Summer 2015 Vol. 1

Henry Bemis Books

Volume 1 of 2

This volume cover the following topical areas:

18th Century Works Children’s Books

19th Century Works Christmas Books

African-American Lit Conservatism

The American Presidency Cooking/Entertaining

Anthologies Crime

Appalachia Environmental

Architecture Faith/Religion/Philosophy

Autobiography Fantasy/Science Fiction

Autographed Works Fiction

Biography Film/Television/Radio &

Business/Management/ Theater

Nonprofits First Editions

Books are listed under multiple topic headings. For example, a book about a North Carolina television personality that is an autographed first edition, should appear under The Carolinas & Regional Works; First Editions; Autographed; and Film/Television/Radio & Theater.

We have striven to include a photo of every book listed. Generally, this occurs with a given book’s first appearance in the catalogue. Sometimes the photo will appear in a later cross-entry, however. All books can be searched by author, title, publisher, or any other search query using the standard “Find/Replace” feature in your computer’s documents program.

While we have listed what we believe is a reasonable market price for our books, we recognize that opinions may vary, and one can always find a copy cheaper somewhere online, or in a thrift store. It is a commonplace among some collectors that the books they already have always seem to be listed on line for very good prices, while those they want to acquire are listed at rock-bottom ones.

Those who live for the thrill of the hunt, and the happy, if random, discovery, may prefer to continue panning for gold in their local charity shop. Those looking for particular titles, already sifted from auction bins and estate sale jumble boxes, verified as being, say, a true first edition and not a reprint. A $3.95 volume listed as a first edition Great Gatsby, with no other details, is a real stab in the dark, but- again- it depends on what one is after. Collector John Baxter, in his memoir A Pound of Paper: Confessions of A Book Addict (2002) tells some remarkable horror stories of frauds perpetrated on popular online auction sites. Such dealers are volume operators, and have their place. They are not much interested in repeat business. We are.

Henry Bemis Books works hard to ensure that the books we sell as good quality, and in good condition. We want them to be valued additions to our customers’ shelves, and an asset to pass on to the next generation of family readers. So we try to offer value, at value. We’d like our customers to be repeat customers, and friends sharing in the book collecting adventure.

That said, we are happy to entertain reasonable offers on any of our books. We also have standing discounts for alumni of Oxford University and St. Andrews University (formerly St. Andrews Presbyterian College), for members of Caldwell Presbyterian Church, early supporters of this business, and other book dealers. The old accounting method joke, “First In, Still There” is not one we practice; we want to move our stock. So if you think we’re off the mark on a price, make a counteroffer. You might be surprised!

For now we are an online dealer, though we have plans for a bricks and mortar store in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a wider range of quality used books than those on offer in this catalogue. Buying from us will help hasten that day. Charlotte is a fast-growing city with a thirst for books and a shortage of place to buy them.

Now, a few details:

Terms of Sale

1. All items are subject to prior sale.

2. All items are guaranteed as described.

3. Refunds are limited to the original price paid.

4. Any item ordered through our website, catalogue or other means may be returned, subject to our being informed of this intention within 7 working days of receipt if unsatisfactory.

5. All items remain the property of Henry Bemis Books until fully paid for.

6. All packages will be shipped via USPS unless other arrangements are made. Special shipping arrangements may generate additional fees from the shipper for which we request payment.

7. We accept payment by cash, money order, wire transfer or any other agreed means. Checks are accepted in our discretion, or if tendered in certified funds or cashier’s check. We are considering e commerce and credit card transaction providers but are proceeding slowly, wishing to find service providers as immune to hacking and customer data theft as possible. We recognize that this superabundance of caution may not propitiate everyone’s Inner Gods of Immediate Gratification, but endeavor to make up for it with customer service worthy of the Age of Online Ordering.

Tax & Shipping

Additional Taxes: We collect North Carolina sales taxes. The tax rate for Mecklenburg County is 7.25%.

Shipping:

All of our books are expertly packed and shipped. Shipping is free for all items, except, as noted above, where special shipping arrangements are requested that cause us to incur significant extra expense.

US delivery times are usually 2 - 3 working days. Delivery times overseas are approximately 7 - 10 working days. Current security measures, and seasonal shipping volumes may make for longer transit times.

Urgent deliveries can be arranged on a separate basis. We will be happy to supply you with an estimate of costs.

Returns

All books may be returned subject to our receiving a telephone call, email or other acknowledged notification from you within 7 working days of receipt. We will advise you on the best method of return and would ask that the item is returned to us, carefully packed to arrive in the same condition that you received it.

Refunds are limited to the original purchase price and include initial delivery costs.

Libraries and institutions may arrange deferred billing on request.

All items remain the property of Henry Bemis Books until payment is made in full.

Privacy

We make every effort to respect and protect the privacy of our customers and the security of your information. Our privacy policy is at the Henry Bemis website, www.henrybemisbookseller.blogspot.com.

How to contact us:

The home office (literally) is 5513 Beam Lake Drive, Charlotte, NC 28216. We're not set up as a shop here, so, if you fancy a drop-by, please schedule a time to make sure we are here, and have our hair brushed. The phone is 704 277 3562. You can email us at henrybemisbookseller@gmail.com.

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What we do:

Henry Bemis books is a quality used, rare and collectible book dealer and private library consultancy in Charlotte, North Carolina.

We opened in 2014 and, for now, are operating as an Internet business while we build a customer base and scout locations for our physical store. Our consulting services are detailed on our website, www.henrybemisbookseller.blogspot.com.

Our aims are simple:

To create a retail and online business, one that provides a thoughtfully-chosen selection of good quality and reasonably priced used, rare and collectible books, and other items of interest, for our friends.
To be as helpful, knowledgeable and willing to go any reasonable distance to assist our customers, whatever their needs may be, as we can. We want to be your Nordstrom for books.
In addition to being a viable business, we will be a social and professional center for readers, writers, publishers, reviewers, artists and other community groups. We want to highlight local authors, regional and academic press works, and readers whose interests are not well-served by the other booksellers in the area.
Our locations- physical and virtual- will be as attractive, clean and well organized as it is possible for us to make them. The old notion of the bookstore as a musty, cluttered warren of aisles and swaybacked shelving, the lot covered in dust, is just that: old. We want to move books, from our shelves to yours. Making things easy to see, and find, is part of that.
We will actively support both the professional and artistic community of our area.
We welcome everyone.

We love to hear from our friends. Please sign up for our free, electronic catalogues and newsletters. We are happy to add you to our watch list as well, for those titles you haven’t been able to find. Got books you want to get rid of, too? Perhaps we can help.

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18th Century Works

Tasso, Torquato, Le Gerusalemme Liberata (with the observations of Niccolo Cianculo and Scipio Gentili; Nimes: Michele Gaude, 1764), Volume I. Interesting and rare volume containing marginalia by one C. Thiemann, including a diagram of the Ptolemaic system and a note that he read the book in the year 1805 in the endpapers. Tasso (1544-95) was one of the most-read poets in Europe until the last century. This book is one of a broken set of his best-known work, a highly imaginative account of the combat between Muslims and Christians at the culmination of the First Crusade. Leather bound, 6.25” x. 4.25”. Worn but solid condition. HBB price: $350.

19th Century Works

S.S. Schmucker, D.D., Appeal to the American Churches, With A Plan for Catholic Union (New York: Gould & Newman, 1st. ed., 1838). Inscribed on the front end papers, Rev. D. Bernhard, With the respects of the Author, S.S. Schmucker.” Hardcover, 100 pp., black boards with gilt title, no dust jacket; spine cover missing; foxing on many pages. Schmucker, (1799-1873) was a founder of the General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, professor at Gettysburg Seminary and College for 38 years. A noted abolitionist, he held heterodox views of the Lutheran confession that engendered much controversy and led to accusations he was a closet Calvinist. Schmucker’s Appeal argues for a common doctrinal agreement among the sects and denominations of the time. Rare, esp. with inscription. HBB price $200.

Howard, Theodosia, Letters and Papers of the Late Theodosia A. Viscountess Powerscourt (Rev. Robert Daly, D.D., Rector of Powerscourt, afterwards Bishop of Cashel, etc., New Edition, G. Morrish, 20, Paternoster Square, London E.C., no copyright/publication date given). Preface by Rev. Daly, Powerscourt Glebe, April 1838). Theodosia Anne Howard (1800-36). Born in County Wicklow, Ireland, she accepted Christianity (some sources cite Rev. Daly as her mentor) at 19. Her cousin, wife of Richard Wingfield, Viscount Powerscourt, died in 1820; Theodosia married him in 1822, and he died a year later. In 1826 she attended a series of “prophetic meetings” in England, and began holding similar events at Powerscourt. In 1831 she turned them into a formal annual conference that ran until 1833. The prophetic movement was millennialist, driven by the idea that the turmoil of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars marked the beginning of the End Times and presaged the return of Jesus Christ. This volume is a conspectus of her spiritual life, and includes papers presented at her Powerscourt Conferences. Her work has remained in print since her death. Hardcover, green cloth boards with gilt Gothic lettering. No dust jacket. Published in London by G. Morrish. Bookseller tag from Erie Bible Truth Depot, Erie, PA. Rare. HBB price: $300.

March, Rev. Daniel, D.D., Walks and Homes of Jesus (Ziegler & McCurdy, 1866). A retracing of the Savior’s journey’s by the 19th century American minister (1819-1905). Hardcover, no dust jacket, dark green boards embossed with gold titles on spine and cover. Numerous black-and-white lithograph illustrations. Acceptable condition; some separation of spine from covers. HBB price: $25.

Bell, J. Pettigrew, Animal Locomotion, Or, Walking, Swimming and Flying, With A Dissertation on Aeronautics (Appleton & Co, International Scientific Series, 1st American ed., 1874). Bell (1834-1908) was a renowned medico, naturalist, and museum director who developed an international reputation in the field of animal locomotion. This volume was his most popular work. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Embossed red boards, duodecimo, 264 pp, with 10 pp of advertising at back for other volumes in the series. Very good condition; illustrated throughout by 130 black-and-white wood engravings. Front end paper inked-in notation by ex-owner: “B.F. Stern, 1874.” Rare. HBB price: $175.

Thurston, Robert, A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine (Appleton & Co, International Scientific Series, 1st ed., 1878). Thurston (1839-1903) was a Civil War naval engineer, professor at the Naval Academy, Stevens Institute of Technology and Cornell. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Embossed red boards, duodecimo, 490 pp, with 2 pp of advertising at back for Appleton textbooks. Very good condition; illustrated throughout by 162 black-and-white wood engravings. Front end paper inked-in notation by ex-owner: “B.F. Stern, 1878.” Rare. HBB price: $175.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Little Lord Fauntleroy (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1st ed., 1886; 1889 printing). Hardcover, quarto, 209 pp. with 16 pages of ads in the back. Classic Reginald Birch illustrations that kicked off a regrettable American craze for dressing boys like a Gainsborough painting. Grey-green cloth boards. No dust jacket. Covers and spine faded with some staining, front hinge slightly separated. Brown endpapers. HBB price: $175.

Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume 2 (Charles L. Webster Co., 1st ed., 1886). Hardcover, no dust jacket, green boards with gilt titling and Grant medallion on cover. Tissue guard with frontispiece illustration; 32 engraved illustrations and maps. Good condition; one signature (pp. 275-86) separated from topstitching. HBB price: $150.

Croll, James, Discussions on Climate and Cosmology (D. Appleton & Co., 1st ed. 1886). Fascinating survey of weather and climate change from 125 years ago. Croll (1821-1890) was a Scots scientist who developed a theory that climate change occurred because of oscillations in the earth’s orbit. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Fine condition. No dust jacket. Octavo, 327 pp, with six pp of advertisements for other science books. Rare. HBB price: $100.

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Skelding, Susie Barstow, Flowers From Hill and Dale (White Stokes & Allen, 1883; 1890 edition by Frederick A Stokes Company). Verses by prominent 19th century poets. Color chromolithographs of flowers illustrated by the author, with laid in tissue guards. Skelding (1857-1934) was an American artist whose best-remembered works are the Flower Songs series, of which this volume is part. Publisher Frederick Stokes was part of White Stokes & Allen until he set up his own shop in 1890. Hardcover; olive green cloth with decorative illustrated boards. Gilt edges. 132 pp. 8” x 9”, ex-owner penned notation in longhand on front endpaper, “Christmas 1890.” No dust jacket as issued. Slight separation at the hinges, otherwise very good. HBB price: $150.

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Kipling, Rudyard, Captains Courageous, A Story of the Grand Banks (The Century Company, 1st American ed., 1897). Hardcover, green boards with gilt embossing; no dust jacket. Duodecimo; some staining on boards; separated hinges, some loose pages at the back; advertising material appears missing. 21 black and white engraved illustrations, lithographed. Pencil notation by ex-owner on front and rear endpapers: "Chas. G. Wilson, 104 Prescott St., Toledo, O. Oct./Nov. 1899". HBB price: $195.

Nesbit, E., and Mack, Robert Ellice, Morning Songs and Sketches (E.P. Dutton & Co. 1890). Elegant octavo volume; 32 pages of poetry by Nesbit, Graham Tomson and Theo. Gift. Card wrappers sewn with gilt cord; color lithographs on front and back covers; monochrome lithos inside, by Tom, Kelly, Julius Luz, Robert Ellice Mack, A.M. Clausen, and others. All edges gilt. Printed in Heidelberg. Gilt edging. Very good condition. HBB price: $225.

Du Maurier, George, Trilby (London: Osgood & McIlvaine & Co., 1st. ed., 1895). Said to be the inspiration for The Phantom of the Opera, this novel inspired the Trilby hat (worn by a character in the stage play), introduced the phrase “in the altogether” and inspired the notoriously litigious artist Whistler to threaten suit over a character (Du Maurier apologized and rewrote the offending sections). Du Maurier also introduced the character Svengali, whose name became a synonym for a man holding utter sway over a submissive woman. 121 lithographic illustrations by Du Maurier. Hardcover, blue boards with gilt titling on cover and spine. No dust jacket. 447 pp, octavo, with six pages of publisher’s ads. Slight separation of spine at back endpapers; small tear across bottom of spine. Bookseller label of Gilbert & Field, 67 Moorgate Street, London, E.C., which operated from the mid-1870s to circa World War I.

Wingard, E.A., Echoes and Other Poems (Newberry, SC: Lutheran Publication Board, 1899). Wingard (1849-1900) was ordained in the Lutheran Church in 1875 and called to St. Paul’s in Columbia, SC in 1887. He served in that pulpit until his death; this book was published the year before he passed away. 170 pp of poetry covering a variety of subjects, ranging from war to memoria, religious poems and hymns and a miscellany that includes his Ode on Laying the Corner-Stone Y.M.C.A. Building, Columbia, S.C. Hardcover, red boards, no dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.

African-American Works

Baldwin, James, Just Above My Head (Dial Press, 1st printing, 1979). Paperback advance reading copy of Baldwin’s novel about two Harlem brothers- one a gay gospel singer- and the woman they both love. Baldwin won a six-figure paperback deal, a Literary Guild advance selection, a $50,000 promotional campaign, and pieces on “Today” and “20/20.” Includes publisher’s letter to booksellers. Good condition. HBB price: $25.

Demijohn, Thom (Thomas Disch & John Sladek), Black Alice (Doubleday/Book Club ed., 1968). LOC 68-22503. The authors take the concept of Alice falling down the rabbit hole into a totally unfamiliar world and apply it to race relations in the United States in the fraught Sixties. Blonde-haired heiress Alice is kidnapped and held for a million-dollar ransom; to make sure no one will find her, the kidnappers brown her skin, treat her hair, and turn her into Black Alice, parked in Bessie McKay’s Norfolk whorehouse. A period piece of “moustache turning satire and melodrama,” one reviewer called it. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition. A rare and unusual find, even as a book club reprint. 8.75” x 5.75”, 224 pp. HBB price: $40.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Robbins, Hollis, editors, In Search of Hannah Crofts: Critical Essays on The Bondswoman’s Narrative (Basic Civitas Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-465-02714-8. Essays by 22 scholars on the then-newly discovered mss of The Bondswoman’s Narrative, the first known novel by an African-American. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $25.

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Hamilton, Virginia, The People Could Fly (Knopf, 1st ed., 11th printing, 1993). ISBN 0-394-86925-7. Newberry Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Hamilton brings 24 classic African-American folk tales to life, aided by forty illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon, Caldecott Medal winners. A remarkable, delightful work. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with a few small nicks; very good condition. HBB price: $59.

Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, Nights With Uncle Remus (Houghton Mifflin, 1883, 1911). Hardcover, published under copyright renewed by Harris’ widow. 34 African-American tales in dialect, with 21 lithographed engravings. Green boards with embossed titling and illustrations on the cover, no dust jacket. Good condition; gift inscription on front endpaper from 1915. HBB price: $59. uncle remus.jpg

Keckley, Elizabeth, Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years A Slave , And Four Years In The White House (Oxford University Press, 1st ed., 12th printing, 1988). This work, part of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers series, recovers a memoir by Keckley (1818-1907), a former slave who, as a seamstress in Washington, made dresses for Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Mrs. Robert E. Lee before meeting Mary Lincoln and becoming her confidante and dresser for the next six years. After Mrs. Lincoln made headlines selling used clothing from her White House days to raise money, Keckley published this book in 1868 to try and set the incident in perspective. While her portrait of the martyred president is hagiographic, her profile of Mrs. Lincoln caused its own scandal for its detached, sometimes pointed view of the neurotic former First Lady. Many objected to a White House personal servant spilling the beans- and a black one, at that!- and the book did not sell well. Lincoln severed ties with Keckley over the book. This copy is in good condition, 4.75” x 6.25”, paperback, with some warp to the front cover. A fascinating account of a unique time. HBB price: $20.

