JOE LOUIS, MAN AND SUPER-FIGHTER
Signed first edition of biography of heavyweight champion boxer JOE LOUIS, "The Brown Bomber" who fought racism and Nazism with athletic skill.
Signed first edition of biography of heavyweight champion boxer JOE LOUIS, "The Brown Bomber" who fought racism and Nazism with athletic skill.
First HarperPaperbacks edition of this profile of the legendary NYPD whistleblower, adapted into the Oscar-nominated Al Pacino film — inscribed by subject Frank Serpico.
First printing of this biography of the famed Victorian thief and criminal mastermind Adam Worth, generally believed to have been the model for Doyle's Moriarty.
First edition of this classic biography of the first president of the United States, including the scarce atlas volume.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
Uncommon first edition of this memoir from the ghostwriter of the early Hardy Boys books, the original Franklin W. Dixon — Leslie McFarlane.
Important edition of the monumental visual record of Native American leaders, including an extensive account of the original 1836-44 folio edition, biography of the original authors, and the infamous Smithsonian fire — all new to this edition.
First edition / printing of McManus' classic account of the 2000 World Series of Poker.
First edition of Merwin's memoir of his early life, after graduating from Princeton and before winning the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952.
First edition / printing of this memoir from golfing great.
First edition of Nichols's collected profiles of notable figures of his day, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Ronald Knox, Rose Macaulay, P.G. Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, and Nellie Melba, whose personal secretary he was and whose autobiography he ghostwrote.
First edition in English of Nordon's biography, originally published in France in 1964 and awarded the Prix Guizot by the Academie Française.
First printing of Perelman's fourth book, a sparkling collection of twenty-four comic sketches including "The Future of Vertigo," a glimpse into the delirium that was Diana Vreeland's Harper's Bazaar, and "Yoo-Hoo, Mr. Ectoplasm," on the delights of the Psychic Stores catalogue.
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
Second printing of this extensive and comprehensive biographical study, with a foreword by ERB's son Hulburt Burroughs and a floridly enthusiastic introduction by fellow legend and Burroughs fan Ray Bradbury.
Signed first printing of this moving and important memoir of Sister Helen's ministry on death row that was successfully adapted for the screen.
Scarce advance proof copy of the first book-length biography of the innovative composer and writer.
Second French edition, translated from the English by Amy Borgeaud, a biography of the British army officer.
Inscribed first printing of this memoir-cum-cookbook of a WWII fighter pilot who saw combat in the Pacific.
Association copy first printing of this collection of essays on murderers and others, from the personal library of fellow true-crime pioneer Jonathan Goodman.
First edition of the biography of Scott Bond, a formerly enslaved man who became one of the most famous Black businessmen of the era and a model of Booker T. Washington's racial uplift philosophy.
First printing of the collected papers from the 1995 John Keats Bicentennial Conference, inscribed by editor Ronald Sharp to poet Stanley Plumly (author of the later POSTHUMOUS KEATS), with Plumly's own annotations.
First edition of this memoir of post-Cultural-Revolution China.
Signed later printing of Sandburg's autobiographical account of his childhood in Galesburg, IL, inscribed to two booksellers.