Category: Signed

Sculpture 1987-1990

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Pace Gallery : 1990

Seller ID: vv43

Condition: Very Good

Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"- large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates. Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He has won the award for best director at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Housed in a unique custom clamshell case.
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Search for a Method

By: Sartre, Jean-Paul

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf : 1963

Seller ID: kjk94

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One of the 20th century's mos influential philosophers and writers, posits an essay that seeks to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. Exploring the complicated relationship the two philosophical schools of thought have with one another, Sartre proposes that the two are in fact compatible and complimentary towards one another. An importfiant work of leftist philosophy, Search for a Method is a major influence on current perceptions of existentialism and Marxism.
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Seven Keys To Baldpate

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlop : 1913

Seller ID: 128vul

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A famous author comes to a summer mountain resort in the dead of winter determined to find peace and quiet to write his next book. But before his first night is out, a steady stream of unexpected visitors begin to fill the hotel... men and women with stories of love, loss, and flight... none of them telling the truth. Before the week is out, there will be gunfire, bribery, fights in the snow, and hidden truths unmasked. "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is a mystery that will leave you guessing to the end. Earl Derr Biggers penned "Seven Keys to Baldpate" long before he created his most famous characte...
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Sex and Death to the Age 14

By: Spalding GRAY [inscribed]

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books : 1986

Seller ID: mwm27

ISBN-13: 9780394742571

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Sincerely Ronald Reagan

By: Reagan, Ronald; Irene Von Damm

Price: $800.00

Publisher: Illinois, Green Hill Publishers : 1976

Seller ID: yzz163

ISBN-13: 9780916054052

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Ronald Reagan on front blank paper. Notation by Mel Hancock stating that Ronald Reagan signed the book at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, MO. in June,1976. Hancock went on to become a four term congressman from Missouri. Housed in a custom made clamshell box.
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Sing a Song of Safety

By: Irving Caesar, Gerald Marks

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Irving Caesar : 1937

Seller ID: bg08

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed on the half title page.
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Sister Age

By: Fisher, M. F. K.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred a Knopf Inc : 1983

Seller ID: 66fg

ISBN-13: 9780394530666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Solon H. Borglum / A Man Who Stands Alone- Signed

By: A. Mervyn DAVIES

Price: $50.00

Publisher: CT, Pequot Press : 1974

Seller ID: 40hzh

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Inscribed by Monica Borglum Davies; Sculptor's daughter & author's wife. Covers are mottled by damp, else square and tight.
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Image for Speech of Mr. Webster of Massachusetts on the Subject of the Three Millions Appropriation and the Loss of the Approprations Bill for Fortifications of the Last Session. Delivered in the Senate of the United States January 14, 1836

Speech of Mr. Webster of Massachusetts on the Subject of the Three Millions Appropriation and the Loss of the Approprations Bill for Fortifications of the Last Session. Delivered in the Senate of the United States January 14, 1836

By: Daniel Webster [Inscribed]

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., Gales and Seaton : 1836

Seller ID: 145v

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

(SENATOR) DANIEL WEBSTER of MASSACHUSETTS on the subject of the 'Three Millions Appropriation and the Loss of the Appropriations Bill for Fortifications of the Last Session'. Mr. Webster's 1836 Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, Jan. 14, 1836. Printed by Gales and Seaton, Washington. INSCRIBED by Daniel Webster on front wrapper, "R.M. Sherman From the Author, Feb. 16, 1836." American imprints 42372. Sabin 102297. A very good, SCARCE COPY of Daniel Webster's 1836 speech-- 16 pp. original self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Slight creasing to edge. Housed in a half-leather, cus...
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Summer and Smoke

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $700.00

Publisher: New York, Signet Books # D2019 : 1948

Seller ID: 85hgo

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

One of Tennessee Williams' most subtle and tender works, Summer and Smoke explores the conflict between the hedonistic body and the lofty spirit. Set in Mississippi, Alma Winemiller, the minister's daughter, has grown up loving the boy who lives next door: John Buchanan, the doctor's son, is a wild, adventurous, mischievous pleasure seeker. He spends the hot Mississippi summers drinking, gambling, and romancing. His only religion is the anatomy chart on his wall, and what it teaches him about man's needs: food, truth, and lovemaking. Alma, on the other hand, is quiet, eccentric, and high-strun...
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SuperJoe - The Joe Namath Story

