New York: Soho, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, dark green backstrip, white paper over boards, 238pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Second volume in the mystery series featuring Laos national coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun.Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-3/8", 1/2 navy blue cloth, marigold paper over boards, 280pp. A potentially dirty cop's girlfriend hires L.A. gumshoe Elvis Cole to investigate him, but the cop swears he's a clean cop--just a lousy boyfriend--and Elvis and his partner.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 orange cloth, yellow paper over boards, 295pp. Signed and dated by the author on title page in year of publication. The third novel featuring hard-boiled private detective Elvis Cole. Cole encounters the New York mob and a psycho killer in.....
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 fuschia cloth, turquoise paper over boards, 245pp. First U.S. hardcover edition, signed by the author on title page. The first novel featuring hard-boiled private detective Elvis Cole. In a search for a missing husband and son, Cole and his partner.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/8 x 9-3/8", 1/2 black cloth, light green paper over boards, 231pp. A hotel magnate hires L.A. private detective Elvis Cole and his sidekick Joe Pike to find a missing thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. The search takes them.....
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1933. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. Frontis. portrait of Hart Crane from a portrait by David Alfaro Siqueiros. Collection includes poems from "Key West: An Island Sheaf" that was in preparation at the time of Crane's death and.....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-5/8 x 8-3/8", 1/2 green cloth, pale yellow paper over boards, 171pp. An autobiography of the author's coming of age as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia during a time when "the rest of the country was just beginning.....
London: Longman, 1992. First Printing. Softcover. Octavo, 5-3/8 x 8-1/2", stiff pictorial wrappers, 467pp, references, index. English Language Series Title #18 edited by Randolph Quirk. The author repositions the study of verse metre within a larger context of verse rhythm as a whole and rhythmic cognition in general. Drawing on.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue paper over boards, 249pp. 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.....
Los Angeles: The John Paul Getty Museum, 2015. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. 9-7/8 x 11-5/8", dark green paper over boards, 367pp, appendix, bibliography, authors, index, fully illustrated in color and black ^ white. A catalogue associated with an exhibition of large-scale bronze sculpture from the Hellenist period (323 BC.....
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 8-1/4", 1/2 purple cloth, off-white paper over boards, 121pp. 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 &.....
Eureka, MT: Spirit Fire Publications, 1998. Illustrated by Martine Baker. Spiral bound. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11", stiff pictorial wrappers, spiral bound, 108pp, fully illus. The Rainbow Generation of Healing System is, in the author's preface, "a divinely designed tool for assisting one's conscious effort to raise vibratory rates in the.....
New York: Universe Books, 1971 - 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quartos, 7-1/2 x 10-3/8", brick-colored cloth, 390pp total, 540 illustrations, 158 of which are in color. Graphic Designers in the USA/1: Louis Danziger, Herb Lubalin, Peter Max, Henry Wolf; Graphic Designers in the USA/2: R. O. Blechman, Chermayeff &.....
London: John Murray, 1878. 6th Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xxi, 458pp, original embossed green cloth, brown endpapers, additions & corrections, historical sketch, introduction, glossary of scientific terms, index, folding chart. 6th Edition with additions and corrections to 1872 (Twentieth Thousand). The book went through six editions during Darwin's lifetime, each extensively.....
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 7-1/2 x 9-7/8", green boards, x, 150pp, lines plan of the ship on endpapers, apps, illus. with 400 photos and detailed drawings. Forward by Ken Marschall. The ultimate ship modeller's guide to to the storied Titanic with practical information on.....
New York: Mysterious Press, 2002. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-3/8", white paper over boads, 354pp, 1 map. 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.....
New York: Mysterious Press, 2000. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-3/8", light blue paper over boards, 356pp, 2 maps. 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.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1989. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4", 1/2 blue cloth, black paper over boards, 258pp, 2 maps. 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......
New York: Mysterious Press, 1999. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-3/8", green paper over boards, 351pp, 3 maps. 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 York: Mysterious Press, 1997. First U. S. Printing - Advance Reading Copy. Wrappers. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4", stiff pictorial wrappers, 416pp. 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.....
San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1988. Illustrated by the author/aritst. First Edition. Hardcover. 9-3/4 x 12-1/4, green cloth with color plate by the artist pasted on front board, continuous accordion fold. First Edition. Folding accordion book with 11 double-page full color spreads. The artist’s note on the work: “This Pictorial Journal.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, gilt decorated burgundy full leather, xx, 308pp, xxvi, 330pp, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 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.....
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, (1978). Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, turquoise cloth, xvi, 463pp, apps., biblio., index of subjects and names. Psychological Studies 4. A thorough analysis of research conducted between 1938 to 1943 in which chess experts were asked to verbally describe their thought processes in plotting a chess move.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995. Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 8-7/8 x 11-1/4", glossy pictorial paper over boards. First Edition. A stonecutter wants to be everything he is not and has to learn the hard way that what he really wants to be is exactly who.....
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 investigate.....
