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.
Biography
Exiles
NY; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1970). 3rd printing; 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 226 pages; signed by author on first free endpaper; a very good, clean, tight copy in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with one closed tear.
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.
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.
Anna Sewell and Black Beauty.
London: George G. Harrap(1956). 1st edition. 12mo., green boards; 73pp.very good in foxed dust jacket.
I Love My Doctor
New York, Crowell (1948). 12mo., cloth; an unconventional story of a conventional marriage between a doctor and a law school student.
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...
Saint Martin de Porres: Many Sided Martin: The First Negro Saint of the Western Hemisphere
Altadena, CA: Benziger Sisters, 1973. 1st edition; stiff pictorial wraps; 134 pages; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy.
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.
Rosa Parks
NY: A Lipper/Viking Book (2000). First Edition; small 8vo; pictorial cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine and deckle edged pages; hardcover; 246 pages; A Penguin Life book; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket with a circular cut out showing Rosa Parks picture.
A Woman’s War in the South Pacific Lady GI The Memoir of Irene Brion
Novato, CA: Presidio Press (1997). Small 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 178 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a similar quality pictorial dust jacket.
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown
NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 73 pages; black and white illustrations; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dustjacket.
I Will Be Cleopatra An Actress’s Journey
NY: W.W. Norton & Co. (2001). Advance reading copy; 16 mo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.
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 jacket.
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
NY: William Morrow & Company (1990). 1st edition with 1 in the numberline; 8vo., cloth backed boards, hardcover; black & white illustrations; a fine clean, tight copy in a fine dustjacket.
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.
Home Before Dark A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever
NY: Houghton Mifflin Co.,1984. 1st edition with 1 in the number line; cloth covered boards, hardcover; black & white photographic illustrations; signed author’s initials S O 5 14 01 on title page; a very good, clean, tight, copy in a price clipped dustjacket.
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.
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.....
Life is So Good
NY: Random House (2000). Small 4to; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine; 260 pages; a remainder mark on bottom page edge in a lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket.
Everett Shinn 1876-1953 A Figure In His Time
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. (1974). Stated 1st edition; small 4to.; cloth backed boards, xvii, 236 pages; hardcover; black & white and color photographic illustrations; former owner’s embossed stamp on dedication page else very good in a dust jacket that has a 1 1/2 inch closed tear on bottom front...
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.....
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.
The Honorable Mr. Marigold My Life With Everett Dirksen
NY: Doubleday, 1972. Stated First Edition; 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover; 297 pages; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly edge chipped dustjacket.
Kate Greenaway: A Biography
London: Macdonald Futura Publishers (1981). Small 4to.; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, 240 pages; hardcover; b/w and color illustrations with family trees at endpapers; very good in very lightly rubbed dust jacket.