New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by co-editor & contributor Charles Baxter. "William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a long-time fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him- both the man and his work- offer intimate essays, most specifically written..... More

Paris, France: La Table Ronde, 1953. First French Edition. Softcover. A critical-biographical study of the great Russian writer Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol (1809-1852) by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the canonical Russian-American author whose exquisitely intricate works are being enshrined in the Library of America series. First published in English in the USA during 1944, here we offer the first French-language edition of 1953, translated from English into French by Marcelle Sibon. Softcover..... More

Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. "Frank Netter was both doctor and artist whose genius was such that he not only grasped the most complex concepts, but he could draw pictures that made those concepts clear to others. Beginning in the mid 20th century, his books of illustrations- thirteen atlases and over 200 pamphlets- educated doctors and health care professionals the world over. His award-winning Atlas of..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1972, Broadway and movie actor George Sanders committed suicide at the age of 65 because, he wrote in a note he left, "I am bored." Brian Aherne, himself a famous and distinguished actor, was one of Sanders' close friends. In this intimate biography, he takes us into the private life of an amazingly talented star whose unpredictable behavior and..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2013. Limited First Edition Thus. Signed by Iain Sinclair. "Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m.. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing, his right hand on the dog's collar. Two minutes later, you feel, and he'd be gone. But this is..... More

London, England: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. "Since 1913, when Fredrick Rolfe, self-styled Baron Corvo, died in bitterness and poverty, critics one by one have become aware of this acrimonious author's masterpiece, Hadrian VII, a book now admitted to an unique position in English literature. They have also heard something of the truly astonishing life that lay behind its writing and is reflected through every page of..... More

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. "The development of Thoreau's identity--from David Henry, son of John and Cynthia, to Henry David, sojourner at Walden, was a long, complex, and painful process; it was by no means a fully self-assured, stately march to the beat of a different drummer. The period between Thoreau's graduation from Harvard in 1837 and the beginning of the Walden experiment in 1845..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Harper & Brothers; MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1910; 1955. First Editions. Hardcovers. Two venerable critical biographies of the lives & works of the canonical American humorist & writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910); & the great British author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): (1) My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms by William Dean Howells (1837-1920), a close friend of Twain & himself a very prolific..... More

London, England: The Folio Society, 1993. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. The classic satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), the legendary & prolific British author. First published in the UK during 1948, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy is a bitingly witty spoof of the American funeral industry, as well as the clash of British & American cultures, which Waugh observed while on a sojourn to Hollywood. The "Whispering Glades" referred..... More

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