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Agitations - Letters to the Press, 1875-1950


Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, edited by Dan H. Laurence and James Rambeau, 375 pgs. Dust jacket with fade to spine, top edge of front panel.

Record # 105893


Price: $10.00 

 

Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Life


Jones, James H.

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1997-10-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 937 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464126


Price: $11.00 

 

Ambulance in Africa


Thomas, Evan

Hardcover. New York, NY, D. Appleton-Century Company, First Edition, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with brick colored titles to spine. Light wear to crown & heel of spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light toning to edges throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751212


Price: $25.00 

American Journey of Eric Sevareid, TheSchroth, Raymond A.

American Journey of Eric Sevareid, The


Schroth, Raymond A.

Hardcover. S. Royalton, Steerforth Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 462 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Slight slant to spine. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 55628


Price: $15.00 

 

An Eye on the Modern Century: Selected Letters of Henry McBride


Watson, Steven (Ed.), Catherine J. Morris

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and bright. Red endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. McBride became a towering figure in art criticism during the long career that began in 1913.

Record # 32190


Price: $13.00 

 

Apocalypse of the Word - The Life and Message of George Fox (1624 - 1691) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Gwyn, Douglas

Softcover. Richmond, Friends United Press, Reprint, 1991 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages bound in wine colored wraps. Inscribed by the author to title page. Light creases to spine & a touch of faint foxing to top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751197


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Cassino, The


Majdalany, Fred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with age toning, tears to edges & chipping to spine. Toning to edges throughout. Black & white illustrations. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751174


Price: $15.00 

 

Beloved Land, The


Dedijer, Vladimir

Hardcover. London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. There are a few places internally where gutter is cracked. Light soil on covers/page block. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233436


Price: $15.00 

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan StanleyBeard, Patricia

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley


Beard, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with gilt lettering, black and white photographs in center pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page block.

Record # 468441


Price: $11.00 

 

Carlos - Portrait of a Terrorist


Smith, Colin

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 58133


Price: $12.00 

 

Cissy Patterson: The Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Times-Herald


Hoge, Alice Albright

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 237 pages. B&w photos throughout. Pink top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, scratches. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 501958


Price: $9.00 

 

Clare Boothe Luce


Sheed, Wilfrid

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 402524


Price: $10.00 

 

Clare Boothe Luce


Sheed, Wilfrid

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609369


Price: $12.00 

Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With Boss SteinbrennerMadden, Bill

Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With Boss Steinbrenner


Madden, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468446


Price: $10.00 

Dangerous World of Butterflies, The: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and ConservationistsLaufer, Peter

Dangerous World of Butterflies, The: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists


Laufer, Peter

hardcover. Guilford, Conn., Lyons Press, REPRINT, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468801


Price: $13.00 

devil's secret name, TheMorris, Jim

devil's secret name, The


Morris, Jim

Hardcover. Canton, Ohio, Daring Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469499


Price: $13.00 

 

Dolce Vita Confidential - Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950's Rome


Levy, Shawn

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 447 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with yellow titles to black cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket, price clipped, in very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 751292


Price: $15.00 

 

Downhill All The Way - An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939


Woolf, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Record # 609355


Price: $12.00 

 

Education of a Yankee, The - An American Memoir


Hale, Judson

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 261 pages. Dust jacket with shelfwear.

Record # 62060


Price: $12.00 

 

Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism


Edwards, Bob

Hardcover. Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear, scuffing to rear cover of dust jacket.

Record # 457059


Price: $15.00 

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in SudanScroggins, Deborah

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan


Scroggins, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages. Bright and clean dust jacket. Binding structurally sound. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 809074


Price: $15.00 

 

Fabulous Freddie & Saints and Sinners


Green, Paul D.

New York, Funk, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages. Black & white photography. Gift inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket has edgewear, spine sunned.

Record # 207891


Price: $10.00 

Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw JournalistHalberstam, David (Foreword)

Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist


Halberstam, David (Foreword)

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 758 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469801


Price: $38.00 

Fearful Innocence, ADavis, Frances

Fearful Innocence, A


Davis, Frances

Hardcover. Kent, OH, Kent state University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Covers very good, bound in light green fabric. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear, but intact, good. Clean and bright inside.

Record # 31029


Price: $15.00 

Firebrand:: The Life of Horace LiverightDardis, Tom

Firebrand:: The Life of Horace Liveright


Dardis, Tom

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1995-07-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461795


Price: $13.00 

 

Galley Slave


Lake, Austen

Hardcover. Boston, Burdette, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 291 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photography throughout. Gift inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket has edgewear, missing small chunk from front and back. Cover has light edgewear. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 206692


Price: $9.00 

 

Gen

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket very good, unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age. Brown cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled edges, a touch of tanning and the beginnings of foxing to edges. Pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. "Wineapple brings to life the intense, compelling woman who, sporting a monacle, came to be synonymous with our bittersweet, romantic view of Americans in Paris between the wars."

