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2007407085New York: powerHouse Books 2007. A fine copy. 8vo 9 x 6 inches.192 pages. Duotone and color images. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "James Ray Renton-thief counterfeiter and bank robber-became one of America's Ten Most Wanted Men when he was charged with murdering a young Arkansas policeman in 1976. After a daring escape from the Tucker Maximum Security Unit in the 1980s Renton made the FBI's Fifteen Most Wanted List before eventually being recaptured. Then while in solitary confinement Renton wrote a 60-page account of his escape and adventures sent in a series of letters to Danny Lyon a close friend of Renton's since they had met in the Texas prison system in 1967. A tale of murder and betrayal romance and robbery Like a Thief's Dream is Lyon's first work of non-fiction in text form a work of realism based almost entirely on documents including police and FBA records prison and police mug shots tape recordings made by the FBI and the author Renton's own written account of his escape letters from other prisoners to the author and to each other and photographs made by Lyon and anonymous police photographers." <br/><br/> powerHouse Books hardcover books
201652583Albuquerque: Bleak Beauty Books 2016. First edition. 12mo. 85 pp. illustrated from color photographs. Printed paper over boards with an inset color plate on the upper board. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine as new. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Danny Lyon's newest work of fiction and photographs is a screen play written by an Australian shepherd named Sam. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam and his two Brittany Spaniel companions Nanook and Lily The Story of Sam is both heroic and heart breaking as Sam re-creates his life from his birth in the Hudson Valley to 'his favorite scene ' the death scene in a parking lot by a New Mexico highway. Sam is the first canine to be inducted into the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. Inspired by Kafka's A Report to an Academy. The Story of Sam contains a pencil notation printed on the back cover of each book" -- Publisher's description. <br/><br/> Bleak Beauty Books hardcover books
1991338691991. CATALANOTTO Peter. LYON George Ella. CECIL'S STORY. Illustrated by Peter Catalanotto. NY: Orchard Books 1991. Sm. 4to. cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Catalanotto on title page. Near fine in d/j. $35.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1929178866Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1929. Hardcover. Good foxing to block and several of beginning and end pages. Pages are clear to read. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and design top edge red tinted bw frontispiece viii 385 pages illustrated in bw plates portraits facsimile. Signed by author Hastings Lyon to previous owner on ffep. Title page reads "Edward Coke Oracle of the Law. Containing the Story of his Long Rivalry with Francis Bacon: Some Account of their Times and Contemporaries: Famous Trails in which Coke Participated: His Stand against King James I to Maintain the Supremacy of the Common Law: His Share in Wresting the Petition of Right from King Charles I: To which is added A Statement about the Law Writings of Coke on which Generations of Lawyers were Trained." Includes a list of the illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1980014501Princeton: Princeton University Press 1980. xiv 408p. b/w illus. dj. Princeton University Press unknown books
1970020637Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1970. ix 326p. original cloth. University of Nebraska Press unknown books
197244815Cincinnati: Edicational Horizons Publishers. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. Cincinnati: Educational Horizons Publishers 1972. 97 pages hardbound. Signed by the author on the titlepage. Contents are fresh and bright. The gray cloth binding is tight with blue stamping and very light soil. Overall VG. . Edicational Horizons Publishers hardcover books
194137741941. Softbound. Good ex art library copy with minimal marks. Wraps. appx. 80 pp. 22 bw plates. The beneficiary of the procedes from this exhibition was known as Bundles For Britain. There are 32 paintings by 18 artists included as well as 43 miniatures by at least 43 miniaturists. In addition a whopping 217 paperweights were exhibited which must have been quite a collection. Scarce catalog. Each painter is described in a biographical essay. paperback books
1910206553Boston: Woman's Board of Missions 1910. Pamphlet. 19p. 4 3/4 x 6 inches in lightly soiled stapled wraps. Two tiny chips from top edge of rear cover. Text half-tones. Page's first-hand account of her imspection tour of Protestant missions in Northern Spain with comments on the Country the teachers the students and other matters e.g. "Bilboa is a Jesuitical city full of priests and convents and monasteries yet the Mission school is well attended". Not located in OCLC as of 7/2016. Woman's Board of Missions unknown books
195444326Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1954. stiff paper wrappers and bound in pamphlet holder. Tacitus. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers and bound in pamphlet holder. ii pp 152 coll. Besterman 5986. The latest bibliography listed by Besterman and containing 886 entries. Imprimerie Nationale unknown books
19481326741Reading: Fantasy Press 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine blue with pink print; DJ has tears across top edge small tears at bottom of spine and flap corners small stain on rear; Boards in green cloth with gold print blemish to top portion of rear cover light wear to spine caps and edges; Text block has pencil scrawls throughout tanning to endpapers; Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 231 pages. 1326741. FP New Rockville Stock. Fantasy Press hardcover books
193916829E1939. Original autograph signature of British author Sarah Bowes-Lyon written in vintage fountain pen ink and dated April 1939 on a 4†x 3†piece of paper. Fine. Sarah Bowes-Lyon wrote both fiction and non-fiction books about horses including Harum Scarum: The Life Story of a Horse Horsemanship as It is Today You Were There a Collection of Short Stories and Sketches with Illustrations By the Author etc. unknown books
0082391946. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 188 pp. 1946 unknown books
197152715NY/Chicago/San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1971. First edition. Lyon Danny. Oblong 4to. 196 pp. color and b&w illustrations in text full-page b&w photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Moderate wear to the wrappers with light foxing on the first and last pages. Gift inscription on the half-title page. Good or better. <br/><br/> Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown books
