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Softcover. NY, Regan Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages illustrated in b&w. Claudia Corvette. From her tousled bedroom hair to her name-all the porn stars in this world take their names from supermodels and sports cars-she is adult entertainment's prototypical femme fatale. Her life is the collision of countless troubled-childhood cliches and grown-up wet dreams, projected onto her as surely as her videos project their blue light onto lonely men around the world. From its first panel, How to Make Money Like a Porn Star draws the reader into the dark world of girls like Claudia, the men who fantasize about them, and the monsters who control them. In the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, pictorial boards, 319 pages illustrated in b&w. Royston Campbell Crane (1901-1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, created the comic-strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. His work continues to inspire cartoonists today. A collection of his classic Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs. The very best of the indispensable daily comic strip adventures featuring Wash running a dinky railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, the gripping narrative of Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates in the South Seas, and the harrowing story of Easy and Wash as prisoners on the infamous Devil's Island. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages. His second collection of short stories - 'quick and precise. . . obsessed with city life and the sexual body/erotic mind.' (His first collection was nominated for the National Book Award and this was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the six best works of fiction published that year). Price sticker on front flap otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 40 pages illustrated in color by Steven Kellogg. A fantastic book about the math of saving money featuring Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician.

Hardcover. London, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 270 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Self-reflection by celebrities tends to be fraught with unmentionable difficulties. Not, though, when the star in question is the ever intelligent, self-aware, articulate, and magnificent Isabella Rossellini. For years, a wall in the entrance of Rossellini's apartment has been covered in pictures taken of her by different photographers. Looking at the "Me Wall," Rossellini writes that she never really saw herself; instead she "saw the photographer's work, their ideas, and our collaboration in capturing fantasies." Looking at Me gathers together Rossellini's private collection of portraits taken of herself by some of the world's leading photographers, including Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Michel Comte, Patrick Demarchelier, Fabrizio Ferri, Horst P. Horst, Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth, and Bruce Weber, as well as filmmakers David Lynch and Wim Wenders. Rossellini invites us to join her as she looks at her favorite portraits, privileging us with her witty, humorous, and self-ironical comments. She traces her career, in photographs, from boxing reporter in Muhammad Ali's training camp to highly successful model, from actress in some of Hollywood's more controversial films to head of her own cosmetic line, Manifesto. Mixed in with these public images are pictures of Rossellini in private, with her children, her dog Macaroni, and her pig Spanky. Irresistibly charming, intelligent yet whimsical, Looking At Me proves the perfect complement to Rossellini herself.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawing is what Ramon does. It's what makes him happy. But in one split second, all that changes. A single reckless remark by Ramon's older brother, Leon, turns Ramon's carefree sketches into joyless struggles. Luckily for Ramon, though, his little sister, Marisol, sees the world differently. She opens his eyes to something a lot more valuable than getting things just "right." Combining the spareness of fable with the potency of parable, Peter Reynolds shines a bright beam of light on the need to kindle and tend our creative flames with care. INSCRIBED BY REYNOLDS with a small sketch on the half-title page. Clean.

Hardcover. Feral House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy illustrated paper covered boards, no jacket. B/W and Color images and reproductions throughout.

Softcover. St. Louis, Washington University Libraries, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages in stapled wrappers. An exhibit of printed materials and manuscripts drawn from the Modern Literature Collection of Washington University. Illustrated. Clean copy.

Softcover. St. Louis, Washington University Libraries, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. First edition. From an edition of 1500 copies. Small quarto. illustrated wrappers. 40 pages. With many facsimiles of pages from James Merrill manuscripts, correspondence, etc. Includes short essays on several different aspects of his work as well. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham, Eng, Royal College of Surgeons, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bradshaw Lecture for 1894: A Study of His [Syme's] Influence and Authority on the Science and Art of Surgery During that Period. Syme was a leading surgeon of his day in Edinburgh's golden age of surgery. He was a master of surgical technique, a rival of Liston, a contemporary of Simpson and father-in-law and mentor of Joseph Lister. Hardcover, 27 pages. Red covers with gold lettering and decoration. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Light foxing to first and last pages. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Light soiling to rear cover, upper corner.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Klara. Johnny was lonesome for a playmate. He went to heaven to tell St. Peter his wish and St. Peter promised to send him a baby sister. Just after Christmas his baby sister arrives. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, Light bump to top corner.

Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light to moderate soil on blue fabric covers. Internally clean, and bright. Illustrations in b&w by Susan Perl. Tight copy.

Softcover. Tokyo, Photographer's Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcovers in a cardboard slipcover. Unpaginated. All illustrations, mostly in color, with some b&w. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Photographers' Gallery, Tokyo, October 23 - 25, 2003. Clean copies.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, In the early 1950s, Katie Takeshima and her family live in Iowa, where her parents own a Japanese supermarket. When the store goes out of business in 1956, the family moves from Iowa to an apartment in Georgia, where Katie's parents work at a chicken hatchery with other Japanese families. Hardcover, 244 pages. Newbery Award winner. Very good pictorial dust jacket without award medal present, unclipped. SIGNED NEWBERY AWARD BOOKMARK ENCLOSED signed "Cynthia".

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes. Van Twiller Edition, with b&w illustrations by Edward W. Kemble throughout both volumes. In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's point of view, A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch rule in the 1600s that plays fast and loose with the facts, to uproarious effect. A History of New York propelled Irving to the heights of literary stardom. Gilt and blue design on beveled covers, spine. Top edge gilt, decorated pages, frontispiece with tissue guard. Slight corner bump, edge wear, age darkening to spine, otherwise,very clean and tight copies.

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gazed boards, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w. French text. Small chip to spine otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 302 pages. Celebrated Author Roger Angell has warmly Inscribed to an friend and signed on the title page ("For Carl - All best, Roger Angell ". The book contains the childhood baseball recollections from America's premier observer of the world of baseball and life. Angell was the long time contributor to The New Yorker. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk from a portrait painted by Robert M. Sully at Fort Monroe in 1833. This book was originally published in 1833 (dictated by Chief Black Hawk to his translator, Antoine Leclair) and was an immediate best seller. A no holds barred and unflinching narrative of the great Sauk leader. It includes an account of the cause and general history of the Black Hawk War. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Child Guidance Books, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Includes five pages with moving figures under cellophane (figures move automatically as book is opened or pages are turned.) Illustrated by Liz Dauber. Oblong format. Very good in glossy illustrated boards. No markings. No date but appears to 1970s.

Hardcover. Library of American Comics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, 336 pages. In Alley Oop, Hamlin created a unique concept, marrying his fascination with dinosaurs and prehistoric times to a rollicking style of storytelling and drawing that was simultaneously serious, fantastic, and loaded with slapstick. The series was set in the kingdom of Moo and starred Alley Oop, the club-wielding caveman, his girlfriend Ooola, friends Dinny the dinosaur and Foozy (who speaks in rhyme), plus Oop's rival, King Guz, and Guz's Queen Umpateedle. Yet Hamlin knew that the strip's horizons in Moo were limited. So it was, in early 1939, that Alley Oop and Ooola see a mysterious box and, to the utter amazement of Guz and his minions, promptly fade from view, followed by the caption: "Dear Reader: you must now say goodbye to Moo...if you are to follow Alley Oop in this strangest of many strange adventures. --V. T. Hamlin". Oop and Ooola had entered a time machine and were now living in the modern-day 20th Century! Their host was the inventor of the time machine, Dr. Elbert Wonmug! No change of such magnitude had ever occurred in a continuing newspaper strip, and readers responded enthusiastically. With every time period in history available as a backdrop, Alley Oop became even more popular. This volume features Oop's final Moo adventure, followed by his trips to the 20th Century and ancient Greece, where he and Ooola share adventures with brave Ulysses, the lovely Helen of Troy, and the mighty Hercules. V.T. Hamlin would send his characters everywhere and everywhen--but the classic Alley Oop begins with the stories contained in this volume. The book is introduced by Michael T. Price, who first met V. T. Hamlin in the 1960s and remained friendly with him for the rest of the cartoonist's life. Price also composed the musical score for Hip Pocket Theatre's production, Alley Oop.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar with very minor edge wear. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with drawing on title page.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways that were hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table, and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Enda St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colorful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all. Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers the deep historical sensitivity and interest in these women's love poetry. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.