Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 368 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Upper right corner of page 325 wrinkled - approx. 3". Clean, tight copy. In this rich, compulsively readable saga about the brave early years of television, "morning" means several things. It is the name of the first-ever morning show, pioneered by a visionary who believed television could reflect the lives of ordinary Americans; it refers to the 1950s, a time of innovation and energy in the vibrant New York City where much of the novel takes place; and finally, it suggests the dawning of a new relationship between a long-estranged father and son who must meet the new century with their fates intertwined.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 421 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. Prose (Blue Angel; The Lives of the Muses) tests assumptions about class, hatred and the possibility of change in this novel, a good-natured satire of liberal pieties, the radical right and the fund-raising world. The "changed man" of the title is Vincent Nolan, a 32-year-old tattooed ex-skinhead who appears one morning in the New York offices of World Brotherhood Watch, a foundation headed by Meyer Maslow, a Holocaust survivor. Vincent declares that he has had a personal conversion (never mind that it was triggered by a heavy dose of Ecstasy) and wants to work with the foundation to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me."
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st U.K., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 398 pages, several b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOSWELL on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Light wear to dust jacket. Includes fifteen famous stills from the film. Released in December 1942, "Casablanca" is the classic of all classic films, the enduring triumph of Hollywood's golden age. This volume contains the complete screenplay as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the Oscar-winning movie was made.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to dust jacket rear. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.
Hardcover. New York, Linden Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Remainder stamp bottom edge.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Lothrop Publishing Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages + ads in rear. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Scarce baseball novel. Green illustrated cloth with baseball player on front cover. Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front end paper and the number 35 scribbled on prelim page with crayon, else a lovely copy with very little wear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. Lovely copy of the author's first book. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, large chunk gone from back of dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket. The year is 1963, and young Denise Palms has rejoined her family in Detroit where she must work to make a place for herself and prepare for the arrival of her mother's new baby. The baby will mean the end of Denise's afterschool lessons with a stern teacher who insists that Denise learn to speak "proper" English to make herself heard. Verdelle's intuition and ear allow her to dramatize precise moments of Denise's self-recognition and, in the process, offer an inside look at a maturing intelligence. The Good Negress marks the arrival of an original voice in contemporary fiction.
Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket, light foxing to edges, else a lovely copy in clear brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Walker's debut novel about a war vet-turned banker robber.
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, Picador, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with tiny chipping to rear panel at top. SIGNED BY McCABE on title page.
UK, Goldmark Uppingham, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus acknowledgements. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Sinclair brings together an impressively predatory and seedy group of contemporary antiquarian book-dealers and an investigation of the 19th century Jack the Ripper murders. The double plot fuses a hunt for rare books and the Ripper.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Very tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected by mylar cover.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Out of print. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with small dent to spine. Dust jacket with slight soiling, chipping and small tear to front cover. Overall a very nice, tight copy in protective, clear brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Top edge gilt. Gilt title on white cloth spine, front cover with sea motif in silver over gray paper. Title on pastedown in upper right corner of front cover. Hand numbered #93 of 675 copies. Features 10 full color tipped-in plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Cover corners with light/moderate rubbing. Hinges intact but tender. Nice copy.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle, Co., 3rd printing, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Pictorial dust jacket with soiling and slight wear. Pink boards, black spine. Front flyleaf clipped. Foxing to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Red boards. Color pictorial dj. Clean, unmarked, tight.
Hardcover. Algonquin Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. When Alizee Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters, and moving between the past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into the divisiveness of prewar politics and the largely forgotten plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States. It captures both the inner workings of New York's art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American school of Abstract Expressionism.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st U.S., 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue, 576 pages. First published in England in 1891. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , John Lane Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 308 pages, some mild foxing otherwise clean. A novel of World War 1.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy in protective brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that is unclipped. First edition of this first novel by Coover. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover and dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Thomas McLean, 1st, 1819, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Volumes, red hardcovers with half calf leather bindings. Heavy foxing and moderate soiling to pages. Fifteen engravings from drawings in color. Marbled end papers. Light chipping on edges of cover boards. Tight copies.
Hardcover. New York, Lovell, Coryell & Co., 2nd pr., 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. 293 and 292 pages. 3/4 leather covers w/ gilt lettering and design on spine. Gilt top edges. Marbled end paper. Rough-cut pages. Light rubbing, edge wear to covers. Front hinge on Volume II slightly cracked. Else very clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket and foxing to fore edge. Light soil on top page block. Light fading to black cloth cover boards, otherwise tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1872, Cottonwood, Kansas, is a one-horse speck on the map; a community of run-down farms, dusty roads, and two-bit crooks. Self-educated saloon owner and photographer Bill Ogden looks on his adopted town with an eye to making a profit or getting out. His brains and ambition bring him to the attention of one Marc Leval, a wealthy Chicago developer with big plans for the small town. The advent of the railroad and rumors of a cattle trail turn Cottonwood into a wild and wooly boomtown--and with Leval as a partner, Ogden dreams of bringing civilization to the prairie. But civilizing the Great Plains was never that simple. While many in Cottonwood distrust Leval's motives, and mob violence threatens to derail the town's dreams of greatness, Ogden finds himself dangerously obsessed with Leval's stunningly beautiful wife. Meanwhile, plying its sinister trade unnoticed, an apparently ordinary local farm family quietly butchers traveling salesmen, weary travelers, and other unsuspecting wanderers. In his own inimitable brand of narrative wizardry, Scott Phillips traces the metamorphosis of a frontier town that becomes a lightning rod for sin, corruption, and murder. He also brings to life actual crimes that befell Kansas in the 1870s and 1880s, carried out by a strange clan who popularly became known as The Bloody Benders. Brilliantly written, maliciously fun, and full of many surprises, Cottonwood is historical fiction at its finest.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 395 pages. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Degree of darkening to spine cloth. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, James Munroe, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with embossed design on covers, gilt title on spine. 252 pages. 2 volumes in one. A fictional account of Thomas Morton's "Merry Mount" community, arguably America's first notable contrarian movement: anti-Puritan, devoted to public sinning, and credited with erecting the first Maypole in North America. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Corners bumped. Rubbing to extremities. Chipping to spine cover. Light foxing to a few pages.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 2nd, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Fraying and heavy rubbing on blue cover boards, corners frayed and ligth worm damage to margins.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Journey Editions, 1st, 1994, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 248 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Bragg. In Asylum Earth, nothing is quite as it seems. Toulouse-Lautrec shares a room with El Greco in "Art Heaven," while back among the living, an irate "Letter to the Editor" demands that someone go in and finish "all those impressionist paintings - why leave just an impression?" Irreverent and brilliantly funny, Bragg brings us a view of his own special reality - and sheds new light on what we know of our own. Witticisms, satire, and irony abound, and no profession or institution escapes Bragg's sharp eye. Often compared to Daumier, Nast, and Bosch, Bragg is a master of observation. Once our human frailties are scrutinized by his myopic gaze, we may never see ourselves in quite the same way again! Illustrated throughout with Bragg's paintings and etchings.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 82 pages. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson with 62 pen and ink drawings, gilt decorated blue boards, all edges gilt, previous owner's book plate on front endpaper, minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 360 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, First Edition, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with embossed art nouveau design, light green ink & gilt titles. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Light foxing to a couple interior pages, and last illustration. Otherwise light toning to edges, clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 633 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Illustrations by Peter Kuper.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. When Doc and Mary's son Jack brings his friend Andrew Cunningham to Woods Hole and the guest is found dead the next morning, Jack is blamed, and Doc Adams becomes Cape Cod's temporary medical examiner to learn the truth. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 262 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
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