Published in 1941 by Doubleday, Doran, & Company of Garden City, New York.  Printed at the Country Life Press in Garden City, NY. 570 numbered pages including sources and index. Red cloth covered boards with title and author embossed in gold and highlighted in blue. Binding is tight. Some shelf wear and bumping on edges. Former owner’s printed bookplate on inside left front cover. Age discoloration on inside covers. Includes dust jacket in poor condition. It has tears, chipping, and taped repairs. See photos for condition. Jacket states “Literary Guild.” Assumed First Edition.

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) was one of America's most famous and controversial defense attorneys, known for his role in the Scopes monkey trial of 1925 and other major cases of his day. He lived and practiced law during a period of unprecedented upheaval and profound change in the United States.  

Author is renowned biographer whose impeccable research and clear writing style make this autobiography an interesting and informative read. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

For The Defense 

Clarence Darrow

Evan Thomas

Very good clean tight copy, a mark on the bottom, very good dust jacket, little shelf wear.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

A Man Divided

"What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait of an anxious introvert who struggled to be a transformative statesman."--Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs.

1st /1st * Being Nixon

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First published in 1958 and
selected by the New York Times as
one of the best books of the year,
Willie Mae is a first-person account
of a black woman's life and her ex-
periences as a domestic worker in a
succession of southern households
in the first half of the century.
Powerful and poignant, some-
times funny and always honest,
Willie Mae is a testament to the
courage and strength of a gener-
ation of women who struggled to
survive with dignity and humanity
in the years before the civil rights
movement.



North Carolina

Willie Mae

Sid Hartman

Patrick Reusse

This book has been read but remains in clean condition. The cover and all pages are intact. The spine shows signs of wear.

Minnesota

The Sports Legends, the Inside Scoops, and the Close Personal Friends

"Sid Hartman has been at the center of Minnesota sports for more than fifty years. ..."--Jacket.

SIGNED Sid!

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True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes

James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, #1 bestselling coauthors of Walk in My Combat Boots, powerfully present the frontline heroes who work to save our lives every day: E.R. Nurses. "The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses ... are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here." -Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN "James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read." -Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom and The Perfect Storm Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. When we're at our worst, E.R. nurses are at their best.

E. R. Nurses

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This book has been read but remains in clean condition. The cover and all pages are intact. The spine shows signs of wear. 

The candid story of Hollywood's popular sex symbol reveals the "girl next door" underneath--marrying her high school sweetheart, founding an international adoption agency--as well as the real truth behind her relationship with Howard Hughes This description may be from another edition of this product.

My Path and My Detours

Jane Russell (First Edition)

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Vincent van Gogh

Extremely rare three-volume box set in excellent condition. Box is ever-so-slightly shelf worn. Highly collectible. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Nebraska

Don’t Shoot, It’s Only Me*signed, first edition

Georgia O'Keeffe

Alfred Stieglitz

Very rare first edition in excellent condition. Collectible. 

A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

Based on documents long missing from KGB files, this fascinating account of Rasputin, a man who weilded unprecidented power over the last Czar of Russia, attempts to understand this enigmatic and charismatic figure. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Rasputin File

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Nancy Sinatra

An American Legend

Frank Sinatra

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Robert A. Caro

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.
 
The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered.
 
We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate--coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon--raised in one of the country's most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father's slide into failure and financial ruin--lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate "impossible" goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.

We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable "Mr. Sam" Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . .
 
Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal's "connection" in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district's first electric lines.
 
We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and "nauseating loneliness" of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ.
 
Here is Lyndon Johnson--his Texas, his Washington, his America--in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.

The Path to Power

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Iowa

the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Prairie fires

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Florida

My Reflections on Loving God Back

It's easy to go through days, weeks, even years on autopilot, moving from one activity to another, rarely taking the time to consider what it's all for anyway. Why did God make us? What does he want us to do with the time he has given us? And how can we find out? In her bestselling story-driven style, Christian rocker Lacey Sturm shares with readers the beautiful struggle of learning what one's unique gifts are and pursuing them wholeheartedly. She helps them see each day as a gift from God, find balance in their busy lives, and discover the joy of giving God's gifts back to him by using them to bring him glory. Young people especially will love this openhanded and openhearted take on what to do with their lives, as will those who feel like they've been coasting or heading down the wrong path.

The Return

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My Journey To A Pixelated World

In Real Life

Jane Fonda

Illinois

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover Jane Fonda, in her own words--and now experience the story of her life in the HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts.

