Purple cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 321 pages, decorative endpapers; '11' written in red on front free endpaper, pages lightly age toned; dust jacket toned, edge worn with a few chips and small tears concentrated to head and tail of spine. View More...
White paper boards backed in white cloth with dust jacket, 209pp. Signed by the author on half title page. Bernhard broke out in the American comedy scene in the 1980s after being cast by Martin Scorsese in The King of Comedy. She was one of the first women comics to deal openly and graphically with her sexuality and physicality in ways that were previously associated with men in stand-up. View More...
Mint green cloth with black titles, 8vo, 243 pages, illustrated by Richard Bennett; head and tail of spine worn, endpapers toned, previous owner's bookplate adhered to front free endpaper; dust jacket dust soiled and edge worn with a few chips to extremities. An attractive vintage copy of this biography of Saint Patrick. View More...
First edition stated; signed by the author on title page; full gray cloth, 8vo, 224 pages, occasional illustrations. The biography of Caldecott Award-winning authors Berta and Elmer Hader. Foreword by Eric Kimmel. View More...
Tan cloth with blue and gilt decorations and titles, 16mo, 184 pages with publisher's list, illustrated; spine dust soiled, smudge on rear panel, tissue guard repaired with a small piece missing. View More...
First edition stated. Black cloth spine over brown cloth-covered boards, light yellow dust jacket, 8-1/2" tall, 351 pp. Book feels unread, DJ has modest toning to spine, light dust soil. View More...
Red cloth with gilt lettering, 8vo, 199 pages, black and white illustrations throughout; a well kept copy, from the collection of Pulitzer nominated historian Gloria Grace Griffen, whose withdrawal stamped bookplate is adhered to front paste down; dust jacket is bright with slight edge wear and some smudging along spine, now protected in mylar cover. The story of the mysterious aristocrat who became a lady gambler and female daredevil of frontier days. View More...
First edition stated. Hardcover, full tan cloth with blue lettering to front cover and spine, top edge stained blue, other edges untrimmed; dust jacket is blue with modernist architectural image. Near fine with light turning in of spine ends; dust jacket has original price intact, shallow chipping to top of front panel and bottom of spine panel, some short closed tears, presents very well with its striking cover design. Zukor was a Hungarian-American who produced one of the first feature-length films (The Prisoner of Zenda, 1913) and was one of the three founders of Paramount Studios. The book... View More...
Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration, 8vo, 416 pages, illustrated with photos throughout; top of front cover has a faint smudged line, pages are unmarked and binding sound. A recounting of the printing industry from the Director of the United States Mint from 1906-1906. View More...
First edition stated. 338 pages, black and white photographs throughout; black cloth boards with silver titling, dust jacket with a bit of dust smudging now in protective mylar sleeve. View More...
Two volume set. Forest green cloth with gilt titles on spine, 9 x 5.5 inches, volume one 341 pages, volume two 309 pages; light edge wear to extremities of boards, booksellers stamp on front paste down of volume one, deckle edge pages are clean and unmarked, binding is sound, a well kept set. This is a handsome iteration of the important biography of French General Baron Lejeune credited for introducing lithography to France. View More...
Navy blue cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 125 pages, illustrations by Rockwell Kent; bookseller stamp and previous owner's name on front paste down, Kent bookplate on first blank page. Author P.W. Litchfield was the Chairman of the Board of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, richly illustrated (including endpapers) by Rockwell Kent. View More...
Stated first printing, tan cloth with dark blue titles, 8vo, 279 pages, map endpapers, portrait frontispiece, black and white photos throughout; a well kept copy, from the collection of Pulitzer nominated historian Gloria Grace Griffen, whose bookplate is adhered to front pastedown; dust jacket has a few small chips to head and tail of spine and is now protected in mylar. With twenty years of residence in Mexico, Leone B. Moats' memoir is, "a vivid picture of the gay capital at the height of its world prestige under Madero and of the real revolution that followed Zapata. View More...
First American edition stated. 256 pages, black and white photographs throughout; blue and white boards with red titling, light dust smudging and staining on page edges, unclipped dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve. Translated from the Portuguese by Ellen Watson. View More...
Beautifully rebound in brown cloth under three quarter leather, tooled with gilt, five raised bands, 16mo, 416 pages with original wrapper bound in back, illustrated throughout by George Cruikshank; boards are edge worn, with the leather beginning to chip at corners and head of spine, top edge gilt, pages are clean and binding is tight; no dust jacket. An exceptional copy whose unique fine binding would make it an excellent candidate for a collector of curiosities. View More...
Periwinkle cloth with gilt titling and design, 7 x 5 inches, 303 pages plus a publishers list, portrait on frontispiece and illustrations peppered throughout; bottom of front board is bumped, spine in age toned, one small drip stain on rear board, Henry Cabot Lodge book plate adhered to front paste down, pages appropriately age toned, binding sound. From the personal collection of Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts politician who served in the US Senate from 1893 until his death in 1924. View More...
Second printing, September, 1930, cream paper covers with decorations and titles in royal blue and light green, 12mo, 189 pages plus publisher's list, Rockwell Kent endpapers; slight bend to text block, a few creases in bottom right corner of cover and pages. A Bonibooks edition. The Boni Paper Books series was the brain child of Charles and Albert Boni, and an experiment in the new field of American paperback book publishing and the brand-new field of subscription mail order book clubs. The club launched in September of 1929 with The Bridge of San Luis Rey being the first title. The serie... View More...
First printing with (1) on final page. Full blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and gilt signature to front board, beige endpapers, edge of pages untrimmed, portrait frontispiece, 8-3/4" x 6", 385 pp., photographic plates. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Successful in her own time, Wharton's memoirs are not only about her Victorian upbringing, and the craft of writing, but also her impressions of authors and other historical figures she had met in America or Paris. View More...
Staple-bound in heavy pictorial wrappers. Mild rubbing and some very light soiling to rear. Internally clean and bright. Short, pictorial biography of Jack London, reprinted from the California Historical Quarterly. Profuse with b/w photographs. Pages numbered 218-245, as from original publication. View More...
