V. Sackville-West’s Garden Book.
Sackville-West, Vita. A Fine copy in a Fine clipped dust jacket. This volume collects the best of Ms. West's garden articles written for the London Observer over fourteen years. One of the greats of garden design, Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in The Observer from 1947 to 1961, and those discursive, dishy columns are compiled in this book. Twelve chapters for twelve months make this massive topic easier to enter, but Sackville-West's unpretentious yet opinionated writing already hooks you instantly. In this book, you can conspire on a "green, grey, and white garden" and learn exactly what plants and hardscaping you need. In the May chapter, find a radical way to grow clematis (horizontally instead of vertically) with a quick DIY. Sackville-West argues for the design benefits of her recommendations (for the clematis, enjoying the upturned flowers without craning your neck). But knowing many of these principles were applied to the famed Sissinghurst garden is all the convincing we need.- $45
- $45
A Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars.
[Berlin in the 1920s] Gill, Anton. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine bright unclipped dust jacket with a tiny closed edge tear to the head of the spine. Gill most effectively captures the decadence, corruption, hyperinflation and ultimately the fear that dominated life in Berlin during the Twenties and Thirties when the Nazis came to power. This is the Berlin made famous in Isherwood's Berlin Stories, adapted to the screen as Cabaret.- $95
- $95
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension.
[Mythology] Campbell, Joseph. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The 32 chapters in this volume are broken down into 6 sections covering the broad subject areas of: The Fairy Tale, Bios and Mythos, Primitive Man as Metaphysician, Mythogenesis, The Symbol without Meaning, and The Secularization of the Sacred.- $125
- $125
The Things They Carried.
[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim. A Fine copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time, the place, and the men who experienced that particular conflict.- $200
- $200
Kiki’s Memoirs. Edited by Billy Kluver & Julie Martin. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Photos by Man Ray.
[Paris in the 20s] Kiki . A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small closed edge tear. Known as the queen of Montparnasse, Kiki was the quintessential artists' muse and model. She epitomized the verve of 1920s Paris--with her strong and alluring face and graceful and voluptuous body--and became a modern icon in the photographs of her longtime lover, Man Ray. First published in 1929 and promptly banned in the U.S., Kiki's account of herself as a "love child" who suffered profound emotional and physical deprivation is a work of great wit and elan. She wrote about her youth again for a Paris newspaper, just a few years before her death, and these reminiscences are frank, elegantly understated, and truly moving. Kiki survived her brutal youth with intelligence and humor, making her way to the very heart of the art world where her uninhibited sexuality, theatricality, and abundant joie de vivre ensured her a life of spirited and celebrated improvisation. First Printing of the First Ecco Edition.- $150
- $150
Day Out of Days: Stories.
Shepard, Sam. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket The stories in this collection are set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard s trademarks. Made up of short narratives, lyrics, and dialogues, Day out of Days sets conversation against tale, song against memory, in a cubistic counterpoint that finally links each piece together.- $125
- $125
Ernesto. The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba.
[Hemingway] Feldman, Andrew. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In Ernesto, Andrew Feldman uses his unprecedented access to newly available archives to tell the full story of Hemingways self-professed Cuban-ness: his respect for Cojímar fishermen, his long-running affair with a Cuban lover, the warmth of his adoptive Cuban family, the strong influences on his work by Cuban writers, his connections to Cuban political figures and celebrities, his denunciation of American imperial ambitions, and his enthusiastic role in the revolution. With a focus on the islands violent political upheavals and tensions that pulled Hemingway between his birthplace and his adopted country, Feldman offers a new angle on our most influential literary figure.- $75
- $75
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson. Edited with an Introduction by Jann S. Wenner.
Thompson, Hunter S. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Wenner has assembled Thompson's writing that appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine beginning with his run for Sheriff of Aspen in 1970 and ending with his final piece in 2004 with the Bush-Kerry presidential showdown. Amidst this 34 year run, Wenner has included Thompson's coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign, his obsession with President Nixon, encounters with Muhammad Ali, Bill Clinton and the Super Bowl. There is also a lengthy excerpt from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as well as previously unpublished correspondence between Thompson and his editor that shed light on their personal and professional relationship.- $100
- $100
The Sporting Club.
McGuane, Thomas. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. McGuane's first book. The Sporting Club chronicles the friendship and rivalry of Vernor Stanton, an unstable patrician iconoclast, and the protagonist, Stanton's lifelong friend, James Quinn. Throughout the course of the novel, Stanton enlists Quinn on a series of misadventures and wild episodes, the aim of which is to ultimately destabilize the Centennial Club, a summer sporting resort for upper-class Michigan families, of which both men are members.- $375
- $375
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote.
[Essays] Capote, Truman. A Near Fine copy with a discreet remainder dot in a Fine dust jacket. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as "The Muses Are Heard" and the short nonfiction novel "Handcarved Coffins," as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the authors last written words, composed the day before his death in 1984, the recently discovered "Remembering Willa Cather,"- $125
- $125
America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait with 120 Illustrations.
[Essays on Stieglitz] . A Near Fine copy with one corner slightly bumped in a Very Good plus, bright dust jacket with some light edgewear to the spine and chips to the corners. The 25 contributors of the tribute to the legendary avant-garde photographer include, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Brett, William Carlos Williams, and Jean Toomer. There are 120 illustrations including works by Stieglitz, Picasso, Cezanne, John Marin and others.- $150
- $150
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren. Stories.
