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SWIMMING THE AMERICAN CRAWL by WEISSMULLER, Johnny

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Seller: Antic Hay Books

Title: SWIMMING THE AMERICAN CRAWL
Author: WEISSMULLER, Johnny
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. In Collaboration with Clarence A. Bush. Illustrated. Small 8vo., blue cloth, stamped in yellow, in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Weissmuller on the title page: For Vern your [sic] a great guy, Johnny Weissmuller." Uncommon to find signed first editions or any in the original dust jacket. Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor, best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. After retiring from competitions, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man, Tarzan- a role he played in 12 motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive Tarzan yell is still often used in films. Very Good (bit of rubbing & edgewear; contents clean & tight; small spot of sticker residue to front pastedown & very tiny red dot on the lower edge) some wear (chips, tears & creases; $2.50 price is present on the front flap) d/j. Scarce!

Une belle carrosserie [A Beautiful Body] (Five original photographs from the 1981 French adult film) by Alain Payet (director); Laura Levi, Alban Ceray, Gabriel Pontello (starring)

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Title: Une belle carrosserie [A Beautiful Body] (Five original photographs from the 1981 French adult film)
Author: Alain Payet (director); Laura Levi, Alban Ceray, Gabriel Pontello (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 1981. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1981 French adult film, including four matte-finish and one glossy. Layout annotations on the verso. A wealthy industrialist's young wife agrees to sleep with a soccer team in order to encourage them to win the upcoming match. Noted French adult film director Alain Payet worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Pardaillan, John and Frederick Brasil Amor, James Gardner, and Alain Garnier. Payet was best known for his boundary-pushing casting practices in films such as "Les Aventures érotiques de Lili pute" and "Les Gourmandes du sexe," and often worked with amateur actors throughout his career. 7 x 5 inches. About Near Fine, one with light fading and toning at the edges. Bier 1722.

The Marriage of Don Quixote by Atwater, Adeline

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Title: The Marriage of Don Quixote
Author: Atwater, Adeline
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good. (c.1931). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, hinges a little weak but intact, a number of scratch marks on front cover, light bumping at several corners, vintage bookseller's label (Des Forges Books De Luxe, Milwaukee) on rear pastedown, remnants of old price sticker on rear endpaper]. Novel with an art-world background, the story "enriched by a well-sketched scene that shifts from Kansas City to New York to Paris, and involves dealers, collectors, artists, galleries and paintings, with a wealth of incidental and most astute comment on modern art." The author was involved with the National Woman's Party during the campaign for women's suffrage; as far as her art-world bona fides were concerned, she later founded the New Gallery Art Club, which thrived for a few years in the mid-1920s on New York's Madison Avenue. This self-described "strange novel" was apparently her only book. .

The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Andrade, Tonio

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Title: The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Author: Andrade, Tonio
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780691135977
Condition: Very Good
Description: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". ix, 432pp. Mild creasing, rubbing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bump to head of spine of jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bump to head of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China like Europe was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.(Publisher).

Early Burials From the Agora Cemeteries

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Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA

Title: Early Burials From the Agora Cemeteries
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1973. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. [32]pp. Very good in publisher's stapled wraps.

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