I Like to Eat Right on the Dirt: A Child's Journey Back in Space and Time
Bleak Beauty Books, September 1989. Spiral Binding. Signed by Danny Lyon on title page. Oblong. More
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Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Twin Palms Publishers, May 2010. Hardcover. In Memories of the Southern Civil RightsMovement, Danny Lyon tells the compelling story of how a handful of dedicated young people, both black and white, forged one of the most successful grassroots organizations in American history. The book depicts some of the most violent... More
Matzoh Balls and Baseballs
Havenhurst Books, June 2010. Trade Paperback. As "America's favorite pastime," perhaps no sport has chronicled the rise of an immigrant nation like baseball. From German-American parents came Babe Ruth, Italian-Americans proudly point to Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson shattered the color barrier for African Americans that had kept them out... More
The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Betrayal of the Constitution
Crown, October 2018. Hardcover. In a revealing portrait of the Supreme Court, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, David A. Kaplan, takes us into the secret world of the justices. He shows how the Court subverts the role of other branches of government--and how we've come to accept it... More
The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
William Morrow & Co, June 1985. Hardcover. Later printing. Presentation copy INSCRIBED BY HALBERSTAM. More
Barack Obama: The Story
Simon & Schuster, June 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of First In His Class, the definitive biography of Bill Clinton, and When Pride Still Mattered, the bestselling biography of Vince Lombardi, and They Marched Into Sunlight, the classic saga of the Vietnam era--a stunning new multigenerational biography of... More
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
Simon & Schuster, April 2017. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others--that reminds us of fundamental American principles... More
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2004. Trade Paperback. By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen... More
Fellow-traveller
Hale, January 1966. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo. in dust jacket. Signed & inscribed 'To Marron, from David Montross (Jean L. Backus) 6-15-68' Discolored/foxed textblock edge. First UK edition. More
Barefoot to Avalon
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David... More
Calypso
Little, Brown and Company, May 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a.... More
Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball
William Morrow, March 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. The author chronicles the story of his life and sports career, resetting industry standards on baseball antics, locker room humor, the charms of the game, and the real world of major league baseball. Signed by David Wells on the title page. Very minor... More
The Step Back: Ethics And Politics After Deconstruction (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
State University of New York Press, May 2005. Hardcover. This original contribution to the ethical and political significance of philosophy addresses a number of major themes identity, violence, the erotic, freedom, responsibility, religious belief, globalization and critically engages with the work of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas. It promotes... More
Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
University of Texas Press, September 2010. Hardcover. No one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than Diana Kennedy. Acclaimed as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking, Kennedy has been an intrepid, indefatigable student of Mexican foodways for more than fifty years and... More
10-lb Penalty
Michael Joseph Ltd, September 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & inscribed by author on half title page: 'Hi Diane! What a great book opener you are! Dick Francis'. First edition in dust jacket. More
Wild Horses
Putnam, October 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Complete number line. Signed by Dick Francis on bound in page. 'An Autographed Copy' affixed to front cover by publisher. More
America: Imagine a World without Her
Regnery Publishing, May 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 "New York Times" Bestseller Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still... More
Zero K
Scribner, May 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time--an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on... More
The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia
Carol Publishing Corporation, December 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. In price clipped dust jacket. Signed by Grant on title page. More
About Face
Heinemann, January 2009. First Edition. Cloth. First/first UK edition in very good+ jacket. Clean, sound & without markings. Complete number line. Signed by Leon on title page. More
Beastly Things (Brunetti)
William Heinemann, April 2012. First Edition. Cloth. When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was... More
Blood from a Stone
William Heinemann Ltd, March 2005. First Edition. Cloth. On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of... More
Doctored Evidence
William Heinemann Ltd, March 2004. First Edition. Cloth. When the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the case on himself. First/first UK edition in very good+ jacket. Clean, sound & without markings. Complete number... More
The Girl of His Dreams
Heinemann, January 2008. First Edition. Cloth. First/first UK edition in very good+ jacket. Clean, sound & without markings. Signed by Leon on title page. Complete number line. More
