Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Indianapolis - New York, 1981.
Paperback. Presentation "To ---" Signed by Mark Becker (son of the author and grandson of Irma Rombauer) on first free endpaper. With a brief afterword by Ethan and Mark Becker and a tribute by Cecily Brownstone.
Marion Rombauer Becker’s reminiscences and a......
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927.
5th Impression. Hardcover. Special cloth binding with gilt top-edges and leather title labels decorated and lettered in gilt on spines by Riviere & Son.
The letters of English writer, traveler, political appointee, and archaeologist Gertrude Lawrence selected by her stepmother Lady Florence Bell after her.....
Picador USA, 2022.
Paperback. A Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph
[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism. --Anne Applebaum, The.....
Penguin Press, 2019.
Hardcover. A New York Times Notable Book of 2019A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literatureAt the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Paperback. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Their journey to the White House is a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal, that stretches from the Klondike Gold Rush.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation inscription signed in red ink by the author at Christmastime in year of publication.
Bernstein recalls his childhood, his education, his musical triumphs, enriched by his take on American music and culture, the art of conducting, and the role of.....
San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor, 1945.
Limited Edition. Wrappers. Limited fine press commemorative edition published by Francis P. Farquhar and Edward DeWitt Taylor (Taylor & Taylor Printers of San Francisco) of a letter written by Major Frederick Langwith Berry to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Berry, of Palo.....
Grand Central Publishing, 2021.
Paperback. With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one.In 2016 comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet Jennifer.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Hardcover. First Edition.
Biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear weapons. The book was written over a period of 25 years and received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book chronicles Oppenheimer's personal.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Hardcover. First Edition.
Biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear weapons. The book was written over a period of 25 years and received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book chronicles Oppenheimer's personal.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Hardcover. In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery" to give voice to the gourmet's complex.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Paperback. In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the Dean of American Cookery to give voice to the gourmet's complex.....
Broadway Books, 2018.
Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures.....
Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Paperback. **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**"Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the.....
Random House, 2022.
Hardcover. This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part--and of a woman's struggle to go forward in the face of loss."What a book this is--full of.....
Random House Trade, 2023.
Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part--and a woman's struggle to go forward in the face of loss--that "enriches the reader's life with urgency and gratitude" (The Washington Post)"A pleasure.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Paperback. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization," at least in the conventional story of Rome's collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive.
Alaric grew up near.....
New York: Knopf, 2022.
Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and.....
Penguin Books, 2017.
Paperback. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK
"Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she's not wrong.....
Ecco Press, 2021.
Hardcover. A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of.....
Picador USA, 2020.
Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONThe Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 2011.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing.
The life of chess champion Bobby Fischer from his early beginnings as a childhood chess prodigy to his reign as world Champion and his eventual plummet to disturbed recluse. Material drawn from Fischer family archives, FBI files, and.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Hardcover. In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir--featuring an introduction by.....
Berlin: Jovis, 2012.
Flexible boards. Thick large octavo, 7-1/2 x 9-1/4", white paper over flexible boards, 606pp, biblio., fully illus. A discussion of the work and careers of significant female designers who have managed not only to work actively and successfully in a male-dominated field, but have achieved public acclaim.....
Grove Press, 2020.
Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
In 1961, Sarah M......
