Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Collects, for the first time in book form, more than two hundred of Ettlinger's most famous photographs. Immortalized in these pages are many of America's greatest writers, including Raymond Carver, Francine Prose, Walter Mosley, Mary Karr, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Patricia Highsmith, Ken Kesey, Edwidge Danticat, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Shot exclusively in natural light and in black-and-white film, each of these images is an intimate artwork, putting the reader closer than ever before to the writers they revere and admire. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Black Dog & Leventhal,, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose work captures the essence of 200 of our most prominent writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets.Beowulf Sheehan is considered to be his generation's foremost literary portrait photographer, having made portraits of the literary luminaries of our time across the globe, from Roxane Gay to Masha Gessen, Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard to J.K. Rowling, and Jonathan Franzen to Toni Morrison. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Covers show standard wear with light rubbing.
Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Messrs. Luzac & Co., 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set. Hardcovers. Domestic shipping only. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Vol. 1: 374 pages; Vol. 2: 217 pages. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Volume 2 has fading to spine. Pages unmarked. Spines straight. Binding tight. An important Islamic philosophical treatise in which the author defends the use of Aristotelian philosophy within Islamic thought. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Features black & white cartoons by Barney Tobey. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with a drawing of baby elephant on front cover. Illustrated in red and black by Leonard Weisgard. A Christmas tale featuring Baby Elephant's secret wishes for the holidays. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with a drawing of baby elephant on front cover. Illustrated in blue and black by Leonard Weisgard. Baby Elephant & his mother imagine traveling to France where he uses lots of new French words that he has learned. Text includes many French words/phrases. Covers show wear and soil. Inside front cover with an inscription, otherwise interior is bright and clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Covers with light rubbing, dime size area of darkening on front cover. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, Unknown, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Glazed cardboard covers in black and orange. Black cloth spine. Decorated end papers. Nice, clean condition with moderate chipping and wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.
Philadelphia, Muhlenberg Press, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white woodcut illustrations by the author. 108 pages, a collection of humorous animal stories from the Old Testament. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages, 27 b&w illustrations, index. Black cloth spine over blue boards, spine label. SIGNED BY BEAUX on the title page and dated June 1st 1931. Scarce thus.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Has black & white photos scattered throughout. A wild ride inside the glowing head of Dennis Rodman--the NBA's greatest rebounder and America's most outspoken and outrageous athlete. At a time when most celebrities and professional athletes try to control their public persona like politicians and refrain from expressing their true beliefs, Dennis Rodman is a refreshingly unique, uncompromising individual who both transcends his world and refuses to conform to it. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Erik Blegvad. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Hardcover. Front hinge tender. Top edge stained red.Small spot of discoloration at bottom right corner of front cover; small black spot at front cover hinge/spine edge. An early Max Brand spy adventure written under his Frost pseudonym.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Joseph A. Smith. Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of "Yankee" riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Joseph A. Smith. Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of "Yankee" riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover, 64 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white by Christine Chisholm. Previous owners signature on top right corner of front endpaper. Light rubbing to corners of covers and top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 254 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean and bright except for faded spine lettering.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st UK, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black with a color pastedown label on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignettes and 8 plates by Seton. The work follows the story of a gray squirrel that was raised by a farm cat but is forced to learn how to survive in the woods after his home catches on fire. The work was later adapted into a children's Japanese anime series in 1979. Corners with light bumps, no marking.
Softcover. Millbank, Tate Gallery Publications, Reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Softcover. Light marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Cover photograph of the artist's workshop in full color. Clean & unmarked.