Morrison, Toni, Beloved (Knopf, 1st stated ed., 1987). ISBN 0-394-53597-9. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the Nobel Laureate. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, some dirty spots on cover, light water stain through bottom corner of text block, but not affecting readability or appreciation of this fine work. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. HBB price: $35.

Morrison, Toni, Paradise (Knopf, 1st stated ed., 1998). ISBN 0-679-43374-0. Near fine hardcover in near fine, unclipped dust jacket. HBB price: $49.95.

Taubert, Clifton L., Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored (Council Oak Books, 1st ed., 19890. ISBN 0-933031-19-X. A Tulsa businessman looks back on his childhood in segregation times, in the little town of Glen Allan, Mississippi. Elegantly laid out, with lots of photos. An engrossing read about a time and place long gone. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $20.

The American Presidency

Bush, Barbara, A Memoir (Lisa Drew Books/Scribners, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-202-519275-2. The matriarch of the political dynasty tells of her life with George and all the Bushes. Autographed on title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Coolidge, Calvin, Have Faith In Massachusetts (Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1919). Speeches by the then-new Governor. A must-have for enthusiasts of Silent Cal’s minimalist government views (National Review anointed then to-be and not yet former Senator Scott Brown the New Coolidge). Deaccessioned from the Zephyrhills, FL public library. No dust jacket but otherwise very good condition. Duodecimo, 275 pp. HBB price: $35.

Dole, Elizabeth, Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (Carroll & Graf, 1st ed., 2004). Bon mots collected by the NC native, former senator, cabinet officer, presidential candidate (wife of one, too), and American Red Cross president over her long career in public service. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, almost fine condition, 8” x 6”. Autographed on the title page at a Salisbury NC bookstore, February 19, 2005. HBB price: $15.

Eisenhower, Dwight D., At Ease: Stories I Tell To Friends (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1967). LOC 67-13781. The former president’s reminiscences of his life up to his becoming President. Entertaining, less formal than his official memoirs. Hardcover, octavo, 400 pp. Unclipped dust jacket, some wear and tear at the edges. Good condition: HBB price: $15.

Ervin, Senator Sam, Humor of A Country Lawyer (University of North Carolina Press, 1st ed., 1983). ISBN 0-8078-1566-7. Reminiscences by the famed chair of the Watergate Committee. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, inscribed “To Bruce Wofford, with all good wishes” and dated October 23, 1983. HBB price: $40.

Graham, Katharine, Personal History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1997) ISBN 0-394-58585-2. Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography of the woman who unexpectedly inherited a newspaper and used it to stand up to a President of the United States, and inspired one of the great celebrity parties of the 20th century. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 642 pp. HBB price: $25.

Hoogenboom, Ari, Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President (Easton Press, 1st ed. 1996). Library of the Presidents Collector’s Edition, leather bound, octavo, 626 pp. Gilt edging to all sides of the text block, red bindings with gilt embossing. Hubbed spine; silk ribbon page marker. With collector’s notes sheet laid in. Very good condition. HBB price: $49.95.

Johnson, Lyndon B., The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969 (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st ed. 1971). ISBN 0-03-084492-4. A disappointingly dry look at his presidency by one of the most consequential holders of it in the 20th century. Octavo, unclipped dust jacket, some wear about the edges. Good condition. Octavo, 636 pp. HBB price: $20.

Manchester, William, The Death of A President: November 20- November 25, 1963 (Harper & Row, 1st ed., 1967). LOC 67-10496. Solicited by the President’s widow to write this book, Manchester and his publisher found himself on the receiving end of the Kennedy wrath when it was ready to publish- so much so that a disclaimer was printed in it to make clear it was not The Official Death. The first edition was let to go out of print by the Kennedys, making these copies rarer over time. Three copies, all hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, octavo, 710 pp, very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Anthologies

Herbert R. Mayes, An Editor’s Treasury (Atheneum, 1st edition, 1968), LOC 68-26101. Remarkable collections of aphorisms and quotations from the ages by a publishing industry veteran. Hardcover, two volumes, unclipped dust jackets with some wear, good condition. HBB price: $25.

Appalachia

Frazier, Charles, Nightwoods (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4000-6709-1. A gripping tale of an Appalachian woman, Luce, who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins. By the author of Cold Mountain. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

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House, Silas, Clay’s Quilt (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2001). ISBN 1-56512-307-7. Fine tale of an orphaned Kentucky coal miner’s efforts to find a life and a family of his own. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $45.

Architecture

Dupre, Judith, Skyscrapers (Black Dog & Leventhal, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 1-884822-45-2. A strikingly designed tour of fifty of the then-tallest buildings in the world, with a listing of the 100 tallest buildings of the world. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition; 8” x 18” tall. 127 pp. Very good condition, HBB price: $20.

Hood, Davyd Foard, The Architecture of Rowan County: A Catalogue And History of the Surviving 18th, 19th and Early 20th Century Structures (Historic Salisbury Foundation, 1983; updated and reprinted 2000). An encyclopedic survey of the structures of this western North Carolina County. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Folio size, 434 pp. HBB price: $75. rowan county.jpg

Ivy, Jr., Robert Adams, Fay Jones: The Architecture of E. Fay Jones, FAIA (McGraw Hill, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2001). ISBN 0-07-135831-5. Stunning collection of the work of Arkansas architect (1921-2004), a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and designer of some of the most inspired places of worship of the 20th century. Softcover, quarto, 224, near-fine condition. HBB price: $85.

Pericoli, Matteo, Manhattan Unfurled (Random House, 1st ed., 3rd printing 2001). ISBN 0-375-50491-5. An Italian architect and illustrator who lives in New York, Pericoli took a Circle Line boat tour around Manhattan in 1998 and was seized of the idea to draw

what he had seen. Three years later, this book was the result: two, accordionized, 22-foot panels showing everything there was to be seen at the time on the East and West Sides. In an accompanying essay, architecture critic Paul Goldberger echoes E.B. White’s concern over bomb-laden aircraft in “This Is New York,” writing, “This drawing was completed before the horrific events of September, 11, 2001, which changed everything as far as the Manhattan skyline is concerned. Chaos is no longer an aesthetic concept but a catastrophic fact of life. The skyline, which we have always thought of as changing slowly, organically, suddenly becomes capable of wrenching, instantaneous, cataclysmic change. In the Darwinian world of the Manhattan skyline the largest buildings were always the most powerful, but on September 11 the World Trade Center did not drive smaller, weaker buildings away but were taken away themselves.” A brilliant artistic achievement, and evocation of a time about to be swept away. Very good condition, in a very good slipcase. HBB price: $35.

Storrer, William Allin, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalogue (University of Chicago Press, 3rd ed., 2002). ISBN 0-226-77622-0. A chronological record of Wright’s evolution whose first edition came out in 1974. Now updated with newly-discovered structures, street addresses, GPS coordinates and maps for every location. Sumptuously illustrated. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition with some slight wear and a little dust jacket fading and wear. 512 pp. HBB price: $150.

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Wiseman, Carter, I.M. Pei, A Profile in American Architecture (Abrams, 1st ed., 1990). ISBN 0-8109-3709-3. A survey of the career of the Chinese-American architect, now 98 years old, at the peak of his powers. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. 320 pp; 10 color portfolios containing sixty pictures; 335 illustrations in all. Very good condition. HBB price $25.

Autobiography

Buckley, William F., Jr., Overdrive: A Personal Documentary (Doubleday & Co., 1st ed., 1983). ISBN 0-385-18269-4. The celebrated conservative activist/writer documented a week in his life in this book. Reviewing it in The New York Times, Nora Ephron concluded, “A boy born to a small oil fortune grows up to be a man with three homes, five in help, a wife on the best-dressed list and the secure belief that even his preference in peanut butter will be of interest to his fans. His attitude toward life is so cheerful and good-natured - and what's more, he's right about the peanut butter - that it seems almost churlish to point out that it is possible to spend too much time in a limousine. The English used to say, give an Irishman a horse and he'll vote Tory, but never mind.” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, autographed on bookplate. HBB price: $35.

Gagarine, Marie, From Stolnoy to Spartanburg: The two worlds of a former Russian princess (Sandlapper Press, 1st ed., 1971). ISBN 0-87844-001-1. The memoirs of a granddaughter to the Czarina Alexandra’s “states-lady”: a sort of chief of staff- whose family lost all in the whirlwind of the Revolution and ended up on the faculty of Wofford College in South Carolina. Includes an account of life at court with the last of the Romanovs.Hardcover, no dust jacket, very good condition. Inscribed by the author on the front papers. Octavo, 138 pp. Rare. HBB price: $150.

Green, Julien, Terre Lointaine (Love in America) (Paris: Bernard Grasset, Editeur, 1966). Julien Green (1900-1998), almost unknown in the United States, was an American writer who spent most of his life in France. His voluminous output of novels, memoirs and diaries won such favor in the francophone world that he was the first non-native elected to the French Academy. This book is the third of his autobiographical works and tells the story of an unfulfilled love affair during his time at the University of Virginia, 1919-22: "I believed I was the only one of my kind. I only discovered many years later what was going on there every day and night. `What, didn't you realize?' Yet all the proprieties were observed to the T and, having eyes that were apparently not meant to see, I persevered in my unbelievable ignorance. There is a great deal to be said about the effects of my blindness for it prolonged the end of my childhood and encouraged a late development which it was difficult to catch up with, yet it also helped to preserve many qualities which I would otherwise have lost: a way of looking at the world in all its newness, as if I had just discovered it and above all, I firmly believe, a living faith. . . ."And would I not feel rather ashamed about regretting all this physical delight that I never knew and which would have been so easy to procure? I would be lying if I wrote that I did not regret it. . . . I cannot pretend that a shameful lament for the passionate delights of which my youth deprived me did not well up from the darkest regions of my soul. I know that all that is most Christian in me protests, but mankind is nevertheless a structure of several stories. We praise God from the roof-tops, but what is going on in the gloom of the cellar?"

A convert to Catholicism at 14, Green wrestled all his very long life to reconcile his homosexuality with his faith, and many of his works of fiction deal with private moral failures and public hypocrisies. A personal crisis in the mid-1950s magnified his focus on spiritual issues. The French title is derived from a line in a poem by Villon: “In my country was a distant land.” This paperback (4.75” x 7.5”) is inscribed on the title page from Green to the late UNC-Charlotte dean Glenn S. Burne. Good Condition; some sun fading on the yellow cover boards. HBB price: $175.

Griffin, Kathy, Official Book Club Selection (Ballantine Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2009). ISBN 978-0-345-51851-4. As new, with unclipped dust jacket, autographed on title page. Hardcover, 357 pp. HBB price: $50.

Howe, Gordie & Colleen, “...and Howe! An Authorized Biography (Power Play Publications, 1995, 3rd printing), ISBN 0-9647149-0-6. The famed hockey star and his wife look back. SIgned by both. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75. 51nLn9r2bCL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Lamott, Anne, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Pantheon, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-679-4420-5. Essays on faith, and life’s off journey, by a truly unique writer. “I have this beautiful feminist friend named Nora,” Lamott begins the chapter titled, ‘Gypsies,’ “who once said, ‘I’ve been thinking about killing myself, but I want to lose five pounds first.” I was remembering this recently when I started liking a new guy…” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very food condition. Gift inscription on the front end papers; autographed by Lamott on the Pantheon logo page. HBB price: $34.99.

Marshall, Garry, Wake Me When It’s Funny: How to Break Into Show Business And Stay There (Adams Publishing, 1995, 1st ed., 1st printing). ISBN 1-55850-526-1. Actor, writer and director, Marshall created 14 hit TV shows and directed major movies over a 35-year career he revisits in this memoir written with his daughter, Lori. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, extensive underlining by previous owner (but at least the lines are straight). Autographed by both authors. HBB price: $20.

Meir, Golda, My Life (G.P. Putnam’s, 1st American ed., 1975). ISBN 399-11669-9. The autobiography of the first woman prime minister of Israel, one of the most charismatic figures of her day. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket mylar cover, octavo, 480 pp., fine condition. HBB price: $75.

Ouimet, Francis, A Game of Golf: A Book of Reminiscence (1932, limited ed. by The Old Golf Shop, Cincinnati, 1978, No. 57 of 250). 20 year old former caddie and unknown amateur Francis Ouimet stunned the sports world by beating the godlike Harry Vardon in the 1913 U.S. Open, making the front page of the New York Times in the process. Ouimet (1893-1967) changed the perception of golf as the game for the super-rich and became a beloved figure in golf through the decades. This very limited edition is part of an annual series reprinting of books by the honoree of the annual Memorial Tournament, started in 1976 to honor those- living and dead- who did the most to advance the sport. A very rare edition of an excellent autobiography. Green boards with gilt edging and titles, no dust jacket, very good condition. 8.75” x 5.75”, 274 pp. HBB price: $175.

Phillips, Robert B., One of God’s Children (Celo Press, 1st ed. 1982). A longtime school principal and leading apple grower, Phillips wrote this memoir of his life in the North Carolina mountains in sight of his 80th birthday; he lived to 96, dying in 1999. An engaging tale of his life and times. Hardcover, duodecimo, 163 pp. Inscribed to Charlotte Observer editors Wilton and Eudora Garrison, friends to many regional authors. HBB price: $25.

Twain, Shania, From This Moment On (Atria Books, 1st edition, second printing, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4516-2074-0. The autobiography of one of the leading pop music stars of the last quarter century. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket with crease in back flap. Very good condition. Inscribed on the front end paper, “Lindz- you’re the best! XXOO’s Shania Twain.” 424 pp., color illustrations. HBB price: $30.

White, Vanna, Vanna Speaks (Warner Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, May, 1987). ISBN 0-446-51366-0. So ubiquitous was Vanna White in American popular culture after Wheel of Fortune began in 1983, there was a bestseller called Vanna Karenina. The Oregonian newspaper did a front page redesign featuring a column running down the left side: an index to the interior. At the top of the column was a daily celebrity photo, and the first was...Vanna White. Around Portland that space in the paper became known as “the Vanna Box,” irrespective of who appeared in it. Here the turner of letters turns woman of letters. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new condition overall. Inscribed on the half title page. HBB price: $35.

Yardley, Jonathan, Our Kind of People: The Story of An American Family (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1989. ISBN 1-55584-174-0. NC native, book critic and Pulitzer Prize winner’s story of his family, centering around his parents’ half-century marriage. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Presentation copy inscribed to Charlotte NC-based jazz musician and songwriter Loonis McGlohon. HBB price: $75.

Autographed Works

Baker, Ira Lee and Scarborough, Franklin S., From Chinaberry Trees to China Grove (Salisbury Printing Co, 1st ed. 1989). Centennial history of the Rowan County, North Carolina town. Hardcover, no dust jacket, blue board with black illustrated cover. Very good condition. Octavo, 246 pp. Autographed by both authors. HBB price: $75.

Baldacci, David, The Winner (Warner Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, December 1997). ISBN 0-446-52259-7. A woman on her way to a John Grisham novel gets hijacked by this tale of a rigged $100m lottery prize. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, autographed on title page. Border’s “autographed by author” sticker on the front end pages. Very good condition: $35.

Berendt, John, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Random House, 1994). ISBN 0-679-42922-0. “The Book,” they call it in Savannah. This shaggy dog tale wraps around a murder trial, but the stars are locals like drag artist Lady Chablis, who- after playing herself in the film version, announced she expected to be the first performer in history to win Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Autographed at Clary’s Cafe’ in Savannah. HBB price: $35.

Blake, Sarah, The Postmistress (Berkley, 1st trade paperback ed., 1st printing, February 2011). ISBN 978-0-425-23869-1. Novel telling the interwoven tales of a small-town, Massachusetts coastal postmistress and a woman broadcasting war news from London in 1940. Very good condition; autographed on the title page. HBB price: $$19.95.

Boyington, Col. Gregory “Pappy”, Baa Baa Black Sheep (Fresno: WIlson Press, 1958, 17th printing). LOC 58-12060. Memoir by the Marine aviator (1912-88) whose Black Sheep Squadron made headlines in the South Pacific during World War II and became the basis for a 1976-78 NBC series. Inscribed on the half-title page in 1984. Fair condition; some warping to the back pages of the book. HBB price: $25.

Brinkerhoff, Peter C., Faith-Based Management: Leading Organizations That Are Based On More Than Just Mission (John Wiley, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-471-31544-3. First-of-of-its-kind guide to managing in the environments that make faith organizations different from the average nonprofit. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $50.

Brown, Alton, I'm Just Here For The Food (Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 1-58479-083-0. The irrepressible Food Network host’s first cookbook, “one for people who would rather understand their food than follow a recipe.” Ohhhh….kay. Hardcover, oversized, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $35.

Buckley, Reid, Speaking in Public: Buckley’s Techniques for Winning Arguments and Getting Your Points Across (National Review Books, 2nd ed, 1st printing, 1988). ISBN 0-06-015930-8. Brother of William F. Buckley, Jr., Reid (1930-2014) ran the Buckley School of Public Speaking in South Carolina and wrote books and articles in his brother’s considerable shadow. Includes tops on crushing your opposition and how to tell Mike Wallace to go to Hell. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Inscribed on the end papers, “7-VI-95 for William B. O’Boyle w/best wishes, Reid Buckley.” HBB price: $25.

