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Lionel Hampton Center - University of Idaho VHS20006.33 minutesThe Lionel Hampton Center, is an international center for the study and performance of Jazz. The Center serves to unite the University of Idaho's Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Lionel Hampton School of Music, and the International Jazz Collections in a state-of-the-art education and performance facility. The project was completed in 2007.The Music Room has been specially designed for the performance needs of jazz ---------------------------Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys' Band (led by Major N. Clark Smith) while still a teenager in Chicago. He moved to California in 1927 or 1928, playing drums for the Dixieland Blues-Blowers. He made his recording debut with The Quality Serenaders led by Paul Howard, then left for Culver City and drummed for the Les Hite band at Sebastian's Cotton Club. One of his trademarks as a drummer was his ability to do stunts with multiple pairs of sticks such as twirling and juggling without missing a beat. During this period he began practicing on the vibraphone. In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and hired the Les Hite band, asking Hampton if he would play vibes on two songs. So began his career as a vibraphonist, popularizing the use of the instrument in the process. Invented ten years earlier, the vibraphone is essentially a xylophone with metal bars, a sustain pedal, and resonators equipped with electric-powered fans that add tremolo.While working with the Les Hite band, Hampton also occasionally did some performing with Nat Shilkret and his orchestra. During the early 1930s, he studied music at the University of Southern California. In 1934 he led his own orchestra, and then appeared in the Bing Crosby film Pennies From Heaven (1936) alongside Louis Armstrong (wearing a mask in a scene while playing drums).Also in November 1936, the Benny Goodman Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. When John Hammond brought Goodman to see Hampton perform, Goodman invited him to join his trio, which soon became the Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa completing the lineup. The Trio and Quartet were among the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform before audiences, and were a leading small-group of the day.While Hampton worked for Goodman in New York, he recorded with several different small groups known as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, as well as assorted small groups within the Goodman band. In 1940 Hampton left the Goodman organization under amicable circumstances to form his own big band.Hampton's orchestra developed a high-profile during the 1940s and early 1950s. His third recording with them in 1942 produced the version of "Flying Home", featuring a solo by Illinois Jacquet that anticipated rhythm & blues. Although Hampton first recorded "Flying Home" under his own name with a small group in 1940 for Victor, the best known version is the big band version recorded for Decca on May 26, 1942, in a new arrangement by Hampton's pianist Milt Buckner. The 78pm disc became successful enough for Hampton to record "Flyin' Home #2" in 1944, this time a feature for Arnett Cobb. The song went on to become the theme song for all three men. Guitarist Billy Mackel first joined Hampton in 1944, and would perform and record with him almost continuously through to the late 1970s. In 1947, Hamp performed "Stardust" at a "Just Jazz" concert for producer Gene Norman, also featuring Charlie Shavers and Slam Stewart; the recording was issued by Decca. Later, Norman's GNP Crescendo label issued the remaining tracks from the concert.From the mid-1940s until the early 1950s, Hampton led a lively rhythm & blues band whose Decca Records recordings included numerous young performers who later had significant careers. They included bassist Charles Mingus, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and vocalist Dinah Washington. Other noteworthy band members were trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Cat Anderson, Kenny Dorham, and Snooky Young; trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, and saxophonists Jerome Richardson and Curtis Lowe.The Hampton orchestra that toured Europe in 1953 included Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Anthony Ortega, Monk Montgomery, George Wallington, Art Farmer, Quincy Jones, and singer Annie Ross. Hampton continued to record with small groups and jam sessions during the 1940s and 1950s, with Oscar Peterson, Buddy DeFranco, and others. In 1955, while in California working on The Benny Goodman Story he recorded with Stan Getz and made two albums with Art Tatum for Norman Granz as well as with his own big band.Hampton performed with Louis Armstrong and Italian singer Lara Saint Paul at the 1968 Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. The performance created a sensation with Italian audiences, as it broke into a real jazz session. That same year, Hampton received a Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI.During the 1960s, Hampton's groups were in decline; he was still performing what had succeeded for him earlier in his career. He did not fare much better in the 1970s, though he recorded actively for his Who's Who in