City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York
New York: Harper & Row, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 466, illus., remainder mark at top and bottom edges. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 466, illus., remainder mark at top and bottom edges. More
New York: Viking Press, 1977. 24 cm, 368, illus., small tear at rear DJ corner. More
Lima, NY: A. Tiffany Norton, 1879. First Edition. 200, illus., fold-out map, footnotes, appendix, bds quite weak, large rough spot inside front bd, small stains inside flyleaves. More
Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, [c1936]. 21 cm, 279, illus., edges soiled, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: The Modern Library, 1942. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. vi, 362, [6] pages. Erasure residue on half-title. Ink note inside front board. Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. The 24 short stories in this volume represent all of Dorothy Parker's short stories excepting a few which she did not wish to retain among her collected prose. Dedicated to Lillian Hellman. Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in such magazines as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed when her involvement in left-wing politics resulted in the being placed on the Hollywood blacklist. Both her literary output and reputation for sharp wit have endured. More
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1987. First Paperbk Printing. pocket paperbk, 313, wraps, cover states first time in paperback Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency. More
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1941. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 323, [5] pages. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the fep. Fep has a small portion of the top edge cut off. Cover has some wear and spine lettering faded. No DJ present. Story of the Partridge family and their eight children, set against the social background of the 1880's in the upper New York state town of Phelps. Bellamy Partridge was a 1900 graduate of Hobart College, Bellamy Partridge went on to study law, and for about a decade practiced law with his father, Civil War veteran and country lawyer Samuel Selden Partridge, in the little town of Phelps, New York--near Rochester--before striking out as a freelance writer, novelist and historian. He was the author of many works, including the national best-seller "Country Lawyer" (1939), a memoir of his father, and its sequel, "The Big Family" (1941). Partridge and his family moved out to California when "Country Lawyer" was picked up by one of the studios and he was given a six-month contract to adapt it for the screen. They lived at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and while her husband labored on the screenplay, his wife, a short story and article writer herself, composed letters back to her family in Connecticut that would later become the basis of her 1941 book "A Lady Goes to Hollywood: Being The Casual Adventures of an Author's Wife in the Much Misunderstood Capital of Filmland". By the time the screenplay was finished, Pearl Harbor was attacked and America entered World War II; the project was permanently shelved and the film was never made. More
New York: Norton, [1972]. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 745, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and sticker residue, erasure on half-title. More
Fort Ticonderoga, NY: Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 1961. Reprint Edition. 118, wraps, illus. (some color), maps (1 fold-out), ink name on title page, spine edges worn. More
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1974. 206, illus., notes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled & scratched: sm tears, sm pcs missing, price sticker on front DJ. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 852 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Frontis illustration. 32 additional illustrations. Footnotes. Table of Abbreviations. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some weakness at the rear board, restrengthened with glue. George Wilson Pierson (October 22, 1904 – October 12, 1993) was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at Yale University. He was the first official historian of the university. Pierson earned a B.A. at Yale in 1926, and was awarded a Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1933. His dissertation was "Two Frenchmen in America, 1831–1832," a study of the experiences of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in the United States. It won the distinguished John Addison Porter Prize from the university for best work of scholarship that year. Pierson's published writings encompass 38 works in 53 publications in 2 languages and 3,892 library holdings. His works are widely studied and are used frequently in most collegiate level U.S. history courses. More
New York: Center Street, 2020. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 296 pages. Notes. Signed bookplate on fep. Jeanine Ferris Pirro (born June 2, 1951) is an American television host, author, and a former New York State judge, prosecutor, and politician. Pirro was the host of Fox News Channel's Justice with Judge Jeanine until 2022 when she became a co-host of The Five. She was a frequent contributor to NBC News, including regular appearances on The Today Show. She was also the first female judge elected in Westchester County, New York. Pirro was elected the first female district attorney of Westchester County. As district attorney, Pirro gained visibility in cases of domestic abuse and crimes against the elderly. Pirro briefly sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate to run against Hillary Clinton in 2006, but dropped out to accept the nomination for New York Attorney General; she lost the general election to Democrat Andrew Cuomo. Pirro is the author of six books, two of which are crime novels. Her first book was 2003's To Punish and Protect: A DA's Fight Against a System That Coddles Criminals. It was followed in 2004 by To Punish and Protect: Against a System That Coddles Criminals. Her book Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy is a look inside the Presidency of Donald Trump, as well as the politics surrounding the anti-Trump movement. Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left's Plot to Remake America is described as "the latest chapter in the unfolding liberal attack on our most basic values." More
New York: Port of New York Authority, 1963. 25 cm, 380, illus., maps, index, residue of "X" on flyleaf. More
New York: Promontory Press, 1981. 32 cm, 256, profusely illus. in color, index, DJ worn, torn, and soiled. Introduction by A. K. Baragwanath, Museum of the City of NY. More
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vivisphere Publishing, 1999. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. [10], 411, [11] pages. Dated inscription on title page. Sex and death collide on a quiet street in Brooklyn, when two neighbors witness a murder. To combat the senselessness of what they have seen, the two begin an affair hoping together to reconstruct the order that existed before brutality shattered their quiet lives. But their privacy, fragile as life itself, is shattered as well, when an investigation of the killing turns their private lives very, very public. Medusa, a New York gossip columnist makes their situation grist for a cynical readership until the two now intimate neighbors decide to fight back. This wonderfully written, darkly comic novel exposes the whirlpool of desire that swirls around our deepest fears, and the lengths some will go to discover whether tainted motives, lost love, and death itself can be redeemed. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. 298, illus., endpaper maps, appendix, discolor ins bds, some foxing, rear bd weak, bds scuffed & lettering faded, sm tears at spine. More
