New York: Harper Collins, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. Dead at 34 from a drugs, Parker, one of the most talented and influential figures of the 20th century. A revolutionary musician who internalized all of popular music and blew it back through his alto sax "at the tempo of emergency'. 365pp...
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. The story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global, but especially an American, phenomenon. It describes how early Americans took a French parlor game and, with a few...
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1980). First edition thus. Hardcover. A volume in the Screenplay Library edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. 146pp illustrated from photographs. The cast included Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe and John McIntire. Directed by John Huston. Produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr....
New York: Random House, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. This copy with a large inscription by the author dated in the month (and year) of publication. This is the third volume of the author's autobiography. Preceded by 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', and, 'Gather Together in My Name'. 269pp.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Lois Lenski. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Mr. Small has a litttle fire engine that he keeps in the fire house. Lois Lenski, 1893-1974, was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Bound in red cloth with black pictorial...
R. Crumb. Robert Crumb and Mike Price joined forces during the 1980s to produce a stage play, R. CRUMB COMIX: THE PLAY, with stage director Johnny Simons at Texas' Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth. This archive contains related original correspondence from R Crumb to Mike Price in the form...
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, (1963). First Printing stated. Hardcover. Didion's first book. On a still California night in August, 1959, a Sacramento River rancher placed a .38-caliber revolver on the dock his great-great grandfather built, sat down beside it, and waited for his wife. 264pp.
New York: Broadway Books, (2009). First edition. hardcover. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 192pp with index and acknowledgements. Gates Sr looks back on values and principles that he learned growing up during the Great Depression. Those same principles he instilled in his children and continues...
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2017). First edition. hardcover. This copy is inscribed and signed by Luce on the half-title page. In his book 'Time to Start Thinking', Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. Here...
Sydney: Nymboida Press, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. This copy signed and inscribed by this Australian surfing legend on the title page dated "Nov '98". Young was that one kid that loved playing in the waves, and who, with talent and determination, went on to become NSW, Australian and World Surfing...
New York: Tor, (2011). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. The debut science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi and the first novel in a trilogy featuring Jean le Flambeur; the sequels are The Fractal Prince and The Causal Angel. It was published in Britain by Gollancz in 2010, and by Tor in...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Every day, internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal...
New York: Morrow, (1992). First edition. hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title, "May 16, 1992 / Best Wishes / Cynthia J Wilbur." An affectionate, moving, and amusing tribute to the baseball greats of the 1940s and 1950s. Told in the players' own voices, this is the story of...
New York: Bloomsbury, (2015). First edition. Hardcover. The first book to bring readers deep inside a stellar mixed martial arts gym, Beast shows exactly what it takes to reach the top of this exacting sport. Doug Merlino spent two years at Florida's American Top Team, living, eating, and training alongside...
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2011). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. The official companion to series 1 and 2 of this PBS masterpiece. This historical drama follows the lives of the Crawley family and their servants in the family's Edwardian country house. The programme begins with the 1912 sinking...
New York: Dey St / William Morrow, (2016). First edition. hardcover. Facsimile signature to front of dust jacket, in gold sharpie, as well as the title page (black sharpie). These are tales of family, faith, mental health, lesbian sex, and understanding. Though sometimes dark, these stories might make you laugh...
New York: Putnam, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Beautiful color endpapers featuring birds and trees. Beebe, 1877-1962, was an American naturalist, orinthologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer and author. He is regarded as one of the founders of the field of ecology, as well as one of the early 20th century's major...
London: Eyre Methuen, (1975). First edition. hardcover. A collection of fifteen stories by Tiptree, a pseudonym of Alice Sheldon. The Stories are: And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side - The snows are melted, the snows are gone - the peacefulness of Vivyan - Mama...
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump. Foreword by David Rieff. This book gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of her life, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deeepest commitment, and...
New York: Europa Editions, (2013). First edition thus. Paperback. Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. The author manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural. A mob informant's false accusation of corruption against Sicilian Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono not only...
New York: Grove Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. The follow up to the author's retired detective novel 'The Great Leader", involves Detective Sunderson who dares to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan." The...
New York: Europa Editions, (2011). First edition thus. Paperback. As 1930s Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, terrible poverty and blinding desperation lurks behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime. In a luxurious beachfront apartment lie the bodies of a facist militia officer and his...
New York: Europa Editions, 2015. First edition thus. Paperback. Touted by the New York Times as a "superb historical series", this series of mysteries unfold with such sinuous ease that they seem to write themselves. They enchant, surprise, enthrall. Commissario Ricciardi, who possesses the dubious gift of being able to...
New York: St Martin's Press, (2002). First edition. Hardcover. This book tells the story of this extravagant work, the film 'Sunset Boulevard' directed by Billy Wilder. From the writing, casting, and filming to the disastrous previews that made Paramount consider shelving it. It's about the writing team of Billy Wilder...
New York: Pantheon, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Signed with the author's trademark "Z" in green ink opposite the copyright page. Dated, also in green ink, '7.1.06'. A finalist for the National Book Award in the year of publication. The story alternates between two different narratives: Sam and Hailey, and Hailey...