Chapman, Jim, The Call of the Wild Wasn’t Long Distance: A Collection of Essays From The Back Porch (Gainesville (GA) Times, 1st ed., paperback, 2003). Collection of over 125 reports from Chapman’s “Back Porch” column between 1999 and 2003). Chapman’s comic talents are on full display in this assemblage of observations on Southern life by the syndicated writer. Very good condition; inscribed on the title page. Scarce and much-sought. HBB price: $75.

Child, Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone; Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 2 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed, 1st/2nd printings before publication, 3rd printing, December, 1970). First mention of “asbestos cement” at the bottom of page 71. LOC 61-12313. The sequel to the classic that catapulted Child to fame, covers seven subjects: soups; baking; meats; chickens: charcuterie; veg; and desserts. Hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition; a small divot out at the top of the spine. Title page and logo printed in blue. 7.25” x 10.25”. HBB price: $25.

Child, Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone; Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol.1); Child, Julia; and Beck, Simone, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. 2). Knopf, 1961, 1970; first book club edition (title page and logo for Ecole Des 3 Gourmandes is in black, not red). No dust jacket. Very good condition. Inscribed by Julia Child and her husband, Paul Child, who illustrated both books. Envelope address tag for owner on front end page of each. HBB price: $500 the set.

Child, Julia, From Julia’s Child’s Kitchen (Knopf, 1975, stated 1st. ed., 1975). ISBN 0-394-48071-6. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with some wear and tear to edges. Book condition very good. Signed by both Julia Child and her husband/illustrator, Paul Child without her trademark inscription, “Bon Appetit!” Envelope address tag for owner on front end page. HBB price: $300.

Child, Julia, Julia Child & Company (Knopf, 1st ed, 1978). ISBN 0-394-73532-3. Paperback, 8.5” x. 11”. Julia Child is said to have commented she hated to see copies of her books without cooking stains on them. This one would make her happy; the covers indicate close proximity to the owner’s mise en place. The colorfully-illustrated text, however, is in very good shape. Inscribed by both Julia and Paul Child- without her signature “Bon Appetit!” on the title page. A number of recipes and articles are laid in. HBB price: $200.

Child, Julia, The Way to Cook (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1989). ISBN 0-394-53264-3. An innovative cookbook organized around how to cook something basic (chicken, anyone? poach an egg?), with variations thereon. As entertaining as Julia can be in print. Illustrations everywhere. Hardcover; quarto, unclipped dust jacket, inscribed on the half-title page. Very good condition. 511 pp. HBB price: $195.

Clements, A.C. , The Mystical Poetry of Thomas Traherne (Harvard, 1st. ed., 1969) ISBN 674-59750-8. HBB price: $25. A reconsideration of the mystical English poet (c. 1636-1674).

SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Inscribed and signed by the author to a colleague, Prof. Glenn Burne. Academic hardcover published for the trade; contains a Preface, an introduction, notes and an index; [xii] + 232 pages; approximately 5 1/2" x 8 1/4"; pale yellow cloth covered boards with title lettered in green on the spine; printed dust-jacket.

CONDITION :

Exterior — clean and presentable ... exceptionally well-preserved

Binding — Solid

Interior — Clean and unmarked throughout. Signed inscription from the author on the front fly-leaf : "To Glenn, with the hope that in reading this book you may find much of the pleasure that I did in writing it. Art." Burne was a highly respected scholar and professor. He retired as chair of the English Department of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The dustjacket has modest surface rub and a bit of nicking and tears about the edges. the spine panel extremities have soft impact abrasion and creasing and the spine panel itself is a bit darkened - the reverse of the jacket is toned - basically clean and presentable. The whole looks nice under an archival mylar cover.

Conroy, Pat, The Prince of Tides (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1986). ISBN 0-395-35300-9. Searing tale of a South Carolina Low Country family worthy of a Eugene O’Neill play. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, mylar cover, fine condition. inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan. HBB price: $350.

Conroy, Pat, My Losing Season (Nan Talese/Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-385-48912-9. The author of Prince of Tides recalls his senior year on The Citadel’s basketball team. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed on title page. HBB price: $100.

Coy, John, Night Driving (Henry Holt, 1996, 1st ed. 3rd printing). ISBN 0-8050-2931-1. A small boy recalls an overnight drive with his dad for a camping trip in the mountains, circa 1950. Magical illustrations by Peter McCarty. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Crothers, Tim, The Man Watching: A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever (Sports Media Group, 1st. ed, later printing, 2006). ISBN 978-1-58726-434-4. Eighteen national championships and a 94% win rate seem to back up the claim at the University of North Carolina’s women’s soccer team is about as good as they get. Hardcover, dust jacket price clipped, very good condition, autographed by Crothers and Dorrance. HBB price $35.

Dole, Elizabeth, Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (Carroll & Graf, 1st ed., 2004). Bon mots collected by the NC native, former senator, cabinet officer, presidential candidate and American Red Cross president over her long career in public service. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, almost fine condition, 8” x 6”. Autographed on the title page at a Salisbury NC bookstore, February 19, 2005. HBB price: $15.

Edgerton, Clyde, Where Trouble Sleeps, (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997, 1st ed. 1st printing). ISBN 1-56512-06102. The saga of Listre, NC continues as a stoplight gets installed and outsiders start showing up. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Edgerton, Clyde, The Floatplane Notebooks (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1988). ISBN 0-945575-00-9. Another in the series of tales set in Listre, North Carolina, this novel chronicles the Copeland family as they gather, through the generations, each May to clean up the family graveyard.Anyone who’s ever been to such an event will know how true this story rings. Excellent, as-new copy; hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Christmas, 1988 inscription on the front paper. HBB price: $100.

Ellroy, James, My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1996). ISBN 0-679-44185-9. The author of The Black Dahlia sets out to close the file on his mother’s murder, unsolved after 38 years. Hardcover, octavo, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. “Signed by the Author” sticker on front of dust jacket. HBB price: $200.

Flynn, Vince, Transfer of Power (Pocket Books, 1st ed, 3rd printing, 1999). ISBN 0-671-02315-9. Killing machine Mitch Rapp tears up the rule book yet again, and tunnels come in handy. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition, autographed bookplate on half title page as “Vincent J. Flynn.” Transfer of Power is the first of Flynn’s novels featuring secret agent Rapp. Flynn died in 2013, three months after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. HBB price: $300.

Frazier, Charles, Nightwoods (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4000-6709-1. A gripping tale of an Appalachian woman Luce, who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins. By the author of Cold Mountain. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

Gardner, Lawrence, Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark: Amazing Revelations of the Incredible Power of Gold (Hammersmith/London: Element Books, 1st ed. 4th printing, 2003). ISBN 0-00-714259-1. Monatomic gold, teleportation, and other things most often discussed on Coast to Coast AM. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition, autographed on the half title. HBB $50.

Garreau, Joel, The Nine Nations of North America (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1981). ISBN 0-395-29124-0. This enormously-discussed book proposed breaking the US, Mexico and Canada into nine countries based on geographic and socioeconomic affinities. Given the “great sorting” that has gone on since and the increasing vogue for seccesh talk on the political right, its day may be returning. Hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition, underlined text by previous owner. Autographed. HBB price: $20.

Graham, Rev. Dr. Billy, Peace With God: How To Choose In The Hour of Decision, (Doubleday & Co, 1953, later reprinting). LOC 53-5967. An early work by the renowned evangelist, reissued after his famous 1957 New York Crusade that drew some 2m people. The book sold more than 2m copies and was re-issued in a revised version in 1984. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $250.

Gray, Rose and Rogers, Ruth, River Cafe Pocket Books: Salads & Vegetables; Pasta & Ravioli; Fish & Shellfish; Puddings, Cakes and Ice Creams (Ebury Books, 1st. ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 00919437X. Fine set of four paperbacks (9’ x 5”), in a clear case, by the owners of London’s famed River Cafe in Hammersmith. Autographed by both authors. Rogers and Gray (1939-2010) are famous for their interpretations of Italian cuisine and a generation of famous chefs they trained, including Jamie Oliver. Very good condition. HBB price: 39.95.

Green, Ron, Shouting At The Amen Corner: The Masters- Dispatches from the World’s Greatest Greatest Golf Tournament (A SportsMasters Book, Sports Publishing Inc., 1999, 1st ed.). ISBN 1-58382-018-3. Charlotte Observer columnist collects 45 years of Masters articles. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

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Kuralt, Charles, On the Road With Charles Kuralt (G.P. Putnam’s, 1985, 1st ed., 20th printing, 1985). ISBN 0-399-13087-X. 92 of Kuralt’s travel pieces from 1967 onward. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Kuralt, Charles, Dateline America (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st ed., second printing, 1979). A collection of pieces from the CBS Radio series, “Dateline America,” begun by Kuralt in 1972, with photos by Mark Chester. Inscribed on the title page,”To Larry and Linda- Best wishes! Charles Kuralt.” 10” x. 9”, hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with two tears and some other edge wear on the front dust jacket. HBB price: $25.

Grizzle, Ralph, Remembering Charles Kuralt (Kenilworth Media, 1st ed., 2000). ISBN 0-9679096-0-0. Oral historian and Our State contributing editor Grizzle assembled this collection of reminiscences by friends of the veteran CBS journalist (1934-1997). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Inscribed, “To Brother Fred, Happy Birthday and hope you enjoy! With warmest regards, Ralph Grizzle,” on the half title. HBB price: $20.

Hanchett, Thomas W., Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975 (UNC Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1998). ISBN 0-8078-4677-5. Fascinating account of how Charlotte did not begin as a deliberately segregated city, but became one over time, through the rise of large manufacturing companies, new travel technologies, and- finally- urban renewal finding, which allowed civic leaders to resort the city’s residents on opposite sides of the city. Trade paperback, 9.25” x 6”, 380 pp. Very good condition. Autographed on the title page.

Housholder, Bob, editor, Grand Slam of North American Wild Sheep (Imperial Lithographers/Roswell Bookbinding, 2nd printing, May 1974). A collection of tales by ten members of the Grand Slam Club of the North American Sheep Hunters Association, describing what it was like to be among the fifty or so hunters to bag all four North American rams. Hardcover with gold lettering/ram’s head on cover and spine, no dust jacket, very good condition, affectionately inscribed by contributor Dr. Roy A. Schultz,DVM to Russ Reid, “one of the best sheep outfitters and sheep guides on the North American Continent!!!” in September, 1977. HBB price: $100.

Hughs, Rev. G. Carswell, First Church Sermons 1972-1982 (First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, 1st ed., May 1982). Privately printed under a bequest by Beulah Wallace Grier, a member from 1899 to 1978. Thirty sermons from the first ten years ministry of a popular pastor. Hardcover, no dust jacket, privately printed, autographed. HBB price: $35.

Kane, Harnett T., Queen New Orleans: City By The River (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1949). “The Poet Laureate of Louisiana” pens a raucous, affectionate portrait of The Big Easy. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, mylar cover, very good condition, inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan. HBB price: $60.

Kane, Harnett T., The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall (Doubleday & Co., 1st ed. 1957). LOC 57-11426. A biography of the wife and widow of Civil War General Stonewall Jackson, whose long and eventful life ended in Charlotte, NC in 1915. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, mylar cover, very good condition. Inscribed by the author to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan, May 14, 1957. HBB price: $50.

Kanin, Garson, Remembering Mr. Maugham (Athenaeum, 1st ed., 1966). LOC 66-23574. The celebrated American playwright/director’s memories of British writer W. Somerset Maugham. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, clear mylar cover, good condition, inscribed to film producer Robert Evans. Evans produced “Harold and Maude” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” both star vehicles for Kanin’s wife, actress Ruth Gordon. HBB price: $200.

Love III, Davis, Every Shot I Take: Lessons Learned About Golf, Life, And A Father’s Love (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 2nd printing, 1997). ISBN 0-684-83400-6. Memoir by the popular professional golfer, inscribed on the end papers. Hardcover, octavo, 204 pp., unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $24.99.

McCorkle, Jill, Tending to Virginia (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1987). ISBN 0-912697-65-2. Lumberton NC native McCorkle made an explosive debut, publishing two novels on the same day at age 25. Here she offers a familiar plot- women of the three generations of a family sort things out pending the arrival of the fourth- but told in her own, remarkable way. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Inscribed on the title by the author, in Lumberton, New Year’s Day 1988. HBB price: $24.99.

McCullough, Colleen, Caesar’s Women (William Morrow, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-688-09731-X. Absorbing tale of the ten years of Julius Caesar’s rise to power in Republican Rome. One of a series of novels by the author of The Thorn Birds on the first emperor’s life and times. Extravagantly autographed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. 696 pp. HBB price: $50.

McKissick, John (with Billy G. Baker), Called To Coach II (United Graphics, 2004, 1st ed, #1688 of 3100 copies, 2004). ISBN 09759948-0-8. A book of “life lessons” from the winningest high school football coach in America. McKissick became head coach at Summerville, SC High School in 1952 and has remained there ever since. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

McKuen, Rod, ...and Autumn Came (Cheval Books, 1st ed., limited edition, signed and numbered by the author, November, 1969). LOC 72-105891. Very fine limited edition of McKuen’s first, 1954, collection of poetry. Folio size, linen boards on fine paper; gilt title plate on cover. Illustrations by Anthony Goldschmidt. Copy number B-601. McKuen (1933-2015) was one of the most popular mid-20th century American poets and songwriters. HBB price: $95.

Morelock, Horace Wilson Big Bend Panorama: Observations, Speeches and Reflections of a Pioneer College President (The Naylor Co., San Antonio, 1st ed. 1953). Born in Cleo, Tennessee in 1873, Horace Morlock migrated to Texas to become a school superintendent in 1904, took his MA from Harvard, and in 1922 became the second president of what is now Sul Ross University, then all of two years old. Morelock spent 23 years at the helm, building and then defending the college from the Texas legislature, while becoming a part of the fabric of the Big Bend Country. At 80 he collected essays, articles and reminiscences of his times into this interesting and rare volume; this copy is inscribed to his sister-in-law in October, 1953. Morelock continued as Sul Ross’ president emeritus until he died, at 93, in 1966. Hardcover, red boards with a yellow dust jacket; some tears around the head and at the edges. Black and white photos; indexed. HBB price: $20.

Moseley, J. Rufus, Manifest Victory: A Quest and A Testimony (Harper & Bros., 1947). Born in Elkin, NC, educated at Peabody, Mercer,Harvard and Heidelberg, Rufus Moseley (1870-1954) was a leading mid-20th century American Christian mystic. From 1910 he gave up his professorship at Mercer and spent the rest of his life living off the proceeds of his pecan grove near Macon, GA, and contributed an occasional column to The Macon Telegraph. He wrote two highly successful books; Manifest Victory is a sort of Augustinian confession. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, autographed. Rare. Inscribed to “Brother R.A. Taylor” in February 1950. HBB price: $150.

Peters, Tom, Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age (Dorling Kindersley, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-7894-9647-X. Former McKinsey consultant Peters, whose 1982 book In Search of Excellence set publishing records, has made a remarkable career explaining how things change so fast you need to disregard his last book and get the current one- until things change again and the next one comes along. Hardcover, quarto, unclipped dust jacket, autographed by Peters on the front end pages. HBB price: $24.99.

Pinsky, Robert, The Figured Wheel: New & Collected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar Straus Giroux 1996, 1st ed.) ISBN 0-374-15493-7. Former US poet laureate’s collected works. Inscribed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $60.

Proper, Datus C., Pheasants of the Mind: A Hunter’s Search for A Mythic Bird (Prentice Hall Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-13-662750-1. A Montana naturalist philosopher (“It is impossible to read this without being reminded of Garrison Keillor at his best,” famed food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote), contemplates nature and the challenges of hunting for pheasant. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

Reed, Ralph, Politically Incorrect: The Emerging Faith Factor in American Politics (Word, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-8499-1172-9. Ralph Reed, the wunderkind of the religious right in the 1980s and’90s, offers his one-volume version of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The themes are the same, twenty years on, but the examples are different: in 1994, Reed found homosexuality worth only two mentions. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, inscribed on the half-title page. Very good condition, as if unread. HBB price: $10.

Rogers, John R. and Amy T., Charlotte: Its Historic Neighborhoods (Arcadia Publishing/Images of America series, 1st ed. 1996). ISBN 0-7524-0515-2. Lavishly illustrated, well-researched account of Charlotte’s inner, “streetcar” suburbs. Softcover, very good condition, autographed by both authors. HBB price: $50.

Sanders, Zoe D., Entertaining at The College of Charleston (The College of Charleston Foundation, 1st ed., 1998). ISBN 0-9638620-1-4. A former president’s wife records, “through pictures, text, menus and recipes her gracious and elegant style of entertaining,” in pursuit of her goal that the College “live up to Charleston’s fine and rich culinary heritage of entertaining.” Lavishly illustrated. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price $35.

Sedaris, Amy, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (Warner Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 13: 978-0-446-57884-4. Helpful tips and recipes. Want to train nosy guests not to be? Fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Hardcover, oversized, unclipped dust jacket, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Skloot, Floyd, The Open Door, (Story Line Press, 1st, ed. 1st printing, softcover, 1997). ISBN 1-885266-48-0. Henry’s book guy, Lin, writes, “When I was a college senior reviewing poetry submissions to the college magazine 38 years ago, I was amazed by the work of a man called Floyd Skloot. He was working for state government in Minnesota, and sent us a packet of poetry about bureaucracy! Since then, he’s fought back from chronic fatigue syndrome and produced more remarkable work. The Open Door is his third novel and shows us how two boys, growing up in a Jewish enclave in Brooklyn io the 1950s, grow up and deal with the unplanned inheritance of their parents’ physical and emotional abuse. Octavo, 199 pp. Very good condition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, signed on the title page. HBB price: $25.

