Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w photos. An account by a Kenya African of his experiences in detention camps in the 1950s. Foreword by Margery Perham. In a lightly worn dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 307 pages. Black & white photography. Minor wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 315 pages. Preface by Valetta Malinowska. Introduction by Raymond Firth. Translated by Norbert Guterman. Index of native terms by Mario Bick. With map endpapers, a facsimile page from a Trobiands diary, and three in text maps. A revealing record of the personal ordeals and professional discoveries of the well-known anthropologist during his early, crucial years in the primitive world of New Guinea. Published posthumously by his widow, Valetta Swann. The work is somewhat controversial, due to its ethnocentric and egocentric nature. Previous owner's name on verso of front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. b&w photos. Memoir of the actor by his friend, fellow actor Brian Aherne. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , The Citadel Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Harcover, 167 pages, b&w frontispiece and plates. Edge wear, tears to dust jacket. Orange top edge decorative stain. A clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 page booklet with light tan wrappers, reddish brown type. The text of the author's speech with a b&w photograph of him. Minor discoloration to top of wrapper, probably due to dampness at some time. Still very good.
Hardcover. Philadephia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Comapny, 6th pr., 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 page. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Gutter cracked on title page with fabric showing through. Spine lettering faded. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear/soil. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven , Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist. Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humor of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognized as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney's, among others.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist. Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humor of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognized as an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney's, among others.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. An autobiography covering the first eleven years of the famed Nigerian poet and dramatist.
Softcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. With his life's work, and in All Told, LeRoy Neiman captured sports heroes, movie stars, presidents, dishwashers, jet-setters, jockeys, and more than a few Bunnies at the Playboy Mansion.
Hardcover. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A few black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Al Hirschfeld. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 1/4 black cloth, 3/4 green paper. Gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dj with photograph of author.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to cover & spine, sun toning to boards. Profusely illustrated in watercolor artwork by Holly Hobbie, with text by the artist. Dust jacket in very good condition, protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, American Artists Group / Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine. 304 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. An autobiography by the artist and writer. He was an important part of the American art scene in the 1920's and 30's. He was an art critic, writer and editor of art magazines as well as an artist. Two color plates, others in b&w. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY FEIFFER on title page. Hardcover, 431 pages, b&w photographs and drawings by author. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Crisp photographs throughout. Some black and white, some color. Internally clean. Tight and clean copy. The noted designer shares his opinions on and memories of fifty years of fashion and its driving forces as well as Hollywood, men, women, and friendship.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. B/w illustrations throughout. Front flaps very lightly yellowed at top, otherwise clean inside and out. previous bookseller tag on back. From the dust jacket front flap: "As we follow Peres from his ancestral home in Poland to Israel, from the youth village of BenShemon to Kibbutz Alumot, from the youth movement leader to prime minister, we are introduced both to a man and to a nation."
Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming-of-age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads together and the messages conveyed by hairstyles. At the same time, Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors.
Hardcover. Norfolk, Ct, New Directions, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Light foxing to end papers, top edge and dust jacket. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated with color, black & white plates. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Memoir of an African-American woman when she was a student at a formerly all white male private prep school.
NY, Carlton Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with edgewear. 120 pages with b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY BAKER on the front fly leaf. The author's account of his 2,000 mile trek from Georgia to Maine in 1964. Scarce.
Hardcover. Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, 344 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467670
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 171 pages, in an unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on the half title page: "To Ed - Keep it together - Harry Crews".
Softcover. Torino, Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1st Italian, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, illustrated wrappers. An Italian journalist's memoir of a half century living in London. With a SiGNED letter laid in to the previous owner Cecil Roberts from the author. ITALIAN TEXT.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Photographer Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs, made from 1970 to 1973: a collection of portraits of family and friends, landscapes, and period imagery. These photographs describe a time familiar to everyone, when one moves from adolescence to adulthood-remaining a part of a family while beginning to create a network of one's own.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, A. Cometbus, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Stapled booklet. Original publisher's illustrated covers, lettered black. The saga of Moe Moskowitz and the bookseller scene in Berkeley during the 1960-1970s. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 472 pages with index. The editor, Joanne Trautmann Banks, previously was co-editor of the six volume 'Letters of Virginia Woolf.' For this volume, Ms. Banks selected 'jewels' from the earlier compilation, and has provided explanatory footnotes throughout. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Green Integer, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Small stain on rear wrapper, otherwise clean, tight copy. Small book; 6"x4".
Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 343 pages, many b&w photos. Written in a question-and-answer format, this remarkable interview with the legendary Hollywood writer-director shares his thoughts on screenwriting, cinematography, the studio system, the Golden Age of film, and the many stars with whom he worked. Clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. First edition of this excellent memoir about life on the Texas panhandle, including sections on Dodge City, the Commanche Indians, and more. Introduction by Richard Summers. Paper scar to dj spine, otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. Zurich, Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages. Illustrated in b&w and some color. An account by art historian and controversial author Catherine Millet of a highly personal encounter with the artist s celebrated paintings and self-reflective writings. One of the first studies of the notoriously idiosyncratic artist s essays, this revolutionary book reveals all the narcissism, anxiety, and visual genius of the most famous and infamous of the surrealists. In a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. Burlington IA, Craftsman Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 190 pages, b&w illustrations. An infantryman's memoir of World War II in Europe's waning months. INSCRIBED BY BIED on half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a victory over the chaos of drink to a life-affirming surrender to the majesty of the Matterhorn; and from a foundering friendship to the transcending love of family.
Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In these extraordinary letters, we see May Sarton in all her complexities and are privy to her tangled relationship with Juliette Huxley, whom May considered her muse and the greatest love of her life. May Sarton's love for Juliette Huxley, ignited that first moment she saw her in 1936, transcended sixty years of friendship, passion, rejection, silence, and reconciliation. The letters chart their meeting, May's affair with Juliette's husband Julian (brother of Aldous Huxley) before the war, her intense involvement with Juliette after the war, and the rich, ardent friendship that endured until Juliette's death. While May's intimate relationship with Julian was not a secret, May's more powerful romance with Juliette was. May's fiery passion was a seductive yet sometimes destructive force. Her feelings for and demands on Juliette were often overwhelming to them both. In fact, Juliette refused all contact with May for nearly twenty-five years. Their reconciliation, after Julian's death, wasn't so much a rekindling as it was a testament to the profound affinity between them. Theirs was a relationship rife with complications and misunderstandings but the deep love and compassion they shared for one another prevailed. Included in this book are Sarton's original drafts of an introduction to these letters. 400 pages including index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Sydney AU, Pacific Publications, 1st, 1968, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, black cloth covers, gilt titles on spine, b&w illustrations. Covers worn, tattered dust jacket. Australian George Wilfred Lambert Townsend (1896-1962) spent twenty-five years in New Guinea during which he battled head-hunters on the Sepik River, battled the Rabaul bureaucracy and finally the Japanese. There is some marking and highlighting to the text. A reading copy of a scarce title concerning Australia's administrative rule in New Guinea.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with spine faded. The author's first book. The book describes the experiences that "Gael Greene, girl reporter," encountered in writing her features for the New York Post. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 229 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates. Frontis photo portrait of Grenfell on his ship with tissue guard. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 -1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. Owner's name and date on front fly leaf, mild soil to cover.
Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 226 pages, 12 photographic plates. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 -1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. Frontis photo shows Grenfell and Perry (back from the N. Pole) on the deck of the 'Roosevelt'. This is a collection from six periodicals of 14 sketches by the 'Labrador Doctor.' He has fascinating stories to tell about the natives, the sailors, fishermen, the climate and his doctoring. Small tan stain affecting 10 pages, only in margin. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages. Drawing Blood is Molly's personal memoir of her career so far, her struggles to be recognized as an artist, the people she's met and her political world view. It's unusual for a young artist (b. 1983) to write a memoir so young but her life has been crammed with experiences that make this a meaningful, thought provoking book. Some people will undoubtedly be horrified that Molly chose to work in the adult indiustry to fund her early career but in naughties NYC that was, perhaps, the only way a struggling, working class, female artist could maker her way without a wealthy patron. Molly gives vivid descriptions of strip clubs, burlesque dancers, artists, protests, and a lifestyle that many can only imagine. The characters leap off the page illustrated by a vivid written style that draws in words as well as Molly makes art. The book has been described as an unflattering mirror held up to conventional middle-class lives.
Hardcover. NY, Lippincott , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear to dust jacket. The illustrator of Winnie the Pooh recalls his London childhood.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam"s Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "The romantic leading lady whose hands were smashed by a cane-wielding James Mason as she sat at the piano in the climactic scene of THE SEVENTH VEIL now draws back THE EIGHTH VEIL to reveal the intimate details of a life that has been rich in earthly and spiritual experience. With wit and candor, Ann Todd tells how she fought with her American discoverer, David O. Selznick, who said, 'I presume you have a bust -- show it.' She fell in love with co-star Gregory Peck, who referred to her as his 'bundle from Britain.' Alfred Hitchcock directed their love scenes in THE PARADINE CASE and the actress relates a hilarious 'casting couch' experience with Hitch that occurred at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Especially provocative is Ann Todd's surprising account of what it was like to work with the great Vivien Leigh, with whom she co-starred in DUEL OF ANGELS. "
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ATTENBOROUGH on title page, otherwise clean and tight copy. Pictures throughout. The long awaited autobiography by one of the world's best-loved actors and directors. The story begins in 1983 with a famously weeping Attenborough accepting two Oscars when his film Gandhi broke all previous records to win a total of eight Academy awards. Hawkins, 67, is Attenborough's publicist, confidante, co-producer and long-term business partner.Attenborough reflects on the highs and lows of a long life both in and out of the public gaze. Few know, for instance, that he once risked prison on a matter of conscience or that, as an air-gunner cameraman, he took part in bombing raids over Germany during the war. More poignantly, Attenborough will finally break his silence about his long-running friendship with Princess Diana, and the tsunami tragedy that robbed him of his eldest daughter and granddaughter in December 2004.