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New York: Crown Archetype, 2017: SIGNED. New. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Jeffrey Tambor on a page specially bound-in by the publisher. Unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. B&W matte photos. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose singular wit and heartrending performances have been entertaining audiences for more than four decades, but the question remains: Who the hell is Jeffrey Tambor?
In his illuminating, often hilarious, and always honest… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Like New. Slipcase is near Fine. The book is tight with solid hinges and bindings, good corners and clean gilt decorated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. With an introduction by Catherine Taylor. 132 pages. 5¼ x 7¾" tall. Slipcase has very faint shelf wear.
The contents include:- TIM PARKS on "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli- RICHARD HOLMES on "Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson" by R. L. Stevenson
- PHILIP PULLMAN on "The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton
- ROY FOSTER on "Collected Poems" by W. B. Yeats
- IAIN SINCLAIR on "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells
- HELEN DUNMORE on "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
- COLM TOIBIN on "The Golden Bowl" by Henry James
- A.S. BYATT on "The Pink Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang
- FRANCES WILSON on "Adventure of Casanova" by Giacomo Casanova
- PETER ACKROYD on "Oliver Twist" by Charles… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. Signed. F/NF. UK 1st/1st hardcover Special Edition. First printing with complete number line ending with 1. Signed by Taylor on the title page. Book is tight and square with sharp corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Pages lightly tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped (£14.99) with mild rubbing/shelf wear. This "Special Edition" contains a previously unpublished final chapter and a new foreword. Protected in a Brodart cover. Preceded by the Mount paperback original edition and the Faber & Faber softcover edition.

SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION. Norwalk CT: Easton Press, 1996. NF. Signed by Shirley Temple Black and numbered 4,509 of 5,000 on the publisher's limitation page. 30 black and white photos. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings. Bound in genuine leather, raised bands on the spine, silk moire end-papers, and satin ribbon. Some very faint wear on the bottom and side gold gilt, otherwise the gilt is Fine. 548 pages with index. 6¼ x 9¼ tall.
In her own words, Shirley Temple Black — the quintessential child star of the '30s and '40s — tells the colorful story of her life as an actress.
There was something magical about Shirley Temple that cheered the soul of America during the Depression. She was the number one movie star of the nation for four consecutive years, from 1935 through 1938.
In Child Star, Shirley Temple Black reveals the whole story, the ups and downs of life as a very young Hollywood… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 2021. SIGNED. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Viet Thanh Nguyen on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1982. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Spine ends rubbed and pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($12.50) with light shelf wear (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 255 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall. The debut novel by the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
The story of two boys who meet in Venice in 1939. Sammy is "homely, dumpy, and a screw-up" while Alvise is handsome and intelligent with a genius for life and art. Their lives and fates become intertwined in a voyage that brings them through the ordeal of a Polish concentration camp and a flight that takes them eventually to America where, forty years later, they meet again.

Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NEW. First Edition, First Printing with complete number line ending in 1. SIGNED by The Oatmeal Matthew Inman at the bottom of the OATMEAL page after the title page. Over-sized softcover book is new, tight and unread with clean unmarred covers Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered.
Co-creator of the wildly popular Exploding Kittens card game and #1 New York Times best-selling author of How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You, The Oatmeal, aka Matthew Inman, presents an adult coloring adventure book filled with mantis shrimp, angler fish, bear-o-dactyls, space cats, and other fantastical creatures from the wonderland of The Oatmeal. Create your own Oatmeal masterpieces in 404 Not Found.

London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2020. Collectible Classic. Purchased new. Near Fine. This is a small book, measuring 4" x 6". It is unread. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Faint scratches to side fore-edges. Includes illustrated endpapers, a satin ribbon bookmark, a biography of Theodore Dreiser, and a glossary of Victorian and literary terms. No dust jacket, as issued. 1215 pages.
Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy was inspired by an infamous real-life criminal case. First published in 1925, Dreiser chronicles the life of a young man eager to raise his status, but whose recklessness and moral weakness prove to be his undoing. Raised in poverty by devout missionaries, Clyde Griffiths longs for more. After getting a job at a grand Kansas City hotel, his dreams finally seem in reach, but his self-interest and obsession with the… Read More

New York: Mariner Books, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Faint creases to the spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.95) with light wear to the spine base. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 342 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. An evocative novel about two brothers whose rivalry as youths in Massachusetts reverberates throughout their lives, with striking consequences. An intimate portrait of family, resentment, and the bonds that shape our lives.

