Hardcover. London, England, Adam & Charles Black, 1st Larger Size Edition, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Previous owner's book plate and pen marks on front endpapers. Front hinge cracked, binding still good. Red decorated cover boards, gilt title on spine (faded). Pages have some foxing and tanning from age. Illustrations still very vivid and in excellent condition. Artist memoir and beautiful look at her life in England, painted by her own hand. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Narberth PA, Livingston Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front flyleaf. Salmon cloth covers with black cloth inlay & gilt titles, black printed titles to spine. Frontis photograph Woodrow Wilson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cincinnati OH, Review Printing Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with black stamping, 174 pages. B&w frontispiece engraving of Sabin with tissue guard. Green floral pattern on endpapers. First blank page INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, DATED 1890.
Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 187 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. green star sticker on front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Caldwell, Idaho, The Caxton Printers, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 265 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Scarce. Illustrated by Anton Otto Fisher. A frank and detailed description of the life of a English deep-sea fisherman. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, chipping most pronounced along top edge. Chipping to dust jacket spine as well. Foxing to all edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1st edition after limited edition. Black and white pictures, some in color. Cloth covers with gilt lettering. Edge wear and fraying to top of dust jacket spine, small closed tear to back dust jacket. Remainder spray on bottom edge page block.
Hardcover. Woodstock NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. Over 300 photographs (many in color), most never-before published, chronology, select recordings and videotapes, index. Text taken from Lenya's interviews, private conversations, letters, and other writings provide captivating glimpses into her on-stage and off-stage world. Married to Kurt Weill, the pair brought their talents to American theater when they left Nazi Germany in the 1930s. She gave unforgettable performances on stage and screen ('Threepenny Opera', 'Cabaret' etc) and established herself as one of the twentieth century's most enduring and talented performers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages. Hardcover with scarce dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers, and pages. Light foxing throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Clark & Lyman, 2nd Ed., 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages, frontispiece plus 3 other engraved plates. Rebound with new cloth spine and endpapers, original calf covers present. The frontispiece has some loss to the gutter edge and has been reattached. Image not affected. Moderate foxing throughout.
Hardcover. London, Strathearn, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w photos. A personal and business biography by the founder of the Polly Peck clothing line, a successful company that boomed in postwar Britain. SIGNED BY ZELKER on half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 437 pages, in a bright dust jacket. The story of the rebuilding of Skinnerville, Massachusetts destroyed in a dam failure and flood along with Skinners silk thread factory in 1874. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Berghahn Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Small corner bump on front top right corner. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.
Hardcover. Auburn, Derby, Miller and Company, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages, with tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Adams and gilt title on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper and fly leaf, spine edge and corner wear, light foxing on some pages. Overall, clean and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler, became the embodiment of this theory, and they hoped she would prove that interracial children represented the final solution to America's race problems. Able to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa was often compared to Mozart. During the 1930s and 40s she graced the pages of Time and Look magazines, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Philippa grew up under the adoring and inquisitive eyes of an entire nation and soon became the role model and inspiration for a generation of African-American children. But as an adult she mysteriously dropped out of sight, leaving America to wonder what had happened to the "little Harlem genius." Suffering the double sting of racism and gender bias, Philippa had been rejected by the elite classical music milieu in the United States and forced to find an audience abroad, where she flourished as a world-class performer and composer. She traveled throughout South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia performing for kings, queens, and presidents. By then Philippa had added a second career as an author and foreign correspondent reporting on events around the globe--from Albert Schweitzer's leper colony in Lamberene to the turbulent Asian theater of the 1960s. She would give a command performance for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium one day, and hide from the Viet Cong among the ancient graves of the Annam kings another.
Hardcover. Gotham Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 358 pages. Retracing the 1799-1804 odyssey of von Humboldt through South and Central America, Helferich synthesizes the many biographies written about the explorer into a concise appreciation of his personality and scientific significance. The author also appropriately digresses about the history of the places visited by von Humboldt, who was a perceptive reporter of conditions in the Spanish empire immediately before its colonies revolted. Despite almost three centuries of rule by 1799, the Spanish domains still had unexplored territory, tempting von Humboldt, then 30, to seek there the scientific glory he aimed for since his youth in Prussia. Supported by an inheritance and buddy Aime Bonpland, von Humboldt set forth initially to investigate a geographical controversy (Did the Orinoco River connect with the Amazon?) but wowed the world largely with his discoveries in botany, zoology, and geology. Helferich recounts the journey's risks, from piranhas to volcanoes, and his presentation is sure to satisfy reader curiosity about the explorer who had so many places named for him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Edward Moxon, 1st, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcovers bound in polished calf, gilt rules to covers, black leather labels on spine with orate gilt decorations. Pages: xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index. Marbled endpapers and text edges. Aside from previous owner's bookplate on inside cover of each volume, a bright, clean set. Biography of the Scottish poet, incorporating many of his letters.
Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket with fraying, chipping on corners. Small chunck missing on rear dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photos throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. An amusing coming-of-age memoir of a young girl growing up in Newark where her mother was a landlord in an apartment building.
Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. Collins conducted business in Trenton and Burlington and founded New Jersey's first regular newspaper, the "New-Jersey Gazette". Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with marbled covers and page block decoration, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Previous owner's name on title page. Ex-Library with usual stamping and embossed seal on preliminary pages.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, First Edition, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with moderate wear, tears to edges & chipping, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning throughout. Clean & unmarked.
Softcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. One of the most compelling figures in colonial America, Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785) was a Scottish immigrant who settled in Boston in her early twenties and took up shopkeeping. For many years, she practiced her trade successfully while marrying three times, once to a much older man who left her an extremely rich widow. This biography chronicles the life of this extraordinary "ordinary" woman who tried to make a place for herself and other women in the world by asserting her own independence inside and outside of the home. As an importer and retailer of British goods, Murray conducted business with merchants and manufacturers in England and buyers in the American colonies, even traveling to London to select her own stock. Deeply satisfied by her work and the economic freedom it brought her, she acted as mentor to other women, helping them to establish shops of their own. She also protected her autonomy by demanding prenuptial agreements from her second and third husbands that gave her a measure of control over her property that was rare for a married woman of her day. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Decoding Robert Indiana's work for a new generation, this revelatory book explores previously unknown autobiographical elements in the work of the Pop artist and printmaker. Famously proclaiming himself to be "an American painter of signs," Robert Indiana has created an enormous body of work, much of it boldly colored abstractions. In this incisive new examination of the artist, based on ongoing conversations with Indiana, art historian Martin Krause sifts through autobiographical clues within the artist's work and finds a wealth of affecting and affectionate references to Indiana's childhood, literary heroes, and the cultural icons of his generation. In addition, a penetrating essay by Pop art scholar John Wilmerding deconstructs Indiana's use of geometric shapes, making unexpected connections that enhance Krause's thesis. Accompanied by reproductions of more than 50 prints from the period 1960-2010--and focusing specifically on series such as Decade: Autoportraits, Vinalhaven Suite, and The Hartley Elegies as well as the "Love" and "Hope" images and studies of Marilyn Monroe, Picasso, and the Brooklyn Bridge--Krause's decryption of Indiana's visual language provides telling insight into the work of this quintessentially American artist.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellowing to top edge of dust jacket. Rubbing to rear. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Jack Delano's "Photographic Memories" include the struggles of migrant workers and the homefront contributions of ethnic and minority groups living in the shadow of the Depression. Employed as a photographer by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Delano later settled in Puerto Rico, where he has been a constant participant in the island's cultural life. This memoir includes rare photos from his FSA years, along with cartoons, personal snapshots and film stills.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust Jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. A touch of soil to foreedge, otherwise clean. Pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition.
Hardcover. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1st, May 30, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, several b&w photographs and illustrations. Small stain on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.
Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 434 pages. Minor cover corner and spine edge wear. Gilt top edge and titles on spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece portrait of Commodore Rodgers. Very clean and tight copy.
NY, Carlton Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with edgewear. 120 pages with b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY BAKER on the front fly leaf. The author's account of his 2,000 mile trek from Georgia to Maine in 1964. Scarce.
Hardcover. New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in brown and gilt, 274 pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean, bright copy. In a poor dust jacket with paper loss at edges. Considered a classic of hoboing, the book chronicles the German writer's life of wandering and his spiritual growth.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 574 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf with small notations (pencil) throughout. Black cover boards (some light chipping), gilt title on spine. Spine slightly cocked, doesn't affect binding. Dust jacket unclipped, has agewear: chipping, fading, some small tears (see image). This book provides an intellectual biography of Hegel from the Gymnasium years until he went to his first academic post at Jena.
Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st us, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This biography examines Braque's creativity, his personal and professional relationships (with Beckett, Cezanne, Giacometti, Matisse, Miro, Picasso etc) and enriches our understanding of France's early 20th century art culture.
