Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977.
First Edition. Paperback. One of an edition of 1200 copies issued in paperback. A Noel Young Book featuring 8 stories by Raymond Carver: Dummy, Distance, The Lie, So Much Water So Close to Home, The Fling, Postal, Mine, and Furious Seaons. This is Carver's second.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
First 40th Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. The Original Teachings in a Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition. With a New Commentary by the author (1998). 40th Anniversary Edition taken from the 30th Anniversary Edition first published in 1998. First Printing of this 40th Anniversary Edition.
Forty years ago.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.
First Edition, Second Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, 490pp.
Square, rubbing & edge-wear to cloth, bumping to extreme corners of boards, 1/2" corner gold leaf border front board worn away, spine darkened, internally clean and tight, devoid of owner's marks, good. First.....
London: The Folio Society, 1999.
First Printing. Hardcover. First Folio Society Edition.
A history of archaeology highlighting the expeditions and work of individuals who made dramatic discoveries including that of Troy, Pompeii, Tutankhamen’s tomb, Chichen Itza, and the Tower of Babel.
Gods, Graves, and Scholars was first published in Germany.....
Cambridge: The Cambridge Enchorial Press, 2005.
First Edition. Hardcover. Helmut Krone’s first assignment as an art director in 1954 was The Volkswagen campaign. His pioneering use of small copy with large pictures became the industry standard. This book offers a portrait of the man whose advertising philosophy -- think small.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991.
Leatherbound. Collector's Edition. Maps & diagrams drawn by Sheila Water from sketches prepared by the author.
An exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war. Although Napoleon himself claimed to Napoleon to eschew any formula in battle ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan.....
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946.
Second Printing Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth, 203pp, yellow top-edge.
Usual toning to leaves of high-acid paper, clean, tight, bumping to lower corner rear board, very good in moderately edge-worn dust wrapper with a few small chips and tears, in protective.....
New York: Avon Publishing Company, 1950.
Paperback. Vintage paperback, Avon pocket-size book #219.
A collection of four works by the creator of one of the great hard-boiled detectives Philip Marlowe. The collection includes three stories: Finger Man; The Bronze Door, Smart-Aleck Kill and a treatise on the genre: The Simple.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964.
2nd Printing. Hardcover. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Collection of eight noir short stories by the acclaimed author of The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely including: Killer in the Rain, The Man Who Liked Dogs, The Curtain, Try the Girl, Mandarin’s Jade, Bay.....
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1965.
7th Printing. Paperback. Vintage Pocket #50178.
Four novelettes by the master of American detective fiction Raymond Chander taken from The Simple Art of Murder. 4-1/8 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 196pp, 6pp ads.
Original price above Pocket kangaroo on front wrapper scratched out and filled.....
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946.
First Printing Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of the Tower Books collection of five noir short stories by the acclaimed author of The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely including: Spanish Blood, The King in Yellow, Pearls Are A Nuisance, Nevada Gas, & Trouble is My Business.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on two-page title-page. First U.S. Edition.
A recounting of the lives of three generations of women in 20th-century China - from the author's grandmother's birth in 1909 and her presentation as a foot-bound concubine to a......
Warner Home Video, 2003.
DVDs. The Chaplin Collection – 4 classic Charlie Chaplin films each with a disc of special features including: Chaplin’s biographer David Robinson providing historical and cinematic context for the films, deleted scenes, photos and poster galleries, trailers and scenes from films in the Chaplin Collection, total of.....
The Criterion Collection, 2010.
First Printing. Two-DVD Special Edition. Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on.....
Garden City: The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Three stories: The Man Who Was Clever, The Policeman with Wings, & The Lawless Lady. From the dust wrapper flap: To Scotland Yard and the underworld alike, Simon Templar was known as the.....
The Criterion Collection, 2014.
First Printing. Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD, 4 Disc Set. In this film, Howard Hawks’ first western, John Wayne plays an embittered Texas rancher whose tensions with his neurotic adopted son – played by Montgomery Clift in a breakout performance – reach fever pitch during a cattle.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
First Edition. Hardcover. An examination of the relationship between literature and pictorial art from 1485 to 1642 based on the author's collection and analysis of iconological evidence from the Renaissance dealing with the concept of man as a pilgrim, journeying through the mundane world.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894.
First Edition. Hardcover. 5 x 7-1/8", green cloth, 313pp, 2pp ads.
Faint ink owner's name first page, front endpapers brittle at fold, tight, a bit of modest edge-wear to cloth, a very good copy overall. First Edition, Author's first book.
Short stories depicting life.....
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991.
First Edition. Hardcover. Photography by Wolfgang Volz; Foreword and Interview by Masahiko Yanagi.
Exploration of the joint exhibition of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s temporary art installation of umbrellas opened on October 9, 1991, in Ibaraki and California. The original work reflected the similarities and differences in.....
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.
This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. These five quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the Appleton’s Home Books series selection on the home garden.
Chapters:
Gardens and Gardening
Treatment of the Ground
What to Plant
A Chapter on Roses
Lilies
Spring Bulbs and Autumn Flowers
Rockeries and Ferns
City Gardens.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1993.
Limited Edition. Leather. Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered. With original drypoints by the author.
Two volumes bound together: Stray Shots by Roland Clark, originally published in 1931, was the author's first collection of hunting reminiscences and includes 13 original drypoints of waterfowl by the.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2008.
Leatherbound. Collector's Edition, Bound in Genuine Leather.
A collection of six western fiction classics originally published between 1902 (The Virginian) and 1968 (True Grit). 6-1/8 x 9-1/4”, gilt decorated and titled leather in various colors, all edges gilt, raised spine bands, moire endpapers, ribbon bookmarks, color.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Hillary Clinton, former president Bill Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton on first free endpaper beneath round "Hillary for President" sticker. This book was signed by the three Clintons at three separate events held in the Eugene, Oregon area in.....
London: John Hogg, 1901.
First Edition. Hardcover. With Drawings by Noel Rooke and Other Illustrations.
A comprehensive discourse and manual on craft bookbinding. 4-7/8 x 7-3/8”, quarter beige linen, green paper over boards, green endpapers, xii, 342pp, 10pp ads, specifications, glossary reproductions of bindings, index, frontis. illus., 120 text figures.....
