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Annotated Wizard of Oz:
A Centennial Edition

Frank L. Baum
$39.95 / HBS $31.96

Annotated by Michael Patrick Hearn, and includes a facsimile of the rare 1900 first edition, scrupulously produced, and with twenty-five previously unpublished illustrations.

Jazz: An Illustrated History of America's Music
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
$65.00 / HBS $52.00

The companion book to the January '01 series on PBS, by the award-winning team responsible for Civil War and Baseball.

Beatles Anthology
The Beatles
$60.00 / HBS $48.00

The inside story at last. Created with the full cooperation of Paul, George, Ringo, and Yoko Ono Lennon, this is a "biography" of the Beatles.

The Onion's Finest News Reporting
Scott Dikkers
$16.00pb / HBS $12.80

The world's most popular humor periodical, and the only source for latebreaking headlines such as "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia," "Colorado Judge Imposes Ban on Same-Sex Friendships," and much more.

Faces
Francois and Jean Robert
$16.95 / HBS $13.56

Forget the man in the moon. Twenty years ago, Swiss graphic designer Jean Robert discovered a face in a padlock. Since then, he and his brother have been photographing the smirks, smiles, and pouts in everyday objects, finding uncanny resemblances to human and animal faces in everything from buildings to mops.

Vanity Fair's Hollywood
Graydon Carter and David Friend, Editors Text by Christopher Hitchens
$60.00 / HBS $48.00

Surveying the brightest stars, moguls, directors, and writers, this book showcases the talent of portraitists from Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and Helmut Newton; voices that include P.G. Wodehouse and Dominick Dune; the verve of Dorothy Parker on silent-screen vamps and D.H. Lawrence on sex appeal.

The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition
$60.00 / HBS $48.00

The Fourth Edition combines exacting linguistic scholarship with creative innovations in the art of dictionary making to provide the resources to use the English language with accuracy and grace. Includes a full-color illustration program, the usage advice of over 200 experts – including John Kenneth Galbraith, Rita Dove, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin – and varied and extensive notes.

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