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Letters of Virginia Woolf, The: Volume 2 1912-1922


Nicolson, Nigel (Editor), Joanne Trautmann (Asst. Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st American edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Volume II only. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, purple quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age on spine, otherwise in good shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page clean. In very good condition. Even richer than it's predecessor, Vol. II of Virginia Woolf's letters covers the first decade of her marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of the Hogwarth Press; and the years of World War I.

Record # 32340


Price: $23.00 

Lichtenstein in New York: A Pop Art LifeBernardo, Mark P.

Lichtenstein in New York: A Pop Art Life


Bernardo, Mark P.

Softcover. Albany, CA, Roaring Forties Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Gray spine with read lettering. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. This book looks at Lichtenstein's life through the lens of New York City, taking the reader to the Manhattan that Lichtenstein knew, from the Prohibition era through the postwar era and countercultural revolution to the well-heeled iconoclasm of the 80s and 90s. It is a fascinating biography of a major but sometimes neglected trailblazer of 20th-century American art.

Record # 471464


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel


Horan, James D.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 62 pages with b&w images followed by 160 removable illustrations including 36 plates in full color. The first complete biography of Charles Schreyvogel, painter-historian of the indian-fighting army of the American West. Binding a little loose in the back. Dust jacket slightly torn. Otherwise in good condition.

Record # 605058


Price: $58.00 

 

Life and Art of William Merritt Chase, The


Roof, Katerine Metcalf

Hardcover. New York, Hacker, reprint, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Biography over one of Americas central Renaissance painters, following him on his journeys around the world: Munich, Venice, London, Spain and Holland as well as New York and California. Beige cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New copy, still in original shrink wrapping. In mint condition.

Record # 605225


Price: $32.00 

 

Life and Art of William Merritt Chase, The


Roof, Katerine Metcalf

Hardcover. New York, Hacker, reprint, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Biography over one of Americas central Renaissance painters, following him on his journeys around the world: Munich, Venice, London, Spain and Holland as well as New York and California. Beige cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 606143


Price: $32.00 

 

Life and Art of William Merritt Chase


Roof, Katherine Metcalf

Hardcover. New York , Hacker Art Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. Yellow cloth, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856895


Price: $25.00 

Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks -  (3 Volumes)Allen, Alexander V. G.

Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks - (3 Volumes)


Allen, Alexander V. G.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes complete, (524, 542, 530 pages plus index), maroon cloth covers with gilt decoration, lettering, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's bookmarks otherwise clean, tight set.

Record # 801519


Price: $40.00 

 

Life and Letters of Washington Allston


Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805227


Price: $19.00 

 

Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield, The


McCabe, James D.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Jones Brothers & Co., 1st, 1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 768 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt decoration and stamped black border. Gilt lettering on spine with black illustration. Rubbing and edge wear on spine and corners, and binding slant. Decorated end papers, binding cracked in multiple places, but otherwise complete. Black & white frontispiece, with fine steel and wood engraved illustrations, previous owner's signature on end paper.

Record # 408744


Price: $25.00 

 

Life and Services of Gen. John A. Logan as Soldier and Statesman


Dawson, George Francis

Hardcover. Washington, D. C. , The National Tribune , 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Light shelf-wear to illustrated maroon cloth covers with slight fraying to edges of spine. Previous owner's signature on prelim page. Light tanning to title page from printed frontis, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857068


Price: $63.00 

 

Life and Work of Edward Lamson Henry, N.A., 1841-1919, The


McCausland, M.A., Elizabeth, Illust. by: Edward Lamson Henry

Softcover. Albany, NEW YORK, The University of the State of New York, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Authoritative word of Edward Lamson Henry's life and work. Includes extensive information about his work and method, and contains catalogue of paintings, sketches, and watercolors. Good condition; no interior marks, but cover shows age; wear on the spine, bottom right corner bent.

Record # 804641


Price: $30.00 

 

Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, The


Hendricks, Gordon

Hardcover. New York, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 306 b&w illustrations, 54 color plates. Light wear and chipping to dust jacket, price-clipped; a very tight, clean copy.

Record # 605476


Price: $96.00 

 

Life of Abraham Lincoln, The


Arnold, Isaac N.

Hardcover. Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 5th printing, 1891, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. B/W frontisportrait of Lincoln with tissue guard (guard is partially detached). Stain around edges of frontispiece page and very faintly at bottom of title page. Pages age toned and browned on edges. Some browning and discoloration of front inside cover and front flyleaf. Minor smudging and marking to read endpaper. Very faint water stain along bottom edge of pages. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear, marking, and scuffing. Light edgewear, and wear to top and bottom of spine. Corners are rubbed and bumped.

Record # 803244


Price: $40.00 

 

Life of Admiral Mahan, The.


Taylor, Charles Carlisle

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Small sticker, and residue from larger sticker, on spine. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Front hinge cracked. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Some foxing on beginning pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852683


Price: $20.00 

 

Life of Frederick William Von Steuben


Kapp, Friedrich

Softcover. Corner House Historical Publications, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 735 page pages, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456637


Price: $28.00 

 

Life of George Washington, The


Sparks, Jared

Hardcover. Boston, Ferdinand Andrews, 1st, 1839, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 562 pages, including several portraits of Washington with tissue guard and gilt title on spine. Light foxing throughout, spine cracked but cover and all pages intact, small sticker on spine and front endpaper, corners bumped and frayed. Otherwise, in clean and tight condition.

Record # 853965


Price: $60.00 

 

Life of Henry Clay (2 Vols.)


