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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

Gertrude Stein

This monumental two-volume set of her correspondence with Carl Van Vechten, the critic novelist, and photographer, offers new insight into Stein's life, her art, and the intellectual and artistic milieu of Paris.
Firecrackers

Firecrackers

Carl Van Vechten

Though, like most Van Vechten novels, there is more than actually meets the eye. The book uniquely explores the true meaning of happiness and the eternal search for self-identity, through humorous, thoughtful, and often poignant characters.
Nigger Heaven

Nigger Heaven

Carl Van Vechten

At the center of the story, two young people - a quiet, serious librarian and a volatile aspiring writer - struggle to love each other as their dreams are slowly suffocated by racism.
The Tiger in the House

The Tiger in the House

Carl Van Vechten

Witty exploration of the domesticated cat: its independent nature, long association with the occult, role in folklore, music, art, fiction and more. Charmingly illustrated.
The passionate observer: photographs by Carl Van Vechten

The passionate observer: photographs by Carl Van Vechten

Keith F. Davis

Included in this collection are subjects as diverse as Cab Calloway and Alfred Stieglitz, George Gershwin and Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo and Tallulah Bankhead.
Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

Carl Van Vechten

Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

Edward White

The Tastemaker encompasses its subject's private fears and longings, as well as Manhattan's raucous, taboo-busting social scene of which he was such a central part.
The Politics and Aesthetics of "New Negro" Literature

The Politics and Aesthetics of "New Negro" Literature

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.] Reprinted with the permission of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and the Estate of Carl Van Vechten. "Blanche Knopf to Langston Hughes, August 21, ...
Race, Money, and the American Welfare State

Race, Money, and the American Welfare State

Michael K. Brown

As Donald Baumer and Carl E. Van Horn cautiously put it, "the more direct and costly benefits have been distributed to a relatively more ... Donald C. Baumer and Carl E. Van Horn, The Politics of Unemployment (Washington, D.C., 1985), pp.
Year Book of the Holland Society of New York ...

Year Book of the Holland Society of New York ...

Holland Society of New York

David H. Van Auken ...... Cohoes, N. Y. .William Henry Van Benschoten, West Park, N. Y. .William Henry Van Benschoten, New York. .Christopher Carl Van Benscoter, Brookville, Pa. .William Armin Van Benscoter, Detroit, Mich. Jan. 7, April 30.
Year Book of the Holland Society of New York

Year Book of the Holland Society of New York

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.William Henry Van Benschoten, West Park, N. Y. June 14, 1906. .William Henry Van Benschoten, New York. Dec. 13, 1906. .Christopher Carl Van Benscoter, Brookville, Pa. Mar. 10, 1904. .William Annin Van Benscoter, Detroit, Mich. Jan.
Black World/Negro Digest

Black World/Negro Digest

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... Hughes often acknowledged Van Vechten's help, he never believed that the white author was the chief architect of his career or of the Harlem Renaissance BY FAITH BERRY Faith Berry contributed "Voice for the Jazz Age, Great Migration,.
Langston Hughes, Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, ...

Langston Hughes, Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, ...

Joseph McLaren

George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (New York: HarperPerennial, 1991) 229-39. The correspondences of Hughes, Hurston, Van Vechten, Spingarn , and Rowena Jelliffe document the Mule Bone controversy. One of the longest of  ...
Walter Van Beirendonck: de controversieelste van de ...

Walter Van Beirendonck: de controversieelste van de ...

Agnes Goyvaerts

Chronologisch en op interviews gebaseerd verslag van de totstandkoming van 43 collecties van de Antwerpse modeontwerper.
Blue Skies of El Dorado

Blue Skies of El Dorado

Carl J. Barger

Carl J. Barger. BLUESKIESOFELDORADO Carl J. Barger Copyright © 2016 Carl J. Barger. All rights reserved. No. Front Cover.
Facing the Future, Reviving the Past: A Study of Social ...

Facing the Future, Reviving the Past: A Study of Social ...

John Kleinen

Many members of the Van Cong patrilineage belonged to the "basic families": Van Cong Diu, Van Cong Duong, Van Cong Nhiem, Van Cong Giau, Van Cong Xuyen and his daughter Van Thi Thu. Most were all in their twenties around 1956 , ...
Kinderen houden niet van krokodillen / druk 2: requiem van ...

Kinderen houden niet van krokodillen / druk 2: requiem van ...

Carine Hutsebaut

Beschrijving van een aantal gevallen van seksueel misbruik van kinderen en kindermoorden, met name in België.
Braby's Natal Directory, Including Zululand, Griqualand East ...

Braby's Natal Directory, Including Zululand, Griqualand East ...

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Van Flensburg, С. J. J., 23 Brettanwoods Ave. Van Rensburg, C. J. J., 5 Flamingo Grove, YWP Van Rensburg, 0., 210 Grosvenor Cit. Van Rensburg, E. G., 44 Hallfax Rd., WL. Van Rensburg, F., 89 Roland Chapman Dve., MC Van Rensburg , ...
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the ...

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the ...

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... hoven) Van Bunschoten; Teunis and Elizabeth (Van der Burgh) Van Bunschoten; Henry and Mary (Jackson) Van Benschoten, and Richard and Catherine Ann (Taylor) Van Benschoten, the grandparents of William Henry Van Benschoten.
Red de vrije markt: de terugkeer van Milton Friedman

Red de vrije markt: de terugkeer van Milton Friedman

Johan Van Overtveldt

Ten onrechte wordt Friedman opgevoerd als de immorele vader van het wilde kapitalisme. Johan Van Overtveldt beschrijft met veel verve de economische geschiedenis van de afgelopen eeuw aan de hand van het leven en werk van Friedman.
The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the ...

The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the ...

George Derby

... hoven) Van Bunschoten; Teunis and Elizabeth (Van der Burgh) Van Bunschoten; Henry and Mary (Jackson) Van Benschoten, and Richard and Catherine Ann (Taylor) Van Benschoten, the grandparents of William Henry Van Benschoten.
Pushing the limits: het leven van Keith Bakker

Pushing the limits: het leven van Keith Bakker

Leon Verdonschot

Van de VS naar Amsterdam, van de wereld van rock-`n-roll naar dealen op de Zeedijk; van de glamour naar de goot en van de hel weer terug naar de aarde: Pushing the limits is het spannende en inspirerende verhaal van Keith Bakkers strijd ...
The Hopper family genealogy: descendants of Andries ...

The Hopper family genealogy: descendants of Andries ...

Maria Jean Pratt Hopper

1 Sep 1815] see #265 Van Houten, Maria [Garret J. Hopper #1281] Van Houten, Martha [John Demarest Jr. #800] Van Houten, ... 245, 246 Van Orden ~ see also Van Norden Van Orden, Cornelius [Hannah Hopper #137] Van Orden, Elizabeth  ...

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