New York: Norton, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Unpublished poems, letters, journals and photographs, selected and edited by Susan Sherman. Preface by May Sarton. Index. Slighly oversized, and profusely illustrated with photographs - a very attractive book. ISBN: 0-393-034518.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this record setting pitcher, who was named to the Hall of Fame the year this was published. Includes his statistics, index. 191 pp.

Los Angeles: Authors Unlimited, (1988). First edition - The author's first book, one which focuses on nine Black leaders in the decades of the Depression and World War II, and before the current civil rights era. Includes brief biographies of Mary McLeod Bethune, A Phillip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, and others - as well as a chapter on the 99th Fighter Squadroon and the 332nd Fighter Group. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography. 176 pp. ISBN: 1-556660324.

Norman, OK: Basic Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul. For 101 days, from January to April 2003, Nowegian journalist Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad - this book focuses on the stories of the people of the city, trying to live while under constant attack. Translated by Ingrid Christophersen. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-465076009.

Bloomington,IN: Indiana University Press, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the development of the theatre in Burma from the end of the 19th century onwards, which focus on the Great Po Sein and his family, who were major figure in Burmese theatre. Illustrated with 15 photographic plates and drawings by Ba Lone Lay. Glossary, bibliography. xiv, 170 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in Shapiro's autobiography. Photographs. 287 pgs.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1984) dj. Hardcover - Adetailed look at the life of an 80 year old woman, an Irish immigrant used to hard work and being independent, who now faces illness and dependency - the focus is on the services it took to keep her out of a nursing home and in her own apartment. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-395-362202.

New York: St Martin's, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of this complex writer, best known for his poetry books for children - The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends - but also a man with an incurable wanderlust who exceled in many genres - music lyrics, playwriting, cartooning and more. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-312-353596.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Revolutionary Years." Set in South Africa in the early 1960s, during the years of apartheid, this is a portrait of Mandela as "a committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state" Photographs. Timeline, notes, selected bibliography, index. 405 pp. ISBN: 978-0316035484.

New York: Doubleday, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Written by a former firefighter, and based on dozens of interviews across the country, this tells the stories of the men and women who fight urban building fires, who battle sweeping forest fires, who perform emergency rescues, and who face extreme danger as part of their daily lives. Illustrated with photographs. 320 p. ISBN: 0-385-241216.

New York: Twayne Publishers, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first developmental study of Smith's poetry (for which she is best known) and her prose as an avant-garde novelist and short story writer. Frontispiece portrait, chronology, notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 118 pp. ISBN: 0-805769900.

New York: Walker, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at Galileo's life, his discoveries, and his clash with Catholic doctrine, based on the letters of Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun and the daughter and confidant of Galileo, which the author translated them from the original Italian. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated. Chronology, bibliography, notes and index. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-13432.

New York: Walker, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A look at Galileo's life, his discoveries, and his clash with Catholic doctrine, based on the letters of Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun and the daughter and confidant of Galileo, which the author translated them from the original Italian. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated. Chronology, bibliography, notes and index. 420 pp.

New York: Penguin, (2004). SIGNED - Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, Solnit explores what how California in the late 19th-century was already changing in a a way that led to the technological and cultural innovations of the 20th century. This book "weaves together biography, history, and insights into art and technology to create a portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge - who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically - becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life."SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize. Illustrated with photographs. Chronology, notes, index. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-142004103.

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1940. dj. Hardcover - An affectionate memoir of Brigham Young and his household, written by his daughter (his 51st out of 56 children, who was born in 1860). Includes an interesting account of life as a child in the Beehive House, where she lived with her mother, and information on the growth of the Mormon population in Utah with the arrival of immigrants from Europe, etc. Illustrated with photographs. 279 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical biography which captures both the genius and the neuroses of this brilliant and influential mid-century writer - one who who drew from her own past in Colorado to forge a unique writing style until alcohol and depression destroyed her lifelong quest for inner strength. Notes, index. xv, 430 pp. ISBN: 0-394557042.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographs, index, bibliography. ISBN: 0-374-374678.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographs, index, bibliography. ix, 134 pp. ISBN: 0-374-374678.

New York: The Feminist Press, (1987.). Biography of three heroic black women "whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, 'every woman, man, and child should know': Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells [1862-1931], the firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell [1863-1954], a gifted and untiring leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace." Foreword by Margaret Walker and Introduction by Barbara Christian. Photographs, chronologies, bibliographies, index. xliii, 174 pp. ISBN: 0-935312-89-7.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1982.). Biography of one of the three great suffragettes of the 19th century - "No study of women's history in the United States is complete without an account of Lucy Stone's role in the nineteenth-century drive for the abolition of slavery and legal and political rights for women." Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 320 p. ISBN: 0-8135-1860-1.

Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, (2000). First edition - "Blue Jacket (ca. 1743-ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into the Shawnees' homeland in the Ohio River Valley. Blue Jacket was an astute strategist and diplomat who, though courted by American and British leaders, remained a staunch defender of the Shawnees' independence and territory. In this arresting and controversial account, John Sugden depicts the most influential Native American leader of his time." A title in "American Indian Lives" series. Illustrated. Extensive notes, bibliography. 335 pp.

Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications (2014). SIGNED first edition - A "gonzo document of what it is like to actually live a magickal life, to exist as a pagan or witch and to b truly polyamorous. . . the stranger-than-fiction story of two soul mates who rejected the status quo and embraced higher ideals...and had a whole lot of fun while they were at it. Reclaiming Pagan as a spiritual identity - and living in an open marriage for over four decades - Oberon and Morning Glory Zell truly embody the freedom to think, to love, and to live." SIGNED by Sulak on the half title page. Includes a 16-page color photo insert and a brief timeline, cast of characters, bibliography. 410 pp plus ads. ISBN: 978-0738714820.

New York: Harper & Row, (1965) dj. Hardcover - Letters to his cousin Marguerite, written during the first World War, when Teilhard de Chardin, already a Jesuit priest, volunteered for the Army, and spent 4 1/2 years as a stretcher-bearer at the front lines. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the Medaille Militaire, and the Legion d'Honneur, but he also began to develop his great vision of the human condition during this time. Translated from the French by Rene Hague. Frontispiece portrait, map. Index, 316 pp.

New York: Da Capo Press, (1980.). Illustrated with photographs. Discography. 235 pp. 1988. ISBN: 0-306-800438.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of the man who served with distinction in the Colored Troops during the Civil War (losing in his arm), was a teacher,lawyer and journalist, and then betrayed his race by writing one of the most insulting attacks on African Americans ever published - the 1901 book 'The American Negro.' Hardcover review copy with publisher's material laid in. Appendices, notes, index, 386 pages. ISBN: 0-8203-21303.

New York: Norton, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which explores what it means to be a real artist in the real world - one which offers access to a range of artists, from international superstars to unheralded art teachers. Included are accounts of visits with Ai Weiwei before and after his imprisonment and with Jeff Koons as he woos new customers in London, Frankfurt, and Abu Dhabi. Thornton meets Yayoi Kusama in her studio around the corner from the Tokyo asylum that she calls home and spends time with Laurie Simmons, Carroll Dunham, and their daughters Lena and Grace and many others. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. Photographs, bibliography, index. xvi, 430 pp. ISBN: 978-0393240979.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Hardcover - A warm memoir of the brilliant conductor, illustrated with photographs by Adrian Siegel. 148 pp.

New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. First edition - A loving tribute to his wife, published five years after her death. 78 pp. ISBN: 9781400066155.