Kent: Kent State University Press, (2007). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, purple cloth, xix, 293pp, apps., index. The creators of Narnia and Middleearth, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, were close friends and colleagues who met frequently with a community of fellow writers at Oxford in the 1930s and.....
London: William Pickering, 1839. Leatherbound with fore-edge painting. 4-1/8 x 6-1/2", blue full leather, raised bands, all edges gilt, frontis. engraved portrait of the poet with tissue guard, ribbon marker. With a fore-edge painting of a maritime scene. A crew of six men in a row boat with a sailing.....
London: Academy Editions, 1995. Softcover. Quarto, 10 x 12", stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, 128pp, over 200 illustrations, mostly in color. Architectural Monographs No 39. The work of Allan Greenberg who uses classical architectural themes in modern contexts. This monograph presents a range of the architect's work including residential.....
The Criterion Collection, 2007. DVD. Boxset, 2 discs, 104 minutes. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime—and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by.....
HBO Home Video / Time WArner, 2000. DVD Boxset. Boxset of 4 discs comprising 13 episodes plus special features, including: video interview with Sopranos creator David Chase by Peter Bogdanovich; 2 behind-the-scenes features, web-links and more. Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. .....
New York: Sterling Children's Books, (2017). Illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, pictorial paper over boards, fully illus. in color. Signed by author and "Rufus" in red ink on title page. Rufus the Pig has already gone to school and sailed the seas. Now, for his third.....
New York: Browndeer Press / Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 10-3/8 x 11-5/16", glossy pictorial paper over boards, fully illustrated in vivid color. Presentation copy, signed by the author with best wishes on the first free endpaper. The author/artist pairs and illustrates.....
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., (1992). Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 10-3/4 x 10", green cloth, 159pp, 160 intricately imaged full-color illustrations. First Edition, Second Printing. In this first book in the Dinotopia series set in 1860, Arthur Denison and his young son, Will, set out on.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (1999). Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 10-1/2 x 10", blue cloth, 60pp, 160 intricately imaged full-color illustrations, easy-to-learn folding board game bound in with game cards. Signed by the author on half-title. The third book in the Dinotopia series takes us back.....
Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, (2007). Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 10-1/2 x 10", 1/2 black cloth, dinosaur skin over boards, 159pp, fully illus. in vivid color, including maps, cut-away views, and mechanical diagrams, ribbon bookmark bound in, accordion set of 7 3-1/2 x 7".....
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., (1995). Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 10-3/4 x 10", blue cloth, 159pp, 160 intricately imaged full-color illustrations. Dinotopia is land of excitement and discovery where humans and dinosaurs live and work together interdependently. In this sequel, we follow a tiny band of.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 224pp, black boards. First Edition. Inscribed by author on title page: "To ---. You know I love you. Dear Friend." An intimate and honest portrayal of a mother's struggle to understand her two runaway daughters and keep them safe...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 red cloth, black paper over boards, 305pp, in clipcase. Signed by the author on the title page. Powells.com IndieSpensable Volume 59, with pamphlet with interview with the author laid in, in custom slipcase. "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi.....
Berkeley: Bios, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 3-5/8 x 7-3/4", green cloth, 43pp. One of a limited edition of 100 copies bound in cloth by Wesley B. Tanner. An additional 500 copies were paperbound. A novella set in post-World War I Europe depicting the ravages of war. As new in very.....
Salem: Beaverdam Press, 1992. Illustrated by Richard Bunse. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 16mo, first five volumes quarterbound in dark forest green Harmatan goat skin with multicolored paper over boards designed by Richard Bunse and produced by Sandy Tilcock, invoking the natural imagery of the Pacific Coast region, five diary volumes have.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, black and gilt decorated brown full leather, xiv, 416pp, index, 44 plates, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered, unused Derrydale Press personalizable bookplate laid in. Originally published in 1913, Halford's classic covers everything.....
Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley & Co., Publishers, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, embossed brown cloth with gilt decoration front board, 260pp, 3pp ads. An updating and thorough revision of a work originally titled "Notes on the Western States". Chapters: The Western Plain-its limits-its topography-the general character of its formation; The River.....
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Quarto, stiff pictorial wrappers, 420pp, biblio., 405 illus. First paperback edition. Essays by Kurt Andersen, Steven Heller, and Rick Poynor. Book originated by Edward Booth-Clibborn. A comprehensive overview of the design work and social conscience of Tibor Kalman and M&Co.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 orange cloth, grey paper over boards, 76pp. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker. "Women in the Dark" was published in Liberty magazine in three installments in April of 1933 and was published in a pulp paperback edition in.....
New York: Random House, 1966. First Printing, Book Club Edition. Octavo, black cloth, xxi, 355pp, top-edge green. Edited and with an Introduction by Lillian Hellman. A collection of nine stories which have never appeared in hardcover before plus first publication of an unfinished novel, "Tulip." The stories mostly feature the.....
New York: Random House, 1974. Octavo, 1/2 red cloth, red embossed paper over boards, xxix, 287pp. Selected and with an Introduction by Steven Marcus. A collection of seven early Hammett stories which first appeared in "Black Mask" and introduced the Continental Op, a hard-boiled operative of the Contintuental Detective Agency.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. 6th Printing, November 1930. Octavo, orange cloth with black falcon front board, 267pp, 11pp ads, green top-edge. 6th Printing of the Grosset & Dunlap edition published November 1930, same year as that of the first edition, of this classic hard-boiled whodunit featuring the iconic.....
Warner Home Video, 2005. DVD, Set of 6. A complete collection of the six classic films produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1934-1947 based on the characters and antics of Dashiell Hammett’s iconic detectives Nick and Nora Charles and starring William Powell and Myrna Loy in the title roles. The first film, The.....
Seattle: National Park Service Pacific West Region, 2004. Final Draft. Spiral bound. Quarto, spiral bound with stiff pictorial wrappers, 171pp + appendices, biblio., fully illus. with photographs of the structures and ground, 34 fold-out maps and restoration plans. Established in 1976, the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site is located near.....
Warner Home Video, 2003. DVD. 56 Warner Brothers animated shorts contained in 4 discs. One disc focuses on the iconic Bugs Bunny, another on Daffy Duck and Pork Pig, and the other two showcase the rest of the Looney Tunes gang. Extras include a greeting from Chuck Jones; commentaries and.....
