Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 402 pages. With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction. In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the "bancor." In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & Company, BC Ed., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 314 pages. A first Book Club Edition, as there is a small dot on bottom right of rear board, $3.00 price on front flap with "Book of the Month Club Selection". No statement of edition on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate and name on front endpaper. Dust jacket has 1" gone from bottom of spine. No other markings.
Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 645 pages, fold-out map in rear, translated by Michael Glenny. The work tells about the beginning of the First World War and the unsuccessful offensive of the Russian army in East Prussia. The author uses the methods of documentary narration within the framework of a work of fiction and describes not only the military campaign, but also the experience of people caught in the middle of events. Red top edge. Edge wear, small pieces missing from dust jacket; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. A novel about vampires without mentioning the word Vampire. We meet Johnand Miriam Blaylock, a youthful couple with a sinister secret. They have success,money, beauty, and youth until John cannot sleep, which is key to his youth andvitality. Slowly, his youth slips away as his urge to feed, calledthe Hunger by Miriam,grows stronger until he kills someone that he should have not. During the novel, wesee flashbacks to Miriam and John's pasts. Also Miriam seeks the help of Dr. SarahRoberts, whose aging research Miriam believes can help John until John becomes a danger even as Miriam seeks to ensnare Sarah for her own. Has violence and sexual content and some lesbianism. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1978, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the chance at riches and a passport to America. But as he and the rest of the Writers' Club wait in horror for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood love-still living on Krochmalna Street, still mysteriously childlike herself-who has been waiting for him all these years. Singer's eleventh novel. Originally appeared in 1974 as Soul Expeditions in Yiddish in "The Jewish Daily Forward." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1860, Hardcover in embossed maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 505 pages plus publisher's ads. First published in 1849, a Victorian novel that follows the Caxton family: scholarly Austin working on his grand history, his wife Kitty, his brother Roland the Captain, and Austin's son Pisistratus who narrates. Their quiet country life shifts when young Pisistratus becomes secretary to a parliamentary leader, falls for his employer's daughter, and faces heartbreak alongside his father's financial troubles. This gentle, humorous family portrait marked a turning point in Victorian fiction. A light tan stain at the very corner tip of the pages, small price on front fly leaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages, turquoise cloth covers, silver lettered spine. Red-violet endpapers, top outer edge tinted black. Jacket design by Antiono Frasconi. Novel based on the slave societies of the West Indies in the 1750s. No markings.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 468 pages. Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Hector Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 624 pages. A fresh translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's modernist masterpiece, Salka Valka. A feminist coming of age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny industrial town, Salka Valka is a novel of epic proportions, living and breathing with its expansive cast of characters, filled with tenderness, humor, and remarkable pathos. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 560 pages. Clean copy. First published in 1931 and now appearing for the first time in English, Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer is a disquieting anatomy of a deviant mind in the tradition of Crime and Punishment. Letham, the treacherously unreliable narrator, is a depraved bacteriologist whose murder of his wife is, characteristically, both instinctual and premeditated. Convicted and exiled, he attempts to atone for his crimes through science, conceiving of the book we are reading as an empirical report on himself--whose ultimate purpose may be to substitute for a conscience. Yet Letham can neither understand nor master himself. His crimes are crimes of passion, and his passions remain more or less untouched by his reason--in fact they are constantly intruding on his "report," rigorous as it is intended to be. Both feverish and chilling, Georg Letham explores the limits of reason and the tensions between objectivity and subjectivity.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 275 pages. Tarjei Vesaas's final work, The Hills Reply, is a flow of intensely lyrical autobiographical scenes. The vivid beauty of the wilds of Norway grounds the narrator's interior flashes. The first sketch finds a boy, his father, and their packhorse clearing a logging road buried in snow as their surroundings give way to a crisis. Profound insights into human behavior, solitude, and nonverbal communication stand up to the power and immensity of the natural world. The land speaks to (and at times almost swallows) the central character, as he is pushed to the edge of what a body and mind can endure. