Some Famous Swedes
Stockholm, Sweden: The Swedish Traffic Association, (1933). 8vo.; stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 31 pages; wraps are sunned else very good. More
Biography
Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist, A Biography and Charles M. Russell,The Cowboy Artist, A Bibliography
Pasaadenaz: Trail's End Publishing, 1948. Two Volumes, First Printings; Collector’s Editions, limited to 600 sets; 8vo; black leather bound black cloth covered board, beveled edges, hardcover; both volumes; Biography has pictorial endpapers and 366 pages with color and black & white photographic illustrations; Bibliography has pictorial endpapers and 220 pages..... More
Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey
NY: Carol Publishing Group, 1995. 1st edition; cloth backed boards; 8vo. viii, 183 pages; foreword by Lena Horne; black & white photographic illustrations; Illustrations. More
Kofi Mensah
Accra, Ghana: Ghana Publishing House, 1968. First Edition; 16mo; stapled stiff pictorial covers; softcover; 60 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy. More
The Echoing Green Memories of a Victorian Youth
NY: Viking Press (1974). Stated First American Edition. 8vo, hardcover; 255 pages. black and white illustrations, a very good cean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Rebellion at Christiana
NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975). Small 4to; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 216 pages; a very good clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. More
A Lady First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome
NY: Viking, 2001. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; xii, 292 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; very good in a very good dust jacket. More
Portraits in Print A Collection of Profiles and the Stories Behind Them
NY: Columbia University Press (1991). 1st edition; 8vo. black boards, hardcover; xi, 178 pages; black & white illustrations; portraits of Susan Sontag, Joseph Brodsky, Beverly Sils, Paula Marshall, Bernard Malamud, Jessica Mitford, Robert Treuhaft and Leonard Michaels, afterword by Jessica Mitford; review slip laid in; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked..... More
Boswell's Life of Johnson In Two Volumes
London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, NY, and Toronto: Henry Frowde, 1904. Two volumes in one; 12mo.; blue cloth covered boards with gilt, hardcover; black and white frontispiece; endpapers and page edges are sunned and boards are sunned and edgeworn else very good. More
Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book No. 324
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1922. Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324; 32mo.; stiff wraps, softcover; 62 pages; wraps are sunned with tanned pages else very good. More
Oreos & Dubonnet Remembering Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; Signed by one of the authors, “Best Wishes - hope you enjoy these tales of a bygone but constructive era! Charles R. Holcomb” on half title page; vii, 172 pages; black and..... More
My Father and Albert Einstein: Biography of a Department Store Owner, Whose Thirst for Knowledge Enabled His Close Friendship With a Genius Who Changed Man’s Concepts of the Universe
NY: iUniverse, Inc, 2008. 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps; xii, 146 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; signed “Best Wishes,Joan Ball August 12, 2008; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Medieval Lives Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
NY: HarperCollinsPublishers (1994). First Edition with 1 in the numberline; small 4to; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine and deckle edged pages; hardcover; 197 pages; former owner’s name on free front endpaper else a fine clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a very good pictorial dust..... More
Geniuses Together American Writers in Paris in the 1920s
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988. Stated First American Edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; x, 246 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
A Portrait Of Jane Austen
NY: Hill and Wang (1979). Small 4to.; cloth covered boards, 208 pages; hardcover; b/w and color illustrations; Lord David Cecil’s reconstruction of Jane Austen’s life and character; very good in a very good dust jacket. More
Maud Humphrey Her Permanent Imprint on American Illustration
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publication, 1993. Small 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 160 pages; color and black and white illustrations; edgeworn wraps else very good. More
Anna Coope Sky Pilot of the San Blas Indians
Baltimore, MD: The World Wide Missionary Society, Inc., (1917). Small 8vo; embossed pictorial cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 186 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; edgeworn covers with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More
Madame Curie A Biography
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1938. Small 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; xi, 412 pages; black and white frontispiece and illustrations; former owner’s bookplate on front free endpaper else very good. More
Old Troubadour: Carl Sandburg with his Guitar Friends
New York: Walker (1987). 1st printing with 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; 196 pages; cloth backed boards; b&w drawings by d’Alessio and photographic illustrations; Sandburg’ s guitar playing friends included Segovia, Edward Steichen, June Havoc, Tallulah Bankhead, Edward R. Murrow, Bill Mauldin, Eric Sevareid, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Charles..... More
The Art of Tasha Tudor
Boston: Little, Brown and Co. (2000). Stated First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 148 pages; color illustrations; very good in a very good dust jacket with the price blacked out with marker. More
The Confessions of An English Opium-Eater Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar
NY: The Macmillan Co, 1905. 24mo.; burgundy cloth covered boards, hardcover; xxxiii, 211 pages; boards are edgeworn with lettering on spine faded else very good. More
Confessions of an Opium Eater Little Blue Book No. 95
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924. 32mo.; stiff wraps, softcover; 64 pages; wraps are sunned with tanned pages else very good. More
Memoirs Of Joseph Grimaldi
NY: Stein and Day [1968]. 8vo. cloth backed boards, hardcover; 311 pages; color frontis; black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank; from the dustjacket: “In Grimaldi’s lifetime (1779-1837) he won fame and affection for his pantomines;” Dickens re=ordered the memoirs into a straight narrative of Grimaldi’s life; a very good..... More
The Music of Berlioz
NY: St. Martin’s Press (1972). Small 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine; hardcover; 280 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a sunned and edgeworn dust jacket. More