Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 275 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Co, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 326 pages, cloth bound, gilt lettering and illustrations embossed on front cover and spine. Circular stain on front cover, light wear to edges of cover, spine cocked, corners of some pages creased, previous owner's inscription to blank prelim page, red sticker residue to prelim page.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers, 317 pages. Corner of first page of book torn. Rubbing to extremities.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday, uncorrected proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 291 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy with soil on rear inside wrapper.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in England in 2003 and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Clean copy. Taking its title from a description of Peter Pan's Neverland, Astonishing Splashes of Colour follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, has never grown up. As her moods swing dramatically from high to low, they are illuminated by an unusual ability to interpret people and emotions through color. Kitty struggles to come to terms with her life, including the loss of her mother, a miscarriage, and an unconventional marriage to her husband, who lives in the apartment next door. And when her father and brothers reveal a family secret long hidden, it overwhelms Kitty's tenuous hold on reality and propels her on an impetuous journey to the brink of madness.
NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 281 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Mauve color cloth with a bright gilt decoration on cover, top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Half cloth boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Number 77 of no more than 100 copies authorized for distribution by Signed Editions Limited. Dust jacket has light crease on front flap.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel which takes a deeply irreverent look at literature, politics, patriotism and religion.
Softcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, uncor. proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Leipzig, Germany, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, plus postscript in rear, GERMAN TEXT. Purple cloth cover with Art Deco motif. Light edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, with eight illustrations and a pictorial spine and front cover. Minor edge wear and rub, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Hardcover. Front hinge tender. Top edge stained red.Small spot of discoloration at bottom right corner of front cover; small black spot at front cover hinge/spine edge. An early Max Brand spy adventure written under his Frost pseudonym.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 304 pages. Clean and bright except for faded spine.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 672 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DIXON on title page. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 423 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the cliches of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."
Softcover. London, Faber & Fabet, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. INSCRIBED BY HAMILTON on title page. 1st pub. in hardcover in 1991. Light wear to wraps.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket, 286 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 201 pages, b&w drawings by Brad Holland. Light edge wear, soiling to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. Lovely copy. Like new.
Hardcover. London, John Leighton, 1st, 1845, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 579 pages. Brown cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design on spine. Edge wear, rubbing to covers; spine faded. End papers wrinkled. Hinges starting to crack. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Utah, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Clean inside. From the dust jacket front flap: "In his latest book,..., Cheuse once again presents a vividly rendered gallery of characters traversing a shifting moral landscape, this time the 'new' South and West of the eighties."
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 254 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean and bright except for faded spine lettering.
Hardcover. The Overlook Press, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 730 pages. Translated from the German by Donald O. White. Set in Spain during the 1930s. English Language.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated with many line drawings by William Glackens. Khaki cloth with black, red and grey cover illustration, illustrated frontispiece, 261 pages. Hinge cracked at half-title page, otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, minor wear and soiling to white dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Winner of the Booker Prize.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages. Minor foxing to top edge, else like new in clear brodart cover. "An electrifying, magnificently and hilariously dark novel about an army and subculture wallowing in peacetime, Buffalo Soldiers catches the martial spin of history much as Catch-22 and Dog Soldiers did in their day."
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Previous owner's gift label on front flyleaf. Tan, speckled cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning from age, a couple of very small tears (barely noticeable--see image) at top along edge of dj. Part New England gothic, part fantasy, and pure rollicking adventure story, this book traces the history of a unique clan of hardy Vermonters who have survived in Kingdom County, near the Canadian border, for several generations.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has "Signed First Edition" sticker on front cover. Blue, marbled cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. An exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Softcover. Rochester, NY, Austen Press, 1st trade, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, with drawing. Black and white comics throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Doris Lessing's 1974 novel in which a woman watches the world sink into barbarism,'.where people huddle together in tribes for self-defense.'
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray textured boards with red cloth spine stamped in black. No dust jacket. Suspense and action in post-war Vienna. True First which preceded the UK edition. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Reminder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown boards with green letting on the front cover and the spine. Dust jacket is fair only with tape repairs, chipping and a chunk gone from bottom of spine. Novel about the Quaker City Quakers, a major league team closely based on the Whiz Kids-the Philadelphia Phillies, with the main characters of the book closely based on the real Whiz Kids. For instance, Phillie coach Bennie Bengough was portrayed as Bennie Benson, Robin Roberts as Rossiter, Richie Ashburn as Robbie Ashton, etc. O'Rourke made no attempts to hide the connection. The book is dedicated to the Phillies, and O'Rourke thanks many of the Phillies by name in the introduction. Name in bold pencil on front fly leaf, otherwise clean
Hardcover. New York, NY, Derby & Jackson, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 401 pages with 8 pages of advertisements. 2 illustrations before title page. Brown embossed cover with gilt title and decoration to spine. Wear to back cover. Soiling to edges. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf and rear pastedown.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages (Vol. I) and 528 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 56 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. Frayed wear to spine tops (more so on Vol. 1). Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Signed with upper case signature JASPER to the title page. Complete with 2 limited edition postcards (Dodo Manual/Speed Camera Photo), upgrade and instruction leaflet for upgrade. Very light age toning to the text block although this is an as-new, unread copy. The first of the "Thursday Next" novels. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Toronto CA, Doubleday Canada, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jack won the Leacock Humour Award for his Bandy series. It's 1924, and Bandy is making a solo flight across the Atlantic in the Gander, a seaplane of his own design. Not for fame though - he's fleeing from arrest for train robbery, from his job as Minister of Defence, and from his would-be assassin and friend George Garanine. From Iceland, to Iraq, to St. Pancreas Hospital in London, Bandy's career has never been more complicated, or his luck more of a roller coaster. When he finds new employment as Deputy Supreme Being of a mercenary air force, Bandy begins to feel that the whole British Empire has a grudge against him. But at least the pay is good.
Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A first novel about Moses Highness, brought up in an English village that nobody had ever left. Moses moves to London and begins to unearth the bizarre and chilling secrets of his past, of his mother who ate raw yeast to rise out of her misery and his father who stayed in bed for 15 years. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, John W. Lovell Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 539 pages. Hardcover. Decorated covers, gilt title on spine. bound in green fabric. Former library book with remaining markings, seals and residual labels. Spine broken on back endpapers, but still intact. Pages and edges age-yellowed. Covers in good shape with some chipping/fraying to edges and spine top and bottom. In excellent condition for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Robert Bonner's Sons, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 346 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Covers bound in navy blue. Decorated endpapers. Former library book with residual labels, seals and markings. Covers bound in navy blue, some age wear: fraying to top and bottom of spine, corners of covers, yellowing to pages and edges, spine broken at front and back endpapers and frontispeice, but still intact. In very good condition for its age.
Record # 30720
Price: $60.00
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