198150905New York: Aperture 1981. First Edition. Wrappered Issue. Oblong quarto 22.5cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers; 142pp; illus. Modest wear and dust-soil to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good. Collection of photographs and commentary from the former SNCC staff photographer covering the Civil Rights Movement motorcycle gangs prison and street life and his travels through Latin America. Aperture unknown books
2000172350Paris: VILO 2000. Hardcover. VG-/VG light scuffing and wear to boards minor soiling to ffep. Navy cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering in mylar cover. 191 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "Nearly four decades after his death Le Corbusier the architect of the century is still the subject of ardent controversies and of opposing views amalgamating his urbanist theories architectural principles the stands he took as a man and as an artist and his untiring preaching of modernity. This does not do the architect justice. THe buildings of Le Corbusier however are alive and well. This book revisiting about twenty or so of his most remarkable works is a vivid statement to that effect. Le Corbusier Alive is a presentation of up-to-date commentaries illustrated by more than 100 documents and black and white photographs and 180 original color photographs all previously unpublished"--Front flap. VILO hardcover books
19242039747Rochester: Privately Published 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Edges rubbed & toned. Several items laid in including: an article dated 1932 about a garden party given by the author at her home which also mentions her patronage of the Rochester School for the Deaf; a bookmark advertising a Buffalo NY shoe company; a Christmas card showing children dressed as a soldier a mother and a Red Cross nurse dated 1942; a handwritten verse author unknown; a poem by the author clipped from a newspaper article entitled 'With Rochester Poets'; a photograph of the author clipped from a newspaper whose caption mentions her as hostess and patroness for the annual concert of the Community Choir of Rochester at the Masonic Auditorium. 1924 Hard Cover. Photographic frontispiece of June from photo taken in 1915. Foreword by Cornelius Woelfkin. A collection of several dozen poems by a Rochester New York poet and patroness of the arts. From the author's obituary which appeared in The New York Times August 22 1989: 'Linda Lyon Van Voorhis. known as June in her family published her first book of poems at 22 under the title 'June's Verses.' She followed this with 'More June's Verses' in 1935 and in 1973 'June in September.' Her verses ranging from whimsical family topics to the topically serious also appeared in popular anthologies. Mrs. Van Voorhis was born in Rochester and for much of her life worked for environmental cultural and social causes. She was the widow of John Van Voorhis an associate judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1953 until his retirement in 1967. Rochester: Privately Published hardcover books
1872184250Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1872. Hardcover. VG Cover has general wear Spine has edge wear at top and bottom. Bookblock has age toning. Some interior pages have note from previous owner. Interior pages have intemittent spotting and age toning. Inscription by previous owner on ffep. Brwon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. viii 155 pages 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger hardcover books
1913280932Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson Printers 1913. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. With frontispiece portrait of Sir Humphrey Gilbert; 20 pages. A New Year's Greeting from Lyon Tyler who was at the time the President of the College of William and Mary. String-tied in printed wrappers. Minor wear with light and scattered foxing. Very Good binding. Whittet & Shepperson Printers unknown books
195521930Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1955. First edition. Paperback. Good . Tall trade paperbound volume. A 94 pp play. Offsetting to front cover. A very good copy overall. With two handwritten letters by the author and other ephemera related to the production laid in. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press paperback books
192615199New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition 8vo pp. 12 206; dust-jacket; very good. In the chapter "Women": " 'Hope not for mind in women' said the poet Donne; but when he wrote that he was not looking for mind." <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
18911310571Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1891. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine black with gold print; Boards in black cloth with gold print worn exposed corners tattered spine caps tears to front and rear hinges shelfwear; Text block has name in pencil on front flyleaf endpapers torn along front and rear hinges spotting to endpapers vendor label on rear pastedown intermittent spine breaks deckle-edged with some pages uncut; xii 285 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w plates. 1310571. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
193122679New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1931. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xii 414 pages. First edition. Eleven chapters and a bibliography of the subject. Covers lightly spotted. Name in ink on free endpaper. Thomas Nelson and Sons unknown books
19556051New York: Bowker 1955. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear textblock shows toning typical of this edition/paper quality else tight and unmarred. Brown cloth boards gilt lettering. 12mo. 175pp. <br/><br/> Bowker hardcover books
1946182882New York: Hastings House 1946. Hardcover. VG-/Good light shelfwear to boards and block pages are otherwise clean. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear. Tan cloth boards with red spine lettering; black and white illustrated dust jacket; 2 preliminary leaves viii 180 pages; profusely illustrated in bw. Text in English and Spanish n parallel columns. "As varied as the land itself is this collection of etchings lithographs engravings drypoints monotypes aquatings and woodcuts depicting the many facets of life in eighteen Latin-American countries. The artists represented include: Acuna Audivert Bonta C. Lesansky Mendez Orozco Portinari Rivera Sabogal Segall Alfara Siqueiros Spilimbergo Urruchua and Zalce. " -dust jacket. Hastings House hardcover books
