Secaucus: Lyle Stuart, Inc., (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 298 pages. Part biography, part memoir, and part reckoning, here is Caserta's unfiltered account of her intense romantic and emotional relationship with Janis Joplin through the chaos, brilliance, and ultimately self-destructive energy of the late 1960s rock and counterculture scene. More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 294 pages. Gogarty, who was James Joyce's model for Buck Mulligan in the opening chapter of Ulysses, here presents a satire on English social mores. It is the story of one Ouseley, an Irishman, advised by..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 332 pages. Colorful recollections of the personal characteristics, peculiarities, and intimate daily lives of ten presidents and their wives from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ike Hoover first..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1955). First Edition. Drawings, reproductions of paintings by Rockwell Kent. Some color. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 617 pages. A sweeping, defiant autobiography from one of America's most iconic and uncompromising illustrators, adventurers, and writers. This copy is warmly inscribed and signed by Kent on front..... More
New York: Pyramid Books, (1974). First Mass Market Edition. Mass market paperback. 160 pages. Schwartz's memoir of her numerous love affairs in the late 1950s and 1960s, of which Paul McCartney was the most famous, reputedly wrecking his engagement to Jane Asher. This unvarnished account is part counterculture confession and..... More
New York: Random House, (1987). First Edition. Black and white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 246 pages. Donald Trump’s defining business memoir—equal parts autobiography and negotiation manual—embodies the bravado and optimism of 1980s Manhattan real estate. Written decades before his presidency, it marks the origin of the persona that would later..... More