Recent Arrivals from The Brooklyn Bookman

EPEL, Naomi: The Observation Deck: A Toolkit for Writers. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1998. First Edition. Paperback, 160 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Writing and Authorship / How-To. Condition: Very Good Plus. Book is very gently used with all pages unmarked and clean. This little book is more… Read more about this item

CARR, Edward Hallett: What is History? The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered at the University of Cambridge January – March 1961. New York, Vintage Books, 1961. Paperback, 209 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History & Historiography / Essays, Lectures. Condition: Very Good. Former owner's name and number inscription on… Read more about this item

ALEXANDER, Caroline: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. New York, Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 491 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History – British Naval Mutinies – The Bounty Mutiny (1789) – Narrative Accounts / British Naval Officers – William Bligh, 1754-1817… Read more about this item

DOIDGE M.D., Norman: The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. New York, Penguin, 2007. Softcover, 427 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Science / Psychology. Condition: Very Good. Some traces of wear to the book corners. Otherwise a decent, first-rate copy with clean pages. True life accounts of the remarkable powers, adaptability and resilience… Read more about this item

BRYSON, Bill: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. New York, Broadway Books, 1999. First published in hardcover in 1998. Softcover, 284 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Travel / Natural History – Appalachian Trail / Humor. Condition: Good Plus. Light toning to pages, but unmarked and clean. Blue price sticker on the lower area of the back… Read more about this item

BLOOMFIELD, Leonard: Language. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. (Originally published: 1933.) Hardcover (no dust jacket), 564 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Linguistics / Language. Condition: Good Plus. Corner bumps and light edgewear to extremities. Former owner's name inscribed on the upper left hand corner of the front cover's reverse and a book-store price stamp listing $13.95. Interior pages clean… Read more about this item

HAWKING, Stephen: A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang to Black Holes. New York, Bantam, 1990. Originally published in 1988. Softcover, 198 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Science / Cosmology - Popularizations. Condition: Good Plus. Former owner's name inscribed on the top-right corner of front endpaper. Faint toning to pages but clean and unmarked. Classic exposition on the subject… Read more about this item

TITTLE, Y.A. & CLARK, Kristine Setting: Nothing Comes Easy: My Life in Football. Chicago, Triumph Books, 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket, 237 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Sports / Football and Football Players – U.S. - Biography & Memoir / Y.A. Tittle, 1926-2017. Book and jacket condition: Good Plus. Few signs… Read more about this item

THURBER, James: My Life and Hard Times. New York, HarperPerennial, 1999. (Originally published: 1933.) Paperback, 106 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir & Autobiography / Humor / American Humorists & Cartoonists – James Thurber, 1894-1961. Condition: Very Good. Few signs of wear to extremities. All pages clean and… Read more about this item

BRAVERMAN, Blair: Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North. New York, Ecco, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 274 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir & Autobiography / Nature. Book and jacket condition: Very Good. Jacket in first-rate appearance. Book copy is in… Read more about this item

ALLEN, Woody: Side Effects. New York, Random House, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 149 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Humor / Essays. Book and jacket condition: Very Good. A bit of edgewear and light chipping to jacket's central extremities but still in excellent appearance. Book copy is in near first rate condition with clean pages. Straight to the point… Read more about this item

GWYNNE, S.C.: His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine. New York, Scribner, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 299 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Airships-England-History, 20th Century / Aircraft Accidents-UK-History, 20th Century. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Plus. … Read more about this item

MAYLUNAS, Andrei & MIRONENKO, Sergei: A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas & Alexandra-Their Own Story. New York, Doubleday, 1997. First U.S. Edition, February 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 667 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History – Russia, 19th thru 20th Centuries / Tsar Nicholas II, 1868-1918 / Tsarina Alexandra, 1872-1918 / Correspondence & Diaries,1894-1917-Sources. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Plus. Book is… Read more about this item

TAYLOR, John M.: Confederate Raider: Raphael Semmes of the Alabama. Washington & London, Brassey's, 1994. Softcover, 317 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / U.S. History-Civil War, 1861-1865 – Naval Operations / Confederate Leaders, Naval Commander & Admirals – Raphael Semmes, 1809-1877. Condition: Good. Evident foxing to the extremities. Otherwise… Read more about this item

NAMATH, Joe: All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters. New York & Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 2019. First Edition: May 2019. Hardcover with dust jacket, 232 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Autobiography & Memoir / American Sports Legends – Joe Namath, b. 1943. Book and jacket condition: Very Good/Very Good Plus. … Read more about this item

LEVESQUE, Emily: The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers. Naperville, Illinois, Sourcebooks, 2022. Softcover, 372 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Science / Astronomy-History / Astronomy-Popular Expositions. Condition: Fine, Like New. Book copy has no visible flaws; all pages unmarked and clean. A clear… Read more about this item

LEEMING, John F.: The Natives are Friendly. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1952. First American Edition. Ex-Library copy. Hardcover with dust jacket, 222 pp. (Originally published in England under the title "Always to-morrow.") Subject: Nonfiction / Second World War – Autobiography and Memoir / Humor. Book and jacket condition: … Read more about this item

HARVEY, Robert: Comrades: The Rise and Fall of World Communism. London, John Murray, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 422 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / World Communism – History, 19th - 20th Centuries. Book and jacket condition: Very Good. A bit of wear to jacket's extremities, but in near first-rate condition and… Read more about this item

SCOTT, David: The Catholic Passion: Rediscovering the Power and Beauty of the Faith. Chicago, Loyola Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 266 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Roman Catholicism / Religion and Spirituality. Book and jacket condition: Very Good. Lightly worn appearance with edge-wear at the lower extremities to the dust wrapper but fully in tact and in near… Read more about this item

BLAKE, Heidi: From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West. New York, Mulholland Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 324 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Russia-International Affairs / True Crime. Book and jacket condition: Fine. A gently-used copy with a jacket in first-rate condition with clean pages. Illustrated throughout with… Read more about this item