Hardcover. London, Sinclair Stevenson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 195 pages, in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOYD on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 294 pages. SIGNED BY LEACOCK and dated Nov 25, 1927 on front fly leaf. Book was first published in 1917, this is the 1924 Edition. No dust jacket, cover has light flecking to edge, spine darkened, otherwise clean and tight.
Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, self published, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, light tan card wraps. SIGNED BY TYLER on title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Preface by Jorge Luis Borges. Translated from the Spanish by Richard and Lucia Cunningham. Published originally as La Ultima Niebla, by Editorial Orbe, Santiago de Chile: 1976. Maria Luisa Bombal (1910-1980) was one of the most important Chilean writers of the 20th century. The stories in New Islands, written in the 1940s, represent the best of Bombal's work. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers , 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with brown decoration and lettering. "Selected from The Works of Mark Twain by C.N. Kendall, Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis, and Arranged for Home and Supplementary Reading in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades." - from the title page. Eight b&w plates. Scarce Twain title. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue textured cloth with decorative gilt title on spine. Vol. 2 ONLY of a ten volume set. This book combines the 3rd and 4th volumes in the original 18 volume set. 213 + 238 pages. Frontis. engraving and illustrated title page reprinted from the 1832 edition. This collection of moral tales written by Maria Edgeworth explores themes of education, family relationships, and social issues in 19th century Ireland. The stories are entertaining and engaging while also providing valuable lessons about life and morality. Edgeworth was a significant figure in the development of the novel as a literary form and her work is still widely read and admired today. Solid binding, mild foxing. Previous owner's name on title page.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt. Orange and white pictorial paste-on cover. Orange and white pictorial endpapers. 36 illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. Includes a section of Flagg illustrations spoofing other contemporary colleagues in their styling, including Howard Chandler Christy, Harrison Fisher, Charles Dana Gibson, among others. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sixteen stories centering on small-town existence and how peoples' lives are shaped by love explore the ways in which need and loneliness color individuals' longings for affection.
Hardcover. London, Elkin Mathews and Marrot Limited, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color decorated boards with an orange cloth spine, 36 pages. Paper label on front with title. SIGNED BY COLUM on the limitation page, this is #263 of 500 for sale. Endpapers darkened otherwise clean, very good.
Softcover. New York, Faber, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1/4 black cloth. Silver lettering on spine. Black/purple decorative dj in protective clear plastic. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUBUS on title page and also INSCRIBED by him on the opposite blank leaf. Previous owner's signature and address on the front fly leaf.
Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , proof wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an uncorrected proof in green wrappers, great condition. A collection of three novellas, one of which features Harrison"s memorable character, Brown Dog.
Softcover. New York, Clarion, Ltd. Ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 244 signed (#176). SIGNED BY TREVOR AND ILLUSTRATOR HOGARTH. Color illustrations by Paul Hogarth. Cardboard covers. 20 pages. The story first appeared in the October 30, 1995 issue of The New Yorker.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st US advanced review copy , 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Laid-in: review slip.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Brown cloth cover boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Light soil and darkening to pages. Gutter crack in middle. Moderate rubbing and wear.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. One of 500 SIGNED BY BENEDICT on a special tipped-in page.
Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, uncor. proof, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. TIght copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated burgundy cloth stamped in white and green, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Thorton Oakley, William Rogers, Henry Hutt. Short stories including "The Stolen Stradivarius", A Girl of the Period" and more set in the Victorian Era. Clean copy.
