Very Good condition+. Color photographs. Lavishly illustrated. Companion to
the PBS Television Series. Well-indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 200
pages......$16.50
267. (LINCOLN)...Weik, Jesse W. THE REAL LINCOLN: A PORTRAIT. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin, 1922. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo.
Very good condition. Very light cover/corner wear. Black & white frontis &
photographs. Well illustrated. Superb life of Abraham Lincoln. Indexed. Tight
well-bound volume. 323 pages......$30.00
268. (LINDBERGH)...Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. HOUR OF GOLD, HOUR OF LEAD:
DIARIES AND LETTERS 1929 - 1932. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Decorated
endpapers. Second volume of Anne Lindbergh's Diaries & Letters covers the
years of her early married life. Indexed. Good tight copy. 340
pages......$12.00
269. (LITERARY)...Stoddard, Richard Henry (Edited by Hitchcock, Ripley.
Introduction by Stedman, Edmund Clarence). RECOLLECTIONS: PERSONAL AND
LITERARY. New York, A. S. Barnes & Company, 1903. 1st edition. Hardcover -
decorated cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Corners very lightly
worn/bumped. Light coverwear. Black & white frontis photo & plates. A
literary feast. With Index. Good tight copy. 333 pages......$30.00
270. (LITERARY AMERICA)...Scherman, David E. and Redlich, Rosemarie. LITERARY
AMERICA. New York, Dodd Mead, 1952. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Small Quarto. Very good condition. Very light cover/edge wear.
Black & white photographs. A chronicle of American writers from 1607-1952
with 173 photographs of the American scene that inspired them. With
Photographic endpapers. Tight wellbound volume. 175 pages......$15.00
271. (LITERARY LANDMARKS)...Skiff, Frederick Woodward. LANDMARKS AND
LITERATURE: AN AMERICAN TRAVELOGUE. Portland OR, Metropolitan Press
Publisher, 1937. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition.
Slight cover/edge wear. Endpapers lightly foxed & soiled. Black & white
photos & sketches. American literary odyssey and homage. Hard to find
classic. Many pages still uncut. Good tight copy. 318 pages......$22.50
272. (LITERARY MAGAZINES)...Gibbons, Reginald and Hahn, Susan (Editors).
TQ20: TWENTY YEARS OF THE BEST CONTEMPORARY WRITING AND GRAPHICS FROM
TRIQUARTERLY MAGAZINE. New York, Pushcart Press, 1985. 1st printing.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Corner lightly bumped. Signature endpaper. Black & white
photographs & drawings. Work from 2 decades from one of America's premier
literary journals. Fiction.. Essays.. Poetry.. Photographs... Graphic Art.
"Cross-section of literary activity and accomplishment in America." Tight
well-bound volume. 668 pages......$15.00
273. (LITERARY SCENE)...Brooks, Van Wyck. THE CONFIDENT YEARS: 1885 - 1915.
New York, E.P. Dutton, 1952. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Splendid & inclusive picture of the pre WWII American literary scene
from New York to San Francisco - Chicago to New Orleans. With Index. Good
tight copy. 627 pages......$15.00
274. (LITERARY TOUR)...Skiff, Frederick W. LANDMARKS AND LITERATURE. Portland
OR, Metropolitan Press, 1937. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly worn/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white frontis & photographs. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Fascinating literary tour through through America. Encounters with a variety
of of well-known & little-known literary landmarks and authors. Many pages
uncut. Good tight copy. 318 pages......$30.00
275. (LITERATURE)...Martin, William. CAPE COD: A NOVEL. New York, Warner
Books, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Faint fading
to upper cover edges. Decorated endpapers. Good tight copy. 652
pages......$14.00
276. (LITERATURE)...McCue, James Westaway. CAPE COD DOCTOR (Based on the
experiences of a Cape Cod country doctor and his family). Plymouth County MA,
New England Book Company, 1945. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very
good condition in lightly worn/chipped clipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Light cover/edge wear. With Black & white paste-down cover
drawing. Good tight copy. 139 pages......$18.00
277. (LITERATURE)...Vidal, Gore. 1876: A NOVEL. New York, Random House, 1976.
