Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, (1925). Hardcover. Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and with tipped on color illustration of Alice and the White Rabbit. Generic illustrated endpapers. 335 pp. (two volumes in one). Illustrated with the original John Tenniel drawings as well as with six color plates.....
New York: Standard Press, 1934. Wraps. 9" X 12" in illustrated wrappers featuring an oval photographic portrait of musical comedy star Fanny Brice ( the original "Funny Girl" portrayed by Barbara Streisand on stage and screen) The 1934 revue was titled "Ziegfeld Follies: Glorifying The American Girl". 16 pp. of.....
Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1997. Second printing. Softcover. Very good, tightly bound, with no spine crease. No writing, highlighting, or underlining. NOT ex-library. A bit of curl and light creasing at the cover's tips, very minor edge wear, and faint evidence of an old price sticker to upper front cover.....
New York: Standard Press, 1938. Wraps. 9" x 12" in illustrated wraps. Fine, bright example. 12 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the performers, humorous drawings, etc., including a full page "cartoon" by Harold K. Simon in which are depicted caricatures of (it being at the early days fo World.....
New York: NYU Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. hardcover. ix + 279 pp. with bibliography, filmography, index. Illustrated qwith photos. A profound and serious investigation of the popular cultural form as represented by science fiction films that have been filled with.....
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Hardcover. Oversized in color illustrated glossy hardcovers. Fine, fresh example/ issued without dust jacket. 72 pp. with bibliography. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. "The Obelisk" in New York City's Central Park is one of a separated pair of ancient Egyptian obelisks (the other.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 275 pp. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a work of historical fiction revolving around gay life in Americathat moves between the present day and the past of 50 years before.....
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1973. Second printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in maroon cloth lettered in gilt. Fine, bright, unused copy. No jacket. xiii+ 183 pp. with index. Foreword by Albert W. Gleason, NYPD Bomb section. Illustrated throughout with photographs, diagrams A guidebook for law enforcement and fire departments on detecting.....
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1991. Third UK edition. Hardcover. Fine, tightly bound, apparently unread hardcover. Third UK printing. 52 pp. The incredibly scarce third book in the "Little Angel" story book series. Funny (but spoiled) Gabrielle is sick in bed, with no friends or presents to cheer her up.....
Barcelona, Spain: Random House Mondadori, 2006. Hardcover. Thick, oversized hardcover in day-glo yellow paper covered boards lettered and illustrated in black. Fine, fresh copy in fine, bright, crisp dust jacket with a shallow scuff foot of spine. 413 pp. plus index of titles. Illustrated in color throughout. Text in Spanish.....
Minneapolis Zenith Press: Zenith Press, 2010. Softcover. Thick softcover. 480 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Very good or a bit better, very slight signs of use. The story of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) in combat during WWII. The group made a record four jumps.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in tan paper covered boards lettered and decorated in dark brown. First edition with this book last in list of Hardy Boys titles on verso of the title page along with Ted Scott Flying Stories "Brushing The Mountain Top" (also.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in tan paper covered boards stamped in dark brown. Orange illustrated end papers. 210 pp. Frontispiece illustration. Copyright page states only 1929 but this edition c. 1949 with "The Sign of the Crooked Arrow" last in list on verso of the.....
New York: Morrow, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First printing (correct number line with "1"). Small folio (9 1/2" x 13") in black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Unpaginated (92 pp.) Introduxction by Donald Barthleme. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with a couple monor faults at the spine extremities.....
La Jolla, CA: Green Tiger, 1979. Third printing. Hardcover. Near fine, tight and bright, with a minor touch of bumping to lower tips. Issued without dust jacket. Second hardbound edition, third printing (stated). Hardcover. Unpaginated. A dreamy children's book about whimsy. Lovely illustrations, with text in violet calligraphy.
London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1988. Hardcover. Hardcover. xiii+ 688 pp. with bibliographical essay, glossary of abbreviations, index. With 14 maps, 4 tables , three figures. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket, U.S. price clipped by publisher, U.K. price intact. 5th ptg. A massive and comprehensive survey of the history of.....
New York: Scribners, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. xx+ 405 pp. with bibliography, index. Focusing on the five dominant European powers (Great Britian, France, Austria, Germany, and Russia) the author characterized the 1840s as the decade when the modern era began.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Hardcover in red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine (small own. name stamp top corner front free endpaper, in bright, crisp dust jacket with a couple very minor flaws. xxxiii+ 605 pp. with index to this.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (matching dates and number line with "1"). Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket wirh "0977" code on the font flap and $7.95 price intact. Hardcover. 280 pp. The fifth suspense novel in the deGier and Grijpstra Amsterdam Cops series. In this.....
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing stated. Hardcover. 242 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fade to "Somebody" on the spine and a very small fault at the foot of the spine. Edge creasing to the upper outer portion of the rear flap.....
Mystic , CT: Mystic Seaport, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Inscribed, signed and dated May 2000 by the author on the half-title page. Oversized hardcover in light tan cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 280 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. The autobiography of Olin Stephens, one of.....
Maynard, MA: Artifax Books, 1990. First edition. Softcover. First printing. Fine, bright copy. Oversized in illustrated stiff wrappers. 87 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs, vintage reproductions, vintage illustrated advertisements, and diagrams. Essential reference work for identifying, dating and collecting vintage Morse Code semi-automatic "bug keys". It provides details of differences.....
New York: Random House, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. Correct first edition with "First Edition" stated and number line with "2" as , counterintuitively, is correct for this publisher at that time (second printings dropped the "First Edition" statement). Hardcover.....
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 257 p. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. It was termed "the fight of the Century" and was more than the long-awaited showdown between two superb athletes in their prime.....
New York: FSG, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated), first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 515 pp. with bibliography, index. a comprehensive collectionof the poetry of Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott (1930-2017) from the years 1948 through 1984. Walcott's first collection, "25 Poems" was released in.....
