Softcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Advance Review Copy, rose colored wraps stamped in black. Cover and next two blank pages loose from spine, spine has paper loss, exposing signatures. Still a firm binding except for cover and first two pages, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY OTTO on the title page. This captivating novel opens in 1917 as Cymbeline Kelley surveys the charred remains of her photography studio, destroyed in a fire started by a woman hired to help take care of the house while Cymbeline pursued her photography career. This tension-- between wanting and needing to be two places at once; between domestic duty and ambition; between public and private life; between what's seen and what's hidden from view--echoes in the stories of the other seven women in the book. Among them: Amadora Allesbury, who creates a world of color and whimsy in an attempt to recapture the joy lost to WWI; Clara Argento, who finds her voice working alongside socialist revolutionaries in Mexico; Lenny Van Pelt, a gorgeous model who feels more comfortable photographing the deserted towns of the French countryside after WWII than she does at a couture fashion shoot; and Miri Marx, who has traveled the world taking pictures, but also loves her quiet life as a wife and mother in her New York apartment. Crisscrossing the world and a century, Eight Girls Taking Pictures is an affecting meditation on the conflicts women face and the choices they make. These memorable characters seek extraordinary lives through their work, yet they also find meaning and reward in the ordinary tasks of motherhood, marriage, and domesticity. Most of all, this novel is a vivid portrait of women in love--in love with men, other women, children, their careers, beauty, and freedom.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages, with drawings by Annie Newnham and an introduction by Frank Delaney, blue slipcase and pictorial cover on blue cloth board.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Light fading to top otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover shows some light wear but otherwise internally clean. Black & white illustrations by E.W. Kemble. An early American novel featuring Italian immigrants in New York by a respected journalist who was familiar with the people there. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages, illustrated with 12 color and 18 b&w plates by Arthur Rackham. Original red cloth cover with black design, a few small areas where red is flaked, leaving white. Illustrated endpapers. Rear end papers have some light foxing. All plates with tissue guards with red lettering. Dust jacket spine darkened but design and lettering still readable., no price on jacket flap. A tight, clean copy of this reprint. No date but would have to be after 1926.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY O'BRIEN on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers faded at spine and worn at corners. Frayed at top spine. Gutter cracked at page 65, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Hardcover in slip case, no dust jacket. NUMBERED 319 of 500 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Black cloth covered slip case, and cover boards. Spine heavily faded with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with green and gilt stamping. A story of love, murder and suicide, described by one critic as "atmospheric to the verge of mystical." The novel concerns a woman named Felicia Lissell, who travels to Rhodesia with her aunt, to visit the farm of Dick Cardross, but she doesn't suspect that "dangerous social complications awaited her in the gay English colony nearby." The author, born Lilian Julian Webb in London in 1862, was a resident of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1896. She achieved international recognition with the publication of her story collection "Virginia of the Rhodesians" in 1904, and went on to great success as the author of numerous novels. Owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 249 pages. Clean copy. To preserve his relationship with his best friend, Jonathan, Hank becomes enmeshed in Jonathan's struggle to save his cousin, David, a Holocaust survivor, from his horrific memories of the war and his self-destructive behavior.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth cover boards with gilt reverse lettering on front and spine. Corners bumped, rear board has moderate soiling, spine shows heavy rubbing and wear. Illutrations by W.H.D. Koerner. Spine slightly cocked, but tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle." SIGNED BY PEARSON on half title page.
Paperback. St. Paul, Graywolf Press, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Uncorrected Page Proof copy.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Bright, clean copy in similar dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCOTT on the title page.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1st thus, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles on spine very faded, 12 color plates by Edmund Dulac. Endpapers foxed, rear covers with discoloration, light wear to top and bottom of spine. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodd Mead & Co, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B/W illustrations by T.H. Robinson. Moderate rubbing and heavy chipping to spine edges, moderate edge wear to page block. Clean copy. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, tattered dust jacket. Novel by an American journalist about fighting in Greece during WW2. Clean copy.
Softcover. Brattleboro VT, Green Writers Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 213 pages, like new condition. A mythic tale about loneliness and survival set in the northern hills of Vermont. Illustrated by Donald Saaf.
Hardcover. New York, Granta Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing to back. Authors first book.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Archaia, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout by Fincher/Hyman. Clean, tight copy with minor if any wear to edges.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing and name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing and name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co, 2nd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light edgewear to green cloth covers. Previous owner's name and writing on front end paper and front fly leaf. Illustrated.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY WERTMULLER, Italian screenwriter and film director. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for Seven Beauties in 1977. She is also known for her films The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy and Swept Away. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial front cover. Light fraying to edges. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and bookplate on next page. Illustrations by Frnak Schoonover.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 9th, 1937, 149 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rear end paper dry and starting to separate. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front pages. Light corner bumps. Illustrations by Lynd Ward.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on covers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine wrinkled.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Price clipped from dust jacket, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, adv. reading copy, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover with minor wear to wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Viking, uncor. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Softcover with minor wear to wrappers. Signed on title page. Tight copy. Crease on front top right corner.
Softcover. New York, DoubleDay, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. With bright, but chipped dust jacket (mostly on top, bottom edge of spine, tiny chipping at corners).
Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Sun Dial Press, Inc., Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. Reprint. Price clipped dust jacket with darkening to spine, chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NEW YORK, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 303 pages. Some discoloration to end papers. Some soiling to covers. Spine faded. Light rubbing to extremities. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 138 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 7 full color plates by Hugh Thomson. Pages featuring plates are age darkened, with toning in some cases transferred onto bordering pages. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Red cloth covers gilt titles. Dust jacket worn, with chipping, paper missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NEW YORK, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages. True 1st edition. Foxing to end papers. Fading to spine. No dust jacket.
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