Schurz, Carl

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382, 424 pages. American Statesmen Series, edited by John T., Morse, Jr. Top edge gilt. excellent condition

Record # 61571


Price: $13.00 

 

Life of Israel Putnam: Major-General in the War of the American Revolution


Cutter, William

Hardcover. New York, George F. Cooledge, 1st, 1847, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages, blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. Black and white frontispiece portrait and other engravings. Cloth torn along edges of spine, covers edgeworn, moderate foxing to pages.

Record # 404103


Price: $50.00 

 

Life of John O'Hara, The


MacShane, Frank

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Engrossing biography of famed writer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, which is encased in a plastic sleeve. Light fading to prelim pages. Faint age toning to text block edges. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952586


Price: $19.00 

 

Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, The


Reich, Cary

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1996-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 875 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465801


Price: $15.00 

 

Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)


MacKenzie, Alexander Slidell

Hardcover. Boston, Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1st, 1841, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, brown cloth binding worn, front covers detached, cloth covering on spines mostly gone. Interiors are good plus with bindings still solid. Makes a great set if rebound. Mackenzie was a officer in the US Navy and infamous for the execution of three sailors convicted of mutiny on board the USS Somers in 1842. He was also an author and historian publishing a number of books on naval war heroes.

Record # 412442


Price: $63.00 

Life of Saul Bellow, The: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964Leader, Zachary

Life of Saul Bellow, The: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964


Leader, Zachary

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 832 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Decorative trimming on fore edge, silver gilt to spine. Light sun fading to top edge of boards.

Record # 470122


Price: $25.00 

 

Life, Explorations and Public Services of John Charles Fremont


Upham, Charles Wentworth

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages, frontispiece, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth covers w/ chipping and edge wear. Several pages loose. Some soiling, foxing.

Record # 809000


Price: $40.00 

 

Life, Speeches and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln


Barrett, J. H.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 842 pages. Missing frontis illustration. Brown cloth cover with embossed border, gilt lettering to spine, includes messages, proclamations, letters, etc. Rear interior hinge paper cracked. Worn, faded cover with chipping at top and bottom of spine, foxing evident, light signs of mildew evident to endpapers, previous owner's signature to blank preview page, small newspaper clipping with illustration of and poem about Abraham Lincoln to blank preview page; otherwise a neat, tight copy.

Record # 604790


Price: $96.00 

 

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861


Holzer, Harold

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 2008-10-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 623 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466157


Price: $10.00 

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861Holzer, Harold

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861


Holzer, Harold

hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 640 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468925


Price: $19.00 

 

Lincoln's Quest for Union


Strozier, Charles B.

Hardcover. US, Basic Books, 1st, 1982-06-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466156


Price: $10.00 

 

Lincoln: A Picture Story of his Life


Lorant, Stefan

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton, 1st revised, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages, illustrated throughout on b&w. Light edgewear, creasing and tearing to price clipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Faint foxing to edges.

Record # 856868


Price: $31.00 

 

Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography


Kunhardt, Peter W.

Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992-10-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages, illustrated throughout. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465826


Price: $23.00 

Lincolns, The: portrait of a marriageEpstein, Daniel Mark

Lincolns, The: portrait of a marriage


Epstein, Daniel Mark

Hardcover. New York, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 559 pages. Hardcover. B&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some shelf and edge wear to price clipped dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468894


Price: $15.00 

LindberghBerg, A. Scott

Lindbergh


Berg, A. Scott

Hardcover. US, Putnam Adult, 3rd, 1998-09-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Hardcover. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466814


Price: $13.00 

 

Lives of Margaret Fuller, The : A Biography


Matteson, John

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2012-01-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464711


Price: $15.00 

Look over My Shoulder  A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, AHelms, Richard

Look over My Shoulder A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, A


Helms, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with a 16 page section of black & white photographs. Inside flaps of dust jacket loosely adhered to inside covers. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612418


Price: $31.00 

 

Lost Garden, The - A Memoir


Yep, Laurence

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A memoir by the Chinese American author of many distinguished childrens books. No dust-jacket issued.

Record # 70551


Price: $18.00 

 

Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science


Lurie, Edward

Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages. 40+ black-and-white illustrations. Minor edge wear on dust jacket spine. A little sun-fading along edges of dust jacket flaps. Dust jacket protected by clear, plastic cover. Very light tanning on front flyleaf. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856305


Price: $23.00 

 

Louis Michel Eilshumius


Karlstrom, Paul J., Illust. by: Louis Michel Eilshumius

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume contains 228 illustrations of the work of Louis Michel Eilshumius, including 50 color plates. Also includes a biographical account and analyses of the artist's works. Very good condition; cloth bound book has some marks/discoloration on the cover but no internal flaws.

Record # 804764


Price: $58.00 

 

Louis Sullivan: The Shaping of American Architecture


Connely, Willard

Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.

Record # 405136


Price: $25.00 

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New NationPrice, David A.

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation


Price, David A.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471697


Price: $15.00 

 

Luck Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime


Powell , Hickman

Hardcover. New York, Barricade Books , reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black covers with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466913


Price: $11.00 

 

Machine-Gun Man: The True Story of My Incredible Survival into the 1970's


Kelly, George "Machine Gun"

Softcover. Phoenix, AZ, UCS Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Four black-and-white illustrations. Some edge wear on covers, with a few corners slightly bent. Small closed tear on rear cover. Light wear along spine. A few pages with tiny stains along fore edge. Top corner of pages lightly creased throughout. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856411


Price: $13.00 

 

Madaline - Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans - The Private Writings of a Kept Woman


Upton (Ed.), Dell

Hardcover. Athens, GA, Univ. of Georgia, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 366 pages.

Record # 64320


Price: $25.00 

 

Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story


Pierre, Mark St.

Softcover. US, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st , 1994-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466023


Price: $10.00 

 

Magnificent Adventures of Alexander Mackenzie, The


Vail, Philip

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 216 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket has tape repaired tears and chipping.

