Search Results: Titles starting with H from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

NY: Warner Books, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Ashe wrote a piece for the New York Times (November 13, 1988) that ended with this paragraph: Proportionately, the black athlete has been more successful than any other group in any other endeavor in American life. And he and she did it despite legal and social discrimination that would have dampened the ardor of most participants. The relative domination of blacks in American sports will continue into the foreseeable future. Enough momentum has been attained to insure maximum sacrifice for athletic glory. Now is the time for our esteemed sports historians to take another hard look at our early athletic life, and revise what is at present an incomplete version of what really took place..

London: Printed for James, John & Paul Knapton, at The Crown Inn, Ludgate-Street near the West End of St. Paul's,, 1733. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. SCARCE EDITION - FIRST ISSUE. RARE LIMITED EDITION. AN IMPORTANT & UNCOMMON EARLY EDITION. TWO LATER FINE ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDINGS. 24 COPPER ENGRAVED PLATES - 4 FOLDOUT MAPS. 'THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND' - Written In French by RAPIN DE THOYRAS Englished With Additional Notes by N. TINDAL. LONDON: Printed for James, John & Paul Knapton, at the Crown Inn, Ludgate-Street near the West End of St. Paul's, MDCCXXXII. [Published date: 1732-1733].                Rare Second Edition in two volumes. Thick Elephant Folio. 16" x 10.5" inches, 5" inches thick. pp. x, viii, [1], 10-849, [1, Directions concerning the Genealogical Tables]; 807, [16, index], [3, Errata, ads]; 12 pages, complete with 3 engraved portrait frontispieces; 21 large near half page copper engraved plates as… Read More

Painting. Very Good. Hardcover. c1920s, 23 original watercolors on Japanese Sikishi boards approx. 9.5x10.5 inches. Housed in a presentation box. Watercolor approx. 9.5x10.5 inches .

Photographic Image. 1999, signed photograph mounted in an 8x11 inch museum-white matboard..

NY: Times Books, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life - with a tipped-in autograph by the Jewish Hall of Famer..

Painting. Very Good. No Binding. An original vintage oil on wood portrait by L. Gonjean that is signed and measures 15" x 17", in an ornate gilded frame. Our clown is clad in a yellow suit with a white collar, brightened by sky blue polka dots. He wears a ,too small, bright yellow hat with orange polka dots. He's enjoying the scent of the rose he's smelling, as depicted by his closed eyes and rapturous smile. The frame has a lot of detail and surrounds the portrait as though it's making a grand entrance into a room. Quite eye catching. The frame has some chipping of the gilt, exposing the white undercoat; however no major damage..

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1938. Book. Illus. by Helen Kirby. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1938, 1st edition. A story, in verse, about a horse. Wonderfully illustrated. A witty satire of the great depression, and a rebuke of capitalism from a socialist viewpoint. Approx. 8x11 inches, in very good condition..

NY: Doubleday, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. When Charlotte Chandler called Groucho Marx for an interview, he answered the phone himself. Declining to be interviewed, he invited her over to his house so he could tell her no in person. After talking with her for hours, Groucho asked, "Why aren't you writing?" Hello, I Must Be Going is the story of Groucho and the Marx Brothers, told through Groucho's everyday conversations with Charlotte Chandler and his friends. Inscribed on front endpaper, iInscribed postcard & napkin laid in..

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1985. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition.

Orion, MI: GP Press, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Henry Gregor Felsen "The Granddaddy of Street Rodding" Felsen wrote 6 classic, teenage hotrodding, drag racing books in the 1950s-1960s. In 1990 Felsen reprinted his 6 classic hot rod novels as a limited edition boxed set of 6, signing each volume of this set. Crash Club - ISBN 091747306X; Fever Heat - ISBN 0917473094; Street Rod - ISBN 0917473108; Hot Rod ISBN 0917473116; Rag Top - ISBN 0917473086; Road Rocket ISBN 0917473078 Each volume SIGNED! Includes some promotional papers. About fine condition in a lightly shelfworn cardstock slipcase. .

Poster. Very Good. No Binding. Circa 1960, approx 13x17.5 inches..

Israel, 1976. Map. Very Good. No Binding. Approx. 16.5"x 12", 4 fold printed on both sides.

Israel, 1976. Map. Very Good. No Binding. Approx. 16.5"x 12", 4 fold printed on both sides.

Germany: Karto+Grafik Map. Very Good. No Binding. Circa 1979. Sixteen fold, approx. 29.5"x24.5", printed on one side. Folded size approx. 5"x8.5"..

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed Saul Bellow. Family fiction and the fiction-of-ideas are two competing concerns in Bellow's work. Those seemingly contradictory roles-- the darkly comic memoirist, and the thorny essayist-- are on display, occasionally even blending in a richly charming way. One story, "A Silver Dish," is the memoirist/ family side of Bellow, virtually undiluted: a 60-year-old South Chicago businessman reacts exuberantly to the death of his old father-- in a memory-montage that showcases Bellow's boisterous, visceral, ironic warmth. But, in other pieces, chunks of zesty family/friend reminiscence and personal psychology are shaded with cultural musings or implications. "Zetland: By a Character Witness" recalls the early life of a Chicago intellectual/bohemian, rebelling against his old-fashioned Jewish family; the subtext is a gently mordant view of all intellectual idealism. In "Cousins," the narrator is a… Read More

NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1993. Book. Illus. by Mitzi Rawls. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. "An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative." --AMY TAN This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja. It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.

NY: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾. 'Since the response of the model to the photographer is an important determining factor in the quality of the photograph, the question rises: Who takes better pictures of women, men or women?' - 'How I Photograph Nudes'. 1963. FIRST EDITION. --HOW I PHOTOGRAPH NUDES-- Inscribed by BUNNY YEAGAR, a pre-eminent 20th c. glamour photographer. In just about very good condition, with rubbing to the edges. Dust-jacket still presentable. Published by A.S. Barnes & Co. Linnea Eleanor 'Bunny' Yeagar (1929-2014) was a professional photographer's model in Miami Beach who would go on to a second career as a photographer herself. Yeager became successful doing glamour photography and author of several books on photography (she was also called 'the world's prettiest photographer'). In 1954, Yaeger met pin-up beauty Bettie Page-- she took most of Pages' photos in that year; along with photographer… Read More

NY: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1897. Scrapbook. Illus. by 1918 Body Building/ 1897 House Building. Good. Hardcover. 1897/1918. --TRADE CATALOG & HEALTH SCRAPBOOK-- original 1897 oversized-folio of architectural designs,'How to Build, Furnish and Decorate', published by The Co-Operative Building Plan Association (NY) was repurposed in 1918 by Ralph Kister to scrapbook letters & photographs from the 'Lionel Strongfort Physical Culture Correspondence School (Newark, NJ). German bodybuilder & wrestler Lionel Strongfort (born Max Unger) was the author of 'The Strongfort System of Physical Culture, or Strongfortism'- a correspondence school method for personal physical exercise. The scrapbook has several signed letterheads from Strongfort himself, a receipt and many b&w photographs showing his exercise program. The original trade journal is about 212-pages, with full-page architectural plans, renderings and related advertising. 'The Strongfort System of Physical… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo.. Early printing of this American Classic of self-help & people skills originally published in 1937 and still relied upon today. Neat owner's signature on the front pastedown. Totally presentable original dust jacket. Occasional underlining here and there. .