New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Publishers, 1875. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo.193 pp. Bound in olive green cloth with beautiful black and gold decorations on the front board and gilt titling on the spine. Includes several beautiful black and white steel-lithograph illustrations. A recollection of life with exotic pets, translated from... More about The History of My Friends; Or Home Life With Animals
Milwaukee: Williams Publishing Co. [1902], 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 259 pp. Bound in brown leather with twin gilt rule borders, gilt lettering and decorations on the front board, spine in 5 compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, twin gilt rule borders and gilt decorations on the rear board, marbled... More about Notable Men of Wisconsin
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers [1986], 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 337 pp. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good+ book with a remainder mark on the top textblock and a few hints of wear to the edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust... More about The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House [1975], 1975. First printing. Hardcover. 244 pp. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Includes several black and white photographs. A compelling autobiography by the legendary musician and American icon. A Very Good book with mild fading to the edges of the... More about Man in Black
Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1840. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4vo. 10 volumes: Vol. 1: 1840, 612 pp., frontispiece of Franklin with tissue guard; Vol. 2: 1836, 557 pp., frontispiece of Franklin (from the picture by D. Martin) with tissue guard; Vol. 3: 1836, 577 pp., frontispiece of Franklin (from... More about The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. 121 pp. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Stafford's book based on her interviews with Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. Near Fine book in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a few hints... More about A Mother in History
New York: Pantheon Books (1967), 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 381 pp. Orange-red cloth with silver, red, and orange lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on jacket flap. A Near Fine book with a slight push to the crown of the spine in a like dust jacket with very mild... More about Division Street: America
New York: Random House, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 226 pp. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Basis for the well-received film of the same name. Small remainder mark on top textblock, else very near Fine in a very near Fine dust jacket. More about Searching for Bobby Fischer; The World of Chess, Observed by the Father of a Child Prodigy