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  • SIDEWALK. by Duneier, Mitchell; Ovie Carter, photographs.
    Duneier, Mitchell; Ovie Carter, photographs.
    SIDEWALK.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which follows a dozen people who sell on the streets of Greenwich Village - mostly secondhand books and scavenged goods - over a period of five years, illustrated with photographs by Ovie Carter, "as they do their best to live successfully on their own terms, with all the good and bad consequences that entail. Some of these people (almost all men) are drug addicts and some of them choose to live as 'unhoused' individuals. But many of them find a strong sense of purpose and identity in their work and choose to live in ways that best facilitate that work; they are as motivated -…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which follows a dozen people who sell on the streets of Greenwich Village - mostly secondhand books and scavenged goods - over a period of five years, illustrated with photographs by Ovie Carter, "as they do their best to live successfully on their own terms, with all the good and bad consequences that entail. Some of these people (almost all men) are drug addicts and some of them choose to live as 'unhoused' individuals. But many of them find a strong sense of purpose and identity in their work and choose to live in ways that best facilitate that work; they are as motivated - more, perhaps - -as workers holding 'respectable' office jobs." Winner of the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Author "Beyond its sensitive portrayal of black men living on the margins of society, SIDEWALK is a testament to the survival skills of a people who from slavery to the present somehow have cobbled lives stunted by racial deprivation into a mostly unheralded affirmation of the human spirit." Notes. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-374263558.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84258
    Keywords: African American History and nonfiction, book sellers, greenwich village, new york city, sociology, street peddlers, urban life
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  • BLESS ME, FATHER. by Kriegel, Mark,
    Kriegel, Mark,
    BLESS ME, FATHER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning journalist, a story of "crime, vengeance, and redemption, set on New York City's meanest streets,. . Frank Battaglia is a swaggering soldier of the Mafia, greedy for the power generations of thugs have taken as their right and compelled by an inner demon to rip away the shame that surrounds him like a shroud." and he plans to use his 16 year old son to do this. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-385474946.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88190
    Keywords: boxing, First book or first novel, greenwich village, mafia, new york city setting
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  • SHUFFLE. by Michaels, Leonard.
    Michaels, Leonard.
    SHUFFLE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical fiction in the form of journals, essays, memoir and short story, The final long story - Sylvia - recounts his marriage in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-374263493.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 67342
    Keywords: 1960s, drugs, greenwich village, marriage, Modern first editions
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  • THE WICKED PAVILION. by Powell, Dawn; Introduction by Gore Vidal.
    Powell, Dawn; Introduction by Gore Vidal.
    THE WICKED PAVILION.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1990). A "novel of Washington Square" - the story of the habitues of the Cafe Julien in Greenwich Village. Introduction by Gore Vidal who called Powell "one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death; we are catching up to her." xxi, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-679726853.

    Condition: Near fine (remainder line, light toning to pages)

    Book ID: 83298
    Keywords: cafe, greenwich village, new york city setting, Women Authors
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  • BURNING QUESTIONS. by Shulman, Alix Kates.
    Shulman, Alix Kates.
    BURNING QUESTIONS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a feminist coming of age story - it follows the experiences of a young woman over two decades - in the 50s, she escapes her midwestern suburban town to live among the Beats in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, but it is only in the 60s, with the beginnings of the feminist movement, that she finds herself fully committed and engaged. Bibliography. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400216.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (faint remainder mark, crinkling to the spine of the dj.)

    Book ID: 63773
    Keywords: beats, greenwich village, new york city, Women Authors, women's liberation
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  • [Steffens, Lincoln] Kaplan, Justin.
    LINCOLN STEFFENS, a Biography.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Detailed account of the life - and beliefs - of one of America's first investigative journalists, the Sacramento born reporter who led the group that Teddy Roosevelt called 'muckrackers.' Illustrated with photographs. 380 pages including index and notes.

    Condition: Good in a good dustjacket (some spotting to edges of textblock, gift inscription, pc.)

    Book ID: 13808
    Keywords: greenwich village, journalism, Literary biographies, muckracking
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  • THE SHOOTING GALLERY. by Trigoboff, Joseph.
    Trigoboff, Joseph.
    THE SHOOTING GALLERY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, (2002). First edition - The author's second mystery featuring Detective Alvin Yablonsky, who is trying to uncover the killer of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. 331 pp

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in.

    Book ID: 64070
    Keywords: arc, drug addicts, greenwich village, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, new york city setting, uncorrected proof
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