1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Consummate work of historical
fiction. Accurate to the smallest detail. Good tight copy. 364
pages......$14.00
278. (LOS ANGELES)...Cameron, Robert. ABOVE LOS ANGELES: A COLLECTION OF
NOSTALGIC AND COMTEMPORARY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES. San
Francisco, Camerton and Company, 1981. 1st/7th printing. Hardcover - cloth,
Oblong quarto. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Gift inscription endpaper. Full page color
photos. Huge book. Impressive Low & high aerial shots of the L.A. area.
Contents include: Shoreline, Then and Now, Downtown, Environs. Also: Sports
and Entertainment, High Above. Tight well-bound volume. 159 pages......$22.50
279. (LOS ANGELES)...Weaver, John D. EL PUEBLO GRANDE: A NONFICTION BOOK
ABOUT LOS ANGELES. Los Angeles, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1973. 2nd printing.
Wrapped boards, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white
photographs. Photo/text essays of "Los angeles from the brush huts of Yanga
to the skyscrapers of the modern megalopolis. With Index. Good tight copy.
160 pages......$12.50
280. (LOUISVILLE DYNASTY)...Chandler, David Leon with Chandler, Mary Voelz.
THE BINGHAMS OF LOUISVILLE: THE DARK HISTORY BEHIND ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT
FORTUNES. New York, Crown Publishers, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Owner stamp front endpaper. Black and white
photographs. Saga of one of the South's great media empires and the family
feud that destroyed it. With extensive Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 292
pages......$12.50
281. (MADISON AVENUE)...Millman, Nancy. EMPERORS OF ADLAND: INSIDE THE
ADVERTISING REVOLUTION. New York, Warner Books, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover
- 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Corners very slightly bumped. "A true tale
of ad mogus, mega-agencies, and takeover frenzy on Madison Avenue." With
Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 225 pages......$10.00
282. (MADNESS)...Hirsch, Sherry, Adams, Joe, Frank, Leonard, Hudson, W.,
Keene, R., Karwitz-Keene, G., Richmond, David, Koth Robt. (Editors). MADNESS:
NETWORK NEWS READER. San Francisco, Glide Publications, 1974. 1st edition.
Qlty paperback, Small Quarto. Very good condition. Light cover/edge wear.
Black & white photographs & drawings. Tight well-bound volume. 192
pages......$20.00
283. (MAINE)...Chase, Mary Ellen. JONATHAN FISHER: MAINE PARSON 1768-1847.
New York, Macmillan, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Corners lightly bumped. Black & white frontis. Decorated endpapers.
Biography/American History. Good tight copy. 280 pages......$12.50
284. (MALIBU)...Banks,Michael. MALIBU. Santa Barbara CA, Fithian Press, 1992.
1st edition. Paperback, Small octavo. Very good condition. Philosophical tour
of Malibu. Good tight copy. 146 pages......$10.00
285. (MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY)...Miller, Lawrence M. AMERICAN SPIRIT: VISIONS
OF A NEW CORPORATE CULTURE. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1984. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in lightly edgeworn dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. PERSONALLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY
AUTHOR. Good tight copy. 188 pages......$20.00
286. (MARATHON - PORTLAND)...Wooley, Nadine A. GOING THE DISTANCE: THE
PORTLAND MARATHON. Portland OR, Friends of the Marathon, 1990. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photographs. The history of
the Portland (Oregon) Marathon, illustrated with over 300 photos. With
charts, maps & hundreds of footnotes. Beautifully illustrated elegant volume
- communicates the stories, the excitement, the romance & willpower that
propels runners & walkers - the essence of the Portland Marathon. Tight
well-bound volume. 128 pages......$17.50
287. (MASS MEDIA)...Mitroff, Ian I. and Bennis, Warren. THE UNREALITY
INDUSTRY: THE DELIBERATE MANUFACTURING OF FALSEHOOD AND WHAT IT IS DOING TO
OUR LIVES. New York, Carol Publishing, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Bookplate front endpaper. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 218
pages......$12.00
288. (MASS MEDIA)...Shields, David. REMOTE. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Small octavo. Very good+ in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black and white photographs. Good
tight copy. 206 pages......$10.00
289. (MASSACHUSETTS)...Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell. BEING LITTLE IN CAMBRIDGE
WHEN EVERYONE ELSE WAS BIG. New York, D. Appleton-Century Co, 1936. 1st.
