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Hardcover. Koln GR, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Nature Notes. Sketches and drawings from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University.) Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 1993. 219 pages with many color illustrations. Previous owner'e inscription on front fly leaf. Light fading to spine. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing. 

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. One of Peter Beard's most ambitious and evocative publications, (first published in 1975) reconstructing the vanished world of colonial Kenya through the recollections of Kamante Gatura, Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen's) longtime cook and majordomo on the Karen Coffee Farm. Recorded by Beard over a period of twelve years and translated from Swahili by Kamante's sons, the narratives combine autobiography, Kikuyu folklore, animal fables, and vivid recollections of daily life on the farm, interwoven with quotations from Dinesen's writings. The text is complemented by an extraordinary visual archive of previously unpublished photographs from the collections of Isak and Thomas Dinesen, together with Beard's own photographs documenting the rapidly disappearing landscapes and wildlife of East Africa, as well as Kamante's original drawings and watercolors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 574 pages. The short stories of Tennessee Willliams, beginning with "The Vengeance Of Nitocris," his first published effort at age seventeen which appeared in Weird Tales magazine. Includes a number of stories previously unpublished or uncollected in book form including "The Man In The Overstuffed Chair," an autobiographical account of Williams' early life. Introduction by longtime friend Gore Vidal. Paper tanning slightly, Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A nine-month-old fetus witnesses their mother Trudy's betrayal of their father John, as she and her lover Claude plot murder in a valuable London townhouse. Nutshell is the 14th novel by the English author. It alludes to William Shakespeare's Hamlet and re-imagines the plot from the perspective of an unborn fetus in London in 2015. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Tells the story of Leonard Marnham, a twenty-five-year-old British Post Office engineer who has been recruited to work in Berlin in the mid-1950s as part of Operation Gold, a joint Anglo-American top secret project which involved building a tunnel under the Russian sector of Berlin in order to tap communication lines. When Leonard falls in love with an older German divorcee, Maria Eckdorf, their relationship soon becomes entangled with the operation with far-reaching consequences. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, BC Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a gold foil slipcase, 319 pages. 50th Anniversary Edition, originally published in 1937. The definitive edition of The Hobbit, the basis of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and illustrated by Tolkien. A bright copy in golden boards stamped in red and green gilt. Green endpapers. Light orange topstain with full color plates and other illustrations by the author and with a Foreword by Christopher Tolkien. The Book Club edition as indicated by the small embossed square on the rear board. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Madison WI, Roger H. Hunt, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 242 pages with b&w illustrations. A gripping account of a nearly fatal moment in American history, offering an in-depth look at the 1912 shooting of Theodore Roosevelt. Compiled and edited by those closest to the events, this book details the actions, motivations, and aftermath of the gunman, John Flammang Schrank, and the heroic resilience of Roosevelt himself. Enhanced by photographs and firsthand accounts, readers are transported to early 20th-century America, witnessing the profound impact of this incident on Roosevelt and the nation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. LaJolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 193 pages abundantly illustrated with Carl Larsson's paintings. A beautiful collection of work from Swedish painter Carl Larsson, known for representing the Arts and Crafts movement with his diverse works that include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. Small tear to paper at base of spine, clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, Auad Publishing, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944) was an American illustrator whose drawings of society life defined the Gatsby era. He rose from school dropout at age 12 to esteemed Saturday Evening Post illustrator within the span of two decades. During his nearly forty-year career, Raleigh served as one of the highest paid newspaper and magazine artists in the United States, the lithographer behind many of the United States' government's iconic World War I propaganda posters, and arguably the most prominent story illustrator of the Jazz Age.

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 151 pages. Illustrated story of the revolution of the axe and its varied uses with photos from the author's collection and museums. Identifies the great variety of North American axes, dating from the Colonial period to the present. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1916-1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes. Illustrated throughout with plates. Dark green cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spines. Top edge gilt. Small contemporary inscription in ink on the front free endpaper of Vol. 1 only. Volume I (1916): Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker, 1755-1788 Volume II (1916): Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman, 1789-1801 Volume III (1919): Conflict and Construction, 1800-1815 Volume IV (1919): The Building of the Nation, 1815-1835. An attractive set in very good condition. This is a heavy set and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. Layton UT, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages. Rand's life unfolds in images, dialogue, and music in this "loving--but not fawning--documentary look at this fascinating figure of the 20th-century intellectual life" ("The Washington Post"). 32 color photos. 125 halftones. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ontario CAN, ECW Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 229 pages, b&w illustrations. An authoritative insight into the life of the man most film fans consider the "one and only" Tarzan - Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller. This book offers an intimate look at Weissmuller's early life, middle years, and later decline, through swimming training, Olympic triumphs, failed marriages, a Hollywood life as Tarzan of the Apes, and subsequent career as Jungle Jim. Written by his only son, this biography is a sensitive yet unsentimental portrayal of the man who was Tarzan to movie fans around the world. Johnny Junior's inside perspective on his father's life and career includes interviews with his father's celebrity friends and former wives, recollections of conversations with his father over the years, and family stories involving international icons such as Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Robert Mitchum, Joe Louis, and many others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, W. Isbister & Co., Revised Ed., 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering on the spine, 526 pages. New and Enlarged Edition. Frontis. and 17 plates in front section. This late 19th-century polemical study argues that the Great Pyramid of Giza encodes cosmic measurements and biblical chronology, serving as a sacred universal standard rather than a conventional Egyptian tomb. Smyth surveys base and height proportions, true-north orientation, and the King's Chamber coffer to contend that a pyramid-inch-based metrology aligns with Earth's axis, the solar year, and universal constants, while critiquing the French metre system. Drawing on archaeologists, surveyors, and biblical exegesis, the work blends archaeology, astronomy, and national-religious commentary and presents a Messianic reading that links pyramid geometry to prophetic time and to Christ. The narrative frames metrology as divinely instituted and urges British standards over continental metricization. It lays groundwork for later parts, arguing that the pyramid embodies timeless knowledge with implications for science, religion, and national destiny. Binding a little loose, but holding.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, 351 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. Foraker's husband, Joseph Benson Foraker, served as both Governor of Ohio and a U.S. Senator from The Buckeye State. His wife presided over their homes -a hostess in the vortex of wealth and power. Graceful, forth-right, and sensible, her book throws many illuminating rays of light on the events of the 80s, 90s, and the early 1900s, and on the people behind the events, including two chapters on the Brownsville affair, in which President Roosevelt discharged without honor a battalion of negro soldiers for allegedly shooting up the town of Brownsville, Texas. Includes interesting recollections of Mark Hanna's rise to power, the Brownsville incident, and the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. Shelfworn, faded spine.

