New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "Andre Kertesz, long acknowledged as the father of modern photography, has been capturing the human experience with his camera since 1912. This unique retrospective volume celebrates the seventy years of Kertesz' photographic career, from his youth in his native Hungary, through an exciting and fruitful decade in Paris, to his American period in Greenwich Village..." (from front flap) A...... More

New York, NY: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Subtitled "Being a Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling, With an Appreciation and Some Anecdotes" with an exemplary late-Victorian flourish, this interesting volume about the great British author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was written by Will M. Clemens, a possible distant relative (or at least apparently an acquaintance) of Samuel Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain. With seven chapters devoted to various aspects..... More

Ann Arbor, MI; New York, NY; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Johnstown, PA: Ann Arbor News; New York Daily News; New York Times; Johnstown Tribune-Democrat; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Columbus Sunday Dispatch, 1969. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets. "MAN Lands on the MOON," reads the bold headline over a photograph of the planet that takes up the entire front page of the final Daily News: New York's Picture Newspaper edition of July..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Initialed by Joe Napora. "The One. The One and the Many. What connects? What divides? Once we knew. Before the internet, smart phones, E-mail, before telephones, before writing, before information, we knew. There is an Iroquois tale called "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" describing the creation of the universe and the beginning of the human race...This story connects us..... More

East Hampton, NY: The Paris Review, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by George Plimpton. "I suppose it is somewhat odd to write an introduction to a Festschrift that is largely praise about oneself. But I feel somewhat compelled to do so since the encomiums were collected (so I had supposed) to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of The Paris Review, not my identification with it over the years as its main..... More

Hartford, CT; New York, NY: American Publishing Company; Oxford University Press, 1880; 1996. Early Edition, First Trade Edition Thus. Hardcovers. Two collectible versions of an early-career classic travelogue by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & writer: (1) The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress, American Publishing Company's 1880 printing of the work it first published in 1869. Hardcover in black cloth with gilt lettering..... More

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

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I doubt if many of the aces I will be extolling in this story went into journalism with the faintest notion of creating a "new" journalism, a "higher" journalism, or even a mildly improved variety. I know they never dreamed that anything they were going to write for newspapers or magazines would wreak such evil havoc in the literary..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux in Conjunction with Quality Paper Books, 1990. First Edition Thus. Softcover. This husky compilation gathers three essential works by the great Tom Wolfe (1930-2018), best known for his 1968 masterwork (itself included here), “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” This work—although alternately loathed and begrudgingly accepted by Ken Kesey, whose transformation from “great American novelist” to self-proclaimed “lightning rod” is amusingly charted in its..... More