New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2003 What is the relationship between modernity and modernism? Between high modernism and what used to be called minority literature? For decades it has been a given that American modernism was the purview of a narrow group of white Euro-Americans. Writers on the margin - African Americans, Jews, and Latinos, for instance - have long been considered too political or too parochial to have a place in the modernist canon. The essays in this collection, written in tribute to the lat... more information

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New York: Ecco, 2006 In the first decades of the 19th century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers - and fortune hunters - than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle Ages, held the promise of wealth and fame for the first explorer to make it there. In 1824, the French Geograhical Society offered a cash prize to the first expedition from any nation to visit Timbuktu and return to tell the tale. Unwilling ... more information

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New York: Viking Press, 1987 In eighty striking duo tone photographs accompanied by seventy penetrating essays, Brendan Boyd and Henry Horenstein capture the gritty, elegant essence of a fascinating closed universe - the thoroughbred racetrack. Here is the subculture that lurks behind the glitter and the Derby Day TV cameras - a world of illusion and longing, of smart money and sure things, of big payoffs and endless losing streaks. Here, too, are all the raffish peripheral characters who populate this vivi... more information

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Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Free Press, 2004 Kirkus Reviews (starred review) said of this book: "One of the best forays into the Days of Rage - event, prequel, and sequel - to have appeared in years." In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Undergraound and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacificsts, and civil right... more information

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Dodd. Mead & Company, 1985 The jacket has a few scuffs along the sides. Price not clipped. Binding has bent edges on the spine ends. 128 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Horizon Books, 1997 This is Book 1 of The Cross and the Tomahawk series. The motivation of the author to write this series comes from a 300-year-old connection to one of the principal characters, Roger Williams, who is his great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather. From the author: "I stand at the dawn of the early 17th century in the ancient New England woods and look about me at the oncoming collison of two wildly disparate cultures. Even though I have wandered ... more information

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: E C W Press, 2000 This is an insider's look at the birth, evolution and growing popularity of Christian rock music. As the counter-culture movement of the sixties gathered steam, one of its first splinter groups was the Jesus freaks. In addition to newly hip pastors, the scene produced a handful of musicians who brazenly coupled rock & roll music with lyrics that reflected a Christian world-view. Jesus music was born. But by the late sixties, Christian rock had been rejecte... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1992 The 1961 film version of a Raisin in the Sun, with a screenplay by the author won an award at the Cannes Film Festival, even though one-third of the actual screenplay Hansberry had written was cut out. The film did essentially bring Hansberry's extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision. Now, with this landmark edition of Hansberry's original script for the movie that audiences never viewed, readers have at hand an epic, e... more information

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Dove Books, 1996 Dustjacket is in a protective cover. Cover illustration by Tanya Maiboroda. Pages slightly discolored on edges. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Press, 2002 Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by recieving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ethical questions. In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a v... more information

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Champaign, IL: Garrard Publishing Company, 1971 Summary: Mythology, epic of India. Each chapter includes a sacred item, and tells why the item is sacred and valuable. Includes kings and queens of that time, and Hanuman, who became immortal. To this day monkeys in India are honored and kept safe in memory of Hanuman the Warrior and his devotion to Lord Rama, whose long rule is still known as the Golden Age. A great book with nice illustrations, some framed. For an older reader. 96 pages. 8vo - over 7¾... more information

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Penguin Books, 1987 This book has never been read. The book is about a young divorced woman who sets out to discover her family, visiting her grandparents and compiling a picture of her ancestors from their memories. 228 pages, includes a family tree. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.... more information

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Camp Hill, PA, U.S.A.: Horizon Books, 1997 Some cried War! and spilled the blood of man upon the soil. Some preached Peace, and begged the blood of God upon the soul. "Most of the people you will meet in these pages are real people whose stories were first told in the journals, diaries, pamphlets, books, and town records of the 17th century New England colonists The culture of the New England Indian and the New England colonist is widely documented - I have tried very hard to walk in the moccasins of t... more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 NEW - For more than two decades, Ray Troll has been luring, hooking, and landing fans around the world with his zany, irreverent, often surreal art. Featured in museums, galleries, and books and on immensely popular T-shirts, his work - part natural history adventure and part underground comic - depicts all kinds of beautiful fish with scientific accuracy, as well as Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of extinct animals and much mo... more information

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London, England: Grandreams, 1994 These five books will delight any young listener or reader. They include Rapunzel, Gulliver's Travels, Puss in Boots, Thumbelina and Alice in Wonderland. The volumes are unpaginated but are approximately 58 pages each. All are illustrated in full color with pictorial laminated covers. One of the books is missing the lamination for about 1" along the spine. These books are great to read aloud, or for children to read to themselves. They are printed in an easy-to-rea... more information

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Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1991 This book was a textbook and has a great variety of stories, poems, science fiction, informational works and folk tales. Well illustrated, pages are glossy which illuminates the drawings and photos. Something in this book for everyone! 590 pages including a glossary and brief dictionary. Cover is in very good condition. Bent at the corners and 2 small chips on the edges. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1973 Chronicles a young boy's continuing conflict with his father while growing up on a Missouri farm during the Depression. For ages 11 and up. The binding has a few chips at the edges. The DJ has a few chips and a small tear; it is yellowed a tthe edges. The back flap has a closed tear. 176 pages, no marks or tears. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Mount vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press This is an attractive, slender book of Edgar Allan's poems. It begins with The Raven and also includes For Annie, The Bridal Ballad, The Haunted Palace, To F------, To F. S. O., Ulalume, To My Mother, Lenore, and many more. It is eerily illustrated throughout. 62 pages, this book is slim enough to fit into a pocket or purse. The front bottom corner shows minor wear, and there is a slight vertical line on the front, coming off the Raven's beak, that appears ... more information

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New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008 SIGNED by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush on a matching bookplate. Tyrone was the class clown and didn't like books. He was good in all of his other classes, but just couldn't be bothered with listening to a story. But one day, when he was told again to listen, he really did, and he liked what he heard! Then during story hour things were popping out of the books. And when they had a chapter book about a pig read to them, the pig kept them company for weeks. But wh... more information

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Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1951 A fascinating book in the Real Books series, R8. Certificate of Award presented by the Boys Clubs of America, first awarded to a series, selected by members in the eight to fourteen year old category. A book club edition, the pages are in very good condition, no marks or tears noted. The cover, while completely intact, has numerous vertical areas where the paper appears to have cracked and broken away. The jacket has an attractive illustration on the front of t... more information

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