Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Henry Beston. "The author of The Outermost House, which...remains one of the most beautiful and popular accounts of an experience with nature, again writes of an adventure with the earth, this time with the herbs in his own garden. He lists and describes the various herbs and their culture and associates them with their ancient historical..... More
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition Thus (Specially Rebound). Three-Quarter Leather , Cloth & Gilt. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is one of the supreme classics of the English language, one of the first & still greatest biographies, as Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire is to history. First published in 1791, this rich & evocative account of the great British Man of..... More
[Item #4226]
London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "In the early 1800s a Brazilian slave trader sailed to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, entered into a bizarre history of relations with its monarchs, acquired wealth and a position of outlandish influence but died a poor man. Bruce Chatwin's research into this curious story was abruptly thwarted when, on his second trip to Dahomey (by then called Benin), he..... More
[Item #4601]
New York, NY: Summit Books/ Simon & Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Viceroy of Ouidah begins with the reunion of the numerous descendants of Francisco Felix da Silva- a poor white Brazilian who, Bruce Chatwin tells us, "was by the 1830s the richest man in West Africa....He died a ruined man."...The Viceroy of Ouidah tells...of the man who became the "best friend" of the King of Dahomey, was..... More
[Item #4628]
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ECW Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. "The BUK book offers a unique look at a phenomenon: Charles Bukowski- BUK- the battered and scarred postal clerk, odd jobs man, and lowly factotum, became the best-known "underground" writer in the English language. Jean Genet called him "the best poet in America." His work- raw, crude, heartwarming, and hilarious- has inspired imitators, emulators, sycophants, and detractors. Until now, everything written..... More
[Item #4264]
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931; 1938. First Edition, Second Printing; First Edition. Hardcovers. One of two volumes signed by author Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. "Twenty long years have passed since my father was laid in the ground, yet had these years been only days the memory of that tragic event could not be more vivid. In the lovely month of April- month of soft green..... More
[Item #4216]
London, England: MQ Publications, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. “The R. Crumb Handbook is a brand new take on the life, trials and ideas of one of the most influential cartoonists of the last 40 years. Wry, self-deprecating, and candid, this is an exceptionally revealing and unexpectedly moving visual biography. Crumb is thoughtful and enlightening, with insights into 20th century popular culture that are hilarious, challenging, and acidly satirical. He casts..... More
[Item #4257]
Nashua, NH: Transition Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Stephen Edington. "A fascinating journey back to Jack Kerouac's roots. Author Stephen Edington has undertaken an exhaustive research into the origins of the Kerouac family, unearthing a vast quantity of previously unknown information and relating his findings to Kerouac's own writings. The result makes absorbing reading and will be of immense interest and value to all students and admirers of..... More
[Item #4284]
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Already hailed in Europe as a masterpiece, Oriana Fallaci's powerful new novel is the dramatic love story of a man and a woman who are caught in the conflicts of political struggle and are moved inexorably toward a confrontation with death. In A Man Fallaci draws a dynamic portrait of the unparalleled hero of the Greek resistance, Alexander Panagoulis..... More
[Item #4578]
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Here is an invitation to adventure of a rare and wonderful variety. One moment we are wandering on the outskirts of a village in modern Greece, the next we are standing with three hundred doomed Spartans in the fifth century B.C., hopelessly holding a narrow pass against the tens of thousands of Xerxe's massed army. In a...... More
[Item #4529]
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; The Asia Society Galleries et al. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Paintings of Jakuchu presents the work of one of Japan's most important artists. Born in Kyoto in 1716 to a family of greengrocers, Ito Jakuchu remained fascinated throughout his life with the forms and colors of the natural world. In his strikingly original paintings, reproduced here in 97 full-color plates and 72..... More
[Item #4269]
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "Claudius was proclaimed Emperor at Rome after the assassination of Caligula in A.D. 41, and his thirteen-year reign included some significant accomplishments. Claudius added Mauretania, Lycia, and Thrace to the Roman Empire and began the systematic conquest of Britain. He extended the rights of Roman citizenship to many provincials and opened the Senate to prominent men from the western provinces..... More
[Item #4235]
London, England: Routledge, 1999. First UK edition. Hardcover. "In AD 69 the Roman Empire seemed endangered by civil war and rebellion. The plebeian and uncharismatic Emperor Vespasian restored peace and confidence and ensured a smooth succession. His reputation in antiquity gained momentum in the medieval and modern era to present a universally acknowledged picture of an emperor who instigated economic advances and improved government which led to the 'Golden Age'..... More
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New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. "England is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and Catholic Europe oppose him. The king's quest for freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and creates a...... More
[Item #4306]
Long Island City, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens- and enemies- of the vast Roman Empire two thousand years ago. This book goes beyond the stereotypes found in popular culture to examine the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to..... More
[Item #4219]
New York, NY: Island Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Scott & Helen Nearing. " "If defeat, disaster and dissolution spell tragedy, man's efforts at empire building are among the most tragic episodes in his social history." In this sentence Scott Nearing sums up the content of his latest book. It is an exposition and a warning at the same time. Beginning with the Roman Empire, he traces the..... More
[Item #4548]
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. First Edition. Hardcovers. The first full biography of Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910), the canonical American author & humorist. Published only two years after his death, this monumental three-volume achievement by Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) describes Twain's life & works in granular detail, in a strictly linear chronology beginning with his ancestors. As noted on title page, the volumes are..... More
[Item #4251]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "In the fortunate summer of 2019, before the airways and pathways closed down for an undetermined interval, I traveled to Peru...My long incubated plan was to track the hoof prints of my great-grandfather's mule train as he made his survey of the headwaters of the Amazon." (from first sentence, unpaginated) As described on front flap, this "...is a...... More
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