New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Illustrations by Glenn Wolff. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-5/8 x 8-3/4", 1/4 fuschia cloth, buff paper over boards, 223pp, illustrated with line drawings. Signed by the author on the half-title. First Edition, First Printing.A self-described trout bum, "the bohemian equivalent of a country gentleman", John.....
New York: Pruett Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4", 1/2 navy blue cloth, teal paper over boards, 193pp. Signed by the author on the half-title. First Edition, First Printing. In the world of fishing there are magic phrases that are guaranteed to summon the demon. Among them.....
New York: Pruett Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4", 1/2 navy blue cloth, teal paper over boards, 193pp. Signed by the author on the half-title. First Edition, First Printing. In the world of fishing there are magic phrases that are guaranteed to summon the demon. Among them.....
New York: Lyons & Burford, Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-5/8 x 8-1/2", 1/4 black cloth, blue paper over boards, 84pp, illus. Signed by the author on the title page. First Edition, First Printing."The secret places are the soul of fishing.... It may be a private spring creek with armed.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (2006). First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo, black paper over boards, xx, 1189, afterword, note, index of titles, first lines, and original book sources. A compilation of the collected verse of Allen Ginsberg which includes all the poems from the earlier compilation "Collected Poems 1947-1980" and from.....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 9-1/4 x 11-3/8", brown cloth, xiv, 194pp, author's annotations, appendixes (5), index of proper names, 19 contemporaneous photographs & images. Original draft facsimile of the groundbreaking and controversial work first published in 1956 by City Lights Books. Very fine, bright.....
Milano: Il Castello, 1991. Second Edition. Softcover. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11-7/16", stiff pictorial wrappers, 103pp, instruction for folding 24 insects, sprig & leaf, 8pp color illustrations depicting folded menagerie. Graphic instruction on making of origami insects by origami master Alfredo Giunta. Among insects included: fly, common beetle, rhinoceros beetle, tropical.....
Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 10-1/4 x 13-1/8", black cloth, 272pp, decorated endpapers, 500 full-color reproductions. A major retrospective of the work of Milton Glaser executed over the last quarter century - ranging from well known products to newspapers, magazines, toys, textiles, interior design of restaurants.....
New York: Orion Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4", 1/2 red cloth, black paper over boards, xii, 258pp, epilogue, acknowledgements, appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, index, illus. Inscribed on first free endpaper to "Bill..who can ask more questions than I can ever answer..." and signed by Doolittle.....
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: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 80pp, orange cloth. A stage play taken from the short novel "Envoy Extraordinary" and commissioned by Alastair Sim who played in the lead role - a Roman emperor who hosts a party at his summer home and entertains a discourse on.....
London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 233pp, blue cloth. When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 208pp, red cloth. Golding's third novel. A tale of survival and sanity – and ultimately a discourse on life itself. Uneven fading to cloth, a few small spots of foxing to endpapers and edges, very good in price-extant dust wrapper with.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 178pp, light green cloth. First Edition thus. Three short novels show Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best. In The Scorpion God we see the world of ancient Egypt at the time of the earliest pharaohs. Clonk Clonk is.....
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.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Leatherbound. 6-3/8 x 9-1/2", viii, 190pp, gilt decorated brown full leather, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, ribbon marker. Collector’s Edition. Charmingly illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 16 full-page watercolors and 14 line drawings.....
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.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/8 7-7/8", red cloth with black train motif spine and front board, 310pp, red top-edge. During a 3-day journey across Europe from Osten to Constantinople, a collection of passengers on the Orient Express come together in one.....
The Criterion Collection, 1999. First Printing. DVD. 104 minutes, black and white, monaural. Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime and Joseph Cotten plays his childhood friend Holly Martins, in this all-time classic thriller scripted by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. Martins searches for Lime through the seedy underworld.....
Washington, D.C. / New York: National Gallery of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover in slip-case. 10-1/8 x 13-1/4" x 4-3/4", beige cloth, LXIII, 1003pp, glossary, index, catalogue of gallery entries 1-1642. Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture.....
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. .....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2018. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 9-5/8", light grey paper over boards, 358pp. In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred.It's.....
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.....
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.....