New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1970. First Edition. First Printing. 192, illus., maps, bibliography, index, DJ faded and small edge tears/chips, bookplate from USMA Director of Admissions. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1947]. 22 x 28 cm, 21 plates, wraps, pictorial work, covers somewhat soiled and scuffed, entire document somewhat curled. More
Verla Gazah Pendell Richtmyer, 1981. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 140, [4] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. There is a small amount of damp staining on the cover and at the bottom spine area but the text is clear and intact. Inscribed on fep. Erasure residue on fep. The author was the daughter of a newspaperman and publisher. This memoir focuses on her early years, with her brother and sister, and takes her story to High School graduation. More
Sherrill, NY: Anniversary Committee, 1966. Quarto, 124, wraps, illus., map, some soiling to covers, sticker residue to front cover, rear cover somewhat scuffed. More
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition [Stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xiii, [1], 193, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. Warren Joseph Rogers, Jr. (May 6, 1922 – August 31, 2003) was a reporter and an author. After WWII, Rogers worked as a newspaper journalist and later joined the Associated Press and moved to Baton Rouge to cover Louisiana politics. In 1956, during the Stevenson campaign, Rogers first met Robert Kennedy, who was traveling to prepare for his brother's 1960 presidential campaign. Despite the arguments that they had with one another, Rogers and Kennedy became good friends as they sat on buses on Stevenson's campaign trail. Rogers joined the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune in 1959 and began reporting on the military, foreign affairs, the presidency, and national politics. During his time with the Herald Tribune, he was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes: one for a series called "Our Man on the Bus" and one for a series of reporting on Green Beret combat in Vietnam. He also covered the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, the White House and the McCarthy hearings. Rogers became bureau chief for the Hearst Corporation in 1963, and then was named Washington Editor for Look Magazine in 1966. In 1968, Rogers' friendship with Robert Kennedy allowed him an insider's view of Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. Rogers was present during Kennedy's assassination on June 5, 1968, and even helped subdue the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xiii, [1], 193, [1] pages, illustrations, index. Signed by the author, Warren Rogers, on the half title page. Warren Joseph Rogers, Jr. (May 6, 1922 – August 31, 2003) was a political reporter and an author. After returning home from WWII, Rogers worked as a journalist with a New Orleans paper, but later joined the Associated Press and transferred to Baton Rouge to cover Louisiana politics. In 1956, during the Adlai Stevenson campaign, Rogers first met Robert Kennedy, who was traveling with the press to prepare for his brother's 1960 presidential campaign. Despite the frequent arguments that they had with one another, Rogers and Kennedy became good friends as they sat on buses on Stevenson's campaign trail. Rogers joined the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune in 1959 and began reporting on the military, foreign affairs, the presidency, and national politics. During his time with the Herald Tribune, he was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes: one for a series called "Our Man on the Bus" and one for a series of reporting on Green Beret combat in Vietnam. He also covered the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, the White House and the McCarthy hearings. Rogers became bureau chief for the Hearst Corporation in 1963, and then was named Washington Editor for Look Magazine in 1966. In 1968, Rogers' friendship with Robert Kennedy allowed him an insider's view of Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. Rogers was present during Kennedy's assassination on June 5, 1968, and even helped subdue the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xiii, [1], 193, [1] pages, illustrations, index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads for Seth and Dottie Tuttle, my old dear friends who know what Bob was all about--Warren Rogers 6/10/93. Warren Joseph Rogers, Jr. (May 6, 1922 – August 31, 2003) was a reporter and an author. After WWII, Rogers worked as a newspaper journalist and later joined the Associated Press and moved to Baton Rouge to cover Louisiana politics. In 1956, during the Stevenson campaign, Rogers first met Robert Kennedy, who was traveling to prepare for his brother's 1960 presidential campaign. Despite the arguments that they had with one another, Rogers and Kennedy became good friends as they sat on buses on Stevenson's campaign trail. Rogers joined the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune in 1959 and began reporting on the military, foreign affairs, the presidency, and national politics. During his time with the Herald Tribune, he was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes: one for a series called "Our Man on the Bus" and one for a series of reporting on Green Beret combat in Vietnam. He also covered the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, the White House and the McCarthy hearings. Rogers became bureau chief for the Hearst Corporation in 1963, and then was named Washington Editor for Look Magazine in 1966. In 1968, Rogers' friendship with Robert Kennedy allowed him an insider's view of Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. Rogers was present during Kennedy's assassination on June 5, 1968, and even helped subdue the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan. More
New York: The Veterans Association, 1919. 900, illus., appendix, roster, boards quite weak, ink check marks on several pages, pencil notes inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 219, [5] pages. Illustrations. Several pages are filled with highlighting, underlining, and notes. Some pages have paperclip marks. Picture credits. In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeon's art. Both moving and perversely funny, Mortal Lessons is an established classic that considers not only the workings and misworkings of the human body but also the meaning of life and death. With a new Preface written by the Author especially for this edition. Allen Richard Selzer (June 24, 1928 – June 15, 2016) was an American surgeon and author. Selzer received his M.D. from Albany Medical College in 1953. He served in the Army for two years as a lieutenant in charge of a medical detachment. In 1960, following a surgical internship and residency at Yale University, he joined the faculty of Yale as a professor of surgery, where he remained until his retirement in 1985. Beginning in the 1970s, Selzer became well known as an author as well. Selzer's books are generally collections of short stories, essays, and memoirs, including selections from his massive diary. But Imagine a Woman consists entirely of fiction, and he has written two full-length memoirs, Raising the Dead, and Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age. With author and friend Peter Josyph, Selzer published a kind of spoken autobiography, What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer, which has also been recorded as a Blackstone audiobook with Josyph reading the part of Selzer and actor Raymond Todd reading the part of Josyph. More