Garden City: Doubleday, (1983). First edition thus. Hardcover. Firts printing of this first omnibus collection of Asimov's robot novels and other of his robot short fiction. Hardcover. 557 pp. Fine in very good or a bit better dust jacket, original price of $15.95 intact. The two novels feature interplanetary detective.....
New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xiii+ 804 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Full scale biography of Paul Robeson (1898-1976), a major American figure, the great black singer and actor who was perhaps the most pasionatly outspoken advocate of racial.....
New York: Dutton, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine (with gift inscription top corner of the front free endpaper) in bright, crisp dust jacket.Hardcover. 210 pp. with bibliography. In the early part of the 20th century, the Boston Red Sox were, along with Connie Mack' Philadelphia Athletics, the best.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition (stated)/ first printing of the author's first book.Fine in fine dust jacket. 88 pp. Illustrated by bold, single color drawings, very much in the "flower power" style of the time, uncredited so presumably by the author himself. Warmly inscribed.....
New York: Thomas Dunne/ St. Martin's, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 250 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. The last great don of the Philadelphia and adjacent New Jersey underworlds reveals half a century of La Cosa Nosta Mafia lore--and gore. New.....
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. Fine, unused copy in light blue cloth lettered in black. Issued without dust jacket. 375 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Earl Derr Biggers penned his first novel, "House Without A Key" in 1925 and an Asian detective named Charlie Chan.....
Garden City: Junioer Deluxe Editions, 1964. Book Club. Hardcover. Hardcover. 221 pp. with color frontispiece and additonal drawings by Lilian Obligato. Though a book club title, the first in this format and with Obligato's illustrations. Fine, bright copy in equally fine dust jacket, unusual in this condition. The classic story.....
Ottawa, IL: Green Hill Publishers, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover.xiv+ 543 pp. Fine in dust jacket with shallow edgewear amd chipping. Scarce history of organized crime in New York that details the way east-coast mobs have operated since their inception---through violenec oin one hand, and corruption and bribery.....
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing, Inscribed by Izenberg and dated 10/10/14 on the half-title page. Hardcover. xv+ 305 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Biography of the man called the architect of the modern National Football League, Pete Rozelle.....
New York: G P Putman, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 320 pp with index, statistical appendix. Illustrated Fine in fine, price clipped dust jacket. Told by their manager Ralph Houk, the story of the modern day Murder's Row, the 1961 New York Yankees. It was Houk's first year.....
New York: Scholastic Press, 2012. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. 214 pp. with glossary, bibgliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Young adult. The true story of one of the most macabre episodes in American history. In 1875, an Illinois counterfeiter named Boyd was arrested by Treasury agents and.....
New York: Morrow, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition/printing. BOLDLY SIGNED BY PARCELLS ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE. Fine in fine dust jacket still retaining the "Autographed Copy" sticker on the front panel, a trifle bumped at the outer tips. Hardcover. 235 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Hall of Fame NFL head.....
New York: Morrow, 2004. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 237 pp. Illustrated. Fascinating look at the inner workings of a pro football team and their rise from a laughingstock to Super Bowl Champions. Bill Belichick took over as head coach of the Patriots in 2000.....
New York: Wiley, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. xiv+ 475 pp. with index. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Biography of one of the most complex and facsinating figures in the history of the U.S. miltary, General William Tecumseh Sherman.....
London: Hurst & Co., 2020. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. Firts printing. Hardcover. viii+ 474 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs in color. The author shows the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe's architectural heritage by tracing architectural ideas and styles from vibrant Middle Eastern centers.....
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1986. Hardcover. Hardcover. Fine in bright dust jacket with some fade to the spine. 198 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Young adult. The first paths taken by runaway slaves often led to Native American villages; there they found the hand of.....
Washington DC: Pond Road Press, 2013. Paperback. As new. Softcovers. 83 pages. Poetry.
Princeton University Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. A tight, internally fine copy (foxing to top edge of the text block + endpapers) in very good dust jacket (some foxing). Hardcover. First edition. xix + 483 pages, with index. Illustrated with maps, graphs, and charts.
University of Tennesse Press, 1985. Paperback. Fine. Softcovers. xii + 343 pages with biographical sketches of the authors. Although the female authors of the stories in this anthology enjoy solid reputations in their native countries, their names are virtually unknown to English-speaking audiences. The eleven stories collected here offer diverse.....
Whitesbog, NJ: Joseph J. White Inc., 1924. Softcover. Pamphlet of 31 pp. with photographic front cover and illustrated with photos. About very good with some wear along the spine edge and a small chip/crease bottom rear cover. The pamphlet, put out by a local New Jersey commercial blueberry grower is.....
NY: Scribners, 1989. BCE. Hardcover. Hardcover. Cornwell's second book (after a biography published in 1983) and the first in her wildly successful mystery series featuring M.E./sleuth Kay Scarpetta. Book club ed. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket.
Columbia House, SC: Camden House, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. Firts edition (stated) in English translation from the Austrian. As new, unused review copy with publishre's material laid in. In crisp dust jacket with some sunning to the spine. Hardcover. 205 pp. Translator's preface by Catherine Hutter. Novel by the.....
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. As new (but with some foxing to the top edge of the text block) in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. xvi+ 293 pp. with index. Illustrations. A fresh approach to the study of mesmerism. Most critical studies of the.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Firts printing. As new in crisp dust jacket with some sunning to the spine. Inscribed and dated May 20th, 1980 by the editor on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. vi+ 299 pp. with bibliography, index. Collection of essays that reflect a......
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. xiii+ 391 pp. with bibliography, index. From 1900 to 1924, Spain experienced a stage of vigorous acedemic freedom and unfettered scientific inquiry that contrasted with the repressive atmosphere before and after. The author.....
