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Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Random House Inc, 2001. ISBN: 039457589X

First edition 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3). The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. A tight, pristine copy. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. 550 pages with index. Black and white photo illustrated. JMVINTAGE specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. This Dust Jacket reads: "THIRTY YEARS after the smashing success of ZELDA, a national phenomenon that sold over 1.4 million copies and pioneered the study of women's lives, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. SAVAGE BEAUTY is her long-awaited portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as audacious in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. She embodied, in her reckless fancy, the spirit of the New Woman, and gave America its voice. Milford calls her book "a family romance"-for the love between the Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. The three sisters competed for success with men, and later with their poetry. Their mother loved them with the controlling fierceness of a tyrant. 'Theirs was a story of triumph over adversity,' Milford writes, 'one of the best women's stories there is in America-hopeful, enduring, centered in family, and fraudulent.' The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Millay was dazzling in the performance of her self. Her voice was an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Young women styled themselves in her image-fairylike, taunting, free. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Millay's public affairs make for compulsive reading, but what this book reveals for the first time is her extraordinary private life. Written with the riveting intensity of an intimate drama, SAVAGE BEAUTY is the first book to explore the dark side of Millay's life, her self-destructive passion and harrow ing descent into morphine addiction. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an unimaginable treasure. Hundreds of letters flew back and forth between the three sisters and their mother-and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind the journals of Sylvia Plath. A triumphant accomplishment, a landmark in American literary history, SAVAGE BEAUTY is an iconic portrait of a woman's life." Hard Cover condition: Fine in Fine dj

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Easton Press. The Video History of Our Times: 1948. Norwalk Conn: Easton Press Video, 1988.

VIDEO VHS NEAR FINE condition with plastic case. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people. In your Video History of 1948, you will see the following events that shaped that historic year: PLANE FLIES FASTER THAN SOUND Believed to be the fastest plane in the world, the Air Force's XS-l rocket plane makes a test flight in California. The sleek supersonic craft needing only a limited fuel supply, is taken aloft in the modified bomb bay of a B-29 and dropped out in mid-air. PIN-UPS IN THE SWIM New bathing suit fashions are shown by models in Coral Gables, Florida. U.S. THIRD IN THE OLYMPICS As the Winter Olympics draw to a close in Switzerland, the ski slopes see some spectacular action. The Men's Downhill is won by France, and Gretchen Fraser of the United States takes the gold in the Women's Slalom. MOTION PICTURE OSCARS At the annual ceremony, Hollywood's Academy Awards go to Loretta Young for The Farmer's Daughter and to veteran Ronald Colman for his performance in A Double Life. NEW JET FIGHTERS TESTED The Navy's latest-type jet fighters practice take-offs and landings at sea, aboard the carrier Boxer in the Pacific. LOG ROLLING - WITH A DIFFERENCE At the Sportsman's Show in Chicago, Marietta Terrill performs a tricky balancing feat on a whirling log. NEW JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL IS BORN First pictures of the battle for Haifa, which Jewish forces won after a two-day siege, highlight dramatic events in the Holy Land. With the relinquishing of the British mandate, the new state is born amidst an atmosphere of civil war between Arabs and Jews. The United States announces recognition of the new state of Israel and, in Washington, D.C., the flag of the new Jewish homeland is unfurled. ICE QUEEN'S AMATEUR FINALE In what may be her last appearance as an amateur, Barbara Ann Scott, World and Olympic figure skating queen, is co-featured with fellow Olympic champion Dick Button in an Ice Revue in Toronto, Canada. MR. AMERICA CHOSEN War veteran George Eiferman gets the nod from the judges at the annual Mr. America contest held in Los Angeles. CELEBRITIES GOLF BENEFIT The annual tournament in Washington, D.C., starring big names ' in politics, sports, radio and the movies, draws a large crowd despite the rain. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION In Philadelphia, delegates to the Republican National Convention gather in the spirit of optimism and exhilaration to pick their Presidential candidate. FANS HONOR BABE RUTH The one and only Babe Ruth, the "Sultan of Swat", appears in uniform during a colorful Silver Anniversary celebration at New York's Yankee Stadium with other greats from the 1923 team. CITATION WINS TRIPLE CROWN Citation, Calumet Farms' great colt, gains the coveted "Triple Crown" of turfdom by winning the Belmont Stakes. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION Assembling to pick a slate for the fall elections, delegates engage in typical pre-convention hoopla in Philadelphia. Despite the factions that oppose him, President Truman emerges as the overwhelming choice. OLYMPIC TEAMS ARE SELECTED The nation's top track and field stars compete in time and distance trials at Evanston, Illinois to gain berths on the 1948 U.S. Summer Olympics team. BERLIN CRISIS: TENSION RISES IN BLOCKADED CITY The Russians divide the German capital into two armed camps. .Despite Soviet pressure, the United States, Britain and France hold firm in the Western sector, while Russia controls the Eastern sector. AIR FORCE IS ONE YEAR OLD On the first birthday of the United States Air Force, which was established as a separate part of the service just a year ago, General Hoyt Vandenberg reports progress to Air Secretary Stuart Symington. MISS AMERICA . Bebe Shopp, an l8-year-old farm girl from Minnesota, wins the beauty title over 54 other contestants at Atlantic City, New Jersey. TRUMAN AND DEWEY WIND UP CAMPAIGN TOURS The Democratic and Republican Presidential nominees wind up extensive campaign swings to the Far West and return East, both confident of victory. STRIKES PARALYZE PARIS Plagued by labor disputes since the war, France is hit by yet another, bringing all public transportation to a standstill. Violence erupts between police and demonstrators distributing Communist pamphlets. NEW DESIGNS IN SWIMSUITS At Catalina Island, Miss America leads a style parade of the latest beach fashions. INDIANS BEAT BOSTON TO TAKE WORLD SERIES CROWN Baseball's Bob Lemon and Gene Beardon share pitching honors in Boston as the Cleveland Indians win the World Series. TRUMAN GAINS SURPRISE VICTORY In a startling upset, President Harry S. Truman wins re-election. Governor Thomas E. Dewey goes down to defeat, after predictions made him a sure favorite. Democrats also win majorities in both the House and the Senate. QUEEN MARY OVERHAULED Britain's famed luxury liner gets her "face lifted" in dry dock at Southampton. It's a spectacular sight to see the huge vessel out of water for the task. U.S.C. BATTLE "IRISH" TO DRAW Unbeaten Notre Dame stages a last minute come-back to hold the U.S.C. Trojans to a 14-14 tie in Los Angeles. GRIDIRON HIGHLIGHTS: NO. CAROLINA 21, GEORGIA 14 Led by Charley Justice, the North Carolina Tar Heels rip through the Georgia Bulldogs at Athens, Georgia. SUCHOW FALLS TO COMMUNISTS AS MME. CHIANG SEEKS U.S. AID Almost a million men are locked in battle for Suchow, as Nationalist Chinese troops fight a losing contest for the city. Meanwhile, Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrives in the U.S. to make a last-minute appeal for help. PROBE NEW MICRO-FILM Spy DATA Evidence found on the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers, forging a new link in the chain of spy data, is examined by Congressman Richard Nixon and Chief Investigator Stribling of the House Un-American Activities Committee. QUEEN GREETS FILM STARS Not even a fog can dim the brilliance of a Royal "Command Performance," with British and American movie notables including Sir Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Myrna Loy being greeted by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and other members of the Royal Family. "MISS ALASKA" IN HOLLYWOOD Picked by airline pilots as the prettiest Eskimo girl in Alaska, Quianna arrives in Los Angeles for her film debut, DONALD MEETS "HELEN OF TROY" Actor Donald O'Connor presides at a V.S.C. beauty contest, where Charlene Hardey is crowned "Helen of Troy." WRESTLING FREE-FOR-ALL Six of Canada's top wrestling champions engage in an Australian Tag Match in Montreal, in which no holds are barred. SANTA RIDES INTO HOLLAND Arriving to help the Dutch celebrate the St. Nicholas Feast Day, Santa Claus runs into red-tape at the border and is forced to dismount by customs guards. But all goes well and Santa gets underway again. HARMONICA HARMONIZERS In Germany, twenty musicians playing 400 harmonicas in rapid succession, present a rendition of The Stars and Stripes Forever. Video condition: Near Fine

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Easton Press. The Video History of Our Times: 1955. Norwalk Conn: Easton Press Video, 1988.

VIDEO VHS IN FINE condition with plastic case. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people. In your Video History of 1955, you will see the following events that shaped that historic year: WINTER STRIKES HOLLAND--A blizzard off the North Sea paralyzes traffic in Amsterdam. BULL FIGHTS MAN - AND WINS--At a major bullfight in Madrid, Spain, a feisty toro disrupts the matador's finesse and gains an upset victory. AUTO RODEO--In France, Parisians get a look at some hair-raising stunts when an American "Auto Rodeo" comes to town. RETURN FROM RED BONDAGE--In Austria, moving scenes show reunions as 190 people arrive home after years in Communist slave camps. INDO-CHINA MOP UP--Thousands of prisoners and weapons are taken after a short and spirited battle, and an unconditional surrender of the Hoa-Hoa sect is imposed by Diem. AMERICA'S FIRST TURBO PROP--In Marietta, GA, America's first turbo prop transport plane, The Hercules, makes its maiden flight. TOY FAIR--The show in New York City offers a wonderland of toys, including a backyard railroad and a sensational stunting toy plane. UPSET IN SUNSET HANDICAP--In Hollywood Park, CA, Social Outcast sets a new track record, defeating favorites Alidon and Rejected. PRESIDENT TACKLES JUVENILE DELINQUENCY--In Washington, D.C., a veritable Who's Who in the sports world meets with President Eisenhower to offer assistance in combating juvenile delinquency by providing sports outlets for youthful energies. FAULTY BEARINGS MAR SUPER-CARRIER'S TEST--Sea trials of The U.S.S. Forrestal, the world's mightiest Naval vessel, are cut short when two thrust bearings bum out. TO HELL AND BACK PREMIERE--In Boston, the highlight of the National Veterans Convention is the motion picture premiere of To Hell and Back. CONVERTIPLANE RISES LIKE COPTER, FLIES LIKE PLANE--The Convertiplane is unveiled as a new craft combining maneuver-ability of the helicopter with the forward speed of conventional aircraft. CARS OF TOMORROW --In New York City, new "idea" cars, built to test futuristic concepts of auto design, are unveiled. HOTEL ON WHEELS--In Austria, a "bus/trailer" combined expands into sleeping and cooking accommodations for a dozen or more and offers all the comforts of home. "FRENCH LOOK" KEYNOTES NEW STYLES--In Paris, top couturiers preview their new lines. NATO WAR GAMES In Italy, full scale war games test "NATO's" combat readiness including both ground and air units. TOP RACETRACK EVENT--In Chicago, the East's most successful colt, Nashua, defeats Swaps, the California wonder horse that edged him in the Kentucky Derby. SILVER CUP REGATTA--In Detroit, the big hydroplanes battle it out for the Silver Cup on a three mile course as Tempo VII hurtles across the finish line for the Winner's Trophy. IKE SEES PROGRESS AT GENEVA In Washington D.C., 5,000 cheer President Eisenhower as he arrives at National Airport from Geneva. Before delivering his report to Congress and the nation, Ike informally sums up the results of the 6-day deliberation with an expression of optimism for the future. REDS RETURN CAPTAIN'S BODY--In North Korea, Communists return the body of U.S. Captain Charles W. Brown, who was shot down 6 days earlier when his unarmed training plane strayed into the Red Zone. VIDEOPHONE DEMONSTRATED--The videophone, as simple to operate as today's dial phone, is demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco. Two-way picture screens enable the parties to see as well as speak to each other. FURS AND FASHIONS FOR CHARITY--In California, the latest fur fashions are presented in an imposing chateau setting. AUSTRALIA WINS DAVIS CUP--In Forest Hills, Hoad, Hertwig and Rosewall defeat the American team and regain the International Trophy for Australia with their brilliant playing. WATER SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS--At the National Water Ski Championships in Lakeland,.Florida, contestants skim water at scorching speeds. FIRST AIR ACADEMY CLASS--Over 300 cadets of the newly established Air Force Academy are sworn-in in Denver, Colorado as members of West Point and Annapolis parade in their honor. SWEDISH BEAUTY CROWNED--In Long Beach, California, Sweden's Hillvei Rombin is the winner from among 32 nations. NL WINS ALL-STAR GAME--In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the favored National Leaguers come from behind to win a 12-inning game when Stan Musial clouts a homer to break the tie. RAINWEAR FASHIONS--In New York City, new raincoat styles are displayed ranging from a chic gabardine with print border to a Paris original in white kid with mink collar. IKE MEETS GOP LEADERS--In Denver, President Eisenhower breakfasts with 48 Republican State Chairmen, but the big question on everyone's minds is "Will Ike run?". FRENCH WALK OUT ON UNITED NATIONS--The French Foreign Minister leads his entire delegation off the floor in protest when the U.N. votes to place the French-Algerian debate on the