Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages. Authors 1st book. Small stain to rear dust jacket flap. Light shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. The seemingly mundane events that occur to a young man on his lunch hour are magnified in his mind into complex statements on the modern condition.
Hardcover. NY, J. F. Taylor & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 259 pages plus publisher's ads. Drawings by Florence Scovel Shinn. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Clean.
Hardcover. London, Henry, Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, embossed design on green cloth covers with frontispiece illustration and gilt title on spine. No date printed on copyright page, previous owner's inscription on fly leaf dated 1915. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very bright, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages, with illustrations by H. Burgess, gilt titles and illustrated cover. Minor corner and edge wear, light foxing on edges, and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Werner Ernst, a second-year medical resident, encounters the stark realities of the modern intensive care unit, the fears and illusions of the loved ones of the terminally ill, and the exhaustion and irony of doctors, nurses, and technicians. A first novel.
Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Baskerville, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light stain to top edge, not affecting pages. Dust jacket corner chips, edgewear, otherwise VG/VG. When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends, Kate, Annie, and Oola, are determined to turn the tables on the stalker
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 113 pages. It is December 1681, and the words of Mr. Baggot, the tithingman, terrify young William. William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer's apprentice living in a white man's house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset tribe who must risk Baggot's wrath to search for his lost brother. Then comes the winter celebration of the Saturnalia -- the ancient Roman holiday on which masters and slaves trade roles. Will William's secret be revealed? And what dark deed of others will be brought to light on this fateful night? Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 435 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Short closed tear to dust jacket bottom edge, dust jacket top edge has light bumping and minor fading. Unmarked, a clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grossman, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Light wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy of author's first book.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Poseidon, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 309 pages. Clear brodart cover on dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, minor wear to jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 1st published in the UK in 1969.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Penguin, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, American Publishing Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, light gray end papers. Marginal illustrations throughout. 1894 on title page and copyright page, title page in red and black. Front hinge cracked, tape shadow on inside front cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with color illustration pasted on front board. Title in red on front board and spine. Short chapters which originally ran in serial form in The Chicago Tribune, now published here as a series of connected vignettes in book form. Each section with a b&w cartoon by McCutcheon over a color block. Light wear, corner bump. small bookseller's stamp inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 276 pages. light fraying to cloth at top of spine. Dust jacket worn, with chipping and chunks missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 198 pages. Remainder mark to lower edge, else like new.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Ex-lib with usual stamps and markings. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom copy edge. Otherwise, clean and bright; a tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean and bright, a tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st published in England in 1987.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Translated by Sarah Arvid. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Bright and clean, a tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Quartet, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Nicholson's 1st book in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Street Sleeper brings the road novel to England and into the 1980s. Ishmael, a renegede librarian, goes "on the road" in a customized Volkswagon Beetle which he names Enlightenment. He soon finds that the M62 is a poor substitute for Route 66.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sam's friends, Oscar and Fred Arm, identical twins, are of opposite opinions as to whether or not he should marry Claire, a wealthy young debutante, and work secretly to alter their wedding plans.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 219 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Dust jacket with only minor wear, now protected with clear, plastic cover. Overall clean tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Nice, bright dust jacket with minor wear to upper edges of spine, protected by clear brodart cover. A very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1st printing. 251 pages. Light wear to brodart covered dust jacket, remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages, illustrated in b&w. Dark ble cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, one plate loose, but intact, light foxing to top edge, else a very neat copy.
Hardcover. New York, F. Tennyson Neely, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages + publishers ads. B&w illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations to front and spine. Faint foxing to top edge, light wear to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Green cloth covers, gilt design, some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing on a few pages, otherwise inside is clean, with b&w illustrations by A. B. Frost throughout. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 469 pages. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. In a stunning follow-up to his acclaimed 'The Congressman's Daughter,' award winning novelist Craig Nova portrays the consequences of reckless desire between two people, consequences that shatter the lives of all those around them.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles, gilt pictorial and border to front board, color illustrations by Franklin Booth, including tissue-protected frontispiece and 3 full-page color plates, decorated figures by W. A. Dwiggins. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; a clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages. Yellow cloth covers, blue dust jacket with b&w illustration and mylar protective covering. Slight foxing, edgewear and chipping, and rubbing to dust jacket, though dust jacket still presents very neatly with mylar covering, tight binding, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, neat copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 1995, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PROSE on front fly leaf . Dust jacket price clipped. Pages 219-246 disconnected from binding, gutter cracked.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on front fly leaf. Small remainder line to bottom edge. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Poseidon Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. Light wear to mylar-protected dust jacket, small stain to for-edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Ciroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WHITE on half-title page.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 214 pages. Dust jacket worn and slightly foxed with chipping to upper edges of spine and front cover, protected by clear brodart cover. Overall a nice, tight copy.
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