Hardcover. Flame Tree, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages. This book explores Japan's mythology, which is alive with gods, spirits, and monsters, and draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions. Foreword by Alan Cummings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London , E. Nister, unk, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 319 pages. 6 color plates and 70 half-tone illustrations by W. Paget. Green cloth covers with red, yellow, and gold decoration. Gold and black lettering. Beveled edge. Front hinge cracked. Soiling to covers. Wear to extremities. Sticker on front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st trade, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 393 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a lovely copy in protective brodart cover.
Softcover. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1st pb, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Japan Foundation Translation Series. 266 pages. Translated to English by Dennis Keene. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy of this scarce title.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 83 pages. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in plates by D. Howard Hitchcock. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Brown cloth with gilt titles.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 334 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges and preliminary pages.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear is price clipped - now protected with clear plastic cover. Minor sun fade to top and bottom edges of covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover. Original dust jacket with attractive graphics, and only light marginal wear to edges. Top edge yellow. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. One corner bumped. Small tears to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly and Lee Co., reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Illustrations from woodcuts by John T. McCutcheon. Red cloth covers with gold lettering, some stains on covers. Dust jacket fragile with minor tears on edges.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gray boards, red cloth spine. Very good in pictorial dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1/4 black cloth. Silver lettering on spine. Black/purple decorative dj in protective clear plastic. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 149 pages. Minor rubbing, edgewear to cover wraps. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AS 'BILL' UPSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Red cloth covers, yellow dust jacket. Light edgewear and mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisped and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very clean, tight copy. Varied in theme, situation and character, this collection of vivid and gritty short stories deals with the brutality in intimate human relations, the exquisite horrors of New York City, looking at the worst and laughing to save sanity. all unmistakably Leonard Michaels.
Hardcover. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages, 8 b&w illustrations by A.B. Frost. Gray covers w/ light edge wear, Illustration on cover pastedown. Small stain to fore-edge. Front hinge weak. Spine lettering faded. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, with illustrations by Sarah S. Stilwell throughout. Gilt titles and top edge. Minor corner and edge wear, frontispiece illustration loose, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear fly leaf, number 940 of a limited 1500 copies, color illustrations by Edmund Dulac throughout, golden metal cockerel affixed to front cover, illustrated cover jacket, slipcase. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red and gilt. 103 pages, with drawn text and illustrations by Frank T. Merrill throughout, tipped-in color frontis., all edges gilt with gilt titles, clean and tight.
Hardcover. Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, C. B. Falls. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Ontario Review Press, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light shelf-wear. Nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 232 pages. Green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Slight circular stain to front cover. Previous owner's signature to front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 209 pages, decorated gray cloth covers. Title page with red decorations, small red circular decoration on each page. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, green cloth with circular design on front cover with gilt and 2-colors. One inch tear to top of title page, previous owner's signature on front blank prelim page. Still a very good copy overall.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED TO "GEORGE" by AUTHOR ON HALF COVER. Otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls--also named the year's best novel by Time--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 180 pages. INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on the half title page as well as SIGNED on the title page. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUBUS on title page and also INSCRIBED by him on the opposite blank leaf. Previous owner's signature and address on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, in a protected sleeve. Intelligent and heartfelt short stories. Rough-cut edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
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