agenda. Meanwhile, in North Africa, the Sultan of Morocco is escorted into exile by the French Resident General in an effort to end the violent uprisings. FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC TELEPHONE CABLE--A breakthrough in communication between the U.S. and Europe is achieved with the completion of the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable. BEAUTY PARADE--Denver's Sharon Kay Ritchie is crowned Miss America and Kathryn Rodgers is picked as College Queen. MEG AND PETER--In England, upon the return of Group Captain Peter Townsend, rumors fly of an impending decision by the Royal Family and the British Government concerning his romance with Princess Margaret. NATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP--America's Tony Trabert faces Australia's Ken Rosewall in a re-match for the Davis Cup. Trabert recoups prestige by obtaining a blazing victory in straight sets. JET TRANSPORT SETS U.S. MARK--In Washington, D.C., the Boeing 707, America's first all-jet transport, completes a trans-continental flight in 3 hours and 58 minutes and is scheduled to begin regular passenger service in 1958. INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW--The world's leading auto manufacturing nations exhibit tomorrow's cars, today, in Paris. NEW LOOK IN HANDBAGS--In New York, stylish cover girls carrying handbags by Josef, take off via KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. WEIGHTLIFTERS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP--The world's top weightlifters gather in Germany for the International Crown. MARYLAND MAKES IT 10 STRAIGHT--In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the unbeaten Terrapins of Maryland gain an impressive 25-7 triumph over the North Carolina Tarheels. NEW GERMAN ARMY--Germany is permitted to rearm under strict supervision and the first soldiers of the new Army are formally inducted. By treaty, the Army may not exceed 10 divisions. STEVENSON'S HAT IN RING-- In Chicago, Adlai Stevenson formally announces that he will campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1956. BROOKLYN DODGERS WORLD CHAMPIONS AT LAST--The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first World Series in 8 attempts. In the deciding game, Roy Campanella sparks his team to a victory over the New York Yankees. HYDRO-GLIDER FOR DO-IT-YOURSELFERS--At Cypress Gardens, the newest thing in water sport is shown; a combination hydroplane and helicopter is towed behind a speed-boat and soars as high as 125 feet. NEW JET BOAT SPEED MARK--British sportsman, Donald Campbell, pilots his boat, Bluebird II, to the fantastic speed of 239 mph, making him the only man to exceed 200 mph on water and live. IKE BACK IN HARNESS-- For the first time since his heart attack, President Eisenhower meets with the Cabinet and other top advisors in full session at the Chief Executive Officer's rustic retreat at Camp David, Maryland. SANTA CLAUS PARADE-The Christmas Season comes early with a huge parade winding through the streets of Seattle. FASHIONS IN AN ORIENTAL MOOD--Fashions for '56 are previewed in New York, featuring the exotic influence of the Orient. -NATIONAL BOAT SHOW-- In Seattle, exhibits ranging from luxury yachts to plastic dinghies are evidence of America's increasing interest in aquatics. A.F.L. AND C.I.O. MERGE--In New York, after twenty years apart, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to become AFL-CIO, the world's largest free labor organization. WORLD'S LARGEST TURBO-HELICOPTER--A test flight in Pennsylvania demonstrates a 77-foot craft that can carry 40 passengers. ROUND-THE-WORLD COMET--A completely redesigned version of the pioneering British jet transport that was grounded after a series of crashes, leaves London on a globe-circling flight. U.S. REJECTS SOVIET PROPOSAL--In Berlin, the American Ambassador to Germany, James B. Conant, meets the press to flatly reject a Russian proposal to take Berlin from the present 4-power rule, and place it under control of Red-dominated East Germany. MODERN SCREEN AWARDS--In Hollywood, Kirk Douglas makes the presentation to the most popular actor of the year, Rock Hudson. ORANGE COW TAKES A BOW--In New York, a publicity stunt publicizes a brand of orange juice distributed by dairies. HOMEMADE ROBOT--A 16-year old student in California invents his second robot, Arthur, which can handle chores such as mowing the lawn. ICE CAPADES--Donna Atwood stars in the popular ice show. Video condition: Fine

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WARRE, General Sir Henry James (1819-1898): Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory. By Captain H. Warre, (A.D.C. to the late Commander of the Forces)

