ABRAMS, October 2014. Hardcover. For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films--among them M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Player, and Gosford Park--that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engage-ment. His ability to explore and engage so many different worlds with a single, coherent vision changed the landscape..... More about Altman
Chronicle Books, July 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. This dynamic monograph captures the frenetic raw energy and gorgeous, intense work of gallery and street artist David Choe. From dropping out of art school to a stint in Japanese prison to representation by the Lazarides Gallery alongside Banksy, Choe's wild ride through... More about David Choe
Alfred A. Knopf, November 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work. Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs... More about Conversations with Wilder
Harper, October 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A major biography--intimate, gripping, revelatory--of an artist who revolutionized American comedy. Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family's brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape the... More about Becoming Richard Pryor
Little Brown & Co, June 2003. Trade Paperback. The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters, who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, who invented electric blues and created the template for the rock-and-roll band and its wild lifestyle, is brought into sharp focus in this widely acclaimed biography... More about Cant Be Satisfied : The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
Scribner, May 2008. Hardcover. 'Nixonland' is a new account of the Nixon era, from his 1968 election to his spectacular 1974 demise. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Small ding on the bottom edge of the back board. More about Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Alfred A Knopf, January 2015. First Edition. Cloth. Two lightly bumped corners and a small ding on the boards. More about Alfred A Knopf 1915 - 2015 , A Century of Publishing
N/A, September 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves... More about Meaning of Everything : The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon & Schuster, March 1990. Trade Paperback. More about Real Frank Zappa Book
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 2003. Trade Paperback. In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture "David"), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive... More about Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Plexus Publishing, October 2011. Trade Paperback. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when one evening a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist to come to his hotel room. The assignment would change her life forever. After this chance... More about Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa
Cornell University Press, December 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Raymond Roussel, one of the most outlandishly compelling literary figures of modern times, died in mysterious circumstances at the age of fifty-six in 1933. The story Mark Ford tells about Roussel's life and work is at once captivating, heartbreaking, and almost beyond... More about Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams
HarperOne, September 2007. Trade Paperback. "A highly entertaining personal account of one man's surprising journey into the mystical heart of Judaism."-- "Kirkus Reviews" More about The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India (Plus
MacMillan Publishing Company, June 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. More about Masterpieces of the Modern Irish Theatre
Pantheon, August 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Unorthodox to some, brilliantly original to others, The Politics of Experience goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation, and makes a convincing case for the "madness... More about The Politics of Experience
Washington Square Press, February 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. More about Antony and Cleopatra
Washington Square Press, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. More about The Folger Library General Readers Shakespeare--King Lear
Vintage, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More about New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as A Social Type
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. In this classic anthology of French drama, Stephen S. Stanton has assembled the nineteenth century's finest "well-made plays": The Glass of Water and A Peculiar Position by Eugene Scribe; Camille by Alexander Dumas fils; Olympe's Marriage by Emile Augier; A Scrap of... More about Camille and Other Plays: A Peculiar Position; The Glass of Water; La Dame Aux Camelias; Olympe's...
Vintage, June 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More about A HAPPY DEATH (V865
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1991. Hardcover. Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by... More about The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
Knopf, November 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was in and around his novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandler s life, but to find out what he himself felt... More about The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
Hrymfaxe, October 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Some light shelf wear and rubbed edges on the jacket. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More about The Holy Road
M Evans & Co, October 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and one lightly rubbed corner on the jacket. More about Julius Caesar
William Morrow, July 2019. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller! The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young... More about Lady in the Lake
