Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY WELDON on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Routledge and Sons, Reprint, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. No publishers date - circa 1880's - inscription on front endpaper dated Christmas 1886. Gray green cloth with decoration on spine and cover in black. Spine title on gilt background. Features 126 black & white illustrations by Riou. Tanning to preliminary, and rear pages. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 406 pages, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies, introduction by John T. Winterich. Decorated cloth board with gilt title and slipcase, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Orange cloth cover, minor wear to cover and dust jacket. Inside is clean and bright. A very tight copy. The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Honore Guilbeau, in rear, marbled covers with gilt title on leather spine, black slipcase. Minor corner bumps and light chip to spine edge, slipcase lightly cracked, overall, clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. SIGNED BY TREVOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth with 3-color decoration on front cover. The design and color frontispiece are by J.C. Lyendecker. Hinges cracked and front fly leaf gone, but a solid, clean copy otherwise.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Truth Seeker Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and gilt. Morgan Andrew Robertson [1861-1915] was an American author and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. This title is apparently his rare first book- a narrative poem about heaven versus the devil. B&w frontis and great text illustrations by A. Carey K. Jurist. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 192 pages. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety? Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an nclipped dust jacket that has fading to spine. Basis for the 1976 award-winning film directed by Bruno Barreto, starring Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca. Dona Flor is an adorable woman - with a body made for love, a mind of her own, a cozy disposition, a witty tongue, a kissable face, high moral principles - and she can cook, too. One wants her to have everything. And she gets it all-but, alas, from two different men! The question: is it possible for a moral woman like Flor to enjoy two husbands at once? Clean copy.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzman, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and INSCRIBED on half-title. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED. Doyles's hastily scrawled signature on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY HIJUELOS on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HEGI on prelim. page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Minor edgewear, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel looking at the concerns of overpopulation. The story centers around one man standing in a mile long line to present an outlandish petition. The character and location descriptions bring them to life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line from 1 to 10; SIGNED BY RUSHDIE on the half-title page with no inscription. DJ in metallic silver printed in blue lettering.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Dust jacket wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, yellow wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 164 pages. When David's parents, who argue all the time, decide to take separate vacations, they agree to send him to his Grandma Ruthie's--whom he hardly knows--for a whole month! But the quiet town she lives in offers David the people, events, and ideas that help him realize what is best for his own future. Clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Edited by Henry F. May. First published in 1869, this is the first modern edition of the novel many think is the author's best work. 614 pages, small closed tear to dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Spanning from the end of the nineteenth century, when the colonizers carved up Africa, on through the tumultuous decades of revolt and suppression that followed, 'Afterlives' is an astonishingly moving portrait of survivors refusing to sacrifice their humanity to the violent forces that assail them." Clean copy.
Softcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Paperback original. Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Signed by author on title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black and blue boards, 522 pages. This volume contains: Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable and How It Is. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black and blue boards, 478 pages. This volume contains: Murphy/Watt/Mercier and Camier. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, uclipped dust jacket. A moving and evocative look inside the world of rock and roll follows Laurie Moss as she leaves her native Texas in 1994 seeking stardom in California, where she struggles against the rampant sexism and cruelty of the music business.
NY, Lincoln MacVeagh. Dial Press, 1st US, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and vignette on front cover, 290 pages. A Story of Northern Ireland before the Revolution. Rich in humor and humanity, it was one of the six novels chosen, out of thousands by Harrap, the English publisher for a cash prize. The green cloth has discoloration, washed out splotches mostly to rear cover and part of spine. The interior is clean, binding tight.
Hardcover. NY, First Second, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating. In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? Two-color art throughout by Brian "Box" Brown. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historic novel set in 17th century Spain during the Inquisition. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.
Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new. Richard Bausch "tells the heartwarming and riotously funny coming-of-age story of Walter Marshall, whose fumblings toward manhood coincide with cataclysmic change in the country."
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid in. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Tan cloth, white spot to front cover. Dust jacket with acetate cover, minor wear to edges, light spotting, price-clipped. Tanning to front and back end pages. Stated first printing on copyright page.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 473 pages plus ads. Hardcover. Some darkening and fading to endpapers. Blue cloth covers with title and illustration in gilt on spine. Covers show light wear with minor rubbing to corners and edges. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Jasper Fforde's novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England. In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. The sequel to Fforde's first literary detective novel, The Eyre Affair, starring the inimitable protagonist, Thursday Next. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. 5th in the Thursday Next series. Promotional postcard laid-in. ("Tricks of the Trade Revealed" postcard #7 showing Fforde and his clones manically signing books.). Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. (Juris Tech Respirator). Exhausted by her hectic stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, is delighted by a supposed respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, plot devices, grammasites, and a murderer. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. (Swindon PD Speed Camera). Exhausted by her hectic stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, is delighted by a supposed respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, plot devices, grammasites, and a murderer. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author and dated on the title page, without dedication. Color illustration. Exhausted by her hectic stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, is delighted by a supposed respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, plot devices, grammasites, and a murderer. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. The sixth novel in the 'Thursday Next' series. Clean, like new. Collectors postcard included.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war." Clean, bright copy.