Munchen: Bahia Verlag, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Text in German. Black and white photos of the great James Dean by film studio photographer Sanford Roth with text by his wife Beulah. These shots of this famous actor and 'pretty boy' would be hard to beat. More
New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1991. David Salle. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler, edited and designed by John Cheim. Best known as a painter, Salle is quite accomplished as a photographer. Printed by the Stinehour Press. 54 images. Bound in illustrated boards in the original acetate dust wrapper (one tear). More
London: Criterion Films, 1935. First edition. Paperback. 230 mimeographed pages. Screenplay by Clemence Dane, based on the novel by Jeffery Farnol (1913). A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Raphael Soyer. First edition. Hardcover. One of 500 special copies signed by the author, with a numbered color print signed by Soyer. This is copy #434. Singer, a Nobel Prize-winning author, reminisces about his leaving his friends in Poland in the 1930's, his coming to America... More
New York: Doubleday, (1978). Raphael Soyer. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. One of 300 numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. With a numbered color print signed by Raphael Soyer. This is copy #141. As a young man in 1930s Warsaw, Singer lived inconspicuously on the edge of a.... More
n.p. 2017. Ralph Steadman. First edition thus, a limited signed edition. This illustration, featured in Hunter S. Thompson's book FEAR & LOATHNG IN LAS VEGAS (Random House, 1971), forever raised the bar on "bad craziness". I cannot think of any image featured in any book that is as instantly recognizable... More
New York: New Directions, (1954). First American edition. Hardcover. Here, in his last completed masterpiece, Thomas gave fullest expression to his sense of the "daedal dance of life." A "ceremonial portrait" of the circle of a spring day in a small Welsh coast town. It begins with dreams and ghosts... More
New York: Random House, (1971). Ralph Steadman. First edition. Hardcover. This book was Hunter at his best, freewheelling, sharp, rolling, full of unconventional wisdom, and then some. Lead by example? And, this was the real debut for Ralph Steadman, these great drawings that get even wilder and crazier the more... More
New York: Knopf, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. This is copy 933. With four illustrations in aquatone. A collection of Van Vechten's writings dealing with "things remembered." "Selected and arranged to create a homogeneous impression, and they have been extensively rewritten". The contents are: The Tin Trunk, The Folksongs of Iowa... More
New York: Knopf, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. In this, the author's parody on early Hollywood, the exploits of one Ambrose Deacon, a New York playwright with one hit travels to Hollywood and meets movie people. What a hilarious ride he takes the reader on. One of the first parodies of... More
n.p. n.p., 1983. First edition. No Binding. PRESS PHOTO INSCRIBED. World Photo stamp to rear. Caption attached to rear: "New York, Oct 21-PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST-Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., stands beside one of his artworks during the premier showing of his drawings at the Freiden Gallery in New York. Monday... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Eudora Welty on the front free endpaper. A collection of autobiographical essays. The book is based on three lectures she delivered at Harvard University in April 1983, as part of the William E. Massey Sr. lecture series. The three essays... More
New York: Random House, (1966). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "_______ / let this be a / lesson to you (signed) Don." A master of the comic novel and the suspenseful caper. More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. In the 1930s one man changed the look and style of fashion photography. He was Martin Munkacsi, the legendary photographer for Harper's Bazaar. His work now ranks among the greats of the century and has inspired a generation of modern photographers that... More
