Type Punch Matrix (79 results)

First Edition. First edition / printing of McManus' classic account of the 2000 World Series of Poker. One of the best poker books of all time. 422pp. with index. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. DJ unclipped. Touches of shelfwear. Else clean, bright, and sound throughout. Near fine in a near fine jacket.

Seller Inventory # 41656

Condition: Near fine. First Ecco Press edition of Morley (Brant)'s adolescent diary, first privately published in Brazil in 1942 and in Bishop's English translation in 1957, reissued here as one of the "Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century" with a new foreword by Bishop. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original glossy wrappers designed by Cynthia Krupat. [xxxviii], 281, [1] pages. Minor toning and edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 51673

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing. First edition of this memoir of post-Cultural-Revolution China. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original quarter black cloth over papyrus-style boards. In original unclipped ($16.95) pictorial dust jacket. 211, [1] pages. Very light toning to jacket. Touch of soil to page edges. Interior clean, crisp, and bright. Sound throughout.

Seller Inventory # 42843

First printing. First edition of the definitive biography of Truman Capote, and the basis for the 2005 film. 9.25'' x 6''. Quarter turquoise cloth over grey boards, in unclipped ($22.95) photographic dust jacket. 631, [1] pages. Jacket mildly wrinkled at top edge, slightly dented at head and tail of spine. Mild toning/sunning to spine and flaps. Book is clean, crisp, tight; pages a trifle toned, but appears unread. Near fine in a very good plus jacket.

Seller Inventory # 42286

First Edition. Signed first printing, on Gilbert's reflections on her decision to remarry, written after the success of her memoir EAT, PRAY, LOVE. 9'' x 6''. Publisher's binding in original unclipped ($26.95) dust jacket. 285, [1] pages. Signed by Gilbert at the title page. Near fine in a near fine jacket.

Seller Inventory # 44413

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. Inscribed second printing of this collection of autobiographical stories from this frequent contributor to NPR's All Things Considered. 8'' x 5''. Light-brown boards in glossy photographic dust jacket. 178 pages. Warmly inscribed by Kling at front free endpaper. Clean, bright, and sharp throughout; appears unread.

Seller Inventory # 43071

Condition: Very good plus. First printing. Uncorrected advance proofs for the first US edition of this perceptive biography (published in the UK as MORGAN: A Biography of E.M. Forster) by the founder of Persephone Books. 9'' x 6''. Original printed peach wrappers. Black and white illustrations. 404 pages. Light edgewear, minor soil to wrappers.

Seller Inventory # 51987

First edition (stated). Review copy of Hall's personally gathered "literary gossip" about Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original quarter brown cloth with orange boards. In original unclipped ($10.00) dust jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in. 253, [1] pages. A few check marks in pen to margins. Several tears to jacket at upper edge; spine ends chipped. Very good plus in very good jacket.

Seller Inventory # 47253

Condition: Near fine in very good jacket. First UK edition. First edition in English of Nordon's biography, originally published in France in 1964 and awarded the Prix Guizot by the Academie Fran�aise. 9'' x 5.5''. Translated from the French by Frances Partridge. Original black cloth. Black topstain. In original price-clipped orange and magenta dust jacket designed by Biro. 370 pages. This copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong, with his library emboss to title page. Two small ink marks to front free endpaper; toning shadow to half-title page. Moderate wear and scuffing to jacket, with several small closed tears.

Seller Inventory # 47650

First edition. Signed first printing of the former Secretary of State's examination of the influence of Christianity in American attitudes and political discourse, and its impact in world affairs. 9'' x 6''. Publisher's boards in original unclipped ($25.95) dust jacket. Inscribed by Albright at half title. Minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Faint crease at front flap. Boards fresh. Interior bright and clean. 339, [1] pages. Near fine in a near fine jacket.

Seller Inventory # 42130

Condition: Very good plus. First edition of Nichols's collected profiles of notable figures of his day, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Ronald Knox, Rose Macaulay, P.G. Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, and Nellie Melba, whose personal secretary he was and whose autobiography he ghostwrote. 8'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth with paper labels mounted to front board and spine. Lacking original dust jacket. 302 pages. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down. This copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong, with his emboss to half-title page. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down. Light edgewear, cloth chipped at spine.

Seller Inventory # 50089

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First printing of Blunk's biography of the acclaimed American poet. 9'' x 6''. Original black boards. In original unclipped ($40.00) dust jacket. 496 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Minor edgewear and bumping.

