Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 130 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover. Original dust jacket with attractive graphics, and only light marginal wear to edges. Top edge yellow. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, green cloth with circular design on front cover with gilt and 2-colors. One inch tear to top of title page, previous owner's signature on front blank prelim page. Still a very good copy overall.
Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1ST, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Now, Diaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love."
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 page, illustrated by Gluyas Williams with black & white drawings and two-color illustration on front cloth cover. Benchley's 2nd book. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Mild wear.
Hardcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small publication date slip laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Nice, bright copy, end papers illustrated in 2-colors.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Colored decoration on front cover, light rubbing. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 651 pages. Clean, tight copy. Few writers of the past quarter-century have so consistently surprised, startled, and delighted their readers as has the masterful Richard Bausch, whom the Washington Post Book World calls "a virtuoso of language and literary grace." His nine critically acclaimed novels have established him as one of the most important fiction writers of his generation, a visionary stylist with an acute eye for the minute detail that illuminates the deepest wells of human experience. Yet it is for his award-winning short fiction that Bausch is perhaps most admired. The Stories of Richard Bausch celebrates the work of a great American artist, a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth boards, orange title label to upper board and back strip, black lettering, orange end papers, top edge stained red, black illustrative boarders on leaves. Two stories: "The Story of a White Blackbird" and "The Young Foreigner". Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ELLISON on the title page. Ellison's sixteen previously uncollected stories and new novella further his reputation as an intrepid explorer of odd psychological corners and a master of pure horror and black comedy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Robert Carter & Brothers, reprint, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and black, 436 pages plus publisher's ads. Miller's first prose work, a mixture of legend, folklore, history and contemporary observation, 'a delightfully affectionate picture of his birthplace'. First published in the UK in 1835. Includes the author's dedication and his Introduction to the Second Edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This collection of twenty-seven stories of Frank O'Connor, written between 1957 and his death in 1966, presents us with a stifling petitbourgeois society which seems deliberately organized to starve the mind and the emotions. Young people, crippled by poverty and sexual timidity, wait for their parents to die in order to marry; illegitimate children dream and mourn over families they never know; middle-aged bachelors nest with their mothers; priests live and die in terrible loneliness. Through all the stories runs the ubiquitous influence of the Church--like drink, a curse of the Irish. And yet somehow, this depressing material is turned in O'Connor's stories to charm. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 252 pages. A collection of short stories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. A collection of short stories which illuminate, with imagery and humor, the darkest corners of the American soul. The author attempts to capture the personalities of rural America, shaped by poverty, cruelty and an odd compassion.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages plus ads in rear. Illustrated in b&w by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Brown cloth decorated in gilt and black (bright gilt drawing of rabbit with pipe on front). First printing with no mention of this title among 8 pages of publisher's ads in back and the word presumptive in the last line on page 9. Endpapers feature a light gray butterfly pattern. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.
Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st paperback., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 83 pages. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in plates by D. Howard Hitchcock. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Brown cloth with gilt titles.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear fly leaf, number 940 of a limited 1500 copies, color illustrations by Edmund Dulac throughout, golden metal cockerel affixed to front cover, illustrated cover jacket, slipcase. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY O'NAN on title page, with a short hand-written note from the author laid in. His first book. The 1993 winner of the Drue Heinz Prize and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize. A collection of twelve short stories.
Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY WENIG. Czech language. Black & white pen-line drawings in color by Mikolase Alse. Red cloth with gilt decoration.
Hardcover. New York, Esquire, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY GINGRICH on copyright page. Slip case slight foxing on label. Top edge gilt. Limited Edition.
Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with gilt lettering. Clean, brown cloth cover boards. Internal pages clean and signatures tight.
Hardcover. NY, Picador, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY CARLSON on the title page. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, The World Publishing House, 1st US, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover. With 60 b/w illustrations/plates. B/w illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. No other printings mentioned on publication page, either 1st edition or very early printing. Cover boards bound in green cloth, title reverse in gilt on spine, black decoration on spine and front cover board, decoration blind stamped on back cover board. Some rubbing and chipping to boards (see images). Some tanning to edges and pages, doesn't affect illustrations or text. Some foxing on a few pages (see image). Binding remains tight. Spine very slightly cocked. Short stories by literary master Jules Verne, beautifully bound and ready for display. Illustrated by Henri Theophile Hildibrand, well known for his illustrations in Verne's books.
Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. National Book award winner for 2014. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Ny, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. "Collection of stories including scientific romances, contes philosophiques and stories of the supernatural. The most important of the latter is the novella Dromenon, in which an antiquarian discovers the true nature of medieval Christian worship by means of a restored church organ". Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 238 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With the sticker on cover stating" "Selected By The New Yorker As one of the best American fiction writers under 40". A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a surprising cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Following The Missing Person, her highly praised debut--"A seriously entertaining and probing novel," wrote The Washington Post Book World--Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her impressive range. In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to the Southwest (where a Soviet-era exchange student changes a family's dynamic forever), the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. A tenacious eight-year-old practices piano on paper keys; an expectant mother, settling into an idyllic farmhouse, discovers the tragic story of its previous, rightful inhabitants; and a fictional haunted hospital becomes an obsession for a ghostwriter grappling with her empty nest. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in b&w on the front color, gilt lettering on the spine. Robinson (1833-1900) was a noted Quaker author from a well-respected and artistic Vermont family whose writings and art captured the dialect, culture and time of pre-Civil War Vermont, set in the imaginary town of Danvis, largely drawing from his the inhabitants and experiences of Ferrisburgh, VT. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 211 pages. The author's first collection of short stories, ten stories which explore the British experience of France over a period of 300 years, from the 17th century to the present. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a beautiful copy,
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sixteen stories filled with characters who run the gamut from slow sizzle to high sass are brought to life in an anthology of short fiction that captures them struggling to cope with love and loss, pain and healing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 3rd Ed., 1875, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth decorated in gilt and black, 386 pages. 4 b&w engraved illustrations. Humorous tales of western rural life. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Canongate Pub Ltd, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AS 'BILL' UPSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Red cloth covers, yellow dust jacket. Light edgewear and mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisped and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by NORMAN on title page.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Lousiana State University, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER TO JOHN GARDNER in 1973 on half title page. dust jacket with closed tear to front cover, light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with a 3-color design. Tales of New York City before the turn of the century. Decorated green cloth. Frontispiece of the author, black & white illustrations by F.A. Nankivell. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear and fading to spine.
Softcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 142 pages. Humoroue instructions for the man living on his own. Cartoons by Quenin Blake. Book is clean, very good, dust jacket is worn, chipped.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's blue cloth with decoration of men sitting at table and smoking cigars. Humorous essays, including "The Social Life of a Newt." Author's first book. This copy published without the four pages of advertisements at the back (no priority known). 234 pages. Tiny hole near bottom of fist two pages, not affectin title page. Previous owner's inscription dated 1921 on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st illust thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. This is a collaborative edition with Jaime Hernandez illustrations. John Hodgman calls Hernandez "one of the most talented artists our polyglot culture has produced." Bright teal slipcase. Book has no DJ as issued. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Jeff Thomas. A collection of classic Welsh stories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Collection of short fiction including the title story, the basis for the film "Rollerball" directed by Norman Jewison and starring James Caan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 3rd Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, faded gilt title on spine, 480 pages. Contains local folklore under various heading such as Giants, fairies, Tregeagle, mermaids, sorcery & witchcraft etc. A few black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
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