Houghton Mifflin, November 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage. Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own..... More
Grossman Publishers, December 1974. Cloth. 2nd printing in price clipped dustjacket. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering that is beginning to fade. Sound binding, tight at bottom and pulled somewhat at top. Mild foxing/darkening top edge of textblock. Internally clean, without markings. More
Random House, January 1962. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in price clipped dustjacket. Jacket mildly edgeworn & darkened at spine. Mahogany cloth with somewhat faded gold lettering on spine. Ash colored end pages. Taupe topstain is beginning to fade. Sound binding. Dust stain bottom edge of textblock at fore-edge. Textblock..... More
Folio Society, January 2000. Cloth. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering with grey background rectangle & fleur-de-lis front panel border. A few scuff marks to cloth top of spine. Cyan blue end pages. Blue topstain. Sound binding is tight at bottom and somewhat pulled at top. Blue paper covered slipcase..... More
Library of America, December 1984. Cloth. Henry James, renowned as one of the world's great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, and masterly critics of modern times. This Library of America volume and its companion are a fitting testimony to his unprecedented achievement. They offer the only..... More
Verso, May 1998. First Edition. Cloth. One of the most intriguing sociological and historical facts about American politics and culture in the 20th century has been the prominence of Caribbean migrants among its participants. Marcus Garvey, C.L.R. James and Kwame Toure (Better known as Stokely Carmichael) stand in a long..... More
Allworth Press, February 2016. Paper Back. All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to provoke thought and inspiration for artists in every medium, How..... More
A New Directions Book, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. First/first US edition in dustjacket, heavily edgeworn. Repaired with tape (darkened with age) applied to verso. Not price clipped. Original price of $2.75 on front flap bottom corner. Grey cloth boards with forest green lettering on spine. Previous owner's name inked F.F.E.P...... More
Spring Books, 1968. Cloth. 7th printing in edgeworn dustjacket. Green cloth with split at gutter of front end page. More
Bodley Head, January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition/first printing in very good dustjacket with mild edgewear. Not price clipped. Original British price bottom flap. Hunter green cloth gold lettering. Spine lean. Greige topstain. Overall sound binding with slight pull at top but tight at bottom. Three small tan..... More
Tower Bridge Publications Ltd., January 1951. First Edition. Cloth. First/first UK edition. In dustjacket darkened heavily at margins & spine. A few small splotches of damp staining front panel. Not price clipped. Original British price front flap lower corner: 12/6 net. Targerine cloth with maroon lettering on spine. Faded at..... More
Te Neues Publishing Company, May 2001. Hardcover. Following on the heels of his breathtaking, award-winning Nudes, Andreas Bitesnich focuses his astute camera on the female form in this sumptuous new collection. Powerful, sensuous, and technically magnificent Bitesnich's photographs embrace the classic ideal of womanly beauty and transform it into a...... More
Schirmer/Mosel, May 2004. Hardcover. With his Big Nudes, in the 1980s Helmut Newton created a quite unprecedented long-term bestseller. Simultaneously, it provided a concentrated image of his aesthetic agenda. Powerful women were presented in all their naked truth without fig leaves or fashion frills. This series of black-and-white photos, produced..... More
Chronicle Books, July 2005. Hardcover. Following Playboy's celebrated fiftieth anniversary Photographs and Cartoons comes an arresting retrospective of Helmut Newton, one of the 20th century's most influential photographers. Renowned for his carefully composed, almost cinematic shots, Newton's signature style makes for a dramatic counterpoint to the Playboy nudes known the..... More
Reiseart, May 2004. Hardcover. This book highlights the best of artistic nude photography from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Featuring the best work of 30 photographers, this volume depicts the wide variety of styles and themes to be found in contemporary nude and erotic photography in Central Europe. Light shelf wear..... More
Carlton Publishing Group, February 2000. Hardcover. Focusing on some of the well-known names in photography, The Female Form is a beautiful work of art for the informed or the lay audience and reflects the way modern photography of the female nude attempts to encompass both male and female viewpoints. More
Edition Braus, November 2000. Hardcover. Ink stamp on top of the text block. More
One World, August 2019. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of race..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, July 2020. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST - "A feminist jeremiad nested inside a brilliant comic novel--a book that makes you laugh so hard you don't notice till later that your eyebrows have been singed off."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post..... More
Random House, July 2020. Hardcover. The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. "A terrific debut novel that makes Gravity's Rainbow read like a Dr. Seuss story . . . a masterwork..... More
Vintage, February 2019. Paper Back. I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia..... More
Penguin Press, June 2019. Hardcover. An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the..... More
Vintage, March 2020. Paper Back. *AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A Most Anticipated Book according to: *Elle * Oprah Magazine * Vulture * New York Times * PureWow * AV CLub * Time Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * PureWow * Buzzfeed * The Observer * Bustle * Huffington..... More
