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Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). The inside story on all your favorite stars - . Farrah Fawcett-Majors . David Soul . Cindy Williams . Pamela Sue Martin . Lee Majors . Mackenzie Phillips . Robert Blake . Linda Carter - plus this season's new stars. Do you know. . . . . What two famous Hollywood stars were uptight when Farrah Fawcett-Majors appeared on the set of Myra Breckinridge? . Why it didn't matter to Levar Burton whether he won the role of Kinta Kinte in Roots? . Why Penny Marshall is tickled pink she lost a starring role in one of the greatest TV hits of all time? . What are Shaun Cassidy's and Parker Stevenson's ideas of the perfect date? . Who is the man Lindsay Wagner says is more important to her than her hit show The Bionic Woman? . Why some people are trying to talk Vince Van Patten into dropping his role as The Bionic Boy? Get the answers to these and hundreds of other fascinating questions about the lives of today's young stars in the brand new TV Super Stars 78!. Book.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The stunning, gender-flipped novel about love, creativity and the power of speaking out - perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker.'Poetic and evocative . this story will thrill readers' PIP WILLIAMS, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words Their love transcends every boundary. Can it cheat death?Orphia dreams of something more than the warrior crafts she's been forced to learn. Hidden away on a far-flung island, her blood sings with poetry and her words can move flowers to bloom and forests to grow . but her father, the sun god Apollo, has forbidden her this art.A chance meeting with a young shield-maker, Eurydicius, gives her the courage to use her voice. After wielding all her gifts to defeat one final champion, Orphia draws the scrutiny of the gods. Performing her poetry, she wins the protection of the goddesses of the arts: the powerful Muses, who welcome her to their sanctuary on Mount Parnassus. Orphia learns to hone her talents, crafting words of magic infused with history, love and tragedy.When Eurydicius joins her, Orphia struggles with her desire for fame and her budding love. As her bond with the gentle shield-maker grows, she joins the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece. Facing dragons, sirens and ruthless warriors on the voyage, Orphia earns unparalleled fame, but she longs to return to Eurydicius.Yet she has a darker journey to make - one which will see her fight for her love with all the power of her poetry.Praise for Orphia and Eurydicius'As I read, I imagined the muses beside Elyse John, focusing her mind and guiding her hand. The writing is poetic and evocative, and the story will thrill readers who have long suspected something is missing from the classics of Greek myth.' PIP WILLIAMS, author of The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho'Spins a bewitching tale of courage, love, and defiance, giving voice and agency to the women in Greek tales who are so often defined by the men they are associated with. Orphia's poetry may bring the gods to tears; John's words have the same effect on us mere mortals. Tragic and triumphant, a must-read!' ANDREA STEWART, author of The Bone Shard Daughter'Elyse John's deft language lays bare the exquisite intimacies of human connection, from the brutal - yet seductive - exercise of power over another, to the moments of tenderness and vulnerability between lovers.' SHELLEY PARKER-CHAN, author of She Who Became the Sun'Elyse John's Orphia and Eurydicius stunning retelling deftly explores Orphia's beginnings, her poetic ambitions, and her searing chemistry with Eurydicius, all of which challenge the gender dynamics of the time and death itself. A highly original read.' STACEY THOMAS, author of The Revels'Bold yet beautiful . I was glued to the page, compelled by the story of Lady Orphia and her love, the gentle shieldmaker Eurydicius. Orphia and Eurydicius is a thoughtful consideration as to what it means to be a man, a woman, a hero, a human being. I loved this retelling and couldn't stop thinking about it: Lady Orphia has my heart.' LAURA SHEPPERSON, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Heroines (UK), Phaedra (US)'A cleverly conceived and lyrically crafted reimagining. John deftly weaves a compelling and insightful narrative that interrogates not only patriarchy but the gendered dynamics of love, romance and the role of artist and muse. It is a story about the importance of having a voice, an Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Compact Disc. Condition: new. Compact Disc. This is the first in a story split across two releases (to be followed by Shadow of the Daleks 2 releasing December 2020) recorded and produced entirely during the Covid-19 lockdown. Together, the two releases make up a 'mini-season' for Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor as he is caught up in the Time War. Each part contains four one-episode adventures, in which the Doctor lands in different times, different places and keeps meeting the same faces, but as different people. 1. Aimed at the Body by James Kettle. An encounter with a notorious cricketing legend should be right up the Doctor's street, but the unexpected appearance of an old enemy is about to send the Doctor on a quest. 2. Lightspeed by Jonathan Morris. The trail has led the Doctor to a spaceship in the far future - where he finds himself trapped in the middle of a terrifying revenge plot. 3. The Bookshop at the End of the World by Simon Guerrier. It's very easy to forget yourself and get lost in a bookshop. But in some bookshops more than most. 4. Interlude by Dan Starkey. The play's the thing! Or is it? The Doctor is roped into a theatrical spectacular - but who is he really performing to? CAST: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks), Dervla Kirwan (Mrs Calderwood/Yost McCormack/DI Wright/Anna-Maria), Anjli Mohindra (Flora/Kathy Dafoe/Madeleine Williams/Bianca), Jamie Parker (Douglas/Monsignor Plummer/Frank Reichenbach/Virgilio), Glen McCready (Orson/Elroy Dale/Captain). Other parts played by members of the cast. This is the first in a story split across two releases (to be followed by Shadow of the Daleks 2 releasing December 2020) recorded and produced entirely during the Covid-19 lockdown. Together, the two releases make up a 'mini-season' for Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor as he is caught up in the Time War! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in copper with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 282 pages. A Bad Men of the West Western, No. 4. On November 3, 1908, in the town of San Vicente, suspected of stealing a mining company payroll, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout by the Bolivian Army.Or was he?In a small Texas town in 1950, a man from the Pinkerton Detective Agency interrupts an old-timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy--who is still alive and well and sitting right in front of him. . .So begins the novel of the West's most legendary outlaw--as told by America's master storytellers, William W. Johnstone and J.A.Johnstone. Butch Cassidy The Lost Years reveals the stunning secret behind that infamous shootout in Bolivia that claimed the lives of the Sundance Kid and, allegedly, Butch himself. For years, there were rumors that Cassidy survived. Now, almost half a century later, an old man playing dominos tells the real story of his life and times, legend be damned.After fleeing South America and informing the beautiful Etta Place that her beloved Sundance is dead, Butch returns to Texas searching for a place to call home. When he comes across a dying rancher who'd been shot by some rustlers, Butch promises to avenge him--and take over the ranch after his death. Assuming the name Jim Strickland, Butch tries to start a fresh new chapter in his life. But even with his old gang gone and his outlaw past behind him, trouble has a way of finding Butch. Cruel injustice--in the form of a corrupt railroad baron--pulls him into the most dangerous train robbery he's ever attempted. But if Butch Cassidy is going to ride again, it'll have to be with a newer, and wilder, Wild Bunch. . .Filled with page-turning action and authentic historic details, Butch Cassidy The Lost Years is an exciting and fitting tribute to a true American original. Robert LeRoy Parker. Butch to his friends. Mr. Cassidy to those on the business end of his gun.

