Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with brown cloth spine. 246 pages, Includes black and white illustrations, appendices, chronology, index. "Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), the American modernist painter, was also a prolific writer who published dozens of essays and reviews and several volumes of poetry and prose. Yet the revealing memoir he wrote about his own life and relationships has remained unpublished until now." Transcribed from Hartley1s own handwritten manuscripts, this edition is accompanied by photographs (some never before published), notes, and an introduction discussing Hartley1s fascination with autobiography in the context of his struggle with notions of self-representation in art. Susan Ryan also describes the circumstances surrounding the composition of Somehow a Past, and explains the distinctions between this original version and two later ones also in the Beinecke Library. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sixty years after the 1963 March on Washington, blacks and whites are still trying to achieve Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic dream of racial inclusion. What ever happened to integration? What happened to the vision of a single, shared community in which both blacks and whites would feel they belong? Barriers have fallen; prejudice is abating. Blacks have made astonishing progress in many areas. Yet if anything, King's vision seems more remote than ever, and most Americans, black and white, remain divided by anger and mistrust. In Someone Else's House, Tamar Jacoby asks what happened to the King dream, calling the nation back to its most hopeful and promising ideal of race relations. Moving beyond the stale blame game of left and right, Jacoby uses history to show what's worked and what hasn't. Her story of the unfinished struggle for integration leads through the volatile worlds of New York in the 1960s, the center of liberal idealism about race; Detroit in the 1970s, under the city's first black mayor, Coleman Young; and Atlanta in the 1980s and 1990s, ruled by a coalition of white businessmen and black politicians. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there some 35 years, bringing up a little girl who later becomes a victim of experimental biological warfare. Despite being set in China, Smith had never traveled there before writing the novel, the background gleaned from extensive research at the British Library amongst other places. An exciting novel set in a China almost unknown to the outside world, a chilling account of an army deserter living through a Cultural Revolution. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, William R. Scott , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Illustrated with black line drawings by Mary D. Shipman.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 2nd Printing, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 1980 Second Printing. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page opposite title page, Also - INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR TOM FEELINGS on same page. Black & white illustrations by Tom Feelings. Faint foxing to endpapers, small moisture stain at very bottom right corner of pages. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges, areas of rubbing - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, illustrated in 2-colors by Mordicai Gerstein. When the words Werewolf Power mysteriously appear on the school blackboard, all the children are frightened. Only days before Halloween there are terrifying screams and haunting sounds surrounding the classroom. Jill and Gwen know there's something queer happening. This is their spookiest case ever. What will the detectives discover? Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Willy Pogany. Black cloth with titles and decoration in silver. Black & white paste down on front cover is intact. Clear plastic cover protecting boards. Pages are clean, unmarked. No slipcase. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, oblong, 83 pages. Black & white & red woodcut illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket price-clipped, shows some wear and chipping at edges.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 99 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Full color and black & white illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Cloth covers rubbed along spine edges and corners. Pages clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1sr, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in faded blue boards with a black cloth spine, title label on front cover. 138 pages, humorous poetry with fabulous b/w illustrations by Stuart Hay. The author was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. Despite cover fading, a clean, tight copy.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,150 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marvin Friedman. What happens when Pinch and Sorrow Nix tend to an injured crane and try to protect it from The Zoo Man and others who want the bird for their own profit.
Softcover. NY, Harper Prism, ist proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers with black type. This is a Uncorrected Proof of the author's 14th book in the Discworld Series. The Discworld, a rich and evolving fantasy land comprised of interlinking sub-series of novels, is Pratchett's legacy. Like new, no markings. The first US hardcover trade edition was published in 1995. Rear cover with small wrinkle near spine. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scibner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, color frontis, 82 black & white photos by Dan Weiner. Dust jacket with chunks gone from all edges, closed tears. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. color and black and white pictures throughout. Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these shops, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.
Hardcover. US, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. color and Black and white pictures throughout. Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these shops, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 230 pages. Cultural commentary and autobiography of life in Alabama. The euthor's second book.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 303 pages, black & white photos and maps. Name on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean.
Hardcover. Vancouver, CN, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like New. Black & white illustrations. Harcover in a bright dust jacket, 302 Pages.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 65 pages, black cloth covers, in an unclipped dust jacket that has light fading to spine.. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1935, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacker. Red cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine. Spine is worn and faded. End papers have green and white map design. Very good condition overall.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st illust thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt with color pastedown on front cover. Color frontis and cover plate, 5 b&w plates by Manning deV. Lee. Name on front fly leaf, light scuff to cover otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Top edge dyed. Some underlining throughout. Deckled edges. Blue cover boards, black title on spine and front cover board.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright yellow paper covered boards printed and decorated in black. Illustrated endpapers. 146 pages, Penfield's graphic impressions of Spain, including the bull fights. With 28 tipped-in color illustrations of various sizes throughout the text. A very good or somewhat better copy spine a bit soiled, edges a bit dusty but overall a handsome copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative blue cloth with gilt lettering and red and black stamped designs. 444 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. Over 100 b&w illustrations by the Harper stable of artists: mostly Thure de Thulstrup along with a number of maps. Front cover with small area of discoloration, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise clean, binding solid.