biography

Softcover. Berkeley CA, She Writes Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages. In Hippie Chick, a rebellious teenager finds her mother dead in the bathroom. To save her from living alone with a difficult father, her older sister sends her a one-way plane ticket to leave New Jersey. Landing in San Francisco, she is thrust into a lifestyle way beyond what she is ready for, and that challenges all previous notions of how one behaves. It is 1963, and we are brought along as Ilene becomes immersed in the unfolding of the sixties during the earliest days of sexual freedom, psychedelic drugs, the jazz scene, and rock 'n' roll. This is a deeply personal story of how one young woman manages to survive and even to thrive in the face of the whirlwind of experiences coming at her. It is filled with a rich tapestry of moments that run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous, and everything in between. Clean copy.

Softcover. Electric Radio Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 - February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer, and also with developing mufflers for internal combustion engines. This is the only biography of this very remarkable man. He was a great inventor, writer, movie maker and is recognized as the father of Amateur Radio. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Brings together for the first time the artist's extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs--his influences, his techniques, his evolution from his earliest works to his last drawings, and with a biographical text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld authority, who, as archivist to the artist, worked side by side with him and has spent more than twenty years documenting the artist's extraordinary output.

Hardcover. NY, Skyhorse, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 442 pages, color illustrations. The first portrait of the renowned artist's life-as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and-his favorite-celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends-Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan-flocked in and out.

Hardcover. NY, Skyhorse, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 442 pages, color illustrations. The first portrait of the renowned artist's life-as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and-his favorite-celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends-Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan-flocked in and out.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. White cloth spine, red boards. Pictorial dust jacket. For-edge rough cut. Light wear to edges and covers, slight bump to lower edge of spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. White cloth spine, red boards. Pictorial dust jacket. For-edge rough cut. Light wear to edges and covers, slight bump to lower edge of spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Spine is slightly cracked at rear endpage. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Vermont, Town of Westminster, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Red cloth covers with white lettering, blue cloth spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, Binding cracked on page 67. Black & white photographs throughout. Vermont Sesquicentennial souvenir.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 196 pages. From the motel in Psycho and the bachelor pad in Rear Window to the blonde elegance of Tippi Hedren and Grace Kelly, this is the first book about Hitchcock to explore the great director's style, art direction, and use of fashion. Hitchcock's images reveal an aesthetic as vivid as his suspenseful subject matter. Jean-Pierre Dufreigne explores the world of Hitchcock, examining the director's unique atmospheric sensibilities. Featuring many of the actors, set and costume designers, cameramen, composers, and title creators from Hitchcock's inner circle, this stylistic study ends with a catalogue raisonne of Sir Alfred's entire oeuvre. Well illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 430 pages. In this book, backed by a wealth of new research, the author tells for the first time the story of the career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who as Pius XII was Pope during the Second World War and arguably the most powerful churchman in modern history. Adding to the continuing debate about collective guilt and the Holocaust this is an extraordinary and explosive history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young lawyer, Pacelli helped shape an ideology of unprecedented papal power; during the 1920s he employed cunning and moral blackmail to impose that power in Germany. In 1933 Hitler became his perfect negotiating partner and a concordat was established that granted religious and educational advantages to the Catholic Church in exchange for Catholic withdrawal from social and political action. This 'voluntary' abdication of political Catholicism imposed from Rome facilitated the rise of Nazism. Clean copy.

NY, Random House, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green on front, gilt on spine. 313 pages. Lacouture's biography of Ho Chi Minh examines the North Vietnamese leader's political development from his early years in France, through World War Two, and up until 1968 when this book was first published. Lacouture doesn't avoid the negative aspects of his political career, but these negatives (e.g. harsh control of the starving North Vietnamese in the 50s) only help to put in perspective Vietnam's similarly harsh treatment by Western and Eastern powers alike. A former Le Monde correspondent, author has also written books on Vietnam and DeGaulle. Internally bright and clean.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover set. Volume I: 558 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Dust jacket quite worn along edges with some tape repair to small tears. Clean, tight copy. Volume II: 557 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Fore-edge shows slightest foxing. Dust jacket worn along edges with small tears and creases. Clean, tight copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, Revised Ed., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three softcover volumes, complete set. Clean, tight trade paperbacks with unmarked interior and text. Straight uncreased spines; like new. b&w illustrations. Indexed. xxiv, 411; xviii, 477; xvi, 567 pages. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Little, Brown, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 482 pages, hardcover. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, MJF Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photographs by Sid Avery. Front sun faded, otherwise clean, tight copy. An interesting collection of black and white photographs, presenting Hollywood Celebrities of the fifities and sixties in various scenes. eg Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in their kitchen cooking breakfast, Debbie Reynolds with her children playing at home.

Hardcover. New York, MJF Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photographs by Sid Avery. Clean, tight copy. An interesting collection of black and white photographs, presenting Hollywood Celebrities of the fifties and sixties in various scenes. e.g. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in their kitchen cooking breakfast, Debbie Reynolds with her children playing at home.

Hardcover. New York, MJF Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photographs by Sid Avery. Front sun faded, otherwise clean, tight copy. An interesting collection of black and white photographs, presenting Hollywood Celebrities of the fifities and sixties in various scenes. eg Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in their kitchen cooking breakfast, Debbie Reynolds with her children playing at home.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, b&w photos. The author was an actor, film editor, and director and this book is the sequel to his first book of memoirs, Growing Up in Hollywood.

Softcover. NY, Assouline Publishing, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Very little wear to cover. Many b&w and color photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 3rd printing, 1998-01-27, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 229 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Andrzej Klimowski has already produced two intriguing graphic novels that have combined his skill as a poster designer with his exceptional narrative gifts. Both were stories without words. In his third novel, which alternates text and pictures, he has become more ambitious.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Richard Bentley, William Blake, and Kathleen Hale. Clean, tight copy.