Gary Giddins

Perfect binding, clean pages. Only mild wear to dust jacket. First Edition/third printing

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Nebraska

The First Century

No one writes about music with more authority and eloquence than Gary Giddins. Visions of Jazz: The First Centry is his eagerly awaited tour de force--"a monumental work" (Kirkus Reviews) on a subject he has explored as critic and historian for more than twenty-five years.

Visions of Jazz

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Nat Shapiro

Nat Hentoff

1966 Dover reprint, in great shape. Only minor edge wear. Perfect spine and bright clean pages.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It

Leading jazz composers and performers reveal their personal feelings toward the history and future of the art form

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

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Alyn Shipton

The Life of Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created the modern jazz trumpet-playing style and dazzled aficionados and popular audiences alike for over 50 years.In this first full biography, Alyn Shipton covers all aspects of Dizzy's remarkable life and career, taking us through his days as a flashy trumpet player in the swing bands of the 1930s, his innovative bebop work in the 1940s, the worldwide fame and adoration he earned through his big band tours in the 1950s, and the many recordings and performances which defined a career that extended into the early 1990s. Along the way, Shipton convincingly argues that Gillespie--rather than Charlie Parker as is widely believed--had the greatest role in creating bebop, playing in key jazz groups, teaching the music to others, and helping to develop the first original bebop repertory. Shipton also explores the dark side of Dizzy's mostly sunny personal life, his womanizing, the illegitimate daughter he fathered and supported--now a respected jazz singer in her own right--and his sometimes needless cruelty to others.For anyone interested in jazz and one of its most innovative and appealing figures, Groovin' High is essential reading.

Groovin' High

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Jazz

Joseph Medicine Crow

First edition/first printing. Dust jacket hast surface and edge wear, nothing major. Binding is tight and pages are crisp and clean

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Crow Indians' Own Stories

From the Heart of the Crow Country

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Joel Norris

First edition/first printing mass market paperback. Glossy cover, slight spine crease but solid binding. Clean pages.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Shocking True Story of America's Most Notorious Serial Killer

Henry Lee Lucas

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Donald Spoto

Very little surface wear, otherwise looks new

Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures

This definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without. 

The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. So many of his movies have achieved classic status that even a partial list--Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound--brings a flood of memories. In this essential text, reissued on the occasion of Hitchcock's centennial, internationally renowned Hitchcock authority Donald Spoto describes and analyzes every movie made by this master filmmaker. Illustrated throughout with shots from each film, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock also includes a storyboard section, a complete filmography, and "A Hitchcock Album" (sixteen pages of photos) as an added celebration of his life.

The Art of Alfred Hitchcock

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Non-fiction

Wright Morris

RARE Bison Books first edition/first printing, 1975. Has mild surface and edge wear. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding is solid.

In this novel, set in 1952 but intermingling the past and present, the protagonist reviews the effects of the Jazz Age on himself and a friend, recalling their exploits in college, in Paris, and in love. The result is the picture of a generation.

The Huge Season

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Chinua Achebe

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

See pic for only area of wear. Solid spine and bright, clean pages

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God; Introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy”—with an intorduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . Beginning with the best-selling Things Fall Apart—on the heels of its fiftieth anniversary—The African Trilogy captures a society caught between its traditional roots and the demands of a rapidly changing world. Achebe’s most famous novel introduces us to Okonkwo, an important member of the Igbo people, who fails to adjust as his village is colonized by the British. In No Longer at Ease we meet his grandson, Obi Okonkwo, a young man who was sent to a university in England and has returned, only to clash with the ruling elite to which he now believes he belongs. Arrow of God tells the story of Ezuelu, the chief priest of several Nigerian villages, and his battle with Christian missionaries. In these masterful novels, Achebe brilliantly sets universal tales of personal and moral struggle in the context of the tragic drama of colonization.

The African Trilogy

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Vasily Grossman

Robert Chandler

Very little shelf wear, spine is flawless 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century.

Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.

Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers’ nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves.

This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.

Life and Fate

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Novels

Ernest Hemingway

Purchased from the actual Hemingway House in Key West, Florida. Overall in excellent shape.