Record # 31768


Price: $15.00 

Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New YorkerKunkel, Thomas

Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker


Kunkel, Thomas

hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469483


Price: $19.00 

 

Genius in Disguise:: Harold Ross of The New Yorker


Kunkel, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, 1st, March 7, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else very good.

Record # 452250


Price: $10.00 

 

George Harvey - A Passionate Patriot


Johnson, Willis Fletcher

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614202


Price: $31.00 

 

Good Times, The


Baker, Russell

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Autobiography of famed columnist. Mild rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Light foxing to all copy edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951252


Price: $19.00 

 

Henry R. Luce - A Political Portrait of the Man who Created the American Country


Herztein, Robert E.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 521 pgs.

Record # 101170


Price: $20.00 

 

His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir


Jenkins, Dan

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped and excellent. Clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read, in very good condition.

Record # 5560120


Price: $15.00 

Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's enforcer and the most feared gangster in the underworldCarr, Howie

Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's enforcer and the most feared gangster in the underworld


Carr, Howie

Hardcover. New York, Forge, 1st, 2011, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B&w photographs throughout. Some stains to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469503


Price: $38.00 

 

Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom (SIGNED)


Williams, Robert C.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 413 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on flyleaf and title page. Biography of open-minded newspaper publisher. Inscription sticker affixed to front dust jacket panel. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952559


Price: $39.00 

 

Horace Ward Bailey (1852-1914) - Vermonter - A Memorial by His Friends


Fish, Frank L.

Hardcover. Rutland, Tuttle, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Hardcover. Light wear to brown cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613233


Price: $19.00 

 

Horace Ward Bailey - Vermonter - A Memorial by His Friends


Fish (Editor), Frank L.

Hardcover. Rutland, Tuttle, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Special deluxe edition of 125 copies - this being number 21. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover edges, minor loss of leather at top of spine. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614201


Price: $23.00 

Hotel, The: A Week in the Life of the PlazaKleinfield, Sonny

Hotel, The: A Week in the Life of the Plaza


Kleinfield, Sonny

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 334 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing on top edge, corners bumped and frayed. dust jacket shows edgewear and has small rips to top spine. Water stain on rear dust jacket.

Record # 470297


Price: $10.00 

 

House in France: A Memoir, The


Wells, Gully

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471238


Price: $15.00 

 

Invisible Man, The: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells


Coren, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471245


Price: $11.00 

 

Lardner on Baseball


Lardner, Ring, Jeff Silverman (Editor)

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, The Lyons Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 492 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cream cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Light remainder mark on bottom edge. Pages clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A look at the life of the sports journalist and fiction writer.

Record # 32198


Price: $19.00 

Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful BirdBarcott, Bruce

Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird


Barcott, Bruce

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 313 pages, light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457308


Price: $8.00 

 

Letters of Lincoln Steffens, The (2 Vols.)


Winter, Ella and Granville Hicks (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust Previous owner's sticker on front end paper, otherwise

Record # 56996


Price: $35.00 

 

Life and Legend of Gene Fowler, The


Smith, H. Allen

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609334


Price: $10.00 

 

Life, Journalism and Politics - Volume II


Spender, J.A.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick Stokes, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume 2 only (of 2 volumes), but this copy SIGNED BY SPENDER on front fly leaf and dated (1928). Clean and tight copy.

Record # 402886


Price: $25.00 

 

Live From the Battlefield - From Vietnam to Baghdad 35 Years in the World's War Zones


Arnett, Peter

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 463 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 205155


Price: $15.00 

Looking For Trouble - The Life & Times of a Foreign CorrespendentBeeston, Richard

Looking For Trouble - The Life & Times of a Foreign Correspendent


Beeston, Richard

Hardcover. London, Brsssay's, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 55604


Price: $18.00 

 

Luce - His Time, Life and Fortune


Kobler, John

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pgs

Record # 70770


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 

 

Marches, The - A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland


Stewart, Rory

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, First US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to brown cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750910


Price: $19.00 

 

Max Lerner : Pilgrim in the Promised Land


Lakeoff, Sanford

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1998, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 323 pages. Black and white photographs. Riveting biography begins with this gifted writer and educator's unpublished memoir. Notes and Index.

Record # 803028


Price: $10.00 

Men of Autumn, The: An Oral History of the 1949-53 World Champion New York YankeesForker, Dom

Men of Autumn, The: An Oral History of the 1949-53 World Champion New York Yankees


Forker, Dom

Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Taylor Pub, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Includes appendix of player statistics. Spine lightly cracked on 4 sections. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468451


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986Will, Geroge F.