black & gilt ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. tiny nick to rear bottom corner, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 532p. glossy b&w photo.illustrations. notes & sources. biblio. acknowledgments. index. american history. americana. show business. great white way. american music hall. hollywood history. biography. ABC. edward albee. bert allenberg.jimmy blue eyes alo. frances arms. larry auerbach. warren beatty. david begelman. milton berle. norman brokaw. eddie cantor. CBS. chevy chase. harry cohn. columbia pictures. frank costello. CAA. sammy davis, jr. barry diller. jimmy durante. clint eastwood elvis presley. freddie fields. fox. david geffen. leonard hirshan. HUAC. ICM. george jessel. stan kamen. JFK. RFK. meyer lansky. abe lastfogel. nat lefkowitz. lucky luciano. MCA. lew wasserman. MGM. NBC. new york times. michael ovitz. paramount pictures. col tom parker. RKO. FDR. mickey rooney. benjamin "bugsy" siegel. frank sinatra. smothers brothers. simon and garfunkel. jules caesar stein. morris stoller. babra streisand. history of television. UA. vaudeville. warner bros. sammy weisbord. lou weiss. phil weltman. george wood. darryl zanuck. walt zifkin. adolph zukor.~ Along a palmy stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, a handful of powerful talent agencies are locked in daily combat over the stars whose talents drive today's global entertainment industry. But the talent wars that have turned Wilshire Boulevard into a combat zone didn't start yesterday. They started nearly one hundred years ago, when a fiery young immigrant named William Morris opened a vaudeville~booking office on New York's Fourteenth Street and went up against the trust that ruled the leading entertainment medium of the day. For decades, hidden from the public eye, Morris agents made the deals that determined the fate of stars, studios, and networks alike. The Agency brilliantly chronicles a multigenerational saga of loyalty and betrayal that unfolds against the rich and constantly shifting tapestry of show business. Mae West, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Danny Thomas, Steve McQueen~the Morris Agency sold talent to anyone in the market for it, from the Hollywood moguls to the mobsters who ran Vegas to the Madison Avenue admen who controlled television. While the clients took the spotlight, the agency operated behind the scenes, providing the grease that made show business what it's become. Led after Will Morris's death by the legendary Abe Lastfogel, a cherubic little man who treated agents and clients alike as family, the Morris Agency transformed the agent's image from garish flesh~peddler to smooth~talking professional. But when Lastfogel's successor brutally sacrificed his best friend~the man who'd brought Barry Diller and Michael Ovitz out of the mail room~the agency gave birth to its own nemesis: Ovitz's new agency, CAA. Throughout the eighties and nineties, as the Morris Agency made~and lost~such stars as Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Kevin Costner, and Tom Hanks, Ovitz's power grew inexorably as Morris's waned. Lulled by the phenomenal success of Bill Cosby and the upward spiral of the Beverly Hills real estate market, Morris's politboro~like board failed to act as death and defection thinned its ranks. Finally, with its flagship motion~picture department on the brink of collapse, the board was faced with the stark reality of having to buy its way back into the business it had once owned. Unvarnished and unauthorized, The Agency takes you behind the doors of the most venerable and arguably the most secretive entertainment company in America. Here, too, is the historical sweep that shows for the first time how agents gained their power.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo; Contemporary marbled wraps, 32p. **American Imprint #18307. Election sermon. Judges IX. 56, 57. With "WmParker" at head of title and scattered names and graffiti on paste-downs: "William Parker Adams, Portsmouth, NH, 1802(?)," "Thomas Robinson," "Adams Eves Wife," and "O Dear what can the matter be Seven great Eves(?) tied up to an apple tree." Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, Trinitarian Congregational, devotes 13 pages to Osgood. Sprague quotes Convers Francis saying "Dr. Osgood's discourses on these subjects (preaching politics) doubtless, were sometimes really the preaching of politics in the common meaning of that phrase; that is, they took sides very strongly for one party, and against another, on the political questions before the country. Perhaps there was in some of them more of heat amd vehemence, caught from the partisan warfare of the times, than could easily be justified." **From page 27 of the sermon: "These northern states must be lost to a sense of their own rights and dignity- They must acknowledge themselves to be something less than men, if all their parties do not unite in their endeavers. It is also equallyincumbent upon them, to unite in procuring a navy for the protection of their commerce. Had the many millions, foolishly squandered in the delusive purchase of a wilderness utterly useless, been expended in building ships of war; our trade, in all probability, would have escaped its late, as well as present, embarrassments.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sidney Nolan [Illustrated by], Francis Parker [Jacket illustration] (illustrator). First Edition. Third printing of the true first edition. With illustrations by Sidney Nolan, and a jacket illustration by Francis Parker. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt and metallic red titles to the spine. Sidney Nolan designed blind-embossed drawing to the front board with 'RL' initials. Boards clean and unmarked. Fore-edge and top of text block lightly foxed. Head and tail of spine not bumped. Corners sharp. Spine tight. No inscriptions. No foxing to the pages. Pages clean. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, which has been top corner price-clipped. The dustwrapper is complete, with just very slight loss at the head of the spine and tops of foldovers. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and browned. No chips. No tears. Some small marks to the dustwrapper (being a light cream background). Red lettering to the spine of the dustwrapper slightly faded. ***240mm x 200mm. 125 pages. ***"'Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heels of small war - until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime." This final stanza of "Waking Early Sunday Morning" exemplifies the dark themes of Robert Lowell's new book. This long opening poem is the first of a sequence of five poems that continues with "Fourth of July in Main," "The Opposite House," "Central Park," and "Near the Ocean." This sequence is followed by two short poems, "1958" and "For Theodore Roethke." ***Mr. (Sidney) Nolan, the distinguished Australian painter, has made twenty-one drawings for this book.' (Quote taken from the publisher's blurb on the front and rear flaps.) ***'Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (Mar 01 1917 - Sep 12 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry. Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region. The literary scholar Paula Hayes believes that Lowell mythologized New England, particularly in his early work. Lowell stated, "The poets who most directly influenced me --- were Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams. An unlikely combination! --- but you can see that Bishop is a sort of bridge between Tate's formalism and Williams's informal art." Lowell wrote in both formal, metered verse as well as free verse; his verse in some poems from "Life Studies" and "Notebook" fell somewhere in between metered and free verse. After the publication of his 1959 book "Life Studies", which won the 1960 National Book Award and "featured a new emphasis on intense, uninhibited discussion of personal, family, and psychological struggles," he was considered an important part of the confessional poetry movement. However, much of Lowell's work, which often combined the public with the personal, did not conform to a typical "confessional poetry" model. Instead, Lowell worked in a number of distinctive stylistic modes and forms over the course of his career.' [Wiki] ***A third printing of the true American first edition of "Near the Ocean" by Robert Lowell, in nice collectable condition. A beautifully produced book, which is enhanced by being fully illustrated with Sidney Nolan's drawings. Uncommon to find in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A compelling exploration of the lost yet crucial role of ritual in our increasingly secular lives. Today, in the West, we hold neither adequate rites of passage for our youth, nor initiations for our growing number of elders. We have neither healing rituals for the loss of an unborn child, nor ways to mark the severing of a twenty-year relationship. This can leave us feeling alienated and bereft. Re-enchanting the Forest is written for that part in us that yearns for living ritual, that seeks to bring an embodied sense of solace and belonging back into our modern lives. Drawing on his own experience, and on the ritual cultures of the indigenous world, William Ayot demonstrates the value and power of ritual to revive and 're-wire' our sometimes confused and disconnected spirits. With a foreword by Mark Rylance.Praise for Re-enchanting the Forest In today's Western world, we are richer than we have ever been. The array of technologies, foodstuffs and consumer goods available to most of us would have rendered our ancestors speechless. We are told almost daily how lucky we are. So what is this huge