[London]: Dickinson & Co., [1848]. Folio. (20 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches). Letterpress title (verso blank), dedication (verso blank), pp.[1-]5 letterpress text Sketch of the Journey. 20 hand-coloured lithographed views on 16 sheets, by Dickinson and Co., after Warre, 1 lithographic map, hand-coloured in outline with routes marked in red and blue. Original green pebbled cloth, the upper cover lettered in gilt 'Sketches / in / North America / [decorative flourish] / Captain H. Warre", the flat spine lettered in gilt longitudinally 'Sketches in North America = Captain H. Warre". First edition, original hand-coloured issue of a work which contains the "only western color plates comparable in beauty to those by Bodmer" (Howes). An important record of the American west before it was touched by western civilization. This a lovely copy in the scarce original cloth binding. Captain Warre and Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, of the Royal Engineers, left Montreal on 5 May 1845. They initially accompanied Sir George Simpson, governor of the Hudson Bay Company, who was making a tour of inspection of the Company's outposts. On reaching Fort Garry (plate 1) at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, they teamed up with Peter Skene Ogden (1790-1854), a Company Chief Trader who had vast experience of the West, the Columbia and the Rockies in particular. Travelling mainly on horseback, the journey from the fort over the Rockies to Fort Colville took them from 16 June to 12 August. This section of the journey is illustrated by five plates. They left Fort Colville in boats and made their way down the Columbia River arriving at the Pacific on 25 August (3 plates). They then spent the winter exploring Oregon Territory and the Pacific Coast, visiting the Company settlement on the Willamette River (2 plates), exploring the Columbia River (1 plate), visiting Fort George on the Columbia River (2 plates), Vancouver Island and Fort Vancouver (1 plate), Cowelitz River and Puget's Sound. Once the weather started to improve, Warre and Vavasour and a party of about 30 began their westward journey on 25 March 1846, again by boat, but this time against the current. Warre made sketches of Mount Hood (2 plates) during this journey. They arrived at Fort Walla Walla, a distance of about 200 miles, on 3 April. They then took to horses again, and taking a short cut of about 250 miles, made for Fort Colville across a desert landscape (1 plate). From Fort Colville they went up the Columbia by boat for about 250 miles, setting off to cross the Rockies on foot. After seven days their food ran out, but, fortunately, a search party sent out from the Company station at Jasper's House found them and guided them to safety. The station was on the Atthabasca River, and from here they again took to boats and swiftly descended a distance of nearly 400 miles in two and half days to Fort Assinboine. On horseback, they travelled 100 miles in three days to Fort Edmonton on the Saskatchawan River. Then, by boat, 500 miles down the river to Fort Carlton. Again on horseback, they crossed the prairie to Red River in ten days, a distance of about 450 miles, arriving back at Fort Garry on 7 June. Here they met up with Sir George Simpson and together returned by boat to Montreal, arriving on 20 July 1846. The background to the journey was semi-official and semi-secret: Warre and Vavasour were to make what amounted to a military reconnaissance of the Oregon Territory. American expansionists were making it clear that the uneasy joint occupation of Oregon by the United States and Great Britain was not equitable and were demanding that a northernmost frontier be established. The two officers, with the enthusiastic support of the Hudson Bay Company, were sent to gather information that would be of use in the negotiations. As Howes notes, Warre's dramatic depiction of the scenery, situations and incidents he encountered has resulted in "the only western color plates comparable in beauty to those by Bodmer." This copy includes the dedication to the Hudson Bay Company executives, which, as Howes also notes, was not issued in all copies. Abbey states that the work was originally published in green cloth-backed wrappers with the front cover reproducing the title (price: 2 guineas uncoloured, or as here, with the plates coloured at 3 13s. 6d). The binding on the present copy is interesting: it is clearly the original binding, and though no mention is made in the standard bibliographies of an issue published in full cloth, it is undoubtedly the publisher's binding. Warre continued with his military career after his return to Great Britain, serving with distinction in both the Crimean and the New Zealand Maori wars, he was knighted for his military services and retired with the rank of General. In addition to the present work he also published a series of views in the Crimea, published in London in 1856, but the present work is his undoubted masterpiece. Abbey Travel II, 656; Graff 4543; Howes W-114; Sabin 101455; Smith 10727; Wagner-Camp 157.

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