Softcover. Rutland VT, self-published, 2nd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red paper covers stamped with a black title and cartoon portrait of author. Yankee humor in the form of short sketches originally published in the Rutland Herald. The author (pictured in a photo on the first inside page) was a member of the Vermont legislature. Several cartoons by George Randall embellish the 90 pages of text. Ads in rear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt, gilt faded. 165 pages, 20 Native American myths. Emdossed stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good. Uncommon title.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper covered boards with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, spine ends and corners with light wear, First Edition, frontispiece portrait of author with tissue guard. INSCRIBED BY DASKAM on front fly leaf and dated May 1903. Daskam(1876-1961) was a prolific author of adult and children's fiction whose best-known work was MEMOIRS OF A BABY (1904), a satire on modern methods of child training. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken souls. Mining that same fertile soil, his debut collection, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, brings together thirteen stories charting the pathos of interior lives. Among the colorful people readers meet are: old man Meecham, who escapes from his nursing home only to find his son has rented their homestead to "white trash"; Quincy Nell Qualls, who not only falls in love with the town lothario but, pregnant, faces an inescapable end when he abandons her; Finis and Doneita Beasley, whose forty-year marriage is broken up by a dead dog; and Bobby Pettijohn -- awakened in the night by a search party after a body is discovered in his back woods. William Gay expertly sets these conflicted characters against lush backcountry scenery and defies our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human errors. Clean copy.
Softcover. Louisville KY, Sarabande Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 202 pages. If it's possible to be dubbed a "master storyteller" this early in one's career, then Leung's enchanting debut short story collection most assuredly has earned him the title. As diverse as they are similar, Leung's characters and their conditions run the gamut from elderly widower to precocious youngsters, porn star to AIDS victim, serial killer to estranged sisters, and all are lucidly portrayed in prose that is achingly lyrical and elegantly refined. Leung's stories are startling in their depth and intricacy. INSCRIBED BY LEUNG on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut, announcing a voice we have not heard before. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 161 pages, 8 color plates, many b&w drawings by Charles Robinson. Purple cloth with gilt design, blank page in rear has a list in pencil, otherwise clean. Printed from the English sheets.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light wear to upper edge of pictorial dust jacket, remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edgewear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 209 pages, decorated gray cloth covers. Title page with red decorations, small red circular decoration on each page. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.
Hardcover. Emmaus, PA, Story Classics, Ltd Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white linen cloth with black and maroon lettering on spine. # 827 of 3000. Contents include: Cavalleria rusticana. The Saint Joseph's ass. Ugly weather. Property. The mystery play. Home tragedy, and more. illust. by Aldren Watson in 2 colors. No translator credited. Slipcased.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and Black/white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, uncorrected proof in mauve wrappers. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 165 pages. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean, very good in a bright, unclipped dj.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. Anthology of 20 stories gathered from 16th Century chronicles of missionaries. Illustrated by Bierhorst, Jane Byers. Clean copy. Dust jacket price-clipped.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with a bright gilt design, deep purple endpapers, 309 pages. A collection of Jewett's short stories, including A Native of Winby, Decoration Day, Jim's Little Woman, The Failure of David Berry, The Passing of Sister Barsett, Miss Esther's Guest, The Flight of Betsy Lane, Between Mass and Vespers, and A Little Captive Maid. Binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Clean copy.
NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with stamped colored cover illustration of a winter mountain scene framed by a holly leaf wreath. Top edge gilt. Thick card pages all have pictorial borders in soft pale yellow and black by Remington. Remington end papers, tissue covered frontis and two additional full page Remington plates. Christmas story featuring Lin McLean. Beautiful illustrated book. 92 numbered pages. Some rubbing/flecking to red cloth, especially spine and rear cover. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In Gallagher's collection of 12 short stories we enter the working class world depicted by Dreiser and Farrell and, more recently, by Bobbie Ann Mason and Russell Banks. Gallagher finds her characters in laundromats and trailer parks, picking them up at a moment of revelation when suddenly the air is cleared by a profound understanding that cannot change anything. In "Bad Company" Mrs. Herbert, bringing flowers to her husband's grave, confides in a young woman she has met in the cemetery. In doing so she realizes how completely she had shut her husband out of her life. In "Girls" Ada is reunited with Esther, once her best friend. But Esther doesn't remember Ada, who comes to realize that her past has drifted away irreparably. These finely crafted stories, authentic in every detail, deal with constricted, confined lives in an unemotional yet compassionate manner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A clean copy of this Nobel Prize winning author's book of eleven short stories.
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