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Across the Great Divide: The Band and Americaby Barney HoskynsISBN 142341442X (1-4234-1442-X)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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All Hell's A-Comingby Garth Ennis, Steve DillonISBN 1563896176 (1-56389-617-6)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Hell's A-Coming'Book summary:It's trite but true: you can't keep a good man down. Holier-than-anyone Jesse Custer comes back from the dead--or wherever--in the eighth collection of Preacher, All Hell's A-Coming. Garth Ennis's knack for developing characters slowly and almost effortlessly pays off more and more with each issue, and by now Custer, his lover Tulip, and his vampire friend Cassidy are as complex as anyone you're likely to meet. The story arc focuses on Tulip's own resurrection from her unlife of booze, drugs, and Cassidy as she reunites with the Preacher, and this powerful tale doesn't require any superheroic conflict to affect the readers. (Fans of the Voice will be disappointed to learn that it's only used once, in an amusing throwaway scene.) As this develops, the nefarious Grail suffers from internal struggle, and poor Arseface finds himself on the backside of fame, setting the stage for plenty of future weirdness. In addition to the regular collected issues, All Hell's A-Coming includes the one-shot "Tall in the Saddle," a fast-moving story from Jesse, Amy, and Tulip's younger days. If you've never met the Preacher, isn't it about time you found the fear of God? --Rob Lightner [via]
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracyby Gunnar Myrdal, Sissela BokISBN 1560008563 (1-56000-856-3)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy'Book summary:Gunnar Myrdal belongs in a category with Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur--non-American authors who have written essential works on the American character. In 1954, the Swedish-born Myrdal delivered this massive (and massively influential) book on the status of American blacks. It is a somewhat depressing account of segregation and lynch law, but it is also full of optimism. Myrdal's hopefulness appears to have been justified. Black Americans still face many problems, but their place in American life has much improved, thanks to a near-complete revolution in racial attitudes among whites and a highly successful civil rights movement. If we learn about the present by reading about the past, then An American Dilemma has much to teach us today, especially about how far the United States has come. [via]
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An American Dilemma Vol. 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracyby Gunnar Myrdal, Sissela BokISBN 1560008571 (1-56000-857-1)
Softcover, Transaction Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Dilemma Vol. 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy'Book summary:This landmark effort to understand African-American people in the New World provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks.
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Americana Quiltsby Sandy BonsibISBN 1564774651 (1-56477-465-1)
Softcover, Martingale & Co Inc
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1421806592 (1-4218-0659-2)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Avonlea'Book summary:In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, the engaging orphan, just "half-past sixteen", becomes a schoolma'am in a small village on Prince Edward Island. [via]
Arrowsmithby Sinclair LewisISBN 1417934549 (1-4179-3454-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 1555460615 (1-55546-061-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, the facts of particular hard times and universal themes. As Christopher Bigsby's mildly interesting afterword in this 50th-anniversary edition points out (as does Miller in his memoir, Timebends), Willy is closely based on the playwright's sad, absurd salesman uncle, Manny. But of course Miller made Manny into Everyman, and gave him the name of the crime commissioner Lohmann in Fritz Lang's angst-ridden 1932 Nazi parable, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
The tragedy of Loman the all-American dreamer and loser works eternally, on the page as on the stage. A lot of plays made history around 1949, but none have stepped out of history into the classic canon as Salesman has. Great as it was, Tennessee Williams's work can't be revived as vividly as this play still is, all over the world. (This edition has edifying pictures of Lee J. Cobb's 1949 and Brian Dennehy's 1999 performances.) It connects Aristotle, The Great Gatsby, On the Waterfront, David Mamet, and the archetypal American movie antihero. It even transcends its author's tragic flaw of pious preachiness (which undoes his snoozy The Crucible, unfortunately his most-produced play).
