Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 321 pages. In spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution. When he was freed, he went home. Not to Boston or Beirut--where he lives-- or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled and where he was raised. Instead, he returned to his great-grandfather's estate, a house that, over three years earlier, Shadid had begun to rebuild. House of Stone is the story of a battle-scarred home and a war correspondent's jostled spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this poignant and resonant memoir, the author of the award-winning Night Draws Near creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house's renewal alongside his family's flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. In the process, Shadid memorializes a lost world, documents the shifting Middle East, and provides profound insights into this volatile landscape. House of Stone is an unforgettable meditation on war, exile, rebirth, and the universal yearning for home. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with a black cloth spine and a color illustration paste-down on front cover. K-E code on copyright page. 247 pages. Color and black and white illustrated plates throughout, all present as called for. A collection of tales, interweaving historical information, on various pirates and other notorious figures in the Spanish Main (Caribbean). Includes chapters on Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and others. Mild edgewear to covers, light water stain to rear board, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Here, gathered together by Reeve Lindbergh, are 77 treasured poems and prayers from many cultures and faiths. With fresh, bright, and joyous illustrations by acclaimed artists from four different countries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 5th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers stamped in blue, 56 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Herrera. Covers with some discoloration, interior clean, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thomas Pakenham, no stranger to Africa with his award-winning books The Boer War and The Scramble for Africa, nor to remarkable trees with his bestselling Remarkable Trees of the World, combines his two interests on safari in Southern Africa. His particular quarry is the rare, the giant, the very old, the extraordinary, or the simply beautiful-from a giant baobab and a prickly quiver tree in Namibia to a glorious jacaranda in South Africa and sesame bushes attacked by elephants in Botswana. He uncovers trees written about by the great explorers of the past, or associated with magic, folklore, or ritual. The narrative accompanying each image interweaves the stories of Pakenham's own journey-at some moments scaling trees to escape from enraged wildlife, while at others standing in awe before a particular tree, connected by some primitive, atavistic bond-with those of the trees themselves, imbuing each with personality and presence. The result is a beautifully crafted blend of botany and social history, the product of a brilliant photographer, an original mind, and a superlative writer. 208 pages in color. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 28 pages with color woodcuts by David Frampton. Through lilting poetic prose and glowing woodcuts, Kuskin and Frampton present a hommage to the holy city of Jerusalem, home of the three major religions. Four thousand years of the city's history are described, beginning with King David's conquest over Goliath, continuing through the Six Day War. In spite of all the battles, burnings, and rebuildings, the city stands majestically "shining still.'' It is to Kuskin's credit that she describes the city's 4000-year history in such a brief form, while still conveying a personal sense of the place. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 96 pages illustrated in b&w by Lobel. Introduces various aspects of Indian life through such handicraft projects as masks, corn-husk dolls, and a tepee. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue to rear inside cover, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Franklin Printing Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Limited Edition with the text taken from the author's Bred in the Bone, illustrated here by Edward C. Smith. A Christmas keepsake for the publisher's customers.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black stamping. 32 pages illustrated with bold colors by the author. A young Indian boy gives timely warning of a forest fire, saving both the wild animals and his people. Tape residue on covers where dj was taped to book, light stamp to front endpaper. Ex-lib. Interior clean.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Look! An elephant eats. Look! Giraffes drink. Look! A warthog digs. A gorilla hides, wild dogs listen, zebras run, monkeys sit, hippos splash, and a rhino naps. Each line of text is illustrated by a two-page spread with a beautiful painting of an animal Ted Lewin has seen on his journeys to Africa. At the end of the story, a boy reads, plays, and dreams, surrounded by toy animals that represent each of the real ones. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Domanska. After doing three errands for his family in his own way, the simple Marek is content to sit on the stove catching flies all day long. A Slavic folk tale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/NY, Frederick Warne, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 57 pages in color by Greenaway. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 40 pages illustrated by James Marshall. When an efficient duck who gives the time over the telephone gets sick, other animals, believing the job to be easy try to take her place. Book Club Edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Honolulu, Tongg Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with a color pictorial paste-down on the front cover. 48 pages, color illustrations by Cornelia MacIntyre Foley. True first edition of 1940 from original Hawaiian publisher (the 1952 reissue is often mistakenly identified as the first). A little Hawaiian girl explores the crater of Kilauea in search of the legendary Madame Pele the Fire Goddess; she meets a mysterious old woman living in The Green Cottage (Madame Pele herself??) who gives her a basket of flowers. Some discoloration to the maroon cloth on front, inscription on front endpaper, light bump to top corner.