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986


Will, Geroge F.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. A collection of his columns & essays from the 80's. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 58145


Price: $12.00 

 

Movable Type: Biography of Legh R. Freeman


Heuterman, Thomas H.

Hardcover. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Light abrasion on front fore edge. Bottom front corner bumped.

Record # 2233416


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 Own, My Country's Time - A Journalist's Journey


Royster, Vermont

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A memoir by a longtime editor of the Wall St. Journal.

Record # 61079


Price: $20.00 

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels (SIGNED COPY)Garrels, Anne

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels (SIGNED COPY)


Garrels, Anne

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

Record # 470513


Price: $19.00 

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne GarrelsGarrels, Anne

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels


Garrels, Anne

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on rear dust jacket.

Record # 470316


Price: $15.00 

 

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist


Gordon, Lois

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 447 pages. Cover and dust jacket have very little wear. Bright and clean, b&w photographs throughout.

Record # 455889


Price: $25.00 

 

Nicholas and Alexander: The Family Albums


of Greece, Prince Michael/Andrei Maylunas & Francesco Venturi

Hardcover. London, UK, Tauris Parke Books, First Thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover, coffee-table sized. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Full pages black & white photographs throughout. Prince Michael of Greece, the author and biographer, is the grandson of Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, thereby given access to the family photograph albums featured throughout. Clean, bright, unmarked pages. Dust jacket with light tone to top edge, and light wear. A very nice copy.

Record # 751459


Price: $50.00 

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth LawrenceWilson, Emily Herring

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence


Wilson, Emily Herring

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "...one hundred years after her birth, No One Gardens Alone tells for the first time the story of this fascinating woman. Like classic biographies of literary figures such as Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, this book reveals Lawrence in all her complexity and establishes her, at last, as one of the premier gardeners and garden writers of the twentieth century."

Record # 30425


Price: $23.00 

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New YorkerLane, Anthony

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker


Lane, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 784 pages. Hardcover with lightly faded dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor bump on covers bottom edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468499


Price: $23.00 

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 

 

Open Polar Sea, The - A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States"


Hayes, Isaac I.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, Reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & spine. Gilt and black printed decorations & titles. Toning throughout. 16 illustrations in b/w. Frontis illustration, A Bear Hunt, by Darley. Decorative chapter tail-pieces drawn on wood from photos, sketches & engraved by J. A. Bogert. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tear to p. 327. Clean copy. Distinctive covers & spine.

Record # 750402


Price: $38.00 

 

Passion for Anonymity, A - The Autobiography of Anonymity: The Second Half


Brownlow, Louis

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 500 pages, b&w photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with chipping and edgewear to dust jacket. Chunk missing from rear top dust jacket.

Record # 512137


Price: $18.00 

 

People, People Everywhere - Footprints of a Wanderer


David, Bob

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st, 1936, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. A collection of articles which first ran in the New York Sun.

Record # 55891


Price: $18.00 

Peter Jennings: A Reporter's LifeDarnton, Kate (Editor)

Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life


Darnton, Kate (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Ghost of pice-sticker to front cover of dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450286


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

Pultizer


Swanberg, W.A.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos, 462 pages. Dj with light edgewear

Record # 58124


Price: $20.00 

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 

 

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


Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. US, Scribner, 1st, 1992-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460772


Price: $13.00 

 

Rescue Squad - A Fireman's Fascinating Account of His Dangerous Job


Ferazani, Larry

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendix of vintage emergency response procedures. Small tear to top corner of dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight, copy.

Record # 68007


Price: $45.00 

 

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 

 

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 

Scribe: my life in sportsRyan, Bob

Scribe: my life in sports


Ryan, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468853


Price: $13.00 

 

Secret Life of Walter Winchell, The


Stuart, Lyle

Hardcover. New York , Boar's Head Books, 1st, 1953, 253 pages. Black cloth. Dust jacket shows wear and creasing to edges, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 810090


Price: $12.00 

Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples TempleLayton, Deborah

Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple


Layton, Deborah

Hardcover. NY, Anchor/Doubleday, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Black & white photos throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 58135


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn


Moorehead, Caroline

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages. Dust jacket is price clipped with light wear to edges of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457104


Price: $15.00 

Six Presidents, Too Many Wars - The 40 Year Memoirs of a Washington CorrespondentLawrence, Bill

Six Presidents, Too Many Wars - The 40 Year Memoirs of a Washington Correspondent


Lawrence, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket has edgewear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 205875


Price: $12.00 

 

Stanley Morison


Barker, Nicolas

Hardcover. Cambrdige, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st edition, 1972, 566 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tears (taped) at the edges from agewear (see image). Top edge dyed. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. Barker has written an account of Morrison's life at once balanced and humane with a rare degree of insight into his complex and fascinating character.