No doubt you've seen Willy Loman's story at least once. It's still worth reading. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Bordello Cookbookby Jo Foxworth, Jeanne BauerISBN 1559211768 (1-55921-176-8)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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The Bordello Cookbook: Food With a Passionby Jo Foxworth, Jeanne BauerISBN 1559212799 (1-55921-279-9)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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Boy's Lifeby Robert R. McCammonISBN 1560549386 (1-56054-938-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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Burrby Gore VidalISBN 1417633840 (1-4176-3384-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burr'Book summary:In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of Burr's life, the common and casually held notion of the man as a scoundrel and an adventurer. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people ? among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. American politics, suggests Vidal, had a penchant for the vulgar. Even then. Veering backwards to the revolution and the early days of the republic, stopping at dinner-parties on the way, and reaching forward to the future, BURR is a novel about treason, both the particular and in general. For what, asks Vidal, really belongs to whom? What properly belongs to the Constitution, to the nation, to the family ?even, intriguingly, to novelists and historians? [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 1420925156 (1-4209-2515-6)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:Savage struggles and timeless bonds between man, dog, and wilderness are played to their heart-rending extremes. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Carolinas and the Appalachian States, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia Vol. 9by Patricia L. Hudson, Sandra L. Ballard, Jonathan Wallen, Donald YoungISBN 1556706405 (1-55670-640-5)
Softcover, Stewart, Tabori & Chang
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The Constitution of the United States of AmericaISBN 1557091056 (1-55709-105-6)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
Find This BookBook summary:The landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Consitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, the Constitution outlines the powers and responsibilities of the three chief branches of the Federal Government, as well as the basic rights of the citizens of the United States. This beautiful gift edition contains the complete text of the United States Constitution, as well as all of its amendments. It is a treasure for Americans of all ages.[via]More editions of The Constitution of the United States of America:
The Constitution of The United States of Americaby Founding FathersISBN 1557091528 (1-55709-152-8)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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The Cricket in Times Squareby George Selden, Garth WilliamsISBN 1557361703 (1-55736-170-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 1425557309 (1-4255-5730-9)
Softcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
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Fair America: World's Fairs in the United Statesby Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling, Kimberly D. PelleISBN 1560983841 (1-56098-384-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States'Book summary:Since their inception in the mid-19th century, World Fairs have introduced Americans to exotic pleasures, like belly dancing and the ferris wheel, and groundbreaking technologies such as telephones and x-rays. Profiling more than 30 fairs from 1853 to 1984, the authors demonstrate how the fairs reflected and influenced the ideals and complexities of their times. Includes archival photo of exhibits and souvenirs. [via]
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworldby Herbert AsburyISBN 1560254947 (1-56025-494-7)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworldby Herbert AsburyISBN 1560254548 (1-56025-454-8)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld'Book summary:This classic history of crime tells how Chicago's underworld earnedand keptits reputation. Recounting the lives of such notorious denizens as the original Mickey Finn, the mass murderer H. H. Holmes, and the three Car Barn Bandits, Asbury reveals life as it was lived in the criminal districts of the Levee, Hell's Half-Acre, the Bad Lands, Little Cheyenne, Custom House Place, and the Black Hole. His description of Chicago's infamous red light districtwhere the brothels boasted opulence unheard of before or sincevividly captures the wicked splendor that was Chicago. The Gangs of Chicago spans from the time "Slab Town" was settled to Prohibition days. The story of Chicago's golden age of crime climaxes with a dramatic account of the careers of the "biggest of the Big Shots": Big Jim Colosimo, Terrible Johnny Torrio, and the elusive Al Capone. Photographs and illustrations round out this telling of Chicago's early underworld. "Still the most detailed, reliable, and readable account of the nether side of Chicago's first century, deserves reading and rereading...."Perry R. Duis, Chicago historian[via]More editions of The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld:
Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 1417706643 (1-4177-0664-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversationby George WashingtonISBN 155709103X (1-55709-103-X)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation'Book summary:Copied out by hand as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman, George Washington's 110 rules were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins' Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which appeared in 1640, and it is from work that Washington seems to have copied. The rules as Washington wrote them out are a simplified version of this text. However much he may have simplified them, these precepts had a strong influence on Washington, who aimed to always live by them. The rules focus on self-respect and respect for others through details of etiquette. The rules offer pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public, and address one's superiors.[via]More editions of George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation:
