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By: Richard Estes; Louis K. Meisel
Price: $400.00
Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1986
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Illustrator(s)
Seller ID: 78ooo
Signed By Richard Estes and Louis Meisel. Estes uses photography as a starting point for painting. He goes out and takes dozens of photographs of the same thing from different angles - street corners, diners, reflections on plate glass windows - then he cuts, pastes and manipulates the pictures. Finally, at his easel, he tries to make his painting as faithful to the photos as he can. "Often he's putting two and three photographs together in order to create a complete... View more info
By: Robert Frost - The Augustan Books of Poetry
Price: $1,700.00
Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Ltd.: 1932
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: jhy247
First state binding. First edition thus. A scarce piece of Frost ephemera seldom seen inscribed by Frost. Included with the pamphlet is the mailer, stamped 1961, from the Brick Row Book Shop during its Austin TX period. Housed in a custom made cloth covered board binder that presents well. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton: 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: dg02
By: Kaye, Sammy
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Republic Music Corp.: 0
Inscription: Inscribed By Sammy Kaye
Seller ID: 13qqe
Sammy Kaye (1910 - 1987) was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era. His signature tune was "Harbor Lights". A leader of one of the so-called "Sweet" bands of the Big Band Era, he made a large number of records for the top labels, including RCA Victor and Columbia. He was also huge on radio and on the concert touring circuit. Handsome set of this po... View more info
By: Julian Schnabel
Price: $400.00
Publisher: New York, Pace Gallery: 1990
Inscription: Signed by Artist
Seller ID: vv43
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. House... View more info
Price: $750.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1963
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: kjk94
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 important work of leftist philosophy, Search for a Method is a major influence on current perceptions of existentialism and Marxism. View more info
Price: $1,000.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlop: 1913
Inscription: Inscribed By Earl Derr Biggers
Seller ID: 128vul
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 ... View more info
By: Evelyn Whitell
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, DeVorss & Co., Publishers: 1937
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Evelyn Whitell
Seller ID: gyg19
She·ki·nah noun: Shekinah In Jewish and Christian theology, the glory of the divine presence, conventionally represented as light or interpreted symbolically (in Kabbalism as a divine feminine aspect). Shekinah is the prophesy of a seer who has received the vision of the Golden Age. A life of new beauty and joy is unfolded as you follow Shekinah through her experiences on this earth. View more info
By: Reagan, Ronald; Irene Von Damm
Price: $900.00
Publisher: Illinois, Green Hill Publishers: 1976
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: yzz163
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. View more info
By: Irving Caesar, Gerald Marks
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Irving Caesar: 1937
Inscription: Inscribed By Irving Caesar
Seller ID: bg08
Inscribed on the half title page. View more info
By: Fisher, M. F. K.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred a Knopf Inc: 1983
Inscription: Signed M.F.K. Fisher
Seller ID: 66fg
By: A. Mervyn DAVIES
Price: $50.00
Publisher: CT, Pequot Press: 1974
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 40hzh
Inscribed by Monica Borglum Davies; Sculptor's daughter & author's wife. Covers are mottled by damp, else square and tight. View more info
By: Daniel Webster [Inscribed]
Price: $450.00
Publisher: Washington D.C., Gales and Seaton: 1836
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 145v
16 pp. original self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Slight creasing to edged, else a very good copy. Scarce. Inscribed by Webster on the front wrapper, "R.M. Sherman From the Author, Feb. 16, 1836." American imprints 42372. Sabin 102297. Housed in a custom-made binder. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1962
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By Bruce J. Friedman
Seller ID: bjf12
Friedman's first novel, Stern, is most often considered as a contribution to the emergence of "black humor" in American fiction.Stern is an existential comedy about the angst of Jewish assimilation. The novel's title character finds himself in alien territory- the American suburbs-confused and beset by a series of humiliations he struggles to understand. The story of his misadventures is funny, but in the way the plays of Beckett and Ionesco are funny, in a detac... View more info
Price: $700.00
Publisher: New York, Signet Books # D2019: 1948
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 85hgo
