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.
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. 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.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1st US, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, with 10 b&w illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Dust jacket edge wear and small tears along top edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 83 pages, b&w illustrations by W. T. Smedley. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to cover corners. Small stains on rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BUSCH on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alferd A. Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a special blank tipped-in page, one of an unknown number of such copies specially issued by publisher. The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 498 pages. This novel was the basis for the PBS Mini-series of the same name that's a lifetime story of Logan Mountstuart that was played by three different actors.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages. Author's first book. Light wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy in protective mylar cover. Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick and Angela uncover a ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 2nd printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 2nd pr., 1961 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Light tape repair on dust jacket and light tanning to pages, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the start a young man who finds himself at the wrong end of the system, a system he will never beat, one that he suddenly finds himself at the end of a noose for rape and murder. Set at the Time of Crecy, young Martin finds himself going from a life of routine drudgery to one where his life depends on those around him a soldier in the Kings army.
Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Harry Gainesborough, a children's book author who has written nothing since his daughter's death, fears that his weirdest book, "Zod Wallop," is actually coming to life when a series of horrible coincidences occur. Sly humor and eccentric characters raise Spencer's third novel (following Resume, with Monsters) far above run-of-the-mill fantasy fare. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Full number line down to and including 1. In grey boards with blue type to spine. Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate-on identity and what it is that defines us-from which he cannot break free. Indefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organ-grinder is concluded, he begins to meet the various characters who populate the town, including a young freethinker named Sophie. Though she is engaged to be married, Sophie and Hans begin a relationship that defies contemporary mores about female sexuality and what can and cannot be said about it. Traveler of the Century is a deeply intellectual novel, chock-full of discussions about philosophy, history, literature, love, and translation. It is a book that looks to the past in order to have us reconsider the conflicts of our present. The winner of Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, Traveler of the Century marks the English-language debut of Andres Neuman, a writer described by Roberto Bolano as being "touched by grace." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. Stated First Edition on copyright page. SIGNED BY WELTY in her small, dainty hand on the front fly leaf, which has some age-tanning to the paper. Losing Battles was Welty's fourth novel and her longest. She worked over fifteen years on it.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. London, Granta, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy.
Hardcover. Brattleborough, William Fessenden, 2nd, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Miniature hardcover with heavy rubbing to leather covers. Pages browned by age, moderate soil. Ex-Library with sticker on spine, and embossed stamp on front fly leaf. Tight copy for age. Previous owner's name on sticky note.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 260 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brief notes in pencil on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Habberton spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life and for his hugely successful book 'Helen's Babies.'
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Canongate Books Ltd, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 383 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Scarce novel about the War of 1812.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , J.B .Lippincott, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, light blue-green covers with two color plus gilt decoration. Color frontispiece by Douglas Duer. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Macaulay Company, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration in bw, "At the sharp crack of the rifle, Moran stopped short." Brown cloth boards with orange printed titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light foxing to a few pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked.
hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FRAYN on title-page.
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