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The Library of Great Lives by Easton Press, New Collection

vfb — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:31:15 +0000

We just acquired an extensive collection of The Library of Great Lives originally published by Easton Press. These are the luxurious leather bound editions with the 22kt gold accents, fancy cover designs, and satin ribbon markers. All the books are in New condition. If you’d like to buy several of these great books, please call or email us for a custom quote. More information in our store.

Here is a listing of the books now available:

Two Volume Set of A Thousand Days, Vol-I, A Thousand Days, Vol-II.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander the Great
Anwar Sadat
Aristotle

Bearing the Cross/M.L. King, Vol-I
Bearing the Cross/M.L. King, Vol-II (2 volume complete set)

Benjamin Franklin
Bismark: The Man and the Statesman
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Christopher Columbus
Degaulle
Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age
Dostoevsky
Einstein: His Life & Times
Frank Lloyd Wright
Freud: The Man and the Cause
Galileo Galilei
George Washington
God Gave Us this Country/Tecumseh
Isaac Newton
Jesus Christ
Joan of Arc
John James Audubon
John Marshal: A Life in Law, Vol-II
John Marshall: A Life in Law, Vol-I (2 volume set)
Julius Caesar
Karl Marx
Leonardo Da Vinci
Louis Pasteur
Luce and his Empire
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Madame Curie
Magellan
Mao Tse-Tung
Marco Polo: Venetian Adventurer
Michelangelo
Mozart
Muhammad
Napoleon
Out of my Life and Thought: Schweitzer
Peter the Great
Plato
Queen Victoria
Rembrant
Rene Discartes
Samuel F.B. Morse
Shakespeare of London
Socrates
Study in Power: J.D. Rockerfeller-Vol I
Study in Power: J.D. Rockerfeller-Vol II (2 volume set)
The First Elizabeth
The Legend of Henry Ford
The Life of John Maynard Keynes
The Life of Lenin, Vol-I
The Life of Lenin, Vol-II (2 volume set)
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
The Man of Nalples & The Voice of God
The Story of my Life- Helen Keller
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Tolstoy, Vol-I
Tolstoy, Vol-II (2 volume set)
Winston Churchill, Vol-I
Winston Churchill, Vol-II (2 volume set)
With Malice Towards None- Life of Lincoln

“Why Some Rare Books Go Up in Value While Others Do Not”

vfb — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:56:09 +0000

As a rare book collector and seller over the years, there is one thing that has always fascinated me: Why do some books go up in value while others do not? In fact, this is one of the most common questions we get from our customers.

So, to shed some light on this matter, I wrote and published this new report. Inside, I do an in-depth case study of a signed limited edition that has soared in recent years. I look at the underlying qualities that has contributed to its success.

“Why Some Rare Books Go Up in Value While Others Do Not”

If you want to succeed as a literary investor, it might be worth your time to get this report. Here is some of what you will learn…

What causes a book to appreciate in value?
11 Guidelines for choosing appreciating investments.
What types of books should you avoid?
When is the best time to sell?
How to find qualified buyers when you sell.
And much, much more!

Click below to download this free report:

Signed by Maya Angelou “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”

VeryFineBooks — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:31:00 +0000

New arrival “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. The autobiography written by Maya Angelou and published by the Easton Press. There are very few left in stock. Certificate of authenticity guarantees the signature to be authentic. Rare autographed book by America’s favorite poet. Free shipping anywhere in the US.

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“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is the 1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a six-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 17. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.

Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature. Because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, reviewers often categorize Caged Bird as autobiographical fiction, but the prevailing critical view characterizes it as an autobiography, a genre she attempts to critique, change, and expand. The book covers topics common to autobiographies written by black American women in the years following the civil rights movement: a celebration of black motherhood; a critique of racism; the importance of family; and the quest for independence, personal dignity, and self-definition.

Angelou uses her autobiography to explore subjects such as identity, rape, racism, and literacy. She also writes in new ways about women’s lives in a male-dominated society. Maya, the younger version of Angelou and the book’s central character, has been called “a symbolic character for every black girl growing up in America”. Angelou’s description of being raped as an eight-year-old child overwhelms the book, although it is presented briefly in the text. Rape is used as a metaphor for the suffering of her race. Another metaphor, that of a bird struggling to escape its cage, is a central image throughout the work, which consists of “a sequence of lessons about resisting racist oppression”. Angelou’s treatment of racism delivers a thematic unity to the book. Literacy, and seizing the power of words, help young Maya cope with her bewildering world; books become her refuge as she works through her trauma.

Caged Bird was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970 and remained on The New York Times paperback bestseller list for two years. It has been used in educational settings from high schools to universities, and the book has been celebrated for creating new literary avenues for the American memoir. However, the book’s graphic depiction of childhood rape, racism, and sexuality has caused it to be challenged or banned in some schools and libraries.

As critic Pierre A. Walker notes, when Angelou wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” at the end of the 1960s, one of the necessary and accepted features of literature was thematic unity, and one of Angelou’s goals was to create a book that satisfied this criterion. The structure of the text, which resembles a series of short stories, is not chronological but rather thematic. Walker believes that Angelou succeeded in emphasizing identity, racism, rape, and literacy, despite the narrative’s episodic quality.

Easton Press – George Bush “All the Best, George Bush” Signed First Edition

vfb — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:09:51 +0000

A luxurious leather bound collectible book to showcase in your presidential library. Personally hand signed by George HW. Bush directly into the book. Limited to 3,000 signed and numbered copies in this edition.

Easton Press Norwalk, CT, U.S.A. “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings“. 1999 First Edition – First Printing 8vo . Full genuine leather. The true First Edition and first printing of this title, a signed limited edition of only 3,000 signed and numbered copies. Beautiful dark blue leather binding. Includes COA, collector notes, and an extra unattached bookplate for your own personalization. Fine condition.

FIRST EDITION – FIRST PRINTING

“The travelogue of an observant man with much mettle and an open heart….His writings cover affairs of state and affairs of spaniels on equal footing. He is modest and gracious. But these short takes on a long life reveal an underlying, consistent sense of duty to office, family and morality.” – People Magazine

About George H.W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a multitude of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Bush was born in Massachusetts to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest naval aviator in US history. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his young family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.

He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee; the two were subsequently elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse.

In 1988, Bush launched a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as president, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency; operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf at a time of world change; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988 campaign promise and raised taxes amidst a struggle with Congress. In the wake of economic concerns, he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton.

Bush is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.

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