Speizman, Morris, This Week’s Miracle (Charlotte, NC: Heritage Printers, 1968). LOC 68-29086. Morris Speizman was born in Lodz, Poland in 1905. Six months later, his family immigrated to the United States. He attended the Philadelphia School of Textiles. In 1936, he and his wife, Sylvia Valenstein, came to Charlotte and founded Speizman Industries, Inc., a textile machinery company. In addition to his business, Speizman was very active in the Jewish and civic communities. As an author, he wrote This Week's Miracle, Our World To Come (Charlotte: Graham Publishing Co., 1975), The Jews of Charlotte (Charlotte: McNally & Loftin, 1978), and Some Things I Wish I Had Said--And Some I Did! (Charlotte: Graham Publishing Co., 1983). He died in Charlotte on July 25, 1987 and was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery. A well-written series of short essays on life and business. Valuable as a portrayal of the now-vanished textile industry economy in the Southeast. Speizman was a friend and correspondent with Charlotte author and editor Harry Golden; his papers are in the UNC-Charlotte library. Paperback, 8.5” x 5.5”, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Stone, Irving, The Origin: A Biographic Novel of Charles Darwin (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1980). ISBN 0-385-12064-8). The famed biographical novelist (Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Schliemann), takes on the father of evolution. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, sunning on the spine, very good condition. Octavo, 743 pp. Autographed on the half-title. HBB price $65.

Styron, William, Sophie’s Choice (Random House, 1st ed., 1979). ISBN 0-394-46109-6. The remarkable, bestselling tale of a Southern boy and a Polish death camp survivor who meet in post-war New York. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed on the front endpapers by the owner, Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan, inscribed to her by Styron on the half-title. HBB price: $125.

Talese, Gay, Unto the Sons (Knopf, 1992, 1st ed.). ISBN 0-679-4130401. Sweeping saga of the Italian-American experience in the 20th century. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

Tallant, Robert, Mrs. Candy Strikes It Rich (Doubleday & Co., 1954, 1st ed.). LOC 54-7663. Comic Mardi Gras romp featuring the social-climbing, nouveau-riche Mrs. Eustacia Candy Petit of Cairo Street, N’awlins. Third of a series of Mrs. Candy comedies. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan. HBB price: $50.

Timberlake, Bob and Erwin, Mark, Life’s Lessons: Lines of Wisdom from a Faithful Stream (Goosepen Studio & Press, 1st ed., 2012). ISBN 978-0-09793631-6-0. A fine collection of inspirational quotations, illustrated by Timberlake art in color. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. HBB price $50.

Traunfeld, Jerry, The Herbfarm Cookbook (Scribner, 1st ed., 7th printing, 2000). ISBN 0-684-83976-8. A reservation for one of Traunfeld’s nine-course meals at The Herbfarm, east of Seattle, is a foodie’s bucket-lister. Trainfeld’s innovative use of herbs in everything he cooks is creative and its effects of dazzling. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Autographed opposite the title page. HBB price: $39.95.

Walsh, Christy, Baseball’s Greatest Lineup (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1st ed., 1952). LOC 52-8286. Christy Walsh, a cartoonist and sportswriter, saw the future of baseball one day, and its name was Babe Ruth. He dogged Ruth to see him for two years, and when he finally got in, he asked Ruth how much he’d been paid for a newspaper article. “Five dollars.” “I can get you a hundred,” Walsh replied, and for the next 27 years he made Ruth a wealthy man through better contract negotiations and product endorsements. Walsh was the first great sports superagent, representing the cream of American sports- Ty Cobb, Knute Rockne and Lou Gehrig, among others. Baseball’s Greatest Lineup is a collection of profiles of sportswriters’ picks for baseball’s greatest, 1900 to 1950. Thoughtful, funny, the book makes you think Walsh invented fantasy baseball as well. Hardcover, no dust jacket, very good condition. Autographed with a Walsh caricature of himself, for Wilton Garrison, longtime sports editor of The Charlotte Observer. HBB price: $100.

Wedgwood, Barbara and Hensleigh, The Wedgwood Circle 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends (London: Studio Vista/Cassell, 1980). ISBN 0-289-70892-3. A family history, published to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Josiah Wedgwood. Inscribed on the title page by both authors. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with a little wear. Very good condition. 386 pp. HBB price: $50.

Biography

Anthony, Edward, O Rare Don Marquis: Author of archy and mehitabel and other hilarities (Doubleday, 1962, 1st ed., 1962). LOC 62-7596. A fine, entertaining biography of humorist Don Marquis (1878-1937), creator of that immortal pair, archy and mehitabel. Hardcover, 8.5” x 6”, unclipped dust jacket with some wear. Yellowing and some spotting on the edges. Overall good condition; eminently readable. HBB price: $17.95.

Blythe, LeGette, William Henry Belk: Merchant of the South (University of North Carolina Press, 1950; enlarged edition 1958). LOC 58-14574. A life of the founder of the department store chain. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 271 pp. HBB price: $75.

Blythe, LeGette, Meet Julius Abernethy: Trader and Philanthropist (William Loftin, 1st ed., 1970). Fascinating contribution to the business history of western North Carolina and the once-mighty textile industry. Julius Abernethy (1894-1978) made a fortune from a four room office in Newton, NC. Legette Blythe (1900-1993) was the author of numerous novels and biographies. This is an interesting association copy, annotated throughout by Abernethy’s friend and business partner, William H. Barnhardt (1903-1985), one of the Southeast’s leading textile executives. Autographed on the papers by both Blythe and Abernethy. Hardcover, octavo, 242 pp., unclipped dust jacket showing some wear and tear. Overall, good condition. Rare. HBB price: $50.

Bulla, Ben F., Textiles & Politics: The Life of B. Everett Jordan- From Saxapahaw to the United States Senate (Carolina Academic Press, 1992). ISBN 0-89089-486-8. A much-needed biography of the publicity-shy North Carolina senator, whose primary defeat in 1972 paved the way for the election of Jesse Helms to the U.S. Senate. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. Octavo, 395 pp. HBB price: $50.

Covington, Howard E. Jr., Belk Inc.: The Company and the Family That Built It (Belk Inc, 2002). LOC 2002104825. An new, half-century-later version of LeGette Blyth’s history of the family, their stores, and their philanthropies. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. Octavo, 282 pp. HBB price: $50.

Isaacson, Walter, Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9. The monumental life of one of the most influential figures of the last century. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, Very good condition, octavo, 627 pp. HBB price: $85.

Morison, Samuel Eliot, Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Atlantic/Little Brown, 1st ed., 1942). Standard life of the Italian explorer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with some chipping and wear about the edges. Good condition. Octavo, 680 pp. HBB price: $135.

Ragan, Robert Allison, The Ragans of Gastonia, 1790-1995: Builders of the New South and Pioneers in Southern Textiles (Heritage Printers, 1st ed., 1995). ISBN 95-92604. A scion of the prominent Gaston County family gives them and their role in the state’s history a thoroughly-researched airing. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 568 pp. Many illustrations. Inscribed by the author to friends. HBB price: $50.

Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) modeled his famed monsters after relatives: “They were unkempt; their teeth were horrifying. Hair unraveling out of their noses." Notoriously spiky (of e-books, he said, "F*** them is what I say; I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future... they may well be. I will be dead, I won’t give a s***!”; of a fan, he recalled, “A woman came up to me the other day and said, ‘You’re the kiddie-book man!’ I wanted to kill her.”), it bothered him not in the least that his book, In the Night Kitchen, is among the kids' books most banned from libraries in this century.

Selma Lanes, a Sendak friend and children's books' editor and author, combines a biography of the artist and a visual survey of his work in The Art of Maurice Sendak, a large, lavishly illustrated book complete with foldouts of Sendak's sketches and storyboards for his books. Harry Abrams, the art book publisher gave this volume the full treatment, which makes it a must-have for kids-at-heart and visual arts fans of every sort.

Selma G. Lanes, The Art of Maurice Sendak (1993 ed., hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, one slight tear on back edge, 278 pp., 165 black-and-white, 94 color illustrations, ISBN 0-819-8063-0, 12" x 11", very good condition). Your price: US $75.

Silverman, Kenneth, Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (HarperCollins, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-06-016978-8. Well-regarded biography of the last century’s greatest illusionist, written with access to much previously, unavailable material. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. Octavo, 465 pp. HBB price: $50.

Varble, Rachel M., Jane Clemens: The Story of Mark Twain’s Mother (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1964). LOC 64-19286. Vivid recreation of the life and times of the writer and his parents. Hardcover, octavo, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, 374 pp. HBB price: $40.

Business/Management/Nonprofits

Jeanblanc, Yor and Chesney, Mathematical Models for Financial Markets (Springer, 1st ed., 2009). ISBN 978-1-85233-376-8. Bits and bobs on how those hedge fund boffins do their magic. Hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Fine condition. Octavo, 732 pp. HBB price: $40.

Kersten, E.L., Ph.D., The Art of Demotivation (Despair Ink, Executive Ed., 2005, 1st ed.). ISBN 1-892503-341-7. Leather bound with a brass smiley face in the center of the cover, and a brass clasp at the center of the fore edge. A guide to employee motivation “so dangerous they had to put a lock on it.” Hardcover, leather binding, octavo, 243 pp. Illustrated by Kevin Sprouls, the famed Wall Street Journal portraitist. An unusual and thought-provoking book. HBB price: $50.

Levine, Dennis B., with William Hoffer, Inside Out: An Insider’s Account of Wall Street (Putnam, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1991). ISBN 0-399-13655-X. Dennis Levine, one of the 1980s Masters of the Universe on Wall Street, penned this memoir of the quaint days, now long forgotten, when one could go to jail for a tenth of the greed and manipulation of the last decade. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $20.

Oakland, John and Marosszeky, Marton, Total Quality in the Construction Supply Chain (Butterworth/Heinemann, stated 1st ed. 1st printing, 2006). Thoroughgoing consideration of the areas that bedevil the construction process: Quality management- meeting customer expectations better; supply chain management- getting the right stuff to the right place at the right time and price; and knowledge management- seeing how others do it better, and earning from what one sees. 9.24” x 7”, softcover, very good condition 2 copies in stock. HBB price: $50.

Canada

Hutchison, Bruce, Canada: A year of the land (The Queen’s Printer, 1967; Copp & Clark, Ltd., 1st ed. 1969). This remarkable volume was produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Copp & Clark edition was the first commercial production. The book was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Elephant folio in slipcase. The black front paper has been removed; otherwise, the book is in very good condition. Highly rare. HBB price $75.

Children’s Books

Browning, Robert, The Pied Piper of Hamelin (London/New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1888, reprinted c. 1970s. ISBN 0-7232-0586-8. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Former school library copy; good condition. Hardcover, no dust jacket, printed cover illustration. Quarto, 48 pp. HBB price: $20.

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Chapin, Anna Alice, The Everyday Fairy Book (Dodd, Mead, 1st ed., 1915). Hardcover, no dust jacket. Quarto, 160 pp., six of even color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith included (frontispiece missing). Fair condition. Chapin who co-wrote the libretto to Babes in Toyland at 24, published her first book at 17, and died at untimely age of 39 in 1920. HBB price: $25.

George MacDonald, The Golden Key (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967; 2d ed., 1996; illustrations by Maurice Sendak, afterword by W. H. Auden. 85 pp. hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, Library of Congress catalog card number 67-10391. Small octavo, very good condition). Your price: US $75.

Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg (Random House, 1940, unstated printing, but likely 5th or later, c. 1957). Hardcover, cream boards with white end papers, no dust jacket. Very good condition. Owner signature on front endpaper. No internal marks. HBB price: $50.

Irwin, Inez Haynes, Maida’s Little Shop (Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, c. 1940). First of a 15-book series for kids by the suffragette, World War I foreign correspondent and author Inez Haynes Irwin (1873-1970). Published in 1909 by a small publishing house, it was picked up by G&D, which published all but one of the next fourteen novels through 1955. Hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition. Six pages of publisher’s ads in the back. HBB price: $20. cotton farm boy.jpg

Mauzey, Merritt, Cotton-Farm Boy (Henry Schuman, 1st. ed., 1953). LOC 53-10940. Largely self-taught, Mauzey (1898-1973) became a celebrated mid-century lithographer and children’s books author after he saw his first works exhibited at the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936. This book is in virtually as-new condition, with an unmarred, unclipped dust jacket covered in mylar. A bookseller tag attached to the bottom of the front end papers identified Battery Park Book Exchange in Asheville, NC. A rare find in such excellent condition. HBB price: $75.

Piper, Watty, The Gateway to Storyland (Platt & Munk, New Revised Ed. 1954). Quarto-sized collection of brightly-illustrated classic children’s tales. This much-loved copy has wear at the corners, and some pre-school crayon scribbles in a couple of sports. A fine example of post-war kids’ book illustration. HBB price: $25.

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Rushmore, Helen, and Wolf Robe Hunt, The Dancing Horses of Acoma And Other Indian Stories (World Publishing, stated 1st ed., 1963). LOC #63-14775. Wolf robe Hunt (1905-77) was a noted Acoma artist, writer and folklorist in Oklahoma. The stories in this collection are of Acoma life in New Mexico’s deserts, as told by Wolf Robe Hunt to Rushmore; Wolf Robe Hunt also illustrated the book’s color drawings. Dustjacket is unclipped but has clear tape repairs around edges. Book is in good condition; one two-page illustration is detached from spine but in place in the book. Inscribed by Wolf Robe Hunt “all great friends of mine- Leigh, Cindy, Susan and Jan” on the title page in 1964. HBB price: $25.

Winget, Susan, The Night Before Christmas (Lang Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-7412-0285-9. The North Carolina illustrator’s recreation of Clement Clay Moore’s celebrated holiday poem. Hardcover, green cloth boards with embossed titling; unclipped dust jacket. Attractive slipcase. Very good condition. Presentation page inscribed, to Joshua Silard, from Grandma Silard, December 1999. Rare with the slipcase. HBB price: $49.95.

Christmas Books

Capote, Truman, A Christmas Memory (Random House, 1st ed., 1966). LOC 66-21461. Hardcover, black boards with gilt stamping, 45 pp, slipcase faded and worn but book in very good condition. HBB price: $29.95.

McBain, Ed, And All Through The Night: Christmas Eve at the 87th Precinct (Warner Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1984). ISBN -0-446-51845-X. Ed McBain delighted readers with over forty novels featuring the boys at the 87th precinct. In this slim volume, it’s 10.30 Christmas Eve and the precinct isn’t just quiet. It’s dead. Det. Steve Carella figures its a paperwork night. Maybe get home a little early. The things start happening. A charming retelling of the birth of Jesus as a night at the precinct. Hardcover, no dustjacket. The blazing Christmas tree on the cover is visible through a precinct window on the slipcase. 5.75 x 5.75 inches, 40 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Porter, Katherine Anne, A Christmas Story (Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1967). LOC 67-25978. Illustrations by Ben Shahn. Porter (1890-1980) was a renowned short story writer for three decades before embarking on a twenty-some year struggle to publish a novel. When it came out in 1962 as Ship of Fools, it won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful Hollywood film. This holiday tale was written for Porter’s five year-old niece and published in Mademoiselle in 1946. This handsome little 5.75” x 5.75” volume has green boards with gilt lettering and cover art, and a very good price clipped dust jacket. unpaginated, 36 pp. HBB price: $25.

Conservatism

Cooking/Entertaining

Bronte, Patricia, Vittles and Vice: An Extraordinary Guide to What’s Cooking on Chicago’s Near North Side, (Henry Regnery Co., 1st ed. 1st printing, 1952). A history-cum-cookbook from one of the Windy CIty’s hoppingest neighborhoods half a century back. Fine illustrations by Patrick McMahon. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $15.

Beard, James and Aaron, Sam, How to Eat Better for Less Money (Simon & Schuster, 1954, 2nd rev. ed, 2nd printing, 1970). ISBN 671-20482-3. A reissue, with much new and updated information, still relevant today. Beard shows how we don’t have to live off a microwave and stuff that comes in a box from the freezer. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with some wear about the edges. HBB price: $20.

Beard, James, Theory and Practice of Good Cooking (Wings Books, 1st ed, 1977, 7th printing, c. 1990). James Beard’s conversational style makes it easy to imagine cooking above one’s standard without trauma or fire extinguisher. This reprint has no particular collecting value, but Beard is such a national treasure any edition of his books is worth having on one’s working kitchen bookshelf. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition. HBB price: $20.

Beard, James, James Beard’s American Cookery (Little Brown, 1972). LOC 70-165755. A summation of seven decades of cooking knowledge, this 877-page volume is predates the modern trend for luxuriously photographed celebrity food porn. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, a little frayed about the edges. Good condition. HBB price: $20.

David, Elizabeth, Classics: Mediterranean Food; French Summer Cooking; Summer Cooking (Biscuit Books, 1st ed., 1st 1st printing, 1998). Unjustly overlooked in the pantheon of international cooking writers, Elizabeth David (1913-1992) almost singlehandedly lifted British cooking from its dismal, insular ways from the late 1940s through the ‘80s (her book on bread is, alone, a masterpiece). This volume collects three of David’s early classics, written to counteract the gloom she felt after living in North Africa during the war. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $40.

Faas, Patrick, Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome (Palgrave Macmillan, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-312-23958-0. Fascinating account of how the Romans raised, prepared and ate their food. With 150 recovered recipes you can use to recreate the dinner table of Cicero. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. 371 pp. HBB price: $50.

