biography
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: 598, [2]. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece; engraved portrait of Abba Thulle, “King of the Pelew Islands;” folding map of Pitcairn Island. List of plates and errata.....
Price: $2,000.00
Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All
New York: New World Records, 1977. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Price: $250.00
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: “Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.”.
Price: $350.00
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
New York: Harper & Row, (1978). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5 inches: xviii, 280, [2]. Original black cloth spine lettered in bronze, orange blindstamped paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with twenty pages of photographs. Ownership label of Barbara Smith to front free endpaper. Spine panel.....
Price: $350.00
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman; with: publisher’s poster, inscribed with a sketch by Jerry Pinkney
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, (1996). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 9.25 inches: [40]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Signature of Jerry Pinkney in ink to front free endpaper. With: color pictorial poster measuring.....
Price: $250.00
Ida M’Toy
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1979). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [40]. Original red cloth, upper board stamped with gilt device. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Numbered in ink and signed by author on colophon. Bookplate of Ray A. Roberts to front pastedown.
Price: $250.00