Ghost Worldby Daniel ClowesISBN 1560972807 (1-56097-280-7)
Hardcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Ghost World/ Mundo fantasmalby Daniel ClowesISBN 1560974273 (1-56097-427-3)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost World/ Mundo fantasmal'Book summary:Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence that is both subtle and coolly beautiful. Critics have pointed out Clowes's cynicism and vicious social commentary, but if you concentrate on those aspects, you'll miss the exquisite whole that Clowes has captured. Each chapter ends with melancholia that builds towards the amazing, detached, ghostlike ending. [via]
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton PorterISBN 1419101374 (1-4191-0137-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Girl Of The Limberlost'Book summary:Along the old Limberlost trail, my girl, torn to pieces sobbing. Her courage always has been fine, but the thing she met to-day was too much for her. We ought to have known better than to let her go that way. It wasn't only clothes; there were books, and entrance fees for out-of- town people, that she didn't know about; while there must have been jeers, whispers, and laughing. [via]
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIby Studs TerkelISBN 1565843436 (1-56584-343-6)
Softcover, New Pr
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Hiawathaby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 1421806355 (1-4218-0635-5)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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Highway Hangouts : Eat, Drink, and Be MerryISBN 1558597492 (1-55859-749-2)
Softcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 1565848373 (1-56584-837-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times'Book summary:While American military forces seek to defeat an enemy that has no nation and American citizens ponder a future inextricably linked to the threat of terrorism, legendary writer Studs Terkel steps forward with a remarkable volume of oral histories that sheds new light on fighting for a just cause in uncertain times. As the title of Hope Dies Last suggests, Terkel's interviews all deal with the notion of finding hope in difficult times and holding on to that hope (of a better job, a better life, justice, peace) despite often overwhelming odds. Terkel draws his subjects from an incredibly broad range of backgrounds: pardoned Illinois death row inmate Leroy Orange discusses the events of his life, 94-year-old famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith talks about Enron, undocumented Guatemalans tell of trying to merely survive in modern America. While each testimonial is compelling in its own way, they combine to form a mosaic of human tenacity. Often, as in the case of 1960s civil rights activists, the subjects' ideas are accepted in the long run, for others, including a resident of Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project, the struggle is only just beginning. Terkel, 91 years old at the time of this book's publication, draws from a wealth of human experience but is spry enough to take on new causes and skillfully profile youthful activists with emerging causes. And Hope Dies Last is still a Studs Terkel book, full of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's brand of blue-collar, rabble-rousing, union-card-waving brand of broad shouldered Chicago liberalism that makes the current wave of political writers seem a bit green and petty by comparison. For all of their success in selling books that accuse one another of being liars and idiots, those writers would do well to get out and meet even a few of the people that Studs Terkel has been talking to for years. --John Moe [via]
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 156584937X (1-56584-937-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Times'Book summary:The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre.
Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.
For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion, to the now-retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who hope for a better world. Terkel's subjects express with grace and warmth their secret hopes and dreams, combining to tell an inspiring story of optimism and persistence that resonates with the eloquence of conviction. [via]
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I'll Be Home for Christmas: Lighted Path Collectionby Thomas Kinkade, Anne Christian BuchananISBN 1565075943 (1-56507-594-3)
Hardcover, Harvest House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'll Be Home for Christmas: Lighted Path Collection'Book summary:The luminous windows of Thomas Kinkades cozy cottages and gracious Victorian mansions glow even brighter with the brilliant lights of Christmas. Eighteen of Kinkades radiant paintings highlight the stories, quotes, poems, and carols of Christmas.
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The Interesting Narrative of Life of Olaudah Equianoby Olaudah Equiano, Angelo CostanzoISBN 1551112620 (1-55111-262-0)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine PatersonISBN 1557361673 (1-55736-167-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Joke's on Georgeby Michael Tunnell, Kathy OsbornISBN 1563979705 (1-56397-970-5)
Softcover, Boyds Mills Pr
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Killer Angelsby Michael ShaaraISBN 1417708158 (1-4177-0815-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Angels'Book summary:This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863. Reading about the past is rarely so much fun as on these pages. [via]
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt Stewart, N. C. WyethISBN 1417934344 (1-4179-3434-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader'Book summary:1914. Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she'd need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him. Her delightful letters written from the time of her arrival until 1913, authentically depict an Old West that has been progressively obscured by those who portray it most often. [via]
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
Hardcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'Book summary:A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James w. Loewen's classic retelling of American history.
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should and could be taught to American students.