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 wha... View more info
By: Joe Namath [ Larry Bortstein ]
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlop: 1969
Inscription: Signed By Joe Nameth
Seller ID: jn11
Signed by Joe Nameth on the half title page. View more info
By: John J. Snyder
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Brooklyn NY, John J. Snyder: 1945
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By John J. Snyder
Seller ID: 29pxv
By: Elizabeth Mock
Price: $115.00
Publisher: New York, The Museum of Modern Art: 1949
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By Elixabeth Mock
Seller ID: 34oop
Blue cloth titled in white. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 128 pp. 170 black and white illustrations. Approx.8.5x11 inches. This picture-book traces the history of bridges in terms of the four materials -- stone, wood, metal and reinforced concrete, showing how each material suggests its own characteristic and effective treatment; how stone-builders lightened and articulated the massive Roman arch; how other builders have dealt with wood as vines, as sticks and now as l... View more info
By: C.W.BENNER [signed] and Paul Painter
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chicago, Gamble Hinged Music Company: 1938
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Chas. W. Benner
Seller ID: bh8g
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Norwalk, CT, Easton Press: 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: taod324
The eighth book about Castaneda's apprenticeship with the Yaqui Indian sorcerer Don Juan Matus. Castaneda maintains his vivid sense of wonder as Don Juan escorts him into a new world of mystery and magic; he offers a crisp presentation of esoteric ideas. Taking control of one's dreams, says Don Juan, is the key to a sorcerer's power. But what kind of sorcerer? Don Juan makes a distinction between the ancients, who manipulated the world for personal power, and moderns-- s... View more info
By: Captain Charles Askins Jr.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: NY, A.S. Barnes & Co.: 1941
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: cfg38
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 o... View more info
By: Mickey Spillane
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Signet Books #915: 1951
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Mickey Spillane
Seller ID: 30po
The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys to find out how a reformed ex-con got desperate enough to die like that. What Hammer doesn't know is how a beautiful woman wil... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Doubleday & Company: 1979
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Bobby Unser
Seller ID: bu21
'COMPLIMENTS OF...Mechanical Industries' sticker on ffe View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Wm. Sloane: 1947
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: mvd5
Price: $150.00
Publisher: NY, Pocket Books Inc.: 1953
Inscription: Signed Erle Stanley Gardner
Seller ID: 10pba
Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive woman climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin who has an office next door to Perry's. Ms. Colfax says that she climbed into Perry's office in order to escape from Garvin's hot tempered wife but Perry later learns that Garvin is married to two women. Garvin and second wife Lorrie are sent to Mexico by Perry until he can clear up the matter but when Gar... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: NY, Pocket Books Inc.: 1956
Inscription: Signed Erle Stanley Gardner
Seller ID: mv11
A man's wife is divorcing him after he is caught sleep walking with a knife near her bed. When his stepbrother is found dead stabbed with the knife, he is charged with murder and is accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up. Adapted from the novel, and aired on CBS in 1957 on the Perry Mason TV series. View more info
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1926
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: mlfd87
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 va... View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1955
Inscription: Inscribed By Maurice Dreicer
Seller ID: xox10
By: Baskin, Leonard; Dante Alighieri, Translated By Thomas G. Bergin
Price: $500.00
Publisher: New York, Grossman Publishers: 1969
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Illustrator(s)
Seller ID: 164ooo
Inscribed presentation by Leonard Baskin on ffe of volume I. Laid in is Yale University's invitation to the opening of the exhibition concerning the making of this Grossman edition of 'The Divine Comedy'. Three volumes housed in an slipcase. View more info
By: S. S. Van Dine
Price: $1,100.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1933
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By S. S. Van dine
Seller ID: 147vvy
The Dragon Murder Case is a 1934 mystery film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine, starring Warren William as private detective Philo Vance; Warren William's first starring role. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone for Warner Bros. Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland com... View more info