NY: The Dial Press, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Hannah Tinti in gold on the title page at an appearance/book signing at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. Also on the title page is her personal stamp of a whale proclaiming TINTI WAS HERE. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past and the truth about her mother's death by the prize-winning author of The Good Thief."After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's… Read More

New York: Harper, 2012. VG/NF. Stated First Edition. Third printing with number line ending in 3. Signed by Pete Townsend on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean boards. Quarter-inch tear and creases to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.50) with light wear to the spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 544 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. One of rock music's most intelligent and literary performers, Pete Townshend tells his closest-held stories about the origins of the preeminent twentieth-century band The Who, his own career as an artist and performer, and his restless life in and out of the public eye in this candid autobiography, Who I Am.With eloquence, fierce intelligence, and brutal honesty, Townshend has written a deeply personal book that also stands as a primary source for popular… Read More

London: Peter Owen Limited, 1976. First British Commonwealth Edition, VG/VG. In English. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Faint gutter separation on the title and page 127, but the pages are secure. Decorated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped (£ 4.75) with rubbing, sunning to the spine and light shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 127 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. Translated by Nina Rootes; introduction by Richard N. Coe.
In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the most original and influential poets of the twentieth century, turned his hand to the novel. He produced two books for the clandestine market. The finer of these was Les Onze Mille Verges"(Eleven Thousand Virgins). One of the most masterful and hilarious erotic novels of all time, it was once owlishly pronounced by Picasso to be Apollinaire's masterpiece. The title contains a play on the… Read More

New York: Chartwell, 2016. New. Fine. In shrinkwrap. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. No dust jacket, as issued. 272 pages. 6 x 9½ ' tall. Images from an opened book in the photo display.
Written by legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, The Five Rings is more than just a manual on sword-fighting techniques: its Zen philosophy speaks about the essential roles of harmony and self-mastery in our lives.
Of the many translations of The Five Rings, David K. Groff's translation background as a long-time resident of Japan, native-level fluency in Japanese, and an accomplished martial arts student makes him uniquely suited for translating Musashi Miamoto's message.

New York: Barnes & Noble Inc, 2016. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's shrink-wrap. This unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather, distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. Color illustrations by René Bull. The gilt to page edges is bright, unmarred, and Fine. Publisher images are included in the photo display. Collected nearly a millennium ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for the next evening's entertainment . . . and save her life. They include "Sinbad the Sailor", "Aladdin and His Magic Lamp", and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". We realize the availability of titles at Barnes & Noble comes and goes. We regularly offer a large variety of their books for… Read More

London: Arcturus, 2019. New. In shrinkwrap. Deluxe slipcase edition. Collector's Edition. First published in 1898. Arcturus First Edition/First Printing with number line ending in 1. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips and clean, unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white illustrations. Prose translation by classical scholar and novelist Samuel Butler. The slipcase is Fine. 384 pages. 7 3/4" X 9 1/2" tall. Images from an opened book in the photo display.
A cornerstone of Western literature, Homer's Iliad is the epic tale of the siege of Troy.
After nine years, the Greeks are still fighting to reclaim the beautiful Helen and it is hardly the time for their supreme warrior, Achilles, to drop out of the war. But he does, in revenge against overload Agamemnon for seizing the concubine, Briseis.
Only the death of his best friend, Patroclus, persuades Achilles to return to… Read More

London: Amber Books, 2022. Purchased NEW. Dual-language edition with editorial notes. The unread book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The book is Chinese-bound, which refers to a publishing method that folds the page with writing on the front and back. Holes are created along the sides and the pages are then stitched together. No dust jacket, as issued. 96 pages. 7½ x 10½ tall. This edition contains the full original 13 chapters on such topics as laying plans, attacking by stratagem, weaponry, terrain, and the use of spies. Sun Tzu addresses different campaign situations, marching, energy, and exploiting your enemy's weaknesses. Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" is still used as a book on military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong, and Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. Beyond the world of war, modern-era business and management… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2011. Near Fine. Translated by Gilbert Gardiner. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Faint wear to corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece and 7 color illustrations by Lauren Nassef. Introduction by Hisham Matar. No dust jacket, as issued. The gold cardboard slipcase is very good with light wear and a few scuffs. 172 pages. 7½ x 11½" tall. First published in 1860.On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets in motion a series of tragic events which challenge notions of love, revolution and idealism.A highly controversial work upon its original publication, Ivan Turgenev's On… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. 616 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator René Ben Sussan. This oversized book has light shelve wear with good tips and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black and white illustrations by Ben Sussman. Translated from the French by Arthur Machen and Selected by J. Rives Childs. No dust jacket, as issued. The slipcase is near fine with light wear and small damp stains on the back panel. 502 pages. 8½ x 12" tall.
Casanova was a Venetian adventurer and author (1725-1798). His Memoirs provide an intimate insight into the life of European society in the eighteenth century. These Memoirs are the history of a unique life, personality, and record of adventures. They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom women were, indeed, the most important thing in the world, although there was nothing in the world to which he was… Read More

New York: Barnes and Noble, 2018. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Homer's two epics of the ancient world tell stories as riveting today as when they were written between the eighth and ninth century B.C. This unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather, distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. The gilt along the page edges is bright, unmarred, and Fine. 752 pages. 6¼ x 9 ¼" tall. Publisher images are included in the photo display.
The Iliad, which tells of the siege of Troy by the Greeks, is an unforgettable tale of nations at war and of the courage and compassion heroic soldiers show upon the field of battle. The Odyssey is the story of the Greek hero Odysseus and the many marvels and challenges he encounters during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan… Read More

Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press. No date stated. Circa 1963. Translation by James Legge. Book is Like New. The slipcase is very good. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrations by Jeanyee Wong. The slipcase has minor wear and fading and faint wear to the paper pastedown. 220 pages. 6½ x 10" tall.
Contains An Introduction to Confucius, Confucian Analects, The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean.