New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996. B&W half tones. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. SIGNED by Author & Co-Author on half title, 8vo, black boards with gold lettering on spine, Foreword by Louis Henry Gates, Jr., illustrated with several B&W half tones of black figures treated, archival mylar-protected..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
London Toronto Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1931. Photogravure. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, photogravure frontispiece portrait of Thomas Cranmer, Mylar-protected lettered gray dust jacket (price-clipped) with red lettering, 323, [324] pages. Hilaire Belloc (1870 – 1953) was a prolific Anglo-French writer..... More
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
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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
London: Methuen & Co., 1905. B&W Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Royal 8vo (61/8" x 8 7/8"), khaki cloth with gold lettering and double-rule borders on spine and front cover, impressed B&W photographic frontispiece of Walt Whitman at 33 from a Daguerrotype (& tissue guard) and 32 glossy B&W full-page photos..... More
New York, etc. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988. Photos. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author "Shirley Temple Black" on the front free endpaper, thick 8vo (9 3/8" x 6 3/8" x 1 7/8"), black quarter cloth with white lettering on spine over dark gray boards with..... More
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
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
Longmont, Colorado: Rockaway Press, 2006. First Edition. 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 textured narrative..... More
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
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
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. / Macmillan & Co., 1892. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo (6 5/8" x 4 1/2"), brown textured "alligator" cloth with gold title on spine, engraved B&W frontispiece of Walt (tissue guard), 132 pages. One of the first significant British or American biographies of Walt written while..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press / Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2009. Photos. First Edition, First Printing. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Quarto (11 1/8" x 9 1/4" x 1 1/8"), gilt-stamped brown leather with inset color photo of Mandela on front cover, profusely illustrated with color and B&W photos of..... More
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
New York: HarperCollinsPubishers, 2006. Photos. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, off-white quarter cloth over purple boards, illustrated with glossy B&W and color photographs, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Anderson Cooper taken by Brent Stirton, deep purple endpapers..... More
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