SOULAGES. Translated From the French by Shirley Jennings
New York: Crown, 1980. First edition. 4to. A volume in the Q.L.P. Art Series. With 42 reproductions in color, and 24 reproductions in black and white. Paintings by Pierre Soulages. More
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STORIES OF MY LIFE. Introductions by Kate DiCamillo and Nancy Graff.
New York: Dial (for young readers), (2014). First edition. Hardcover. Twenty eight stories. Illustrated from photographs and letters. 299pp. More
KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL. ADVENTURES IN THE CULINARY UNDERBELLY
New York: Bloomsbury, (2000). Later printing. Hardcover. Here the author reveals all the trade secrets that chefs around the world fear would get out. 307 pages of chef glam and chef smashmouth. Enjoy. More
KATHERINE. A Novel
New York: Riverhead, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Author's second book. A novel concerning an American woman in China to teach English, just as China opens its doors, six years after the death of Chairman Mao. 241pp. More
THE PASSIONS OF HOWARD HUGHES
Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed (briefly) by each author on the front endpaper. Gift, printed bookplate to front pastedown: "Happy Holidays and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year. (From) Richard Weisman and Richard Weisman Jr. 288pp, illustrated from photographs. From the glitter to... More
ROSELLINI. Immigrants' Son and Progressive Governor
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front endpaper, "To ________ / It has been a real pleasure / to be associated with you / in many campaigns / Best of everything to you / Governor / Albert D Rosellini". Rosellini served two terms as... More
MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES. With an Introduction by Ralph Adams Cram. Illustrated
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1928). 18th Impression. Small 4to. The composite life of the thirteenth century was caught and held in the building of these churches. Crusade, pilgrimage, enterprise, dogma, and disputation, the songs of Roland, the loves of Amis and Amile, of Aucassin and Nicolette, are all here, set in... More
AN ACCIDENTAL SPORTSWRITER. A Memoir
New York: Ecco, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. The author, a long time columnist for the New York Times, reflects on the stories he covered and how they mirror the lives we lead. 246pp. More
MEDITATIONS FROM A MOVABLE CHAIR. Essays
New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Twenty-five essays, which include Legs, A Hemingway Story, Mailer at the Algonquin, Good-bye to Richard Yates, A Country Road Song, First Books, Autumn Legs, and many more. The author has received the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rea Award for execellence in short fiction, the... More
YOU GOTTA GET BIGGER DREAMS. My Life in Stories and Pictures
New York: Rizzolie, (2016). Alan Cumming. First edition. Hardcover. Cumming, an award winning atar of stage, television, and film, is also a best selling author. This book, his third, contains forty-five picture essays, illustrated from the author's photographs. A well made book full of color photographs. 270pp. More
PURE DRIVEL.
New York: Hyperion, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. Twenty three pieces from the crazed imagination of one of our best comedian/actors. 104 pages. More
THE STAR THROWER. Introduction by W. H. Auden
New York: Times Books, (1978). First edition. Eiseley (1907-1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies. He was known as a literary stylist... More
THE GULLAH MAILMAN. Illustrated by Nancy Ricker Rhett
Raleigh: Pentland Press, (2000). Nancy Ricker Rhett. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A biography of a man who, in 1924, abandoned his social life in Charleston, South Carolina, and took his new French bride and moved to a locale inhabited by... More
LIGHT & SHADE. Conversations with Jimmy Page
New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated from photographs. Through a series of interviews by journalist Brad Tolinski, Jimmy Page opens up on his exploits and Led Zeppelin. Page was the founder of the group as well as its guitarist. Jacket blurbs by Slash, Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and... More
POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION. A Memoir 1964-2006
New York: Garden City, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a special bound in sheet (before the half-title page). Illustrated from photographs. Here, Vidal returns to his days in the Navy during WWII when he was a first mate, "As I was writing this account of my... More
STONES FROM THE RIVER. A Novel.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1994). First edition. Hardcover. A novel of Germany during the first half of the twentieth century. Signed by the author on the title page (Autographed Copy sticker to front cover). Nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award. More
BEOWULF. A New Verse Translation. Bilingual Edition
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First Bilingual edition. Hardcover. First composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is a narrative of a Scadinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel (and his mother). Heaney won the Nobel Prize in... More
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. A Novel
New York: Random House, (2017). First edition. hardcover. Booker Prize winner for 2017. The author's first novel that unfolds in a graveyard over the course of a single night. The author of eight previous books. Saunders has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters... More
UNCOMMON TYPE. Some Stories
New York: Knopf, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. The well-known actor's first work of fiction, eighteen stories. 405pp with a few photographs of typewriters. More
THE RIGHT STUFF.
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1979). First edition. Hardcover. Basis for the big screen film (1983) directed by Philip Kaufman that starred Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn and Dennis Quaid. Winner of four Oscars. More
THE AUTUMN GARDEN. A Play.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by Hellman on the front endpaper: "For Maggie, This is intended / to bring all the affection that / a hundred unwritten letters / should have brought / Lilly, May, 1951." Dashiell Hammett, who had been Hellman's... More
INTO THE WILD.
New York: Villard, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. The story of a twenty-four-year-old from the suburbs of Washington D.C. who walked into the Alaskan wilderness below Mt. McKinley with a small-caliber rifle and a ten-pound bag of rice. Four months later, his emaciated corpse was found at his campsite by a.... More
RIVER TEETH. Stories and Writings
New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Twenty tales of indelible characters: a solitary woman struggling to corral a flock of idiot sheep; a young girl who creates a strange fairytale that shatters her parents' love; a modern-day prophet waging war against... More
GOOD BONES and SIMPLE MURDERS. Illustrated by the author
New York: Doubleday, (1994). Margaret Atwood. First edition. hardcover. A collection of 35 short works that defy easy categorization. Among the miniatures gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got Dracula... More
THE AWAKENING.
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1996). First edition thus. Hardcover. Originally published in 1899, this handsomely designed, entirely retypeset edition of 'The Awakening" is prefaced by a portfolio of archival photographs that provide a visual and social portrait of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, In this setting the story unfolds of one... More