Hardcover. St Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this book lush, life-like illustrations by natural history artist Laurie Caple accompany Cheryl Blackford's poetic imagining of a year in the life of an urban coyote. Across the pages, Coyote sneaks, skulks, and scurries in his constant quest to feed himself and his growing family. While Coyote hunts nearby, people enjoy a city park. At the lake, in the marsh, among the trees, children jump, twirl, and play, oblivious to his secret life. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Signet/ New American Library, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. Celebrated American photographer David Douglas Duncan's broadside on Khe Sanh, Vietnam, on behalf of "the men who will never get out, for whom help came too late." Incredible photographs by the author. An important document of the war, much sought-after and scarce. As issued, in stiff paper covers, a clean, unmarked copy. First Printing, April 1968 (stated). Red spine faded, interior is bright, clean. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with light blue lettering and a paste-down illustration on front cover. 226 pages, advice book for turn-of-20th Century modern girls. These "talks" first appeared in The Delineator under the pen-name Priscilla Wakefield. This book is a collection of 35 of those talks with the aim of self improvement. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 88 pages. Clean copy. First Printing stated.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel, a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean. There is some light soil, foxing to the dust jacket.
Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with sunning to spine. No markings, light foxing to top of text block.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, cardboard slipcase. 214 pages with 75 mounted color plates, and 100 in-text illustrations. An important study, in which Salmi has gathered works of all schools of miniature painting, much of which had never been published before. Clean copy. Slipcase with minor tape repair. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, 12 color plates. February 7 - March 9, 1991. Introduction by Elizabeth Frank. Plates, biography, bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 516 pages. A biography of a brilliant literary figure, a poet, critic, political and social reformer of mid-nineteenth century America. Clean copy.
Softcover. Utica NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow, stapled wrapper w/ black printing & illustration. 24 unpaginated pages with introduction & b&w illustrations. A very nice, amusing catalogue of the Scottish engraver and caricaturist's work. Limited to 2,000 copies. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 356 pages. Eleanor Roosevelt called her one of the most influential women in America. Among the earliest and most assertive members of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee, Dorothy Canfield Fisher helped define literary taste in America for more than three decades. She helped shape the careers of such great writers as Pearl Buck, Isak Dinesen, and Richard Wright. A best-selling author herself, Fisher was also a deeply committed social activist. In Keeping Fires Night and Day, Mark J. Madigan collects much of Fisher's copious correspondence. With letters to Willa Cather, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Margaret Mead, James Thurber, and E.B. White, he documents Fisher's personal and professional life and career in a way that no biography could. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Honolulu HI, Kamahoi Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrated throughout. A story set in Hawaii in 1847. When he becomes lost in the forest while attending the king's luau in Honolulu, a young boy hears the singing snails for the first time. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, b&w photographs throughout. In 1929, Lee Miller, already a legendary fashion model, left the United States to study photography in Paris. Here she became the disciple and lover of Man Ray, and she was soon taking on both portrait and fashion assignments for Vogue and running her own studio. The Second World War saw her as Vogue's war correspondent: she covered the siege of Saint Malo, the liberation of Paris, and the entry of the U.S. Army into the Dachau concentration camp. Her later years were spent in London and Sussex with her husband, the painter and writer Roland Penrose. During her extraordinary life, Miller came into contact with an astonishing range of painters, sculptors, actors, writers, musicians, fashion designers, and socialites. Many became her friends and the subjects of her penetrating portraits. The finest of these photographs are collected together here, along with a selection of portraits of Miller herself, taken by other photographers. The images include not only Miller's highly perceptive and sympathetic studies of Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, and others but also her pictures of unsung individuals engaged in war work and powerful photographs of victims and perpetrators of Nazi oppression. 157 duotone illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 560 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. The colorful life of America's foremost literary adventurer, soldier, Governor and author of 'Ben Hur', General Lew Wallace, 1827-1905.
Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Book Store, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Rare early 26 page analysis of the films of Ms. Gish. Frontispiece portrait of Lillian Gish. Light blue wrappers printed in black within decorative border with same vignette. The author, Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004), was an American literary critic who also wrote on film. He received his PH.D. in 1932 from the University of Washington, where he taught from 1925 to 1943. This was his first published work. Clean copy.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., Wall Street Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. INSCRIBED BY JOYCE ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black laminate covers, perfect binding, large b&w photograph of poet to front cover, one large b&w plate. Light rubbing to covers, page block crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth (sunned on spine), 455 pages. Translated with an introduction by Nancy Metzel. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, The Studio, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, gray boards with black lettering, mustard cloth spine with paper label. Numerous illustrations, several in color, some folding. text pages are tanning, plates are bright. Explores the history of London, richly illustrated with maps and color plates. Light pencil name to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Hantsport NS, Lancelot Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. The appendix is a 15 page list of Loyalists giving their residence in Nova Scotia, their nationality, American residence and their occupation. Includes articles on such subjects as Col. James Delancey, Nathan Pushie , the Black Loyalists, etc., etc. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Corinth Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 47 pages, limited to 1500 copies. The cover design is from a collage by Joe Brainard. Crease to bottom corner of front cover, clean copy.
Softcover. London/NY, Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with glassine dust wrapper. Unpaginated but well over 100 pages. First printing of the second volume of Olson's poetic opus. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Brewer & Warren, 1st US, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with green cloth spine, 494 pages. A scholarly biography of the great French dramatist, b&w illustrations. Light shelf wear. Top of spine has some fading/sunning, no markings.
Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st UK, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with blue titles to spine and drawing on front. 312 pages, 10 b&w plates by Nicolas Bentley. A marvelous collection by one of America's most colorful and gifted writers. Contents: Breach of promise -- Romance in the roaring forties -- Dream street rose -- The old doll's house -- Blood pressure -- The bloodhounds of Broadway -- Tobias the terrible -- The snatching of bookie bob -- The lily of st. pierre -- Hold 'em yale! -- Earthquake -- "Gentlemen, the king!" -- A nice price -- Broadway financier -- The brain goes home. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean. Mild shelfwear.