Jazz record label, which he founded in 1977/1978.Beginning in February 1984, Hampton and his band played at the University of Idaho's annual jazz festival, which was renamed the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival the following year. In 1987 the UI's school of music was renamed for Hampton, the first university music school named for a jazz musician.1987 Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Idaho UI's School of Music renamed "Lionel Hampton School of Music."Hampton remained active until a stroke in Paris in 1991 led to a collapse on stage. That incident, combined with years of chronic arthritis, forced him to cut back drastically on performances. However, he did play at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2001 shortly before his death.Hampton died from congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, on August 31, 2002. He was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. His funeral was held on September 7, 2002, and featured a performance by Wynton Marsalis and David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band at Riverside Church in Manhattan; the procession began at The Cotton Club in Harlem., 2000, 3, London England: Arrow, 1987. Paperback. The Murders of the Black Museum 1870-1970. The famous Black Museum in New Scotland Yard contains a unique collection of exhibits, photographs and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes and criminals of the last hundred years. Fifty of these crimes, all murders, are detailed herein - case histories presenting an utterly compelling picture of a century of murder, manslaughter and attempted assassination. The crimes and characters of such notorious murderers as Jack the Ripper, Dr. Crippen, George Smith, Heath, Haigh, Christie, the Krays, the Hoseins and many others are revaled fully and factually. In most cases, the true facts are not generally known; and this fascinatingly informative textbook on murder provides a grim insight into the minds and methods of men - and women - who kill. Illustrated. 608 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback., Arrow, 1987, 3, Great Britain: Tempus. Very Good. 2007. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9780752443072 Paperback Paperback. Forgotten Soldiers of the First World War. Using personal accounts from the diaries and letters of British soldiers who served in the First World War. The author describes the experience of combat in Egypt and Palestine. Drawining upon unpublished records in the Imperial War Museum, this book paints a vivid picture of life for the British Tommy in conditions vastly different from the Western Front, where heat, sandstorms and insects proved just as deadly as the enemy. Illustrated. 322 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) ., Tempus, 2007, 3, London England: Authority of the Board of Education. Good. 1927. First Edition. Softcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Pamphlet many plates prin ted may 1927 very scarce.Paperback (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) ., Authority of the Board of Education, 1927, 2.5, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.: Smithsonian National Museum of American History; Behring Center; Hydra Publishing. 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Highly informative & illustrated with hundreds of rare images; charts the extraordinary roles that the graduates have played in the growth of the U.S. A Companion book to the exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Featuring: Historical Summaries of significant periods; Over 50 Biographies of graduates, including Robert E. Lee & Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.; Period illustrations, such as the first accurate map of the nation west of the Mississippi; Family memorabilia, such as George Armstrong Custer's buckskin coat. Foreword by Senator Jack Reed (West Point Class of 1971). Pictorial Endpapers, High grade quality coated paper stock, glossy pictorial boards, Illustrated frontis color print, double color printed Copy & Contents pp., Acknowledgements, Index, Picture Credits, 160 clean, crisp & solid pp. Price Unclipped & Gift Quality . New. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 2002., Smithsonian National Museum of American History; Behring Center; Hydra Publishing, 2002, 6, Chicago Illinois: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887. Early days in Cocke & Sevier Counties in East Tennessee, which includes much of the Great Smoky Mountains, are recalled in this spiral bound booklet compiled from excerpts from the 1887 book: History of Tennessee, originally published by Goodspeed Publishing Co., and other sources. The 49-page booklet is printed one-sided on 60# paper with the print enlarged for easier reading. A vinyl sheet has been added to protect the front cover. The county seats are: Cocke -- Newport; Sevier -- Sevierville. The area includes much of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the mountain-tourest towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, although they were non-existant or insignificant when most of this material was written. The first part of the booklet concerns the history of: Cocke County -- Geography (the "Chunky" and "the Irish Bottom"); early settlers -- George McNutt, the Rogers family, John