Lopez, Barry. A Fine unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This copy is signed by Lopez. This collection of twelve short stories captures the sense of the magic and strangeness of the world and our different ways of knowing, our search for compassion for the human predicament, and being alert to the beauties of our native landscape.- $95
- $95
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
[Children's Book] MacDonald, Betty. A Very Good copy with with discoloration to the lower edges of the spine and boards,not affecting the integrity of the binding in a Very Good clipped dust jacket with a closed tear to the rear panel and moisture bleed to lower part of inner jacket. This is the first book in the Piggle-Wiggle series. It is newly illustrated by Hilary Knight.- $125
- $125
Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick O’Brian.
[Nautical Fiction] Lavery, Brian. A Near Fine copy in paperback binding. In this text, the author explores the links between naval facts and naval fiction particularly the works of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester showing how the life of real naval heroes compares to that portrayed in novels and films. The text is fully illustrated throughout in b&w and color, and includes a foreword by Peter Weir, director of the 2003 film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World- $45
- $45
Look at the Birdie. Unpublished Short Stories.
Vonnegut, Kurt. A Near Fine copy with discreet remainder dot in a Fine dust jacket. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in postWorld War II Americaa world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.- $95
- $95
Rock Springs. Stories.
Ford, Richard. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Richard Ford. In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American Westand from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there.- $95
- $95
River Teeth: Stories and Writings.
[Northwest Literature] Duncan, David James. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Duncan. At the heart of Duncan's tales are characters undergoing the complex and violent process of transformation, with results both painful and wondrous. Equally affecting are his nonfiction reminiscences, the "river teeth" of the title. He likens his memories to the remains of old-growth trees that fall into Northwestern rivers and are sculpted by time and water. These experiencesshaped by his own river of timeare related with the art and grace of a master storyteller. In River Teeth, Duncan blends two forms, taking us into the rivers of truth and make-believe, and all that lies in between.- $95
- $95
Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
[Custer Battlefield] Scott, Douglas D., et al. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custers Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen - survived the fight, but what of the half that did not, the troopers, civilians, scouts, and journalist who were with Custer? On the basis of the archaeological evidence presented in this book, we know more about what kinds of weapons were used against the cavalry. We know exactly where many of the men fought, how they died, and what happened to their bodies at the time of or after death. We know how the troopers were deployed, what kind of clothing they wore, what kind of equipment they had, how they fought. Through the techniques of historical archaeology and forensic anthropology, the remains and grave of one of Custers scouts, Mitch Boyer, have been identified. And through geomorphology and the process of elimination, we know with almost 100 percent certainty where the twenty-eight missing men who supposedly were buried en masse in Deep Ravine will be found.- $125
- $125
Archaeological Insights into The Custer Battle. An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season.
[Custeriana] Scott, Douglas D. and Richard A. Fox, Jr. A Near Fine copy in glossy, illustrated paperback binding. Folding map present in rear pocket. Describing archaeological investigations during the first year (1984) of a two-year survey, this book offers a detailed analysis of the physical evidence remaining after the battle. Precise information regarding the locations of artifacts and painstaking analyses of the artifacts themselves have uncovered much information about the guns used in the battle by the victorious Indian warriors. Not only have the types of guns been identified, but through the use of archaeological and criminal-investigative techniques the actual numbers of firearms can now be estimated. This analysis of the battlefield shows that the two forces left artifacts in what can be defined as "combatant patterns."- $65
- $65
River Teeth: Stories and Writings.
[Northwest Literature] Duncan, David James. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. At the heart of Duncan's tales are characters undergoing the complex and violent process of transformation, with results both painful and wondrous. Equally affecting are his nonfiction reminiscences, the "river teeth" of the title. He likens his memories to the remains of old-growth trees that fall into Northwestern rivers and are sculpted by time and water. These experiencesshaped by his own river of timeare related with the art and grace of a master storyteller. In River Teeth, Duncan blends two forms, taking us into the rivers of truth and make-believe, and all that lies in between.- $65
- $65
Sea of Cortez.
Steinbeck, John. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the folds and extremities and shallow chipping to the head of the spine. Steinbeck's signed note laid in. In 1940, John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts sailed out of Monterey Bay to the Sea of Cortez. Shifting his focus from fiction to science, Steinbeck wrote that his new work "must jump to include other species beside the human. This is why my interest in biology and ecology have become so sharpened." The account that Steinbeck wrote about the expedition includes Ricketts's catalogue of marine invertebrates found in Baja.- $4,200
- $4,200
The Long Valley.
Steinbeck, John. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the cloth binding in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, a tiny chip missing near the head of the spine and a glue bleed through running along the fold of the rear panel. Otherwise a respectable copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck short stories. Steinbeck signature laid in. The stories include The Chrysanthemums, The White Quail, Flight, The Snake, Breakfast, The Raid, The Harness, The Vigilante, Johnny Bear, The Murder, St. Katy The Virgin, the Complete Red Pony, The Leader of the People. There were only 8000 copies of this title published in the First Edition.- $4,000
- $4,000