Softcover. Beverly Hills CA, EMI Films, N/A, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages, three-hole punched photocopied screenplay for the 1980 movie starring Angela Lansbury and Edward Fox, directed by Guy Hamilton. Title page states 2nd Draft and is dated September 1979. The final screenwriter credit added Barry Sandler. Dark blue plastic cover with title lettered on bottom edge and on tape stuck to spine. Otherwise very clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st US, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated with color paintings by Bradley done in a primitive style similar to Grandma Moses. Ex-lib with some light stamping, bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 138 pages. the complete run of lithographic posters done to promote the South Shore Railroad in the early 20th century by artists such as Will Bradley, Maxfield Parrish, Ethel Reed, J. C. Leyendecker, Edward Penfield etc. Color illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf/Ariel, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 87 pages illustrated in color by Atkinson.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. A book that tells the story of one young mouse's adventure in a series of pictures, with no words. Clean copy. no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Poor, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, 55 pages. Charming children's story of a cobbler with a cat, a dog, and a little mouse named Mr. T. T. Anthony Woo. There is no peace in the house with the cat and dog always chasing after the mouse and vice-versa, until the cobbler's sister moves in with her parrot and upsets things ever more. Illustrated throughout with wonderful full page Lithographs by the author. A Caldecott Honor Book Award Winner in 1952. Fair to poor only as the binding has separated from the black cloth spine. It's all there. no markings, a scarce first printing that's begging to be repaired. Edgewear ro boards.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Kellogg, In this charming picture book, a little boy tries to think of all sorts of methods that would help him grow bigger than his bossy older brother. A Book Club Edition. Clean.
Softcover. Beverly Hills CA, MGM/Brooksfilms, N/A, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orange title wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 199, dated August 3, 1981, with credits for screenwriter Steinberg and director Benjamin, and producer Michael Gruskoff. Title page present, dated August 3, 1981, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with a credit for screenwriter Steinberg. 119 leaves, photographically reproduced, with the last leaf of text numbered 117. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Shot on location in New York City. O'Toole received an Oscar nomination for his role.
Softcover. Beverly Hills CA, MGM/Brooksfilms, N/A, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orange title wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 99, dated September 4, 1981, with credits for screenwriter Steinberg and director Benjamin, and producer Michael Gruskoff. Title page present, dated September 4, 1981, noted as REV. FINAL DRAFT, with a credit for screenwriter Steinberg. 110 leaves, photographically reproduced, with the last leaf of text numbered 110. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Shot on location in New York City. O'Toole received an Oscar nomination for his role.
Softcover. Culver City CA, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Brooksfilms, , N/A, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pale blue wrappers with die-cut window for title, 120 pages, three-hole punched pages held by 2 brads. Title page dated April 9. 1981 indicating an early version. The 1982 film, directed by Richard Benjamin, earned Peter O'Toole an Oscar nomination for his lead role as Alan Swann. Title lettered on bottom edge, otherwise clean copy.
Softcover. Culver City CA, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Brooksfilms, , N/A, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pale blue wrappers, 120 pages, three-hole punched pages held by 2 brads. Stamped copy # 137. Title page dated April 9. 1981 indicating an early version. The 1982 film, directed by Richard Benjamin, earned Peter O'Toole an Oscar nomination for his lead role as Alan Swann. Title lettered on bottom edge, light spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated with color collagraphs by Barbara Garrison. Her handsome illustrations set the tone for this elegant introduction to major Jewish holidays as well as the Sabbath. From Rosh Hashanah to Purim, Passover and Shavuot, Silverman (The Glass Menorah) delves into Torah and Jewish tradition, neatly distilling the historical background, spiritual significance and present-day rituals associated with commemorating and celebrating each of these special days. Name and date on title page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 38 pages illustrated in color by the author. A young girl keeps a journal about the people and events in her life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, ex-lib with stamping, residue to rear endpapers. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Mr. Fanshaw and his grandson Will have a kitten show up at their door. Can the kitten help to solve the mystery in their woods?