Seller Inventory # 47250

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition of Merwin's memoir of his early life, after graduating from Princeton and before winning the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952. 9'' x 5.5''. Original green and blue boards with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($24.00) dust jacket. 216 pages. Minor edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 47527

Condition: Very good plus. First paperback edition of this biographical study of Arthur Conan Doyle's personal similarities to his own creation. 7.75'' x 5''. Original wrappers. 92 pages. This copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong, with his emboss to title page. Slight spine lean, moderate creasing and edgewear. Light soil to wrappers. Price sticker to front cover.

Seller Inventory # 47654

Condition: Very good. Uncorrected proofs of the first US edition of Symons's 1979 biography, an introduction to Doyle published in celebration of the Sherlock Holmes Centennial. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original yellow wrappers. 138 pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Moderate soil and some rubbing to covers; spine sunned.

Seller Inventory # 47823

Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. First edition. First printing of this illustrated literary biography of Keats, traced through the history of his surviving manuscripts. 11'' x 8.5''. Original black cloth. In original dust jacket. 165, [1] pages. Illustrated with more than 90 color plates. Minor wear to jacket.

Seller Inventory # 47225

Condition: Very good plus. Uncommon edition of these collected autobiographical fragments from Delacroix's journals, with Baudelaire's 1863 essay on the painter's greatness, both in German translation. 9.25'' x 6.5''. Quarter leather with marbled boards, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Illustrated with 2 black and white plates. The second volume of the series Dokumente zur neuren Kunst, edited by Hans Graber. 113, [1] pages. Light edgewear. Scuffing to spine label.

Seller Inventory # 49049

Condition: Fine. First edition. Scarce uncorrected advance proof copy of this biography of the American leftist writer and journalist. 9.25'' x 5.5''. Original ochre printed wrappers. Black and white photographic illustrations. 343, [1] pages. Minor traces of soil and edgewear to wrappers.

Seller Inventory # 50418

Condition: Near fine in very good jacket. First printing. First edition of Forster's account of his 1912 travels through India and his 1921 position as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas, experiences which also furnished the background for his novel A PASSAGE TO INDIA. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original grey cloth. In original unclipped (15s.) dust jacket designed by Bernard Meadows. Illustrated with eight black and white photographs, including frontispiece. 176 pages. Light edgewear to boards, light soil to top edge of text block and dust jacket. Small closed tear to front jacket panel.

Seller Inventory # 51768

Condition: Near fine in near-fine jacket. First edition. Inscribed first printing of this memoir-cum-cookbook of a WWII fighter pilot who saw combat in the Pacific. Rosbert received the nickname "Tiger" Joe as a pilot, which he carried with him as a proud statement of his WWII service through to the founding of his restaurant, Flying Tiger Joe's. With a gregarious tone, every recipe reflecting some new adventure, the book's enthusiasm gallops along, apparently blind to the problematic appropriation of Chinese imagery by an American soldier who fought "over the skies of China." Reflecting the American dream of soldiers returning home from war to make a life for themselves and their families, this cookbook is an artifact of the bootstrapping vision open to white suburbia in the postwar era. 9'' x 6''. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. In original unclipped ($18.95) white dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white line drawings and photographic reproductions. 343, [1] pages. Inscribed by Rosbert on front free endpaper: "For ___ - with best wishes for Good Cooking! & Great Adventures! 'Tiger' Joe." Light bumping to corners. Faint marginal toning to jacket, but overall quite nice.

Seller Inventory # 39812

Second printing of this extensive and comprehensive biographical study, with a foreword by ERB's son Hulburt Burroughs and a floridly enthusiastic introduction by fellow legend and Burroughs fan Ray Bradbury. 11'' x 8.5''. Original black and green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($14.95) dust jacket. 819, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards. Light to moderate foxing along jacket spine, edges, and verso. A few very small closed tears to spine ends. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

Seller Inventory # 48501

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition. First printing of the collected papers from the 1995 John Keats Bicentennial Conference, inscribed by editor Ronald Sharp to poet Stanley Plumly (author of the later POSTHUMOUS KEATS), with Plumly's own annotations. 9'' x 6''. Original red cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original dust jacket. 223, [1] pages. Inscribed by Sharp on title page: "For Stanley Plumley [sic], with admiration & best wishes, Ron Sharp." Neat marginal notes in pen by Plumly throughout. Jacket spine sunned.

