Brooklyn, NY: UpSet Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. "The war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it." (Diana di Prima, pg. 221). Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, A Little History explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With a preface by editor, publisher..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1983. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Presentation copy inscribed, signed & dated by Ron Bachardy & Christopher Isherwood to Robert Lewis (depicted in Plate No. 100). A volume of one hundred drawings by Don Bachardy (b. 1934), the acclaimed & venerable American portrait artist who was the life partner of Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), the canonical British-American author. Arranged chronologically from 1961 through 1982, these drawings are..... More

New York, NY, USA: Norton, 2008. First Edition. “We live in a visual age–an age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John D. Barrow traces their history in order to tell the story of modern science. Certain key images embody our understanding of life and the universe we inhabit. Some, such as Robert Hooke’s first microscopic views of the natural world or the stunning images taken..... More

New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1992. First Edition. “At his death on December 10, 1990, Armand Hammer was hailed as one of the great entrepreneurs of all time–a man who came out of retirement at the age of 59 to build the virtually bankrupt Occidental Petroleum Corporation into one of the world’s great international companies. The multimillionaire industrialist was also saluted as an art collector and philanthropist, and..... More

Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. "Through a detailed and thoughtful study of the impact of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy on (Charles) Olson's aesthetic theory, this book points out the conceptual unity underlying what seems to be a sprawl of fragments in Olson's major work, The Maximus Poems. The poetics that Olson developed expressed a total weltanschauung, which was influenced by two major sources. Others have called..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1974. First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. “Take 139 leading editorial cartoonists from the United States and Canada, inspire their creative talents with the major political issues of 1973, and the result is this provocative pictorial history of one of the Twentieth Century's most tumultuous years. The second volume of an annual series, this 1974 edition features the graphic commentary..... More

New York, NY, USA: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. From the collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature & date. "Noted historian of American letters, Van Wyck Brooks tells for the first time the story of American writers and artists who have lived and worked in Italy, and have seen in that classic land the earthly fulfillment of their "dream of Arcadia." Some of them..... More

New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. "Everyone knows the public Diana: the sweet, shy English girl with 'a history but no past' who married the Prince of Wales in a storybook wedding. But what of Diana in private? Was she really just an innocent kindergarten teacher when she and Prince Charles got engaged? Was she truly in love with her fiancé—and how did he..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed and Signed by Tom Pohrt. "Born in 1793, John Clare lived and worked during the Golden Age of British poetry, the time of Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Coleridge. In the grand tradition of English nature writing, he stands alongside Wordsworth as a poet of extraordinary humanity and great spirit. He was deeply resistant to the first years of England's..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition. Offered today is the autobiography of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1946). My Life is the 2004 book that, at that time, former-disgraced President Bill Clinton wrote and released detailing the triumphs and failures of his life. With surprising candor, erudition, and humor the former President shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous..... More

Kansas City, MO, USA: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1999. Second Edition. Hardcover. "This is the most comprehensive study ever attempted of a vast important subject: the modern era of American photography from the mid-1880s to the present. Lavishly illustrated, and printed to the highest technical standards in both tritone and full color, this authoritative volume presents a new perspective on the history of American photography that will be of interest to..... More

Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press, 1947; 1945; 1948. Second Edition; First Edition; First Edition. Hardcovers. Hungarian art historian and Michelangelo expert Charles de Tolnay (1899-1981) immigrated to the United States in 1939, working as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, until 1948 followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Bollingen Fellowship until he became a professor at Columbia University. The final volume of his..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harmony Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. "He is Hollywood's most fascinating and timeless star. Although he came to personify the debonair American, Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach on January 18, 1904, in the seaport village of Bristol, England. Combining the captivating beauty of silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino with the masculine irresistibility of Clark Gable, Grant emerged as Hollywood's quintessential leading man. Today, "the man from..... More