Hardcover. Los Angeles CA, Twentieth Century-Fox, N/A, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wraps, 135 pages, three-hole punched screenplay, dated November 14 1979 and designated as The Numbered Script (this copy with #37 inside front cover). Final draft was dated December 12, 1979. The 1980 movie that starred Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lilly Tomlin. This draft doesn't mention Patricia Resnick who was given credit as co-screenwriter, Higgins directed. Title lettered on bottom edge, otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 5th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in colot by Sima. Growing up in the ocean, Kelp has always assumed that he was a narwhal like the rest of his family. Sure, he's always been a little bit different--his tusk isn't as long, he's not as good of a swimmer, and he really doesn't enjoy the cuisine. Then one night, an extra strong current sweeps Kelp to the surface, where he spots a mysterious creature that looks just like him! Kelp discovers that he and the creature are actually unicorns. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Diego/NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In simple words and radiant collages, Debra Frasier celebrates the earth and extends an exuberant welcome to each member of our human family. Travel across our round planet as the moon pulls, the tides rise, the rain falls, and then a baby is born.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green bards stamped with silhouette design, beige cloth spine. No dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1980. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Short inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Brown. Clean copy.
Softcover. Culver City CA, MGM Film Co., N/A, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blank pale green wraps, 119 pages, three-hole punched photo-copied screenplay, title page dated February 1981 (with #63 by MGM logo at top), second title page with writer credits dated June 19 1981, revised pages with various dates - most early 1981. Title lettered on bottom edge otherwise a clean, sharp copy. Bound by two brads.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Written at the height of the Steam Age, this book combines Otto Kuhler's striking dry-brush locomotive pictures with Robert Henry's clear account of the development of the American steam locomotive. This happy combination of dramatic and realistic pictures and fascinating fact makes the book entertaining reading for all who are interested in the expansion and development of the country. Illustrated with almost 40 drawings plus pictorial endpapers. No markings.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers with pink lettering. Lacks dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Gerstein. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 2nd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Trina Schart Hyman. This retelling of a favorite fairy tale, illustrated by award-winning artist Trina Schart Hyman in an edition Publishers Weekly called "spellbinding," has been lovingly restored. Digital technology brings back the clarity and brightness of Hyman's original watercolor paintings to illuminate the terrifying woods, handsome prince, and Rapunzel's lustrous hair, as Hyman originally painted them. Originally published in 1982
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages with index. A work of refreshing originality and vivid appeal, Red Arctic tells the story of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. Author John McCannon recounts the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions--conducted by foot, ship, and plane--that were the pride of Stalinist Russia, in order to expose the reality behind them: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic competition, and the eventual rise of the Gulag as the dominant force in the North. Red Arctic also traces the development of the polar-based popular culture of the decade, making use of memoirs, films, radio broadcasts, children's books, and cultural ephemera ranging from placards to postage stamps to show how Russia's "Arctic Myth" became an integral part of the overall socialist-realist aesthetic that animated Stalinist culture throughout the 1930s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, The University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 354 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Light pencil marking to 5 pages, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in color by Victoria Tentler-Krylov. When Kip Tiernan was growing up during the Great Depression it was believed that there were no women experiencing homelessness. And yet Kip would see women sleeping on park benches and searching for food in trash cans. Kip decided to open the first shelter for women--a shelter with no questions asked, no required chores, just good meals and warm beds. With persistence, Kip took on the city of Boston in her quest to open Rosie's Place, our nation's first shelter for women. Christine McDonnell, a former educator at Rosie's Place, and illustrator Victoria Tentler-Krylov bring warmth to Kip Tiernan's story of humanity and tenacity, showing readers how one person's dream can make a huge difference, and small acts of kindness can lead to great things.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sweetness was determined not to go back to scrubbing the orphanage floor with a toothbrush, so ran away to the desert, foiled an outlaw, and found a Pa (the sheriff) for herself and the other seven orphans. Interesting pictures in gouache, acrylic, and pencil by Karas. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sweetness was determined not to go back to scrubbing the orphanage floor with a toothbrush, so ran away to the desert, foiled an outlaw, and found a Pa (the sheriff) for herself and the other seven orphans. Interesting pictures in gouache, acrylic, and pencil by Karas. Clean copy.
Softcover. Carrara Italy, privately printed, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (48 pages), illustrated in color and b&w. Contains reproductions of Tallarigo's stone sculptures created from 1990-1995. Text in Italian and English.
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