New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Photographs by & about Wm Blake. First American Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over apricot boards, profusely illustrated with 33 full color & 30 B&W glossy plates with many in-text B&W illustrations, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped)..... More about BLAKE; A Biography
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering over deep blue boards, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with photograph of Medeleine Albright by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, [viii] + 328 pages. INSCRIBED and in EXCEPTIONAL... More about MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT ELECT; How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black quarter cloth over burgundy boards, Introduction by President Bill Clinton, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with photograph of Medeleine Albright, 339 pages. Exceptional condition! Previous owner's ink signature on free front endpaper. SIGNED by the distinguished former... More about THE MIGHTY & THE ALMIGHTY; Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
New York: The Noonday Press, 1955. Marc Chagall. First American Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo (8" x 5 1/2"), turquoise textured quarter cloth with pink & white lettering on spine over black boards, frontispiece B&W illustration of Sholom Aleichem by Marc Chagall, Mylar-protected lettered multi-color-banded dust jacket (publisher-clipped with price... More about THE GREAT FAIR; Scenes from my Childhood / Translated by Tamara Kahana / with a drawing of the...
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1934. First One-volume Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, beige buckram, Mylar-protected dust jacket with lettering, xix + 748 pages. Originally issued during 1929 in two-volumes, this 1934 Edition has been completely reset with corrections and footnotes by the author, Hervey Allen (1889-1949), and combines two... More about ISRAFEL; The Life and Times of Edgar Allen Poe
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006. Photographs. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, light beige quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over creamy yellow boards, illustrated with 16 glossy photograph-filled pages, pictorial endpapers, [xiv] + 493 pages + [2] About the Author. Dolley Madison's crucial contribution to... More about A PERFECT UNION; Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Edition. Boards. 8vo, blue pebble-grain boards with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with B&W glossy photograph of Ellen Ternan, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (price-clipped), 95 stiff pages including an Appendix detailing Dickens' chronology and likely movements according to his Diary. The mystery of Charles Dickens... More about DICKENS INCOGNITO; Who, where and why was Mr Tringham? And was his Christian name / John,...
New York et al. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, black cloth with silver spine lettering, illustrated with 16 B&W glossy plates, Mylar-protected typographic dust jacket (unclipped), vi + [ii] + 567 pages. Excellent "dual" bio of two great Supreme Court savants and Progressives by... More about BRANDEIS AND FRANKFURTER; A Dual Biography
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Nearly Square 4to (9 1/2" x 7 1/2"), blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over charcoal gray boards, illustrated with 16 pages of semi-glossy photographs, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) with a black vertically... More about THE ALCOTTS; Biography of a Family
New York: Harper and Brothers, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, white quarter cloth with silver spine lettering over black boards with blind-stamped Harper logo, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with picture of smiling young John Updike at the beach, xiii + [iii] + 558 pages. Exceptional... More about UPDIKE
New York: Viking, 1996. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black cloth over cream-colored boards, 25 illustrations on glossy stock, Mylar-protected dust jacket with a photo of Stegner, xx + 472 pages. An outstanding biography of Wallace Stegner (1909-1993), a brilliant author who is often considered the "Dean of Western... More about WALLACE STEGNER; His Life and Work
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London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1950. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with a B&W frontispiece photo of Stephen Crane, Mylar-protected typographic dust jacket (unclipped), 347 pages. An important critical biography by poet-and-critic John Berryman who was profoundly influenced by Crane (1871-1900), the Realist-&-Impressionistic..... More about STEPHEN CRANE; [The American Men of Letters Series
New York: A Studio Book / The Viking Press, 1971. Cloth. 4to, green clth, 32 color plates and numerous Black & White and photographic illustrations, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price clipped), 256 pages. In F/NF condition, this is a most attractively produced, illustrated biography of the Great Swedish Naturalist. Neat bookplate... More about THE COMPLEAT NATURALIST; A Life of Linnaeus / Wilfrid Blunt with the assistance of William T. Stearn
Israel: Ghetto Fighters' House and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1972. Photo. First American Edition. Pictorial boards. 8vo, pictorial boards of the Warsaw Ghetto afire, frontispiece 2" x 2" B&W photo of the author-diarist Tuvia Borzykowski, illustrated with 8 glossy B&W photos of the Ghetto & related items, Mylar-protected pictorial dust... More about BETWEEN TUMBLING WALLS; Translated from the Yiddish by Mendel Kohansky
London & Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, c.1884. Ninmo's Standard Library. Cloth. Tall 8vo, black embossed cloth with gilt stamping, engraved frontispiece of Dr. Johnson, xiv + 562 pages. UNCOMMON edition of this classic. Previous owner's neat signature on ffe is dated 1884, from which we estimate the date of this... More about THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D. by James Boswell; New Edition / Carefully Revised from the...
Longmont, Colorado: Rockaway Press, 2006. First Edition, Later Printing? Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR "Claim Your Liberty!" & SIGNED on free front endpaper, 8vo, brown cloth with gold lettering on spine over lighter brown boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), [x] 518 pages. Anthony Bottagaro's inspirational and richly... More about THE POET THE COUNT and THE PEDDLER
Toronto New York London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the AUTHOR & FORMER PRESIDENT, small 4to (9 1/2" x 6 3/8"), numerous B&W in-text illustrations as chapter headings, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with color photo of Jimmy Carter fly-fishing, tourquoise... More about AN OUTDOOR JOURNAL; Adventures and Reflections
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, tan quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards with ribbing, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Lincoln by Corbis, xv + 394 + [2] A Note About the Author. Winner of the Lincoln... More about LINCOLN; A Life of Purpose and Power
Harper [HarperCollins/Publishers], 2009. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, elaborately decorated "spinning dial" figures on glossy paper over boards with an orange 1/8th cloth backstrip suggested by trompe l'oile, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with cutout for the cover's dial, 306 pages. Autobiographical reflections SIGNED by the Pulitzer Prize-winning... More about MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS; The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, photographic endpapers of basketball team, 402 pages + [2] A Note about the Author + [2] A Note about the Type. Donald Patrick... More about MY LOSING SEASON
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2010. Wendell Minor. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 12mo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over ivory boards, illustrated by Wendell Minor, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting sea gulls flying above an open book... More about MY READING LIFE; Drawings by Wendell Minor
New York: The John Day Company, 1949. map. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, gold pebble-grained cloth with black lettering on spine, illustrated with one map of China in the Spring & Early Autumn Period, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (clipped) depicting a red-rubbing of Chinese gentlemen & a chariot, xi, [xii: map]... More about CONFUCIUS; The Man and the Myth
New York: The Freethought Press Association, 1929. Special Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, red cloth, Mylar-protected tan dust jacket (unclipped) with red typography, frontispiece of Mrs. Eddy from a photo by Brown Brothers with tissue guard, [xii] + 553 pages. SIGNED on the free front endpaper. Very Scarce... More about MRS. EDDY; The Biography of a Virginal Mind
New York, N.Y. ECCO / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013. Genealogical table. First U.S. Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on special front endpaper, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering over speckled gray boards, illustrated with genealogical table as frontispiece and numerous black & white and color photographs, Mylar-protected photographic... More about AN APPETITE FOR WONDER; The Making of a Scientist / A Memoir
New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. First American Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, white quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gray boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with B&W rouge-tinted photo of young Jean-Paul and Simone, [i-iv] + [1-2] 3-453 pages + [454-455] About the Author. Simone de Beauvoir... More about ADIEUX; A Farewell to Sartre / Translated by Patrick O'Brien