Hardcover. Paris, L'edition d'Art, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed design on calf covers, gilt lettering on spine, 223 pages, top edge gilt. Marbled end sheets. French text. Edited by the celebrated French Medievalist Joseph Bedier of the L'Academe Francais. Inscribed by previous owner on first blank page with his related ephemera laid in. Otherwise clean. Calf covers worn at edges.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Nottingham Society, Ltd Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. B&w frontis. First published in 1846, The Two Dianas is among the most well-known work in Dumas' Valois romances- which dramatize the intrigues & debacles of the real-life Royal House of France during the fourteenth-sixteenth century. His 1891 novel, The Page of the Duke of Savoy is the fictionalized tale of a woman who is forced to impersonate a man in order to remain by the side of her beloved Duke. Page 15 has a couple tape repairs where page was opened carelessly, several dog-eared pages, otherwise clean 12th volume from the set. Limited to 1000 copies.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Nottingham Society, Ltd Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. B&w frontis. Joseph Balsamo is a historical novel set in the late 18th century and tells the story of Joseph Balsamo, a charismatic and mysterious figure who becomes involved in the political and social upheavals of the time. Balsamo is a master of disguise and deception, and he uses his skills to manipulate the people around him and gain power and influence. Along the way, he becomes embroiled in a love triangle with two women, Marie Antoinette and Countess Cagliostro. The novel is full of intrigue, romance, and adventure, and it provides a vivid portrayal of life in France during the years leading up to the French Revolution. 8th volume from the set. Limited to 1000 copies. There is some fraying to the top edge of the cover. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 93 pages. Amusing Victorian-era romance written by an actual child that was presumed to be a hoax by J.M. Barrie. A clean bright copy with charming illustrations by William Pene du Bois.
Softcover. NY, Fiction Collective, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. Clarence Major explores the complex interrelationships of four characters--Cora Hull, Canada Jackson, Dale, and the narrator--within an experimental narrative framework. Primarily set in New York City, the story unfolds in a non-linear, episodic manner that challenges readers' perceptions of reality and character development. The narrator, who reveals himself to be unreliable and conscious of his manipulative role, controls the narrative while frequently blurring the boundaries between his imagination and the characters' lives. Cora, at the center of the story, is depicted in various roles, including as an actress and a student of feminist theory, yet remains elusive and undefined, reflecting the transient nature of the characters' relationships. Clean copy
Hardcover. London/NY, Hogarth Shakespeare (Random House), 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 237 pages. SIGNED BY TYLER on the title page. Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare s most beloved comedies Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she s always in trouble at work her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost. Clean copy. Signed sticker on front cover.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Nottingham Society, Ltd Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. B&w frontis. The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third and last of The d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. Third volume from the set. Limited to 1000 copies.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Nottingham Society, Ltd Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. B&w frontis. The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third and last of The d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. Third volume from the set. Limited to 1000 copies.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt title on cover and spine. 342 pages. Spine is cocked, faded. The book is a bit shaken but clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, American Publishing Co, 1st, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 631 pages. 328 black & white illustrations by various artists. Both hinges cracked. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Soiling to covers. Tears to cloth on spine. Wear to corners, spine.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows usual wear- now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. Mexico City, Joaquin Mortiz, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. First Edition printed in Mexico City, #1146 of 5000 copies. Red cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket has light soiling and chipping, covered with a clear plastic Brodart.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Gilt decoration and title on front and back covers. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners.