hole at the centre of our culture What is this grief that lurks beneath the surface What is this thing we are missing, that so many of us can sense, but few can put their finger on It is, I think, a lack of understanding of our place in time and history, our loss of a deeper place in the natural order of things, a dim sense of our broken connections with the world beyond the human. A rediscovery of ritual is part of the necessary work to bind up this wound, and this book is a powerful part of the remedy. Paul Kingsnorth, activist and author of The Wake and Real England By introducing people to the ways of ritual, William Ayot helps people towards a wiser, richer, more connected life. Sobonfu Somé, initiated teacher, activist and author of The Spirit of Intimacy This is the most compelling book I know on the vital but lost role of ritual in our lives. Neither an academic treatise nor a theological tract, Re-enchanting the Forest is about life as it is and might be lived in a secular world, a book that honoured my mind but reached directly into my heart and soul. I cannot recommend it highly enough, with only one caveat: reading it might change your life as it changed mine. Parker J. Palmer, author of A Hidden Wholeness and Healing the Heart of Democracy In this remarkable book, William Ayot reclaims the beauty of practical ritual to enhance our lives, to heal, to inspire and to reveal personal insights otherwise beyond our ken. Ritual comes home. We can welcome it back and hold it close to our hearts. Professor Brian Bates, author of The Way of Wyrd I love the way William Ayot's book combines the story of his life with an exploration of the value and purpose of ritual. By weaving the accounts of his own challenges, described with such heartfelt honesty, with discussions of how to work with ritual, the whole subject comes alive. I found I couldn't stop reading. Philip Carr-Gomm, author of Druidcraft and Sacred Places One of the most important and inspiring books I have ever read in the field of ritual practice. William Ayot shows us that ritual is nothing to be scared of. It is instead a vital aspect of an integrating psyche, as relevant and essential today as ever, and a true ally to well-being, perspective and purpose. Ben Walden, Founding Director, Contender Charlie This is a powerful book, a handy source to rediscover the lost art of rituals. Satish Kumar, Editor-in-Chief of Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 327 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plates ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Partial contents And now / Gertrude Stein (pages 280-281). Introduction. A fair kept / Cleveland Amory -- Frank Crowninshield, editor, man, and uncle / Frederic Bradlee -- In vanity fair / Frank Crowninshield -- Early memories of De Wolf Hopper / Joseph H. Choate -- Force of heredity, and nella / Anita Loos -- Sarah Bernhardt here again / Arthur Johnson -- Memory of Eleonora Duse / Arthur Symons -- Have they attacked Mary. he giggled / Gertrude Stein -- Men: a hate song / Dorothy Rothschild (Dorothy Parker) -- Modern love, by a modern French poet / Paul Geraldy -- Hall of fame 1914-1918 -- Poems / Michael Strange -- All about the income-tax / P.G. Wodehouse -- Confessions of a jail-breaker / Harry Houdini -- Weather-vane points south / Amy Lowell -- First hundred plays are the hardest / Dorothy Parker -- Social life of the newt / Robert C. Benchley -- Hall of fame 1919 -- William Somerset Maugham / Hugh Walpole -- Soul of skylarking / G.K. Chesterton -- Poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Golden age of the dandy / John Peale Bishop -- Adam and Eve / Charles Brackett -- Handy guide for music lovers / Charles N. Drake -- Man who lost himself / Giovanni Papini -- Hall of fame 1920 -- Rhyme and relativity / Louis Untermeyer -- Memoirs of court favourites / Noel Coward -- Love song / Elinor Wylie -- Picture feature: American novelists who have set art above popularity -- Ballad of Yukon Jake / Edward E. Paramore, Jr. -- Lenglen the magnificent / Grantland Rice -- Hall of fame 1921 -- Incredible jeritza / Deems Taylor -- New Hampshire again / Carl Sandburg -- Public and the artist / Jean Cocteau -- Custer's last stand / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Leavetaking (one-act play) / Ferenc Molnar -- Hall of fame 1922 -- David Garrick to John Barrymore / Stark Young -- Strange story / Elinor Wylie -- Symposium: the ten dullest authors -- Poems / T.S. Eliot -- On the approach of middle age / W. Somerset Maugham -- Hall of fame 1923 -- Fred Stone and W.C. Fields / Gilbert Seldes -- Importance of comic genius / Aldous Huxley -- Picture feature: great modern athletes -- Mrs. Fiske: an artist and a personality / Mary Cass Canfield -- Hall of fame 1924 -- One evening / Colette -- Three poems / Walter de la Mare -- Song / Helen Choate -- Memorabilia / E.E. Cummings -- Black blues / Carl van Vechten -- Big casino is little casino (three-act play) / George S. Kaufman -- Symposium: a group of artists write their own epitaphs -- Charlie Chaplin and his new film, The Gold Rush / R.E. Sherwood -- Hall of fame 1925 -- Murder of Captain White / Edmund Pearson -- Western disunion / Geoffrey Kerr -- Rudolph Valentino / Jim Tully -- Symposium: the ideal woman -- Poems of youth and age / Theodore Dreiser -- Hall of fame 1926 -- Blazing publicity / Walter Lippmann -- Picture feature: neighbors at Antibes -- Sort of defense of mothers / Heywood Broun -- Irving Thalberg / Jim Tully -- Last day / Michel Corday -- Birth of a great artist / Andre Maurois -- Theory and Lizzie Borden / Alexander Woollcott -- Hall of fame 1927 -- Three Americans / Charles G. Shaw -- Very critical gentleman / Max Beerbohm -- Outlived thing / Compton Mackenzie -- Deserted battlefields / D.H. Lawrence -- Too general public / Andre Gide -- Hall of fame 1928 -- Captain's memoirs / Alexander Woollcott -- Mental hazards of golf / Robert T. Jones, Jr. -- "God rest you merry, gentlemen ." / Gilbert W. Gabriel -- Duel without seconds / Djuna Barnes -- This modern living / Arnold Bennett -- Hall of fame 1929 -- Art of dying / Paul Morand -- Two-time / Margaret Case Harriman -- Picture feature: child prodigies -- Mystery of Stroppingwallingshire Downs / Philip Wylie -- Tired men and business women / Geoffrey Kerr -- Hall of fame 1930 -- Picture feature: who's zoo? -- Picture feature: Raoul Dufy, painter of Paris -- Lord of the loincloth / George Slocombe -- Hall of fame 1931 -- Babe / Paul Gallico -- Ordeal by cheque / Wuther Grue -- Twilight of the inkstained gods / Alva Johnston -- Impossible interview: Rockefeller vs. Stalin / Miguel Covarrubias, John Riddell -- Impossible interview: Garbo vs. Coolidge / Miguel Covarrubias, John Riddell -- Smiles on the faces of tigers / Charles Fitzhugh Talman -- Picture feature: as a man thinketh -- Pearly beach / Lord Dunsany -- Picture feature: private lives of the great -- Lydia and the ring-doves / Kay Boyle -- Picture feature: Vanity Fair's school for actors / Joyful James / Clare Boothe -- Picture feature: on the public's beach -- Hall of fame 1932 -- How unlike we are! / Harold Nicolson -- Now there is peace / Richard Sherman -- Picture feature: my, how you have grown -- Sister Aimee: Bernhardt of the sawdust trail / Joseph H. Steele -- White poppies die / Nancy Hale -- President Roosevelt's inauguration / Miguel Covarrubias -- Dixie nocture / Frank Sullivan -- Time and a half / John Riddell -- Picture feature: American potentates (and our national pastime) -- Picture feature: history repeats -- Inflation for Ida / Frank Sullivan -- Hall of fame 1933 -- Thoughts on sin, and advertising / Frank Crowninshield -- Little Caruso / William Saroyan -- Picture feature: male and female, we create them -- Murder in Le Mans / Janet Flanner -- Picture feature: where did you come from, baby dear? -- Picture feature: actor into philanthropist -- Movies take over the stage / George Jean Nathan -- And now / Gertrude Stein -- Picture feature: even kings relax -- Picture feature: celebrities in bed -- Picture feature: hey you, mind your manners! -- Bucharest Du Barry / John Gunther -- Street / Allan Seager -- Valentine for Mr. Woollcott / Dorothy Parker -- Hall of fame 1934 -- Blunders in print / Edmund Pearson -- Time and the place / Frank Fenton -- Pi.