Record # 606961


Price: $18.00 

 

Man of the Crowd, The: Edgar Allan Poe and the City


Peeples, Scott, Michelle Van Parys (Photographs)

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st edition, 2020, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 206 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition, like new. Featuring evocative photographs by Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings.

Record # 32316


Price: $19.00 

Man Who Lived Twice, TheBarnes, Eric Wollencott

Man Who Lived Twice, The


Barnes, Eric Wollencott

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading to upper edge of covers and to spine. With an introductory chapter by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Inscription on front end papers, signed 1956 to "Martin" with inscription by "Frances" allegedly to be actress Frances Starr.

Record # 2230894


Price: $25.00 

 

Mark Twain: An American Prophet


Geismar, Maxwell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 564 pages. Decorative red stain on top edge. Minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on book edges. Otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 852773


Price: $20.00 

 

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years


Shelden, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 484 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some black and white pictures. Light wear to edges. Rippling to top dust jacket on front. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233630


Price: $19.00 

 

Mary Cassatt


Carson, Julia M.H.

NY, David McKay, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 193 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 68782


Price: $12.00 

 

Mary Curzon


Nicolson, Nigel

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The story of an American socialite who married into a high position in the British Government. Dj with close tear to rear panel

Record # 55620


Price: $18.00 

 

Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel: A Study of Her Short Stories


Kelly, A. A.

Hardcover. US, Rl Innactive Titles, 1st, 1980-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464827


Price: $19.00 

Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. FullerBusch, Briton Cooper (ed.)

Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. Fuller


Busch, Briton Cooper (ed.)

Hardcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. American Maritime Library; Vol. 9. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230918


Price: $19.00 

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His SlavesWiencek, Henry

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves


Wiencek, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468087


Price: $11.00 

 

Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany


Duncan, Alastair, Martin Eidelberg, Neil Harris

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 160 pages. 127 illustrations including 72 plates in full color displaying Tiffanys wonderful work with stained glass. This book is looks new, still in original shrink wrapping.

Record # 605060


Price: $38.00 

 

Mathews: Masterpieces of the California Decorative Style


Jones, Harvey L.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara, CA, Peregrine Smith, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 127 pp. with b/w and color illustrations. Includes selected bibliography and catalogue of exhibitions.

Record # 804714


Price: $26.00 

 

Matisse - Father & Son


Russell, John

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The story of Pierre Matisse, his father, Henri Matisse, his gallery in NY and the European artists he introduced to America. 415 pages. Color, black & white illust. Dj price clipped

Record # 57297


Price: $35.00 

 

Mauro in America: An Italian Artist Visits the New World


Cazort, Ms. Mimi

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. 60 b&w illustrations, color frontispiece. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Very bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 455672


Price: $25.00 

 

Maxfield Parrish


Ludwig, Coy

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, This is a volume with detailed chapters pertaining to Maxfield Parrish's work, including book and magazine illustration, posters and advertisements, as well as paintings and murals often depicting fantastical or mythological creatures. 224 pages, with over 100 b&w illustrations and 64 full color plates. Includes catalog of selected works, chronology, bibliography, and index. Bound in blue cloth, tight and clean. Clean dust jacket with full color reproduction of painting.

Record # 805156


Price: $51.00 

 

Meaning of Our Numbers, The


Anderson, Jervis

Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A limited ed. excerpt from "A Philip Randolph - A Biographical Portrait" to be published in 1973. Glassine wraps. 25 pages.

Record # 58876


Price: $18.00 

 

Mellon: An American Life


CANNADINE, David

Hardcover. US, See notes, 1st, 2006-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 779 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464306


Price: $19.00 

 

Mellon: An American Life


Cannadine, David

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 2nd printing, 2006-10-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 779 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463812


Price: $19.00 

 

Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont


Bigelow, John

Hardcover. New York, Derby & Jackson, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Corners bumped. Tears to spine. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard.

Record # 801678


Price: $36.00 

 

Memorial to a Marriage


Kirstein & Thompson, Lincoln & Jerry L., Illust. by: Jerry L. Thompson

Hardcover. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Photograph album and essay on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Includes 11 full-page color photographs, and the text is illustrated with other black/white period photographs. Near fine condition.

Record # 804763


Price: $13.00 

 

Memories of a Hundred Years ( 2 Vols. )


Hale, Edward Everett

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 318, 326 pages. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Black and white images throughout. Clean, unmarked set.

Record # 470740


Price: $31.00 

 

Memories of Fifty Years


Wallack, Lester

Hardcover. NY, Scribners , 1st, 1889, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages, blue cloth with bright gilt lettering, top edge gilt. B&W illustrations throughout. His memoir of a lifetime in the American theater in the mid-nineteenth century. A near fine copy, clean.

Record # 602378


Price: $25.00 

Memory fever: a journey beyond El Paso del NorteGonzalez, Ray

Memory fever: a journey beyond El Paso del Norte


Gonzalez, Ray

Softcover. Seattle, Broken Moon Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Seattle, Broken Moon Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, Foxing to fore and top edge. Light shelf wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 223 pages. Record # 467715

Record # 467715


Price: $9.00 

 

Men in My Life - A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950's Manhattan, The


Bosworth, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean unmarked text. Remainder dot to bottom edge.

Record # 614221


Price: $23.00 

 

Men in Space


Segel, Thomas, Illust. by: Dmitri Vail

Hardcover. Boulder, CO, Paladin Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Cover and dust jacket have some wear to corners and edges. Inside is clean and bright, with beautiful b&w and color illustrations throughout by Dmitri Vail.

Record # 853248


Price: $20.00 

 

Mentor Graham - The Man Who Taught Lincoln


Duncan, Kunigunde & D.F. Nickols

Chicago, IL, Univ. of Chicago, 1st , 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 274 pages. Some minor underlining, check marks in margin.