By: Joe Namath [ Larry Bortstein ]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlop : 1969

Seller ID: jn11

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Joe Nameth on the half title page.
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Terrorism How the West Can Win

By: Benjamin Netanyahu

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux : 1986

Seller ID: 20kx

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing, signed by Benjamin Netanyahu on a Dedication Label in 1986 when he was Israel's Ambassador to the UN. The book is clean, square, sharp, and tights.
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The Art of Handgun Shooting

By: Captain Charles Askins Jr.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: NY, A.S. Barnes & Co. : 1941

Seller ID: cfg38

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Charles Askins, Jr., was an American lawman, US Army officer, and writer. He served in law enforcement -US Forest Service and Border Patrol- in the American Southwest prior to the Second World War. Askins was controversial for the relish with which he described the numerous fatal shootings in his law enforcement and military careers, stating he had killed 27 men. Because he was involved in numerous shootouts along the US - Mexico border, and due to his stated practice of not keeping track of African-Americans and Hispanics, the actual number of killings he committed was potentially much highe...
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THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS CAROL

By: Kate Douglas Wiggin

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. : 1893

Seller ID: jfr17

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS CAROL twice signed and inscribed by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Portrait of Kate Douglas Wiggin adhered to the front pastedown. An 'Author's Reading' program, tipped on the front end paper, signed by Ms. Wiggin (Mrs Geo.Christopher Riggs), and a nice author's inscription on the title page. Hinges repaired, still in nice condition.
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The Careless Clock

By: Mark Van Doren [signed]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Wm. Sloane : 1947

Seller ID: mvd5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Chinese Parrot

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: New York, Collier Books : 1926

Seller ID: mlfd87

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. The handsome young son of the jeweler is assigned to shepherd the transfer of the pearls to the financier's vacation home in a desert area of California. Because of his long association with the owner of the pearls- before joining the...
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The Diner's Companion- Signed

By: Maurice C. Dreicer

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1955

Seller ID: xox10

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Maurice C. Dreicer, a gastronome visited more than 60 countries in a 40- year quest for the perfect steak. Dining out is a fine art. To get the most enjoyment for your time and money, you need to know not only how to plan and where to go for fine food and drink in general, as well as for unusual specialties, but you must also know how to command attention, service, comfort complete satisfaction. Maurice C. Dreicer (called by a prominent columnist the "Pulitzer Prize Committee of One in the nourishment field") has been an outstanding' authority and writer for more than a quarter of a century. ...
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The Farmers Hotel Signed 1st Edition

By: O'HARA, JOHN

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1951

Seller ID: 4vg3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In The Farmers Hotel, a handful of strangers are stranded in rural Pennsylvania. A sudden snowfall traps the group in the titular hotel - ironically, the first day that the hotel is officially 'open'. The owner and his tiny staff (including his 'Magical Negro' bartender) play host to a group of misfits from all walks of society: two upper-class lovers are returning from a cheeky weekend of adultery, a sleazy showman and his two stripping "twin" performers and, last of all, a brash truck driver with a chip on his shoulder. The book is driven by O'Hara's dialog used to portray strangers as they ...
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The Forest Lovers

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. : 1898

Seller ID: xz98

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

'The Forest Lovers' is set in France during the Romantic era, and the experiences of Prosper le Gai in the mysterious forest of Morgraunt. Prosper is a happy-go-lucky guy intent only upon adventure. A confirmed bachelor, happenstance suddenly compels him to marry a poor servant-girl in order to rescue her from being hanged as a witch, or handed over to a false monk. In the end his wife, Isoult la Desire, proves to be the long-lost daughter of the Countess Isabel, Countess of Hauterive and Lady of Morgraunt. The motive of the story is the triumphant progress of Isoult's love for her knight...
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The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar

By: Stover, Eric

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Germany, Scalo Verlag AC : 1998

Seller ID: x34

ISBN-13: 9783931141769

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This book is the harrowing account of genocide by Eric Stover, with photographs by Gilles Peress, of how-- from a hell of mud and decomposing bodies-- investigator Haglund began to piece together victims' identities and the terrible ways they died. Over 40,000 Muslim refugees were living in and around Srebenica when it fell to the Serbs, under General Ratko Mladic in July 1995. Of the men who fled, or were rounded up by Serb troops, many were never seen again. Stover talks to the surviving families, women and children, including the women of Srebrenica still clinging to the hope that their men...
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The Hundred Brothers