Record # 32330


Price: $23.00 

 

Starting Out in the Thirties


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages. Hardcover. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Dust jacket unclipped, has a little agewear, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Some slight tanning from age/shelfwear to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Tells of Kazin's coming of age in the decade that began with the depression and ended with the outbreak of WWII.

Record # 31774


Price: $15.00 

Staying Tuned: A Life in JournalismSchorr, Daniel

Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism


Schorr, Daniel

hardcover. New York, Pocket Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 469626


Price: $10.00 

 

Stranger at the Party


Lawrenson, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Deckled, untrimmed edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Note in marker to back page. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, author's initials in gilt on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A touch of foxing to edges. In great condition. Lawrenson tells the story of her own life against the backdrop of the glamorous world of Vanity Fair, as well as against the atmosphere of the waterfront that she came to know through her husband's work with the National Maritime Union.

Record # 32327


Price: $23.00 

 

Take the Connoli: Stories from the New World (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Vowell, Sarah

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Hardcover. AUTHOR SIGNED BOOKPLATE on front flyleaf. Gray cover boards, red gilt title stamped on spine. Boards excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning to edges, otherwise very good. Top edge has just a little foxing. Binding tight, clean and bright inside, spine straight. In great shape. A moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene..

Record # 31680


Price: $19.00 

 

Tales of the Observer


Edwards, Richard H.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Jordan Marsh Company, First US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & faded gilt titles to spine. Binding worn with some soiling and sunning to edges. Red ribbon marker with tears to edges. Profuse illustrations in black & white, light toning to edges, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751437


Price: $15.00 

 

Ten Pains of Death, The


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., First US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Pale red cloth boards with sunfaded spine & top edge, navy printed titles to spine. Fraying to head & heel of spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf & faint toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751177


Price: $25.00 

 

Texas Cowboy, A: Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1st Thus, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 198 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations by Tom Lea throughout. With Biographical Study & introduction by J. Frank Dobie and drawings by Tom Lea. Has original dust jacket, unclipped, has a touch of age wear. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Bump to back cover board bottom. In great shape for its age. Originally published in 1885 as a paperback, this reissue is Siringo's chronicle of his years as an "itching-footed" boy, cow hand, range detective, and adventurer and is told with enormous gusto and relish.

Record # 32242


Price: $25.00 

 

The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times


Frankel, Max

Hardcover. Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 546 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear, scuffing to dust jacket.

Record # 456857


Price: $15.00 

Tonight at Noon: A Love StoryMingus, Sue

Tonight at Noon: A Love Story


Mingus, Sue

Hardcover. US, Pantheon, 1st, 2002-04-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461554


Price: $11.00 

Uncivil LibertiesTrillin, Calvin

Uncivil Liberties


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Light wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 63979


Price: $15.00 

 

Vanished Imam, The - Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon


Ajami, Fouad

Hardcover. London, I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd., First Edition, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Frontis illustration, Musa al Sadr, in black & white. Stamped top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751225


Price: $31.00 

Vanity Fair Book, The: The Highspots in Pictures and Text from America's Smartest MagazineFair, Vanity

Vanity Fair Book, The: The Highspots in Pictures and Text from America's Smartest Magazine


Fair, Vanity

Hardcover. New York, John Day Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 174 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in brodart cover, some chipping and fading underneath. Discoloration along spine, but otherwise good and tight copy.

Record # 33521


Price: $106.00 

Villard: The Life and Times of an American TitanBorchgrave, Alexandra Villard de

Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan


Borchgrave, Alexandra Villard de

Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470165


Price: $19.00 

 

Where Has Last July Gone? Memoirs


Middleton, Drew

Hardcover. New York, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Memoirs of a foreign correspondent. Light fading to dust jacket top inner edge. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, light rubbing to board top and bottom. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952257


Price: $19.00 

 

Who Killed Daniel Pearl?


L

Hardcover. Hoboken, Melville House Publishing, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750225


Price: $15.00 

 

William Allen White - The Man From Emporia


Rich, Everett

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, Unk., 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 58149


Price: $18.00 

 

Winchell - Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity


Gabler, Neal

NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 681 pages, black & white photos.

Record # 68051


Price: $20.00 

 

Witness to a Century / Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious and the Three SOBS


Seldes, George

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos

Record # 108428


Price: $18.00 

World is my Home, The: A MemoirMichener, A., James

World is my Home, The: A Memoir


Michener, A., James

hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 519 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469625


Price: $10.00 

Writing HomeBennett, Alan

Writing Home


Bennett, Alan

Softcover. New York, Picador, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750143


Price: $11.00 

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