John D. Spreckels
San Diego, CA: Frye & Smith, 1924. First edition. 8vo. 315 pp. Frontispiece porttrait of Spreckels. Photographic illustrations. Hardcover binding, very good condition. (10539). More
Biography
Famous Women; An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women
New York: Ellis M. Lonow Company, 1926. First edition. 8vo. [xvi], 328 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering, cover and spine no jacket, overall very good condition. (100555). More
Wagner; A Case History
London: Dent, 1983. First edition. 8vo. 169 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrappere, very good copy. (94432). More
Thesiger; A Biography
London: Viking, 1994. First edition. 8vo. [xxiv], 582 pp. Colour photographs by Mariantonietta Peru. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (94513). More
Love & Dirt
London: Macmillan, 2003. First edition. 8vo. [xviii], 365 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (94011). More
Farther & Wilder; The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
New York: Knopf, 2013. First edition. 8vo. [x], 494 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (94073). More
Splendid Things We Planned; A Family Portrait
New York: Norton, 2014. First edition. 8vo. 254 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth in dustwrapper, as new. (80691). More
Life and Public Services of General Grant
San Francisco, CA: Occidental Publishing Company, 1885. First edition thus. 4to. 613 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, decorative, lettered cover and spine, minor surface wear, overall very good condition. (100775). More
White Rajah; A Biography of Sir Jmes Brooke
New York: Little, Brown, 2002. First edition. 8vo. [viii], 262 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (80488). More
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First edition. 8vo. 244 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper very good condition. (101792). Fear of death. More
Double Down; Reflections on Gambling and Loss
New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. First Harvest edition. 12mo. 198 pp. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, very good condition. (123942). The gripping account of a two-year gambling splurge and its aftermath. More
Theodore Herzl; A Biography
Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 5705 - 1945. Fourth impression. 8vo. 545 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Photographic illustrations. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering spine, no jacket, else very good condition. (99494). Translated from the German by Maurice Samuel. More
Jacques Tati
London: Harvill Press, 1999. Later printing. 8vo. [vi], 382 pp. Photographic illustrations. Hardcover binding in unclipped duswrapper, fine condition. (124148). More
This Is a Soul; The Mission of Rick Hodes
New York: William Morrow - Harper Collins Publishers, 2010. First edition. 8vo. 266 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, ex-library, overall very good condition. (100137). More
Fire In the Night; Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion
New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. 8vo. 434 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (94413). More
Man Who Ate Too Much; The Life of James Beard
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. First printing. 8vo. [xiv], 448 pp. Photographic illustrations. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (10399). More
Mary Butts; Scenes from the Life
Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co., 1998. First edition. 8vo. [xix], 554 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine condition. (94348). More
Cockerell; Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Friend of Ruskin and William Morris and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
New York: Knopf, 1965. First American edition. 8vo. [xviii], 385pp. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (96676). More
Diane Arbus; A Biography
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First edition. 8vo. 366 pp. Photographic illustrations. Hardcover binding in unclipprd dustwrapper, like new condition. (10856). More
Beau Brummell and His Times
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908. Second Impression. 8vo. 199 pp. Frontispiece portraitof George Bryan Brummell. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering cover and spine, impressed photo of Brummel cover, library stamps upper pastedown, overall very good condition. (124736). With a Chapter on Dress and the Dandies by Mary Craven. –– Roger Boutet de..... More
Philip & Elizabeth; Portrait of a Rpoyal Marriage
New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. First American edition. 8vo. 413 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine condition. (94451). More
Tallulah, Darling; A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead
New York: Macmillan Publihing Co., Inc., 1980. First printing. 8vo. [ix], 292 pp. Photographic illustrations. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (125206). More
Twilight Man; Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
New York, NY: Penguin Books / Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. First Penguin Books edition. 12mo. 183 pp. Photographic illustrations. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, like new condition. (125278). More
Works of Rufus Choate; With a Memoir of His Life
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes. v1: [xi], 558 pp. Frontis. / v2: [iv], 523 pp. Cloth bindins, spines sunned, else very good set. (42870). More
Amelia Earhart; Free In the Skies
New York: Silver Whistle / Harcourt, Inc., 2003. First edition. 8vo, Unpaginated. Graphic illustration by Bill Wylie. Softcover binding, pictorial covers, very good condition, (101059). More