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 327 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plates ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Partial contents And now / Gertrude Stein (pages 280-281). Introduction. A fair kept / Cleveland Amory -- Frank Crowninshield, editor, man, and uncle / Frederic Bradlee -- In vanity fair / Frank Crowninshield -- Early memories of De Wolf Hopper / Joseph H. Choate -- Force of heredity, and nella / Anita Loos -- Sarah Bernhardt here again / Arthur Johnson -- Memory of Eleonora Duse / Arthur Symons -- Have they attacked Mary. he giggled / Gertrude Stein -- Men: a hate song / Dorothy Rothschild (Dorothy Parker) -- Modern love, by a modern French poet / Paul Geraldy -- Hall of fame 1914-1918 -- Poems / Michael Strange -- All about the income-tax / P.G. Wodehouse -- Confessions of a jail-breaker / Harry Houdini -- Weather-vane points south / Amy Lowell -- First hundred plays are the hardest / Dorothy Parker -- Social life of the newt / Robert C. Benchley -- Hall of fame 1919 -- William Somerset Maugham / Hugh Walpole -- Soul of skylarking / G.K. Chesterton -- Poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Golden age of the dandy / John Peale Bishop -- Adam and Eve / Charles Brackett -- Handy guide for music lovers / Charles N. Drake -- Man who lost himself / Giovanni Papini -- Hall of fame 1920 -- Rhyme and relativity / Louis Untermeyer -- Memoirs of court favourites / Noel Coward -- Love song / Elinor Wylie -- Picture feature: American novelists who have set art above popularity -- Ballad of Yukon Jake / Edward E. Paramore, Jr. -- Lenglen the magnificent / Grantland Rice -- Hall of fame 1921 -- Incredible jeritza / Deems Taylor -- New Hampshire again / Carl Sandburg -- Public and the artist / Jean Cocteau -- Custer's last stand / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Leavetaking (one-act play) / Ferenc Molnar -- Hall of fame 1922 -- David Garrick to John Barrymore / Stark Young -- Strange story / Elinor Wylie -- Symposium: the ten dullest authors -- Poems / T.S. Eliot -- On the approach of middle age / W. Somerset Maugham -- Hall of fame 1923 -- Fred Stone and W.C. Fields / Gilbert Seldes -- Importance of comic genius / Aldous Huxley -- Picture feature: great modern athletes -- Mrs. Fiske: an artist and a personality / Mary Cass Canfield -- Hall of fame 1924 -- One evening / Colette -- Three poems / Walter de la Mare -- Song / Helen Choate -- Memorabilia / E.E. Cummings -- Black blues / Carl van Vechten -- Big casino is little casino (three-act play) / George S. Kaufman -- Symposium: a group of artists write their own epitaphs -- Charlie Chaplin and his new film, The Gold Rush / R.E. Sherwood -- Hall of fame 1925 -- Murder of Captain White / Edmund Pearson -- Western disunion / Geoffrey Kerr -- Rudolph Valentino / Jim Tully -- Symposium: the ideal woman -- Poems of youth and age / Theodore Dreiser -- Hall of fame 1926 -- Blazing publicity / Walter Lippmann -- Picture feature: neighbors at Antibes -- Sort of defense of mothers / Heywood Broun -- Irving Thalberg / Jim Tully -- Last day / Michel Corday -- Birth of a great artist / Andre Maurois -- Theory and Lizzie Borden / Alexander Woollcott -- Hall of fame 1927 -- Three Americans / Charles G. Shaw -- Very critical gentleman / Max Beerbohm -- Outlived thing / Compton Mackenzie -- Deserted battlefields / D.H. Lawrence -- Too general public / Andre Gide -- Hall of fame 1928 -- Captain's memoirs / Alexander Woollcott -- Mental hazards of golf / Robert T. Jones, Jr. -- "God rest you merry, gentlemen ." / Gilbert W. Gabriel -- Duel without seconds / Djuna Barnes -- This modern living / Arnold Bennett -- Hall of fame 1929 -- Art of dying / Paul Morand -- Two-time / Margaret Case Harriman -- Picture feature: child prodigies -- Mystery of Stroppingwallingshire Downs / Philip Wylie -- Tired men and business women / Geoffrey Kerr -- Hall of fame 1930 -- Picture feature: who's zoo? -- Picture feature: Raoul Dufy, painter of Paris -- Lord of the loincloth / George Slocombe -- Hall of fame 1931 -- Babe / Paul Gallico -- Ordeal by cheque / Wuther Grue -- Twilight of the inkstained gods / Alva Johnston -- Impossible interview: Rockefeller vs. Stalin / Miguel Covarrubias, John Riddell -- Impossible interview: Garbo vs. Coolidge / Miguel Covarrubias, John Riddell -- Smiles on the faces of tigers / Charles Fitzhugh Talman -- Picture feature: as a man thinketh -- Pearly beach / Lord Dunsany -- Picture feature: private lives of the great -- Lydia and the ring-doves / Kay Boyle -- Picture feature: Vanity Fair's school for actors / Joyful James / Clare Boothe -- Picture feature: on the public's beach -- Hall of fame 1932 -- How unlike we are! / Harold Nicolson -- Now there is peace / Richard Sherman -- Picture feature: my, how you have grown -- Sister Aimee: Bernhardt of the sawdust trail / Joseph H. Steele -- White poppies die / Nancy Hale -- President Roosevelt's inauguration / Miguel Covarrubias -- Dixie nocture / Frank Sullivan -- Time and a half / John Riddell -- Picture feature: American potentates (and our national pastime) -- Picture feature: history repeats -- Inflation for Ida / Frank Sullivan -- Hall of fame 1933 -- Thoughts on sin, and advertising / Frank Crowninshield -- Little Caruso / William Saroyan -- Picture feature: male and female, we create them -- Murder in Le Mans / Janet Flanner -- Picture feature: where did you come from, baby dear? -- Picture feature: actor into philanthropist -- Movies take over the stage / George Jean Nathan -- And now / Gertrude Stein -- Picture feature: even kings relax -- Picture feature: celebrities in bed -- Picture feature: hey you, mind your manners! -- Bucharest Du Barry / John Gunther -- Street / Allan Seager -- Valentine for Mr. Woollcott / Dorothy Parker -- Hall of fame 1934 -- Blunders in print / Edmund Pearson -- Time and the place / Frank Fenton -- Pi.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A unique anthology featuring adoption-themed fictional short stories from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Mindy McGinnis (Not a Drop to Drink, Katherine Tegen Books, 2013), Adi Alsaid (Let's Get Lost, Harlequin Teen, 2014), Lauren Gibaldi (The Night We Said Yes, Harper Teen, 2015), and many more. Welcome Home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories, and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Edgar-award winner Mindy McGinnis, New York Times best-selling authors C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen) and William Ritter (Jackaby), and acclaimed YA authors across all genres. The full list of contributors includes: Adi Alsaid, Karen Akins, Erica M. Chapman, Caela Carter, Libby Cudmore, Dave Connis, Julie Eshbaugh, Helene Dunbar, Lauren Gibaldi, Shannon Gibney, Jenny Kaczorowski, Julie Leung, Sangu Mandanna, Matthew Quinn Martin, Mindy McGinnis, Lauren Morrill, Tameka Mullins, Sammy Nickalls, Shannon Parker, C.J. Redwine, Randy Ribay, William Ritter, Stephanie Scott, Natasha Sinel, Eric Smith, Courtney C. Stevens, Nic Stone, Kate Watson, and Tristina Wright. AGES: 12 to 18 AUTHOR: Eric Smith is a young adult author and literary agent who grew up in the wilds of New Jersey. When he isn't working on books (his and other peoples), he can be found writing about books for places like Book Riot and Paste Magazine. He lives with his wife, Nena, and their legion of small furry animals. A unique anthology featuring adoption-themed fictional short stories from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Mindy McGinnis, Adi Alsaid, Lauren Gibaldi, and many more. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyA captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of EnglishnessA. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English countryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has never been out of print. In Housman Country, Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his most famous book, and in doing so shows how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture since its publication. The poems were taken to war by soldiers who wanted to carry England in their pockets, were adapted by composers trying to create a new kind of English music, and have influenced poetry, fiction, music, and drama right up to the present day. Everyone has a personal 'land of lost content' with 'blue remembered hills,' and Housman has been a tangible and far-reaching presence in a startling range of work, from the war poets and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Inspector Morse and Morrissey. Housman Country is a vivid exploration of England and Englishness, in which Parker maps out terrain that is as historical and emotional as it is topographical.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - IN THE 1980s WEST-TEXAS OIL PATCH, WHEN THE POLICE REFUSE TO GET INVOLVED, A LOW-LEVEL CRIMINAL WITH FAMILY PROBLEMS, COLTON PARKER, AND FELLOW LOW-LIFERS ARE HIRED TO FIND TWO MURDERERS.Gamblers, cons, and whores inhabit the night-time bar world of the early 1980s Odessa, Texas oil boom. Colton Parker-with a wife, two young boys, and a father-in-law-is a bouncer for a gambler and loan shark in this dark hidden world. Danny Fowler cruises this world looking for gay lovers. When he finds two mean ones, he ends up beaten to death and dumped on the road to an oil rig. Danny's rich mother, Mina, doesn't want Danny's night-time life exposed, so she persuades the police not to investigate. But she hires a reluctant Colton Parker to track down Danny Fowler's killers. Colton teams with Bullet Price, a retired whore, climbing up the bar-world social ladder. With help from a young whore and a gay tool pusher, Colton tracks down the two oil-field welders who killed Danny. Praise for Gambled Dreams 'A brilliant, intense carefully crafted narrative with no feeling of strain or effort. This is masterwork. The language and vision match, so the world opens for us as readers without any waver of authenticity. We are in it and trust what we are learning. There is always more to understand than we can, at the moment.-Mary Hood, author of How Far She Went and Familiar Heat 'Jim brings a literary and poetic sensibility to his compelling, utterly original crime novel, full of edgy, unique characters, sharp dialogue, and powerful storytelling. Colton Parker, Bullet Price and Way Low will haunt you long after you've turned the final page.'-Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lost Hills, Bone Canyon, True Fiction, and others. 'Noir-writer Jim Sanderson's tough new novel gives us a two-generation search for belonging and soul set in the boom-bust oil town of Odessa, Texas. Sanderson's tortured characters are unexpectedly loyal, and they carry the weight of their own longings.'-Lisa Sandlin author of Shamus Award winning novels, The Do-Right and The Bird Boys 'Jim Sanderson is a novelist of exceptional scope and depth. The worlds he creates are sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, generally gritty, and always engaging. Jim is one of the best novelists writing in Texas today.':-Dan Williams, editor-in-chief TCU Press.

