Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 170 pages, top edge gilt, 8 color Illustrations by H.C. Christy. Light wear to cover decoration in gilt and 2-colors by Margaret Armstrong. Light corner wear to cloth.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Overweight Esme Singer eats her way into adolescence--as her beautiful, divorced mother boozes and searches for the perfect man, and her irresponsible father promises the moon but delivers nothing. "Benedict's masterful second novel evokes the anxieties of childhood and adolescence with rare clarity,'' (Publisher's Weekly)
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 570 pages. Mylar cover. Slight wear to edges of dust jacket, else a neat, tight copy. His third novel, an epic historical novel set during the Civil War. Includes a list of the characters and a calendar of the War.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1t, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 166 pages. Story of two cousins & their mothers, one of whom has run away. Dust jacket illustration by James McMullan.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages. When Danita finds out that she has an older half brother, she must reexamine the way she sees her father & family.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, with drawings by Annie Newnham and introduction by Frank Delaney, yellow slipcase with pictorial cover on yellow cloth board. Unmarked and bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Routledge and Sons, Reprint, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 269 pages. No date - circa 1880's. Gray 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. New York, Pierre Louys Society, 1st Thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. 12 Full color Illustrations by Clara Tice. Limited edition of 1250 copies - this being hand numbered #47. Front hinge cracked with front cover still attached firmly to spine cloth. Text and illustrations clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 546 pages. Slight soiling to bottom edge, else a very neat, tight copy in beautiful dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st English, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, minor foxing on fore edge and light water stains on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Moderate wear and tearing to dust jacket. Covers clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Decked foreedge. Teal fabric covered, Very clean inside and out. Review from back cover, "There's a cast of characters worthy of a modern-day Shakespeare; bathetic descriptions of using the lavatory that would have had Beckett smiling; and the gods' playful pursuit of women that could be lifted straight from Ovid's The Art of Love. Banville, already esteemed for the brilliance of his language, proves in this novel to have a mastery, too, of these many colliding universes."
Hardcover. New York , Linden Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tight, clean copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUNNE on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, Usher & Strickland, 1st, 1841, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, embossed brown cloth covers, gilt on spine. An autobiographical narrative with temperance leanings. Much on nautical life from the seaman's perspective: whaling, slave trade and daily life aboard a ship. Three page preface signed L.C. Scarce. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 358 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Green cloth boards with a bright gilt design. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Historical fiction concerning Shay's Rebellion.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages. The author's first novel.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 398 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.INSCRIBED BY GAVIN on front end paper. Slight bottom edge soil.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, Truman and Spofford, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes complete, 327, 306 pages. 2-color and b&w illustrations by Henri Lovie and Charles Bauerle. Original brown cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Pre-Civil War black author, a novel about slavery. Previous owner's small name stamp on inside front covers, otherwise both volumes tight and clean, all plates present. Light corner wear to covers and spine extremities. Vol. 1 has a small chip to the bottom of spine cloth, top spine edge has small tear starting. Interior very good.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 667 pages. Red cloth, gilt titled spine. Limited to 1000 copies. Good slipcase. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in color by John Leech. Spine faded, slipcase shows edgewear, some fraying.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 277 pages, black cloth spine over beige color boards. Lettering on spine faded, light fraying to top of spine. Front pastedown with previous owner's bookplate and small bookstore sticker. Otherwise clean, tight copy of a scarce book.
hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Novel based on a true piece of colonial history when 25 European radicals met on Lamu planning to travel inland & set up a Utopia on Mount Kenya.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages. Hardcover. Navy top edge. Toning throughout. Light foxing to endpapers. Original dust jacket with toning, faint foxing to inside edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages. Hardcover. Brown tweed cloth with brown & black printed titles to spine. Navy top edge. Toning to edges. Original dust jacket, bright with light toning & edgewear. Very clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, W.H. Allen / Virgin Books, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with light wear on 3/4 cloth binding covers.
Hardcover. Long Beach CA, privately printed, 3rd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 527 pages followed by author's 9 page catalog of ads for his titles. Maroon cloth with black lettering. Gilt lettered spine with Upton Sinclair at foot of spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR'S WIFE on front fly leaf, "With best wishes Mary Craig Sinclair, Long Beach, Calif., July 6 '28". Minor soil to covers, slight cock to spine, overall very good.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 293 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 370 pages. A tale of the grandsons of a Slovenian immigrant vividly portrayed with settings in the California coastal towns of San Francisco and San Pedro.
Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages. Minor cover and spine edge wear. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Ex-library with some end paper markings & stamping. Otherwise an attractive copy in decorated green cloth covers with gilt lettering.
Paperback. Boston MA, G.K. Hall, reprint wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 227 pages. SIGNED BY PROSE on title page. Like new condition.
Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 359 pages. minor shelf-wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 292 pages. Super clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 94 pages. B&w cartoon illustrations by Gluyas Williams. In a dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 326 pages. Bound in original dark red cloth with lettering in black.
Hardcover. Boston, Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1st, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I contains 329 pages followed by six pages of ads. Volume II contains 370 pages (including the appendix) followed by one blank leaf. Hardcovers. Gilt text on the spines, as well as to top and bottom text block edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpapers in both volumes. Volume 1 has rubbing and edgewear to boards and slight cracking to spine. Slightly unhinged front flyleaf. Mild creasing to top edges of page 25 and to fore edge of page 291. Moderate bumping to corners. Volume II has rubbing and edgewear to boards and slight cracking to spine as well. Slightly unhinged front flyleaf. Two inch tear to front flyleaf fore edge. Moderate bumping to corners. Unmarked. Bright and clean copies.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with a black cloth spine, 273 pages. Grubb's first book which was made into a Charles Laughton directed movie with Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. One of a thousand copies specially autographed for friends of the author and publisher. Small scar to blue paper on boards along cloth on front cover, other wise clean, bright copy. Lacking the glassine wrapper.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Novel set in the rural Lithuanian countryside first published in 1955 and translated into English here for the first time the year following the author's winning the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Author's first book SIGNED by him on front end paper. Some edgewear and tanning to white dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.
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