Hardcover - Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Silhouette
illustrations. Author Eleanor Abbott tells the story of her own childhood.
Black & white frontis photo. Good tight copy. 280 pages......$12.50
290. (MATHEW BRADY)...Horan, James D. (Picture collation by Horan, Gertrude).
MATHEW BRADY: HISTORIAN WITH A CAMERA. New York, Bonanza Books, 1955. Reprint
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in lightly soiled
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs.
Corners worn/bumped. With over 500 illustrations, including exclusive
photographs from the Brady-Handy Collection. Most complete story of Mathew
Brady's life ever published - containing a wealth of newly uncovered
material. Plus a 500-picture photo album of the famous Civil War
photographer. With Bibliography, Index, Picture Index. Tight well-bound
volume. 244 pages......$15.00
291. (MAYFLOWER HOTEL)...Cohen, Judith R. THE MAYFLOWER HOTEL: GRANDE DAME OF
WASHINGTON, D.C. New York, Balance House Ltd, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Small remainder mark. Color & Black & white
photographs. Pictorial endpapers. Magnificently illustrated history of the
famous Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. Tight well-bound volume. 160
pages......$16.50
292. (MEDIA)...Armstrong, David (With Foreword by Bagdikian, Ben H.). A
TRUMPET TO ARMS: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN AMERICA. Los Angeles, J.P. Tarcher,
1981. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. History of
media activists & their creations; alternative newspapers, mags, video
projects radio stations, film coops etc. First comprehensive study of a vast
underground media which has changed the American political consciousness. With
Sources, Chronology, Bibliography, detailed Index. Good tight copy. 384
pages......$20.00
293. (MEDIA)...(Editors of TIME). TIME ANNUAL 1997: THE YEAR IN REVIEW. New
York, Time Inc, 1998. 1st edition. Boards, Small Quarto. Very good+ in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. 2" closed slit dust wrapper cover.
Color photographs. Lavishly photo-illustrated summation of Time Magazine's
coverage of 1997. Well-indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 170
pages......$16.50
294. (MEDIA & JUSTICE)...Surette, Ray, Ph.D., Editor (Criminal Justice Dept.,
School of PUblic Affairs & Services, Florida International Univ.). JUSTICE
AND THE MEDIA: ISSUES AND RESEARCH. Springfield IL, Charles C. Thomas,
Publisher, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Foreword by J.
Garofalo, Ph.D. Examination of the controversy over the relationship between
the media & criminal justice. Contributors include prominent members of the
Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Media & Educational fields. Detailed
examination of the interactions of the media and public attitudes between
crime & justice, crime & violent behavior, crime control & criminal case
processing. Plus chapters studying the interaction of the news media and the
courtroom. With Subject Index. Good tight copy. 337 pages......$30.00
295. (MEDICAL AVARICE)...Harmer, Ruth Mulvey (Foreword by Voorhis, Jerry).
AMERICAN MEDICAL AVARICE. New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1975. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Corners faintly bumped. Owner signature endpapr. With Notes,
Index. Good tight copy. 333 pages......$12.50
296. (MEMOIR - DAVID BRINKLEY)...Brinkley, David. DAVID BRINKLEY: A MEMOIR.
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black &
white photographs. Good tight copy. 273 pages......$10.00
297. (MEMOIRS)...Terkel, Studs. TALKING TO MYSELF: A MEMOIR OF MY TIMES. New
York, Pantheon Books, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. PHOTOGRAPHIC
ENDPAPERS. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STUDS TERKEL. Good tight copy. 316
pages......$30.00
298. (MEMORIAL ADDRESSES)...(Government Printing Office). MEMORIAL ADDRESSES
ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF EDWARD C. WALTHALL (LATE A SENATOR FROM
MISSOURI). Washington D.C, Government Printing Office, 1899. 1st edition.