Hardcover. Prospect NY, Prospect Books , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket with a chunk gone from the front panel, 141 pages, 16 b&w photos by Royal G. Bird. Stated First Edition. Previous owners notation and name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. np, privately printed, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled pamphlet, 32 pages. A day-by-day account of the infamous Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as broadcasted by Gabriel Heatter over the radio. Lightly chipped, no markings.

Hardcover. Coral Gables FL, privately printed, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a tribute to George Merrick and the development of Coral Gables as a destination mecca for travelers and investors in real estate. A shameless promotional piece but attractively illustrated by Wilson. Paper on spine is peeling, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 280 pages illustrated in b&w. Jack Davis and Wallace Wood's crazed cartooning in Mad changed the art form, and comedy itself, forever. But their gonzo parody work in Mad's sister satire title, Panic, published at the same time, is less well-known. To invert that injustice, this volume of The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library presents all their zany, pun-packed Panic lampoonery, especially their pomposity-puncturing movie parodies, including Davis's "My Gun Is the Jury!" "Come Back, Little Street Car!", "A Star Is Corn" and Wood's "African Scream!", "Gone With The Widow," and "20,000 Leaks Under The Sea." These visual volleys are verbalized by Al Feldstein (editor of Panic, later editor of Mad) and Jack Mendelsohn (prolific cartoonist and writer whose non-comics credits include TV's Laugh-In and The Beatles' Yellow Submarine). But the laughs don't languish. Also included is the never-before-reprinted "V-Vampires," a riotous romp written by the legendary Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by Wood that vanished after its initial appearance more than 70 years ago! CLEAN COPY.

Softcover. Jim Davidson, JD Press, reprint, 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 5 X 7", b&w illustrations. Meet Mopsy -- that funny, sexy, slightly dingy (yet impishly clever) maid of mirth! Conceived by brilliant cartoonist Gladys Parker, Mopsy was a joke-a-day panel that captivated readers for three decades. This "best of" collection (originally published in 1945) comprises cartoons that originally appeared in newspapers during the war years (1942 to 1945), when Parker was at her creative peak. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Book Palace, 1st, 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 10 X 13", 102 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Reprints the original Thun'da King of the Congo comic book by Frank Frazetta, with remastered vintage colors. Also included is the whole comic in black and white to better appreciate Frazetta's fine line work. Plus samples of the original artwork, some reproduced at actual size. Also showcases some of his work for Magazine Enterprises, the publisher of the original Thun'da comics, plus the history behind this comic and other related works that may have inspired the series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Living The Line, 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. The first of a three-volume series dedicated to the complete bibliography of perhaps America's greatest-ever cartoonist, the incomparable Charles Dana Gibson. This first book in The Complete Charles Dana Gibson will present the most beloved and long-form of Gibson's influential graphic-novel works, The Education of Mr. Pip, Americans Drawn By and A Widow and Her Friends. The book features stunning reproduction, laboriously sourced and restored from the best possible sources, gorgeous printing that gives unparalleled insight into why Gibson was one of America's greatest artistic and cultural exports during the decades in which he worked. The book also includes a long biographical essay by series editor and production artist Sean Michael Robinson that contextualizes Gibson's work for a modern audience, illuminating his progressive politics, his wry humor, and the explosive mark-making that influenced generations of fine artists and illustrators. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 1st, 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 247 pages illustrated in color. The man Stan Lee dubbed "Rascally Roy" and "Roy the Boy" tells the full, uncensored story of his emergence as one of the brightest stars in the Marvel Comics firmament! It's all here, starting with his Midwestern beginnings devouring the late, great Golden Age of Comics, to the glorious flowering of comics fandom during the first half of the 1960s (including the 1961 founding of Alter Ego and all that that first super-hero fanzine spawned). Roy details his brief and turbulent time as editorial assistant of DC's "Superman" titles under Mort Weisinger, and the pivotal first year-plus of his career at Marvel, working with Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita, Bill Everett, and some of the brightest stars of the Marvel Age of Comics! Clean copy.