D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, January 1936. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Heavily chipped, edgeworn and torn dustjacket. Tan cloth covered boards with red lettering and red stamped illustration on spine and front board. Mildly edgeworn boards. Bumped corners. Previous owner's name/address stamped in red ink on front free end page and..... More

Newmarket Press, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Lavishly illustrated with 162 photos, this book covers 16 songwriters: Arlen, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, McHugh, Porter, Rainger, Rodgers, Warren, Whiting, Brown, Carmichael, Loesser, Schwartz, Styne, and Van Heusen. Includes complete listings of over 800 movies and 200 songs. "A buoyant book, that characterizes..... More

Plume, November 2002. Trade Paperback. Acclaimed historian Roy Jenkins presents a comprehensive biography of Winston Churchill, an icon of modern history, from his childhood to the critical World War II period and beyond--a New York Times bestseller. "This is a first class, well-sustained work of history and a masterpiece of..... More

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2008. Hardcover. From sources as venerable as the OED and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com, and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, this book derives an organic take on language that is unlike any other. More

Puffin, May 1984. Trade Paperback. More

Dover Publications, June 1974. Oversize Softcover. Mathew Brady, one of the foremost early American photographers and one of the earliest war photographers, was official photographer for the Union Army in the Civil War. With his assistants and his horse-drawn photographic wagon, Brady accompanied the troops and recorded the war firsthand..... More

The Johns Hopkins University Press, April 1967. Paper Back. Third paperback printing. Octavo; {5' x 8'}. Dark stains/spotting textblock top edge and fore-edge. Decent reading copy. Internal text is unmarked. 260 pages. More

Yale University Press, March 1995. Hardcover. This remarkable book traces the development of sexual knowledge and guidance in Britain over three centuries. An absorbing, shocking, and often moving narrative, it investigates how views on sexual activities, sexual disorders, sexual pleasures, and sexual proprieties evolved through the years. Roy Porter and..... More

Da Capo Press, August 1997. Oversize Softcover. A Century of Jazz is the first-ever chronicle of the major influence in western music this century. Organized by year, style, and place, it is supplemented with special features on subjects relevant to each period. Making deliberate reference to popular music in general..... More

HarperVia, July 2022. Hardcover. From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval. One night, Elango has a dream that..... More

Little Brown & Co (T), April 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & solid & near fine all around. Signed by Blount on front free end page. More

Da Capo Press, February 2013. Trade Paperback. Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television..... More