Record # 66486


Price: $25.00 

 

Merchant prince of Boston, Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854


Seaburg, Carl & Stanley Patterson

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. illustrated with a few plates in b&w. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Light overall wear and rubbing, else a very neat, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606348


Price: $90.00 

 

Meriwether Lewis: A Biography


Dillon, Richard

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann, Inc., First Edition, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Deckled side edge, maps to endpapers, black & white illustrations throughout. Light toning throughout. Dust jacket has light edge wear & is protected with a plastic cover. Gilt titles to spine. Clean copy.

Record # 6670162


Price: $15.00 

 

Messengers of the Wind - Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories


Katz (Ed.), Jane

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Some Black & white illust. 317 plages.

Record # 68380


Price: $15.00 

 

Michener And Me: A Memoir


Silverman, Herman

Hardcover. Philadelphia, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, b&w photos. Inscribed (by author?) on half-title page. Light wear and scratching to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453124


Price: $28.00 

 

Mighty Hard Road: The Woody Guthrie Story, A


Yurchenco, Henrietta

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 159 pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Author assisted by Marjorie Guthrie. Introduction by Arlo Guthrie. Some sun-fading and creasing along dust jacket spine. Small stain on rear dust jacket cover. A little edge wear on rear dust jacket flap. Front dust jacket cover creased, with closed and open tears. Tiny tear on bottom of front flap. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856222


Price: $25.00 

Military and Civil Life of General Ulysses S. GrantBoyd, A.M., James P.

Military and Civil Life of General Ulysses S. Grant


Boyd, A.M., James P.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, P.W. Ziegler & Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 731 pages. Green warped covers with gilt and stamped decoration. Tissue guarded frontispiece, black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Binding cracked.

Record # 408344


Price: $63.00 

 

Mirrors of Washington, The


Anonymous

Hardcover. New York , Putnams, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Profiles (not always flattering) of 14 U.S. politicians. 14 caricatures by Cesare and 14 black & white photo portraits. 256 pages. Light fraying to top of spine.

Record # 61237


Price: $12.00 

 

Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania


Sweet, Frederick A.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xx, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. Tan cloth with gilt title to spine. Yellow pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear and rubbing to covers and edges, two small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606304


Price: $20.00 

 

Money Lords, The


Josephson, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, First Edition, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Dust jacket with light marginal wear & protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750937


Price: $19.00 

 

More Generals in Gray


Allardice, Bruce S.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A Companion Volume to Generals in Gray. This book is about the Confederacy's "other" generals, the men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment, and who have been virtually lost to history as a consequence.

Record # 31799


Price: $15.00 

 

Mountain Charley


Guerin, Mrs. E. J.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, new, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401960


Price: $12.00 

 

Mr. Jefferson Architect (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Guinness, Jr. Desmond; Trousdale Sadler, Julius

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DESMOND GUINNESS on TITLE PAGE with INSCRIPTION "My Thanks!" Otherwise, a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230261


Price: $38.00 

 

Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man - Mathew B. Brady


Meredith, Roy

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Front interior hinge tender. Foxing to cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609506


Price: $25.00 

Mrs. Ike: Portrait of a MarriageEisenhower, Susan

Mrs. Ike: Portrait of a Marriage


Eisenhower, Susan

Softcover. Sterling, Vi, Capital Books, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages, b&w photos. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462166


Price: $10.00 

 

Mrs. Lincoln: A Life


Clinton, Catherine

Hardcover. US, Harper, rep, 2009-01-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465780


Price: $19.00 

 

Mrs. Robert E. Lee


MacDonald, Rose Mortimer Ellzey

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages, hardcover. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to boards. Slight soiling to boards as well. Bumping to corners. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A tight copy.

Record # 952058


Price: $19.00 

 

Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporter's Life


Browne, Malcolm W.

Hardcover. New York, Times Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Captivating adventure story and memoir by acclaimed journalist. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light fading to spine. Black-and-white photos throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952584


Price: $19.00 

Murrow: His Life and TimesSperber, A. M.

Murrow: His Life and Times


Sperber, A. M.

Hardcover. New York, June 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 795 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451544


Price: $12.00 

My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last CenturyLamont, Thomas W.

My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century


Lamont, Thomas W.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages, blue cloth covers with spine and cover labels. Light wear soil to covers otherwise clean.

Record # 411793


Price: $15.00 

 

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt


Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 2nd Printing, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608528


Price: $15.00 

 

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt


Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with gilt lettering, 365 pages B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 412216


Price: $29.00 

 

My Dear Wister - The Frederic Remington-Owen Wister Letters


Vorpahl, Ben Merchant

Hardcover. Palo Alto, American West Pub. Co., 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Foreward by Wallace Stegner. Black & white illust. 343 pages. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 55260


Price: $25.00 

 

My Indian Boyhood


Bear, Luther Standing

Softcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else in excellent condition.

Record # 453880


Price: $8.00 

My life in three actsHayes, Helen

My life in three acts


Hayes, Helen

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 266 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469385


Price: $25.00 

My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the DepressionStimpson, Eddie

My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression


Stimpson, Eddie

Softcover. Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 167 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 804368


Price: $12.00 

 

My Road to Opera: The Recollections of Boris Goldovsky


Goldovsky, Boris

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1979-03-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 401 pages, b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Edgewear, rubbing and slight tearing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464458


Price: $25.00 

 

Namath: A Biography


Kriegel, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Green cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine in green. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. pages clean. Looks barely read, in great shape. "In Namath Mark Kriegel has written the first major biography of this authentic icon, uncovering the truth behind the Broadway Joe legend."

