New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1981. Hardcover. Sixth Printing. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($10.00), bumped and with a few small chips and tears at the edges. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The memoir of one of the most..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Yellow boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of autobiographical essays from the author of Things Fall Apart, with his thoughts on growing up in..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Review Copy stamped on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.75), generally toned, some spots of rubbing. Black buckram with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First Issue. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, a couple small closed tears, faded at the spine. Black cloth with gold and red gilt lettering and rules on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top..... More
Springfield: The Abraham Lincoln Association, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, roughly clipped, generally toned, some shallow chips at the edges. Black buckram with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, foxed at the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Green buckram, bumped at the corners, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with a touch of reading wear and a slight forward lean, frontispiece, former owner's name on the front endpaper..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. As told to Clifford George Gewecke Jr. Inscribed by Ashe on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), generally rubbed and bumped with a few small chips and creases. Green cloth, toned at the edges. Square and..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00), faded at the spine, lightly rubbed at the edges. Quarter red buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Ayers's memoir tracing his privileged upbringing to his work in..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Baldrige on the front endpaper. Near fine in a very good jacket, clipped, lightly worn at the edges and corners, foxed on the verso. Red buckram with patterned paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Four volumes in two, each with the signature of MLB Hall of Famer Bill Veeck. Very Good. Half leather binding, rubbed at the edges and corners, toned at the spines. Square and firmly bound with gilt top edges, clean internally. An early edition of..... More
Macon: J.W. Burke Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Pictorial paper on the boards, heavily rubbed, split through at the spine. Square, front hinge cracked at the title page, gift inscription on the front endpaper. An account of the "tomboyish and tumultuous childhood" of Lady Astor, the first woman to..... More
New York: William Morrow Company, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($17.95), rubbed at the edges, faded at the spine. Quarter red cloth with cream paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Blumenson's intimate biography of "the severe affliction that shaped Patton's..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, chipped at the corners and top edge. Red cloth, lightly pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with slightly dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Irene Born. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, clipped, with the original obi. Navy blue buckram, rubbed at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of the..... More
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1978. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Foreword by Bill Mauldin. Signed by Bradley on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, generally toned, bumped at the edges. Grey cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with..... More
New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.00), bumped at the edges. Quarter red buckram with orange paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Brandon's work that explains Houdini's famous escapes but also explains his various obsessions. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Brown on the half-title page. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally soiled, faded at the spine. Red buckram, faded at the top and bottom edges, with gilt and black ink lettering on the spine. Square and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, a few stains, closed tears, and chips. Green buckram with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Burroughs's posthumously published essays, with..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by John Dickson Carr on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, priced at $3.50, clipped at the bottom corner, rubbed at the edges, small chips to the head and foot of the spine. Brown buckram, rubbed..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($30.00). Yellow paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book to provide an "intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols's life, as..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kahn on one of the front free endpapers. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), toned, bumped at the edges. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A work in which..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($30.00), two small stains at the rear panel. Quarter black buckram with red paper on the boards. square and firmly bound, clean internally. Chang's biography drawing from "court records, official and private correspondence, diaries..... More
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, bumped and with some short chips and closed tears at the corners and edges. Cream boards, toned, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owners' names on the front..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's compliments card laid-in, with handwriting presumably belonging to Jonathan Galassi. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95), toned at the flaps. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A biography of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), faded and lightly rubbed, black ink call numbers at the foot of the spine, stamped "Public Library System Milwaukee" on the back panel. Black cloth, lightly rubbed, with dulled gilt lettering on the..... More
