New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1965. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 368 pp. with index. Fine (ownrsip sig. top corner front free endpaper. in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. The first full-scale modern biography of Martha Washington, the product of imaginative research and a well-seasoned knowledge of colonial and.....
Tokyo: Wayward Press, 1966. Softcover. Color illustrated self wrappers. 103 pp. including a three-page fold out "game board" at rear. Illustrated with humorous drawings.,cartoons and photos dealing with in-country American GIs during the Vietnam War. Rather scarce as this littlle book was printed in Japan and was sold to the.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1914. First edition. Hardcover. First edition with "Published, October, 1914" on copyright page. Warm, lenghty inscription by MacFarlane dated Dec. 1920 on the front free endpaper.Fine, tight copy, no jacket. Hardcover in light brown cloth with spine lettered in black. 269 pp. With four full.....
Oak Forest, IL: Robert Weinberg, 1980. First edition. Softcover. First edition stated. Glossy illustrated softcovers. 96 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of cover illutrations of "Secret Agent X" pulp magazines from the 1920s and 30s. Fine.
Oal Lawn, IL: Robert Weinberg, 1974. Softcover. Illustrated softcovers. Generally fine wth a touch of toning about the edges of the covers. With reproductions of the orignal pulp illustrations and covers of other pulp magazines. A tale that originally appeared in Capt.Hazzard Magazine, May, 1938.
Oak Lawn, IL: Robert Weinberg, 1975. Limited ed. Softcover. Illustrated softcovers. Fine, small date notation top corner of first page. 108 pp. Illustrated with repordctions of the original pulp magazine drawings. Facsimile reissue of two classic pulp magazine tales: Keyhoe's "The Mystery of the Dragon Shadow" that first appeared in.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1956. Hardcover. Hardcover. 222 pp. Illustrated with photos. Fine, some offsetting to the endpapers, in bright dust jacket with scuffing to the spine strip. Second printing. One of the scarcer of the baseball team histories. This is one of teams that was NOT covered in the.....
New York: Soho, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of this English translation. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 324 pp. Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, "The Tattoo Murder Case" was first published in Tokyo in 1948. It won the Mystery Writers Club Award and remains.....
Chicago: Robert Weinberg, 1978. First edition thus. Softcover. Fine. Color 80 pp. illustrated softcovers. Reproductions of the original pulp magazine illustrations. Introduction by Robert Weinberg. Reissues of three pulp magazine classics, "The Lake of Life" by Hamilton that first appeared in "Weird Tales", November, 1937, "The Hunch by Lyle ("Weird.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 289 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. "Goombata", Sicilian slang for "old friends' or "buddies', carries a more sinister connotation---Goombatas are also "people or respect"--members of the Mafia. This is the.....
New York: Gallery Books, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh , apparently unread example in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 386 pp. Illustrated with photos. Born in Brooklyn, Sal Polisi was raised on a family legacy that led him into the life he loved as a......
Oak Lawn, IL: Robert Weinberg, 1974. First edition thus. Softcover. Fine. Illustrated softcovers. 64 pp. Illustrated with the original pulp drawings as awell as reproduction of related covers of "Wonder Stories" pulp where the stories first appeared. This issue contains "The Bleeding Skeleton" and "Fingers of Fear"
Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 1999. First edition. Softcover. Fine, fresh, unread example. First trade edition. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Gryphon Science Fiction Rediscovery # 25. 192 pp. Beginning in 1950, there was a boom in British-published science fiction paperbacks. Most contained the first book editions of pieces that had originally appeared.....
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, with only MCMXXXV on copyright page. 6 1/2" x 5 1/4" hardcover in photo illustrated paper covered boards. 58 pp. Each facing page features a photograph of a bunny or bunnies dressed up as people and performing various human tasks. Good.....
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1936. Hardcover. Hardcover in color illustrated papercovered boards. 5 1/2" x 6 1/2", 64 pp. 1927 with "Edition of MCMXXXVI" (1937) Illustrations in color. Good, corners rounded, some rubbing to both covers, small chip head of the spine at the rear. Child's pencil signature front free endpaper.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition (stated). Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 210 pp. An early Dick Francis set in the world of English horseracing.
New York: Scribners, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton, first printing of the second in the hugely popular series of mysteries featuring New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Fine (tiny dot bottom edge) in fine dust jacket.
University Press of Kentucky, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. xi+ 370 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. Fine in fine dust jacket. With unique beauty and refined acting skills, Ann Dvorak (1911-1979) found success in Golden Age Hollywood during a time when many actors were still struggling to.....
New York: St. Martin's/ Minotaur, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton, first printing. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 273 pp. Another in the wonderfully entertaining, smartly written and histroically rich series of Elizabethan theatre mysteries featuring Nicholas Bracewell and the rest of Lord Westfield's acting.....
Excelsior Books, 1984. Softcover. Softcovers. Very good. 234 pp. with filmography. Illustrated with photos. Joe Besser , the "sissy-talking" member of the later years Three Stooges, recalls his heyday as a top vaudeville and Broadway comedian, motion picture, radio and television personality an of course as a member of the.....
University Press Of Kentucky, 2010. Paperback. Softcovers. x+ 290 pp. with index, detailed appendix of the works of Rains. Illustrated. Fine. One of the scarcest biographies of Golden Age movie stars, this work details the career of Claude Rains. Rains (1889-1967) was a London born actor who grew up with.....
Spring Books, 1996. Softcover. Softcovers. A fien, fresh example, small (presumably) remanined punch top corner. xxix + 217 pp. with index. The first ever translation into English of this underground classic of the Italian Renaissance. It was long surpressed because of Ficino's approach to images, demons, and planets in relation.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. First UK edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. Hardcover in black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 271 pp. Very good or a bit better. In dust jacket withnshallow wear at the spine ends. Winner of the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year, a most unusual (and.....
New York: DC Comics, 2009. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. A fine, fresh, apparently unread example. Includes section of artwork from Batman 608, 619, a promotional cover, etc., and an afterword by Jim Lee.
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in pebbled brown cloth. Frontis engraved portrait of the author, foxed and with foxed tissue guard. 13 additional full page illustrations in the text. 458 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Ownership signature dated 1864 ipon verso.....