Leinen / Cloth. Condition: Gut. 441 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Seiten altersbedingt vergilbt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / Pages yellowed due to age, otherwise in very good condition. - Table of Contents Illustrations Tabula Gratulatoria Introduction Geoffrey Hartman, On Thomas Greene Humanism, Rhetoric, and Imitation Dennis Costa, Domesticating the Divine Economy: Humanist Theology in Erasmus's Convivia Wayne A. Rebhorn, "The Emperour of Mens Minds": The Renaissance Trickster as Homo Rhetoricus William IV. Kennedy, The Unbound Turns of Maurice Scdve Joshua Scodel, "Mediocrities" and "Extremities": Francis Bacon and the Aristotelian Mean Victoria Kahn, Allegory, the Sublime, and the Rhetoric of Things Indifferent in Paradise Lost Gender and Writing Margaret Ferguson, Recreating the Rules of the Games: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron Susanne L. Wofford, The Social Aesthetics of Rape: Closural Violence in Boccaccio and Botticelli Nancy E. Wright, The Name and the Signature of the Author of Margaret Roper's Letter to Alice Alington Carla Freccero, Politics and Aesthetics in Castiglione's Il Cortegiano: Book III and the Discourse on Women History, Selfhood, and Shakespeare G. W. Pigman III, Limping Examples: Exemplarity, the New Historicism, and Psychoanalysis Barry Weller, Induction and Inference: Theater, Transformation, and the Construction of Identity in The Taming of the Shrew Constance Jordan, "Eating the Mother": Property and Propriety in Pericles Patricia Parker, All's Well that Ends Well: Increase and Multiply David Quint, Bragging Rights: Honor and Courtesy in Shakespeare and Spenser. ISBN 9780866981095 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 913.

Cassette. Condition: Near Fine(+). Chrome Cassette Edition. Five cassettes + Jazz history/discography booklet, 120 p, b&w illus. Uncommon. Striking cover art. Jazz, Piano music. || Great photographs of jazz musicians in booklet. || Contents: Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) -- Maple leaf rag (Jelly Roll Morton) -- St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) -- Lost your head blues (Bessie Smith) -- Dippermouth blues (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) -- Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- Dead man blues (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- Grandpa's spells (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) -- Cake walking babies from home (Red Onion Jazz Babies) -- Blue horizon (Sidney Bechet and his Blue Note Jazz Men) -- Carolina shout (James P. Johnson) -- Big butter and egg man from the west (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- Potato head blues (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven) -- Struttin' with some barbecue (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- Hotter than that (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- West End blues (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five).; Weather bird (Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines) -- Sweethearts on parade (Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra) -- I gotta right to sing the blues (Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra) -- Singin' the blues (Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra) -- Riverboat shuffle (Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra) -- Four or five times (Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra) -- The stampede (Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra) -- Wrappin' it up (Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra) -- Dinah (Red Nichols and his Five Pennies) -- Moten swing (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) -- I ain't got nobody (Fats Waller) -- Honky tonk train blues (Meade "Lux" Lewis) -- Body and soul (Benny Goodman Trio) -- Body and soul (Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra) -- The man I love (Coleman Hawkins Quartet) -- He's funny that way (Billie Holiday and her Orchestra) -- These foolish things (Billie Holiday and her Orchestra).; You'd be so nice to come home to (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Willow weep for me (Art Tatum) -- Too marvbelous for words (Art Tatum) -- Organ grinder's swing (Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra) -- Rockin' chair (Gene Krupa and his Orchestra) -- I can't believe that you're in love with me (Chocolate Dandies featuring Roy Eldridge and Benny Carter) -- When lights are low (Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra) -- Dinah (Quintette of the Hot Club of France) -- Doggin' around (Count Basie and his Orchestra) -- Taxi war dance (Count Basie and his Orchestra) -- Lester leaps in (Count Basie's Kansas City Seven) -- I found a new baby (Benny Goodman Sextet featuring Charlie Christian and Count Basie) -- Breakfast feud (Benny Goodman Sextet featuring Charlie Christian) -- East St. Louis toddle-oo (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra) -- The new East St. Louis toodle-o (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- Diminuendo in blue and crescendo in blue (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- Ko-Ko (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- Concerto for cootie (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- Cotton tail (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- In a mellotone (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- Blue serge (Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) -- I got rhythm (Don Byas and Slam Sextet) -- I can't get started (Dizzy Gillespie Sextet) -- Shaw 'nuff (Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintette) -- Koko (Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers) -- Lady, be good (Charlie Parker with Jazz at the Philharmonic) -- Embraceable you (take 1) (Charlie Parker Quintet) -- Embraceable you (take 2) (Charlie Parker Quintet) -- Klactoveedsedstene (Charlie Parker Quintet) -- Crazeology (take 1) (Charlie Parker Sextet) -- Crazeology (take 4) (Charlie Parker Sextet) -- Parker's mood (Charlie Parker All-Stars) -- Fantasy on Frankie and Johnny (Erroll Garner) -- Night in Tunisia (Bud Powell Trio) -- Bikini (Dexter Gordon Quartet) -- Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron Sextet).; Boplicity (Miles Davis and his Orchestra) -- Subconcsious Lee (Lennie Tristano Quintet) -- Body and soul (Gene Norman's "Just Jazz", featuring Red Norvano and Stan Getz) -- All alone (Sarah Vaughan) -- My funny valentine (Sarah Vaughan) -- Misterioso (Thelonious Monk Quartet) -- Evidence (Thelonius Monk Quartet) -- Criss-cross (Thelonious Monk Quintet) -- Bag's groove (Thelonius Monk) -- I should care (Thelonious Monk) -- Moon rays (Horace Silver Quintet) -- Summertime (Miles Davis with Gil Evan's Orchestra) -- Haitian fight song (Charles Mingus Quintet) -- Django (Modern Jazz Quartet) -- Pent-up house (Solly Rollins Plus Four).; Blue 7 (Sonny Rollins Quartet) -- West Coast blues (Wes Montgomery Quartet) -- So what (Miles Davis Sextet) -- Blue in green (Bill Evans Trio) -- Enter evening (Cecil Taylor Unit) -- Alabama (John Coltrane Quartet) -- Lonely woman (Ornette Coleman Quartet) -- Congeniality (Ornette Coleman Quartet) -- Free jazz (Ornette Coleman Double Quartet) -- Steppin' (World Saxophone Quartet). || Series: Smithsonian collection of recordings. Gentle wear to box edges and corners, light soiling to box, booklet in near-pristine condition, only extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, else booklet is Near Fine(+), tapes are Fine, in a Very Good box.

