![Item #4421] Mark Twain: A Life. Ron Powers, Mark Twain](/pictures/medium/4421.jpg?v=1623878191)
New York, NY: Free Press/ Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2006. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a...... More
[Item #4421]![Item #4035] Valentino. Irving Shulman, Rudolph Valentino](/pictures/medium/4035.jpg?v=1609648084)
New York, NY: Trident Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. "Beginning with (Rudolph) Valentino's funeral, an extravaganza which turned New York City into an utter bedlam and was staged by the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Church with a splendor hitherto unrivaled by even Hollywood, Irving Shulman traces, with wry humor and a sociologist's abiding interest in strange tribal customs, the creation of the myth of the Great Lover." (from front flap)..... More
[Item #4035]![Item #4409] The World's So Full of Things with: Ephemera. Hal Vincent](/pictures/medium/4409.jpg?v=1623359825)
Detroit, MI: Harlo Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Hal Vincent. "The author, Hal Vincent, and his wife believe the world to be "so full of things," and this story tells how they have succeeded in getting the most out of living...Though largely a story of their lives and its varied activities, it is, in parts, historical in that many comparisons are drawn between the old and the..... More
[Item #4409]![Item #5381] All the King's Men. Robert Penn Warren](/pictures/medium/5381_1.jpg?v=1677018899)
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Robert Penn Warren. "A word about origins. In one sense origins, in their infinite complexity, have no beginning; they are ultimately part of an ongoing process. But certainly in a book, to add to this complexity, we see two special strands of origin intersecting. There is a writer who writes the book. He has his own..... More
[Item #5381]![Item #4968] The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made. Patricia O'Toole, Woodrow Wilson](/pictures/medium/4968.jpg?v=1656449462)
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Patricia O'Toole. "President from 1913 to 1921, (Woodrow) Wilson set a high bar for himself and the country. No president believed more fervently in the primacy of morality in politics or the "moral force" of ideas. The Moralist measures Wilson by his own standards while recounting his unprecedented success as an economic reformer, his grand vision for a...... More
[Item #4968]![Item #4435] Broadside: "Two Poems from John Wolff's Book Complaints from the West-River Country"...](/pictures/medium/4435.jpg?v=1624482851)
Madison, WI: Landlocked Press, 1985. First Edition. Single Folded Sheet. A broadside (appx. 5" x 10&1/2" folded, 25" x 10&1/2" unfolded) folded vertically into five panels/ ten sides printed on five panels/ recto only, with two poems by John Wolff, a Michigan poet & academician who is also a Zen Sensei (priest). The first poem, "On the Photo "Wild Bill Hickock at Deadwood", " is preceded by a quote from..... More
[Item #4435]![Item #4658] War and Remembrance. Herman Wouk](/pictures/medium/4658.jpg?v=1633628232)
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "War and Remembrance is a historical romance. The subject is World War II, the viewpoint American. A Prologue, The Winds of War, published in 1971, set the historical frame for this work by picturing the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. This is a novel of America at war, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. It is the main tale..... More
[Item #4658]![Item #4581] Native Son. Richard Wright](/pictures/medium/4581.jpg?v=1629217276)
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "Superficially, Native Son is a crime story, adventurous, exciting, often terrible- with two murders, a chase and a gun fight over the roofs of Chicago, a trial, and what might have been, but was not, a rape. It is the old story of a man hunted down by society. But the reader will get through only a few chapters before..... More
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