New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Susan Rice on the title page. Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice powerfully connects the personal and the professional. Taught early, with tough love, how to compete and excel as an..... More
New York: Aperture, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. For the first time ever, in this monograph, Brandt's achievement is traced against the backdrop of Europe and England in transition through the upheavals of the mid-twentieth century. Detailed introductions to every stage of Brandt's career are provided by Mark Haworth-Booth. Essay..... More
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Slipcased Edition from Powell's Books Indiespensable Series, Volume 38. Includes the signed hardcover book (sans jacket as issued) bound in black and white cloth, housed in a black cloth slipcase with silver lettering. Includes the small 21 page booklet with card..... More
New York: Crown, 2021. First edition. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. Rogen writes: "Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy “book” way..... More
Seattle: Alephactory Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by both authors on the title page. Comically absurd and painfully real, DELIVER US is a prescient and provocative literary novel that moves swiftly through near-future Detroit as a black social-media activist leads a campaign against Amazon, whose new fleet of delivery..... More
New York: Norton, 1994-1999. First American editions (except for #1, which is a 2nd printing). Hardcover. Volumes 1-17 have the same style dust jacket and front flap price of 22.50,and are first American editions (except #1, Master and Commander which is a 2nd printing). Some ephemera is laid into nearly..... More
Paris: Editions Plume, 1999. First French edition. 4to. In French. 238 plates. The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers..... More
Nagoya: Maruzen Nagoya Publishing, 1996. First edition. Paperback. A compilation of late 20th century works by the Japanese landscape and garden architect. With black-and-white and color illustrations; hardscape as well as plantings. In both English and Japanese. Nicely produced in 4to perfect bound wrappers with French flaps. More
San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press #8, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 12 pages of text. 63 plates with additional captions by the photographer. a retrospective of Bullock's black and white work arranged by decades (1940-1970) the plates sharp and well printed. More
New York: Arena Editions, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This book featuring William Claxton's unique photographs that capture the young, controversial American actor in the beginning of his movie career during the 1960s. Confirming McQueen's all-American, off-beat good looks were every bit as stunning as his acting and his often-stormy..... More
Jacksonville: Fortis Publishing, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Ever since the American Revolution, military service has been a proud tradition for the Zumwalt family. Tradition initially led the author to join his father and brother in the Navy, before later transferring to the US Marine Corps. During his 26 years in..... More
Carmel: Friends of Photography, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Small Oblong 4to. Edited by James Alinder with Essays by David Featherstone and Russ Anderson. Watkins, the consummate photographer of the American West, combined a virtuoso mastery of the difficult wet plate negative process with a rigorous sense of pictorial structure. For..... More
Livingston: Clark City Press, 2003. Russell Chatham. First edition. hardcover. This copy is signed on the title page by Levendosky. These poems offer an insightful examination of the human psyche's longing for the kind of intimacy which is so often elusive. And we are introduced to Raven, a symbolic alter..... More
New York: Norton, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Author's twelfth movel and winner of both the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and the William Dean Howells Medal, A sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of and paean to the natural world. From the roots..... More
London: Doubleday, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. A Signed Waterstone's exclusive (signed by Rob Wilkins). Bespoke design to endpapers, and with bonus material. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for best non-fiction. Quarter-bound in red cloth spine and a debossed foil silhouette of Terry Pratchett with sticker to front..... More
New York: Penguin, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation, for readers of Atlas Obscura and fans of the Mütter Museum, the Morbid Anatomy Museum, and..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First UK edition. Hardcover. From a Southern storyteller and National Book Award–winning author, essays on her childhood, influences, and thoughts on writing and life. Now, with this collection of essays, readers can explore the author of Victory Over Japan throughout her career. From the Mississippi..... More
Lewiston: Confluence Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. This book won the Montana Arts Council's First Book Award. The best poems make the simplest and most common words new and resonant, the most complex thoughts and feelings clear and comprehensible. Elizabeth performs these..... More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. TLS laid in from the publisher (Arthur W. Wang) to Madeleine L'Engle (Mrs. Hugh Franklin) dated March 8, 1978. "Dear Mrs. Franklin, I am pleased to enclose a copy of Jean Pond's Surviving which has just come off the press. Our..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. This fourth printing copy has the ownership signature of "Madeleine L'Engle Camp / March 4, 1941 / Bird-in-Hand-Court" to the front pastedown in black ink. The three short novels are: Old Mortality, Noon Wine, and Pae Horse, Pale Rider. From..... More
York Beach (Maine): Samuel Weiser, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition copy has been signed by Frater Hymenaeus Alpha who wrote the Preface to this edition, the first published collection of the fourteen Holy Books received by Crowley. It could well be called the bible of Thelema. Crowley considered..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1982. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Malamud's last novel is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending..... More
New York: Random House, 1984. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his..... More
New York/London: Bloomsbury, 2003. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal..... More
New York: Knopf, 1990. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Paperback. The experiences and struggles of Caitlin Van Fleet are shaped and molded by the struggle between isolationists and anti-Nazi forces in Washington, D.C., on the eve of World War II, in a novel that spans five decades in Caitlin's life. Advance Uncorrected..... More
