Manila: Hunters ROTC Association, Inc / Printed by Guaranty Press Incorporated, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Creasing to soft covers, toning to pages throughout, with previous owner's stamp on title page. xxiv, 357, [1]pp. 8.5 x 5.75". A posthumously published autobiography of the Filipino war hero, "written while in martial.....
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. Hardcover. The book details the unconventional lives of three women in the early 20th century, who ran a house called the Red Rose Inn on Mainline Philadelphia. Within this environment they collaborated and exchanged ideas as illustrators, writers, cooks, gardeners and women's rights activists. Dust.....
Ferenczi, 1936. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Worn soft cover, inscribed by Colette on the half title page. Paper wraps worn, with loss to head and tail of spine. Stamped on front panel "Received by Books Abroad, Feb 15 1936." Inscribed on the half title "A mon confere Mr. Roy Temple.....
Whitcombe and Tombs, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Presumed first edition, with no further printings noted. Condliffe's biography of Maori anthropologist Peter Buck, highlighting his many accomplishments and drawing on his correspondence with Apirana Ngata. Wear and fraying to the top edge.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Detailed biography of "the Yorkshire Mathematician and Astronomer, and Assistant of Flamsteed; with Memorials of his Family, and Associated Families". Slight soiling from handling to the cream spine and corners. Darkening to untrimmed edges, faint toning throughout. xvi, 342pp.....
New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. N.B.: This copy lacks the third color plate,"The Musicians", p.45. All other plates (3 in color, 48 in black and white) are present. No. 791 of 1,200 numbered copies, of which 650 (nos. 601-1,1250) formed the edition in English, printed for Wehye.....
Internacional, 1950, San Sebastián. - 30x24. Encuadernación editorial. Ilustrado con 159 láminas en huecograbado, 6 láminas a todo color y 96 fotograbados. 1950. Hardcover. Biography of the spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga. Comes with Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket is white with a color portrait of Ignacio Zuloaga pasted on the front.....
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. Hardcover. Seventh Printing. Inscribed by the author, "Harriet Tyler, with best wishes, Teuila (Isobel Field)". The autobiography of Isobel Field, step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, including her time in Hawaii and Samoa, acting as the ailing Stevenson's amanuensis. Sunning to spine, discoloration to.....
Parkminister Publishing, 1997. Soft cover. An unusual memoir, documenting the author's early life in China, his family's immigration to Canada, his developing schizophrenia and experiences in institutions. A foreword from his doctor notes "that it is unusual for patients/consumers to remember their personal experience during an acute psychotic illness and.....
The Olympia Press, 1958. Soft cover. After his return from Paris, Henry Miller wrote this novella about his in Paris in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès shared an apartment in Clichy as struggling writers. Description: Second printing. 6.75" x 4.25". Original grey, black, and yellow wrappers over.....
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Viking, 2016. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Advanced uncorrected proofs of le Carre's memoir. Slightest wear to the edges of the soft covers. Pages clean and unmarked, with the exception of a pencil notation on the half title page ("7/20"), presumably noting the date of receipt of the proofs. vii, [1].....
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of Harold Lloyd's autobiography, beginning "Birth was one of the least interesting things that every happened to me..." Slight bumping to corners, fading to red top stain, slight toning throughout. vii, [3], [1]-204pp. Many plates from photographs.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Hardcover. A charming example of Osgood's "Vest Pocket Series" of "Standard and Popular Authors", small enough to be carried in a vest pocket (5 x 3"). An extract from Macaulay's review of Moore's Life of Lord Byron. Ornamented green cloth covers slightly worn.....
Ocho Y Medio Coleccion Espiral, 2004. Soft cover. Bad Education was a film dealing with child abuse and mixed identities. Themes included corruption in the church, transsexuality, drug use, and metafiction. 8.25" x 6". 176 pages plus 31 photos from the film. In Spanish. Signed by Pedro Almodovar in thick.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Spalding's autobiography, inscribed to George Fitch, dated December 1943 with a warm inscription and a bar of music. Laid in letter from Spalding to Fitch dated July 1950, in original envelope. Tear to head of clipped dust jacket, with chipping.....
Los Angeles, CA, USA: The Times Mirror Press, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this biography of Tom Mix, star of many early western films, detailing his time as a cowboy, rancher, sheriff, and finally actor.There is some slight wear to the head and tail of the spine, the.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. "This first edition is limited to six hundred twenty-five sets signed by the author". Three blue cloth covered volumes, slightly different shades. Red leather spine labels slightly worn, matching labels on the front boards ("Philadelphia", "London" and "Paris", respectively). Top edges.....