Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st , 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Merle Johnson. Paper on spine chipped. Light lettering on spine. Some wear to front cover. All pages clean and legible. Gutter cracked.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Decorated front panel. Gilted top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by noted illustrator A.B. Frost. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Heavy bumping to all board corners, all edges slightly frayed. Mild fading and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement."
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Constable & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 54 pages. #514 of 1025 copies. B&w and some color illustrations by Clare Winsten. Cloth pictorial boards. Gilt lettering along spine. Gilt top edge. Some tinting to end papers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light rubbing to corners. Clean, tight copy. Janvier"s last book, published shortly after his death in 1913, a humorous and affectionate look at a piece of the New York City he so loved. In the preface, Ripley Hitchcock describes the "Casa Napoleon" as a "very definite haven for wanderers of Latin origin which for several years opened hospitable doors upon a side-street near lower Fifth Avenue. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 black and white plates.
Hardcover. New York, Neely, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. One small stamp at lower left corner of inside front cover. Front hinge cracked but holding. Minor foxing to areas of cloth cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Eight b&w plates by illustrator (not credited). Decorated yellow cloth covers with light soil, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. 290 pages, in very good condition.
hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Paul Quinn. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C McClurg & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers with light wear, fading. IIllustrated by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
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, barcode sticker on back dust jacket cover, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages, with 80 illustrations by F. H. Townsend. Gilt titles. Corner and spine edge wear, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth covered boards with black graphic & orange titles to cover & spine. Frontis illustration, "....Let that hand down slowly, keeping it away from that gun," in black & white. Original dust jacket with the same illustration in full color, tears to edges, now protected with a plastic sleeve. Tight binding, light age toning, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, Page and Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Cream colored covers with illustrated label pasted on front. Top edge gilt , clean.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages. Brown pictorial cover, gilt design, gilt lettering on spine. 10 color Illustrations by H. T. Dunn. Frontispiece illustration. Ilustrated end papers. Small pen marking on front end paper.
Hardcover. New York, McClure Phillips & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 32 b&w illustrations by Karl Moseley, publisher's ads in rear (indicating first state). Beige cloth with 3-color design on front cover. Small water stain pages 173-176, rear hinge cracked, otherwise very good.
Softcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 B&W cartoon illustrations by Dick Dorgan. Illustrated cardboard covers. Small tear to spine edge, otherwise Very good.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages. Hardcover. Foxing to bottom half of foredge. Unclipped dust jacket with light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Crown, proof wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, 288 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Publisher's letter to booksellers laid-in. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor edgewear and very faint soiled spot on top and fore edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. In a bright dust jacket. An outstanding collection of short fiction about the Deep South. Franklin won an Edgar Award for the title story. The author's first book.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. His highly praised first novel (4th book).
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket. Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway of nothingness inside the laboratory. They call it "Lack." Alice becomes obsessed with Lack, as Philip is obsessed by Alice. The novel is at the same time an astute and wise portrait of unrequited love (albeit of a very unusual kind) a hilarious academic parody, a novel of ideas and a social satire. It is utterly original, but in the school of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Katherine Dunn, and David Foster Wallace.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only light edge wear on cover boards.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. A nice copy of Bulgakov's 1920's novel that became the play 'The Days of the Turbins' in 1926. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Bros., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Ex-lib but only minor stamping. G+ condition. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Shelton CT, First Editions Library, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages. This is a facsimile reprint of the Viking Press first edition originally published in 1962. Only 5,000 printed then. Bright, unclipped dust jacket (with the $4.95 price on flap) and a matching slipcase.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Proulx"s first novel a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."
Hardcover. US, Pantheon, 1st, 2014-09-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 371 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth covered boards with black printed titles to spine. Dust jacket with age toning to edges, chipping to spine, now protected with a plastic cover. Green top edge. Light toning to edges throughout. Clean & unmarked pages throughout. A very nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. llustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Dust jacket with light edgewear. The adventures of a ceramic mouse that magically comes to life.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Doran, reprint, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Brown cloth. Light wear to edges and spine, small indentation on front cover. Page 123 with tiny tear, not affecting text. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 5th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus publishers ads in rear. Orange cloth with maroon design, lettering. Stated Fifth Printing on copyright page, no date but circa 1930. Mild fading to spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. Stated Ninth Printing on copyright page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus ads in rear. Hardcover. Orange cloth with black lettering. Stated Second Printing on copyright page. Spine a little cocked otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st UK, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Scarce in hardcover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 3rd pr., 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, red and gilt, 147 pages. Five plates printed in 3-colors by Adelaide Eberhart. Cover design signed "E", probably the same artist. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, tan cloth covers, paper browning. Nice three-color dust jacket with light edge wear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages illustrated in b&w by Fanny Cory. Blue cloth covers with white design and lettering. Capsule newspaper review pasted to inside cover, otherwise clean, bright copy.
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