By: Antrim, Donald

Price: $25.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Crown : 1997

Seller ID: dc11

ISBN-13: 9780517703106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

housed in a publisher's near fine slipcase.
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The Latent Heterosexual

By: Chayefsky, Paddy

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1967

Seller ID: vw39

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Chayefsky's 'The Latent Heterosexual' is about a gay middle aged novelist who has a hit, gets married for tax purposes, and finds himself enjoying the straight life. Chayefsky would not allow the work to be produced on Broadway, opting instead to open it at the Dallas Theater Center. It opened there to critical acclaim, with Zero Mostel and Jules Munshin starring, and Burgess Meredith directing.
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the man who left home

By: Paul, Louis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, the Black Cat Press : 1938

Seller ID: lp5.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Coth spine. Edges rubbed. Unumbered of 149. Additionally inscribed by Norman Forgue, book's designer.
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The Muses are Heard

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Reader's Digest Association : 1957

Seller ID: 94pzz

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume Two, the spring 1957 offerings from Reader's Digest. For the Truman Capote completist. This signed Truman Capote Reader's Digest book is one of a kind.
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The New Sammy Cahn Song Book

By: Sammy Cahn

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Bros. Publications Inc. : 1989

Seller ID: 13vpo

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Frank Sinatra once said of songwriter Sammy Cahn: "Sammy's words fit my mouth the best of all the writers." Now you can enjoy 99 of Sammy's finest compositions with this songbook in piano/vocal/guitar format. Songs include: All That Love Went to Waste . Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand) . Call Me Irresponsible . The Christmas Waltz . Come Fly with Me . Day by Day . Good Little Girls . I'll Walk Alone . I've Heard That Song Before . Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! . Love and Marriage . Only the Lonely . Our Town . Pocketful of Miracles . Shoe Shine Boy . Thoroughly Modern M...
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The Patriots

By: Kingsley, Sidney

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1943

Seller ID: 25cmq

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This pulitzer prize winner's play, about Thomas Jefferson, that won the drama critic's circle award for best play of 1943. Mr. Kingsley wrote the play while in service during World War II, and the result is intriguing. "What is this democracy we are fighting for?" Mr. Kingsley says he asked himself. "Just what did these fellows - our original patriots- have in mind?" His answer, embodied in the character of Jefferson, is a confident faith in the common folk to govern themselves, to survive without guidance from a privileged aristocracy. The aristocratic side is represented by Hamilton, who...
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

By: Andy Warhol

Price: $600.00

Publisher: NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1975

Seller ID: oj107

ISBN-13: 9780151890507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Twice signed 1st edition, in a very nice dust jacket.
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The Professional Inscribed by Lyndon Johnson

By: William S. White

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. : 1964

Seller ID: bob100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition, 4th printing. Inscribed by LBJ to a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in August,1964. Laid into the book is a TLS from the chairman of the DNC relating that he asked the President to personally inscribe this copy. Excellent condition overall. Not many in Washington stood much higher in Lyndon B. Johnson's affection than William S. White. The president and the journalist, both Texans, met in Washington 1933, and became lifelong friends.
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The Profits of Religion

By: Upton Sinclair

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA, : 1918

Seller ID: kjb28

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

This excoriating critique of religion, especially as represented by powerful clerical institutions, is a lesser-known work by the author who had earlier become famous with his publication of The Jungle, an expose of the poor labor conditions and unsanitary practices in Chicago's meat-packing industry. More than just a tirade against religion, this is an impassioned, idealistic socialist writing at the beginning of the First World War, when the notion of an international socialist revolution still seemed like a very real possibility to many of the left-leaning thinkers of the day. Sinclair's ch...
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The Return of A. J. Raffles

By: Greene, Graham

Price: $550.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1975

Seller ID: 103a

ISBN-13: 9780671222970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This play has as its chief character A.J. Raffles, a literary creation of E.W. Hornung at the turn of the 2oth century. The cool daring of the impeccable amateur burglar, always torn between rival claims of burglary and cricket, ensured his popularity in Edwardian England. Evading the dogged pursuit of Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard, Hornung's character eventually met a hero's death in South Africa in the Boer War. Graham Greene's The Return of A. J. Raffles begins some months after. Raffles' loyal assistant Bunny still mourns his friend's death in Raffles' apartment, despite the blandi...
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Category: Signed