Softcover. Boston MA, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, paperback. Man Ray's extraordinary autobiography, which reveals the entertaining life and times of the remarkable artist. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Lower fore edge corner slightly creased. Light pen mark to front flyleaf. A bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Ltd. Ed., 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY COWARD. Cream colored cloth with NC embossed on cover, black spine label with gilt lettering that has a narrow chip down the center. Spine darkened. No. 64 of 301 signed copies. Top edge gilt. Binding tight. Red slip case has light wear. The witty English playwright, composer, director and actor Noel Coward's autobiography. With b&w photos scattered throughout, including author frontispiece photo.
Hardcover. Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 253 pages. The interesting life of a remarkable person- America's first woman astronomer, who lived from 1818 to 1889. Yet Maria Mitchell's life in Nantucket Island was not devoted entirely to astronomy. She was a librarian of the Athenaeum for twenty years, and she came to know many of the famous men of the age who came to lecture there. When the Vassar College Observatory was founded in 1865, Maria Mitchell became its first Director. And finally, Maria Mitchell was an ardent leader in the woman's rights movement and President of the Association for the Advancement of Women. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Softcover. Emeryville CA, Seal Press, 1st pbk, 2006, Softcover, 549 pages, b&w illustrations. Set amidst the political upheaval of the McCarthy trials, the Vietnam War, and the rise of the women's movement, Intimate Politics is a courageous and uncompromising account of one woman's personal and political transformation, and a fascinating portrayal of a key chapter in our nation's history. At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family's politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in front of the House on Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist families whose friends included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bettina lived her parents' politics witnessing first-hand one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also lived with a terrible secret: incest at the hands of her famous father and a frightening and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions. Light marking to ten pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket. 167 pages illustrated by Ruth Sheetz. The Morse's became innkeepers on Martha's Vineyards, leaving city life in New York. This is the story of Beach Plum Inn. Light tanning to front fly leaf where newspaper clipping was laid in, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 471 pages. Jacob Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He and Theodore Roosevelt became friends when Roosevelt was the New York City Police Commissioner. Riis wrote this idolizing biography of Roosevelt which was published in March 1904, reprinted in March 1904, and published as this Special Edition in June 1904. Contains an appendix listing books by Theodore Roosevelt. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light soil.
Hardcover. New York, WW Norton & Company, Inc, 1st Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 678 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. A few specs of foxing to front flyleaf and back page, otherwise pages clean. Dust jacket has some agewear with a touch of chipping and foxing, one small tear on back dj. Decorated endpapers. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some spots to covers.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Biograph, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. SIGNED BY WILES on the front fly leaf. Maurice Wiles was Professor Emeritus of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with bright gilt stamping, 137 pages. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker, photographic frontispiece portrait of actor John Drew, as well as numerous photographs of John Drew (and other actresses) in various dramatic productions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. South Bend IN, Gateway Editions, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR HARRISON on the title page. 628 pages, b&w illustrations. Thomas Cope was a wealthy merchant and ship owner, a force in city and state government, a philanthropist and--by no means least--a Quaker. He is best described in his own words about his writing and himself: "I have laid down no regular plan and I follow none. My diary is like myself, a chequered maze." He was committed to the service of others--the poor, the sick, the insane--and labored to improve the civic life of Philadelphia in far-sighted ways. He was a moving force behind the water system, a founder of the Mercantile Library, an advocate for the Penn. Railroad, and a supporter of poorhouses, among many other civic and philanthropic activities. He was also a deeply passionate man, whose fluent style at times seethes with emotion. Even into his eighties he struggled to control his temper. Perceptive and intelligently engaged, Cope comments on all the major historical events of his time, such as the yellow fever epidemics, the War of 1812, and the looming Civil War, as well as the more personal dramas of his own life. Some tape repairs ro dj, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls , 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth. b&w frontis. portrait, 541 page biography, works of the great nineteenth century American preacher, lecturer, orator, and journalist. From the American Reformers Series. Spine is sunned, gilt lettering on the cover. Ex-lib with endpapers marked, stamped. Interior clean.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 203 pages, b&w illustrations. Memoir by sister of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Previous owner's stamp otherwise clean, Lacks dust jacket.
Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press., reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, an Italian woman who came to the United States in 1884, one of the peak years in the nineteenth-century wave of immigration. A vivid, richly detailed account, the narrative traces Rosa's life in an Italian peasant village and later in Chicago. Marie Hall Ets, a social worker and friend of Rosa&;s at the Chicago Commons settlement house during the years following World War I, meticulously wrote down her lively stories to create this book. Clean copy.
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