New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pp, 91 Illustrations. In this book, published in conjuction with the Museum's retrospective exhibition of her work (cc. 1920-1963), George P. Elliott, a close friend of the photographer for more than twenty years, recreates Miss Lange's career within the..... More
New York: Random House, (1973). First edition. This copy is signed and inscribed "To Dean & Family / Best wishes / Buzz Aldrin / Wayne Warga." After his historic walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin returned to earth a hero. This is his story of that daring exploit, and of..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, signed by the author on the title-page. Harry Crews had this to say about this book: "Here are men who have looked into the eyes of war and who will never be able to look out of their own eyes..... More
London: Michael Joseph, (1972). First edition. Hardcover. Author's fourth non-fiction book, which depicts several historical events and figures from Baldwin's perspective: Francisco Franco, McCarthyism, and Martin Luther King's death, as well as Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom..... More
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Two stapled promo sheets laid in. The culmination of the author's "accidental trilogy." With familiar surgical precision, Bowden combines memoir, natural history, and keen reportage at breakneck speed. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. #119 of 350 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author. Occasionally, Bukowski would take a break from the tedium of signing, and, let his mind wander and, he would write down whatever came into his head in that instant. Like a...... More
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. Paperback. Advance reading copy of the author's masterpiece, and basis for the black and white film directed by Richard Brooks that starred Scott Wilson and Robert Blake (documentary style). Perfect bound in the original dust jacket (first issue) with burgundy endpapers, as issued..... More
New York: Grossman, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Sm 8vo. Unpaginated. Features 47 exquisite black and white photographs (including frontispiece). More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First edition thus. Hardcover. #7 of the 'Autograph Edition' this copy marked "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page. Not signed by Cather. Blue and beige cloth with spine label in a decorated, light green dust jacket that is taller than the book. More
New York: Putnam, (1966). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Coover's first book. A catastrophic explosion has rocked the small coalmining town of West Condon. Ninety-seven have died but one man, Giovanni Bruno, has miraculously survived. Now he has claimed that he was saved in..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's tenth book. Essays. Seventeen pieces that were all published, with the exception of "A Night at a Waterfall." The stellar piece, in my opinion, is "A Walk in the Country." The first printing was 6500 copies..... More
New York: Random House, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. A novel of deadly passions and obsessions. 259pp. More
Bristol: Scorpion Press, (1993). First edition. Hardcover. #39/75 numbered copies in a special binding, leather and boards, and signed by the author. One night up in Montana, C.W. Sughrue sets his seedy bar’s pricey jukebox in front of an oncoming freight train. When predictable results ensue, he needs to find..... More
New York: Knopf, (1972). Joseph Schindelman. First edition. Hardcover. Thanks to Mr. Wonka and a couple of buttons that did and did not get pushed, the Great Glass Elevator and all of its passengers find themselves orbiting in space! Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Front dust jacket flap..... More
New York: A Joseph Okpaku Book, (1971). First edition. hardcover. The trial of Angela Yvonne Davis in connection with the prisoner revolt by three black prisoners on August 7, 1970 at the Marin County Courthouse will be remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can..... More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1968). Nell Dorr. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy is inscribed by Nell Dorr and dated 1969 opposite the copyright page. A photo essay on man's quest for the meaning of life. 98pp. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1962). Second edition being a reprint of the original 1938 first edition. Hardcover. Evans, was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. This book is Walker Evans' pictorial record..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. Special Gift Edition sticker to front cover, ribbon marker. A printed statement by the author with her printed facsimile signature. The daughter of Clifton Fadiman takes a dusty literary form, the bookish essay about books, and makes it new..... More
New York: Knopf, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. The author's final novel, that follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. More
New York: Viking Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. The story of the hours and days of an English (Cornish) country house and of the five generations who have peopled it. 305pp. Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction..... More
New York: Lyons & Burford, (1990). John Groth. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. ALS laid in to Beef Torrey presenting him the book for his collection (dated 2005). An old Comanche named Starlight comes from Oklahoma to Texas with eight compatriots and demands of old Tom Bird the largest of his..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year. A new translation of an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th and the early 11th century, set in Denmark and..... More
New York: Riverhead, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed on the title page. "Signed First Edition" sticker to the front cover. Myth, fantasy, and history merge in this stunning novel following a mercenary and his search for a missing child. Illustrated with maps. 620pp. The first volume of..... More
New York: Ecco, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Drew D Hanson on the title page. This is the first book about Dr. King's legendary "I Have A Dream" speech. Opening with an enthralling account of the August day in 1963 that saw 250,000 Americans converge at the March on..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1966). First edition. hardcover. Author's fifth novel that concerns two women, one a young American wife of the present day, the other a Portuguese nun of the seventeenth century. This copy inscribed on the front endpaper, "For ________ / The Birth of Love..... More