Record # 31789


Price: $15.00 

Nana Alexander: ReminiscencesManning, Marion

Nana Alexander: Reminiscences


Manning, Marion

Softcover. Rockport, ME, Marion Manning, 2nd, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 50 pages. Softcover with comb binding. Clean and tight copy with personal inscription on title page, presumably by author "Marion". Family remembrance of Mary Smith Alexander.

Record # 2230905


Price: $23.00 

 

Nancy Reagan / The Unauthorized Biography


Kelley, Kitty

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 4th print, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos

Record # 108433


Price: $18.00 

 

National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans from Original Paintings by Alonzo Chappel with Biographies by E.A. Duyckinck (2 Vols.)


Duyckinck, E.A. and Alonzo Chappel

Hardcover. New York , Johnson, Fry & Co., 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in half leather, 488, 470 pages. Features 119 full-page b&w engravings of famous Americans. Leather shows some edgewear, Vol. 2 with water stain to bottom at gutter, effecting about first 50 pages, stain not touching image, but some of name and description underneath.

Record # 804910


Price: $170.00 

Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ThorpeBuford, Kate

Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe


Buford, Kate

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge page block, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470157


Price: $23.00 

 

Nature of Sacrifice, The: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64


Bundy, Carol

Hardcover. New York, NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 548 pages. Hardcover. Ivory cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations, very clean & unmarked inside. Dime sized, faint mark to top edge. Dust jacket with only marginal wear to edges. A very nice, crisp copy.

Record # 751465


Price: $19.00 

 

New Letters of Abigail Adams 1788-1801


Mitchell (Ed.), Stewart

hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Mitchell 281 pages. Dust jacket flaps pasted to rear end papers.

Record # 64498


Price: $10.00 

 

New, Original and Authentic Record of the Life and Deeds of General U. S. Grant, Containing a Full History of his Early Life; His Record as a Student at the West Point Military Academy; His Gallantry in the Mexican War; His Honorable Career

Hardcover. Fond Du Lac, G. L. Benjamin, Reprint, 1885, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 1038 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on preliminary page. Black & white illustrations. Covers quite worn, rear hinge tender. Good reference copy. Sold 'As-Is'.

Record # 613085


Price: $38.00 

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's WarShadid, Anthony

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War


Shadid, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470277


Price: $10.00 

 

No Ordinary Man: Judge Forbes and His Library


Lockwood, Allison McCrillis

Softcover. US, Daily Hampshire Gazette, 1st, 1994-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 464553


Price: $13.00 

 

No Return Address - A Memoir of Displacement


Vlasopolos, Anca

New York, Columbia University Press, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , Memoir of a Roumanian immigrant who relocates in the American midwest.

Record # 302562


Price: $18.00 

 

Noah John Rondeau: Adirondack Hermit


De Sormo, Maitland C.

Hardcover. Saranac Lake, NY, North Country Books, 3rd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 204 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge and end papers, else a clean, tight copy. Previous owner's inscription on half title page.

Record # 856909


Price: $23.00 

 

Nomad: George A. Custer in Turf, Field and Farm


Dippie (Ed.), Brian W.

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Minor dust jacket edgewear and spotting on top edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 852662


Price: $12.00 

 

Norman Mailer - A Double Life


Lennon, J. Michael

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 947 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 24 pages of black & white photographs. Blue remainder mark on top edge. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613087


Price: $25.00 

 

Norman Rockwell's People


Meyer, Susan E

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Oversized. Red cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. A few pages in the index section are unopened, slightly crinkled. 400 illustations, including 100 plates and 2 foldouts in full color. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 455405


Price: $40.00 

 

North American Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham, The


Walker, John

Hardcover. US, University Alabama Press, 1987-11-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 463741


Price: $10.00 

 

O'Keefe - The Life of an American Legend


Hogrefe, Jeffrey

Hardcover. New York, Bantam Books, First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with white titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with light wear to edges, faint tone to edges & price clipped. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751315


Price: $19.00 

 

Oakum Pickings


Oakum, John

Hardcover. New York, W.J. Johnston, 1st, 1876, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, pseud of Phillips, Walter P. Sketches of life in a telegraph office. Pages slightly soiled. Edge wear to green cloth covers.

Record # 3604


Price: $36.00 

 

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover


Summers, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th printing, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Slate paper covered boards with gold lettering. Dust jacket white with red, blue, and black lettering and author's photograph on back cover. 528 pp.

Record # 401300


Price: $15.00 

 

Old Bill Williams, Mountain Man


Favour, Alpheus H.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, new, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages, b&w illustrations. Light green top edge. Edge wear, light rubbing to dust jacket, spine faded. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850764


Price: $25.00 

 

Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time


Cleaves, Freeman

Hardcover. Newtown CT, American Political Biography Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 422 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulous biography of the ninth American president. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951912


Price: $31.00 

 

On Gold Mountain - The 100 Year Odyssey of a Chinese American Family


See, Lisa

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages

Record # 50869


Price: $15.00 

 

One Hundred Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections in Washington, D.C.


Brown, Milton W.

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Exhibition catalog of American paintings. 240 pages; 100 examples; from colonial-era portraits by John Singleton Copley to contemporary abstractions by Richard Diebenkorn. Each work in full color and is accompanied by an analysis and brief biography of the artist. In very good condition; dust jacket has a few creases around corners.

Record # 806900


Price: $30.00 

 

One Hundred Notable American Engravers


New York Public Library

Softcover. New York, NY, New York Public Library, Reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 38 pages. Softcover pamphlet. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Staple binding. Wrapper (cover) has some tanning from age and wear about the edges (see image). Pages also Alightly tanned but doesn't affect illustrations (plates), or text. Binding tight. In very good shape for its age, no pages missing or torn.