This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author. [via]
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The Murder of Abraham Lincolnby Rick GearyISBN 1561634263 (1-56163-426-3)
Softcover, NBM Publishing Company
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My Old True Love: A Novelby Sheila Kay AdamsISBN 1565124073 (1-56512-407-3)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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National Parks of Americaby Stewart L. Udall, James R. Udall, David MuenchISBN 1558681248 (1-55868-124-8)
Hardcover, Graphic Arts Center Pub Co
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The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Roomby Paul AusterISBN 155713166X (1-55713-166-X)
Hardcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Norman Rockwell & the Saturday Evening Post: The Later Yearsby Donald Stoltz, StoltzISBN 156731063X (1-56731-063-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Norman Rockwell & the Saturday Evening Post: The Middle Yearsby Donald Stoltz, StoltzISBN 1567310621 (1-56731-062-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes On The American Westby Frederick Turner, William KittredgeISBN 1555914861 (1-55591-486-1)
Softcover, Fulcrum Pub
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Ohio Impressionsby Randall Lee SchieberISBN 1560372443 (1-56037-244-3)
Softcover, Farcountry Pr
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Players: Con Men, Hustlers, Gamblers and Scam Artistsby Stephen Hyde, Geno ZanettiISBN 1560253800 (1-56025-380-0)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733: For the Year of Chriftby Benjamin FranklinISBN 1557095671 (1-55709-567-1)
Softcover, Applewood Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733: For the Year of Chrift'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack was first published in 1733. Facing heavy competition from similar publications, Franklin took the unusual and controversial approach of injecting witty, unexpected entries between standard tables of tides, planetary motion, weather predictions and other facts. In the debut edition, faithfully reproduced here, he included under the heading Principal Kings of Europe, "Poor Richard, an American Prince, without subjects, his wife being Viceroy over him, born October 23, 1684, age 49." The Almanack went on to become the most popular book of it's kind in colonial America and was published annually for the next 25 years. This facsimile offers a unique and entertaining look at 18th century American life and humor. This facsimile edition of the original Poor Richard's Almanack, representing the first year of its publication, offers a unique view into the lives and thoughts of Americans who came almost three centuries before us. This book will be offered in an affordable format, so that it can be made available for historians of all ages.[via]More editions of Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733: For the Year of Chrift:
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Preacherby Garth Ennis, Steve DillonISBN 1563892618 (1-56389-261-8)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preacher'Book summary:In and of itself, the story of a man with one foot in Heaven and one foot in Hell is hardly original. But in the hands of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the story of Jesse Custer becomes a blasphemous masterpiece seething with originality. Custer is a former Texas minister who was joined with a spiritual being called "Genesis." Now Custer is on a journey to find God, but not in the traditional enlightenment sense. I mean track Him down and give Him a piece of his mind. Along for the journey are his gun-friendly girlfriend and his Irish punk vampire buddy. Until the End of the World starts with a flashback to Jesse's childhood, when he watched his father get shot in the head. That kicks off "All in the Family," the first of two stories in this collection. The second story, "Hunters," features the character Jesus de Sade. Yes, even if you've known for years how hip and cool comics are, you won't believe you're reading something this outrageous. And as Kevin Smith points out in his introduction, this is one book "that actually surpasses its hype." --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Preacher Alamoby Garth Ennis, Steve DillonISBN 1563897156 (1-56389-715-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preacher Alamo'Book summary:Written by Garth Ennis; Art by Steve Dillon and Glenn Fabry A new edition of the classic trade paperback featuring PREACHER #59-66, the final chapter in the Preacher storyline and the conclusion of Jesse Custer's quest to literally find God and take Him to task for the world's injustices. As the Preacher's crusade draws to an end, all of the players converge at the Alamo for a final showdown. With the love of his life, Tulip, by his side, Jesse makes his last stand against all of his enemies, including the Irish vampire known as Cassidy, whom he used to call friend. But as the dust settles in the Texas desert, no one can believe how this epic battle of good versus evil will end. [via]
