NY, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations. 442 pages. The story of the popular Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The legendary Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the gleeful wonder and cumulative joy that transcended the crude drawings and occasionally muddy sound. Jay Ward was the magnificent visionary, the outrageous showman, while Bill Scott was the genial, brilliant head writer, coproducer, and all-purpose creative whirlwind. With exclusive interviews, original scripts, artwork, story notes, letters and memos, Keith Scott has written the definitive history of Jay Ward Productions.
Softcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 174 pages. This catalog, featuring 130 b&w illustrations and 40 color plates cover almost all of Graves major paintings. This is a very nice and clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Morris Lapidus, the famous mid-century architect, outraged the architectural profession and riled critics with an architecture that was popularly embraced. His Miami Beach resort hotels - the Fontainebleau, the Eden Roc, and the Bal Harbour Sheraton - are synonymous with the glamour of Miami Beach in the 50s. Lapidus hotels are infamous as the stomping grounds of the Rat Pack and their fellow movie stars. Yet, during his life he was never published in architectural magazines and was discredited by the architectural profession - before undergoing a renaissance as a prophet of postmodernism. This book establishes the importance of his work and offers private insights into a man who once said why be exotic in private?
Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. The Morgenthaus were one of those German-Jewish families who broke through the snobbish anti-Semitism of the wasp mainstream in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to be a force in American public life. This is a charming, intimate portrayal of three fascinating generations in American history. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Verso, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, bright dust jacket. Seven pages with ink underlining in the text; Includes contemporary photographs. In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and took them thousands of miles, all the way from Argentina to Venezuela. En route, there were disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy, fights, parties and a lot of serious drinking.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st thus, 1968, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Astonishing autobiography of a woman who married at 12, had two children by age 15 or 16, then widowed after the birth of her 2nd child and spends a dozen or so years searching for her husband's murderer, posing as a man most of the time. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. This is Brigit Brophy's original 1964 edition (she later revisited it in 1988) of her profoundly original and controversial psychoanalytic study of Mozart's five most famous operas. 328 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. Schirmer Reference, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 271 pages. The last decade of Mozart's short but amazingly prolific career counts as one of the most remarkable periods--truly golden years--in the history of Western music. Richly illustrated with contemporary paintings and engravings and authoritatively written, this book provides a vivid account of the composer's life in the European music capital, Vienna, from 1781 to 1791. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, First Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages. Hardcover. Full color & bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 598 pages, b&w and color illustrations. In 1827 the young Edward Lear (1812-1888) began to draw 'for bread and cheese'; later he became a renowned wildlife and landscape artist and, later still, the author of the famous limericks and songs. Reproducing many of his paintings and drawings, Jenny Uglow's critically acclaimed biography describes Lear the artist, traveler, writer of nonsense verse and self-appointed exile, and aims to discover 'how the layers are laid down, how they overlap and twist like strata' in a strange contradictory life of art and nonsense. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with blue and gilt stamping, 461 pages. This biography disclosed for the first time one of the strangest love stories of the Victorian age, as recorded one of the most remarkable private diaries of the 19th century. During his lifetime Munby was known as a versifier of small but distinctive talents, a barrister concerned primarily with ecclesiastical affairs, and a fashionable bachelor about town. At his death in 1910, Munby bequeathed to Trinity College, Cambridge three deed boxes full of diaries and personal documents. It is largely on the contents of these boxes that this biography is based. For Munby had a lifelong obsession with the whole sub world of female manual workers - colliery women, fishergirls, milkwomen, acrobats- women whose company he furtively pursued, whose photographs he avidly collected, and one of whom, a char woman called Hannah, he secretly married & kept as his unacknowledged wife for a quarter of a century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London , Royal Academy of Arts, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Contains color illustrations of Edvard Munch's artwork. Dust jacket with small bump to rear corner. Otherwise very good.
Paperback. East Middlebury, VT, Amandla Publishing , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Photographic cover by Fred Cray.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt ship stamped on cover in upper left-hand corner, gilt title on spine. 338 pages with 13 full page illustrations, 7 text illustrations, 4 text maps & 7 attractive color maps, some folding. Ex-library with bookplate on front fly leaf, lettered number on spine, otherwise a tight, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The America Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 180 pages, blue cloth with gilt lettering. Scores of glossy B&W photographs from the air and ground. Maps of Alaska on both sets of end papers with airplane and dog team routes. First edition of this Jesuit priest's 1600 mile expedition memoir about mushing down the Yukon River, visiting Jesuit Missions, and into the erupting Aniackchak Crater. Accounts first published in The Saturday Evening Post. This is an ex-library copy with stamping and residue to endpapers, but clean and tight inside.
Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 509 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda, gave him away. Within 24 hours he was executed by his captors, joining those he sent early to their graves as an outcome of his tyranny, at least one million people. Bosworth's Mussolini allows us to come closer than ever before to an appreciation of the life and actions of the man and of the political world and society within which he operated. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, this biography paints a picture of brutality and failure, yet one tempered with an understanding of Mussolini as a human being, not so different from many of his contemporaries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Westport CT, Meckler Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 253 pages, b&w photos. An autobiographical account of his 50-year career in baseball, from his first game as a rookie in the minors to his final game as a manager in the majors. MacPhail discusses his experiences as a player, coach, and manager, as well as his views on the game and his interactions with other players and coaches.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue color with gilt stamping. 365 pages, frontispiece portrait and sixteen photographs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INITIALED BY ELLROY on blank prelim page. In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother - and himself. In MY DARK PLACES, our most uncompromising crime writer - author of AMERICAN TABLOID and WHITE JAZZ - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 336 pages. This single-volume selection of the letters of Margaret Fuller affords a unique opportunity for renewed acquaintance with a great American thinker of the Transcendentalist circle. The letters represent Fuller at all stages of her life and career, and show her engaged as literary critic, as translator and as champion of German literature and thought, as teacher, as travel writer, as literary editor, as journalist, as feminist, as revolutionary, as wife and mother. My Heart Is a Large Kingdom, unlike previous collections, includes only letters transcribed from Fuller's manuscripts and does not reproduce correspondence known only from printed sources and copies in hands other than Fuller's. Among the recipients of the letters in this generous selection are such literary and cultural figures as Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giovanni Angelo Ossoli (Fuller's husband), George Ripley, and Henry David Thoreau. Taken together, the letters serve as a chronicle of Fuller's lifetime and provide glimpses into her thoughts and feelings during the years of the "Conversations," Dial, and the revolution in Rome. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st UK, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages. 3rd volume of the autobiography of this celebrated thinker and writer on philosophical and metaphysical matters. The greater part deals with the period he spent in England, in Oxford, Cambridge and elsewhere, and his circle of brilliant friends and acquaintances.