N/D. Condition: New. 1. From the author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the Netflix Original series, Sex/Life) comes an immersive dystopian romance unlike anything you\'ve ever read."I thought Praying for Rain was one of the most amazing books I\'d ever read. and the second one is even better!!!!!" - T.M. Frazier, USA Today Bestselling AuthorThe world was supposed to end on April 23, but Rainbow Williams\'s world ended days before that. The mass hysteria caused by the impending apocalypse claimed everything she\'d ever loved. Her family. Her city. Her will to live. Until she met him. Wes Parker didn\'t have anything left for the apocalypse to take . he\'d already lost it all by the time he was nine years old. His family. His home. His hope of ever being loved. Until he met her.Brought together by fate and bound by a love that would last lifetimes, Rain and Wes were prepared to die together on April 23. They were not prepared for what would happen on April 24. - Libro bajo demanda.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. ciii, [4], 470, [4] pages. Illustrations. Author's Note. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index Autographed sticker on front cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Cover has minor wear and soiling, including sticker residue at the back cover. Amanda Vaill is an American writer and editor. A graduate of Harvard University, she worked in publishing before becoming a writer full-time in 1992. In the 1970s Vaill was an editor at Viking Press alongside Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In 1995 Vaill published Everybody Was So Young, a biography of Gerald and Sara Murphy, prominent 1920s socialites of the French Riviera. It was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. She also contributed to the catalogue for Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, an exhibition mounted by the Williams College Museum of Art, and also shown at the Yale Art Gallery and the Dallas Museum of Art. Her next book was Somewhere, a biography of choreographer Jerome Robbins. Vaill was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for her work on Robbins. Vaill wrote Something to Dance About a 2009 PBS documentary about Robbins life and work. Vaill was nominated for the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming for Something to Dance About, and the film won both an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award. The 2000 television film Sex & Mrs. X, starring Linda Hamilton, was based on a 1999 article Vaill wrote. Vaill has also written for Esquire, The New York Observer, Talk, Harper's Bazaar, Architectural Digest among others. A dazzling biography for readers of The Great Gatsby and other Lost Generation authors. Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was So Young Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who flocked around them. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona, Gerald and Sara inspired kindred creative spirits like Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald even modeled his main characters in Tender is the Night after the couple. Their story is both glittering and tragic, and in this sweeping and richly anecdotal portrait of a marriage and an era, Amanda Vaill "has brought them to life as never before" (Chicago Tribune). Derived from a Kirkus review: For connoisseurs of the Lost Generationâ "a well-tempered biography of the wealthy American couple who knew absolutely everybody, from Hemingway to Fitzgerald to Dos Passos to Picasso, and so on and on. Though Sara and Gerald Murphy both dabbled in the arts, their true genius was for friendship. Inherited wealth on both sides gave the Murphys the means and leisure to [live] in style across two continents. They were always willing to help artists on the down and out with quiet gifts of money, but it was their ebullient parties that really cemented their reputation. Archibald MacLeish once wrote, "There was a shrine to life wherever they were . . . a kind of revelation of inherent loveliness." Others were less kind: Hemingway repaid their friendship with slander in A Movable Feast, and they were the model for the Divers in Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. The marriage had its strains, including possible affairs, and Gerald's probable homosexuality, but it was strong enough to survive any number of blows, including the death of two Murphy children. Vaill's tale is told so well and is crammed with incident and revealing thumbnail sketches of the Lost Generation. First Broadway Books trade paperback edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

24pp. Inked ownership inscription to title page. [Bound with:] PETTIGREW, T. J. The journal of the British Archaeological Association. December 1856. On the antiquities of somersetshire. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [1856]. [1], 292-396pp. With two engraved plates and an engraved folding plan. [And:] STUBBS, William. The foundation of waltham abbey. Oxford & London. J. H. and J. Parker, 1861. xxxii, 60pp, [4]. [And:] GREEN, Emanuel. The earliest map of bath. Bath. Printed at the Herald Office, 1886. 19pp. With an engraved coloured plate. [And:] The pretended discovery of a roman bath. With remarks on a recent publication entitled the bathes of bathe's ayde in the reign of charles II. London. Wyman & Sons, 1884. 32pp. [And:] GREEN, Emanuel. A letter to the members of the somerset archaeological and natural history society. London. Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1887. 123pp, [1]. [And:] GEORGE, William. Lytes Cary Manor House, somerset, And its Literary Associations; with notices of authors of the lyte family, from queen elizabeth to the present time. Bristol. William George, [s.d.] 14pp. With a frontispiece. [And:] On an Inscribed Stone, at orchard wyndham, somerset, called "Old Mother Shipton's Tomb." Bristol. William George, 1879. 32pp. With six illustrations. [And:] PRING, James Hurly. The Place-name "hampton," with observations on mr. j. r. green's derivation of it. Taunton. Printed by J. F. Hammond, 1883. 7pp, [1]. [And:] Caer pensauelcoit: a long lost unromanised british metropolis. London. Reeves and Turner, 1882. [2], 45pp, [1]. With an engraved folding map. [And:] BOND, Thomas. [Drop-head title:] Holme Priory. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] 6pp. [And:] MAYO, Charles Herbert. The municipal records of the borough of shaftesbury: A Contribution to Shastonian History. Sherborne. J. C. Sawtell, 1889. v, [3], 87pp, [1]. [And:] LONG, William. Abury illustrated. Devizes. Printed by H. Bull, 1858. v, [1], 72pp. With eight engraved plates (three folding). Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of original publisher's upper wrapper (lower wrapper not present). Four extracts concerning Avebury, taken from issues of the Gentleman's Magazine, bound between upper wrapper and title page. [And:] WORTHY, Charles. The history of the Manor & Church of Winkleigh, in the county of devon. Plymouth. William Brendon & Son, 1876. 62pp. With a tipped-in errata slip. 8vo. Later purple cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine and top-edge sunned. Scattered foxing. A sammelband of fourteen Victorian pamphlets relating to the history of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, and Essex. Highlights include: A presentation copy of a rare survival of an authoritative pamphlet on the history of the Neolithic henge monument at Avebury, Wiltshire; including theories as to the prehistoric use of the site and notes on the survey undertaken by antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley in the seventeenth-century. A succinct monograph on the medieval manor house of Lytes Cary, Somerset, with biographical notices on the scholarly residents of the estate, including botanist and antiquary Henry Lyte (1529?-1607), translator of the Cruydeboeck, or herbal of Rembert Dodoens (Antwerp, 1554). The first edition of a transcription of the municipal records of Shaftesbury by Dorset clergyman and antiquary Charles Herbert Mayo (1845-1929), author of the Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis (1885), the standard antiquarian bibliography of the county. An apparently unrecorded offprint of an article by sometime secretary of the Somerset Archaeological Society, James Hurly Pring (1815-1889) on the etymology of the place- name 'Hampton', first published in the Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer (Vol. III, March, 1883).

Condition: Very Good. On offer is the original 1899 manuscript diary handwritten by Rebecca P. Warner known by one and all as Bess or Bessie who was 26 at the time. Bess, the oldest of 9 children, offers the reader a unique view of how a prominent, wealthy Washington DC family the lived at the end of the 19th century but even more important is the very intimate, interesting view of Germany during one of the country's most fascinating eras of historical development pror to World War I. Bess' father was Brainard Warner Sr. who was a lawyer but made his fortune in banking, real estate and land development. His company was responsible for the oversight or building of over 1000 buildings and homes in the Washington DC area. Bess's mother was Mary Jacobs Parker Warner who was descended from Edward Doty, a Pilgrim and indentured servant who sailed over on the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact and helped to settle Plymouth Colony. This diary describes Bess' trip with her sister Anna and brother Brainard Jr. to Leipzig, Germany where Brainard Jr. was the US Consul. Bess does a super job of detailing setting up house in Leipzig and also about their daily lives there. They also did a lot of traveling within Germany and she describes that as well. Research notes that the Warner family endured a lot of sadness. They lost three children at birth or very early in life. They lost their mother Mary Jacobs after the birth of Lucy, who then died. They lost their son and brother Southard who committed suicide at age 33 by shooting himself while stationed as a consul in China. Then Brainard Warner Sr died two years after the death of Southard. Here are some snippets and observations from a casual reading: They went to the motette at St Thomas Kirche which was very beautiful. The church was crowded. Students belonging to a club were there. They stayed after the service and thought they might see a German wedding. They have them nearly every Saturday after motette. They got caught in the middle of a religious service. They were sitting right in front of the minister and Bess was afraid they'd get called up to do something, In the evening Mrs Young telephoned to ask them over. Brainard had an engagement but Bess and Anne went. They left Leipzig for Chemnitz and went directly to the consulate where they had supper. They went with Mr Monaghan to Schellenburg where his family was summering. "This was a queer little town located on the top of a mountain" There is a beautiful castle and some old walls. Aside from that Bess thought it was an uninteresting place to spend a summer. They left on Monday. They went to a parade in honor of the King of Saxony. About 5000 men were received. They expected to see the King on horseback but he was on foot with other officers. They met Professor Gregory who showed them around some parts of the University. In the afternoon Brainard, Anne and Bess called on Mrs Monroe. Brainard went out in the evening with friends. "Today is the Emperor's birthday and all the flags are out. We stood for a long time to watch the Lieut General review the officers. It was a fine sight. (what little we could see though the crowd) But we were nearly frozen it was so cold" Bess practiced and then went for a lesson with Herr Krause only he wasn't in. She went again at 4 pm. "He was very discouraging and said I had no independence of fingers" Bess thought it would take her several lessons to get the right finger position and that there was no royal road to piano playing. "Hard work is the only road to success in anything". She went home. They had letters from Mamma and Pa. Then they went over to hear the St Thomas Kircke choir practice such beautiful voices. They had a number of people who stopped by for visits." We actually had a count call on us Graf Laisher who was very bright and interesting. He is studying medicine at the University" He said he couldn't speak English but he was very fluent. He proceeded to show them some of his feats of exercise and they w. English.

