Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898-1890. ,Boston Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898-1890, NEAR MINT copy. Green cloth over boards, beautiful illustration of black horse with gold ride, and gold lettering. Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell It was composed in the last years of her life, during..... More
William Morrow & Co, 1985. Stated First Edition,1985. Depicts the life of katharine Hepburn and describes her struggle to achieve success as a movie actress. More
Scribner, (1994). Scribner SIGNED by author, First Edition, First Printing, 09/09/1994. Purple paper over boards, Dark blue cloth spine, Silver lettering. Barbara Bush is certainly among the most popular First Ladies ever to live in the White House. Politics aside, people worldwide have come to admire her wit, her candor..... More
Viking Adult (1999) #881 0 Viking, (1999). Viking Adult, Viking, First Edition , First Printing, 07/01/1999, Volume II. Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere. Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the twentieth century.The second volume plunges into the White..... More
The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. ,Bown linen over boards/gold design/lettering/picture front cover. Autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man who was born into slavery, but overcame hardships through hard work and diligence. At 25, he became the first principle of Tuskagee college, founded..... More
Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, (1988). Anthony Maitlain. Franklin Library Edition, Mystery Masterpiece, 1988. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death (9 June 1870) and his ending for it is unknown Though the novel is..... More
The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y, (1968). The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y. , 1968. Boards a covered with an interesting texture, a burlap pattern in allusion to the wrapping of the plague victims. Being Observations or Memorials of the most Remarkable Occurrences, both..... More
ELLIOTT & BEEZLEY Philadelphia and Chicago 1891. Copyright 1891 Elliott & Breezley. 1891. Profusely Illustrated with STEEL PLATES and WOOD ENGRAVINGS. ELLIOTT & BEEZLEY Philadelphia and Chicago 1891. Hard Book brown Boards, embossed cove, beautifully designed, with angel court jester , owl and lady. Gold Gilt on all sides. Gold..... More
9780448123349, 1977. First Grosset & Dunlap Edition, New York,1977. Tan Book Cardboard, Pictures at front and back, red and brown lettering, very slight shelf wear. PAPA's later years revealed by a trusted friend. Story told in pictures, many full pages of B/W pictures. The pictures and story follow Hemingway's life..... More
Scribner, 1999. Scribner 07/06/1999. First Edition, First Printing. Full #'s Line 1-10. Green paper boards, black paper spine, gold lettering. Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953 Edited by his son..... More
Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania (, (1982). Frank C. Pape. Franklin Library Edition 1982. Illustrator Frank C. Pape. Brown paper over boards, gold designs and lettering. The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel is one volume which contains five books It is to say the least, bizarre writing, interesting, but very..... More
Knopf (2003) #966 0 Knopf, 2003. Knopf, Stated First Edition, First Printing. Purple cloth boards,Purple cloth spine, gold lettering. In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living..... More
The Easton Press, (1979). Eassten Press,1979 Collectors Edition. Two Plays for Puritans by George Bernard Shaw ?Çö the two plays being The Devil's Disciple and Caesar and Cleopatra Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press 1979 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges..... More
Dodd, Mead, (1964). Dodd, Mead, 1964, Aqua boards/cloth, gold lettering on spine. "The writing of Jean Gould's book was begun about a year before Robert Frost's death. In front of the wood fire in his little cottage high on a Vermont hillside, she was fortunate in obtaining fresh material about..... More
Easton Press, Norwalk Connecticut, (1977). Easton Press, 1977, The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written: Collect. Fully-bound in richly black leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine and covers. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the..... More
Carol Publishing Group, (1991). New York: Birch Lane Press/ Carol Publishing Group, First Editio. orange cloth spine, and purple paper covered boards. Not since Greta Garbo and Jackie Onassis has any celebrity worked so diligently to protect his privacy. But here bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli cracks Jackson's carefully constructed..... More
Henry Holt and Co., (1988). Henry Holt and Co. First Edition 5/15/88. This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most..... More
Pantheon, (1995). Pantheon, First Edition , First Printing, 03/07//1995. LIght brown paper over boards, dark brown cloth at spine, gold lettering. In a collection of essays, thirty notable writers celebrate some of the last great wilderness areas of the world, from Louise Erdrich's study of the Tall Grass Prairies to..... More
Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania/for The Oxford Library Of The World's Greatest Books, (1980). Franklin Center, Pennsylvania/for The Oxford Library Of The World 1980. Quarter. Quarter bound leather spine with traditional cloth covered boards Like the full leather editions these books also contain a silk page marker, however all have..... More
Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, Editeurs, (1870). Illustrations DE GRANDVILLE. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, Editeurs,1870. Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet..... More
Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, (1988). Franklin Library Edition, Mystery Masterpiece, 1988. .The IPCRESS File is Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962 It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman, directed by Sidney J Furie and starring Michael Caine The novel, which involves Cold..... More
Harper & Brothers,Publishers, N.Y., 1901. Harper & Brothers,Publishers, N.Y. (1901). The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian Running in parallel..... More
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985). Simon & Schuster, New York (Sep 16, 1985). White paper over boards, red cloth spine, gold lettering. A former special assistant and confidante to Joan Kennedy recounts the problems that plagued her life--political ambition, a succession of miscarriages, a son threatened by cancer--and her..... More
Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, (1947). Rafaello Busoni. Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1947. The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy He ultimately..... More
Dutton Adult, (1979). Dutton Adult, First Edition , First Printing, 10/31/1979. The life story of the noted American clown, glibly recounted with an abundance of rumor, innuendo, and ribald anecdotes The result: a tale of sex, booze, infidelity, suicide, divorces, opulent living, national fame, loneliness, and despair Witnessing to the..... More