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. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 242 pages. Gray cloth cover with minor bumping to corners and edges. Residue from small sticker on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. A series of short stories based around the Nazi regime during it's tenure in Germany and Europe.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY MORRIS on the half-title page. The author's third book.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Marc Romano. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London , E. Nister, unk, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 319 pages. 6 color plates and 70 half-tone illustrations by W. Paget. Green cloth covers with red, yellow, and gold decoration. Gold and black lettering. Beveled edge. Front hinge cracked. Soiling to covers. Wear to extremities. Sticker on front end paper.
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.
Softcover. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1st pb, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Japan Foundation Translation Series. 266 pages. Translated to English by Dennis Keene. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy of this scarce title.
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. 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. New York, Viking , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edgewear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 213 pages. Light bump to lower edge of spine, else a lovely copy of the author's first book. Blurbs by Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, Wright Morris & Larry Woiwode on back cover.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY STRAND on title page. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A collection of short stories.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A debut collection of short fiction from the author of the novel Leaving the Land, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Douglas Unger's fiction is sharp-edged and compelling, whether he's exploring his own boyhood on the street ("Autobiography") or the life of a student lab assistant who bonds with a burnt-out rhesus monkey ("Leslie and Sam") or the strange fate of a young woman who returns from a second honeymoon on a paradisiacal Brazilian island to succumb to a mysterious disease ("Tide Pool"). The collection is capped by the powerful novella "Looking for War," where a would-be war correspondent, whose older brother is a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, stumbles upon his own war in a grisly five-minute action in the jungles of Paraguay.
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. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 89 pages. Red pictorial binding white lettering, Adam carving a grave stone with two monkeys watching. Library markings. edge wear. B&w illustrations by F. Strothman. First printing with 1904 on the title page and copyright page.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 294 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. A collection of short stories, from the author's earliest fiction in 1937 to her new novella "Dr. Heart". 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.
Softcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages. An expanded edition of a book first published in 1983. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY FRANCIS on title page. Minor soil to dust jacket.
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, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, in a protected sleeve. Intelligent and heartfelt short stories. Rough-cut edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Friends of the Library of Middlebury College, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet with cream colored heavy stock paper. Black decoration on front. Limited to 350 copies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Ed., 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering, light soil, spine darkened. Clean, sound copy. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PRINTING - NOT A REPRINT.
Hardcover. London, Julia MacRae Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gray boards, red cloth spine. Very good in pictorial dust jacket.
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. 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.
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. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small volume (4 X 6 1/4"), blue cloth designed and lettered in white. Frontispiece and 5 plates in b/w by Frank Nankivell. Comical theatrical play the scene of which is "a summer hotel in mid-August, where a group of summer-girls, longing for masculine companionship, construct a large worsted man from an old afghan, stuffing him with cotton. He comes to life, and proves to be one of the worst flirts ever created. Exceedingly funny to read, and is suitable for amateur theatricals." Includes a depreciating African-American character, Sambo Front, and use of music borrowed from Gilbert and Sullivan. Inscription on front fly leaf dated 1905, otherwise clean, bright copy. Plate at page 6 is loose.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with design and paste-down illustration on cover. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. These are thick pages with glossy color plates on most every page. This edition is the first illustrated edition of the poetry which was first published in 1870 .
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 177 pages. INSCRIBED BY BLOOM ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Related newspaper clippings laid in. A very nice, tight copy. A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green cloth with dark green lettering on cover, 79 pages, b&w frontis. Seven stories set in New England and told, in part, in dialect. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ecco Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, light rubbing, mild soil to the unclipped dust jacket, small tape repair to inside of jacket at top of spine, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson's death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come. Clean copy.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and 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.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly and Lee Co., reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Illustrations from woodcuts by John T. McCutcheon. Red cloth covers with gold lettering, some stains on covers. Dust jacket fragile with minor tears on edges.
Hardcover. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages, 8 b&w illustrations by A.B. Frost. Gray covers w/ light edge wear, Illustration on cover pastedown. Small stain to fore-edge. Front hinge weak. Spine lettering faded. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Boston, MA, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Moderate soil to page block. Chipping and rubbing to wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy. This story collection contains: First Love; The Butcher's Daughter; The Whore Mother; The Garden of Eden; Northern Summers; The Dead; The Enemy; The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters; and The Meat Eaters.
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.
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