McNabb, Cornelius McGuinn, the Doherty family, the Huffs, Boyers, Ottingers, Peter Fine, John Gilliland, William Lillard, etc.; trouble with Indians, organization of the county, controversy over the county seat location; Names of early officials and early businesses, etc.; and Sevier County -- Geography ; Murder of Boyd and Doggett and other trouble with Indians; Fort on Dumplin Creek; Early settlers -- Maj. Henry, Maj. James Hubbard, Mr. Gist, Capt. James White, Thomas Stockton, Samuel McGaughey, Samuel Newell, John Clark, Isaac Thomas, William Cannon, Jacob Huff, Samuel Blair, the Bryants, the Cates, the Underwoods and many others; Various governments in charge of the territory; First courts; Controversy over the land south of the French Broad and Holston Rivers; Organization of Sevierville, the Nancy Academy, Names of early officials and early businesses; etc. Besides the names mentioned in the first part of the booklet, there are biographies of many county residents of yesteryear. Most are fairly lengthy, and often include ancestors, previous residences, children, in-laws, affiliations, war records, and business activities. In the course of this they often shed light on the early businesses, professions and institutions in the area. The biographies include: Cocke County -- C.F. Boyer, J.J. Burnett, J.J. Denton, Dr. L.W. Hooper, Capt. A.C. Huff, Col. William Jack, O.M. Kelley, W.W. Langhorne, J.C. La Rue, W.J. McSween, W.F. Morris, Dr. Darius Neas, J.H. Randolph, Dr. A.W. Rhea, Charles Stokely Sr., A.M. Stokely, George W. Susong and W.R. Swagerty; Sevier County -- John W. Andes (with picture), R.H. Andes, William Catlett, John Chandler Jr., J.D. Davis, Dr. J.C. Ellis, J.J. Ellis, J.M. Fagala, William Fowler, Dr. James A. Henderson, A.J. McCallie, M.W. McCown, W.C. Murphy, John Murphy, D.W. Payne, John M. Rambo, J.M. Sharp, Dr. G.E. Sharp, M.P. Thomas, W.H. Wayland Jr., R.E. Whittle, O.M. Whittle, T.D. Wynn, E.M. Wynn and Miller Yett. Excerpts from Counties of Tennessee by Austin P. Foster, and Tennessee, a Guide to the State, compiled and written by the Federal Writer's Project of the WPA in 1939, are included. The WPA excerpt mentions Shook's Gap, the Battle of Boyd's Creek Monument, organization of the White Caps (similar to the Ku Klux Klan), Pigeon Forge, the Barnes Cherokee Indian Museum, Bear Pen Gap, Newfound Gap, Clingmans Dome, Max Patch Mountain, and the towns of Gatlinburg, Sevierville and Newport. A special five-page section on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is included, along with an 8-page section on Tennessee Folklore, both from the WPA book. Here's a brief paragraph from the folklore chapter: Often there is a broad vein of humor in the folk expressions of the people. "I'm so hungry I could eat a bull -- and it bellering!" "He's as lazy as the hound that leaned against the fence to bark." "She's as ugly as a mud fence dabbed over with toad frogs.". Limited Edition Reprint. Spiral/Comb . New/No Jacket. 8.5" x 11". Private Press., Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887, 6, The Macmillan Co, 1937. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A good copy in good dust jacket; text has pencil marking; many page corners folded; some browning to text edges; jacket chipped and rubbed at edges with some old tape. PROVENANCE: From the library and with the signature of Jan Stussy (1922-1990), noted artist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker. 'Stussy, a West Coast artist with works in many museums and private collections... was a former chairman of the art department at UCLA and the first artist to be appointed as a senior professor by the university. Although he was primarily known as a prolific painter, with some 5,000 works to his credit, Mr. Stussy frequently worked in other artistic arenas. ''Gravity Is My Enemy,'' a film he produced and directed, won an Academy Award in 1977 as best documentary' (New York Times)., The Macmillan Co, 1937, 2.5, London England: Jonathan Cape, 1977. Hardback. Servant of the Cecils. Sunned spine to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Among the many who served the great ministers and courtiers of Tudor England, Michael Hickes is, for two major reasons, an exceptional figure. After the Queen herself, his master, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, was the most important person in the government of Elizabethan England, and, as Burghley's patronage secretary, he played a significant role in Elizabethan administration. But more important is the survival of Hickes's personal papers: nearly eight hundred letters which are now among the Lansdowne manuscripts in the British Museum. The survival of the papers of a man in his position in Tudor England is unique. They make it possibke, to reconstruct both this life and work in detail, forming an over-all picture of a man of remarkable personality whose career touched on Elizabethan society at many points. Illustrated. 221 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback., Jonathan Cape, 1977, 2.75, London England: B. T. Batsford, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very slight crease to corner back cover. Published in association with The Imperial War Museum. The Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be occupied by the Germans during World War II. