New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, this musical revolves around George, a...... More
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1958. Hardcover. Second revised edition, translated by Bhikkhu Silacara. "This work fully revised and enlarged by the well-known Buddhist scholar George Grimm himself as compared to the 1926 edition, succeeds in presenting the..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "...offers a new appreciation of Picasso's extraordinary ability to recast his cultural past as he grappled with his avant-garde present - to create stunningly..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Hardcover. "...explores the ways in which the human body - especially the female body - was visualized by artists in late nineteenth-century Paris. Focusing on the work..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kenneth Roberts on a leaf tipped in after the front flyleaf. A novel about the War of 1812, telling the..... More
New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by William Lederer to bookseller Bennett Schneider on the front flyleaf, with a typed letter signed by Lederer to Schneider and a Lederer family..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "A story of the French Revolution that will stand besides 'Scaramouche' for its strong, gallant hero, Quentin de Morlaix, fencing master and best swordsman of all London."..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Corey Ford on a prefatory blank leaf. Recounts the story of the secret Culper Spy Ring during the Revolutionary War and how daring patriots..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Delightful talks delivered by the Canadian humorist during his popular lecture tours of the English-speaking world. Octavo: 251 p. Original red cloth binding, with gilt..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 189 of an unspecified number of copies signed by Edgar Cayce, who added the aphorism "mind is the builder" above his signature..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. The third and final collection of Corey Ford's popular John Riddell parodies for Vanity Fair. Essentially playful, these parodies vary in approach - some are..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. With a promotional photograph laid in. Among Ford's most successful books, a parody of Joan Lowell's The Cradle of the Deep (1929). "Salt Water Taffy is..... More
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press in cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, 2000. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies, this is stamped "review copy" on the limitation page. Includes both the original copyright page..... More
![Item #75406 ANNAPURNA: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak [26,493 feet]. Maurice Herzog](/pictures/thumb/75406.jpeg?v=1671824087)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2007. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. In 1950, when no mountain taller than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed, Maurice Herzog led an expedition of French climbers to the summit of an..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration. Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity..... More
Los Angeles: Con Safos, Inc., 1970. Wraps. The sixth issue of this important Chicano literary magazine, with three letters from Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, a Mexican-American lawyer who was immortalized as the heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr..... More
Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Compiled from the writings of Manly Palmer Hall, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and others, this handbook to the identification and interpretation of the deities, saints..... More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Subscriber's Edition. The second half of Hall's study of Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy from Orpheus to Emerson. A renowned teacher, writer, and historian of the occult..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2005. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. The classic Victorian adventure stories featuring Allan Quatermain, an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader living in South Africa. Octavo, six volumes. Full leather..... More
![Item #75385 THE BIG SLEEP; FAREWELL, MY LOVELY; [and] THE LONG GOODBYE. Raymond Chandler](/pictures/thumb/75385.jpeg?v=1671161136)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2003. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. These classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction. Octavo, three volumes. Full slate blue..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1999. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. A landmark work of modern science writing, describing in non-technical terms the structure, origin, development, and eventual fate of the universe. Hawking (1942-2018) also discusses general..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. In a review of this collection for the New York Herald Tribune, Lisle Bell wrote, "A Daniel Boone on the fantastic frontiers of rhyme, Mr. Nash..... More
London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1895. Hardcover. Presumed to be the first edition. Johnstone (1869-1905) was a Scottish writer of who published all his well-regarded fiction, mostly young adult novels, between 1888..... More
Nashville, Tennessee: Clearbrook Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. "...explains how slavery was embedded in every level of Tennessee society; that many families which didn't own slaves leased..... More