Kent State University Press, September 1991. First Edition. Cloth. In cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society Euclid Avenue, which runs through the heart of downtown Cleveland, was for 60 years one of the finest residential streets of any city in 19th century America. Showplace of America is the fascinating account..... More
The Experiment, November 2021. Hardcover. The Maps for Curious Minds series is back--with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and geographical wonders of North America No matter how well you think you know North America, the 100 infographic maps in this singular atlas uncover..... More
Doubleday, November 2021. Hardcover. The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II--from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. Thrilling from the first page to the last. --Mary..... More
Doubleday & Co., January 1959. Cloth. Quarto. In very good DJ with sun-bleached spine and edgewear. Tanning to verso of jacket. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards. 192 pages. Clean internal pages. More
Harper Paperbacks, January 2001. Trade Paperback. The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' Love Song to the Nation," All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to..... More
Amistad, November 2021. Hardcover. A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings' family explores America's racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors--both the enslaver and the enslaved. Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father's family, that they were direct descendants of Thomas..... More
St. Martin's Press, December 2021. Hardcover. As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls..... More
Metropolitan Books, December 2021. Hardcover. A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly..... More
Cleveland Landmarks Press, November 2002. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd Printing, Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Clean, sound, without markings. 107 pages. More
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, September 2016. Oversized Hardcover. The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central..... More
University of Chicago Press, December 2013. Oversized Hardcover. For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture--but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, violence, disinvestment, and..... More
Brightwaters Press, November 1984. Hardcover. More
Twelve, July 2021. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A USA TODAY "BEST BOOKS OF 2021" PICK! In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents. Here are the..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2021. Hardcover. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew..... More
Hawthorn Books, January 1975. Trade Paperback. A tad foxed; else, a good, solid copy of a great period piece. More
Doubleday, April 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing; else, very good. More
Random House, January 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to book and jacket. Jacket clipped. More
Princeton Architectural Press, November 2004. Oversized Hardcover. From its birth as a remote trading outpost on the fringes of the Dutch empire to its current status as the so-called Capital of the World, New York has always captivated visual artists. The extraordinary prints collected by the New-York Historical Society over..... More
Pantheon Books, January 1984. Hardcover. Foxing; else, very good. More
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, January 1978. Hardcover. Foxing a bit of soiling; else, very good. More
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Fountainhead Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket clipped; a bit of foxing and light soiling; else, very good. More
Warner Books (NY), November 2001. Hardcover. From the Revolutionary War era to the shanty towns of the 19th century to the glory, deterioration, and "Disneyfication" of the street in the 20th Century, "Down 42nd Street" brings to vivid life the fascinating stories embedded in more than two centuries of cobblestone..... More
Hagstrom Company, January 1978. Soft Cover. A bit of foxing. More
Simon & Schuster, September 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. From one of America's most-respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his..... More
Dover Publications, March 1983. Paper Back. Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century. Rare contemporary photos and engravings, accompanied by extensive, detailed captions, recall construction, human drama, politics, much more. 167 black-and-white illustrations. Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century..... More