No binding. Condition: Very Good. Photograph of "John Brown's Fort," [William C. Russell] ca. 1888-1891. Baltimore: Russell & Co. 9 1/4 x 7 in. Historical BackgroundBuilt in 1848 as the fire engine and guard house for the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, the building became known as "John Brown's Fort" for its part in the raid spearheaded by abolitionist John Brown in October 1859.On February 22, 1858, at Gerrit Smith's home in Peterboro, New York, John Brown revealed his plan to raid a federal arsenal to spark and supply a massive slave uprising in May. With financing from the "Secret Six" wealthy abolitionists-Smith, Sanborn, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Howe, Theodore Parker, and George Luther Stearns-Brown took the next step, announcing a meeting of blacks and whites in Chatham, Ontario, and his intention of establishing in the Maryland and Virginia mountains a stronghold for escaping slaves. In the summer of 1859, Brown set up a headquarters in a rented farmhouse in Maryland, across the Potomac River from the largest federal armory, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.With an armed band of 16 whites and 5 blacks, on the night of October 16, Brown quickly took the armory and rounded up some sixty leading men of the area as hostages. Brown held out for a day and a half, fruitlessly waiting for the large group of enslaved people he expected to join the rebellion. On October 18, Lt. Israel Greene (under the overall command of Colonel Robert E. Lee) led ninety U.S. marines in storming the engine house; four of Brown's men and two marines were killed. Brown and all of the remaining raiders were captured. A wounded Brown was tried for murder, slave insurrection, and treason against the state of Virginia. The jury found him guilty of all charges, and on November 2, he was sentenced to death. Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859.During the Civil War, the town of Harpers Ferry changed hands between Union and Confederate forces fourteen times. The John Brown Fort was used as a prison, a powder magazine, and a supply house. Many troops from both sides broke pieces of brick or wood off of the buildings to take as souvenirs. After the war, enterprising locals painted "John Brown's Fort" over the doors and operated it as a tourist attraction and advertisement for passengers on passing Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trains. The building became a tourist destination and almost a shrine for African Americans in the late nineteenth century.In 1888, newspapers reported that "John Brown's Fort" had been sold. At first, it was rumored to be moved to Central Park in New York City. Changes to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track would require the removal of the building from its original location.In 1891, the fort was sold, dismantled, and transported to Chicago, where it was reassembled and displayed near the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. However, it only attracted eleven visitors in ten days, so the owners closed and dismantled it, leaving it on a vacant lot.In 1894, journalist Kate Field (1838-1896) of Washington, D.C. began a campaign to return the building to Harpers Ferry. Alexander Murphy sold Field five acres for $1, and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad offered to ship it back to Harpers Ferry free of charge. In 1895, the building was reassembled on a bluff on the Murphy Farm about three miles outside of town, requiring an additional 8,000 bricks to replace those lost. In 1909, Storer College (1867-1955), a local educational institution for African Americans, purchased the building and moved it to campus on Camp Hill in Harpers Ferry. In 1960, the National Park Service acquired the building and moved it to near its original location in 1968.This photograph was likely taken by William C. Russell (1843-1900). While working as a conductor for the railroad, he took thousands of photographs of scenery along the tracks. When he retired, he opened a photograph gallery at No. 5 North Charles Street from 1889-1891, though he may have ta. (See website for full description). Photograph.

The 30 March 1953 date comprises three numbers recorded live at the Band Box, a famous Broadway club just off 52nd Street, and broadcast on WMGM: "Star Eyes", "Ornithology" and "Dynamo A", featuring Charlie Parker (alto sax), Walter Bishop, Jr. (piano), Kenny O'Brien (bass), and Roy Haynes (drums). These are paired with a fascinating interview from 1 May 1950, in which Parker, whose partner, Chan Richardson, is also present, is interviewed by critic Marshall Stearns and jazz historian Jim Maher, covering his childhood and youth ("where did you get your saxes?"), playing with marching bands in Kansas City, and the events of the session in January 1945 when Rubberlegs Williams mistakenly drank Parker's coffee, which had been spiked with Benzedrine (the interview can be found on YouTube). The history of jazz is sprinkled liberally with entrepreneurs driven by a passion for the music, figures such as Teddy Reig and Norman Granz, and those zealous amateur recordists such as Dean Benedetti who become an integral part of jazz lore. One such figure was the "voluble and erudite" Boris Rose, described as such by Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix in their Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop - A History (OUP 2005, p. ix). Subsequently they relate how, from his "crowded studio in New York City on 15th Street east of the Third Avenue El", Rose "sold dubbed acetate discs of rare sides". In a piece about the Rose archive for the Wall Street Journal the distinguished jazz writer Will Friedwald remarked that "Boris Rose was one of those legendary characters who seem to proliferate in the world of jazz. He was tall, articulate, always very well groomed - and by all accounts an outrageous character. An inveterate prankster, he dreamed up a dizzying array of fake label names (including "Titania," "Ambrosia," "Caliban," "Session Disc," "Ozone" and "Chazzer Records"), many of which he tried to pass off as European imports. Most of his albums bore an address on the front, such as "A Product of Stockholm, Sweden." But if you looked closely on the back, it would say something like "Manufactured in Madison, Wisconsin" in much smaller type. 'I always felt something about jazz,' Mr. Rose said in an undated interview with historian Dan Morgenstern that was taped for German television. 'As far back as 1930, I listened to broadcasts from the Cotton Club. I heard Duke, I heard Don Redman, I heard Cab Calloway'. During his years at City College, Mr. Rose practiced the c-melody saxophone but began to find his calling when he got a job at the MRM Music Shop on Nassau Street. 'As far back as 1940, I purchased a home [disc-cutter] recorder and I began to dub records,' he told Mr. Morgenstern. 'For the next few years while I was in the Army, I was able to dub records for collectors who couldn't find the originals'. From there, he branched out to recording radio broadcasts and then live bands in clubs. 'Getting out of the Army in 1946, I had professional equipment, and began to take down all of these jazz broadcasts,' he explained. 'First on 16-inch acetate discs. Later on, when tape came into the picture, I was able to record on tape'. Mr. Morgenstern remembers Mr. Rose as 'a man who never sat down - he was always monitoring three or four tape recorders or disc-cutters at any given time'. For decades, Mr. Rose ran a thriving business, recording jazz wherever he could, then making and selling copies or trading them for rarer material. Over time he amassed a spectacular library of modern jazz from the glory years - the 1950s. His friends found this amazing since he rarely listened to the stuff himself; his own tastes ran to Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory. Still, he documented an entire era of music, the great majority of which hasn't been heard in 60 years" (4 December 2010). Rose's work as an archivist is covered in the scholarly Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century by Alex Sayf Cummings (OUP 2013): "Boris Rose, a compulsive collector and sound engineer from the Bronx. recorded performances from the radio, making homemade acetates and LPs available to fans of jazz, classical, country, and countless other genres for decades. Each featured a unique cover, designed and Xeroxed by Rose himself. 'We should thank goodness that someone was documenting these broadcasts,' [Down Beat columnist John] Corbett writes, 'or they might have been lost forever'". 12-inch acetate, typed white label, housed in contemporary Transco sleeve with later plain card sleeve. Label a little bubbled and chipped at the edge from careless gluing, surface of the disc has light hazing and a few minor scuffs, but remains very good.

First Edition, Warmly Inscribed by Rouben Mamoulian The Director of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Musical - Oklahoma [MAMOULIAN, Rouben, director]. ROGERS, Richard. HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar 2nd. Oklahoma! A Musical Play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd. Based on Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs. Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd. New York: Random House, [1943]. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Ken - With thanks for the warm enthusiasm with which he appreciates the right and the beautiful wherever he finds it. Rouben [Mamoulian]". First edition. Small octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 203 x 137 mm.). [x], [1]-146 pp. Photogravure frontispiece and four photogravure plates. The last few leaves slightly creased at lower corner. Publisher's light gray cloth, front cover with a pair of cowboy boots in blue and brown, spine blocked in brown and blue and lettered in white. A near fine copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, slightly worn at extremities. Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie. The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box office hit and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Oscar-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma! in 1944. Between the world wars, roles in musicals were usually filled by actors who could sing, but Rodgers and Hammerstein chose, conversely, to cast singers who could act. Though Theresa Helburn, codirector of the Theatre Guild, suggested Shirley Temple as Laurey and Groucho Marx as Ali Hakim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, with director Rouben Mamoulian's support, insisted that performers more dramatically appropriate for the roles be cast. As a result, there were no stars in the production, another unusual step.[8] The production was choreographed by Agnes de Mille (her first time choreographing a musical on Broadway), who provided one of the show's most notable and enduring features: a 15-minute first-act ballet finale (often referred to as the dream ballet) depicting Laurey's struggle to evaluate her suitors, Jud and Curly.[11] Rouben Zachary Mamoulian (1897-1987) was an American film and theater director. Mamoulian was also the first to stage such notable Broadway works as Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), and Lost in the Stars (1949).

