New Arrivals
SAY, DARLING
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Bissell on the title page. Semi-autobiographical novel about Bissell's efforts to adapt his novel 7 1/2 Cents (1953) into the Broadway musical The..... More
THE WISTERIA TREES
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. A reimagining of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, set on a plantation in the American South. Illustrated with photographic illustrations from the first stage production, which premiered..... More
LOST IN THE HORSE LATITUDES
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by H. Allen Smith on the title page. Uproarious account of the eight months Allen (1907-76) spent in Hollywood as a...... More
THE BLUE AFTERNOON
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, with an elaborate pen and ink drawing, by William Boyd on the title page. An L.A. architect is drawn into a transcontinental, turn-of-the-century murder mystery and love story..... More
THE TIME OF LAUGHTER, with a Foreword by Frank Sullivan
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Corey Ford on the half-title. Sentimental chronicle of the humor and humorists of the 1920s, with memories of W.C. Fields, Robert Benchley, E.B. White..... More
MISTER ROBERTS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Hardcover. An early printing, with a typed letter signed (TLS) by Thomas Heggen tipped in on the front flyleaf. Based on his experiences in the South West Pacific theatre during..... More
BY AND LARGE
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Franklin P. Adams to journalist Edward F. O'Day on the front flyleaf, with a handwritten letter on New York Tribune letterhead..... More
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MARTHA HEPPLETHWAITE
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first book. In addition to the continuing saga of Sullivan's fictitious secretary, it features Sullivan's first serious comic pieces on the loneliness and frustrations..... More
TRUMPET TO THE WORLD
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first novel, concerning a young black soldier married to a white woman who is put on trial for striking back at a white officer..... More
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN CRITICISM
New York: Continuum, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes seminal critical writings by Lessing, Nicolai, Mendelssohn, Klopstock, Herder, Goethe, Lenz, Burger, Schiller, and others. The German Library, Volume 11. Octavo: 283 p. Original black cloth binding..... More
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRACTICAL LIVING AND OTHER NEO-CONFUCIAN WRITINGS: Translated, with Notes, by Wing-tsit Chan
New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Later printing. The major writings of Wang Yangming or Wang Shouren (1472-1529), a Chinese calligrapher, general, philosopher, politician, and writer during the Ming dynasty. After Zhu Xi, he..... More
ARTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS: Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia - The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller
Munich: Prestel, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Drawing on the famous collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller this beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time the arts of the Malayo-Polynesian countries to demonstrate the astonishing..... More
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Octavo. Original yellow paper-covered boards over a mustard cloth spine, with black and pink titles. Very light bumping..... More
STEAMBOATS ON THE COLORADO RIVER, 1852-1916
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The first complete history of steam navigation on the Colorado River, documenting the start, competition, peak and decline of this extraordinary enterprise, including more than..... More
CHAGALL MONUMENTAL WORKS
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Features 33 plates in color, 100 reproductions in black and white, and an original color lithograph by Chagall created especially for this publication. Quarto: 136 p...... More
GOOD FAERIES / BAD FAERIES
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Brian Froud on the title page. The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Faeries (1978), encompassing both the benevolent and the malevolent species in..... More
CENTRAL ASIAN MUSIC: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes chapters on the music culture of Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenia, Tajikstan, and Uzbekistan, respectively. Edited and Annotated by Mark Slobin. Translated from the Russian by Mark..... More
ENGAGING INDIA: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb
Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Stobe Talbott on the front flyleaf. "...revealing, authoritative account of the intensive talks that the United States conducted on parallel tracks with the South..... More
CRUISES AND CARGOES
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Omnibus of five of the author's most popular works: Many Cargoes (1896), Sea Urchins (1898), Odd Craft (1903), Light Freights (1901), and Short Cruises (1907). Of..... More
HOMAGE TO JOAN MIRO
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. The Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist Joan Miro (1893-1983) developed an imaginary and impulsive style that reflected his views of the harshness of modern life. His..... More
FRANTISEK DRTIKOL: Photograph des Art Deco
Munchen: Shirmer/Mosel, 1986. Hardcover. Drtikol (1883–1961) was a Czech photographer known for his nudes and portraits. Text in German. Quarto: 200 p. with 100 duotone images and 81 figures. Original black cloth binding, with blind-stamped..... More
CHARLES EDENSHAW
London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. The first survey of this iconic figure in Northwest Coast art, bringing together the largest number of Edenshaw works ever assembled, and offering a rare opportunity to view his..... More
VALMOUTH: A Romantic Novel
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Ironic novel about eroticism and exoticism in the milieu of quaint but lewd old British ladies at an English spa resort. Valmouth is noted for its florid..... More
CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ann Beattie on the front flyleaf. The author's first novel. It served as the basis for the Joan Micklin Silver romantic..... More