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Preacher Ancient Historyby Garth Ennis, Richard Case, Carlos Ezquerra, Matt Hollingsworth, Ennis GarthISBN 156389405X (1-56389-405-X)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preacher Ancient History'Book summary:While technically the fourth book in the Preacher series, Ancient History isn't part of the main Preacher story line and doesn't even use any of the main characters (Reverend Jesse Custer, his girlfriend, Tulip, and his vampire buddy Cassidy). Instead, this collection of side stories delves into the freakish, perverse, and downright mythic supporting characters. The main feature is the 106-page demonic Western featuring the "Saint of Killers." In many ways this guy--and the spirit of the ruthless frontier he represents--is the soul of the Preacher series. Writer Garth Ennis said, taking all of the characters of the series into account, "I felt one more character was needed to round out the cast: someone who would directly represent the Old West, who had walked straight out of history, and who brought with him the horror and terror of those times." If this is the soul of the book, then its heart is the "Story of You Know Who," a reference to the character Arseface, whose self-imposed shotgun wound to the face has left him rather disfigured. This boy's abusive family is so overblown, his tragedy so all-encompassing, that a lesser writer would let this swerve into complete silliness. Ennis's talent is to pull pathos out of such outrageousness. He succeeds here again. --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Preacher Dixie Friedby Garth Ennis, Steve DillonISBN 1563894289 (1-56389-428-9)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preacher Dixie Fried'Book summary:Written by Garth Ennis Art by Steve Dillon Cover by Glenn Fabry A new edition of the trade paperback featuring PREACHER #28-33. Jesse faces off against an enraged Arseface who seeks to avenge his father's death, while Tulip deals with Cassidy's startling declaration of love for her. [via]
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Preacher Proud Americansby Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Matt HollingsworthISBN 1563893274 (1-56389-327-4)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preacher Proud Americans'Book summary:The Reverend Jesse Custer is a Texas minister who swears worse than a sailor and is not above killing people who get in his way. One might say he's lost his faith. No, he's just looking for God, and when he finds Him... Proud Americans is another sick and fun addition to the Preacher series. This book contains three story lines: One, a short tale about Custer's father in Vietnam. Two, a recounting of the transformation of Custer's Irish buddy Cassidy into a vampire and his coming to America. And three, the conclusion to the story begun in Preacher: Until the End of the World, the story of the angelic mafia (known as the Grail) who have come after Reverend Custer and the secret power inside him called "Genesis." --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Road Trip USA: Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highwaysby Jamie JensenISBN 1566917662 (1-56691-766-2)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Road Trip USA: Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highways'Book summary:Covers the United States with 11 cross-country routes, offering road-tested advice for adventurers who want to bypass the beaten path and see a slice of America the modern interstates have left behind. [via]
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Softcover, Pub Group West - Road Trip USA: Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highways: ISBN 1566911494 (1-56691-149-4)
Softcover, Pub Group West - Road Trip USA: Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highways: ISBN 1566913969 (1-56691-396-9)
Softcover, Pgw - Road Trip USA: Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highways: ISBN 1566917662 (1-56691-766-2)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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Salvationby Garth Ennis, Steve DillonISBN 1563895196 (1-56389-519-6)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salvation'Book summary:Written by Garth Ennis Art by Steve Dillon Cover by Glenn Fabry A new edition of the classic collection featuring PREACHER #41-50, in which Jesse Custer becomes the sheriff of a troubled Texas town. This volume includes a cover gallery and reprints issue #50's pin-ups of the PREACHER cast by Jim Lee, Fabry, Tim Bradstreet, John McCrea, Doug Mahnke, and more. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Stephen MartinISBN 1551116367 (1-55111-636-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.
With "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride. [via]
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Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powellby John Wesley PowellISBN 1559638737 (1-55963-873-7)
Softcover, Island Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell'Book summary:[via]John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part institution builder. His work and life reveal an enduringly valuable way of thinking about land, water, and society as parts of an interconnected whole; he was America's first great bioregional thinker.
Seeing Things Whole presents John Wesley Powell in the full diversity of his achievements and interests, bringing together in a single volume writings ranging from his gripping account of exploring the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to his views on the evolution of civilization, along with the seminal writings in which he sets forth his ideas on western settlement and the allocation and management of western resources.
The centerpiece of Seeing Things Whole is a series of selections from the famous 1878 Report on the Lands of the Arid Region and related magazine articles in which Powell further develops the themes of the report. In those, he recommends organizing the Arid Lands into watershed commonwealths governed by resident citizens whose interlocking interests create the checks and balances essential to wise stewardship of the land. This was the central focus of John Wesley Powell's bioregional vision, and it remains a model for governance that many westerners see as a viable solution to the resource management conflicts that continue to bedevil the region.
Throughout the collection, award-winning writer and historian William deBuys brilliantly sets the historical context for Powell's work. Section introductions and extensive descriptive notes take the reader through the evolution of John Wesley Powell's interests and ideas from his role as an officer in the Civil War through his critique of Social Darwinism and landmark categorization of Indian languages, to the climatic yet ultimately futile battles he fought to win adoption of his land-use proposals.
