N.p. BasicBooks, [1992]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 445pp. Fine/fine. Superb first edition, handsomely inscribed and signed large and bold by Glynn in black ink on front flyleaf: "6-20-92 / To Bob, / Whose Bradley / Fighting..... More
New York: Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co., [1973]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 308pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and rubbing. Nice and tight first edition of this Asian study by the famed "New York Times" journalist..... More
New York: Random House, [1988]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with silver lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 792pp. Very good/very good. Spine gilt a tad rubbed and several light abrasions on rear endpaper; jacket lightly edgeworn. Tight, quite nice first edition. Front pastedown bears..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, [1957]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light blue paper over boards with dark blue lettering (issued without jacket). xi, 88pp. Very good. Mild age toning to binding edges, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive first edition of this early title by the highly influential American economist..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red and white paper over boards with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 300pp. Tables, figures. Fine/fine. A pristine first edition of (to cite front jacket panel) "The Most Comprehensive, Revealing Report on Our Sexual Behavior Today and Its Surprising Implications"..... More
New York: Truman Talley Books / St. Martin's Press, [2002]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey paper over boards with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. xxiv, 262pp. Near fine/near fine. A handsome first edition, boldly inscribed and signed by Ledeen in black fineline on half-title page: "To Bob / from Michael /..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 273pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and attractive first edition of this blistering attack on what the American legal profession has become over the past fifty..... More
New York: Warner Books, [2000]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey and speckled paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 249pp. Fine/fine. Text block faintly age toned as usual. Perfect and pristine first edition of this humorous political memoir and commentary, nicely inscribed and signed by the author in..... More
Westport, CT: Praeger, [1996]. Hardcover. Foreword by Warren B. Rudman. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xiv, 189pp. Fine/fine. Superb, tight first edition, inscribed and signed large and bold by the author in blue fineline on front flyleaf: "To Bob Malott / With admiration and /..... More
Washington, DC: The AEI Press, [2006]. Hardcover. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xi, 244pp, (2pp). Near fine. Handsome first edition of this volume in series editor Christopher C. Demuth's "Landmarks in Contemporary Political Thought" series -- and boldly inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on half-title page: "Sept..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 378pp. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly sunned. Superbly tight and handsome first edition of this memoir by the famed editor (1900-87) of "Good Housekeeping," "Cosmopolitan," "Town & Country" and..... More
Hardcover. This Newfoundland-American explorer led or took part in many important Arctic expeditions -- many aboard his famed schooner Effie M. Morrissey. ALS, 1p, 7¼" X 10½", "Somewhere in Greenland," July 1941. Addressed to "Chancellor of Bob, Janet, Edith, and Mrs. Malotte" (Deane W. Malott, 1898-1996, noted academic administrator and..... More
N.p. N.p., n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. Very good. 4pp. Mild binding traces, else bright, clean and nice. Apparent first edition of this frustratingly-cryptic pamphlet, likely published in 1861 -- A rousing defense of slavery. The author's simple-minded response to the charge that "Slaveholding is in itself sinful, and therefore immediate..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 477pp. Illustrations (some color). Fine/fine. An outstanding, pristiner than pristine first edition of this thick study, handsomely inscribed and signed by the preeminent historian of Native..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Foreword by Lawrence Perry. 8vo. Pale greenish-beige cloth with green lettering. xii, 301pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine. Handsome, tight early printing of this memoir by the Newfoundland-American explorer (1875-1946) chronicling his many important Arctic exploration expeditions aboard his schooner Effie..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, [1980]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 374pp. Fine/near fine. Wonderfully tight and handsome first edition of this timely, bestselling political thriller about Russian disinformation, inscribed and signed huge and bold by de Borchgrave in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf..... More
Boulder: Westview Press, [1984]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brick cloth with black lettering. xvi, 319pp. Numerous graphs and tables. Near fine. Tight and attractive first edition, with front flyleaf bearing a lengthy and profusely thankful inscription and signature from Newell in black ballpoint: "Dear Robert, / The future of my country's..... More
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, [1972]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 387pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, signed boldly on the title page by Cashen in blue ballpoint. Fittingly, this copy hails from the library of another college president: Noted academic..... More
New Rochelle, NY: Caratzas Brothers, Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Wide 16mo. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and cream pictorial paper over boards with black/silver lettering. (Ca. 100pp). Numerous full-page illustrations. Near fine. Lovely first edition of this unusual celebration of Greece with Lansdale's poem (English on rectos, Greek on versos)..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1954]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue printed wrappers. xviii, 316pp. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with mild wear and age toning to outer wrappers only. Attractive first edition of this "fresh contribution to basic thought, shows why the free nations... are creating the most dangerous..... More
Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey's International Defense Publishers, [1987]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xii, 95pp. Near fine. Faintest rubbing to outer wrappers (only). Tight and handsome first edition of this "Foreign Policy Report" published by the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. The author (born 1941), a former Soviet dissident, boldly..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and yellow paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 317pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine faintly sunned. A handsome and quite tight first edition. On the half-title page, Thomas pens large..... More
Boston: Loring, Publisher, [1870]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Augustus Hoppin and Hammatt Billings. Small 8vo. Green ornately blind-embossed cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and rules. iv, 144pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece + engraved second title page, full-page plates. Very good. Quite mild edgewear; old but neat and discreet expert brown cloth tape hinge..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, [1981]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Teal green cloth spine with gilt lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 404pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and handsome first edition of this medical novel "about doctors: what they do to each other and to their patients. Delightful bodice-ripping..... More
New York: The World Publishing Company, [1970]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown and orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 284pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Flaps of otherwise-near fine jacket age toned. Handsome first edition of this first biography of the most famous of all Western novelists, penned by..... More