New York: Viking Press, 1960. first edition. hardcover. 4to 327pp. A collection of pieces that originally appeared in Vanity Fair during the 1920s and 1930s, with pictures and illustrations. Includes contributions from P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy Parker, T.S. Eliot, W. Somerset Maugham, Gertrude Stein, G.K. Chesterton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, many.....
John Day Company, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 365pp. from front flap: "Richard Atcheson went on the commune trip--through a variety of communes across the country--and reports in The Bearded Lady on how all kinds of people, from fragile neurotics to super-controlled lawyers, are trying something we've forgotten how to.....
Random House, 1963. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 274pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "In retirement most men's horizons shrink, but to faithful readers of "Critic-at-Large", Brooks Atkinson's stimulating column in the New York Times, it is clear that Mr. Atkinson's world is growing larger year by year. For many.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 351pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Harry Bannister's gossipy, funny, nostalgic memoir re-creates the palmy days when Amos 'n' Andy, Rudy Vallee and the A & P Gypsies held millions of Americans glued to their radio sets--and continues right.....
New York: Viking Press, 1961. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 212pp. from front flap: "In this cogent and disturbing new book Alan Barth examines the shortcuts often taken by "the authorities" to combat the admittedly grave increase in crime, and he shows how these remedies may be more dangerous than the.....
New York: Random House, 1994. hardcover. 8vo. 388pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04661.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1941. Third Revised Edition. hardcover. 8vo 263pp. from front flap: "...In addition to the latest findings of research in this field, fresh material is included on vocational counseling, interviewing students, workers, etc., and new sections are devoted to interviewing technics and procedures in many fields.....
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970. first edition. Octavo 414pp. from rear cover: "Mr. Bloodworth has now succeeded in An Eye for the Dragon, in bringing to life the exotic and polyglot section of the globe known as Southeast Asia. His credentials for this task are impressive: as an Englishman, he.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1991. first thus. softcover. 8vo 492pp. first Pocket Books printing, July 1991. see pictures for synopsis. #01999.
Doubleday and Company, 1961. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 282pp. 17 interviews and conversations by British columnist with prominent Americans to explore America and Americans. Includes interviews with Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Wernher Von Braun, and more.fascinating glimpse.....
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World Publishing Company, 1956. hardcover. 8vo. 286pp. Stated second printing. Collection of interviews with many of the giants of mid 20th century English language literature including: Dylan Thomas, Somerset Maugham, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, Ralph Ellison, E.M. Forster, Robert Frost, many more.Association.....
New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. hardcover. 8vo. 388pp. see pictures. #04714.
Quadrangle, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 370pp. from front flap: "The Silurian Society of veteran newspaper men--and now, to be sure, women also--celebrating its half century of sociability and reminiscence, presents this collection of stories about newspapers and what goes into producing them. The stories were told for the writers'.....
Doubleday and Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 528pp. Association copy for Sydney Chaplin, American stage and film actor and Charlie Chaplin's son. from editor's introduction: "This book then, in one way, is a nostalgic look backward at a way of life we will never know again. It is a......
New York: Random House, 1942. hardcover. 8vo 545pp. Stated third printing. from front flap: "Cecil Brown's story of the sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales and his broadcasts from doomed Singapore have made him world famous. His book has the same breathless quality of excitement, honesty and.....
Collins, 1956. Low. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 256pp. from front flap: "It may sound something of a paradox that a newspaper which is eminently serious and responsible should be the vehicle for some of the most amusing and entertaining articles to be found anywhere. But so it is with the.....
New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1973. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo. 351pp. first printing. see pictures for synopsis. #03569.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. 8vo. 348pp. BOMC. from front flap: "Don't cry, Angelita. Tonight I'll but you a house, or I'll dress you in mourning." With this vow to the sister who had raised him through the impoverished years that followed the.....
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 192pp. Introductions by Hubert Humphrey and Sargent Shriver. from front flap: "Their ages range from eighteen to eighty-six. Their skills vary from the law to plumbing to literature. Many work eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, for.....
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 258pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05191.
Atlantic Monthly Company, 1977. softcover. 8vo 623pp. see pictures for contributors. #03393.
Atlantic Subscriber Edition, 1978. first edition. softcover. 8vo 276pp. see pictures for table of contents. #02526.
New York: Manor Books, 1973. mass market paperback. 16mo. 355pp. see pictures for synopsis. Manor Books. #04891.
Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Company, 1974. second edition. softcover. 8vo 552pp. #03648.
Knopf, 1978. first edition. hardcover. Octavo, 157pp. from inside flap: "A wonderful new collection from Nora Ephron, two years after her spectacularly successful Crazy Salad. This time she takes up (and puts down) The Media--from People magazine, Daniel Schorr and the Assassination reporters, to the Palm Beach Social Pictorial, Gourmet.....