Record # 32279


Price: $15.00 

One Man's America - A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His CountryGrunwald, Henry

One Man's America - A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country


Grunwald, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 658 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Light wear to dj, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 59331


Price: $16.00 

One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American DreamVine, Phyllis

One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream


Vine, Phyllis

hardcover. New York, Amistad, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs in center, Crease/wrinkle in dust jacket on rear bottom edge, otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 468500


Price: $10.00 

 

One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner


Parini, Jay

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2004-11-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 492 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462810


Price: $13.00 

Only ParentRich, Louise Dickinson

Only Parent


Rich, Louise Dickinson

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with just jacket. Normal wear on jacket, slight chipping and some fading.

Record # 2230643


Price: $19.00 

 

Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston


Payne, Daniel G.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 391 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Black and white photos.

Record # 750041


Price: $19.00 

Osbert SitwellZiegler, Philip

Osbert Sitwell


Ziegler, Philip

Hardcover. New York, 1st American, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages, b&w photographs, unclipped dust jacket, some rubbing to covers. Clean and tight.

Record # 451161


Price: $15.00 

 

Oscar Micheaux, The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Great Black Filmaker


McGilligan, Patrick

Softcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, uncorrected proof, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 392 pages. Slight rubbing to covers, otherwise very clean, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an extremely clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 606711


Price: $20.00 

 

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery


Mailer, Norman

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1995-04-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 791 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.ftc

Record # 465721


Price: $38.00 

Other Irish, The: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made AmericaMcCarthy, Karen F.

Other Irish, The: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America


McCarthy, Karen F.

Hardcover. New York, Fall River Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469835


Price: $11.00 

 

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull


Goldsmith, Barbara

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages, b & w illustrations, tight, clean copy, like new, dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 800563


Price: $6.00 

Outside Passage - A Memoir of an Alaskan ChildhoodScully, Julia

Outside Passage - A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood


Scully, Julia

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 107190


Price: $12.00 

Pages From a Cold IslandExley, Frederick

Pages From a Cold Island


Exley, Frederick

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, copy with only minor edge wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on top edge.

Record # 466969


Price: $15.00 

 

Papers of Adlai E.Stevenson, The - Vol I: Beginnings of Education 1900-1941


Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, proof, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Walter Johnson and Carol Evans. Light wear. 588 pages + black & white illust.

Record # 57719


Price: $23.00 

 

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, The - Vol. I: January 6, 1706 through December 31, 1734


Labaree, Leonard. W. (editor)

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w with fold out color center plate. Front cover slightly soiled. Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front flyleaf.

Record # 509981


Price: $21.00 

 

Passions of Andrew Jackson, The


Burstein, Andrew

NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, b&w illustrations, Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 601561


Price: $15.00 

 

Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation


Smith, Richard Norton

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Incisive and revealing look into Washington the man, and his times. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951905


Price: $19.00 

 

Patrik Henry Bruce: American Modernist


Agee, William C., Barbara Rose

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 227 pages. 203 b&w illustrations and 35 plates in full color. Black cloth, blue lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket. Minimal bumps to edges of spine. otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy in mint condition.

Record # 605257


Price: $42.00 

 

Patrik Henry Bruce: American Modernist


Agee, William C., Barbara Rose

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 227 pages. 203 b&w illustrations and 35 plates in full color. Black cloth, blue lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket. Minimal bumps to edges of spine. otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy in mint condition.

Record # 605256


Price: $42.00 

 

Paul Bowles: A Life


Carr, Virginia Spencer

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801471


Price: $10.00 

 

Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy: A History, Volumes I & II.


Buell, Augustus C.

Hardcover. New York , Charless Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1905, Volume I has 328 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Inside is bright and clean. Volume II has 379 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Small stain on bottom of first ~10 pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean.

Record # 852813


Price: $15.00 

 

Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation


Allgor, Catherine

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006-04-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462397


Price: $11.00 

 

Perry's Victory Centenary, The: Report of the Perry's Centennial Commission, State of New York.


Emerson (ed), George D.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Slightly oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, a nice copy.

Record # 852680


Price: $28.00 

 

Personal Reminiscences of the Anti-Slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers


Powell, Aaron M.

Hardcover. Plainfield, Anna Rice Powell, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor stains along top edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612438


Price: $38.00 

 

Philip Evergood


Baur, John I. H.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Copy in mint condition. As good as new.

Record # 605055


Price: $58.00 

 

Philosopher Pickett


Powell, Lawrence Clark

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 178 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Three black-and-white illustrations, plus frontispiece. Tanning along spine of dust jacket. Water stains on front and rear dust jacket covers, cloth cover and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Also some water staining along top edge and on frontispiece and title page. Light foxing on front and rear end paper and flyleaf and fore edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856128


Price: $44.00 

 

Photographing History - Mathew Brady


Komroff, Manuel

Chicago, Britannica Books, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 192 pages. Great Lives for Young Americans Series

Record # 66234


Price: $11.00 

 

Players, The


Maule, Tex

Hardcover. NY, New American Library, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover. Color, black & white photos of pro-football by Arthur Rickerby of Life Magazine. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Some water damage to several pages. Fading to spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 62914


Price: $16.00 

 

Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, but in good shape. Red boards, with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing to edges, however pages clean.

Record # 31443


Price: $15.00 

 

Portrait of a Racist: The Man Who Killed Medgar Evers?


Massengill, Reed

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Record # 30346


Price: $15.00 

 

Portrait of David Hockney, A


Webb, Peter

Hardcover. US, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1989-11-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464139


Price: $19.00 

 

Power with Grace - The Life Story of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson


Ross, Ishbel

New York , G.P. Putnam's sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photographs.352 pages.