"To hold this book in your hands is to be astonished by how much living can be packed into sixty-plus years."--Los Angeles Times

America knows Jane Fonda as actress and activist, feminist and wife, workout guru and role model. In this extraordinary memoir, Fonda shows that she is much more. From her youth among Hollywood's elite to her film career and her activism today, Fonda reveals intimate details and personal truths she hopes "can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently." Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, My Life So Far is filled with insights into the personal struggles of a woman living a remarkable life.

"In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes that ran through my life, a coherent arc to my journey that, if I could be truthful in the telling, might provide a road map for other women as they face the challenges of relationships, self-image, and forgiveness. What I did not anticipate was how my journey would also resonate with men."--From the Introduction

Praise for My Life So Far

"[A] sisterly, enveloping memoir . . . an intimate, haunting book that might as well be catnip from its ever controversial author."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Terrific . . . rich . . . unexpectedly quite moving."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Fiercely intelligent, detailed, probing, rigorously revealing."--O: The Oprah Magazine

"Fonda possesses a raw and affecting candor. . . . Her honesty [is] a force."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A fearless book . . . fascinating."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Truly compelling."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Riveting."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

My Life So Far

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Peter Robb

This is a biography of one of Art History's most influential, brilliant, and controversial artists, Caravaggio. Perfect for the reader who loves art, Italian history, or mysterious characters. The book is in excellent condition; see photos for any minor wear.

Caravaggio

This work provides a biography of Carvaggio, piecing together together what happened during his short, brilliant, violent, and ill-documented life. It evokes early 17th-century Italy and the cities where Carvaggio lived and painted in all their seething, crude and dangerous colour.

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Title page signed by four notables. Inscribed by the author “At the Goethe Institute.” Other signatures: Broadway performer Paula Laurence, actor William Duell (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and actress Charlotte Rae (The Facts of Life). 

New Jersey

From Berlin to Broadway

His best-known song is "Mack the Knife " with words by Bertolt Brecht, from The Threepenny Opera, first performed in Weimar Berlin in 1928. Five years later, Kurt Weill fled the Nazis to come to America, where he soon emerged as one of the most admired composers of the Broadway musical stage. His shows included: Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus, Street Scene and Lost in the Stars. His songs: "My Ship " "September Song " "Speak Low" and "It Never Was You." This biography concentrates on Weill's career in the United States, but its aim is to explore the truth in the comment made by Weill's wife, the unforgettable Lotte Lenya: "There is no American Weill, there is no German Weill. There is no difference between them. There is only Weill."

SIGNED—Kurt Weill On Stage

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Tenting on the Plains; or Gen'l Custer in Kansas and Texas - Published 1893, Charles L. Webster & Co. -*Damaged* - *Pages 385-386 are missing*

or Gen'l Custer in Kansas and Texas

Tenting on the Plains

K.K. Ramamurthy

Inscribed by *someone* on title page. The author? I honestly can’t say. Scarce, hard to find title.

Bangalore, Brooklyn and Beyond

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A Pictorial Biography HST Harry S. Truman by David S. Thompson, 1973 Softcover

Nic Sheff

Growing up on Methamphetamines

Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were.

Tweak

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Landon Y. Jones

Slight stains inside the dust jacket. Expert author on this period of history. First edition,first printing.

Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking Federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, best-selling author Landon Y. Jones presents for the first time Clark's remarkable life and influential career in their full complexity. Like every colonial family living on Virginia's violent frontier, the Clarks killed Indians and acquired land; acting on behalf of the United States, William would prove successful at both. Clark's life was spent fighting in America's fifty-year running war with the Indians (and their European allies) over the Western borderlands. The struggle began with his famed brother George Roger's western campaigns during the American Revolution, continued through the vicious battles of the War of 1812, and ended with the Black Hawk War in the 1830s. In vividly depicting Clark's life, Jones memorably captures not only the dark and bloody ground of America's early West, but also the qualities of character and courage that made him an unequalled leader in America's grander enterprise: the shaping of the West. No one played a larger part in that accomplishment than William Clark. William Clark and the Shaping of the West is an unforgettable human story that encompasses in a single life the sweep of American history from colonial Virginia to the conquest of the West.

1st Ed /1st * William Clark and the Shaping of the West

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Frank McCourt

Rare signed edition. 31st printing. Inscribed. 

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse y

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