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  • CONFESSIONS OF A PRETTY LADY. by Bernhard, Sandra
    Bernhard, Sandra
    CONFESSIONS OF A PRETTY LADY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Comedian's first book - "sophisticated, sardonic, and witty" - part memoir, part witty commentary on modern life. Photographs. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0159294.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj.)

    Book ID: 57353
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  • Eckert, Allan W.
    WILD SEASON.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eckert watches the month of May as spring arrives at Oak Lake near the Illinois-Wisconsin border. Illustrated by Karl E. Karalus. 244 pp.

    Condition: Fair condition only in a fair dust jacket (some water damage to lower edge of back cover and bleeding to back cover of dj)

    Book ID: 57282
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  • IF YOUR NAME WAS CHANGED AT ELLIS ISLAND. by Levine, Ellen. Illustrated by Wayne Parmenter.
    Levine, Ellen. Illustrated by Wayne Parmenter.
    IF YOUR NAME WAS CHANGED AT ELLIS ISLAND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scholastic, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover edition of this book written in a question and answer format that focuses on questions children might have about immigration - and specifically through Ellis Island, opened in New York Harbor in 1892, which processed more than 30 million immigrants over the next 30 years. "Did all immigrants come through Ellis Island?" (no); ""Did you have to have a job waiting for you?" (again, no; in fact, it was not allowed). It's evident that America has always been a polyglot magnet--even in 1643, 18 languages were spoken in one colonial area. It's also evident that there's been long-standing prejudice against certain immigrants (ability to read was required for…

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    New York: Scholastic, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover edition of this book written in a question and answer format that focuses on questions children might have about immigration - and specifically through Ellis Island, opened in New York Harbor in 1892, which processed more than 30 million immigrants over the next 30 years. "Did all immigrants come through Ellis Island?" (no); ""Did you have to have a job waiting for you?" (again, no; in fact, it was not allowed). It's evident that America has always been a polyglot magnet--even in 1643, 18 languages were spoken in one colonial area. It's also evident that there's been long-standing prejudice against certain immigrants (ability to read was required for entrance, and first and second class arrivals didn't have to sweat it out at Ellis Island). Most interesting here are the individual stories: the name change in the author's own family; the child who had never seen a banana and ate it whole; the "six- second"" medical exam. Illustrated by Wayne Parmenter with "nostalgically warm impressionistic paintings, suffused with sepia, simultaneously signal suffering and hope." Oblong format. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-590461346.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).

    Book ID: 82150
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