Gray, Rose and Rogers, Ruth, River Cafe Pocket Books: Salads & Vegetables; Pasta & Ravioli; Fish & Shellfish; Puddings, Cakes and Ice Creams (Ebury Books, 1st. ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 00919437X. Fine set of four paperbacks (9’ x 5”), in a clear case, by the owners of London’s famed River Cafe in Hammersmith. Autographed by both authors Rogers and Gray (1939-2010) are famous for their interpretations of Italian cuisine and a generation of famous chefs they trained, including Jamie Oliver. Very good condition. HBB price: 39.95.

Paget, Russie H., The Clemson House Cookbook (Jacobs Brothers, 1st ed. 1955). Built in 1950 as a hotel and conference center, Clemson House’s cuisine inspired this 474 pp cookbook. Part I is of Heirloom Recipes from the South Carolina Upstate region; Part II is made up of Contemporary Recipes- Native and Foreign. Illustrations include a hungry tiger at the dinner table, leaning over his plate, knife and fork in paws; at the end, he’s leaning back, tum bulging, looking quite sated. A delightful regional work. Hardcover, no dustjacket, some staining and wear but overall in good condition. Rare. HBB price: $69.95.

Rinella, Stephen, The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine, (Miramax Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 1401135237-5. A bracing account of one man’s attempt to assemble all the ingredients required to produce the 45-course feast laid out in Escoffier’s 1903 book, Le Guide Culinaire). Praised as “part memoir, part cookbook, and a love song to hunting, fishing and the American wild. Hardcover, octavo, 319 pp. Fine condition. Rare. HBB price: $100.

Crime

Cozzens, James Gould, The Just and the Unjust (Harcourt, Brace & Co, stated 1st ed., 1942). Compelling tale of a murder trial in a small county seat. Some chips and nicks to the dust jacket edges; otherwise, very good condition. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, 434 pp. HBB price: $49.95.

Ellroy, James, My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1996). ISBN 0-679-44185-9. The author of The Black Dahlia sets out to close the file on his mother’s murder unsolved after 38 years. Hardcover, octavo, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. “Signed by the Author” sticker on front of dust jacket. HBB price: $200.

Rash, Ron, One Foot In Eden (Novello, stated 1st ed., 2002). ISBN 0-9708972-5-1. The first novel by Rash,who has gone from critical strength to strength in the decade since. A mysterious death, long unsolved, in an Appalachian town uprooted by a coming dam project. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket; front endpaper inscription clipped out at top right corner. Autographed and inscribed on the title page. Very good condition. HBB price: $35.

Travers, Robert, Anatomy of a Murder (St. Martin’s Press, 1958). Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. This account of a small town lawyer facing the younger lawyer, who ousted him from the D.A.’s office, in a murder trial. The novel was made into a film starring James Stewart and George C. Scott. This book is in very good condition, with a slight forward tilt to the spine. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. HBB price: $19.95.

Environmental Works

Hall, B.M. and M.R., Second Report on the Water Powers of Georgia (Geological Survey of Georgia, Bulletin No. 16) (Atlanta: The Franklin-Turner Co., 1st ed., 1908). “A systematic study of the water powers of the State requires a knowledge of the drainage system, which are somewhat intricate...Some idea of the diversity of drainage may be had from the statement that there are three springs in northeast Georgia within a stone’s throw of each other that send out their waters to Savannah, Georgia, to Apalachicola, Florida, and to New Orleans, Louisiana.” Hardcover, brown cloth boards, quarto, 418 pp. with index and fourteen photographs. A map of the drainage systems of the state, at p. 17, is missing. HBB price: $20.

Sigurd F. Olson, Listening Point (Knopf, 1st ed., 1958, 6th printing, October, 1970). LOC 58-10971. A lifelong canoe guide in the upper Midwest, Olson (1899-1982) became a nationally-respected educator, author and wilderness advocate who had a hand in creating scores of national parks and protected wild areas. Listening Point was his second book; those who enjoy Aldo Leopold, or Loren Eiseley, may find Olson much to their taste. This book has been well-loved: the dust jacket is worn but the book is in quite good condition. Hardcover, 243 pp. HBB price: $39.95.

Faith/Religion/Philosophy

Aland, Kurt, editor, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum (Synopsis of the Four Gospels and the apocryphal gospels, from the parallel text 26th edition, Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, Deutsche Biblestiftung Stuttgart 1976). ISBN 3-438-05130-3. Hardcover, as new, no dust jacket, gold title lettering on cover and spine. Kurt Aland (1915-1994) was an immensely influential New Testament scholar who founded the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to locate and compare as many variant ancient fragments of the New Testament to derive the closest possible composite of the original. An outspoken opponent of the East German postwar regime, he was harassed and hounded for a decade before he lost his teaching post and escaped to West Germany in 1958. Slight wear at the top right corner of the cover, where the plastic wrapper wore through. HBB price: $35.

Alford, Henry, How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still On This Earth), (Twelve/Hachette Books, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2009). ISBN 978-0-446-19603-1. At 45, New Yorker writer Henry Alford got to wondering about what old age will be like, and set out to ask a variety of old people. This book is the result: “I in no way mean to suggest...that I myself am proposing a way for others to live.. Rather, I am the listener here; it is my interviewees who I hope will be making all the recommendations. Mark Twain once said, ‘Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.’ And, oh, how some oldsters can talk.” Witty, engaging, sometimes wistful, this book gets the skinny from the famous (Edward Albee, Phyllis Diller), and the not (his step-father and mother, whose interview answers inadvertently start the unraveling of their 36-year relationship). How to Live was published in a small hardcover run before going to paperback. This is a classic-in-the-making. Octavo, 262 pp. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket fine condition. HBB price: $29.95.

Bailey, Albert Edward, The Gospel in Hymns: Background and Interpretations (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1950). This is a sort of cookbook for hymn singing, carefully notated by Mary Ann Ogg (various marginalia, plus chapter indices, typed on onionskin, carefully mounted throughout. The book also bears the name of Chaplain William Neale Williams, longtime trustee of Toccoa Falls College, whom Ogg met and married when they were students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Hardcover, very good condition. No dust jacket. Octavo, 600 pp. HBB price: $25.

Boyer, Rev. Harold B., History of Morgans Baptist Church, Moneta, Virginia, 1771-1971 (White Printing Co., 1st ed. 1971). Well-written and illustrated history of a Bedford County, Virginia church. Red boards with gilt lettering; some foxing on the front end papers. HBB price: $40.

Cahill, Thomas, The Gifts of the Jews: How A Tribe of Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Nan A.Talese/Anchor Doubleday, 1st ed., 7th printing, 1998). ISBN 0-385-48249-3. Trade paperback. The second volume in his series, Hinges of History, this history tells how the Jewish people rethought the very concept of time, casting off the old endless wheel of birth, death and rebirth for a new, linear, and ultimately triumphant path to eternal life. Cahill is an inspired narrator of the first rank. This copy is inscribed by him on the title page. Very good condition. HBB price: 19.95.

Chase, Mary Ellen, The Psalms for the Common Reader (W.W Norton, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1962). LOC 62-8579. Chase (1887-1973), a Smith College professor the English Novel and the King James Bible from 1926 to 1955, was one of America’s best-loved mid century novelists. This book, aimed at the general reader, is a thoughtful, scholarly and graceful treatment of the sometimes confusing, contradictory collection that is The Psalms; it calls to mind the works of another scholar-popularizer of the time, Edith Hamilton. Fifty years on, it holds up well, and will give much pleasure and insight to readers. Hardcover clipped dust jacket showing some edge wear, good condition. HBB price: $12.99.

Dole, Elizabeth, Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (Carroll & Graf, 1st ed., 2004). Bon mots collected by the NC native, former senator, cabinet officer, presidential candidate and American Red Cross president over her long career in public service. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, almost fine condition, 8” x 6”. Autographed on the title page at a Salisbury NC bookstore, February 19, 2005. HBB price: $15.

Ehrmann, Max, The Desiderata of Happiness: A Collection of Philosophical Poems (Crown Publishers, 1st ed., 7th printing, 1995). ISBN 0-517-70184-7. 37 poems by the lawyer and family meat packing and overalls company business executive (1872-1945) whose name soared to fame after the coincidental rediscovery of his 1927 prose poem, “Desiderata.” Through the 1960s and 70s it became a pop culture icon: Joan Crawford recited it; Leonard Nimoy recorded it. The elegant selection from his collected works (1948) gives a broader appreciation of the Indiana poet’s skills. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $35.

Hagerty, Barbara Bradley, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality (Riverhead Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2009). ISBN 978-1-59448-877-1. NPR’s remarkable religion correspondent considers whether science can quantify faith, its exercise, and its effects. Exactly the sort of book all kinds of dogmatists should read, but won’t; more pleasure to those who do! Thoroughly researched, provocatively written. Unique in its scope. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket, remainder mark on bottom edge; very good condition. HBB price: $12.95.

Hamilton, Virginia, In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1988). ISBN 0-15-238740-4. A remarkable collection of 25 creation stories from cultures around the world, illustrated by the incomparable Barry Moser. 10.25” x 8.5”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Hughs, Rev. G. Carswell, First Church Sermons 1972-1982 (First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC, 1st ed., May 1982). Privately printed under a bequest by Beulah Wallace Grier, a member from 1899 to 1978. Thirty sermons from the first ten years ministry of a popular pastor. Hardcover, no dust jacket, privately printed, autographed. HBB price: $35.

Lamott, Anne, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Pantheon, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-679-4420-5. Essays on faith, and life’s off journey, by a truly unique writer. “I have this beautiful feminist friend named Nora,” Lamott begins the chapter titled, ‘Gypsies,’ “who once said, ‘I’ve been thinking about killing myself, but I want to lose five pounds first.” I was remembering this recently when I started liking a new guy…” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Gift inscription on the front end papers; autographed by Lamott on the Pantheon logo page. HBB price: $34.99.

International Bible Students Association, Scenario of the Photo-Drama of Creation, Part 1 (no author given, copyright 1914). An interesting account of the Old Testament story, presented with short, episodic chapters copiously illustrated in the manner of film stills. 8.75” x 4.75 inches; hardcover, no dust jacket, elaborate embossed cover illustration. Remarkable condition; rare. HBB price: $50.

Manser, Hugh, and McGrath, Alister, Packer, J.I., and Wiseman, Donald, Zondervan Dictionary of Bible Themes (Zondervan Publishing House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-310-20668-5. Over 2000 thematic articles cross-referencing themes, related topics, and Biblical texts. Comparable, the publisher says, to Nave’s Topical Bible. Hardcover, no dust jacket, printed front and back covers, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

March, Rev. Daniel, D.D., Walks and Homes of Jesus (Ziegler & McCurdy, 1866). A retracing of the Savior’s journey’s by the 19th century American minister (1819-1905). Hardcover, no dust jacket, dark green boards embossed with gold titles on spine and cover. Acceptable condition; some separation of spine from covers. HBB price: $25.

Marcus, Jacob R., Ph.D., The Rise and Destiny of the German Jew (Dept. of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1st ed., 1934). Hardcover, no dust jacket, octavo, 417 pp. An analysis of the political situation in Germany during the advent of Nazism. Very good condition. Inscribed by the author on the front paper. HBB price: $35.

Meadows, Denis, A Saint and A Half: The Remarkable Lives of Abelard and St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Devin-Adair, 1st ed. 1963) Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket, good condition. Rare historical study of these two important figures, with the imprimatur of the Bishop of Bridgeport, CT. Rare. HBB price: $125.

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Montaldo, Jonathan, ed., Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Vol. 2: 1941-1952 (HarperSanFrancisco, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-06-065476-7. A fascinating account by the young Merton of the years in which he withdrew to the contemplative life of a monastery, and at the same time, became a best-selling author with his spiritual autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, HBB price: $27.95.

Moseley, J. Rufus, Manifest Victory: A Quest and A Testimony (Harper & Bros., 1947). Born in Elkin, NC, educated at Peabody, Mercer, Harvard and Heidelberg, Rufus Moseley (1870-1954) was a leading mid-20th century American Christian mystic. From 1910 he gave up his professorship at Mercer and spent the rest of his life living off the proceeds of his pecan grove near Macon, GA, and contributed an occasional column to The Macon Telegraph. He wrote two highly successful books; Manifest Victory is a sort of Augustinian confession. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, autographed. Rare. Inscribed to “Brother R.A. Taylor” in February 1950. HBB price: $150.

Dorothy L. Sayers, The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays (Macmillan, 1st ed., 1978, first published as Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World, 1969). ISBN 0-02-606930-X. Remembered mostly for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) also published a strong body of work in Christian apologetics. These pieces show her considering how, and why, to be a Christian in a modern, endlessly secularizing world. By turns thoughtful, inspiring and witty (how would a modern newspaper review the Gospel of St. John? What if we apply some Biblical criticism methods to a Sherlock Holmes tale?), these are real gems, deserving of a greater audience. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket, very good condition. Some marginal text bracketing by a previous owner. 8.5” x 5.75”, 275 pp. HBB price: $19.95.

Pax, W.E., In the Footsteps of Jesus: A Pilgrimage to the Scenes of Christ’s Life (Putnam, stated 1st ed. 1970). LOC 78-90908. A striking visual and written evocation of the landmarks in the life of Christ, by the then-director of the Institute for Bible Research in Jerusalem. Hardcover, quarto, 231 pp. Silvered 16th century map of the Holy Land on the end papers; gift inscription on the half title. Unclipped dust jacket with edge wear. Otherwise, very good condition. Fine paper stock. HBB price: $25.

Smith, Huston, The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition (HarperSan Francisco, 1st ed., 2nd printing, 2005). Smith, a comparative religion scholar whose PBS series with Bill Moyers was a bit hit, produced this work at age 86. In it, he considers the evolution of the Christian church in its first millennium, and suggests lessons to be learned and applied in a world of aggressive secularism, media sensationalism, and the increasing inability of various offshoots of the faith to find any common ground. A remarkable summa of lifetime of thought and scholarship. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $14.95.

Wingard, E.A., Echoes and Other Poems (Newberry, SC: Lutheran Publication Board, 1899). Wingard (1849-1900) was ordained in the Lutheran Church in 1875 and called to St. Paul’s in Columbia, SC in 1887. He served in that pulpit until his death; this book was published the year before he passed away. 170 pp of poetry covering a variety of subjects, ranging from war to memoria, religious poems and hymns and a miscellany that includes his Ode on Laying the Corner-Stone Y.M.C.A. Building, Columbia,S.C. Hardcover, red boards, no dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Wright, N.T., Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (HarperSanFrancisco, 1st ed., 7th printing, 2006). ISBN 13-978-0-06-050715-2. The retired Anglican bishop of Durham, England is a very conservative, orthodox, fellow. But he co-authored a book with the late Marcus Borg- about as far across the table as one can get- and Henry likes that in authors. Beyond that, Wright, who, has taught at Oxford and Cambridge, is an engaging, articulate writer who makes his case for the relevance of faith. This isn’t an investment collectible; it’s an ideas collectible. It will provoke and challenge. Hardcover, dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $14.99

Fantasy/SciFi

Acevedo, Mario, Four Felix Gomez novels (EOS/Rayo/Harper Collins). Felix Gomez returned from Iraq a vampire, and in these four novels from Mario Acevedo’s Gomez private investigation series we get a character not unlike Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden- dealing with all manner of species and types- but with a remarkable, gourmet taste for hemoglobin, too. All softcover, trade size, good condition: The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (Rayo, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006, ISBN 10-0-06-08336-2); X-Rated Blood Suckers (Rayo, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-083327-5); The Undead Kama Sutra (EOS, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-083328-2); Jailbait Zombies (EOS, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-156714-8). HBB price: $30 the set; $7.50 ea.

Adams, Douglas, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Short Story (Gramercy Books, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 0-517-22695-2. Leather bound with gilt titling, the last word in the misadventures of Arthur Dent. Very good condition. HBB price: $85.

Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1986). Famed tale of the United States’ evolution into a monotheocracy whose people made the Puritans seem like an average night at Studio 54. A dystopian favorite! Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

H.R. Giger (1940-2014) was a member of the special effects team given the Oscar for the 1979 film, Alien. His ornate yet austere surrealist art, combining fantastic creatures and technology (he was a friend of both Dali and Timothy Leary), published in 1977 as Necronomicon, caught the eye of director Ridley Scott, and launched a thousand drooling, indestructible creatures into movie houses for the next 35 years. Alien made Giger rich and famous; his post-Oscar ventures included a series of Giger-themed bars in Switzerland and Japan. His Swiss chateau is now a museum of his work.

In 1994 Morpheus International published H.R. Giger's Necronomicon as an oversized art book, with a new foreword by Clive Barker and, added to the 1977 text, material from Giger's work for Alien. We have a good copy, sans dust jacket and a little worn at the top and bottom of the spine, but in fine condition otherwise. H.R. Giger, H.R. Giger's Necronomicon, Morpheus International, 1991, 3rd printing, 1994, ISBN 0-9623447-2-9), 12" x 16 3/4" hardcover, no dust jacket, some wear to top and bottom of spine, otherwise quite good. Your price: US $29.

James, P.D., The Children of Men (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st American edition, 1993). ISBN 0-679-41873-3. Best known for her Adam Dalgliesh detective novels, James surprised and delighted readers when, at 73, she produced a dystopian sci fi novel in which all the men of England became infertile in 1995. in 2021 things were rapidly unraveling socially, and Oxford don Theodore Faron found himself drawn into the thick of the coming fray. Made into a 2006 film with Clive Owen. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. 241 pp. HBB price: $100.

