V.R. Lang: A Memoir by Alison Lurie - 1959

Dublin: Wood Printing Works Ltd. 1963 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1 St. Signed By Senate President John E. Powers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. over twenty full color photos of historic visit. Rare. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

New York, New York: Crosby Gaige. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1927. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 58 pages: 5 x 6.5 in.: 0.8: Signed by Author: KB#011157: Bookjacket / dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Liam O'Flaherty) on half title page. Limited, numbered edition "Eleven hundred and ninety copies printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York, September 1927. Each copy has been signed by the author. This is number 33". Thin, gray paper dustjacket has some well-repaired bottom edge short tears. Boards are light green cloth with many small dark green "shamrocks" covering front and back. Spine has complete paper title label. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. In fact, some pages remain uncut. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. .

Boston: Shambhala, 1996. Signed by Jim Harrison on the title page. First edition / First printing. Burgundy cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1909. Very Good. Signed by Swami Paramananda and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed at tips, spine toned and stained at rear cover. A lovely copy, signed by the author.

Norwood Press, 2006. Hardcover in slipcase. Used - fine condition. Special signed edition for the Clive Cussler Collector's Society, #27 (of 98 numbered copies). Slipcase shows some evidence of minor shelf wear; book itself shows hardly any wear at all. Book is clean and tight. No markings inside the book. Includes a DVD of the Clive Cussler Grandmaster Address from Cusslercon I in Denver CO, October 2005. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

New Zealand: Penguin, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Mint sixth printing in Brodart cover - Flat Signed by author, "Signed" sticker on front. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First five printings were in paperback - this is the first NZ Penguin printing in hardback.

New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1933, hardcover, 256 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Association copy Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper "To Kay Francis - all admiration - Max Ewing" and dated "New York, December 1932" Very Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slightly rolled and faded spine, nicks to top edge of front board and head of spine, two small holes and edge nicks to front endpaper, small split to paper at front hinge. The many accomplishments of this multi-talented pianist, composer, novelist, poet, sculptor, and photographer were overshadowed by his homosexuality and his unlikely friendship with the prize fighter Jack Pollock. Max's suicide in 1934, at the age of 31, adds drama and sadness to this remarkable man's mostly happy but short life during which Max mingled with dozens of artists, authors, composers, musicians, politicians, stage and movie stars, and wealthy families in Europe, New York, and Hollywood. An… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. Signed by Robert Benton at the chapter on Kramer vs. Kramer. Benton won Oscars for Best Film Director and Screenwriter for the film. He also won an Oscar for the screenplay of Places in the Heart, which Nestor Almendros also lensed. Nestor Almendros won the Academy Award for Cinematography for Days of Heaven. He was nominated for Academy Awards for Kramer vs Kramer, The Blue Lagoon and Sophie's Choice. He did cinematography for Claire's Knee, Chloe in the Afternoon, Cockfighter, The Last Metro, and many others. He was known for using natural light in his films. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006. Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Also signed by Henry Art Gallery Director and essayist Richard Andrews and Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. Weschler's signature has spattered a bit. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.

Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919. First edition. De Luxe edition, limited to 100 numered copies printed on Butten, signed by the author and illustrator. Copy number 9, bound in full suede leather with raised bands, gilt spine titles and ornaments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilting and ribbon marker. Published Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919. 8vo., 312pp., illustrated with 10 tissue-guarded stone lithographs by Wilhelm Plunnecke. Signed by author on limitation page, and each lithograph signed by Plunnecke. Some sunning to the spine, minor rub at the crown, else fine. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine. Illus. by Plunnecke, Wilhelm. 8vo.