Whittington Press (illustrator). folio (15 x 11½ ins). Bound in full green Oasis leather with marbled endpapers by Christopher Rowlatt, with the separate portfolio of leaves, in a solander box. 153 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 180 copies, of which this copy is one of of 45 'A' copies featuring 27 original specimen leaves from the seven Presses. Many of the leaves specially selected for the A edition have wood-engravings, stencil-coloured illustrations and copper-engravings and are double leaves, showing four pages. Three leaves show typefaces specially designed for those presses that continued the tradition of having a proprietary typeface. Copies of the book are accompanied by a portfolio of additional leaves from the presses, chosen specially for this edition. Bound in full green Oasis leather with marbled endpapers by Christopher Rowlatt, with the separate portfolio of leaves, in a solander box. Accompanied by David's informative and authoritative commentary, each leaf offers a first-hand look into the printing quality and typographical genius accomplished by each printer. When paired with Pages from Presses (2006, Whittington Press), they cover perhaps the epitome of fifty years of the British private press movement from Kelmscott on. Pages from Presses II offers a unique opportunity to acquire original leaves from a selection of the books of the major British fine presses that flourished after the First World War. Each volume is designed to be generous in format to show the largest leaves from the Presses without folding. The type used is an elegant 14-Didot size of Walbaum for which the Press owns one of the rare sets of matrices [a change from Volume One which was printed from the smaller 14-point]. The paper is a special making of Czech Losin hand-made [also used in the prospectus] which features the Whittington Press pressmark for the only time. It is likely that this will be the last letterpress printed book published by the Whittington Press. LIST OF LEAVES INCLUDED WITH THE A EDITION: GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS The Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer. 4 vols, 1929-31. Caslon type. Batchelor hmp. Wood-engravings by Eric Gill. Lamia Isabella The Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems. John Keats. 1928. Caslon type. Batchelor hmp. Wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings and engraved initials by Eric Gill. The Guinea Series: The Hundredth Story. A. E. Coppard OR When Thou Wast Naked. T. F. Powys OR A German Idyll. H. E. Bates OR Crotty Shinkwin [&] The Beauty Spot. A. E. Coppard OR The Apple Trees. Hugh Walpole. 1931-2. 14-point Golden Cockerel Type. Batchelor hmp. Wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (1 and 4), John Nash (2) and Lynton Lamb (3 and 5). Paradise Lost. John Milton. 1937. 18-point Golden Cockerel Type. Batchelor hmp. Wood-engravings by Mary Groom. Endymion: a Poetic Romance. John Keats. 1947. Caslon type. Arnold's hmp. Wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright. GREGYNOG PRESS The Plays of Euripides. 2 vols, 1931. Bembo and Fairbank's italic type. Batchelor hmp. Wood-engravings by R. A. Maynard and H. W. Bray. Caneuon Ceiriog Detholiad (The Songs of Ceiriog: A Selection). 1925. Kennerley type. Grosvenor Chater hmp. Wood-engravings by R. A. Maynard and H. W. Bray. The Fables of Esope. 1932. Bembo type. Barcham Green hmp. Wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker and wood-engraved initials by William MacCance. Eros and Psyche. Robert Bridges. 1935. Gregynog type. Batchelor hmp. Wood-engravings after designs by Edward Burne-Jones. A leaf from another notable Gregynog Press book. SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS The Whole Works of Homer. 5 vols, 1930-1. Monotype Centaur. Batchelor hmp. Wood-engravings by John Farleigh. The Works of William Shakespeare (The Stratford Town edition). 10 vols, 1904-07. Caslon type. Spicer hmp. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. 8 vols, 1928-9. Caslon type. Batchelor Kelmscott hmp. Headings and initials designed by Joscelyne Gaskin; hand-coloured pilgrims drawn by Hugh Chesterman. Boccaccio's Decameron. 2 vols, 1934-5. Caslon type. Batchelor hmp. Woodcuts re-cut from the 1492 Venice edition. Woodcut decorative initials based on those in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499). CURWEN PRESS The Legion Book. Edited by H. Cotton Minchin. Privately printed, 1929 (600 copies thus). Lutetia type. Wove paper. Initials in red designed by Jan van Krimpen. Elsie and the Child. Arnold Bennett. Cassell, 1929. Baskerville type. F. J. Head hmp. Stencil-coloured illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer. The Curwen Press Miscellany. Edited by Oliver Simon. Soncino Press, 1931. Walbaum type. Wove mould-made paper. NONESUCH PRESS Benito Cereno. Herman Melville. 1926. Walbaum type. Grey Van Gelder paper. Printed at the Curwen Press. Stencil-coloured illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer. The Holy Bible. 4 vols, 1925-7. Monotype Plantin. Japon vellum. Printed by Oxford University Press. Copper-engravings by Stephen Gooden. The Anatomy of Melancholy. [Robert Burton]. 2 vols, 1925. Monotype Plantin, with long descenders. Dutch laid paper. Printed by the Westminster Press. Illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Odyssey. Homer. 1931. Monotype Cochin and Antigone Greek types. Pannekoek mould-made paper. Printed by Enschedé. Ornaments designed by Rudolf Koch. The Nonesuch Century. A. J. A. Symons, Desmond Flower and Francis Meynell. 1936. Monotype Times New Roman. Wove paper. Printed at Cambridge University Press. Illustrations of text and title-pages reset in the original types and printed by CUP. Tipped-in specimens reset and printed by their original printers. HASLEWOOD BOOKS Sailing-ships and Barges of the Western Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. Bernard Windeler. 1926. Koch Kursiv type. Zanders cream laid hmp. Printed at the Curwen Press. Hand-coloured copper-engravings by Edward Wadsworth. A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe. Sacheverell Sitwell. 1928. Bodoni type. Zanders cream laid hmp. Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne. Drypoints by Richard Wyndham. CRESSET PRESS The Apocrypha. 1929. Baskervil.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [12]+19+[errata+104+40+64+83 pages with engraved frontispiece, fourteen engraved plates, all by Gribelin and folding letterpress table. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in contemporary style leather with five raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped decorative cover. ( Church 821; European Americana, 705/21; Field 122 (later edition); Howes B410; Pilling, Algonquian, p. 43; Sabin 5112; Streeter sale 2:1098; Vail 297) First edition. Robert Beverley, best known, as author of The History and Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts (1705), the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. Beverley worked as a clerk in Jamestown using family connections to advance politically while acquiring substantial wealth. In 1703 he sailed to England to appeal a suit he lost before the General Court, and there he penned his history, a collection of personal history, official accounts, and material borrowed from others. Beverley self-consciously identified himself as a Virginian and used the books to settle political scores. In particular, he was highly critical of Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson, who made sure that Beverley lost his positions as clerk of the House of Burgesses and of King and Queen County. In his later years, Beverley retired to his large estate, Beverley Park, where he experimented with wine-making. When Beverley lost his case in London, he authored a number of letters back to Virginia that especially angered Nicholson. As to Mr. Beverley s letter and narrative, declared Nicholson, they are part false, part scandalous, & part Malitious, but I could not expect otherwise from a man of his universal ill character. While in England Beverley also wrote The History and Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts (1705), the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. Beverley recalled later that he had reviewed for a bookseller about six pages of paper written, which contained the account of Virginia and Carolina. But the account was too faulty and too imperfect to be mended, so he proposed to the bookseller to make him an account of my own country. Three French-language editions were published between 1707 and 1718, probably as promotional literature to be distributed to Protestants in French-speaking portions of Europe. Virginia Indian Settlement When it first appeared in London, the book was three hundred pages of text, accompanied by fourteen engravings, and divided into four sections: The History of the First Settlement of Virginia, The Natural Productions and Conveniencies of the Country, The Native Indians, and The present State of the Country. It is an unmatched source for the Virginia of its time an amalgam of personal observations and stories heard, material borrowed from published and unpublished accounts, and official reports. He also included significant portions from the unpublished writings of several other Virginians. The early section of the history relied heavily on Captain John Smith's writings, but the later sections on politics, Native Americans and the flora, fauna, and agricultural products of the colony used several sources. No prior author identified himself so clearly as a Virginian. I am an Indian, and don t pretend to be exact in my language, Beverley wrote in the preface. But I hope the Plainness of my Dress, will give him [the reader] the kinder Impressions of my Honesty, which is what I pretend to. His treatment of Bacon's Rebellion (1676 1677) clearly reflected his father s loyalty to Governor Sir William Berkeley. The History was also sharply critical of Nicholson, including the governor s transfer of the capital from Jamestown, where Beverley owned property, to the imaginary City of Williamsburg. Before leaving London, Beverley participated in the campaign against the governor that led to Nicholson s recall at about the same time that the History was printed. Condition: Previous owner.