Maguire, Gregory, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-06-039282-7. The author of Wicked tells the Cinderella story. Hardcover, dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $60.

Moorcock, Michael, Corum: The Coming of Chaos (White Wolf, 1st hardcover edition, 1st hardcover ed., Feb., 1997). ISBN 1-56504-182-8. Rare reissue of one of Moorcock’s series characters in the Eternal Champion series. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Tolkien, J.R.R., The Hobbit, Or There And Back Again (Abrams, 1st ed., 1977). ISBN 0-8109-1060-8. Illustrations from the 1977 animated feature film of the same name.Over 230 color pictures in a scene by scene accompaniment to the Tolkien text. Striking clear acetate dust jacket bearing the dragon Smaug’s likeness for a 3-D effect. Several illustrations fold out three panels wide. Very good condition. Hardcover, 12” x 11”. HBB price: $195.

Tolkien, J.R.R., Unfinished Tales (Houghton Mifflin, 1st American ed., 1st printing, 1980). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. One inch tear in dust jacket at top of cover. HBB price: $95.

Tolkien, J.R.R. Smith of Wootton Major (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 4th printing, 1967). ISBN 0-395-08259-5. This is a tale about the Feast of Good Children, held in the village of Wootton Major every 24 years, and what happened when the village cook went away on on a trip and came back with a mysterious apprentice called Alf. Hardcover, 4.5” x 6.75”, clipped dust jacket with two small tears at the front top right. Good condition. HBB price: $20.

Fiction

Auel, Jean, The Shelters of Stone (Crown, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-609-61059-7. Fifth in Auel’s bestselling Earth’s Children series. Hardcover,unclipped dust jacket in mylar; as new condition. HBB price: $49.95.

Bellow, Saul, More Die of Heartbreak (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1987). ISBN 0-688-06935-5. “I am a phoenix,” one character says, “who runs after arsonists.” A sex farce about two midwestern academics by the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner (1915-2005). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $120.

Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, typo at p. 243 corrected, 2003). ISBN 0-385-50420-9. The first of symbologist Robert Langdon’s sprints through history and scenic locales. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price; $150.

Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition (Doubleday: 1st ed., 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-385-51375-5. With all the copies Da Vinci sold in 2003, the publishers figured there must be some milk left in the cow and brought out this lavishly-illustrated version of Robert Langdon’s first adventure in Action Symbology. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $100.

Brown, Dan, The Lost Symbol (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2009). ISBN 978-0-385-50422-5. Robert Langdon’s sequel to The Da Vinci Code. This time he tackles Freemasonry, the Founders, and more tunnels. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $125.

Brown, Dan, Inferno (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2013). ISBN 978-0-385-53785-8. The third of Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers, this time set in Florence, the story driven by references to Dante’s Inferno. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $100.

Capote, Truman, The Collected Stories of Truman Capote (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-679-64310-9. It’s easy to remember Capote (1924-1984), if at all, as the outrageous, dissipated, social and media star he was in the 1960s and ‘70s. His short stories remind readers what a remarkable, even prodigious talent he was in his youth. This collection has a thoughtful introduction by Reynolds Price. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with 1.5” tear at bottom right corner of front dust jacket. Very good condition. 297 pp. HBB price: $30.

Chiaverini, Jennifer, Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker (Dutton, stated 1st ed., 1st printing, January 2013). ISBN 978-0-525-95361-6. Chiaverini, author of the famed Elm Creek Quilt Series, makes her historical fiction debut with this tale of the slave turned “modiste”, Elizabeth Keckley,who became Mary Todd Lincoln’s White House confidante. An interesting counterpart to Keckley’s memoir, listed here under African-American works. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $14.99

Conroy, Pat, Beach Music (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1995). ISBN 0-385-41304-1. Conroy’s Holocaust-meets-Low-Country-angst novel. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $50.

Crews, Harry, Scar Lover (Poseidon Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1992). ISBN 0-671-74489-5. A man in Jacksonville, avoiding his past, his family gone, is slowly drawn back into life by a good woman. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Rare copy of a critically-acclaimed writer’s work. HBB price: $45.

Crichton, Michael, Disclosure (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1994), ISBN 0-679-41945-4. Fatal Attraction meets the dot.com boom. Made into a Michael Douglas movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $45.

Deighton, Len, Spy Sinker (Cornelia and Michael Bessie/HarperCollins, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). Another in the series describing the complicated life of Fiona, double agent in the last days of the Cold War. Very good condition. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. HBB $35.

DeMille, Nelson, Night Fall (Time Warner, stated 1st ed., 1st printing, November, 2004). Five years after its explosion and crash off Long Island, TWA Flight 800 haunts FBI agent Kate Mayfield. She convinces her husband, an anti-terror expert, the case is worth another look, and this ripped-from-the-headlines novel is off and running. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket fine condition. HBB price: $25

Dinesen, Isak, Winter’s Tales (Random House, “Wartime Book”, 1942). Hardcover, no dust jacket. Collection of stories by the author of Out of Africa. Very good condition. HBB price: $35.

Drakulic, Slavenka, S. (Viking, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). 0-670-89097-9. Searing novel of the atrocities of the Balkan war, as experienced by one woman. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $35.

Du Maurier, George, Trilby (London: Osgood & McIlvaine & Co., 1st. ed., 1895). Said to be the inspiration for The Phantom of the Opera, this novel inspired the Trilby hat (worn by a character in the stage play), introduced the phrase “in the altogether” and inspired the notoriously litigious artist Whistler to threaten suit over a character (Du Maurier apologized and rewrote the offending sections). Du Maurier also introduced the character Svengali, whose name became a synonym for a man holding utter sway over a submissive woman. Hardcover, blue boards with gilt titling on cover and spine. 447 pp, octavo, with six pages of publisher’s ads. Slight separation of spine at back endpapers; small tear across bottom of spine. Bookseller label of Gilbert & Field, 67 Moorgate Street, London, E.C., which operated from the mid-1870s to circa World War I.

Eumenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st ed. 1993). ISBN 0-374-28438-5. The novel that caused a sensation. Hardcover unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $125.

Follett, Ken, Code to Zero (Dutton, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2000). ISBN 0-525-94563-6. Page turner about a rocket scientist in 1958, stricken by amnesia as America’s space program reaches a crisis. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new, 356 pp. HBB price: $35.

Graves, Robert, The Antigua Stamp (Seizin Press/Random House, 1st U.S. edition, 1937). Two children: the boy grows up to be a novelist; the girl, an actor-manager of a theater company. They both feud over the Antigua stamp, a rare object in their collection. A sardonic romp by the author of I, Claudius. Octavo, 325 pp. Hardcover, good condition; wear to the dust jacket, some tears are taped but, happily, not yellowed. The U.S. 1st is more scarce than the U.K. 1st. HBB price: $150.

Grisham, John, The Client (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-385-42471-X. CHild sees murder, hires an unlikely lawyer.Menace ensues. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Grisham, John, The Chamber (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-385-42472-8. A Mississipp1 Klan’s member’s long-delayed retrial for a racially-motivated murder. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $125.

Grisham, John, The Runaway Jury Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-385-47294-3.The jury in a ruinously costly tobacco liability trial starts acting oddly in its deliberations. Are they being controlled? Or going rogue? Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $65.

Grisham, John, The Partner (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1997). ISBN 0-385-47295-1. A missing person becomes unmissing. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $100.

Grisham, John, A Painted House (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2001). Six weeks in the life of a young boy on a sharecropping Arkansas farm. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Grisham, John, The King of Torts (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-385-50804-2. Public defender meets loser client meets Big Pharma. Piles of cash are contended over. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Gurganus, Allan, Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1989). CHild bride of an ancient Civil War soldier, Lucy Marsden is now herself 99, and seized of the notion to tell her life’s story. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Harris, Joanne, Chocolat (Viking, 1st American ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-670-88179-1. A mysterious woman moves into a French town along with a strong north wind. She is a single mom, refuses to attend church, and opens a chocolate shop. A hit movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $150.

Harris, Thomas, The Silence of the Lambs, (St. Martin’s Press, 1st. ed, 1st printing, 1988). ISBN 0-312-02282-4. Exceptional copy of the novel that made Anthony Hopkins an international household world as psycho killer Hannibal Lecter. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. Rare. HBB price: $300.

Heller, Joseph, Catch-22 (Random House/Modern Library, ML 375, 1961). The brilliant war satire in a very good copy: hardcover, unclipped dustjacket with slight water stains on back and chipping at head of spine. First-rate, given how rarely ML editions survive with their paper covers. HBB price: $40.

Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952, 1st. ed, 1st printing). Ex-library copy. Hardcover, octavo, 140 pp. Some foxing on the end papers; library stamps on front end papers. With unclipped dust jacket in mylar covering. No library tags on the spine. Blue-tinted author photo on back cover. Overall, very good condition. HBB price: $275.

Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribners, 1st ed, early, unstated printing, 1940). Regarded by many as Hemingway’s masterwork, this love story set in the Spanish Civil War was published in October 1940 in a first printing of 75,000 copies. It was an immediate success and sold more than half a million copies in its first year. An endpaper note indicates this copy was purchased new in 1941. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket (some small tears and fraying at the edges, some browning on the end papers. Overall, good condition. 8.5” x 6”, 471 pp. HBB price: $100.

Hersey, John,The Call (Knopf, stated 1st ed., 1985). ISBN 0-394-54331-9. A sweeping novel of an American missionary’s life in China in the first half of the 20th century, by the author of Hiroshima. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket showing some slight wear at the edges; overall, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany (William Morrow, 1st trade ed., 1st printing, 1989). ISBN 0-688-07708-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. 543 pp. HBB price: $75.

Jong, Erica, Any Woman’s Blues (Harper & Row, stated 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-06-016272-4. A festival of emotional codependency and addictive behavior as only the author of Fear of Flying can tell it. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket showing a bit of wear at the edges, very good condition. HBB price: $16.95.

Kantor, MacKinlay, Andersonville (World, 1st ed. 1955). LOC 55-8257. Kantor’s best-selling novel of the notorious Civil War prison camp where 50,000 Union prisoners died in fourteen months. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket in mylar, very good condition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Rare in this condition. HBB price: $175.

Stephen King and f-stop Fitzgerald, Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (Viking Studio Books, 1988; hardcover, 128 pp, ISBN 0-670-82307-4; 1st ed., hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, 10" x 11.25", very good condition). Your price: US $75. Horror and suspense writer Stephen King found his first face-to-grimace encounter with a gargoyle, the grotesque waterspouts that have carried water away from the sides of stone buildings since ancient times. Seeing one up close, King writes, is like "having a nightmare awake."

The avant-gardishly named avant-garde photographer, f-stop Fitzgerald, shares King's fascination, and the two collaborated on what became a 1988 best-seller, Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques. 100 duotones and 24 full-color images menace and confront the reader in a fascinating, up-close-and-personal encounter with an art form we rarely notice at ground level.

King, Stephen, Cujo (Viking, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1981). ISBN 0-670-45193-2. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition; two nicks to back dust jacket. Owner’s name and “1981” inscribed on front endpaper. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Skeleton Crew (G.P. Putnam’s, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1985). ISBN 0-399-13039-X. Twenty-two terrifying tales. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $49.

King, Stephen, The Tommyknockers (G.P. Putnam’s, 1st ed. 1st printing, “Permissions to Come” notation, 1987). ISBN 0-399-13341-3. Be careful what you pull out of the ground: it could be the exposed bit of a buried space vehicle with plans for humanity. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, The Dark Half (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1987). 0-670-82982-X. An author’s pseudonym, resentful of being retired, gets even. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Four Past Midnight (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-399-13341-3. Four novellas: “The Langoliers,” “Secret Window,” “The Library Policeman” and “The Sun Dog.” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition; a slight stain on the fore-edge. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Dolores Claiborne (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-67084452-7. Accused of murdering an elderly woman for whom she cared, and suspected of offing her husband, Dolores tells all- and then some. What did she do? Was she right to do it? 9.5” x 6”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Nightmares & Dreamscapes (Viking, 1st ed., first printing, 1993). ISBN 0-670-85108-6. Masterful collection of short stories. Hardcover, unclipped dusty jacket. Very good condition. 2 copies; one with longhand gift inscription, and dog-ear crease on half-title page; small crease on top front dust jacket flap in the other. HBB price: $125 each.

King, Stephen, Rose Madder (Viking, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1995) ISBN 0-670-85869-2. Gripping tale of a woman pursued by a phcho husband. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: 49.00

King, Stephen, Desperation (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-670-86386-1. A chance gathering of passers-through run up against the batshit-crazy cop of Desperation, Nevada. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: 3 copies; $119 each.

King, Stephen, Hearts in Atlantis (Scribner, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-684-85351-5. Five interconnected narratives, the ghosts of Vietnam lurking in them all. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $75.

King, Stephen, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-684-86762-1. A hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail goes rather seriously wrong. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2000). ISBN 0-684-85352-3. Highly-praised account of King’s evolution as an author. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $59.

King, Stephen, Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-7432-3515-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1st trade ed. 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 1-880148-59-2. The penultimate volume in King’s Dark Tower series. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Duma Key (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2008). ISBN 1-4165-5251-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $89.

Lamb, Wally, I Know This Much Is True (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1998). ISBN 0-06-039162-6. The 900 pp. saga of twins born at the turn of 1949-50, one schizophrenic. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $95.

Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Grove Press, 1st U.S. ed., “Original Unexpurgated Version”, 1959). “This edition is the third manuscript version, first published by Giuseppe Orioli, Florence, 1928.” With an introduction by Mark Schorer and a preface by Archibald MacLeish. This novel about a woman with the temerity to find a life without sex- her husband was disabled in The Great War caused decades of fuss and scandal in most of the English-speaking world. In an early instance of of congressional Republican literary criticism, Utah Senator Reed Smoot (later to play a memorable role in the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) declared in 1930, "I've not taken ten minutes on Lady Chatterley's Lover, outside of looking at its opening pages. It is most damnable! It is written by a man with a diseased mind and a soul so black that he would obscure even the darkness of hell!" (The American poet Ogden Nash wrote, in response,

Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)

Is planning a ban on smut.

Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.

And his reverend occiput.

Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,

Grit your molars and do your dut.,

Gird up your l__ns,

Smite h_p and th_gh,

We'll all be Kansas

By and by....

Nash, Ogden (January 11, 1930), "Invocation", The New Yorker: 30.

At its 1960 obscenity publication trial in the United Kingdom, the prosecutor summed up with the question that would, doubtless, have echoed through the drawing rooms of Downton Abbey: “Is this the sort of book you would wish your wife or servants to read?” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth spine over cream-colored paper boards; gilt lettering. Dust jacket very good with light wear along the edging. 8.5” x. 5.25”, 368 pp. HBB price: $175.

Le Carre, John, Call For The Dead (Walker & Co, stated 1st US ed., 1962). LOC 62-18735. Le Carre’s introduction of George Smiley, his most famous spy. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket with water ring circle on front cover and tear on back at bottom of spine. HBB price: $20.

Le Carre, John, A Most Wanted Man (Scribner, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2008). ISBN 978-1-4165-9488-8. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB $35.

Lee, Harper, To Kill A Mockingbird (HarperCollins, 35th Anniversary Edition, 1995). ISBN 0-06-017322-X. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $35.

One of the last books published in his lifetime (1876-1916), Jack London's The Little Lady of the Big House was a shocker, says Wikipedia:

"London said of this novel: 'It is all sex from start to finish — in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength.' One reviewer disparaged the novel's 'erotomania.'

"Clarice Stasz comments:

"Little Lady upset readers in London's day for its gushing sexual imagery... [and] its close portrayal of the tempting pull of adultery. Modern critics, on the other hand, deride its Victorian coyness and sentimentality, its unrealistic characters. Both were correct—it was too sexy for readers in 1915, when it appeared, and not sexy enough for readers beyond the sexually free twenties."

Published by Macmillan in 1916, this tale of a love triangle on a California ranch is claimed, by some London scholars, to be semi-autobiographical. Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House (Macmillan, 1916), hardcover, no dustjacket 392 pp, with four pages of ads for other London works after the conclusion. Very good condition. Your price: US $40.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Of Love And Other Demons (Knopf, 1st American ed., 1995). ISBN 0-679-43853-X. A “bookish priest” is sent to conduct the exorcism of an “unruly copperhaired girl.” Romance ensues. Marquez (1927-2014) remains one of the giants of Latin American fiction. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $50.

McEwan, Ian, Saturday (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 0-385-51180-9. A day in the life of Dr. Henry Perowne, a contented man in the early days of the post 9/11 world, whose day begins with a vague sense of foreboding and goes downhill. By the author of Atonement. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $35.

McMurtry, Larry, Horseman, Pass By (Texas A&M Press, 1st ed., 1985). ISBN 0-89096-241-3. First in the Press’s Southwest Landmarks series. 5.75” x 6.5”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, 179 pp. When it was published in 1961, this novel marked a sharp new direction in Western fiction, and was made into the equally memorable Paul Newman film, Hud (1963). HBB price: $35.

McMurtry, Larry, Texasville (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1987). ISBN 0-671-62533-0. The sequel to The Last Picture Show, Texasville returns to Thalia, Texas in the oil boom of the 1980s. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

McMurtry, Larry, Buffalo Girls (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-671-68518-X. McMurtry’s fictional take on the life of Calamity Jane. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $40. buffalo girls.jpg

McMurtry, Larry, The Evening Star (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1992). ISBN 0-671-68519-8. Aurora Greenway, copes with a new passel of family troubles in the sequel to Terms of Endearment. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

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McMurtry, Larry, Comanche Moon (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1997). ISBN 0-684-80754-8. The final volume in the Lonesome Dove series. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with small tear at top of front cover. Very good condition, HBB price: $25.