Record # 203743


Price: $15.00 

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, ThePaludan, Phillip Shaw

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, The


Paludan, Phillip Shaw

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University of Kansas Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 406307


Price: $13.00 

 

President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman


Miller, William Lee

Hardcover. US, Knopf, book club, 2008-02-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466154


Price: $11.00 

 

Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographs


Sasowsky, Norman, Illust. by: Reginald Marsh

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small tear on the back.

Record # 804762


Price: $51.00 

 

Prison Life and Reflections; or a Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr and Thompson,...


Thompson, George

Hardcover. Hartford, A. Work, reprint, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Chips and wear to edges of covers. Foxing throughout. Tear to corner of last two pages. Otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 855410


Price: $63.00 

 

Private Life of Daniel Webster, The


Lanman, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faded spine.

Record # 801777


Price: $38.00 

Producer, The: John Hammond and the Soul of American MusicPrial, Dunstan

Producer, The: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music


Prial, Dunstan

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 347 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 450321


Price: $18.00 

Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy GalleriesDe

Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries


De

Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1sst, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red and white cover with slight foxing and creasing. Minor wear to corners. Pages are clean and in excellent condition. Tight binding with some wear on the top and bottom of the spine. 163 pages.

Record # 806822


Price: $20.00 

Ptown: Art, Sex and Money on the Outer CapeManso, Peter

Ptown: Art, Sex and Money on the Outer Cape


Manso, Peter

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, b&w photos. Light wear, shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453064


Price: $15.00 

 

Publisher, The


Brinkley, Alan

Hardcover. US, Vintage, 1st, 2010-04-20, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages. Previous owner's markings and notes in pencil. Paper-clip marks to front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464269


Price: $13.00 

 

R. C. Gorman: a Portrait


Henningsen, Chuck

Hardcover. New York, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. color and duotone illustrations and b&w photos throughout. Beautifully illustrating the art of one of Americas most popular artist, Navaho R. C. Gorman. Photography by Chuck Henningsen. Signed by by Gorman on titlepage. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front. A very attractive and well preserved copy.

Record # 605109


Price: $192.00 

Rage for Glory, A: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USNDe Kay, James Tertius

Rage for Glory, A: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN


De Kay, James Tertius

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 237 pages. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 401286


Price: $20.00 

 

Randolph Rogers: American Sculptor in Rome


Rogers, jr, Millard F.

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 237 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. The first comprehensive treatment of the sculptor's life and works, including a catalogue raisonne of over 100 sculptures. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket with slight edgewear, otherwise in good condition.

Record # 605131


Price: $22.00 

 

Rascal King, The : The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958


Beatty, Jack

Hardcover. Reading, Mass., Perseus Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 571 pages, b&w illustrations. Lovely copy. Like new.

Record # 452819


Price: $12.00 

 

Raymond Loewy: (Designs Heroes)


Jodard, Paul, Martin Pawley (Series Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Taplinger Publishing, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Fuchsia cover boards, gilt title on spine. Beautiful copy. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Looks nearly new and barely read. Jodard restates the case for Loewy as a heroic figure in American design and in the development of the design profession.

Record # 32122


Price: $19.00 

 

Reach of Solitude: the Paintings of Ann Taylor, The


Cortright, Barbara

Hardcover. Middlebuty, VT, Paul S. Erikkson Publisher, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 110 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Traces the development of Ann Taylor's art from 1961 to the present. Gray cloth. Dust jacket edgewear, otherwise in good shape.

Record # 605167


Price: $16.00 

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965Beschloss, Michael R.

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965


Beschloss, Michael R.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 475 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge, small stain to bottom of fore edge; else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450856


Price: $12.00 

 

Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page


Freed, Lynn

Hardcover. Orlando, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages, b & w photos, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800782


Price: $15.00 

Ready or Not: Into the Wild BlueAngier, J. Francis

Ready or Not: Into the Wild Blue


Angier, J. Francis

Softcover. US, Success Networks International, 1st, 2004-10-31, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 291 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462079


Price: $13.00 

 

Reapers of the Dust - A Prairie Chronicle


Hudson, Lois Phillips

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib stamp and adhesive residue on front end paper, light soiling. 173 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket.

Record # 65379


Price: $15.00 

 

Rebels United: The Enduring Reality of James Dean


Brean, Joel

Softcover. Indianapolis, Brean-Jones Publishing Co, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Minor edgewear to cover. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851727


Price: $20.00 

 

Recollections of John Ferguson Weir, The


Sizer, Theodore

Hardcover. New York, New York Historical Society, reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. 10 b&w illustrations. Weir's recollections fall into three sections: Memoirs of West Point, the Tenth Street studios and Memoirs of a Yale Professor. Green leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. In good shape.

Record # 605128


Price: $19.00 

 

Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration


Chittenden, L. E.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. B&W frontis of Lincoln statue. Ex-lib with light stamping, front fly leaf missing. tape repair to front hinge, internally very good. Top edge gilt. Some soil to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 300734


Price: $20.00 

 

Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux


Larson, Robert W.

Hardcover. Norman, Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, dog ears on a few pages in rear, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458820


Price: $23.00 

 

Reminiscences: Fifty Years a Lawyer and Appendix, Containing a List of the Officers and Members, and a Copy of the By-Laws of Phoebe Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Collinsville, Connecticut


Barbour, Sylve

Hardcover. Hartford, CT, Hartford Press/The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, has some fading around edges and a touch of soil to covers, gilt title on spine and front cover. Binding quite tight, spine straight, pages unmarked. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations.

Record # 31994


Price: $38.00 

REPORTER WHO WOULD BE KING, The : A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD HARDING DAVISLubow, Arthur

REPORTER WHO WOULD BE KING, The : A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD HARDING DAVIS


Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. US, Scribner, 1st, 1992-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461780


Price: $13.00 

 

Restless Spirit, A: The Story of Robert Frost


Bober, Natalie S.

