Search Results: Titles starting with A from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Warner Bros., New York, 1981. large format paperback (30 x 23 cm), pp. 160, Near Fine copy, music clean, crisp copy, appears little used, area of wear on rear cover edge. Quite a rare item.

Grand Central Publishing, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing October 2021, SIGNED by Jamie Foxx on a tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 221 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, yellow boards with black lettering on spine, front jacket cover features B&W photo of Foxx in car with daughter (with a black on yellow "ACT LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE" speech bubble); rear jacket cover featured color family photographs. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a crisp copy with minimal shelf wear. From Academy Award-winning multi-talent Jamie Foxx, a hilariously candid look at the joys and pitfalls of being the father of two daughters.

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1924 (German language), Band 43 (first edition), boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 7 pages text. Very Good copy, gap between text and illustration gatherings (backstrip visible), faint curling of boards at corner. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini (10 January 1881 – 5 August 1958) was a Swiss painter, illustrator and… Read More

Knopf, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by Billie Jean King on a publisher's tipped-in leaf (itself a proof of authenticity), Hardcover with dust jacket, 481 numbered pages, 25 x 17 cm, navy blue paper over red boards with silver titling on spine, jacket cover has action photograph of King on the front, a photographic portrait on the rear. NEW book with Signed First Edition sticker. Near Fine in Fine, with very mild shelf wear. A powerful memoir, in truth a manifesto from the first female athete-activist. "Early on, what was most apparent to me was that the world I wanted didn't exist yet. It would be up to my generation to create it."

Continuum, New York, 2004. Trade Paperback, pp. 264, 21 x 13 cm, cover in red and black with whitel lettering and background. Condition is Near Fine - a crisp copy with tight binding, minor corner wear, looks unread,

Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand, not dated (references a 2007 exhibition) by Chen Wenbo, curated by Wei Zin, contributions by Chen Wenbo, Feng Zhengjie, Luo Fahui, Yang Qian, Zhang Xiaotao. Large square paperback, 28.5 x 28.5 x 1.25 cm, pp. 108, Chinese and English text, photographic wraps in gloss finish, many gorgeous photographic plates, some full page. Near Fine copy – bright, sharp corners, some tanning on rear wrap.Chen Wembo's detailed paintings place him in the Chinese contemporary realist movement, where he and his contemporaries study the quotidian object as centerpiece in their works. Feng Zhengjie's "exotically colorful style" is originated from a traditional drawing called "Mian Zhu Nian Hua," created and used in a village in Si Chuan called Mian Zhu. (Courtesy Wikipedia). Stunning images.

W W Norton, New York, 1948, "Printed in the USA for the publishers by the Vail-Ballou Press". Hardcover with dust jacket, 217 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue paper over boards with "musical anchor" motif, pictorial jacket, 76 songs (sorted by category) with music notation and woodcut illustrations. In Very Good condition: books is solid and square with sharp board corner, some yellowing/tanning of pages, jacket has minor chipping at spine top and bottom; in protective mylar. Edited by Frank Shay, Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson, Musical Arrangements by Christopher Thomas. The classic collection: songs, sheet music, maritime history, and Americana.

*1st Tor Ed,1st Printing 1996* BINDING: Trade Paper; CONDITION: Like New - crisp copy,clean pages,tight binding; SERVICE: Speedy dlvry, FREE tracking

PUBLISHER: New Day; DATE: 1992; BINDING: Paper; CONDITION: Good - clean text,tight binding,covers worn,owner stamp; SERVICE: Speedy dlvry, FREE tracking

Another Side of Bob Dylan: Recorded Hits. M. Witmark, New York, 1963. Stapled Paperback (Song Book), pp. 28, 12" x 9", photograph of Dylan on covers, "Words and Music, Chord Symbols, Guitar Diagrams Included" Condition is Very Good: clean pages, light edgewear/tanning to covers . Classic 60s song book - it evokes Greenwich Village in your bedroom!

Hamish Hamilton (PRH), UK, 1st Edition, 5th Printing, Foyles Fiction Book of the Year 2021 - SIGNED Exclusive Edition (LIMITED, NUMBERED 130 of 1,000), Hardcover with dust jacket, 100 numbered pages, 21 by 14 cm, dark gray boards with black titling on spine, jacket cover features house ine blue and red "negative effect." NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. This is a stunning literary debut that takes no prisoners from Natasha Brown, an erudite, succinct, and incisive forensic examination of race, British history, colonialism, slavery, capitalism, misogyny, and the never-ending cuts of everyday micro-aggressions experienced by an unnamed black woman of Jamaican heritage from a working-class background.

Fontana, Glasgow, 1st PB Printing 1981, pp. 252. 18 x 10.5 x 2 cm, MMPB with pictorial cover, Very Good copy - crisp, minimal edge wear, owner catalog sticker on spine, slight wave to pages. Adventure, sabotage and murder in the unforgiving Arctic environment

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1922 (German language), Junge Kunst Band 32, single volume, not the more common anthology version. Boards decorated with period geometric design (paper) and distinctive Junge Kunst paper title label, cellular cloth spine, octavo, striking colour frontispiece and 32 black and white plates. Nice copy (VG-), small nick on spine, gatherings starting to separate - backing visible (typical for the series), minor corner wear to boards, and light tanning on board edges. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar… Read More

Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2001 (copyright 1994), Harvard Classics Millennium Edition, "Bound in Genuine Leather, with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations", series edited by Charles W. Eliot. Hardcover, pp. 454, 9" x 6", red leather binding, elaborate tooling with gilt-stamped lettering & Harvard "Veritas" device, hubbed spine, all edges gilt accented (22 kt.), moire silk endpapers, satin attached page marker, tissue-guarded illustrations. In Fine condition.