Hardcover. ASEP, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages, b&w photos. Blue cloth, silver titles to front and spine. Light wear and rubbbing to edges, slight scratch down center of rear board. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, C. E. Goodspeed & Co , Revised, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Edition, Illustrated with three volumes. 391+403+418 pages. 174 b&w full-page illustrations. Ruff cut paper edges. Dark green cloth, some bumps to corners. No dust jackets as issued. Light edge wear, otherwise a very nice, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Rockland, C. E. Hunt & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Fair, Ends at page 502; MIssing back pages. B&w frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Ornately decorated red cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration. Cover separated with soiling, rubbing, and edgewear. Foxing to edges and some light spotting throughout.
Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Company, 1st U.S., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 141 pages. Red cloth cover in good condition. Inside bright, clean and crisp. Dust jacket has some wear. Frontispiece has b&w illustration of the opening verses of the Koran. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, 366 pages. Leather cover with raised bands and ornate decoration. Gilt all edges and marled endpapers. B&w frontispiece with tissue-guard and b&w and color illustrations with tissue guards throughout. Color illustrations on tipped-in plates. Rubbing and wear to cover edges and some light foxing throughout. Else a clean, good copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. These twelve stories further Joy Williamss utterly singular achievement, described by the Washington Post as poetic, disturbing, yet very funny. Her landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss.
Hardcover. New York, Twayne Publishers, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light spotting to edges. Very minor rubbing to cover edges. A nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st thus, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, beveled boards, 89 pages, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy glossy stock. The frontispiece is an etching of Holmes by S.A. Schoff with a tissue guard. There are many wonderful illustrations throughout the book by 20 artists, including Howard Pyle, W.L. Tayor and W. Smedley. CLEAN COPY.
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, 338 pages. With wry humor and sharp observation, playwright Pifer elegantly mixes memory and research to reconstruct the world of his South African boyhood from 1933 to 1945. Pifer's father, an idealistic mining engineer in search of challenge and stability during the Depression, found it in Africa, but his earnest American egalitarianism soon put him in conflict with Afrikaner mine overseers, and his career under magnate Sir Ernest Oppenheimer stalled. The author deftly evokes his family--"my mother had the freedom of a disobedient daughter"--and the isolation of the desert town of Oranjemund. The book is even more resonant in its snapshots of mid-century Southern Africa: the still-simmering enmity between Afrikaners and the English; the ripples from Hitler's war in what prior to WW I had been the German territory of South West Africa (currently Namibia). Pifer's knowing account of the travails of servants--"the chasm that exists between white mistress and African maid"--still rings true today. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 293 pages, b&w photographs. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. Dark blue top edge decorative stain w/ light spots, else a very clean, tight copy. Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented by his relationship to his family; an artist who worked hard through years of poverty to achieve his controversial painting technique; the first American painter to gain an international reputation for himself and for what has been variously called Action Painting or Abstract Expressionism; and a man who struggled with alcohol and the tension between gentleness and violence.Newly illustrated with seminal Pollock paintings, this book takes the reader inside the art world of New York during the '40s and '50s, when Action Painting first emerged. Friedman reveals what it meant to Pollock to experience the invasion of his studio and of the very act of painting by the external pressures of shows, reviews, films, dealers, critics, hostile publicity; and how, despite it all, Pollock created many of the most graceful and powerful paintings ever made in America.
Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear to rear panel. Beautifully illustrated volume on the extraordinary gardens of Paris, past and present. FRENCH TEXT. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Claitor's Publishing, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, illustrated in b&w. Bookplate SIGNED BY CALVERT AND RAUSCHER on a bookplate pasted to inside cover. In a bright dust jacket, unclipped.
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 334 pages. The editor has chosen excerpts from de Tocquville's 14 notebooks he kept on his visit to America 1831-32. The detailed notes were the raw material that became his classic Democracy In America. Many of these observations never made into the final work. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 562 pages. Blue cloth with blue titles. Light edgewear, tanning, and fraying to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page, handwritten letter by author laid-in. Minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Brown cloth w/ color pictorial label on front. Color pictorial slipcase shows minor edgewear. Text in French, captions next to pictures also in English. Beautiful color plates throughout. Tight, clean, unmarked.
Softcover. Paris, Mercvre de France, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. INSCRIBED TO ROGER SHATTUCK BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. With black & white illustrations by: Pablo Picasso, Jean Bazaine, Jacques Villon, Antoni Clave, and others. Spine paper with light sun fading. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, b&w illustration. White vellum spine and corners with blue-gray boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Limited to 600 copies, this is #582. Beautiful bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, b&w illustration. White vellum spine and corners with blue-gray boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Limited to 600 copies, this is #590. Beautiful bright copy.
Softcover. University Press of Colorado, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme. Name on front fly leaf other wise clean.
Hardcover. Grans Isle VT, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 265 pages, 8 b&w plates. Signed by the author on half title page and with a letter by he author laid-in. Dust jacket is missing a few small chunks around the edges of the spine and light soil. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, b&w engraved portrait of Jones in Vol.1. Both books bound in half black leather and blue boards with gilt lettering and raised bands on spine, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers. Light foxing, mainly to preliminary pages. Beautiful set.
