Anne Truitt

Alexandra Truitt

Rachel Kushner

Brand new. I mistakenly ordered two copies of this book. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Journal of an Artist

Named by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt's remarkable series of journals

 

"Impressive. . . . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . . [T]hese daily entries . . . offer a version of Truitt free of artifice as she meditates on the sacred and mundane. . . . This sparks with intelligence."--Publishers Weekly

 

"Truitt wrote as she sculpted, returning to the past again and again to find fresh truths. . . . A model of discipline and open-ended inquiry and a welcome counterweight to the kind of anxieties that so often accompany a creative practice."--Megan O'Grady, New Yorker

 

"In its stripped-down intimacy, Yield shows Truitt at her most eloquent in demonstrating, as her sculptures do, that all revelation in art is self-revelation."--Donna Rifkind, Wall Street Journal

 

In the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermittently, over the next six years, writing in spiral-bound notebooks and setting no guidelines other than to "let the artist speak." These writings were published as Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1982). Two other journal volumes followed: Turn (1986) and Prospect (1996). This book, the final volume, comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death.

 

In Yield, Truitt's unflinching honesty is on display as she contemplates her place in the world and comes to terms with the intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life, even as that life approaches its end. Truitt illuminates a life and career in which the demands, responsibilities, and rewards of family, friends, motherhood, and grandmotherhood are ultimately accepted, together with those of a working artist.

Yield

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Terry Southern

Michael Cooper

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Legendary Photographs of a Band in the Making, 1963-1973

The Early Stones

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Thomas Frank

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Salvos from the Baffler

Gathers articles from The Baffler magazine which offer criticism of the new American cultural order such as the rise of "alternative" culture.

Commodify Your Dissent

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Peter Constantine

Cynthia Ozick

Leo Tolstoi

Cover has some sun fading. Otherwise like new, never read. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Olenin, a wealthy orphan from Moscow, joins the Russian army and is sent to the Caucasus, where he rediscovers the beauty of nature, unrequited love, and the colorful culture of the Cossacks and Chechens.

The Cossacks

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Jim Lichtman

Stories about Principles That Matter

What Do You Stand For?

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Raynor Winn

The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain

The powerful story of a 1,000-mile healing walk—from the lochs of Scotland to England's southwest coast—in a remarkable evocation of modern-day Britain. Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he—can he?—set out with her on another healing walk? The Cape Wrath Trail is hundreds of miles of grueling terrain through Scotland's remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards. Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour years earlier—and their hope is that this experience can work its magic again. So Raynor and Moth embark on an incredible thousand-mile journey: from Scotland to the familiar shores of the South West Coast Path, from Northumberland to the Yorkshire moors, and from Wales to home again. As they map with each step the landscape of their island nation, they find themselves facing existential questions—about themselves and about their country—during this epic, inspiring odyssey.

Landlines

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Mike Edison

A little shelf smudge on bottom edges (shown), otherwise very good condition. 

Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World

"If your book's subtitle isSavage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, you have a lot to live up to--and somehow Mike Edison does . . . Edison seems to have nine lives and enjoys every moment of each of them to the fullest . . . His journey takes him around the world, but he always returns to magazine writing, and his insider scoop on these bizarre workplaces is what, finally, makes this memoir truly memorable." --Penthouse

"Cooler than Toby Young and more credible than James Frey."--Bookforum

"Will have you alternately envying Edison and being glad you've avoided such encounters." --New York Daily News

"Gloriously told . . . Surprisingly intelligent." --SF Weekly

"[Edison's] an engaging, sardonic guide to some of magazinedom's more disreputable territories." --Entertainment Weekly

"Brash, irreverent, funny as hell and beautifully written."--PopMatters

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go

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1929 pre-war second printing by Oxford University Press. No marginalia. Jacket and cover are tired and worn as shown. Inscription of owner in ink, dated 1933. 

Oxford University Press

Some Modern Sculptors

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Moscow City

International Travel Maps

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Hank Harrison

Rare, weird hippie memoir by Courtney Love’s father. Cover shows some wear but no interior marks or damage. 

The Dead

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Neil Young

A Memoir of Life and Cars

The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that “reads like a great Neil Young song plays.” (The Buffalo News) In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author Neil Young has fashioned another extraordinary work of reminiscences told through the lens of one of his deepest passions: cars. A lifelong devotee and collector, Young explores his love for the well-crafted vintage automobile and examines his newfound awareness of his hobby’s negative environmental impact. Witty, eclectic, candid, and filled with Young’s original artwork, Special Deluxe will appeal to car lovers as well as the legions devoted to one of the most genuine and enigmatic artists of our time.

Special Deluxe

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David Mitchell

Dispatched to the influential Japanese port of Dejima in 1799, ambitious clerk Jacob de Zoet resolves to earn enough money to deserve his wealthy fiancée, an effort that is challenged by his relationship with the midwife daughter of a Samurai.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

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Helen Yglesias

In her first novel in a dozen years, the acclaimed author of "How She Died" and "Sweetsir" returns with a poignant and very funny story about the last American taboos: old age and dying.

Girls

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Terry Teachout

A Life of Duke Ellington

An account of the public and private lives of the eminent jazz artist includes coverage of his slave heritage, the musical talent that inspired some 1,500 compositions and his relationships with numerous lovers. By the author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.

