The Dancing Skeleton SIGNED by Cynrhia DeFelice - 1989

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1931. Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow art-critic W.B.Honey. 28pp. Card wrappers, a little faded and frayed at overlapping edges. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2006. BY2 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Mickey Herskowitz, Danny Mantle with "Best Wishes" written and David Mantle with "All my Best" written on the title page is as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Featuring 10 Removable Reproductions of Rare Mantle Memorabilia. 9.75"x8.75", 176 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Some say he was the greatest ever - a rare combination of power and speed who made acrobatic catches and never failed to get a hit when his team needed it most. The son of an Oklahoma miner, he was the anchor in center field for a Yankees team that won seven World Championships, he was three times the league MVP, he won the Triple Crown in 1956, and in 1961 he dueled teammate Roger Maris in the most exciting single-season home run contest ever. He was so famous that to identify him people didn't even bother to say his last name, or even all of his first. He… Read More

New York: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1987. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Pro Football Hall of Famer Harry Carson on the front free endpaper. A gorgeous copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. See photos. NOT price-clipped ($16.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve (removed for photos). Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing with complete number row (123456789) on the copyright page. Bound in the original red boards, with a blue cloth spine stamped in shiny silver. Harry Carson played his entire 13-year NFL career with the New York Giants (1976-1988). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. An inside linebacker, Carson was selected to play in nine Pro Bowls. According to Peter King (in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2004. Signed on the half-title page by Neal Stephenson. First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine,ochre paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. This copy has been stored lying flat on a shelf since publication, and has no sagging of the text block, endemic to the majority of copies of this heavy, oversize book. An exceptionally beautiful copy. Note: extra shipping applies to this title. Winner of the 2005 Locus Award.

New York: Dutton, 1978. Signed facing the title page at the top of his portrait by Charlton Heston. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this title. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben Hur. From 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Five-term president of the National Rifle Association (1998-2003).

Like New/tight binding. No wear to dj. but scratched. Inscribed on Front End page "To Jim, God Bless!! (with a smiley underneath) Deanna Favre.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Signed by Russell Kirk's wife, Annette Kirk, on front free endpaper: "With best wishes! / Annette Y. Kirk / August 1997." Fine in fine dust jacket.. A fine copy of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) memoirs, signed by his wife, Annette Kirk, to whom he dedicated the book. Widely celebrated as a founding father of modern intellectual conservatism, Russell Kirk-the Sage of Mecosta-set out in The Sword of Imagination to describe his participation in the intellectual, social, philosophical, and political contests of the twentieth century. Kirk wrote the book in the third person in order to tell the story of a young boy coming of age in the railroad yards outside of Detroit and maturing into one of the most influential political minds of his generation. Perhaps best remembered for his movement-defining book The Conservative Mind (1953), throughout his life Kirk wielded… Read More

Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 1978. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth in original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Sunning to spine and front panel; edgewear and rubbing. Boldly inscribed by Toledano to Karl and Therese Hess on front flyleaf: "For Karl & Therese / As always / In Friendship / Ralph de Toledano." Fine in very good dust jacket. Single-page letter addressed to Karl Hess dated "11 February 1978," signed by Toledano, with mild toning and spotting and neat fold creases, else fine.. Signed first edition of the only book of poems published by influential conservative journalist, poet, critic, commentator, and jazz enthusiast Ralph de Toledano (1916-2007). Toledano was born in Tangier, Morocco but moved to New York with his family as a child. He later attended Columbia University to study literature and philosophy, graduating in 1938. In 1940 he became editor of the Socialist Party of America's magazine, The New Leader, and was later drafted into military service… Read More

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. Fine/ Very good. First edition, first printing. Signed. Light green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. Tight binding, square, and unmarked. Dustjacket is price clipped else fine, no chips or tears and protected in a mylar cover. "A continental tetrology, gathering under the title "Annals of the Former World, beginning with Basin and Range (1980), and continued with In Suspect Terrain (1982) and Rising From the Plains (1986) is now completed in Assembling California." From the Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure John McPhee. Signed by the author on the title page. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.