Hardcover - decorated cloth, Imperial octavo. Good condition+. Covers lightly
worn. Corners worn/bumped. Hinge starting. Black & white frontis photograph.
Good tight copy. 154 pages......$20.00
299. (METHODISM - CALIFORNIA)...Loofbourow, Leon L. IN SEARCH OF GOD'S GOLD:
A STORY OF CONTINUED CHRISTIAN PIONERING IN CALIFORNIA. Stockton CA,
Cal.Historical Methodist Soc, 1950. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white photographs. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. With 100 photographs.
History of the Methodist church in north-of-Tehachapi California. Indexed.
Good tight copy. 314 pages......$30.00
300. (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART)...Tomkins, Calvin. MERCHANTS AND
MASTERPIECES: THE STORY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. New York, E.P.
Dutton, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Owner
inscription/tag endpapers. Black & white photographs. History of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art - the ideas, personalities & financial power
behind its climb to greatness. Well illustrated & Indexed. Good tight copy.
383 pages......$16.00
301. (MIAMI)...Rieff, David. GOING TO MIAMI: EXILES, TOURISTS AND REFUGEES IN
THE NEW AMERICA. Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1987. 1st edition. 230 pages,
Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Fascinating portrait of multifaceted Miami.
Good tight copy. 230 pages......$10.00
302. (MICHIGAN)...Hamper, Ben. RIVETHEAD: TALES FROM THE ASSEMBLY LINE. New
York, Warner Books, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Life on
the Detroit assembly lines. Riveting prose. Good tight copy. 234
pages......$13.50
303. (MIDDLE AGE)...Bergquist, William H., Greenberg, Elinor Miller, Klaum,
G. Alan. IN OUR FIFTIES: VOICES OF MEN AND WOMEN REINVENTING THEIR LIVES. San
Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. The
realities of middle-aged life - with insights for self-exploration & personal
development. How the fifties can represent a time of reinvention and growth.
With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 200 pages......$12.00
304. (MIT)...Hapgood, Fred. UP THE INFINITE CORRIDOR: MIT AND THE TECHNICAL
IMAGINATION. Reading MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992. 1st printing.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 203
pages......$10.00
305. (MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE)...Bethell, Tom. THE ELECTRIC WINDMILL: AN
INADVERTENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Washington D.C, Regnery Gateway, 1988. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Eclectic, entertaining essays on modern culture.
Good tight copy. 294 pages......$11.00
306. (MORALS)...(Cowles Educational Corporation). MORALS '68 (A Cowles
Special in cooperation with United Press International). New York, Cowles,
1968. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Folio. Very good condition in
lightly worn, chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color &
Black & white photos. Photo illustrated. Subjects include: Love & Hate in
Hippieland, Decline & Fall of Middle-Aged Morals, Sex goes to College. Also:
Drugs - a Generation Gone to Pot, Gambling, Civil Rights, New Nudity,
Vietnam, Sex Revolution, Hippies. Plus Psychiatrist's Test: Rate Your Own
Morals. Scarce. Good tight copy. 66 pages......$18.00
307. (MOUNT VERNON)...(The Mount Vernon Ladies Association). MOUNT VERNON: AN
ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK. Mt. Vernon VA, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn, 1974. Qlty
paperback, Small octavo. Very Good condition+. Lower corner just slightly
bumped. Color & Black & white plates. Good tight copy. 115 pages......$11.00
308. (MOUNTAINEERING)...Ranous, Charles and Dorothy. THE INNER ZONE. Madison
WI, College Printing & Typing Co, 1968. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Color photographs. Mountaineering, backpacking,
climbing - an appreciation of some of the great wilderness ranges in the
United States... especially the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Lavishly
illustrated with rich color photographs. With trip-planning Appendix, Index.
Tight well-bound volume. 191 pages......$25.00
309. (MUKILTEO)...(Mukilteo Historical Society). MUKILTEO: PICTURES AND
MEMORIES. Seattle WA, Ballard Publishing Co, 1977. 1st printing. Qlty
paperback, Quarto. Very Good condition+. Faint cover wear. Black and white
photographs. Pictorial history of the city of Mikilteo, Washington. Good
tight copy. 175 pages......$15.00
310. (MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC CLUB)...McIvor, Kristyn, Freeman, Joel D., Hill,
Luana Hellmann (Design by Graphic Media, Inc.). LEGACY OF THE TWENTY-SIX: A
CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST 100 YEARS OF THE MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC CLUB. Portland
OR, Multnomah Athletic Club, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
Quarto. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photographs. Decorated endpapers.
Elegant volume celebrating the Centennial of the Multnomah Athletic Club in
Portland, Oregon. Member's edition. Beautifully photo-illustrated with
hundreds of color & Black & white photographs. Decade by decade history of
the athletic club and its members. With Appendix including Presidents, Room
of Champions, 50-Year Members, Bibliography. Plus listing of Multnomah
Athletic Club Olympians. Tight well-bound volume. 177 pages......$25.00
311. (MYSTERIES)...Gardner, Joseph L. (Project Editor). MYSTERIES OF THE
ANCIENT AMERICAS: THE NEW WORLD BEFORE COLUMBUS. New York, Reader's Digest,
1988. 2nd printing. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Quarto. Very good condition
in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black &
white plates. Beautifully illustrated - more than 350 (mostly in full color)
drawings, paintings and other works of art, plus photos of sites. Mysteries
of Pre-Columbian America. Major subjects include: Visitors from lands beyond,
Lost Tribes, Islands in the Mist, The Olmec Enigma, The Mayans, Pyramids,
Hidden tombs, Lost Cities, the Aztecs, The Anasazi of Chaco Canyon, the
Aztecs - and much more. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 320
pages......$15.00
312. (NABISCO)...Burrough, Bryan and Helyar, John. BARBARIANS AT THE GATE:
THE FALL OF RJR NABISCO. New York, Harper & Row, 1990. 2nd printing.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. Well-Indexed. Good
tight copy. 528 pages......$10.00
313. (NAPA VALLEY)...Roberge, Earl (Photography and Text). NAPA WINE COUNTRY.
Portland OR, Graphic Arts Center, 1985. 2nd edition. Hardcover - cloth,
Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Full page color plates. Revised, expanded edition with 35 new photographs.
Lush photographic tribute to the famous Napa wine growing region. The
ultimate journey through the Valley - tasting rooms, traditions, family ties,
vineyards, large corporations, small independents, winemaking rooms, grapes,
goblets, casks & craftsmen. Breathtaking views of the vineyards &
countryside. With Glossary & Photodata. Tight well-bound volume. 223
pages......$25.00
314. (NARCISSISM)...Stern, Aaron, M.D., Ph.D. ME: THE NARCISSISTIC AMERICAN.
New York, Ballantine Books, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/clipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Light corner wear. Good tight copy. 194
pages......$11.00
315. (NATION)...Heuvel, Katrina Vanden (Editor) Introduction by Doctorow,
E.L. Afterword by Navasky, Victor. THE NATION: 1865-1990: SELECTIONS FRON THE
INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE OF POLITICS AND CULTURE. New York, Thunder's Mouth
Press, 1990. 1st printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Introduction by E.L. Doctorow. Good
tight copy. 534 pages......$15.00
316. (NATIONAL PARKS)...Severy, Merle (Editor), National Geographic Book
Service. AMERICA'S WONDERLANDS: THE SCENIC NATIONAL PARKS AND MONUMENTS OF
THE UNITED STATES. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1959. 1st.
Hardcover - decorated cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good condition. Very light
edge wear. Color & Black & white photos. 466 photo illustrations - 390 in
full color. With color map of National Parks, Monuments & Shrines in US &
Canada in book pouch. Including sections on Alaska & Hawaii. Magnificent,
well-bound volume. 512 pages......$25.00
317. (NATIONAL SECURITY)...Clinton, William J. A NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
OF ENGAGEMENT AND ENLARGEMENT: 1995-1996. Washington/London, Brassey's, 1995.