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of their liberation the distinguished historian Asa Briggs has written a copiously illustrated record of life on the islands under Nazi rule. The book draws a contrast between the peaceful, pre-war atmosphere of sunny holiday islands and the dark shadows of fear, isolation and shortages under which the Islanders were forced to live for five long years. It sets the occupation in perspective. With the aid of a range of contemporary photographs, film stills, letters, diaries and other memorabilia, the book covers topics such as: The evacuation of Channel Islanders in June 1940. The arrival of the Germans and the implications of military occupation. The daily life of the Islanders during the occupation. The fortification of the islands and the use of forced labour. The deportation of some people living in the islands to internment camps and concentration camps. The excitement of liberation in May 1945. Illustrated throughout. 96 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Trade Paperback. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback., B. T. Batsford, 1995, 4, -Yale University Press / Royal Academy (1992)-. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by Mary Anne Stevens. 290x250mm liii+230 pages. Illustrated in colour. Paperback, some edge-wear and creasing of the spine. Very good. Camille Pissarro is perhaps best known for the landscape paintings of his early career, yet in the final decade of his life (1893-1903) he began to depict urban scenes and his paintings from this period, of Paris, Rouen and the busy ports of Dieppe and Le Havre formed an important component of his artistic output. At this time Pissarro, like Monet, started to work on canvases in series, ofthen pointing several simultaneously and discarding one temporarily when the light, the weather or his mood altered. He started all of them at the scene and worked with extraordinary speed and deftness. In this book, the authors set Pissarro's cityscapes in their broad art-historical context, looking also at contemporary treatments of the urban scene by Vuillard, Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec. Using Pissarro's extensive correspondence from this period, they reveal the artist's own attitude towards his final works. The book includes a catatogue of Pissarro's urban series, each one introduced by an overview covering the history of the cityscape pictured and the production, exhibition history and early critical reception of the series. This book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Pissarro's cityscape paintings at the Dallas Museum of Art (November 15, 1992 - January 31, 1993). The exhibition will then be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 7 to June 6, 1993 and at the Royal Academy in London from July 2 to October 10, 1993. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 24 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 35 years experience, you may order with confidence. The Impressionist and the City. Pissarro's Series Paintings. 0300054467, -Yale University Press / Royal Academy (1992)-, 0, Oslo, Norway: International Library of Fashion Research, 2022. First edition, limited edition. Paperback. Fine. 44 pp. Octavo. [19 cm]. Glossy purple wraps with curved top edge. 2 cm tear to top edge of front wrap, else as new. Part of a limited printing of 500. "On the occasion of the inaugural exhibition for the International Library of Fashion Research in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (in Oslo, Norway), Printed Matter's Chelsea location is hosting an in-store film screening featuring the work of Lengua. The artist, whose work parallels fashion and art and deconstructs perspectives of gender via fashion, was commissioned to create an interactive fashion film that genuinely involves and reflects the international underground queer scene. Through the lense of a flickering sun, the short film titled «Bliss, Abyss» narrates three characters on an apocalyptic or disastrous quest towards another world; bodies (with grotesque costumes and sun-burnt skin) in relationship with other bodies. An extension of Lengua's personal work within fashion and photography, this film is a highly candid, poetic and visually compelling artistic interpretation of the project's themes-at-large; such as queer identities, alternative gender expression and Queer Futurism. The film (which will also be shown throughout the summer months in Oslo) is corresponding with Norway's "Queer Culture Year 2022", a series of events marking 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalized. More about the Oslo screening: As a symbolic marriage to a heavy public institution such as the National Museum of Norway, we'll project the film publicly, on the back wall of International Library of Fashion Research, entering into the palazzo square of the new National Museum main entrance. This solidifies the queer outsider's position in double entendre; with the placement of the film display outside the institution and even outside the academic discourse on queer theory -- or even outside the market's "pinkwashing" strategies... This outsiderness' is the exhibition's conceptual point of departure. The exhibition opens in Oslo in August and runs until October. At Printed Matter (the first satellite exhibition of the film); the display will also feature a series of books and reference materials further expanding on the themes of the project. Additionally an extended catalog will be published, giving context to the themes, the commission and the project, with contributors selected by the artist themselves in dialogue with the curators. The catalogue expands and explores themes behind the commission such as the anthropocene, queer historiography, synergies between the respective local and international underground scenes and alternative gender expression. Special thanks to The Norwegian Consulate General in New York for generously supporting this project." --from the publisher., International Library of Fashion Research, 2022, 5, London England: Museum Press, 1960. Hardback. First Edition. The Searching Mind in Medicine. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. Browning to spine of D/J. To survey this fascinating field is the purpose of this book. The questions that face doctors and their scientific colleagues at the present moment include the problems of Cancer, Radioactive Isotopes in Medicine, Radiation and Man, Viruses and Man, the Why's and Wherefore's of Antibiotics, Blood Groups and Disease, Bolld Groups and Anthropology, Hypnotisim, Behaviour and Physique, Memory and Learning, the Problem of Ageing. Intended primarily for the general reader, it provides a picture of the present position which is written in non-technical language and aims at providing the answers, so far as they are known, to many of the questions that are on our lips today. Illustrated. 187 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback., Museum Press, 1960, 2.75, London England: Constable & Co, 1956. Hardback. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Slight foxing to edge. Wear and tear to edges of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. This wise and witty woman devoted herself to the task of helping and caring for her famous husband, but her persanilityt was hardly less remarkable that his own. Her entertaining letters, the majority of them here printed for the first time, reveal a character exuberant and eccentric, a loving wife filled with an almost blind admiration for her husband, but differing curiously from him in her lack of method, her wuick intuitive sympathy, her incurable untidiness, her sudden flashes of inspiration, her impatience with anything slow, or dull, or prosaic. This boo, based on unpublished material in the british Museum and at Chatsworth, gives a picture of the Gladstones in the intimacy of this family circle. Many other famous Victorian personages put in an appearance, among them Peel, Manning, Disraeli, Tennyson, Rosebery and Queen Victoria. 251 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback., Constable & Co, 1956, 2.5, Great Britain: Collins. Very Good. 1984. Reprint. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0004356470 Paperback Paperback. Introduced by Vyvyan Holland.rollled spine some This book contains his only novel. The Picture of Dorian Gray, all his stories, pays and poems, and a substantial number of his essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. The Importance of Being Ernest, for example, is given in the original four-act version, with readings with the revised edition, while De Profundis, his moving and tragic letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, is from the manuscript held by the British Museum until 1960 - the only complete and accurate source. Collin's Complete Works of Oscar Wilde was the first one-volume edition to include 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' in which Wilde expanded his theory concerning the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and also 'A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated', a series of aphorisms typical of Wilde. It carries, too, an Introduction specially written by Vyvyan Holland, Oscar Wilde's son. 1216 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) ., Collins, 1984, 3, Great Britain: Rye Museum Association, 1979. Guide. Sunned to top edge of front cover. Slight shelf wear to top edge of cover. This guide has been prepared and published for two reasons. First, it commenorates the twenty-fifth year of the Ypres Tower Museum; secondly, I hope that it will aid both visitor and inhabitant to know, more intimately, this Ancient Town. This Guide in no sense attempts to serve as a history of Rye. it conveys in an informal manner some basic facts of the town's story, leavened by a smattering of un-academic anecdotes. The illustrations are from photographs specially 'shot' to implement the text and so are concerned with the area within the walls and cliff - the area that was once described by Chesterton as 'that wonderful inland, crowned with a town as with a citadel, like a hill in a medieval picture'. Illustrated. 56 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Guide., Rye Museum Association, 1979, 3, Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1960. Laminate Lightly Peeling; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: A315. