Foolish Figleaves? Pornography in -- and out of -- court.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xi, 368pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Handsome second printing. More
Odds & Ends
Bill Kurtis on Assignment.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, [1983]. Hardcover. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1983. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 192pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many color). Fine/fine. First edition, tight and pristine, of this first collection by the famed Chicago journalist -- bearing a fine red-bordered bookplate on the..... More
Since You Ask Me.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and tan cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xv, 206pp. Very good/very good. Light jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive third printing of the syndicated advice columnist's writings, bearing a huge and bold inscription by her in black fineline on the front flyleaf: "Warm..... More
Farm Journal Christmas Book.
Philadelphia: Countryside Press, 1970. Hardcover. 4to. White paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 176pp. Numerous photographs (most color), diagrams, patterns. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with spine faintly sunned. First edition, tight and nice. Colorful assortment of holiday recipes, craft ideas and decorating suggestions. More
Bonkers: Why women get stressed out and what they can do about it.
Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition. More
Selected Works.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1947. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. Black cloth over bevelled boards with blind-embossed profile portrait. 742pp, 855pp. 2 tipped-in illustrations. Very good. Tight, clean, handsome two-volume set. More
Out of the Night, Into the Wind.
New York: Vantage Press, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition of this miscellany of essays, short stories, letters and poems, nicely inscribed on the front flyleaf by the author to a noted Hemingway scholar: "9/26/89 / To: /..... More
The Erotic Revolution: An Affirmative View of the New Morality.
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. 322pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive first edition. More
A History of Spain.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 478pp. 8 maps. Very good/very good. Lightly pencilled underlining and margin notes throughout. First U.S. edition. More
The Reluctant Prophet.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 238pp. Fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear; nonauthorial 1968 gift inscription on half-title page. Tight and attractive early (not first) printing of (as jacket front panel cites) "The Autobiography of a Clairvoyant, with..... More
Famous Flaws.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 256pp. Fine/fine. First edition. Entertaining volume of true imperfections of the rich and famous including Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Rudolf Valentino, James Madison, Casanova, etc. More
Joan Lunden's A Bend in the Road Is Not the End of the Road: 10 Positive Principles for Dealing with Change.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 238pp.Numerous color illustrations. Near fine/fine. First edition, with a bookplate bearing a facsimile printed Lunden signature and inscription. More
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
London: The Folio Society, 1985-86. Hardcover. Introduction by Peter Rowlandson. Complete 5-volume set. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and elaborate gilt rules, two slipcases (first housing Volumes I-II, second housing Volumes III-V). xxiv, 526; xvii, 542pp; xxiv, 582pp; xxxiv, 661pp; xxiii, 243pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Fine/very good. All..... More
The Genealogy of the House and Surname of Setoun... with the Chronicle of the House of Setoun, Compiled in Metre.
Edinburgh: William Aitken, Printer, 1830. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full calf, heavily blind-embossed and with gilt borders. xiii, 64pp. Frontispiece, full-page engraving, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Expertly rebacked in calf with crimson leather label titled in gilt; mildly edgeworn; heavy foxing and bit of discoloration, mainly to preliminary..... More
Will the Future Redeem the Past? An Address by the Honorable Charles Malik Former President of the United Nations General Assembly Delivered at the Eighteenth-Century Capitol Williamsburg, Virginia June 11, 1960.
Richmond: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, [1960]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 20pp. Very good. Faint age toning to outer wrappers (only), with single spot at lower left or rear wrapper; else internally tight and bright. Attractive first edition of this provocative speech by the Lebanese diplomat (1906-87). More
The Edwardian Era.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth. viii, 391pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf; tiny chips at head of spine. Second printing, tight and decent. More
Roget's Pocket Thesaurus / New Handy Pocket Book of Quotations / Webster's New Handy Pocket Dictionary.
New York: Books, Inc. and Pocket Books, n.y. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Black paper over boards with silver lettering and borders, matching U-shaped desktop mini-shelf. xxviii, 484pp; ix, 235pp, (11pp); xxxix, 332pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. Fun, goofy triple-decker of these three standard desk references, undated but ca. 1963-67..... More
A Short History of Our Own Times from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Accession of King Edward VII.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. Hardcover. 12mo. Full calf with gilt emblem, rules and spine. xii, 574pp. Glazed marbled endpapers and edges. Very good. Slight edgewear. Tight, handsome revised and enlarged edition. More
The Mask of Iron: A Critical Biography of David Lloyd George.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xi, 343pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/good. Abrasion from ownership signature removal on half-title page; some chips and closed tears on jacket. First U.S. edition, a tight and clean copy. More
The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate....
New York: Ivison & Phinney, 1856. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. viii, 323pp. Frontispiece. Good plus. Binding edgeworn, with rear outer hinged cracked but still strong; lacks rear buff-colored flyleaf. Tight, decent third edition of this primer on debating. The same O.A. Boyd who pencils his ownership signature..... More
Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap.
Garden City: Natural History Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 91pp. Near fine/near fine. Early (not first) printing, an "American Museum of Natural History Special Members' Edition." More
Great Leaders of the World.
Chicago: University of Knowledge, [1940]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 383pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of this gathering of biographical sketches of 79 "Men and Women Who Influenced Their Times"..... More
The Sun King.
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. 255pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color), pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf; minor jacket edgewear. Early (not first) printing, a tight and handsome copy, of this popular, semi-scholarly biography of Louis XIV..... More
Life Under the Stuarts.
London: Falcon Educational Books, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, decorative dust jacket. 189pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and attractive first edition of this volume in "The Falcon Histories" series, featuring 16 essays by various scholars on different..... More
Life Under the Tudors.
London: Falcon Educational Books, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, decorative dust jacket. 226pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive first edition of this volume in "The Falcon Histories" series, featuring 16 essays by various scholars on different aspects of daily life --..... More