Medlicott, Joan, The Ladies of Covington Street Send Their Love (Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin’s Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2000). ISBN 0-312-25329-X. Three ladies of a certain age kick off the traces and move to make a new home for themselves in the small town of Covington, North Carolina. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $35.

Michener, James A., The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Random House, 1st ed., 1952, 21st printing, 1953). LOC 52-7129. Michener’s classic war novel, in which a team of carrier-based jet bomber pilots must try to take out a key bridge in the Korean War. Hardcover, not price clipped, rubber stamped name/address of previous owner on front and back papers. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Michener, James A., Sayonara (Random House, 1st ed., 1954). LOC 54-5953. Tale of an American air force officer about to take a plus posting and marry the perfect girl. Of course, he falls for a Japanese dancer. A 1950s Madama Butterfly, made into a Marlon Brando film in 1957. Hardcover, not price clipped, mylar cover. Very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Michener, James A., Texas (Random House, stated 1st ed., 1985). ISBN 0-394-54154-5. The Lone Star State gets the Michener historical saga treatment. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Michener, James A., Caribbean (Random House, 1st ed., 1989).ISBN 0-394-56561-4. One of the master’s sweeping historical novels. Hardcover, not price clipped, 672 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84 (Vintage International, 1st ed., 1st printing, May 2012). ISBN 978-0-345-80293-4. This deluxe three-volume paperback boxed set--gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging--is a collector's item in the making. It beautifully showcases Haruki Murakami's most ambitious novel yet, "1Q84"--a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's. The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84--"Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a question." Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector. An instant bestseller around the world, "1Q84" is a tremendous feat of imagination from one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary writers. Fine condition, HBB price: $40.

Morgan, Max, Pilot’s Journal (Chronicle Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1997). ISBN 0-8118-1755-5. The 1946-49 flight journal of Max Morgan, former Royal Canadian Air Force flyer and owner of the legendary Paris jazz club, Aerobleu. Long thought lost; rediscovered in 1997, some four decades after Morgan disappeared during the chaos of the Cuban Revolution. Hardcover, 5.75” x 11” in the original, stainless steel slipcase. For more about Morgan and the Aerobleu era, see Stuart Ellliott, “The Media Business: Advertising,” The New York Times, October 15, 1997. Exceedingly rare; highly collectible. HBB price: $395.

Nabokov, Vladimir, Glory (McGraw Hill, 1st ed., 1971). ISBN 07-045733-6. First published in Russian in 1932, Nabokov and his son, Dmitri, translated it into English for this edition. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price $50.

Nabokov, Vladimir, Quartet (Phaedra Publications, 1st ed., August 15, 1966). LOC 66-28101. In a long, January 1966 review in The New Republic, John Appel, Jr. noted, Now in his sixty-seventh year, Vladimir Nabokov is suddenly upon us. Of course, he was here all along, but his oeuvre was like an iceberg, the massive body of his Russian novels, stories, plays, and poems remaining untranslated and out of sight, lurking beneath the visible peaks of Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962). In the last eight years, however, six of his books in Russian have been translated and three out of print novels reissued. Nabokov's own translation of Lolita into Russian and a collation of stories known as Nabokov's Quartet appeared quietly this autumn…” These four stories, two published in the U.S. for the first time, show the master in top form. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, white end papers, boards covered in a rough printed cloth pattern with the author’s signature printed on the lower right front cover. 8.75” x 5.5”, 104 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Picoult, Jodi, Nineteen Minutes (Atria Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2007). ISBN 13: 978-0-7434-96728. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Proulx, Annie, That Old Ace In The Hole (Scribner, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-684-81307-6. Bob Dollar, a bit at loose ends, takes a job as a land scout for Global Pork Rind. His mission: the scour the empty bits of the Southwest, looking for old people with now-worthless spreads in areas where the kids have left and the towns have dried up and blown away. Buy ‘em out and turn the land into hog farms is the goal. Basing himself in a cabin in Woolybucket, Texas, he slowly works his way into the community, he- and his mission- take some remarkable and unexpected turns. A sort of panhandle version of the classic film Local Hero. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $30.

Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past (Random House, 2 vols, 1932, 1934). Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Vol. 1 (1141 pp., Swann’s Way, Within A Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way) trans. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff); Vol 2 (1124 pp, Cities of the Plain, The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone, The Past Recaptured) trans. by Frederick A. Blossom). Hardcover, octavo, no dust jackets, very good condition; slight sunning and shelfwear. HBB price: $75.

Puzo, Mario, The Godfather (London: Heinemann, 1st ed, 3rd printing, 1969). ISBN 434-60491-7. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Slight wear around dust jacket edges, otherwise in very good condition. Octavo, 446 pp. HBB price: $95.

Pynchon, Thomas, Vineland (Little, Brown, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). That special brand of fiction known as Pynchonesque, this time set in a northern California town in an alternative version of 1984. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, near-fine condition. Rare. HBB price: $250.

Pynchon, Thomas, Against the Day (The Penguin Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 1-59420-120-X. Sprawling historical fantasy set in the United States between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. A real doorstop of a novel: 1084 pp. HBB price: $65.

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, Cross Creek (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1942). Hardcover, unclipped but worn dust jacket. Some yellowing to the edges of the text block. Copyright page bears the Scribner “A”. Original purchaser’s bookplate on the endpaper; her name is written on the half title with the date, April, 1942. Good condition overall. HBB price: $35.

Reilly, Matthew J., Ice Station (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 1st U.S. ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-312-20551-1. International thriller involving a large metal object discovered way under the Antarctic ice. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $95.

Rice, Anne, The Tale of the Body Thief, (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1992). ISBN 0-679-40528-3. Fourth of her Lestat the Vampire series. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Small ink stains, one at the bottom of the cover, a couple on the dust jacket spine. Otherwise in very good condition. HBB price: $60.

Sams, Ferrol, Epiphany: Stories (Longstreet Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 1-56352-164-4. Three classic tales by the doctor-writer of Fayetteville, Georgia, author of Run With the Horsemen, who died in 2013. A great read. Hardcover, unclipped transparent dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $35.

Sheldon, Sidney (William Morrow, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-688-08488-5. Another page turner by the Hollywood novelist/television producer, set in the brilliant sunset of the Age of the Greek Tycoon. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $95.

Shute, Nevil, The Breaking Wave (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1955). LOC 55-6369. A ripping yarn, as they used to say, from the author of On The Beach. This time, An Australian called Alan returns home after five years to find a family retainer, Jessie, has been found dead. Before her dead, she destroyed all her papers, so all she is in repose is a name. Alan sets out to rediscover her life, and, in the process, finds his own. A solid, well-told tale. Octavo, dustjacket a bit chipped about the edges, slight forward lean. Good condition. 282 pp. HBB price: $15.

Shute, Nevil, Ordeal (William Morrow, 1st. ed., 1st printing, 1939). An astonishingly prescient tale of life in Southampton, England, as war breaks out and night-after-night air raids begin. His home destroyed, Peter Corbett and his family hang on as best they can until cholera breaks out; fleeing into the countryside, they face new challenges trying to maintain their life together as the world seems to fall apart around them. Few have imagined the home consequences of war as well as Shute, whose sad, noble portrayal of people facing a certain end in On The Beach remains a classic. Octavo, dustjacket a bit chipped about the edges. Good condition. 280 pp. HBB price: $15.

Sienkiewicz, Henry, Fire in the Steppe (modern translation by W.S. Kuniczak, Copernicus Society of America, stated 1st ed., 1992). ISBN 0-7818-0025-0. Third of three free-standing novels by the Polish writer (1846-1916) describing the panoramic sweep of 17th century Poland’s quest for independence. Inscribed from one friend to another in Warsaw in 2001. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $95.

Smith, Lee, Guests on Earth (A Shannon Ravenel Book/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2013). ISBN 978-1-616230-253-8. North Carolina novelist Smith recreates life in an Asheville women’s asylum, among whose patients is Zelda, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Autographed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $50.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, One Day In The LIfe of Ivan Denisovich (Frederick A. Praeger, 1st American ed, 1st printing, softcover, 1963). LOC 63-12729. Solzhenitsyn’s first novel bears this chilling bio: “...a forty-four-year-old physicist and mathematician, served in the army until February, 1945, when he was arrested and condemned to eight years in prison. He was subsequently, sent to a concentration camp, from which he was released in 1956. Rehabilitated in 1957, he now teaches mathematics and physics in a secondary school in Ryazan.” Fifty years on, this classic has new resonance in the Age of Putin. Very good condition. HBB price: $40.

Steinbeck, John, Sweet Thursday (Viking Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1954). LOC 54-7983. Steinbeck’s sequel to Cannery Row (1945), Sweet Thursday finds Doc returning to the Row after World War II and trying to restore his neglected biological supply lab and Hazel coping with a vision that he is to become President of the United States, among other neighbors’ issues. A number of plot lines from Sweet Thursday were incorporated into the 1982 film, Cannery Row. A delightfully funny novel filled with vivid characters. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket. Octavo, beige-green cloth; very good condition; dust jacket near fine, very clean and bright. Back dust jacket photo by Philippe Halsman. 273 pp. HBB price: $850.

Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ecstasy (Doubleday, 1961; Illustrated Edition, 1st ed., 1963). Stone’s string of biographies of artists and intellectuals extended back to 1934 when The Agony and the Ecstasy came out, but this time he hit Michelangelo’s life story out of the ballpark. By 1965 the book had been produced as a lavish Hollywood film with Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison. To extend the sales of the book, Doubleday put out this slipcased deluxe illustrated edition. Our copy is in very good condition; the slipcase shows dirt and wear and the clear plastic dust jacket has a small tear at the upper right corner of the cover. A book worth having. HBB price: $35.

Teacher, Lawrence, ed., The Unabridged Mark Twain (Running Press, 1976, 1997). ISBN 0-7624-0180-X; 0-7624-0181-8. Leather bound with gilt titling and fore edges; missing the dust jackets. Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Assemblage of the collected works, drawn from first published editions, each entry with a brief introduction and publication history. Vol. 1, 1289 pp. Vol. 2, 1118 pp. HBB price: $149.95.

Vidal, Gore, Burr (Random House, 1st ed. 1973). Recreation of the life of the vice president and adventurer who got the better end of the duel with Alexander Hamilton. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $100.

Wolfe, Tom, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-374-28158-0. Wolfe’s novel of turn-of-the-century American college life managed to come out just around the Duke University lacrosse scandal. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $69.95.

Wouk, Herman, Marjorie Morningstar (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1955). LOC 55-6485. Well-regarded story of a Jewish girl who takes on Broadway, and the bad choices that follow. Made into a hit movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. good condition. HBB price: $35.

Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny (Doubleday, 1st ed., 2nd printing, 1951). The first printing was of 22,500 copies, but, as First Edition Points notes, “It is unclear how many came with first issue dust jackets.” The jacket was changed to correct the misnaming of Wouk’s 1948 novel, City Boy, as The City Boy. We assume this copy is a second printing. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, and in very good condition. HBB price: $150.

Wouk, Herman, The Hope (Little Brown, stated 1st ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-316-95519-1. Now in his centenary and still writing (his last novel- The Lawgiver- was published in 2012- Wouk is one of America’s masters of sweeping historical fiction. The Hope tackles the first twenty years of the State of Israel through the lives of four couples living through those turbulent times. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. One small scratch on the back of the dust jacket removes this from a “fine” classification. HBB price: $49.

Yoshimoto, Banana, Kitchen (Grove Press, 1st English language ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-8021-1516-0. Two novellas by a Japanese publishing phenom. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $25.

Film, Television, Radio & Theater

Axelrod, George, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1956). LOC 56-6818. George Axelrod (1922-2003) had the gift. He started in radio, then moved into TV, producing program scripts and gags for Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. His 1952 play, “The Seven Year Itch”, ran for three years and was a blockbuster hit film with Marilyn Monroe. Axelrod followed that with “Rock Hunter” about a fan magazine writer who sells his soul to the Devil (in the person of a literary agent; Axelrod wrote the dedication, “Ten percent of this play is dedicated to Irving Lazar,” his own agent) in return for success as a playwright. The show ran for over a year and was adapted into a much-altered movie in which bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield was the only thing left from the original. Axelrod went on to do successful adaptations for The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and other films). Hardcover, 145 pp, 8.25” x 5.75”, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Boleslavsky, Richard, Acting: The First Six Lessons (Theater Arts/Routledge, 1933, 1949, text reset 2003, 1st printing). A Polish actor, Boleslavsky was a Tsarist cavalry officer in World War I. Trained in Moscow under Stanislavsky, he made his way to America in the 1920s and made his name teaching Stanislavski's method; among his students were Less Strasberg and Stella Adler, who carried on with considerable success teaching “Method Acting.” Though he directed a few Hollywood films in the 1930s, his sudden death, at 48, in 1937, cut short his career’s potential. This book is considered his monument. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. 7.75” x 5.25”, 138 pp. HBB price: $40.

Doob, Leonard W., ed., “Ezra Pound Speaking”: Radio Speeches of World War II (Greenwood Press, Contributions in American Studies, #37, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1978). ISBN 0-313-20057-2. The foreword says, “The best reason for publishing Ezra Pound’s Italian broadcasts may be the simplest. Thousands of people have heard about them, scores have been affected by them, yet but a handful has ever heard or read them. Here they are.” Since his death in 1972, Ezra Pound has slipped into history’s embrace and people do not much know the influence he possessed before World War II, or the controversy he caused after it. Far from the sunny, affably clueless radio postcards of P.G. Wodehouse, Pound had an agenda and he was determined to push it. Fascist radio was all too happy to help. This book is a singular contribution to the history of the war era and understanding the life of Ezra Pound. Hardcover, no dustjacket as issued, Green boards, fine condition. Octavo, 465 pp. HBB price: $125.

Eliot, T.S., Murder in the Cathedral (Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1st ed. 1935). Cloth boards; near-fine book with very good unclipped dust jacket. Octavo, 86 pp. Dramatization of the murder of Thomas a Becket in 1170. HBB price: $250.

Jarry, Alfred, King Turd (Boar’s Head Press, 1st Am. ed., 1953). Hardcover, octavo, 189 pp., unclipped dust jacket. Jarry (1873-1907) was a prodigy and a parody all at once. At fifteen he wrote and performed the first iteration of King Turd (Ubu Roi, in French- often the preferred title in English, as nobody knows what it means) as a vicious parody of a hated schoolmaster.

At 20, Jarry’s parents died. They left him a small inheritance, which he blew through on alcohol and absinthe. Drafted at 21, his appearance in an oversized uniform (he was five feet tall and the Army had none that small) provoked such merriment and indiscipline he was barred from all drills and parades. He was drummed out for medical reasons and made his way to Paris, where he fell in with the bohemian class, who knew an original when they saw one.

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Jarry became a whirlwind of ink and drink, cranking out articles, novels and plays. Dusting off his schoolboy play, he recast it as a loose parody of Macbeth in five acts, and called it King Turd. The story of a man who becomes king of Poland on the strength of his limitless vileness, it seemed sure never to see a stage.

This, of course, meant one became available almost immediately. Auralien-Marie Lugne-Poe took on the production at his Theatre de l’Oeuvre. Paul Walsh of Yale’s Drama School explains:

“Something remarkable happened on December 10, 1896. Something that changed theater forever. On that day a diminutive young man of 23 named Alfred Jarry stood before the gathered audience at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre in Paris and introduced his new play. The expectant audience was mixed of friends and foes, enthusiastic supporters and suspicious critics. They had come to see a new play by a writer of promise. What they got instead was a riotous parody, a malicious mockery, a scabrous affront, a puerile attack on literature, on drama, on theater and on themselves. As the first word of the play was pronounced from the stage, the theater erupted in pandemonium: a riot perhaps, or perhaps a demonstration that testified to the belligerent daring of Jarry’s Ubu Roi. Friends celebrated, foes fumed, and the bad-boy avant-garde was born. It took nearly fifteen minutes before the play could continue. People stormed the exits, fist fights broke out, and Jarry’s supporters shouted: “You wouldn’t understand Shakespeare either!” (always a useful retort during any kind of brawl).

One can, perhaps, expect such reactions when the first word spoken in a play is a bellowed, “Shit!” In any event, the dress rehearsal riot and the opening night were the only performances in Jarry’s lifetime, and the scandal pretty much ensured the two following Ubu plays, Ubu Cuckolded and Ubu In Chains, waited many years indeed for productions.

Famous overnight, Jarry doubled down on his drinking, and got new digs the likes of which were not to be seen again until the office in Being John Malkovich:

Jarry moved into a flat which the landlord had created through the unusual expedient of subdividing a larger flat by means of a horizontal rather than a vertical partition. The diminutive Jarry could just manage to stand up in the place, but guests had to bend or crouch.

Already a pioneer of surrealism, dadaism, postmodernism, absurdist theater and futurism, Jarry concocted a philosophy all his own, called “pataphysics”, which anticipated Douglas Adams Maximum Improbability Drive by 75 years, and died of drink, drugs and TB at 34.