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 272 pages. Moving from the Great Lakes to the jazz bars of Detroit and Chicago, Of Song and Water is a tale of singlehanded sailors and jazz musicians, of working-class dreams blighted by family duty, personal betrayals, and the untold violence between fathers and sons. The novel follows the life of Coleman Moore, a jazz guitarist of early fame who finds himself adrift and in the company of ghosts: his mentor, a black jazz legend trying to live peacefully on the edge of a white town; his grandfather, a Prohibition rumrunner turned ruthless entrepreneur; and his first love, a clear-headed woman who refuses to live in the dark tunnels of the past. As he abandons music and turns his mind to a damaged sailboat, Coleman begins a hazardous course, risking the love of his daughter and the trust of Brian James, his longtime collaborator and friend. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 292 pages. Tranquility, the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and a portrait of the end of the Communist era. Reading it, "we arrive at ourselves, at our own obsessions, in our own silence," writes Ilma Rakusa. A thirty-six-year-old writer struggles to escape his hellish, Oedipal inter dependency with his actress mother as Hungary's Communist infrastructure collapses around him. One of the most psychologically dark and ironic novels to have emerged from contemporary Hungarian literature, it is also, as far as human psychology and political farce are concerned, one of the most illuminating. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages. In The Vanishing Moon, Joseph Coulson writes with insight and beauty about the American working-class, about the strength and strain of family bonds, and about tragic incidents that haunt the human psyche over a lifetime. Set in Cleveland and Detroit, the novel chronicles two generations of the Tollman family, opening at the start of the Great Depression and moving forward through five decades to the Vietnam War. The first narrator, Stephen Tollman, looks back on his early adventures with his older brother, as both boys try to shield their siblings from the confusion and vulnerability of financial ruin. Later, as World War II approaches, Katherine Lennox, musician and political activist, offers an outsider's view of the Tollmans, mesmerizing both Stephen and his brother with her energy and ambition. James Tollman comes of age in the 1960s, and as the youngest son in the family's second generation, he strives to understand his father and mother amidst a summer of assassinations and civil unrest. Stephen returns to finish the story, struggling to hold his own against the currents of memory and abandoned dreams. Told with the compression and intensity of a poem, The Vanishing Moon is a novel of desire, unyielding necessity, and the people and places that inevitably disappear from our lives. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st Transl., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 215 pages. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 414 pages. Perpetually shrouded in a thick cloud of cigar smoke, Herman Arbogast Brenner, scion of an old and famous cigar dynasty, has decided to kill himself--but not until he has written down his forty-six years of life, in a Proustian attempt to conjure the wounds, joys, and sensations of his childhood in the rolling countryside of the Aargau region of Switzerland. Estranged from his wife and two children, he decides there is no point in squirreling away his fortune, so he buys himself a Ferrari 328 GTS, and drives around sharing cigars with his few remaining friends. In this roman a clef, writing and smoking become intertwined through the act of remembering, as Brenner, a fallible, wounded, yet lovable antihero, searches for epiphany, attempting to unearth memories just out of reach-- the glimmer of a red toy car, the sound of a particular chord played on the piano, the smell of the cigars themselves. Brenner is the final work from Hermann Burger, who died by suicide in 1989. The book comes out just days before what would have been the author's 80th birthday. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st US, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 240 pages. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 418 pages. A rich, polyphonic novel from one of the leading voices of contemporary Polish literature, encompassing a half-century of history and memory. In a Polish village, a young man watches an old man trip and fall down a flight of stairs. From this singular event arises a cascade of memories, regrets, and longings: the buried sensations of a whole lifetime, condensed and released. We hear of life during occupation, the scarcities of a childhood lived under the sign of war--and fragments of a home's sounds and scents (the private speech of mothers and fathers, the treasures of coffee, raisins, almonds, and plums). There are loves unrequited and fulfilled, landscapes of winter and spring, old jobs and old friends, all flowing together. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 2nd pr., 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 305 pages. The Last Days of Terranova tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova Bookstore, on the day it's set to close due to the greed of real-estate speculators. On this final day, Vincenzo spends the night in his beloved store filled with more than seventy years of fugitive histories. Jumping from the present to various points in the past, the novel ferries us back to Vicenzo's childhood, when his father opened the store in 1935, to the years that the store was run by his Uncle Eliseo, and to the years in the lead-up to the democratic transition, which Vicenzo spent as far away from the bookstore as possible, in Madrid. Clean copy.
Softcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 249 pages. The sights, sounds, and smells of early twentieth century Peking are reproduced in a socialist novel depicting the dehumanization of a worker who both represents and is victimized by a sick society.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 171 pages. Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world as a threatening conspiracy. Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba's isolation in the world. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 199 pages. This classic of German literature--often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose--follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Published after Buchner's death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the "inside" of insanity. An early experiment in docufiction, Buchner's textual montage draws on the diary of J.F. Oberlin, the Alsatian pastor who briefly took care of Lenz in 1778, while also refracting Goethe's memoir of his troubled friendship with the playwright. English versions of both these historical source texts here accompany Lenz for the first time in this bilingual presentation. Based on the best recent edition of the text, this fresh translation will allow readers to discover why Heiner Muller pronounced Lenz the inaugural example of "21st-century prose." Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st US, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 117 pages. This "charming . . . short account of ordinary goings-on in a French cafe" explores love, work, loneliness, and aging as it follows the daily life of a middle-aged Parisian bartender. Pierre is a veteran bartender in a cafe in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his customers as they come and go--the young man who drinks beer as he reads Primo Levi, the fellow who from time-to-time strips down and plunges into the nearby Seine, the few regulars who eat and drink there on credit--sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside more than necessary; he prefers to let the world come to him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green with gilt lettering, 431 pages plus publisher's ads. Color frontis and 7 b&w plates by Irma Deremeaux. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Henry Augustus Shute (1856-1943) was an American lawyer, judge and writer, who was best known for his humorous stories of small-town New England life, particularly his series of Plupy books inspired by his boyhood in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Hardcover. Chicago, Frederick J. Drake and Co., 1902, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 164 pages plus publisher's ads. 86 illustrations, frontis portrait of author. Only date is the copyright year 1902. Features detailed explanations and diagrams of numerous feats with coins-most prominent among them the author's world-famous original creation, "The Miser's Dream," a much-imitated act climaxing in the production of a shower of half-dollars. In this complete manual of the art of conjuring with coins, Downs shares his secrets for scores of "fakes" and sleights, including passing a coin through the bottom of a hat, the money-producing cigarette, the mysterious claret glass, the crystal coin ladder, the obedient coins, and many more. He also offers a wealth of suggestions for stage "business" involving handkerchiefs, goblets, hats and other props, as well as helpful tips on presentation, patter and other techniques. Overall fair, fragile condition with some chipping to cloth on front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 337 pages. A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic fable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story. It is the story of John MacLellan, a young Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded among the native people of the arctic coast. It is the story of one Chukchi community that adopts a crippled stranger and teaches him to live as a "true human being." During the long winter, John comes to know his new companions--first as untutored primitives, then in the romantic light of noble savages and finally as a real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. Tragedy strikes, and a life is lost and re-given; a man rises to take the place of a boy; wounds are healed with compassion, honesty and love. And when difficult times loom ahead, it is his new family that John will fight to preserve. Rytkheu's empathetic voice guides us across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveals all the complexity and beauty of a vanishing world. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 114 pages. "This debut novel--by an acclaimed Argentinean writer, and first published in 1958--centers on a sixteen-year-old who becomes pregnant after an assault by an older man. Setting the story in the sweltering heat of Argentina's Pampas, Gallardo re-creates the world of ranchers and missionaries from the perspective of the girl, with her adolescent confusion and private sense of guilt. Gallardo juxtaposes her solitary desperation--she visits a local medicine woman for an abortion, and gallops recklessly on horseback to induce a miscarriage--with the conservative Catholic society that closes ranks against her." Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 109 pages. Dedicated to Duras' companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andrea Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andrea and a seaside romance observed - or imagined - by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister's murder at the hands of a German soldier. Memory blurs into desire as the summer of 1980 flows into 1944. An enigmatic elegy of history, creation, and raw emotion. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 236 pages. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 127 pages. Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds. Racing toward Vladivostok, we meet the young Aliocha, packed onto a Trans-Siberian train with other Russian conscripts. Soon after boarding, he decides to desert and over a midnight smoke in a dark corridor of the train, he encounters an older French woman, Helene, for whom he feels an uncanny trust. A complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently ask--through a pantomime and basic Russian that Helene must decipher--for her help to hide him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 472 pages. A very neat, tight, clean copy. Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in the bestselling Lyre of Orpheus. There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish -- connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric -- whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E. T .A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, H. Maxwell, 2nd Ed., 1801, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, worn leather covers, 252 pages, (Chapters XI-XVIII). Volume 2 ONLY. A 1799 novel by the American author Charles Brockden Brown. Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters (his only remaining family) on a farm outside Philadelphia, is determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave. Walking near the elm tree under which Waldegrave was killed late one night, Huntly sees Clithero, a servant from a neighboring farm, half-dressed, digging in the ground and weeping loudly. Huntly concludes that Clithero may be the murderer. He also concludes that Clithero is sleepwalking. Huntly decides to follow Clithero when he sleep walks. The novel was published by Hugh Maxwell. It is considered an example of early American gothic literature, with themes such as wilderness anxiety, the supernatural, darkness, and irrational thought and fear. Covers rubbed and worn, front cover detached, two bookplates on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Funk and Wagnalls , 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in green and black, 464 pages, b&w illustrations by Will Crawford. A version of Samuel Warren's 1839 novel, Ten Thousand a Year, which has been abridged by American author, Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861 - 1920). Warren (1807 - 1877), was a British barrister, novelist and MP with an in-depth knowledge of British common law and the original novel was based on a famous forgery case from the 1830s, where a claim was made to a vacant earldom using fake documents. Rear hinge cracked, shelf wear, name stamp on inside front cover.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 844 pages, green cloth covers with dark green design, lettering. Cover shows wear, light soil. Internally clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY KALAM on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY MICHAELS at the 2003 Breadloaf Writer's Conference.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book and SIGNED BY KRAMER on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 241 pages, first printing with the A on copyright page. Book is clean, no markings. The olive green cloth covers have some discoloration along top edge (very light), probably caused by light water damage or dampness. The result is also some tan spotting along the top INSIDE of the dust jacket, and a tiny area of tanning at top corner of front fly leaf. The outside of the front panel of the dust jacket is unaffected, but the rear panel has two dark spots at top. The spine has some fading, flap not price-clipped. The edge of the text block has some spotting, light foxing. Overall, a very attractive copy, now protected in a clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 404 pages, color frontispiece and 3 duo-tone plates by J.N. Marchand. With the scarce dustjacket, light edgewear, chipping to corners. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages, black cloth, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket edgeworn with light chipping. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS ( "Joyce and Irving, with love, Wilson & Margaret 1990") on the title page to Joyce and Irving Adler. The book is heavily annotated and underlined in both ink and light pencil by Joyce who was a literary scholar who wrote two books on Harris.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Bright, unclipped dust jacket (red title on spine with VERY slight fade. SIGNED BY PRICE on the front fly leaf. His first book.
Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, bright, clean copy in a similar, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRICE on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished black calf, raised bands on spine, stamped with gilt design, leather label with title in second compartment. Marbled endpapers, 609 pages. The engraved plates suffer from oxidation (tanning) and have no captions other than the page numbers. The vignette illustration on the title page has "Weller" (rather than "Veller") indicating a later issue. The binding is sound, light edgewear to leather covers. Has the two title pages, errata slip and binders directions. The 2 Buss plates included. Pictures available.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, 2nd printing, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 358 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new with minor, if any wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Summit Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 834 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy, in clear protective brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 525 pages. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy in clear brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and soiling to pictorial dust jacket, protected by clear mylar cover, else a very neat, tight copy.
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