With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. Seventh Printing. 242, illus., selected bibliography, notes. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. Seventh Printing. 242, illus., selected bibliography, notes. More
Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, c1988. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 221, some wear and soiling to DJ. Novel about parenting without marriage. More
Putnam Publishing Group, 1974. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [4], 463 p. Occasional footnotes. More
New York: Hyperion, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. xiii, [3], 191, [1] pages. Illustrations. DJ rear flap creased. Bookplate signed by the author on the half-title. Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar (born October 7, 1942) is an American comedian, writer, and actress. She co-hosts the ABC daytime talk show The View. She hosted The Joy Behar Show on HLN from 2009 to 2011 and Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV, from 2012 until the channel switched formats in August 2013. Behar's latest weekly late-night talk show, Late Night Joy, aired on TLC in 2015. Behar wrote a book of humorous essays and stories called Joy Shtick — Or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments?, published in 1999. She also wrote The Great Gasbag: An A–Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World. More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 372, [10] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Chronology. DJ is price clipped and rear flap creased. Ink notation on fep. Ruth Behar (born 1956) is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer. Her work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction. As an anthropologist, she has argued for the open adoption and acknowledgment of the subjective nature of research and participant-observers. She is a recipient of the Belpré Medal. Behar was born in Havana, Cuba in 1956 to a Jewish-Cuban family of Sephardic Turkish, and Ashkenazi Polish and Russian ancestry. She was four when her family immigrated to the US following Fidel Castro's gaining power in the revolution of 1959. More than 94% of Cuban Jews left the country at that time, together with many others of the middle and upper classes. Behar attended local schools and studied as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, receiving her B.A. in 1977. She studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University, earning her doctorate in 1983. She travels regularly to Cuba and Mexico to study aspects of culture, as well as to investigate her family's roots in Jewish Cuba. She has specialized in studying the lives of women in developing societies. Behar is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her literary work is featured in the Michigan State University's Michigan Writers Series. A writer of anthropology, essays, poetry and fiction, Behar focuses on issues related to women and feminism. More
New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 304, illus., index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, some sticker residue to DJ. More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1943]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 160, frontis illus., boards somewhat worn and soiled, stamp on front endpaper, ink note inside front board, usual library markings. More
Southern Pines, NC: Pine Needles Lodge & Country Club, 1972. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 128 pages. Illustrated. Signed and dated by Bell on fep. Foreword by Patty Berg, Minor printing crease/seam on pages 11-15 noted. Several xerox sheets of golfing tips laid in at back. Margaret Anne "Peggy" Kirk Bell (October 28, 1921 – November 23, 2016) was an American professional golfer and golf instructor known for her strong advocacy of women's golf. Born in Findlay, Ohio, Peggy started playing golf at age 17. She took to the game immediately and quickly won a number of titles. She played college golf at Rollins College. She played the ladies amateur tour in the 1940s before the development of a professional tour, winning three Ohio Amateurs and the 1949 Titleholders Championship and North and South Women's Amateur. She was also a member of the 1950 U.S. Curtis Cup team. At that time she competed as Peggy Kirk, and in 1953 she married her high school sweetheart, Warren "Bullet" Bell, who had played professional basketball with the Fort Wayne Pistons before turning to business. In 1990, she was voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. She became the first woman voted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 2002. Bell owned the Pines Needles Resort in Southern Pines, North Carolina. She died there in November 2016 at the age of 95. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, [1963]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 381, illus., endpaper maps, facsims., index. Inscribed by the author (Belli). More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 325 p. Publisher's flyer with quotation from Publishers Weekly laid in. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. First American Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 150, bookstore sticker inside rear board, boards somewhat worn and soiled, some endpaper discoloration. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. First American Edition. First Printing. 319, illus., index. More
Troy, MI: Momentum Books, c1994. First Printing. 24 cm, 140, front DJ flap price clipped. Inscribed by the author. More
University Park, PA: PA State University Press, 1964. 24 cm, 331, illus., ink name on front endpaper. More
New York: Free Press, c1992. First Printing. 25 cm, 333, DJ torn at top spine, erasure residue on front endpaper, mark on top edge. More
New York: Ecco, c2002. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 228, illus., maps. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. vi, 280, [2] pages. Notes. Notes on Contributors. Index. Sticker residue inside the front cover. David Biale is an American historian specializing in Jewish history. Biale specialized in Jewish history, and obtained a Ph.D. in the subject from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977. Between 1986 and 1999, Biale was the Koret Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He subsequently joined the University of California, Davis, as Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History. Michael Galchinsky writes on human rights literature, international human rights law, nineteenth-century British literature, and Jewish studies. His study of Jewish human rights activism after World War II, Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings, explores Jews’ initial enthusiasm for the growing international human rights regime in the wake of the Holocaust, but then the waning of their support, starting in the late 1960s, as the human rights began to be used to delegitimize Israel. He also co-edited with David Biale and Susannah Heschel, Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism. Susannah Heschel (born 15 May 1956) is an American scholar and the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards. Heschel's scholarship focuses on Jewish and Christian interactions in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More
Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1946. Wraps. xxxviii, 565 p. 23 cm. Author index. More
Pierson, Michigan: Advertising, Publications & Consultants, 1993. Revised Edition [stated] Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. [10], 214 pages. Footnotes. Map. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. The first edition was published in 1987. It is a composite of stories gleaned from old Silverton newspapers and personal interviews with 'old timers', who were a part of the colorful era of Silverton history. The revised edition contains many new photos that were not available in 1987. Allan G. Bird (August 8, 1929 and died Dec. 27, 2019). He graduated from University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology. He eventually earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Colorado in 1958. Allan worked as a mining geologist and also worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. He was a member of the National Guard but was never called to active duty during the Korean War due to his value as an expert in uranium geology and exploration. In 1970, his career shifted to mine management. He managed the Antler Mine in Yucca, AZ, The Sunnyside Mine in Silverton, CO, and the Cash Mine at Gold Hill, CO. Under his management, the Sunnyside Mine became the largest gold mine in the state of Colorado. He retired from mine management in his 54th year and became successful author. In the spring of 1986, he published Silverton Gold, the story of the Sunnyside Mine, Colorado’s largest underground gold mine, followed by other books, including, Bordellos of Blair Street, Silverton – Then & Now , and The Grand Imperial Hotel Story. He read every issue ever published of the Silverton Standard newspaper and did exhaustive research to ensure his books accurately portrayed their subjects. More
New York: Norton, c1976. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 256, some wear and soiling to DJ, black and white publicity photo of author laid in. More
New York: The Fine Editions Press, 1942. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22.5 cm, 198, illus., boards somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure and scuff mark on front endpaper. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1959. Second printing before publication. Hardcover. 214 p.; 21 cm. More
New York, NY: Crown Business, 2007. Reprint. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [10], 290 [4] p. A. More
Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, c1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 363, label residue on rear board. More
New York: Dutton, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. 371, illus., minor wear, soiling, and sticker residue New York Times bestselling author Jerry Bledsoe's newest true-crime masterpiece tells the inside story of an infamous case that raises questions about the death penalty. To those who knew her, Velma Barfield was a devoted mother and grandmother, a sweet and selfless caregiver. But her life was a fragile web of lies that unraveled with alarming speed, exposing a deeply distubed woman addicted to prescription drugs, driven to bouts of suicidal despair and murder. Turned over to the police by her son, Velma stunned her family by admitting to having murderedfour people over the course of ten years. More