New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
First American Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition.
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets.....
Los Angeles: The John Paul Getty Museum, 2015.
First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. A catalogue associated with an exhibition of large-scale bronze sculpture from the Hellenist period (323 BC to the rise of the Roman Empire). Artists of the period created realistic images of physical power and emotional intensity. Bronze.....
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968.
First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation inscription signed by the author on first free endpaper - "For Stanley, my very dear Friend, whose ideas are close to mine, & mine to Stanley's, with love & friendship" - Edward, May 23, '68, N.Y.C.
A continuation of ruminations.....
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1992.
First Edition. Hardcover. In the 1992 Olympic Summer Games, NBA players were allowed to play on the U.S Men’s Olympic basketball team for the first time. Chuck Daly became the first professional to coach a U.S. Olympic basketball team and here recounts his experience with.....
London: John Murray, 1878.
6th Edition. Hardcover. 6th Edition with additions and corrections to 1872 (Twentieth Thousand). The book went through six editions during Darwin's lifetime, each extensively revised to address the scientific and philosophical controversy stimulated by its publication. The 6th edition is the first edition to use the.....
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981.
Hardcover. Aptly titled, The Geography of the Imagination includes 40 essays on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Ives, Melville, Pavel Tchelitchew, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Lois Zukovsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the.....
Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd., 1991.
First Printing. Paperback. First Edition, First Printing following a signed limited edition of 150 copies.
Jazz Graphics - David Stone Martin (DSM) includes about 150 original first issue DSM album covers and about 75 unique drawings of jazz musicians commissioned by a private collector.....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1962.
First Edition. Introduction and notes by Narcissa G. Chamberlain. Illustrated by Juliet Renny.
The foundation of French cooking is the classically simple cookery of the provinces – those carefully considered, well-balanced, everyday dishes executed with the traditional French regard for ingredients of the.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929.
First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. The Dutton Mystery of the Month. This novel was awarded the second prize in Messrs. Methuen's Detective Story Competition, the adjudicators being Mr. H. C. Bailey, Father Ronald Knox, and Mr. A. A. Milne. From the.....
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Forward by Ken Marschall. The ultimate ship modeller's guide to the storied Titanic with practical information on how to construct every part of the liner useful to the builder of a small, bread-and-butter display model or a large-scale version. 400.....
New York: Mysterious Press, 2002.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition, First Printing.
The 13th novel featuring Marcus Didus Falco finds the roman P.I. in the midst of a home improvement project that brings an unwanted "visitor" to his bathhouse. When Falco investigates "accidents" at a British work site.....
New York: Mysterious Press, 2000.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition, First Printing.
Marcus Didius Falco, the cynical, hard-boiled investigator from the rough end of Rome, is back from a difficult mission in North Africa. As a result of his hard work, Emperor Vespasian awards Falco with the title.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1989.
First American Edition. Hardcover. Combining the wry humor of a modern gumshoe novel with the serpentine political intrigues of ancient Rome, Silver Pigs follows the riotous exploits of a hard-nosed private detective. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4", 1/2 blue cloth, black paper over boards, 258pp, 2.....
New York: Mysterious Press, 1999.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. In vino, veritas. But in the water supply of Rome, horror as Marcus Didius Falco is about to find out. Sharing an ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Falco is on the spot when.....
New York: Mysterious Press, 1997.
First U. S. Printing - Advance Reading Copy. Wrappers. First U. S. Printing. Uncorrected Proof Copy - Advance Reading Copy.
Balbinus Pius, the dirtiest underworld organizer in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.
First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. First Edition, First Printing. Author's first work produced by a major publisher. Davis is winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her body of work.
From the publisher: The thirty-four stories.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Davis is winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her body of work.
From the dust wrapper flap: Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. First Edition. Davis was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013 for her body of work.
From the publisher: This engagingly human and candid novel takes us deep into a world.....
Brooklyn: McSweeey's Books, 2001.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Davis was awarded the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her body of work.
From the dust wrapper: Davis continues her sometimes harrowing, often witty, always meticulous and honest narrative investigations into such urgent and endlessly complex concerns as.....
London: The Folio Society, 1995.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Hardcover. Second Folio Society Printing of 1997. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote was first published in Spanish in 1605. The translation by Tobias Smollett was first pubished in 1755 The present edition follows the text of Smollett's.....
Temporarily.
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1992.
Limited Edition. Leather. Limited Edition of 2500 sets, unnumbered.
Originally published in 1937, a practical guide to cooking virtually every kind of wild game, game fish and crustacean with everything from simple recipes to gourmet level preparation by former Waldorf-Astoria chef De Gouy.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2009.
Leatherbound. Collector's Edition. Bound in Genuine Leather. Edited by J. P. Mayer and Max Lerner; Translation by George Lawrence; Introduction by Eduardo Nolla.
Tocqueville visited America in 1831 and recorded his impression of American democracy, its inception, growth and character, with an analysis of.....
New York: Scribner, 2007.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning.....
Vernon, BC: Greenboathouse Press, 2021.
Limited Edition. Paperbound. #44 of a limited edition of 60 numbered copies of a total of 70 copies (10 lettered copies were reserved prior to publication). Winner of the Alcuin Award for Excellence in Book Design.
Printer Jason Dewinetz originally sought to produce a book.....
PBS, 2013-2014.
DVD, 2 boxsets. Two boxsets, first 2 Seasons (total of 5 discs, 9 episodes, 13.5 hours of entertainment). Full UK-Length Edition.
Series #1, 3 discs, 5 episodes, 7.5 hours of entertainment:
Pilot Episode – It’s 1965 and Detective Constable Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) arrives in Oxford to.....
