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

NY: Julian Messner, Inc., 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1962 [1956] 1st edition, early printing. i-x, 190pp, I-II. Nice overall condition, a scant amount of wear at the edges, and dust jacket worn, but presents well. Pee Wee Reese, the Captain of the team was one of a very few to publicly condemn the racism hurled at Jackie Robinson when he was brought up to the Dodgers in 1947. In 2005 a bronze sculpture of the iconic image of Reese with his arm around Robinson's shoulder was placed at MCU Park [Home of the NY Mets minor league franchise - Cyclones].

Photographic Image. Near Fine. Hardcover. This photo album has 264 4"x6" color photo. 221 associated with railroads, 43 local scenes and sights. EVERY PHOTO HAD AN INK ANNOTATION ON THE BACK The snapshots are in sleeves- in a like new, 13"x9" photo album. The photos were taken during a trip to Cuba in March 2002, as indicated by the dates on the back of the photos. *Augusto Cesar Sandino (abbreviated "A. Sandino" in the ink behind the photo) sugar mill site, its environs and its "shop". *Jose Smith Comas sugar mill trains * Trinidad Convent - a few snaps of local scenes. * Hershey Electric Railway *Central Osvaldo Sanchez trains *+++ more.

NY: Random House, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. "Character is destiny," wrote Heraclitus- and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken. In "Accountant," a quintessential company man becomes obsessed with the phenomenal success of a reckless childhood friend. "Batorsag and Szerelem" tells the story of a boy's fascination with the mysterious life and invented language of his brother, a math prodigy. In "City of Broken Hearts," a divorced father tries to fathom the patterns of modern relationships. And in "The Palace Thief," a history teacher at an exclusive boarding school reflects on the vicissitudes of a lifetime connection with a student scoundrel. A remarkable achievement by one of America's finest writers, this brilliant volume reveals the moments of insight that illuminate everyday lives. .

Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2017. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 2017 SIGNED PHOTOBOOK. --'PANTOMIME'-- by DAIDO MORIYAM. #238 of Signed/Numbered Edition of 600. Silk-screened cover printed on canvas. Daido Moriyama wrote: "It was a long, long time ago-- each of them was sleeping in a liquid inside a small flask about the size of a human thumb, all with oyster-colored skins and shaped like shrimps. In a glass case at the end of a row of shelves in a dark corridor of an obstetrics and gynecology hospital near the Tanzawa mountains in Kanagawa, countless fetuses in formaldehyde were quietly leaning on each other as they looked out into the sun-drenched courtyard." In excellent condition-- paperback, 60 pp, 8¼ x11¾".

Book. Illus. by Martin Cleaver. Good. No Binding. 1984. -- STUDENT PROJECT, 8"x 10", 'THE PARABOLA'-- by math student at the NY High School of Music & Art. Ink & yellow, green, orange watercolors with green-taped border. In mathematics a 'parabola' is the U-shaped curved line created when a quadratic is graphed-- many real-word objects travel in a parabolic shape. Signed art made in 1984 by NYC's HS of Music & Art math student Martin Cleaver and presented to his senior year math teacher, Mrs. Francine Eisen. In excellent condition..

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women." In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the… Read More

NY: Pantheon, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. In his memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? As the eldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. Scholarship opportunities pulled him out of the black world where he had grown up into a world largely defined by whites. Meanwhile, as the industries that supported his hometown failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void, news of arrests and premature deaths among Brent's childhood friends underscored his precarious perch in a mostly white environment. The death of his younger brother -- a cocaine dealer murdered by one of his "clients" -- propelled Brent into a reconsideration of his childhood that offers vivid portraits of family values that supported, pressures that tore… Read More

New York: A.A. Knopf, 1998. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾. Advance reader's edition, limited to 500 hardbound, slipcased copies. For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have not appeared in a book before. Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools. They comfort each other amid the ashes of failed relationships and in hospital waiting rooms. They try to locate themselves in a world where all the old landmarks have been turned into theme parks. Funny and sorrowful, fiercely compressed yet emotionally expansive. Park City is dazzling. .

New York: Random House, 1943. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed By Sidney Kingsley. This pulitzer prize winner's play, about Thomas Jefferson, that won the drama critic's circle award for best play of 1943. Mr. Kingsley wrote the play while in service during World War II, and the result is intriguing. "What is this democracy we are fighting for?" Mr. Kingsley says he asked himself. "Just what did these fellows - our original patriots- have in mind?" His answer, embodied in the character of Jefferson, is a confident faith in the common folk to govern themselves, to survive without guidance from a privileged aristocracy. The aristocratic side is represented by Hamilton, whose bill to restore the value of currency and the young nation's credit rating creates great personal fortunes and the threat of a moneyed aristocracy. He and his friends talk of creating a monarchy, of how the "time is ripening for us to have a real king". The most prominent candidate… Read More

Harry N. Abrams, 1952. Print. Illus. by Paul Gaugin. Very Good. No Binding. Approx. 8"x10" mounted on a sheet approx.10.5"x14.5". Very good condition. This is from one of the series "Art Treasures of the World", published by Harry N. Abrams in 1952..