Hardcover. London, Secker and Warburg, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Author's 1st book of fiction, and 2nd under his name. Rear of dust jacket with water stain - book unaffected. Publisher's stamp on front flyleaf stating "Showroom Sample." Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear at very edges. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Hardcover. No slipcase. SIGNED BY KENNETH ROBERTS AND N. C. WYETH. One thousand and seventy-five numbered copies of this Arundel Edition have been printed on all-rag paper, bound in natural finish cloths and autographed by the author and by the artist - this being hand numbered #147. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - illustrations are clean, and bright. Cloth covers with areas of strong fading. Spine cloth darkened, with some shallow abrading to leather title label. Interior is clean, and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Leypoldt & Holt, 1st US, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Green cloth with title and cover decoration in gilt. 1.5" pencil point width mark at center of front cover (may be removed?), otherwise covers show very light wear. Previous owners name in pencil on inside front cover dated Sept. 7th, 1867. 1st English translation by Eugene Schuyler, Ph. D. . Bazarov--a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man--has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov's outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place across all of nineteenth-century Russia. Pages are bright with light to moderate foxing throughout. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2nd Printing, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover. Stated on copyright page: "New Edition, March 1966". Minor foxing to top edge. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear along edges. Small pea sized stains at very bottom of pages 152 through 159. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Noonday Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 237 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER TO MAURICE WINOGRAD, YIDDISH WRITER AND POET - INCLUDES NOTE GIFTING BOOK FROM WINOGRAD TO MANHATTAN RESIDENT MORRIS SALANT. Degree of toning to pages, darkening to pages 116 - 117 where note was laid. Dust jacket with chipping to edges, chunks of paper missing at top and bottom of spine - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York , Summit Books, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. 236 pages. Small remainder-mark to bottom edge, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages. With Illustrations by William Rainey, R. I. Minor spine edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Decorated front cover. Clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., reprint, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red cloth covers, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Corner and spine edge wear and fray, overall, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two oversized volumes with blue slipcase, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, John Groth in rear of volume 2. Blue and gray cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, illustrations throughout, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ACTRESS DEMI MOORE on title page. Moore portrayed the character Erin Grant in the film adaptation. Mild fading to dust jacket spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket as well, mostly to fore edge corners. In a protective plastic sleeve. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full blue cloth, silver titling, map endsheets. Local color novel about life in the Mississippi River Delta of Louisiana, by an author living in that area. Clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. In excellent shape. Clean and bright inside and out.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, First Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket, price-clipped with light wear to edges, light toning. Clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Evanston, Triquarterly Books, First Thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Bright cover with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, octavo, black cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt decoration, title and spine titles. 291 pages. Uncut edges. With twelve full page engravings, capitals and decorations by Frank C. Pape. In a black paper dust jacket with light gray decoration, light edgewear. The cover gilt is bright but there is moderate flecking/discoloration to the black cloth in areas. Endpapers have some tanning, interior is clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. Pencil marking to preliminary and half title page, some soiling to spine & board edges, and fraying to crown & heel. Red dyed top edge with sunfading. Toning throughout, fingerprint p. 61 and tears to p. 350. Otherwise clean inside. A worn copy that feels comfortable in your hands.
Hardcover. NY, Richard R Smith, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 348 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light toning throughout. Red dyed top edge with some fading. Original dust jacket with tears, chips, and age toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Hardcover. Light toning throughout, some tanning to endpapers. Red cover boards with black titles to spine. Clean and unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles & gilt compartment lines to spine. Small tear to crown & heel of spine. Light toning to pages throughout, tight binding, a few pages with small spots to gutter, else clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles & green embossed graphic to front, gilt titles to spine. Rear hinge cracked. Light toning throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick boards with light wear to edges, small spot of soil to rear endpaper. Ligth fraying to crown & heel of spine. Clean tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Light pencil markings throughout. Ex-library copy with all usual stampings and markings. Light soiling to cover board edges., two abrasions on rear fore edge. Retro printed graphic to cover and spine, printed in black & wine. Toning to pages throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rectangular paste down illustration to front board with small chips to edges. Frontis illustration, "Stood and Watched the Ocean and the Sky," in black & white. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Else quite clean, a few small spots to some pages, a nice copy with light toning & tight binding.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, small spot on front cover. Light pencil markings to some pages, previous owner's bookplate to rear endpaper. Tight binding, tight signatures.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green and white diagonal striped cloth with green and gold embellishments. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and other drawings by Harry W. McVickar. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean. Cloth spine has some fading.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light chipping. Humorous tennis novel by the son of Groucho Marx. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Ford's first book. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips to corners. small tan stain to top corner (about 1/4" triangle). Unclipped.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Publisher's release and photo of author laid in. Foxing to top edge. Spine slightly cocked. Else a very clean, tight copy. The author's first work of fiction and his second book to be published (the first being a philosophical work published 1988 under the title "Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970"). Writing of this debut Novel in the New York Times, Anne Gotlieb stated "This is a strange and often wonderful hybrid -- an ebullient philosophical novel in the form of a folktale-cum-black girl's odyssey. It is a book bubbling like a conjure woman's kettle with African lore, preserved intact in the half-magical, half-demeaning world of Hatten County, Georgia."
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 276 pages, SIGNED BY SCOTT on title page at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in 1997.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, near fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
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