Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volumes in a pictorial cardboard slipcase, quarter bound in purple cloth and decorated boards without jackets, as issued. The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the world. Until now there has been no translation that is both complete and scrupulously faithful to the original text. Edward G. Seidensticker's masterly rendering was hailed as a classic of the translator's art. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. The Retreat is a hotel on a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna. Its patrons are all Jews and it provides lessons in assimilation: how to look, talk, and act Gentile. This is a look at the assimilated Jews of central Europe on the brink of a Holocaust that they cannot believe is winding up to take place. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious of the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, T. M. Cleland, in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies. Embroidered cloth cover with gilt title on brown leather, 3/4 slipcase, illustrations and decorations throughout, overall, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear. 160 pages, unclipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 339 pages. "Probes compassionately into the life history of a woman in pursuit of love. The moment in time which is decisive for Lucy Crown and which irrevocably changes the entire pattern of her own, her husband's and her son's lives arrives when, on summer holiday, unexpectedly and almost by accident, she finds herself involved with a man much younger than herself." (from the jacket). Musty odor.
Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, octavo, black cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt decoration, title and spine titles. 291 pages. Uncut edges. With twelve full page engravings, capitals and decorations by Frank C. Pape. The cover and spine gilt is bright. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light soil. 253 pages. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on the front fly leaf (to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife). Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all black crew, searching the sea for their livelihood and battling the sea for their lives. Musty odor.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, fictitious autobiography, very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unread copy of the authors second novel. Jeremiah Bembo, the landlord of a local pub, never talks about his former role as the most respected and feared of Her Majesty's executioners. Until an old friend asks a simple question, prompting him to go back to the beginning, and to turn over the events of 1964. During the war an accident leaves him with one moving eye, warm and watchful, and one still eye, unflinching and unfeeling. The two halves of his life grow apart as, on occasions dictated by the law, Jem travels the country to fulfil his duties as executioner. But the balance becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as a murder is committed which touches his own life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pocket Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 235 pages. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. West Kingston, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Stephen Fabian. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Small Maynard & Co., 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 287 pages, 2 color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Maroon cloth with cream and gilt decoration. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers Publishers, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 133 pages. All 4 color plates by Sigismond Ivanowski are present. Purple cloth with gilt decor and titles. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to covers with slight fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages (Vol. I) and 489 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 46 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including frontispiece and illustrated title page in Vol. I. Color frontispiece in Vol. II. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and some chipping to spine edges Front hinge on Vol. I is cracked, cover still attached. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Hardcover. No slipcase. SIGNED BY KENNETH ROBERTS AND N. C. WYETH. One thousand and seventy-five numbered copies of this Arundel Edition have been printed on all-rag paper, bound in natural finish cloths and autographed by the author and by the artist - this being hand numbered #147. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - illustrations are clean, and bright. Cloth covers with areas of strong fading. Spine cloth darkened, with some shallow abrading to leather title label. Interior is clean, and tight.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st UK, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages, black cloth with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY HEMON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, blue paper-covered boards. Light wear to book and dust jacket. SIGNED BY TREVOR on blank page proceeding the half-title page.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, near fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY VOLLMANN on front fly leaf in red pen.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, like new in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia. The book's anonymous narrator--a Red Army veteran and unapologetic war criminal--and his passive, poetic half-brother, Lev, become pinned in a politically dangerous love triangle with the exotic Zoya, though their tactics (and intentions) are as divergent as their personalities. Swept up in the wave of Stalin's paranoid purges, the brothers are sent independently to Norlag, a Siberian internment camp where their respective fates are cast through their contrasting reactions to the depravity of the prison. Zoya and Lev share a night in "The House of Meetings," a room provided for conjugal visits with the prisoners, and the events of that night reverberate through the decades, the details of the liaison remaining concealed until the story's devastating denouement.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 285 pages, in light green cloth covers with dark green lettering. Some small holes along edge of spine, otherwise clean. With a bright color dust jacket with minor chipping, edgewear. Internally clean and crisp. A true collector's copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DORFMAN on title page.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BANKS on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, INSCRIBED and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, illustrated in color and translated by Jonathan Hammer. Illustrated by Jonathan Hammer. Introduced, edited, & annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball's visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 434 pages, three novels. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, faded on spine, 315 pages. Science fantasy adventure involving the resurrection of a Viking woman, who has been frozen for a thousand years, by a lost community of Vikings in the far north.
Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations by Billings. Title in gilt on spine. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 412 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. London, UK, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, illustrated in b&w by James McDonald. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lacks dust jacket. Light wear to edges, slight rubbing to spine, previous owner's inscription of front paste-down, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on edges, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. The author's first novel - actually a novel within a novel - a "wryly funny and original novel for Everywoman who has ever asked herself "isn't there more to life than this?"
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover and dust jacket. Tight coy.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with moderate wear to covers. Novel of mystery, romance and adventure set among the gold miners of the Yukon in Northwestern Canada, by this British writer-adventurer who traveled extensively in the remote northwest.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIBBONS on title page.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press, Special Reader's Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 317 pages, yellow cloth with brown lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. An attractive copy.
New York, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 174 pages. Black & white chapter illustrations by Emil Antonucci. Mild fading to spine of jacket.
Softcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, ARC wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Softcover, tan wrappers with type, Advanced Reading Copy. Author is a renowned French film director as well as a screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films. This is his second book and first novel. A memoir of a Parisian gentleman's love for a prostitute pre-World War 1.
Hardcover. London, George Allen, 1st UK, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, illustrated in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Blue cloth with gilt decorations and titles, all edges gilt. Light rubbing to edges and spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An historical novel based on the exploits of the colorful John Paul Jones who battled pirates, the Royal Navy, and the short-sighted legislators of his adopted country to achieve fame for himself and freedom for America. Publisher's circled "R" logo indicating a First Edition. Hardcover, 442 pages, wrap-around full color jacket illustrated by Louis James Nolan.
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