Seller Inventory # 47139

Condition: Near fine. First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights. Written only six years after Phillips's death, this detailed biography also includes excerpts from his publications, as well as personal anecdotes from acquaintances. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Publisher's purple cloth boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated with black-and-white frontispiece. 600 pages, including index. Binding with light sunning to spine, a bit of bumping to spine ends. Leaves with a hint of toning. Sharp.

Seller Inventory # 49214

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. Signed, slipcased first edition of the acclaimed novelist's memoir of his youth in 1970s Massachussetts, issued as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one or more promotional titles (usually ARCs or the like, but sometimes advance excerpts). 9.25'' x 6''. Original gilt-stamped blue and brown boards. In original unclipped ($25.95) dust jacket. In original black cloth slipcase. 387, [3] pages. With original INDIESPENSABLE booklet. Signed by Dubus on title page. Minimal edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 50162

Condition: Very good minus. Advance uncorrected proofs of the first edition of Givner's biography, in an early state with inserted revisions - an uncommon format. 9'' x 5.5''. Original printed yellow wrappers. 516 pages. Ink notation "Nov 23" on front wrapper. Photocopied publisher's description taped to verso of front endpaper. Revised passages laid in following pages 332 and 352. Glued binding brittle, text block separating. Light edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 50784

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing (stated). First edition, in the second-state dust jacket, of Morley (Brant)'s adolescent diary in Bishop's translation from the Portuguese. Alice Deyrell Caldeira Brant began keeping diaries in 1893, the 12-year-old daughter of a diamond miner in the small Brazilian town of Diamantina; their first publication (in Brazil in 1942) was arranged by her husband and edited to omit any and all reference to their meeting and courtship. At the time of Bishop's English translation, the author was 76, happy to meet the poet and expand on her old stories, living proof that "it really happened; everything did take place, day by day, minute by minute, once and only once, just the way Helena says it did" (Bishop). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter yellow cloth with gray-green decorative boards. In original unclipped ($4.75) dust jacket by Harry Ford, second state, front flap text ending in "Mor-". Photographic endpapers. 281, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards and jacket, minor soil and scuffing to extremities.

Seller Inventory # 51681

Condition: Very good. First Edition. Scarce advance proof copy of the first book-length biography of the innovative composer and writer. Publisher's letter dated the day after Cage's death and notes: "In light of the terriblely sad news of John Cage's death yesterday, I thought you would be interested." 8vo. Original grey printed wraps. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF (stated). Very good. A bit thumbed. Some rubbing and a couple of spots of soil to rear wrapper. Review copy with publisher letter laid in.

Seller Inventory # 41292

Condition: Near fine in fine jacket. First edition (stated). Signed first printing of Stashower's Edgar Award-winning biography. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter yellow cloth with brown boards. In original unclipped ($32.50) dust jacket. 472 pages. Signed by Stashower on title page. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of noted Sherlockian, BSI member since 1973, and retired US magistrate judge Andrew Peck. Fore-edge bumped with attendant creasing to a few pages, else only minor edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 51419

Inscribed true first edition of the legendary actor's memoir. Published in the U.S. as I REMEMBER IT WELL (1970). 8'' x 5.24''. Original blue boards, in original color photographic dust jacket. 280 pages. Inscribed by Chevalier to half title. Jacket with touches of edgewear. Else bright. Book sound and sharp. Near Fine in a near fine jacket.

Seller Inventory # 41225

First edition. First printing of the most comprehensive work in English about the career of Vladimir Favorsky, a key reference of the multifaceted artist. Russian graphic artist, art critic, and woodcut illustrator Vladimir Favorsky (also transliterated as Favorski) blended the traditional and the modern in his art. He helmed the Russian state art and technical school Vkhutemas - often compared in style and philosophy to Bauhaus - as rector during a tumultuous period in the 1920s, during which he resisted government efforts to mandate the artistic methods and styles of the students. Favorsky's perspective shines through in his extensive oeuvre of book illustrations; he was particularly fond of the codex as a vehicle for art, noting that "the book can serve simultaneously as an example of wholeness of design and variety of content" (Molok, 242). 11'' x 7.5''. Original pictorial boards. Illustrated in black and white. 322 pages. In original black-and-white pictorial slipcase. Slipcase with some edgewear, a couple tiny glue repairs; a touch of toning. Binding with some sunning to spine and rubbing to edges, boards with light spotting and toning. Interior sharp and bright. Very good plus in scarce original slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 45688