The trouble with a succes de scandale- think the premiere of Stravinsky’s Firebird in 1913, or any concert tour of Madonna’s in the last century- is that it’s hard to top, or even fully appreciate after the event. In this edition of all three Ubu plays, translator G. Legman complained that the trouble with most translations was they tried to cram in as much scatology and general vulgarism as possible to try and recreate the sense of shock Jerry caused that December night in 1896. It was hard to do in 1953, and even harder 60 years later, but Ubu is still a play with which to be reckoned, and is performed around the world to this day.

Our first American edition is in good condition. The dust jacket has a few nicks and chips. The jacket seems to have been designed- with a black-blocked yellow title on a yellow background- to stand out on a bookshelf (one bookseller on Abe.com describes it as “the title unscathed and boldly visible from even a far-away shelf. It'd make a pointed gift, if one were so inclined.”

Let King Turd stand out on yours. HBB price: $75.

Kanin, Garson, Remembering Mr. Maugham (Athenaeum, 1st ed., 1966). LOC 66-23574. The celebrated American playwright/director’s memories of British writer W. Somerset Maugham. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, clear Brodart cover, good condition, inscribed to film producer Robert Evans. Evans produced “Harold and Maude” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” both star vehicles for Kanin’s wife, actress Ruth Gordon. Foreword by Noel Coward. HBB price: $200.

Poole, Gary, Radio Comedy Diary: A Researcher’s Guide to the Actual Jokes and Quotes of the Top Comedy Programs of 1947-1950 (McFarland & Co., 2002). Teenager Gary Poole filled eleven spiral notebooks with gags and bits of business he heard on the radio; half a century later, he published this valuable- and funny- treasure trove of fragments of the long-lost scripts of American radio comedy. A boon for wireless enthusiasts and scholars alike. Octavo, 212 pp. Softcover, very good condition. HBB price: $25. $_35.JPG

Rathbone, Basil, In and Out of Character (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1962). LOC 62-15316. Memoirs by the man who will, to some, always be the definitive Sherlock Holmes on film. Entertaining tale of a long career on stage and screen. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 278 pp. HBB price: $50.

Sayles, John, Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie ‘Matewan’ (Houghton Mifflin, softcover, 1st printing, 1987). ISBN 0-395-45399-2. Fascinating, step-by-step discussion of how to make a movie, by the famous “non studio” director of Return of the Secaucus Seven and Brother From Another Planet. Includes the working script for Matewan, a story about a coal miner’s strike. A few marginal notes/underlinings by a previous owner. HBB price: $15.

Shute, Nevil, Vinland the Good (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1946). The famed Australian author of On The Beach turns his hand to drama with this modern retelling of Eric the Red, Leif Ericsson and the exploration of America in the form of a movie script. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with some wear and tear about the edges. The book itself in very good condition. Very rare. HBB price: $95.

Teichmann Howard, and Kaufman, George S., The Solid Gold Cadillac (Random House, stated 1st ed., 1st printing, 1954). LOC 54-8795. Oh, to have been at the Belasco, Broadway, the night of November 5, 1954. At 67, in the last Broadway role of a career that started in 1908, Josephine Hull (1887-1957)- she of You Can’t Take It With You, Arsenic and Old Lace, and, immortally, Harvey- walked on the stage as Laura Partridge, the “actress” who took over the General Products Corporation of America. While Judy Holliday made the role her own in the charming 1956 film, anyone who has seen Hull on film can hear her voice in see her quirky, sparrow-like moves reading the script in this hardcover volume. Our copy is marked for performance by the late “Queen of Charlotte Theater,” Gladys Lavitan (1916-2014), whose career lasted 79 years. Unclipped dust jacket with some wear about the edges. Nice association copy. HBB price: $39.95.

First Editions

Blyth, R.H., Zen In English Literature and Oriental Classics (Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1st ed., 1942). A vegetarian and World War I conscientious objector imprisoned for his beliefs, Reginald Howard Blyth (1898-1964) emigrated to Korea as a college professor of English in 1925. He studied zen, learned Chinese and Japanese, and, after divorcing his English wife and marrying a Japanese one, moved to Japan in 1936. There he taught, and wrote a series of books on zen and haiku. Though interned by the Japanese for the war, Blyth emerged as liaison between the Imperial Household and General MacArthur’s occupation staff, and became tutor to the current emperor, Akihito. Blyth had a major influence on Western thought about zen and haiku, especially among the Beat writers of the 1950s. Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics was his most popular book; in this wartime, English-language version it is quite rare, and rarer still with a very good dust jacket as HBB’s copy sports. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. 5.25” x 7.25”. HBB price: $175.

Capote, Truman, The Collected Stories of Truman Capote (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-679-64310-9. It’s easy to remember Capote (1924-1984), if at all, as the outrageous, dissipated,, social and media star he was in the 1960s and ‘70s. His short stories remind readers what a remarkable, even prodigious talent he was in his youth. This collection has a thoughtful introduction by Reynolds Price. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with 1.5” tear at bottom right corner of front dust jacket. Very good condition. 297 pp. HBB price: $30.

Child, Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone; Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol.1); Child, Julia; and Beck, Simone, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. 2). Knopf, 1961, 1970; first book club edition (title page and logo for Ecole Des 3 Gourmandes is in black). 6.5” x 9.5” No dust jacket. Very good condition. Inscribed by Julia Child and her husband, Paul Child, who illustrated both books. Envelope address tag for owner on front end page of each. HBB price: $500 the set.

Conroy, Pat, The Prince of Tides (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1986). ISBN 0-395-35300-9. Searing tale of a South Carolina Low Country family worthy of a Eugene O’Neill play. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, Brodart cover, fine condition. inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan. HBB price: $350.

Corbett, Jim, The Corbett Collection (Safari Press, 6 volumes slipcased, 1991). ISBN 0-940143-54-2. Legendary British/Indian hunter /conservationist James Edward Corbett (1875-1955) devoted much of his life to hunting down and killing man-eating tigers and leopards. Between 1935 and 1954 he wrote six books on his experiences: My India; Jungle Lore; Man-Eaters of Kumaon; Temple Tiger/Tree Tops; and Leopards of Rudraprayag. Attractive five volume set, hardcover, very good condition. A prize for the big game enthusiast and pre-independence India fans. HBB price: $150.

Dole, Elizabeth, Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (Carroll & Graf, 1st ed., 2004). Bon mots collected by the NC native, former senator, cabinet officer, presidential candidate and American Red Cross president over her long career in public service. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, almost fine condition, 8” x 6”. Autographed on the title page at a Salisbury NC bookstore, February 19, 2005. HBB price: $15.

Du Maurier, George, Trilby (London: Osgood & McIlvaine & Co., 1895). Said to be the inspiration for The Phantom of the Opera, this novel inspired the Trilby hat (worn by a character in the stage play), introduced the phrase “in the altogether” and inspired the notoriously litigious artist Whistler to threaten suit over a character (Du Maurier apologized and rewrote the offending sections). Du Maurier also introduced the character Svengali, whose name became a synonym for a man holding utter sway over a submissive woman. Hardcover, blue boards with gilt titling on cover and spine. 447 pp, octavo, with six pages of publisher’s ads. Slight separation of spine at back endpapers; small tear across bottom of spine. Bookseller label of Gilbert & Field, 67 Moorgate Street, London E.C., which operated at that location from the mid-1870s to circa World War I. HBB price $75.

Edgar, Walter, Partisans & Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned The Tide of The American Revolution (William Morrow, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2001). ISBN 0-380-97760-5. The prominent South Carolina historian’s account of the British invasion of the Carolinas, and how it led to their defeat. Edgar is a fine writer. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, mylar cover, octavo, 198 pp. very good condition. HBB price: $30.

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Ellroy, James, My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1996). ISBN 0-679-44185-9. The author of The Black Dahlia sets out to close the file on his mother’s murder unsolved after 38 years. Hardcover, octavo, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. “Signed by the Author” sticker on front of dust jacket. HBB price: $200.

Eumenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st ed. 1993). ISBN 0-374-28438-5. The novel that caused a sensation. Hardcover unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $125.

Friedman, Thomas L., The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 0-374-29288-4. The New York Times columnist explains the ways of the world in another best-seller. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 488 pp. HBB price: $125.

Graves, Robert, The Antigua Stamp (Seizin Press/Random House, 1st U.S. edition, 1937). Two children: the boy grows up to be a novelist; the girl, an actor-manager of a theater company. They both feud over the Antigua stamp, a rare object in their collection. A sardonic romp by the author of I, Claudius. Octavo, 325 pp. Hardcover, good condition; wear to the dust jacket, some taped but happily, not yellowed. The U.S. 1st is more scarce than the U.K. 1st. HBB price: $150.

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Grisham, John, The Client (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-385-42471-X. Child sees murder, hires an unlikely lawyer.Menace ensues. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Grisham, John, The Partner (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1997). ISBN 0-385-47295-1. A missing person becomes unmissing. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $100.

Gurganus, Allan, Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1989). Child bride of an ancient Civil War soldier, Lucy Marsden is now herself 99, and seized of the notion to tell her life’s story. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Hockney, David & Spender, Sir Stephen, Hockney’s Alphabet (Random House, 1st US ed., 2nd printing, 1992). ISBN 0-679-41766-4. An oversized, illustrated Alphabet drawn by Hockney, with comments inspired by each letter from over two dozen British and American writers. Originally produced to benefit AIDS Crisis Trust; all proceeds from this sale will be donated to Carolina CARE Partners, towards the same end. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Hughes, Robert, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1997). ISBN 0-679-42627-2. Companion to the PBS series, this volume is classic Hughes: Big, vivid and full of the cocksure judgements, expressed in vigorous prose. The Australian-born journalist (1938-2012)and art critic called the book his “love letter to America.” A large, handsome volume, 8’ x 10”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, near-fine condition. 633 pp. HBB price: $79.95.

Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany (William Morrow, 1st trade ed., 1st printing, 1989). ISBN 0-688-07708-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. 543 pp. HBB price: $75.

241 pp. HBB price: $100.

Kane, Harnett T., Queen New Orleans: City By The River (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1949). “The Poet Laureate of Louisiana” pens a raucous, affectionate portrait of The Big Easy. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, Brodart cover, very good condition, inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan. HBB price: $60. queen-new-orleans-city-by-the-river-by-harnett-t-kane-1949-1st-ed-in-dj-illus_1401982.JPG

King, Stephen, Skeleton Crew (G.P. Putnam’s, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1985). ISBN 0-399-13039-X. Twenty-two terrifying tales. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $49.

King, Stephen, Rose Madder (Viking, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1995) ISBN 0-670-85869-2. Gripping tale of a woman pursued by a psycho husband. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $49.00

King, Stephen, Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-7432-3515-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Duma Key (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2008). ISBN 1-4165-5251-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $89.

Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)

Is planning a ban on smut.

Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.

And his reverend occiput.

Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,

Grit your molars and do your dut.,

Gird up your l__ns,

Smite h_p and th_gh,

We'll all be Kansas

By and by....

Nash, Ogden (January 11, 1930), "Invocation", The New Yorker: 30.

Leighton, Clare, Southern Harvest (Macmillan, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1943). One of the most famous mid-20th century Anglo-American woodcut artists, Clare Leighton spent the war years in North Carolina. This collection of memories of her travels in the rural Carolinas of that day are brilliantly illustrated by the most singular woodcuts. Truly a lost art! Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket showing some wear and chipping. Very good condition overall. Quarto, 157 pp. Rare. HBB price: $50.

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Loring, John, Tiffany Flora/Tiffany Fauna (Harry N. Abrams, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-8109-4573-8. Pair of beautifully-photographed volumes illustrating Tiffany’s output of jewelry and other goods in designs drawn from nature. In a striking white slipcase with nine open circles, front and back, allowing the dust jacket illustrations to show through. Hardcover, unclipped dust jackets, fine condition. HBB price: $125.

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Manchester, William, The Death of A President: November 20- November 25, 1963 (Harper & Row, 1st ed., 1967). LOC 67-10496. Solicited by the President’s widow to write this book, Manchester and his publisher found himself on the receiving end of the Kennedy wrath when it was ready to publish- so much so that a disclaimer was printed in it to make clear it was not The Official Death. The first edition was let to go out of print by the Kennedys, making these copies rarer over time. This one is hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, octavo, 710 pp, very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Man, John, Gutenberg: How One Man Remade The World With Words (John Wiley, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-471-21823-5. A truly remarkable exercise in scholarship, this book seems to have run to ground every shred of documentary evidence to have survived through five centuries of European history to document the life of the man who invented moveable type. The detail is fascinating: how Gutenberg raised money and held at bay investors who wanted to interfere; how he tried to control the spread of his invention in an age without intellectual property laws; and how the number of books in Europe went from a single wagon-load in 1455 to “tens of thousands, the individual volumes to millions” only fifty years later. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $15.

March, Joseph Moncure, The Wild Party (Pantheon, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-679-42450-4. Woodcut illustrations by Art Spiegelman. Elegant reissue of the Jazz Age classic, first published in 1928. Spiegelman’s woodcuts are of the period. 8.75” x 5.5”, hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $39.95

Maugham, W. Somerset, The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1955), LOC 55-7011. The master story-teller of the last century surveys a scintillating group of his peers through time: Fielding; Austen; Stendhal; Bronte and Balzac; Dickens, Flaubert and Melville; Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Revised and greatly expanded version of the 1948 collection of essays. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with mylar cover. Very good condition. HBB price: $59.95.

McFarland, Dennis, School For The Blind (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-395-64497-6. A long-separated brother and sister, reunited in their seventies, are forced to reexamine their lives. McFarland’s second novel, a worthy successor to The Music Room. Now out of print. Hardcover; 9.1” x 6.2”, 287 pp. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $33.25.

McMurtry, Larry, The Evening Star (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1992). ISBN -0-671-68519-8. Aurora Greenway, copes with a new passel of family troubles in the sequel to Terms of Endearment. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

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Michener, James A., Caribbean (Random House, 1st ed., 1989). ISBN 0-394-56561-4. One of the master’s sweeping historical novels. Hardcover, not price clipped, 672 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Nabokov, Vladimir, Quartet (Phaedra Publications, 1st ed., August 15, 1966). LOC 66-28101. In a long, January 1966 review in The New Republic, John Appel, Jr. noted, Now in his sixty-seventh year, Vladimir Nabokov is suddenly upon us. Of course, he was here all along, but his oeuvre was like an iceberg, the massive body of his Russian novels, stories, plays, and poems remaining untranslated and out of sight, lurking beneath the visible peaks of Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962). In the last eight years, however, six of his books in Russian have been translated and three out of print novels reissued. Nabokov's own translation of Lolita into Russian and a collation of stories known as Nabokov's Quartet appeared quietly this autumn…” These four stories, two published in the U.S. for the first time, show the master in top form. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, white end papers, boards covered in a rough printed cloth pattern with the author’s signature on the lower right front cover. 8.75” x 5.5”, 104 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Proper, Datus C., Pheasants of the Mind: A Hunter’s Search for A Mythic Bird (Prentice hall Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-13-662750-1. A Montana naturalist philosopher (“It is impossible to read this without being reminded of Garrison Keillor at his best,” famed food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote), contemplates nature and the challenges of hunting for pheasant. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

Pynchon, Thomas, Against the Day (The Penguin Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 1-59420-120-X. Sprawling historical fantasy set in the United States between the CHicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. A real doorstop of a novel: 1084 pp. HBB price: $65.

Sarazen, Gene, with Herbert Warren Wind, Thirty Years of Championship Golf (1950, limited ed. by The Old Golf Shop, Cincinnati, 1979, No. 109 of 260). Sarazen (1902-99) was one of the world’s best golfers in the 1920s and ‘30s, and one of the five pro golfers to win the Grand Slam. The book recalls his remarkable career. This very limited edition is part of an annual series reprinting of books by the honoree of the annual Memorial Tournament, started in 1976 to honor those- living and dead- who did the most to advance the sport. A very rare edition of an excellent autobiography. Green boards with gilt edging and titles, no dust jacket, very good condition. 8.75” x 5.75”, 276 pp. HBB price: $75.

Schwing, Ned, The Browning Superposed: John M. Browning’s Last Legacy (Krause Pubs., 1st ed., 1996) ISBN 0-87341-350-4. The first full account of the Browning Company’s history from 1926 to 1995, and of the design, development and production of “the last of the high-quality, hand-built, and hand-engraved over and under shotguns.” 496 pp, over 600 illustrations, 100 in color. 11.25” x 8.75”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. Rare and highly collectible. HBB price: $350.

Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ecstasy (Doubleday, 1961; Illustrated Edition, 1st ed., 1963). Stone’s string of biographies of artists and intellectuals extended back to 1934 when Lust For Life came out, but this time he hit Michelangelo’s life story out of the ballpark. By 1965 the book had been produced as a lavish Hollywood film with Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison. To extend the sales of the book, Doubleday put out this slipcased deluxe illustrated edition. Our copy is in very good condition; the slipcase shows dirt and wear and the clear plastic dust jacket has a small tear at the upper right corner of the cover. A book worth having. HBB price: $35.

Stone, Irving, The Origin: A Biographic Novel of Charles Darwin

(Doubleday, 1st ed., 1980). ISBN 0-385-12064-8). The famed biographical novelist (Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Schliemann), takes on the father of evolution. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, sunning on the spine, very good condition. Octavo, 743 pp. Autographed on the half-title. HBB price $65.

Strunk, William Jr. and White, E. B., The Elements of Style (Macmillan, 1st ed., stated 1st printing, 1959). LOC 59-9950. Fine hardcover, very good unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, 71 pp. Some foxing of the endpapers. Scarce and highly collectible. HBB price: $395.00.

This concludes Volume 1,

Henry Bemis Books

Summer 2015 Catalogue