Softcover. London, Jantar Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. The unloved wife of a doctor practising in Slovakia comes across his medical notes after his death. One `unofficial patient' has severe problems coming to terms with the disappearance and murder of his childhood sweetheart. Set in Slovakia from the mid-1970s onwards, historical fact, murder, loss and mourning combine delicately in a tale of love, loss, redemption and joy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 157 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, gray laminate dust jacket with color illustration, dark gray endpapers. Clean dust jacket and covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very neat, copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 470 pages. An unfinished novel by the murdered Italian author and filmmaker focuses on Carlo, a left-wing Italian Catholic working for the state-controlled oil company, a man who becomes obsessed with satisfying his perverse, insatiable sexual passions. Small remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise a clean copy of this now scarce book.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 416 pages.INSCRIBED BY GORDON on the title page. When his political activities with the Weather Underground radicals from the 1960s catch up with him, a man finds himself on the run in order to secure the love of his child.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 336 pages. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his facade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, reprint, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 439 pages. Mustard cloth with gilt and black decoration. Hinges cracked, spine cocked, shelfworn. Illustrated with a b&w frontispiece, text sketches throughout, no artist credit. Howard presents the story of a young girl living in the village of Plouvenec who works packing sardines. She falls in love with an artist while supplementing her income by modeling for artists in an artist colony.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pges. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear to cover.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NBM Comics Lit, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. Graphic novel in which famed early twentieth century actress Louise Brooks returns to her home town of Wichita, Kansas and gets involved in a murder mystery.
Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover.
Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 6th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt titles, 313 pages. First novel in what eventually became a trilogy depicting the gradual redemption of Durtal, the hero of the author's notorious La-Bas (1891), which portrayed the Satanism of fin-de-siecle France (in addition to certain depravities of medieval France). Translated from the French With A Prefatory Note by C. Kegan Paul. Light shef wear.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate pasted in on front end paper. Pasted in paper with quote and author's signature dated 1911 on front fly leaf. HInged are tender, but intact.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with heavy wear to dust jacket. Small closed rips and open tears on bottom. Moderate aged soil throughout, light odor. Otherwise tight copy.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Illustrated by Richard Krepel. Clean and bright. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Publisher's full tan leather, gilt borders and tooling on covers, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in two of remainder, a.e.g., silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with color plates by N. C. Wyeth. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean.
Hardcover. London, Cresset Press, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. 1st UK. Covers bound in red fabric with gilt title on spine, very good. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age wear, light chipping to edges and spine, scratch on front cover (see image). Edges and pages have slight age yellow, but clean.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover. Rare first edition. Covers bound in green with gilt title on spine and front cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Covers show some age wear: moisture stain on back cover, some soil and fraying/chipping on spine. Pages and edges have age-yellowing. Foxing on endpapers and preliminary/back pages, but doesn't affect text. Split at gutters in a few places, but binding still tight. In good condition for its age.
Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. In matching slipcase.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless copy in an unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Reminiscent of the author's early fiction -- "Room Temperature" and "The Mezzanine." It features Emmett, a man in his forties with a wife, two children, a cat and a duck, who gets up most mornings between 4 and 5 a.m., lights a fire in the living room fireplace with a single match, and thinks about the ordinary things in his life in an extraordinary way. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. INSCRIBED BY HARDING on the title page.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2015., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAGUIRE on the title page with a sketch of a rabbit in a teacup. Clean copy.
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. SIGNED BY PROULX on title page. Proulx"s first novel, a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY EGAN on title page. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ?Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, one of the great writers of our time.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. Behold her, Tereza Batista-inspiration to painters, poets, and sculptors (not to mention sailors on shore leave), teacher of the ignorant, lover of the powerful (and powerful lover), healer of the sick, champion of the downtrodden, seasoned veteran-at the peak of her beauty-of life's wars. No wonder the people of Bahia call her, in awe and delight, Tereza of the Thousand Nicknames-all complimentary! Follow Tereza from her birth into direst poverty and bad luck (orphaned before she knew her parents, enslaved at the age of 12) to the great day when she turns the tables on that most splenetic and sadistic of slaveholders, the black-hearted Captain Justo Duarte da Rosa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 283 pages. The story of a faith healer (who before that was a rock star manager and a beautician) told in the rich language and texture of a Southerner who can draw you continuously into the world she weaves. Her first novel after a 20-year hiatus.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages, in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. A novel by the African American poet and essayist set in the American South.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Dark red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, pale yellow illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, stiff binding, crisp and unmarked pages; a very neat, tight copy.
Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wraps, 616 pages. Clean, bright copy. Sojourner Nadine Jane Johnson, also known as Mosquito, is an African-American truck driver. Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of her accidental and yet growing involvement in "the new underground railroad," a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants. Mosquito's journey begins when she discovers Maria, a stowaway who nearly gives birth in the back of the truck; Maria will eventually name her baby Journal, a misspelled tribute to her unwitting benefactor Sojourner. Along the road, Mosquito introduces us to Delgadina, a Chicana bartender who fries cactus, writes haunting stories, and studies to become a detective - one of the most original and appealing characters in all of Jones's fiction. We also meet Monkey Bread, a childhood pal who is, improbably, assistant to a blonde star in Hollywood, where Mosquito pays her a memorable visit. As her understanding of the immigrants' need to forge new lives and identities deepens, so too does Mosquito's romance with Ray, a gentle revolutionary, philosopher, and, perhaps, a priest.
Hardcover. New York, Library of America, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1408 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, fine condition with ivory slipcase decorated with gilt design. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. New York, New American Library, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Light residue where price sticker was removed on front fly leaf. Light soil to white jacket. Gardner's first book.
Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett, 1st Ed., 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set, 312 and 322 pages, hardcovers, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on front and gilt lettering on spine. With the six original steel-plate engravings and with title-pages illustrated with large vignettes. First edition with Hobart & Robbins slug on the copyright page. Both volumes state Twenty-Fifth Thousand on the title page indicating a probable fourth printing. The first was five thousand and sold out immediately. Both volumes with chipping and fraying to top and bottom of spines, Vol. 1 with about 1/4" cloth missing at bottom. All corners show wear, spines slightly cocked, but bindings are tight. Clean set, with very minor foxing.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages, stated 5th printing. Dust jacket unclipped with light tanning. ($5.95 on front flap; 0369 on back flap). INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY VONNEGUT on the half-title page. Appears to inscribed by Vonnegut to a third party; "Earle F. Hiscock/ May 27, 1969 from RCH & Lynn SH/ Kurt Vonnegut Jr." Related newspaper clippings laid in at front.
Hardcover. NY, McBride, Nast and Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shelf wear on bottom edge on board. Light soil on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down and opposite title page.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The author's first novel, set in the Big Pines area of the Canada/Minnesota borderlands. Publisher's Weekly called this "A provocative, potent debut" and went on to say that "Johnson evokes a community of disenfranchised Indians, the Ojibway and Chippewa, as its members slowly leave their cultural enclave over 30 years from the 1950s to the 1980s. . . . Each chapter is in fact like a powerful short story that could stand on its own. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 248 pages. The author's third book which deals with the protagonist coming to terms with having gone to Sweden to avoid being drafted to go to Viet Nam while his younger brother goes and is killed there. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Douglas & McIntyre, 2nd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, & Co. , reprint, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beautifully decorated green cloth stamped in gilt. Teg, deckle edges. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Exterior clean and bright. Interior with stamping, marking to several pages, from a private library.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Good, lacking dust jacket, 346 pages. Yellow cloth covered boards, lightly soiled with light wear to edges. Black dyed top edge. Light toning throughout, some finger prints to few pages, otherwise clean. Mystery set during the time of the Napoleonic wars.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth stamped in white. Black & white illustrations by W.B. King. Bright. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London/NY, Hogarth, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Gilt edges. SIGNED BY FABER on a tipped-in prelim page. Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart. Signed by Author sticker on front of dj, otherwise clean copy.
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