Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky and Konecky. Reissue. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Carries only the original 1959 copyright date but this reissue later. Hardcover. xii+ 659 pp. with bibliography, index. Miller's monumental biography of Alexander Hamilton. The biographer presents a readable, absorbing account of the man and his life-long.....
New York: Olympia Press, 1968. First edition. Softcover. Rare. First trade edition (there was a virtually impossible to find mimeographed self-printing). Illustrated softcovers featuring a portrait of Solanas on the front cover and the June 4, 1968 New York Post cover "Andy Warhol Fights For Life". 105 pp. plus six.....
Trenton, NJ: John A. Roeblijng's Sons, c. 1933. First edition. Softcover. Illustrated stiff wrappers. No date but circa 1933 (the book was published during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge). 141 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. A tight, very good example, minor evidence of use. A collection.....
New York: Sarh Brighton/ Farrar Strauss, 2007. Hardcover. Fine, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition stated, later (10) printing. Hardcover. 229 pp. A rare first-person account of a 21st century child soldier. Ishmael Beah, 26-years old when this book was published, tells a powerful, gripping story--at age.....
Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991. Softcover. Softcover. 194 pp. with brief contributor biographical information. Near fine, light use of wear. An anthology of 15 short stories of humor and suspense by women authors. Contributors include S.J. Rozan, Barbara Wilson, Nancy R. Herndon, Judith Post, Leila Davis and others.
New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Generally fine (some light foxing to the edges of the text block) in fine dust jacket. Overszied hardcover. 354 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and color poster reproductions. This stunning history of "Porgy and Bess" begins with the 1925.....
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 369 pp. with index. Illustrations. For over a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society---"no two fingerprints are alike". Here, however, the author reveals that the history.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. xvi+ 216 pp. with bibliography, index. With maps and illustrations. Second printing. Deaccessioned from the War Library of a national military historical organization with their bookplate on the front pastedown otherwise fine with no additional markings. In bright.....
Milwaukee: Backbeat Books/ Hal Leonard, 2015. Fine in fine dust jacket. Persumed first edition/printing (no statement or other printings on copyright page). Hardcover. xi+ 426 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photos. The first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. Born Richard Starkey in Liverpoolin 1940, he was raised.....
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1987. Hardcover. Hardcover. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of shallow wear to the spine ends. An inpirational biography that not only highlights Pistol Pete's basketball successes and the fun side of his life but also delves into the perosnl troubles and familiy illness.....
New York: Viking Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover. xii+ m382 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Very good in very good or somewhat better dust jacket. Juliette ("Daisy") Gordon Low (1860-1927) grew up in post-Civil War Georgia. She suffered frequent illnesses, including her hearing impairment, and.....
New York: Grove Press, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover. 318 pp. with bibliography, index, appendices of Laughton plays, films, and recordings. Illustrated with photographs. Biography of one of the great 20th century actors, Charles Laughton (1899-1962). The actor's career.....
New York: Random House, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. x+ 450 pp. with index. Biography of one of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J.D. Salinger. This biography is filled with new information and revelations.....
Stein & Day, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine condition. Hardcover. First edition. 260 pages, with index. Illustrated with photographs. Rocky Graziano's "Somebody Up There Likes Me" hit the bestseller list in 1956 and was a surprise Pulitzer Prize nominee. This follow up tells marvelous tales of Rocky's rise.....
New York: Charles Boni, 1930. First edition. Softcover. First edition. Softcover in Rockwell Kent illustrated stiff wrappers. Illustrated inside covers and endpapers. 247 pp. with index comprised of authors and first lines. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. A tight, very good copy, embrowning to the spine strip. A collection of.....
New York: Thomas Dunne, 2007. Book Club. Hardcover. Hardcover. 262 pp. plus bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Book club. The second in this entertaining and imaginative series of mysteries featuring the famous "Rat Pack" of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. In.....
New York: Knopf, 1984. Hardcover. Hardcover. Fine in generally fine dust jacket with just a bit of toning to the edges and spine. Second printing. xii+ 366 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Biography of groundbreaking photograhper Diane Arbus (1923-1971). She was most noted for her photographic represenations of often.....
NY: TOR, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in ifne dust jacket. Hardcover. 302 pp. Collection of five dragon-inspired short tales. Includes "In The Dragon's House" by Card; "Judgement" by Moon; "Love In A Time of Dragons" by Lee; "Joust" by Lackey; "King Dragon" by Swanwick.
London: Severn, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Color illustrated glossy hardcover. 235 pp. Fine in fine, unpriced dust jacket (Severn marketed their books in both the UK and the US and did not price the jackets). The third in the series of mysteries set in the late 16th century.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in red cloth with front cover lettered in black bordered brown letters, spine lettered in black. This book last in list of five Don Sturdy titles facing the title page, last in last of Don Sturdy titles on.....
New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 206 pp. Illustrated with drawings. Duchovny's unusual parabel/novel featuring Elsie Bovary, a happy cow who, along with her barnyard friend Mallory, sneak out of their pasture to have.....
Guilford, CT: LP Books/ Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Presumed first printing (no statement), jacket priced at $29.95. Hardcover. xx+ 457 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Biography of inga Arvad (1913-1973), a Danish-American journalist who first came to wide notice as a guest.....
New York: Morrow, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. Fine in generally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 351 pp. Illustrated with photographs. In 1966 Harry Constance became a member of the newly formed U.S. Navy SEAL Team Two. By 1970, he was a veteran of three hundred combat missions in.....
New York: Grand Central, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. first edition/printing. A fine, fresh unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 223 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Actor Andrew McCarthy was one of the charter members of the 1980s "brat pack" of young Hollywood stars that included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald.....
New York: Scribners, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 207 pp. with appendix "The Girlfriend Experience Handbook" and appendix "Pimp and Ho" Glossary of terminology and abbreviations for sexual acts as used on the internet and underground. Very good, wear to one corner of the rear cover. In very.....