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 197 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor edgewear on dust jacket and

Record # 2230253


Price: $19.00 

 

Right Time, The


Golden, Harry

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 450 pages. SIGNED BY HARRY GOLDEN ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609664


Price: $15.00 

 

Rise of Saint Calvin, The. Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge.


Gilfond, Duff

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. red stained top edge, untrimmed fore edge. Blue cloth covers with tipped in paper label on cover and spine. light edge wear, light foxing on bottom edge.

Record # 408367


Price: $23.00 

 

Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The


Morris, Edmund

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann & Geoghegan, Book Club Ed, 1979, 886 pages, black cloth covers, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket is edgeworn with some scraping to spine. The book itself is clean and tight.

Record # 407336


Price: $15.00 

Rise to Follow: An Autobiography Spalding, Albert

Rise to Follow: An Autobiography


Spalding, Albert

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 328 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket with wear and chipping to top and edges, somewhat brittle. Otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 2230556


Price: $25.00 

 

Robert Henri 1869-1929


Henri, Robert

Softcover. New York, Chapellier Galleries, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Dark blue covers with silver gilt titles, perfect binding, introduction by Donelson F. Hoops, b&w photographic figures throughout text, chronological biography, checklist of exhibition, 84 full-page plates in full-color and b&w. Extremely light rubbing to covers, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806528


Price: $20.00 

 

Robert Henri 1869-1929


Henri, Robert

Softcover. New York, Chapellier Galleries, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Dark blue covers with silver gilt titles, perfect binding, introduction by Donelson F. Hoops, b&w photographic figures throughout text, chronological biography, checklist of exhibition, 84 full-page plates in full-color and b&w. Extremely light rubbing to covers, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806527


Price: $20.00 

Robert Penn Warren and American idealismBurt, John

Robert Penn Warren and American idealism


Burt, John

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to dust jacket and edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 238 pages. Record # 467501

Record # 467501


Price: $19.00 

 

Rodney


Spinney, David

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 484 pages, with illustrations and decorative blue stain on top edge. Minor dust jacket edge wear, price clipped. "SEA" written on book edges. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852780


Price: $20.00 

 

Romare Bearden - Photographs by Frank Stewart


Stewart, Frank/David C. Driskell/Ruth Fine

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st US, October 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges and corners. Inside is bright and clean, many b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 455381


Price: $40.00 

 

Roosevelt - The Story of a Friendship 1880-1919


Wister, Owen

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, Rep., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 372 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Remains of dj laid-in.

Record # 61566


Price: $20.00 

Roots: The Saga of an American Family (SIGNED COPY)Haley, Alex

Roots: The Saga of an American Family (SIGNED COPY)


Haley, Alex

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday and Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 688 pages, tan boards with black spine. Appears to be a Book Club reprint. Book shows shelf wear, dust jacket has edgewear, chipping. INSCRIBED BY HALEY on front fly leaf, dated August 7, 1981. Previous owner's signature on same page. Light tanning to paper.

Record # 408295


Price: $63.00 

 

Round Barn, The: A Biography of an American Farm: Volume One-Silo and Barn, Milkhouse, Milk Routes


Jackson, Jacqueline Dougan

Softcover. Wisconsin, Beloit Collage Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 539 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing on text block.

Record # 2233451


Price: $19.00 

 

Ruggles Street: The Life of an American Artist


Caulfield, Robert O.

Hardcover. US, RS Publications, 1st, 2006-02-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket with a few small tears to upper edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462371


Price: $13.00 

Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms RaceMcMillan, Priscilla Johnson

Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race


McMillan, Priscilla Johnson

hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 373 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469579


Price: $10.00 

Running Tough - Memoirs of a Football MaverickDorsett, Tony

Running Tough - Memoirs of a Football Maverick


Dorsett, Tony

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 63298


Price: $9.00 

 

Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Record # 605162


Price: $51.00 

 

Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors


Ormond, Richard, Illust. by: John Singer Sargent

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 264 pages. 152 plates, 32 in color. Nice clean copy. Small tear in dust jacket, otherwise in good condition.

Record # 605037


Price: $38.00 

 

Savage Beauty


Milford, Nancy

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 550 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Compelling biography of famed poet. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light scuffing and marking to rear dust jacket upper edge. Slight bumping to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952396


Price: $23.00 

Schulz and Peanuts: A BiographyMichaelis, David

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography


Michaelis, David

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 672 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page block, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470160


Price: $25.00 

 

Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism


Stacks, John F.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2002-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and scratching to lightly soiled dust jacket.

Record # 465872


Price: $10.00 

Secret Life of Houdini, The : The Making of America's First SuperheroKalush, William

Secret Life of Houdini, The : The Making of America's First Superhero


Kalush, William

Hardcover. US, Atria, 1st, 2006-10-31, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 592 pages. Remainder mark to top edge. Illustrations in b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464078


Price: $10.00 

secret life of Houdini, The: the making of America's first superheroKalush, William

secret life of Houdini, The: the making of America's first superhero


Kalush, William

Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 592 pages. Hardcover. B&w photography throughout. Blind stamp on front cover. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Some soil to front cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468897


Price: $15.00 

Selected Essays of T. Harry Williams, TheWilliams, T. Harry

Selected Essays of T. Harry Williams, The


Williams, T. Harry

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light shelfwear to dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471600


Price: $15.00 

 

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike


Updike , John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857425


Price: $10.00 

 

Serpent in Eden: H.L. Mencken and the South


Hobson, Fred C.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, May 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Light rubbing, edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451577


Price: $15.00 


  

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