Hardcover. Jackson [Miss.], University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 248 pages. This short story collection contains: A Time of Learning; The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner; Love, Death, and the Ladies' Drill Team; Home Coming; The Battle of the Suits; Tom Wolfe's My Name; Learn to Say Good-by; A Little Collar for the Monkey; Public Address System; Foot-Shaped Shoes; Horace Chooney, M.D.; The Linden Trees; Breach of Promise; and The Singing Lesson. Stated first edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Black Sparrow Press, Trade Ed., 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 452 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on colophon page. Number 706 of 2000 limited edition copies. Unmarked and tight copy
Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1st Thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 106 pages. A Play with black & white illustrations by Faulkner. Clean, tight copy. Introduction by Noel Polk. In a bright yellow dust jacket.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper covered boards with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, spine ends and corners with light wear, First Edition, frontispiece portrait of author with tissue guard. INSCRIBED BY DASKAM on front fly leaf and dated May 1903. Daskam(1876-1961) was a prolific author of adult and children's fiction whose best-known work was MEMOIRS OF A BABY (1904), a satire on modern methods of child training. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages, maroon cloth covers with embossed design, color faded, especially on spine. Mild foxing to several pages, rear fly leaf with corner torn away. Still a tight, attractive copy of the day-to-day travels of an English journalist through America in the early years of the Civil War.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This is the second in a series of exhibitions organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, that shows a small number of artists' recent work on paper. Artists featured: Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mario Merz, A.R. Penck, and Giuseppe Penone. Introduction by Bernice Rose. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY KALAM on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Berkley Publishing / G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. First edition. Gilt title on spine. A bit of chipping to top of spine. Light wear to dust jacket and pages lightly yellowed due to age. Otherwise, clean inside and in good shape. Science fiction tale based 100,000 years in the future.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1837, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Plume/New American Library, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Film historian and critic, Leonard Maltin's extensively researched book about the world of animated cartoons. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, and color posters. With studio filmographies, Academy Award nominees and winners, glossary of animation terms, source listings, and index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Shell Oil Company, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 782 pages plus appendix and vocabulary in rear. Leather covers, text pages two-hole punched for updating. Many photographs and diagrams in text. About 40 loose sheets laid in which are 1949 updates to various pages. Some light pencil notations in text, a little dusty but sound.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch/Little Brown, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 180 b/w photos of athletes in preparation for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. A celebrated, highly stylized photographer of rock stars shooting Olympic athletes? That apparent anomaly seems just right when the photographer in question is Leibovitz, whose portraiture has always managed to capture the inner turmoil lurking beneath outward calm. Wisely, she chose to shoot her athletes not in Atlanta, surrounded by hoopla, but in preparation for the games, isolated and intense. The results are stunning: a sculpted Carl Lewis in repose, achieving a Mapplethorpian elegance mixed with menace; a poised and incredibly focused Michael Johnson, suggesting all the unleashed energy it would take to run faster than anyone has ever run before; a sober U.S. women's softball team, exuding the determination that would eventually produce wild jubilation and the gold medal. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 3rd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. 191 b&w figures. An in-depth look at the history of ornamental ironwork and ironworkers in American architecture. Well illustrated with many photos. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Books of Wonder/Morrow, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 64 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Witte. The first edition with illustrations by Witte and SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND WITTE on the title page. Like new.
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 258 pages. Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born This novel about a Norwegian retiree reflecting on incidents from his youth was an international success, received several awards and was named a Best Book of 2007 by the New York Times First published in Oslo in 2003, this first English translation was published in London in 2005. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1814, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Minor cover soiling, corner and edge wear. Minor stains along binding on front and back end paper. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding. Gilt top edge.
Softcover. Tokyo, Genko-sha, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of art and graphic design work by Pater Sato. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Tchou, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period. Publishers complimentary card laid in. Small tan stain to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2nd Printing, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover. Stated on copyright page: "New Edition, March 1966". Minor foxing to top edge. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear along edges. Small pea sized stains at very bottom of pages 152 through 159. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 384 pages, b&w photos throughout. Over 2000 photos and other trivial knowledge. From 1946 to 1983, nostalgia covered year by year with commentary. Milton Berle (Mr. TV), Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Ed Sullivan, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Martin and Lewis and all the others. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. The au pair for the Porter family, Haitian-born Simone, becomes witness to the family's casual cruelty, observing the activities of Rosemary, a sculptor, her philandering husband, her mercurial friends, and her strange children. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Zurich/NY, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. 223 pages. Foreword by James H. Billington. Text by Leah Bendavid-Val. Includes images by Max Alpert, Dmitri Debakov, Georgy Lipskerov, Max Penson, Leonid Shokin, Esther Burley, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, and numerous others. Afterword by Philip Brookman and with biographies of the photographers. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 351 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 2nd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 161 pages. An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanov's stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, his life continues to unravel. Populated with unforgettable characters?including Alikhanov's fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky, and the KGB officer Belyaev? Pushkin Hills ranks among Dovlatov's renowned works The Suitcase and The Zone as his most personal and poignant portrayal of the Russian attitude towards life and art.
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