New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm). 255 pp. Pitch-black, half-cloth boards, gold-tooth lettering on spine. Black dust jacket with red band featuring a mugshot of the maneater, "Betty". (In actuality, a detail of the face of dancer and choreographer, Pearl Primus.) Clean, attractive book. A...... More
New York: Jump At The Sun/Hyperion, 2008. First Edition. Small Folio. (29 cm) 88 pp. Full, baseball-mitt-colored vinyl. Black-stamped pictorial with titles in black on spine. Pictorial dust jacket with front jacket illustration of Josh Gibson. Fine. The subject of Kadir Nelson's, "We Are The Ship", is Negro League Baseball..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Small Octavo. (8 cm.) 148 pp. xvi ills. Pictorial mass market paperback. Minor color stain to verso otherwise exceptionally bright and fresh. Near Fine. Your fate is in the palm of your hand. 1976, America's Bicentennial year. The ceaseless fireworks set the stage..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm). 298 pp. Half-cloth, leather-brown boards with company insignia blind-stamped on front board, with white titles on black spine. Small, light stains to first free endpaper which may be from the paper stock, else a great copy. Power. This is the..... More
Rouzan, 1989. Broadside (56 x 35.5 cm.) Half-tone reprint of Billie Holiday appearance on yellow paperboard with surrounding pictorial graphics in red and titles in black. Verso with ownership stamp of reknowned jazz photographer, Jack Bradley. Slight bumping to corners and minor edgewear. A Fine, unmarked example. Custom printed vintage..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1999. William Matthew. Octavo. (24.5 cm.) 283 pp., vi ills. Sea-foam green half cloth. Black spine with titles in silver gilt. Photo illustration of watercolor art on dust jacket. Very slight and contained wrinkling to bottom of front end paper and half-title page. Overall Fine. "Close Range..... More
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1969. First Printing. Small octavo. (18 cm.) 320 pp. Paperback original. Photo-illustrated titles in black on front and spine, with photo-image of author on verso. Publisher serial number #HH-176 above title and on spine indicating First Printing. Stray pen mark on spine, not affecting type. Minor..... More
New York: Summit Books, 1979. First Edition. Thick Octavo. (24 cm. x 16 cm.) 602 pp. Half black cloth, black buckram spine, titles on spine and the "Gonzo Fist" symbol on front board in white. Photopictorial dust jacket depicting the author. Light edgewear and mild toning to dustjacket. Contemporary date..... More
San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. (26 cm.) 77 pp. Full wheat-colored cloth. Text in black on front board and spine. Photo pictorial black and white dust jacket of San Francisco streets and streetcar. Dampstain to lower spine of jacket with light edgewear and minor chipping. Author signature..... More
New York: Scribner, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm.) 288 pp. Half-cloth, slate-blue boards, and light grey spine with titles in silver. Pictorial dust jacket with photo of whispering children. "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Tolstoy Jeannette Walls is the archetype of the writer who took a...... More
Los Angeles, California: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1966. First Printing. Small Octavo. (18cm.) 223 pp. Pictorial paper wrappers. Mild creasing to upper left corner of front paper wrapper. Minor edgewear. Overall, tight with few flaws. Near fine. "For Adults" With the 1960s exploring every corner of culture, publishing company, Holloway House..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm.) 2 volumes, xix, 481 pp; xiii, 611 pp. First Edition. Union-Army Blue cloth boards with two sets of horizontal gold banding framing black lettered title on front boards and blind-stamped horizontal banding on rear boards. Decorative gold banding..... More
New York: Plume (Dutton). Octavos (21.5 cm.) Original Dust Jackets and Boards. Varying amounts of edgewear to titles, most extreme in "Fences" with three titles in fine condition. Ownership stamps to three titles on front free endpaper. Plume Book Club Editions of "Joe Turner" and "Fences" with remaining titles Dutton..... More
New York: Harcourt, 1961. First Edition. Small Octavo. (18 cm. x 10 cm.) 120 pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. Mild toning to pages Very light wear overall. Near fine. According to, Virginia Woolf, that high temple writer, her biographical adventures of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's red cocker spaniel, Flush, was of little..... More