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; Editorial Note; Author's Preface 1. Military History 2. Towns and Urban Centres 3. The Countryside 4. Economics 5. Religious Cults; Bibliography; Index. SERIES: 1st in series. EDITORIAL NOTE Roman Britain is the first volume of a series planned to form an intelligent and consecutive guide to the development of English Society in all its aspects from the Roman invasion to the outbreak of the First World War. Each volume has been written by a specialist, and each author has been left to decide what he himself considers significant and interesting in the period with which he deals, and to make his own balance between the claims of the sub-divisions of his general thesis, politics, economics, culture, religion, social life, colonial expansion, foreign relations. All have sought to emphasize the sense of period, and while some parallels are inevitable, the business of discovering comparison and conclusion, and of adapting the lessons of history to our times, is left, for the most part, to the reader. As in Professor Richmond's Roman Britain the evidence for his conclusions is based rather more on archaeological than on documentary sources, the publishers have taken the step of asking the author to include in this volume a number of illustrations. SYNOPSIS: This book provides a general picture of the Roman province of Britain during the period from A.D. 43 until the fifth century. It does not attempt to furnish a continuous historical account, for which neither the written sources nor the archaeological material can provide enough evidence. The nearest approach to this is in the description of the military subjugation and organization of the province, dealt with here in considerable detail in an attempt to relate it to general policy, and to give a closer account of its changes than is usually attempted. The towns are considered analytically, with emphasis on their social function in the several communities of which they were the centres, and upon their connexions both with the Roman state and the native tribe, and attention is given to the smaller centres both in civil and military areas. Religious cults, their buildings, and their artistic expression are brought into relation with the provincial social order. Commerce and the countryside are the themes of other chapters, and the development of provincial resources in agriculture and raw products is described. The book is illustrated by eight pages of plates. Dr Ian A. Richmond is professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University. He was educated at Ruthin School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was a Craven Fellow and Goldsmith's Senior Student of the University, becoming a lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. He was also Director of the British School at Rome, where he wrote a standard work upon the Imperial City Wall. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the British Academy, a Royal Commissioner of Ancient Monuments to England and Scotland, and a Trustee of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. He has excavated widely upon Hadrian's Wall and many other Romano-British military sites.. First Edition 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Penguin Books Ltd, 1960, 2.5, The Blackburn Press, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. 144 pages. A gently used book with white pages. Slight upturn of bottom back cover and few pages, very hard to see in pictures. Originally published in 1981, A Natural History of Raccoons is a thorough study of the characteristics and habits of one of the most fascinating creatures among our country's wildlife. Topics covered include: behavioral characteristics (curiosity, raccoons in motion, winter denning); feeding habits, controlling their numbers (disease, parasites and predators); mating, and cubs; and habitat requirements. The book includes a chapter on caring for raccoons, which will be especially helpful for those who - like the author - have been called upon to nurture orphaned raccoon cubs. Raccoons are ecologic opportunists of the first order, living in forest, marsh and coastal environments, and forever exploring new habitats in suburb and city. Many people who have only occasionally glimpsed these predominantly nocturnal creatures will welcome this opportunity to become more familiar with them. Dorcas MacClintock is a mammalogist who is currently a Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences and a Curatorial Affiliate at Yale Peabody Museum. She is on familiar terms with raccoons, having reared a number of orphaned cubs. J. Sharkey Thomas's sensitive interpretations of wildlife are familiar to animal lovers throughout North America. Two solo exhibitions of her art in New York City have established a widening circle of collectors. "Delightful, painstakingly researched work that introduces the reader to just about every aspect of the structure, habits and life history of the raccoon. Packed with information. While the treatment is thoroughly scientific, the brisk writing style makes for easy, enjoyable reading. Illustrated with many truly exquisite sketches. A fine book." The Conservationist "MacClintock supplies here just about everything you could think to ask about raccoons. Thoroughly informative and smoothly integrated." Kirkus Reviews "A sprightly and detailed study of the appealing animal. The many drawings here are striking." Booklist "Informative and charmingly illustrated." Country Journal, The Blackburn Press, 2002, 3<