Duke

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M. J. Indelicato

Six Strings of Separation

The author recounts his forty years spent collecting rare vintage guitars, describing how his best-known instruments were made and acquired and his encounters with some of the famous musicians who played them.

Guitar Man

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No missing pages or tears. Student copy with margin notes. Cool vintage edition. 

Introduction by Allan Halline

Six Modern American Plays 

John Peel

Sheila Ravenscroft

Like new. First edition. Nice personal inscription on dedication page. 

John Peel was one of the most influential figures in modern popular music, and it was thanks to his Radio One show that bands such as T-Rex, The Smiths, Radiohead and The White Stripes first came to prominence. This is his story, which he began to write just before his untimely death in 2004.

John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes

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Peter Guralnick

From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records.

The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day.

With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.

Sam Phillips: the Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

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Barry Mazor

This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous—even revolutionary—A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it. It is the story of the life and fifty-year career—from the age of cylinder recordings to the stereo era—of the man who pioneered the recording, marketing, and publishing of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and Latin music. It tracks Peer's role in the recording of Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" (the record that sparked the blues craze), the first country recording sessions, his discovery of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family at the famed Bristol Sessions, the popularizing of Latin American music during World War II, and the post-war transformation of music on the airwaves that set the stage for the dominance of R&B, country, and rock 'n' roll. But it is also the story of a man from humble Midwestern beginnings who went on to build the world's largest independent music publishing firm, fostering the global reach of music that had been specialized, localized, and marginalized. Ralph Peer redefined the ways promising songs and performers were identified, encouraged, and promoted, rethought how far regional music might travel, and changed our very notions of what pop music can be. Barry Mazor is the author of Meeting Jimmie Rodgers. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal and No Depression magazine; his writing has also appeared in the Oxford American, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, and the Nashville Scene.

Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music

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R. A. Scotti

The Great Hurricane Of 1938

In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record.

Sudden Sea

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Heidi Julavits

Like new condition with slight shelf wear to jacket. 

A Memoir of Four Years

A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.” “An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George Saunders That night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it. If the hand was a map that led to a future person, was there any changing the destination? One summer Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming—and what qualifies me to be his guide? The next four years feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where Julavits teaches, unleashing questions of justice and accountability, as well as education and prevention. She begins to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of the world he’s about to enter. And what she must learn about herself to responsibly steer him. Looking back to her childhood in Maine, where she and her family often navigated the tricky coastline in a small boat, relying on a decades-old nautical guide, Julavits takes us on an intellectual navigation of the self. Throughout, she intertwines her internal analysis with a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to raise a child in a time full of contradictions and moral complexity. Using the past and present as points of orientation, Directions to Myself examines the messy minutiae of family life alongside knottier questions of politics and gender. Through it all, Julavits discovers the beauty and the peril of telling stories as a way to locate ourselves and help others find us. Intimate, rigorous, and refreshingly unsentimental, Directions to Myself cements Julavits’s reputation as one of the most shrewdly innovative nonfiction writers at work today.

Directions to Myself

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Maureen Stanton

An Insider's Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting

Whether it’s Antiques Roadshow or American Pickers, or any of the number of TV shows on flea markets, the world of collecting inspires a cult following of millions of Americans. Celebrated author Maureen Stanton takes readers behind the scenes and deep into the “flea-o-sphere,” following master antiques dealer Curt Avery from the populist mayhem of flea markets, to the rarefied realm of high-end antiques shows, to the heart-pounding competition of auctions. Killer Stuff and Tons of Money is a captivating tour of the outrageous world of American antiques, jam-packed with colorful characters, high-stakes scores, and insider tips for all who seek hidden treasure.

Killer Stuff and Tons of Money

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Includes several beautiful color plates suitable for framing. School library stamps in a few places. Otherwise book is in excellent condition. Jacket cover and library plastic cover has some tears as shown. 1954 printing of a 1924 title. 

Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham

The Poppy Seed Cakes

Steve Almond

A Book by and for the Fanatics among Us

Drooling fanatic, n. 1. One who drools in the presence of beloved rock stars. 2. Any of a genus of rock-and-roll wannabes/geeks who walk around with songs constantly ringing in their ears, own more than 3,000 albums, and fall in love with at least one record per week.
 
With a life that's spanned the phonographic era and the digital age, Steve Almond lives to Rawk. Like you, he's secretly longed to live the life of a rock star, complete with insane talent, famous friends, and hotel rooms to be trashed. Also like you, he's content (sort of) to live the life of a rabid fan, one who has converted his unrequited desires into a (sort of) noble obsession.

    Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life traces Almond's passion from his earliest (and most wretched) rock criticism to his eventual discovery of a music-crazed soul mate and their subsequent production of two little superfans. Along the way, Almond reflects on the delusional power of songs, the awkward mating habits of drooling fanatics, and why Depression Songs actually make us feel so much better. The book also includes:
 
* sometimes drunken interviews with America's finest songwriters
* a recap of the author's terrifying visit to Graceland while stoned
* a vigorous and credibility-shattering endorsement of Styx's Paradise Theater
* recommendations you will often choose to ignore
* a reluctant exegesis of the Toto song "Africa"
* obnoxious lists sure to piss off rock critics
 
But wait, there's more. Readers will also be able to listen to a special free mix designed by the author, available online at www.stevenalmond.com, for the express purpose of eliciting your drool. For those about to rock--we salute you!

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