Harry N. Abrams, 1952. Print. Illus. by Paul Gaugin. Very Good. No Binding. Approx. 8"x10" mounted on a sheet approx.10.5"x14.5". Very good condition. This is from one of the series "Art Treasures of the World", published by Harry N. Abrams in 1952..

Harry N. Abrams, 1952. Print. Illus. by Paul Gaugin. Very Good. No Binding. Approx. 8"x10" mounted on a sheet approx.10.5"x14.5". Very good condition. This is from one of the series "Art Treasures of the World", published by Harry N. Abrams in 1952..

Harry N. Abrams, 1952. Print. Illus. by Paul Gaugin. Very Good. No Binding. Approx. 8"x10" mounted on a sheet approx.10.5"x14.5". Very good condition. This is from one of the series "Art Treasures of the World", published by Harry N. Abrams in 1952..

Los Angeles: B.N. Robinson Publishing, 1938. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. 1938. -- PEEK-WA STORIES - 'INDIAN LEGENDS OF CALIFORNIA'-- book signed in 1947 by author Chief Eaglewing (Grover C. Sanderson). Chief Eaglewing was a Klameth Indian, respected for contributing to preserving Californian Native American culture. He and his wife were authors of the 'Peek-Wa Stories'. Chief Eagelwing also worked with Univ. of California's Dept. of Anthropology, travelled, lectured and acted in Hollywood's silent films. (2) notices laid-in: (1) San Francisco Chronicle 1947 ad for Chief Eaglewing's Indian dance performances at the Emporium dept. store. (2) Printed sheet of Indian Code of Ethics. Nice overall condition - offsetting to title page from laid-in advertisements..

London: William Collins Sons & Co, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Folio - over 12. The book is in excellent condition, includes the dust jacket and is signed by Leni Riefenstahl. The People of Kau is the title of the 1976 English-language translation of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's Die Nuba von Kau, an illustrated book, published in the same year in Germany. This is a photographic monograph on the life of the people of Kau in the southern part of Sudan. Riefenstahl spent 16 weeks with the Nuba of Kau in 1975. The Nuba of Kau live only 100 miles away from the Mesakin Nuba, yet they speak another language, follow different customs, and are said to be very different in character and temperament. Their knife-fights, dances of love and elaborately painted faces and bodies are represented in the book.

Drawing. Illus. by Hand Colored. Fair. No Binding. 19th century leaf. Approx. 5" x 7"..

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Andy Warhol. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. Twice signed 1st edition, in a very nice dust jacket..

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. Post Vietnam era. Some neat amateur snaps from a navy sailor on an unidentified aircraft carrier. Snaps of some escort & harbored ships. 100+ photos. Nice shape. Front hinge repaired , and rear cover replaced..

Photographic Image. Good. Soft cover. 45- b&w photos. August,1951 album. (10) photos of Indians living on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. (35) photos of the Sigmon family from Washington, DC. (11) color-tinted postcards, mainly from NC. Summer vacation & ethnological photos. Album has black paper pages with leather strip binding. With hand painted leather cover. Inside-cover has taped paper with the owner's address and "Bought at the Cherokee Indian Reservation, NC. Aug. 7,1951". Photos of Indians living on the Cherokee Reservation have details written on photos; details also written on photos of the Sigmon family- mom & dad, with friends, & their 2 kids. Album lacks rear-cover. Now placed in a custom-made box. 9" x 6.5". In very nice condition. Domestic s&h $20..

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. 1949-1956. --'FRED CARR'S MOVING & TRUCKING CO.' PHOTO/SCRAPBOOK-- (48) SNAPSHOTS/ inscriptions/ advertisements/ cards/ company papers, reports, letterheads+++. 'Carr's Ohio Moving & Trucking Company' Photo album/Scrapbook tells a great story of a Midwest entrepreneur after WW2 in photos, business ephemera, news stories and advertising. Photos and ephemera from Carr's "77 Pick Up and Delivery Service" shows the Middletown, Ohio company's progress from its opening days. Originally named 'Carr's Moving and Storage' (a caption shows Fred Carr bought a building to sell new & used furniture), Carr eventually became a franchisee of North American Van Lines. This scrapbook's documentation ends in 1956, with no mention of what happened thereafter. 1949-1956 Photo Album/Scrapbook - post & string bound, clean and tight, measures 10" x 13". Most pages repaired at post-holes; front edges… Read More