1948-1949. A remarkably crafted photographic album documenting the activities of a high school drum corps in Coffeyville, Kansas during the 1948-1949 school year. In addition to nearly 150 original photographs of the Tornado Drum Corps..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Edwin Corle. Profusely illustrated. Recollections of Merle Armitage (1893-1975), founder and manager of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association, then the manager of..... More
[Lyon]: Editions du Rigole-Haut-de-Meuse, 1915. First Edition. Wraps. Limited to 200 copies. Octavo. Original string-bound printed paper wrappers. Previous owner's ink signature to the front endpaper. Some mild soiling and scattered light foxing; otherwise very..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Lawrence Block on the title page. The third of three Paul Kavanagh novels, loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate murders. Octavo..... More
San Francisco: Press of H.S. Crocker, 1927. First Edition. Leather bound. Signed and numbered by Sargent Bogart on the front pastedown, with a printed acknowledgement signed by Bogart paperclipped to a prefatory leaf and a...... More
Verdi, Nevada: International Artist, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Harvey Brown, with an original pencil sketch of a Native American, to Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner: "This book is for the master..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition edition in English, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert, with an introduction by Cyril Connolly. The enigmatic first novel by Albert Camus (1913-60), and..... More
New York: New Directions, 1958. Hardcover. Céline’s masterpiece, a literary symphony of cruelty and violence that hurtles through the improbable travels of the petit bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu: from the trenches of World..... More
Berkeley: Western Guidebook Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Wells Drury on the front flyleaf. This rather uncommon Golden State travel guide is arranged in routes, which..... More
Los Angeles: Blood & Guts Press, 1987. Hardcover. Limited Edition, this is number 33 of 350 hardcover copies signed by James Ellroy. Additionally inscribed by Ellroy on the front flyleaf ("To Gary- This book replaces..... More
Paris: Se vend Chez Martinon, 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. A gastronomical classic, originally published in sixty parts and presented here complete. Includes selections from Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste, a selection of Bacchic songs, La Gastronomie..... More
New York: Horizon Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 175 p. Drawings by A. Birnbaum. Lively and irreverent collection of deftly-rendered anecdotes concerning such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, Eddie Condon, Oscar..... More
London: William Smith, 1839. Hardcover. The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II..... More
London: John Murray, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book traces the history of China so far as it has had contact with England and other European Countries from the eighteenth century. The author also brings..... More
Austin: The University of Texas at Austin, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 240 p. Frontispiece portrait. First edition, limited to 1,200 copies. The definitive descriptive bibliography to the works of John Steinbeck (1902-68), an essential reference..... More
London: Macmillan, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket art by Jim Burns. London: Macmillan, 2004. First edition, #737 of 1000 copies signed by the author. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine..... More
New York and Nairobi: Okapi Editions, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed in pencil by Ickovic on the colophon. Honored with an American Institute of Graphic Designers award for book design, this publication highlights a range..... More
New York: W.W. Norton, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jonathan Kellerman on the title page. The author's first book, preceding his Edgar Award-winning first novel, When the Bough Breaks, by..... More
A holographic letter on Immaculate Heart College letterhead from the American Roman Catholic religious sister and Pop Art pioneer. Undated, it was likely written in the mid-1960s, prior to her return to secular life in..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward. First American Edition. The author's acclaimed first book, concerning a troubled man marginalized by society. Le Clezio (b.1940), a French-Mauritanian writer..... More
London: Collins Crime Club, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printings (1984-93). The fifth through ninth volumes are signed by John Malcolm on the title page. The first ten crime novels in the Tim..... More
New York: Del Rey, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed "Monstrously Yours! Forrest J. Ackerman" on the front flyleaf. Lavishly illustrated tribute to the Universal monster movies. Here are beautiful on-screen and..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller (1915-2005) as a leading..... More
