Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. Authors first book. Lovely copy in protective brodart cover. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Translated from German by Breon Mitchell. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Remainder mark to top edge, slight soiling to rear cover of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light wear to upper edge of pictorial dust jacket, remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else very good. One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures. With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening, a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they're about to join. The rigorous intensity Ford brings to these vivid, unforgettable dramas marks this as his most powerfully arresting book to date-confirming the judgment of the New York Times Book Review that "nobody now writing looks more like an American classic."
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, October 13, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Gray top edge. Spine of price-clipped dust jacket faded. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 197 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Unclipped dust jacket with slight rubbing and price sticker residue on rear. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 178 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, with publisher's letter laid in. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1ST, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Faber, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 343 pages. Brown and white cloth cover, gilt design, very light foxing. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Slight foxing on edges, but inside is clean and unmarked, with b&w illustrations throughout. A nice, bright copy. Gathering tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Russia, Alaska, and the polar region, which were told and retold through months of long winter night, "Northern Tales", reflects a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers.
Softcover. London, Canongate Pub Ltd, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. No dust jacket. Author's first book. 214 pages. Light wear to edges of cover. Minor foxing on edges, but inside pages are clean and bright. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, spotless and tight copy with dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize winner's debut collection of short stories, set in his native Washington, D.C.
Hardcover. Fort Collins, Colo., University of Colorado, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Vintage, 1st paperback., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, softcover uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor corner wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, with SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY THE AUTHOR laid-in. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Scribner, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, Book Club , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edgewear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Dial Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edgewear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 183 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 237 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st paperback., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. National Book Award Finalist sticker on front. Spotless and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Delta, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Corner and edge wear otherwise very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 130 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Color comic illustrations make up this graphic novel. Bottom corner bumps otherwise, bright, and lean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Red decorative staining to page block and black satin ribbon marker.
Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Chas. E. Tuttle Co., reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Fine green textured cover with gilt to front and spine. Foreword by Arthur Schomburg, Robinson biography by Mary Robinson Perkins. A collection of tales capturing the essence of 19th-century rural life, primarily set in Vermont. These stories explore themes of freedom, community, and the challenges of everyday existence with a distinct American voice. Robinson's vivid descriptions and engaging characters provide a window into a bygone era, making this collection a valuable contribution to American literature. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Chas. E. Tuttle Co., reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Fine green textured cover with gilt to front and spine. B&w photo frontispiece. Foreword by John Spargo, Introduction by S. Foster Damon. A collection of tales capturing the essence of 19th-century rural life, primarily set in Vermont. Stories told in dialect, including chapters on trapping, hunting foxes, and some fishing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Chas. E. Tuttle Co., reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Fine green textured cover with gilt to front and spine. B&w photo frontispiece. Foreword by John Spargo, Introduction by S. Foster Damon. A collection of tales capturing the essence of 19th-century rural life, primarily set in Vermont. Stories told in dialect, including chapters on trapping, hunting foxes, and some fishing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st US, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Kipling's classic poetic tribute to his beloved Scottie. Seven black and white full page illustrations by Cecil Aldin, whose name is misspelled on the cover. There is tanning to the cover , light corner wear to boards. Previous owner's notation on front fly leaf. Aldin's charming drawings are clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, reddish cloth with gilt stamping, 362 pages. Light shelf wear, spine faded, slightly cocked. This volume contains all of Dorothy Parker's short stories excepting a few which she did not wish to retain among her collected prose (as of 1939). Early printing in 1st edition thus established. Print code "CL." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering and design. Published February 1928 on copyright page with no other printings. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge partially cracked. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
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Price: $18.00
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