Seeing Things Whole presents the essence of the extraordinary legacy that John Wesley Powell has left to the American people, and to people everywhere who strive to reconcile the demands of society with the imperatives of the land.
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Seventeenby Booth TarkingtonISBN 1426404786 (1-4264-0478-6)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSSby Elizabeth P. McIntoshISBN 1557505985 (1-55750-598-5)
Hardcover, Airlife Publishing Limited
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The Song of Hiawathaby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 1421984822 (1-4219-8482-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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The Spell Of The Yukonby Robert W. ServiceISBN 1419183257 (1-4191-8325-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Spoon River Anthologyby Edgar Lee MastersISBN 1420925970 (1-4209-2597-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spoon River Anthology'Book summary:"Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of poetry taken from the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town. There is of course no Spoon River as the entire town and its inhabitants are fictional. "Spoon River Anthology" is Masters's masterpiece, a collection of poetry that reveals the posthumous confessions of the transgressions of a group of small-town Americans. Together this collection reads like a novel exposing the fallacy in the idea of the rural American utopia. "Spoon River Anthology" is a truly original work of American literature. [via]
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Stone Butch Bluesby Leslie FeinbergISBN 1555838537 (1-55583-853-7)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Butch Blues'Book summary:Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? Thats the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early 70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence. [via]
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesqueby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 1419150634 (1-4191-5063-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'Book summary:Ye who read are still among the living, but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many cen- turies shall pass away ere these memorials be seen of men. And when seen there will be some to dis- believe, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find much to ponder upon in the characters here graven with a stylus of iron. [via]
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1421807114 (1-4218-0711-4)
Hardcover, 1st World Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative. [via]
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Tea with an Old Dragon: A Story of Sophia Smith, Founder of Smith Collegeby Jane Yolen, Monica VachulaISBN 1563976579 (1-56397-657-9)
Hardcover, Boyds Mills Press
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A Treasury of American Folklore: Our Customs, Beliefs, and TraditionsISBN 1566193702 (1-56619-370-2)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Ugly Americanby William J. Lederer, Eugene BurdickISBN 141762373X (1-4176-2373-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ugly American'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Varieties of Religious Experienceby William JamesISBN 142190585X (1-4219-0585-X)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Varieties of Religious Experience'Book summary:"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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Wanderer of the Wastelandby Zane Grey, W. Herbert DuntonISBN 1417901640 (1-4179-0164-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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War in the Sunby Garth Ennis, Steve DillonISBN 1563894904 (1-56389-490-4)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War in the Sun'Book summary:Written by Garth Ennis Art by Steve Dillon and Peter Snejbjerg Cover by Glenn Fabry This new edition collects the story of Jesse Custer's ultimate battle with the Saint of Killers and the forces of Starr - and the catastrophic outcome - originally presented in PREACHER #34-40. Also included: the PREACHER SPECIAL: ONE MAN'S WAR one-shot profiling the villainous Starr. [via]
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Weird Floridaby Eliot KleinbergISBN 1563524732 (1-56352-473-2)
Softcover, Longstreet Pr
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Which Side Are You on?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Backby Thomas GeogheganISBN 1565848861 (1-56584-886-1)
Softcover, New Pr
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White House Cookbookby Hugo Ziemann, F.L. Gillette, Patti Geil, Tami Ross, Patti Bazel GeilISBN 1565610830 (1-56561-083-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White House Cookbook'Book summary:Original 1890s recipes complete with updated low-fat, quick versions. Features illustrations, photographs, and household hints from the original edition. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 1419188321 (1-4191-8832-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby Baum Frank L., Lisbeth ZwergerISBN 1558586571 (1-55858-657-1)
Hardcover, North South Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In this fascinating reinterpretation of L. Frank Baums The Wizard of Oz, artist Graham Rawle has stripped the epic story about Dorothys journey to Oz of all remnants of Hollywood iconography. Gone are the Judy Garland braids, the Technicolor ruby slippers, the ethereal Glinda the Good Witch. In their place, Rawle has fashioned graphic characters and scenery that are at once relentlessly modern and devoutly loyal to Baums original text: the Wicked Witch of the West has but one good eye and it is as powerful as a telescope, while Emerald City only appears to be green because the inhabitants are made to wear tinted glasses. Infused with color, images, and montages that bring the classic story alive all over again, this is an Oz that is both surreal and surprising.[via]More editions of The Wizard of Oz:
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 1421806525 (1-4218-0652-5)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. [via]
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