1st Brassey's. Wrapped boards, 16mo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. American strategic objectives as presented to the
U.S. Congress by President Clinton. Good tight copy. 144 pages......$10.00
318. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Bird, Mary Brave with Erdoes, Richard. OHITIKA
WOMAN. New York, Grove Press, 1993. 1st edition. Boards, Small octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Tiny cover
scrape. Powerful true story of the Author's coming of age in the Indian civil
rights movement. Good tight copy. 274 pages......$11.00
319. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Curtis, Edward S. (Introduction & Commentary by
Fowler, Don D.). IN A SACRED MANNER WE LIVE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH
AMERICAN INDIAN. New York, Weathervane Books, 1972. 1st Weathervne. Hardcover
- cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in lightly chipped/soiled dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Brown tinted photographs. 120 superb
photographs. Contents include text on "Edward Curtis", "The Indians" plus
sections on the Tribes of.... The Plains, The Southwest, The Plateau, The
Desert West, Northern & Central California, The Northwest Coast, The Eskimo.
With Footnotes, Bibliographical Notes, plus Illustrations & Source
References. Tight well-bound volume. 152 pages......$22.50
320. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...(E.P. Dutton). MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION - SHOWN BY
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM PRIMEVAL TIMES TO THE COMING OF THE INDUSTRIAL
STATE. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1968. 1st edition. Engraved cloth, Large
octavo. Good in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Cover &
edge wear. Edges slightly bumped. Black & white photos. Native American -
archaeology. Good tight copy. 332 pages......$15.00
321. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Feher-Elston, Catherine (Foreword by Keakiinohomoku,
Dr. Joann). CHILDREN OF SACRED GROUND: AMERICA'S LAST INDIAN WAR. Flagstaff
AZ, Northland Publishing, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white frontis photo. The struggle between the Navajo & Hope Tribes
for land and cultural survival - with the Federal Government as referee.
Story of the roots of the conflict, its complex elements and its players.
Good tight copy. 186 pages......$14.00
322. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Gattuso, John (Editor) Dorris, Michael
(Introduction) Silko, Leslie Marmon (Foreword). A CIRCLE OF NATIONS: VOICES
AND VISIONS OF AMERICAN INDIANS - NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE WRITERS &
PHOTOGRAPHERS. Hillsboro OR, Beyond Words Publishing, 1993. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Quarto. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photographs. Collection of
photographs & writings by Native American artists & authors. Topics include:
Identity.. Religion.. Culure... Religion.. Mystical experiences..
Contemporary life - and much more. With Notes on the Photographs. Tight
well-bound volume. 128 pages......$25.00
323. (NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS)...Hirschfelder, Arlene & Molin, Paulette.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS. New York, Facts On File, 1992.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Comprehensive resource to the spiritual
traditions & practices of Native Anericans in the U.S. & Canada. With over
12,00 entries, alphabetically arranged & cross referenced, covering a broad
range of topics, including: Religious practitioners, Belief & Worship,
Religious Movements, Prophets, Peyote religion, Burial Desecration - and much
more. With extensive Subject Index. Good tight copy. 367 pages......$25.00
324. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Linderman, Frank Bird (Introduction by Dempsey, Hugh
A.). WOLF AND THE WINDS. Norman OK, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1986. 1st
edition. Wrapped boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Fictional story of a real person - Wolf, a Gros Ventre
leader, inspired by his medicine dream & led by his spirit guides... who
lived out his life before his tribe was starved and hounded into submission.
Good tight copy. 215 pages......$13.50
325. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...McLuhan, T. C., (Compiler, Editor). TOUCH THE EARTH:
A SELF-PORTRAIT OF INDIAN EXISTENCE. New York, Promontory Press, 1971. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Square octavo. Very good condition in lightly
worn/chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Tinted photographs.