Ernest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1956. But his poetry deserves close attention, if only because it is so revealing. Through verse he expressed anger and disgust—at Dorothy Parker and Edmund Wilson, among others. He parodied the poems and sensibilities of Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Kilmer, Robert Graves, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Gertrude Stein. He recast parts of poems by the likes of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, giving them his own twist. And he invested these poems with the preoccupations of his novels: sex and desire, battle and aftermath, cats, gin, and bullfights. Nowhere is his delight in drubbing snobs and overrefined writers more apparent. In this revised edition of the Complete Poems, the editor, Nicholas Gerogiannis, offers here an afterword assessing the influence of the collection, first published in 1979, and an updated bibliography. Readers will be particularly interested in the addition of "Critical Intelligence," a poem written soon after Hemingway's divorce from his first wife in 1927. Also available as a Bison Book: Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny by Mark Spilka.

Complete Poems

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Joshua Kryah

I’m almost new condition, little to no noticeable flaws 

Poems

Glean, a reference to the gathering of grain after harvest, explores the appalling trust implicit in any act of faith that prayer may not elicit a response. Spare and evocative, the collection struggles with a language at odds with itself

Glean

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Kevin Coval

New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation.

It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture.The BreakBeat Poets features 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters.

The BreakBeat Poets is for people who love Hip-Hop, for fans of the culture, for people who've never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads. This anthology is meant to expand the idea of who a poet is and what a poem is for.

The BreakBeat Poets are the scribes recording and remixing a fuller spectrum of experience of what it means to be alive in this moment. The BreakBeat Poets are a break with the past and an honoring of the tradition(s), an undeniable body expanding the canon for the fresher.

The BreakBeat Poets

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Poetry

Victor Santoro

RARE out-of-print satire book of Gen-X anti-establishment angst. First edition/first printing. Cover has slight bow, one or two small page creases, otherwise an excellent copy.

Down and Dirty Tactics for the Millennium

The bad news: Technology has made some classic revenge tactics obsolete.

The good news: Technology has opened the door to a slew of modern revenge methods never before possible!

Master revenge writer Victor Santoro (author of Gaslighting, Techniques of Revenge, and Frauds, Rip-Offs and Con Games) explains how to turn technology to your advantage in the art of revenge. In 21st Century Revenge: Down and Dirty Tactics for the Millennium, you'll learn:
-- How to protect yourself from caller ID -- and how to make it work for you
-- How to turn political correctness into political chaos
-- The "multiplier effect": how to make others do the work for you
-- The best ways to cover your tracks -- physically and electronically
-- Why your target's garbage can be his undoing
-- How the Internet is your world-wide resource for revenge

This book not only shows you how to form the ultimate revenge plan, but also how to protect yourself from those seeking revenge on you!

You may think you'll never need to take justice into your own hands, get back at a vicious boss or co-worker, or seek vengeance against someone who has wronged you or others. But this knowledge is power, and one day, your peace of mind may depend on it.

21st Century Revenge

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Maxim Editorial Staff

Has some areas of mild surface wear. A few corner/edge bumps. Tight binding and clean pages 

Hot Babes, Strange Freaks and Bad, Bad Accidents

Maxim's Book of Big Pictures

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Only minor surface and edge/corner wear. Solid binding, clean pages.

101 Things You Never Knew About Disneyland

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Rare and weird

The Rise and Fall of Popular Music

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Michael Thelwell

Original 1980 first edition/second printing Evergreen paperback. Has only very, very mild shelf wear. Spine is perfect and pages are crisp and clean.

The Harder They Come

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Jim DeRogatis

Very, very mild shelf wear, otherwise flawless

The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk. He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries. Let It Blurt is a scrupulously researched account of Lester Bangs's fascinating (if often tawdry and unappetizing) life story, as well as a window on rock criticism and rock culture in their most turbulent and creative years. It includes a never-before-published piece by Bangs, the hilarious "How to Be a Rock Critic," in which he reveals the secrets of his dubious, freeloading trade.

Let It Blurt

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Rock On

Alan Burt Akers

Minor surface wear. Solid spine and binding. Clean pages.

Transit to Scorpio

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Piers Anthony

First Avon paperback printing, 1978. Solid spine. Clean pages. Typical shelf wear.

Chaining the Lady

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First mass market paperback edition, 1965. Mild spine and edge wear. Solid binding and clean pages 

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