Photo-illustrated selection of statements & writings by North American
Indians..illuminating the course of Indian History... and the aibding values
of Indian life. With Notes, Sources. Tight well-bound volume. 185
pages......$17.50
326. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Meadows, Kenneth. THE MEDICINE WAY: A SHAMANIC PATH
TO SELF MASTERY. Rockport MA, Element Publishers, 1991. 1st U.S. Paperback.
octavo. Very good condition. Black & white drawings & diagrams. How Native
American Shamanic Principles can be applied in the journey toward
self-discovery. Subjects include: The 4 Great Powers, The Mind Machine,
Smudging to Cleanse the Aura, Crystal Power, The Rite of Creativity - and
much more. With Glossary, Index. Good tight copy. 228 pages......$11.00
327. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Meighan, Clement W. & Riddell, Francis A. (Foreword
by Dentzel, Carl Schaefer). THE MARU CULT OF THE POMO INDIANS: A CALIFORNIA
GHOST DANCE SURVIVAL. Los Angeles, Southwest Museum, 1972. 1st edition.
Hardcover - decorated cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good condition. Black &
white photos & drawings. #23 of the Southwest Museum Papers. Details of the
20th Century survival - and Maru presentation - of the Ghost Dance.
Well-illustrated. Contents include: The Setting, The Bighead Dance, The Music
and Singers, Popular Dances Accompanying the Bighead Dance, The Audience,
Conclusions, Additional Maru Ceremonies, Inventories and Lists of Pomo Terms,
Ceremony at Grindstone, The Stewarts Point Manu. With Notes, References.
Tight well-bound volume. 134 pages......$30.00
328. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Ross, Dr. A.C. EHANAMANI "WALKS AMONG": AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY DR. C.A. ROSS. Kyle SD, Bear Publishers, 1992. 1st edition.
Qlty paperback, Small octavo. Very Good condition+. Black & white frontis &
photograph. The winter count of a Santee Dakota Educator, Historian, and
Spiritual Guide. Good tight copy. 199 pages......$10.00
329. (NATIVE AMERICAN SHAKERS)...Ruby, Robert H. and Brown, John A. (Foreword
by Gould, Richard A.). JOHN SLOCUM AND THE INDIAN SHAKER CHURCH. Norman OK,
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large
octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black &
white photographs. Comprehensive, well-written history of the Indian Shaker
Church in Washington, British Columbia... including the life of the Squaxim
spiritual leader John Slocum. With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good tight
copy. 300 pages......$20.00
330. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Sams, Jamie and Carson, David (Illustrated by
Werneke, Angela C.). MEDICINE CARDS: THE DISCOVERY OF POWER THROUGH THE WAYS
OF ANIMALS. Santa Fe NM, Bear and Company, 1988. Later printing. Hardcover -
decorated cloth, octavo. Very Good condition+. Black and white drawings. Book
only. Illustrations and detailed information on the various animal powers
(medicine cards)... their interpretations and how to utilize their powers and
attributes. With Notes. Good tight copy. 222 pages......$10.00
331. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Wall, Steve and Arden, Harvey. WISDOMKEEPERS:
MEETINGS WITH NATIVE AMERICAN SPIRITUAL ELDERS. Hillsboro OR, Beyond Words
Publishing, 1990. Paperback. Small Quarto. Very Good condition+. Color &
Black & white photographs. Decorated endpapers. Photo-illustrated interviews
with modern Native American spiritual leaders. With Photographer's Notes.
Good tight copy. 128 pages......$13.50
332. (NATIVE AMERICAN)...Woodhead, Henry (Editor). THE SPIRIT WORLD.
Alexandria VA, Time-Life Books, 1992. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small
Quarto. Very good condition. Small owner inscription front endpaper. Color &
Black & white illustrations. Beautifully illustrated. Many full page color
photographs. Native American methods of contacting the spirit world. With
tipped-in color title plate. Sections include: Faces of the Supernatural,
Touching the Great Mystery, The Wisdom of the Creatures, The Power of the
Green Stalk, Crying for a Vision, The Sacred Shelters, Winged Envoys to the
Gods - and more. With Bibliography, Picture Credits, Index. Good tight copy.
176 pages......$11.00
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