Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. Two friends decide that playing hide and seek isn't as much fun as doing things together. Publisher's review slip laid in.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Tough, hard-boiled, and brilliantly suspenseful, The Last Good Kiss is an unforgettable detective story starring C. W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest nightmares. aclean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 601 pages. B&w photos. The definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend ( 1920 - 2014 ) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews with those who knew him best. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Fawcett Gold Medal, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 255 pages. A lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call southern hospitality...? Mild wear to covers, otherwise VG, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short closed tears. B&w pictures by William Pene Du Bois. $8 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Kraus Reprint, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, 341 pages. A reprint of a book first published in 1856. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket with light tanning to spine. 290 pages plus index. Clean copy. THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as "shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition," thus collecting in one sentence most of our current prejudices. In this provocative book--at once a scholarly study and a vigorous polemic--Peter Gay sets out to shatter old myths, to sort out illusion from reality, and to restore the men of the Enlightenment--Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--to the esteem they deserve.
Hardcover. Boston, The Beacon Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers, 289 pages. 12 pages of b&w photos. Fifty years of letters (1899-1949) by the crusader for liberal and humane causes as well as Jewish rights. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 218 pages, b&w illustrations. When gold rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese immigrants came through San Francisco on their way to seek their fortunes. They were called sojourners, for they never intended to stay. Polly, a young Chinese concubine, was brought by her owner to a remote mining camp in the highlands of Idaho. There he lost her in a poker game. Polly found her way with her new owner to an isolated ranch on the banks of the Salmon River in central Idaho. As the gold rush receded, it took with it the Chinese miners-or their bones, which were disinterred and shipped back to their homeland in accordance with Chinese custom. But it left behind Polly, who would make headlines. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 223 pages. The Nzema of West Africa, who inhabit a land of forest and lagoons along the Atlantic, continue a heritage untapped by anthropologists and scarcely influenced by Western civilization. Vinigi L. Grottanelli first discovered the rich culture of this southern Ghanaian tribe in 1954. Over the next three decades, intermittent sojourns enabled Grottanelli to develop friendships with the Nzema and learn about their beliefs, traditions, and practices. In twenty absorbing vignettes, The Python Killer renders a vivid portrayal of Nzema life. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/NY, F. Warne & Co., reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 64 pages. Illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. Boards are beige, with paste-down illustration on front. Edges are bright green. Price-clipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with just a trace of soil. First published with the Greenaway illustrations in 1886. Small price sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 254 pages. The collected short stories and autobiographical writings of the last survivor of the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and thirties describes growing up in Boston's black middle class, her relationship with Langston Hughes, and other subjects.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two of Ozick's most widely admired pieces, "The Shawl" (a story) and "Rosa" (a novella) were published together in this book for the first time. Very powerful writing from the author of Trust and Levitation.
Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color throughout. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as 'crazy for men' and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 192 pages. The Woman-Chaser has one of the most interesting plots ever for a crime thriller. Richard Hudson, a crooked, arrogant and vicious car salesman who is really good at his job panics at a meeting of aspiring young reps. He realizes that he is wasting his life in the 9 to 5 grind. It dawns on him that we are on this planet to be creative. So he writes a script with help from his step-father and decides to direct a film based on the script. But when his edited film fails to meet the six reel 90 minute length standard, the studio tries to interfere in the film's future. The crazed car salesman/movie director embarks on a rampage of destruction. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 341 pages. This is the first collection of essays in seven years by the author of Omensetter's Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Fiction and the Figures of Life. In it, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Clean copy.
hardcover. NY, Metroplitian Museum of Art, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Musical scores to 30 children's song, illustrated in color by Paul Woodroffe. Illustrated cardboard covers with white cloth spine. Endpapers illustration in yellow. A reprint of a book originally published in 1912. Includes words and music to popular nursery songs, such as Old King Cole, Little Bo-Peep and Three Blind Mice.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 305 pages. In an age when much American writing was either glacially noncommittal or heremetically personal, William Styron persisted in addressing great moral issues with incendiary passion. Seriousness and ardor characterize all the essays in This Quiet Dust, the first book of nonfiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's Choice. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Greek and English texts. Translated, with a foreword and notes by Walter Kaiser. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket with upper cover illustration by Maud Morgan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 137 pages. Drawings by Joan Berg Victor. Childrens book about a family of mice who move in and out of a summer home throughout the year as tenants move in and out. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A collection of drawings by Tomi Ungerer on the themes of men, women, and sex. Unpaginated [112 pages]; 109 full-page b&w illustrations; 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages. Alfred Lee Loomis (1887-1975) made his fortune in the 1920s by investing in public utilities, but science was his first love. In 1928, he established a premier research facility in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., that attracted such brilliant minds as Einstein, Bohr and Fermi and became instrumental in the Allies' WWII victory. Conant, a magazine writer, draws on studies, family papers and interviews with Loomis's friends, family and colleagues (she's a relative of two scientists who worked with Loomis) to trace the story of the tycoon's professional and social life (the latter fairly racy). At the Tuxedo Park lab, Loomis attracted top-flight scientists who experimented with sound, time measurement and brain waves. During WWII, he established a laboratory at MIT (the "rad lab") where radar was developed. He also served as a conduit between civilian scientists and Roosevelt's military establishment. Although he lost some of his top people to the Manhattan Project, the "rad lab" was a major contributor to the allies' defense. In his well-publicized personal life, Loomis angered family members by trying to have his emotionally unstable wife institutionalized while he pursued an affair with another woman. Through Conant's spare, unobtrusive prose and well-paced storytelling, Loomis emerges as a contradictory man who craved scientific accomplishment and influence, but rarely took credit for himself.
Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. a reprint of Wright's early book considered the most private of his work. The author identified he and his wife Annie as the citizens in the title. Nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st illust. thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The classic picture book from Margaret Wise Brown about two trains and their cross-country journey from east to west, with a bold new look from Geisel Award-winning artist Greg Pizzoli.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 554 pages. This compilation of correspondence is aptly titled. British travel writer and novelist Chatwin traveled widely, constantly, and obsessively--everywhere under the sun, in other words. He possessed a restless soul, to be sure. And to a large degree, he was secretive; information about his homosexuality and his affliction with the AIDS virus was closely guarded. He cast a personal spell with his charm and a lasting one through his works, which are so imaginative they are pure excitement to read; at the same time, however, it can be confusing to determine whether to see them as fiction or nonfiction. Nevertheless, beginning with his first published book, In Patagonia (1977), Chatwin maintained a reputation among discerning readers for his riveting characters--invented or not is unimportant, even in his travel books--and his rigorously precise writing style. Chatwin's wife and his biographer (Bruce Chatwin, 2000) combined efforts over a two-decade period to retrieve more than 90 percent of Chatwin's correspondence from childhood to immediately before his untimely death at 48. Chatwin's many appreciators will see the compilation in its overall significance as a personal visit with one of their literary heroes, as much as that is possible now. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, illustrated in colors by Johnson. An attractive ex-lib copy of this story of a boy who requests advice from the animal kingdom as to what he should be when he grows up. Minor stamping and residue to endpapers. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages. "With characteristic wit, compassion and erudition, Bruce Chatwin reveals his view of the world. In Hong Kong he discusses the properties of the 'dragon-lines'; he returns to the theme of The Songlines with his perception of life as 'a journey to be walked on foot', and in a run-down Algerian quarter of Marseilles discovers 'a notion, not lost, of all men equal before God'."
Hardcover. NY, Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Tells what a whisper is, and what a secret is -- so a whispery secret is a very special thing. A gentle, cuddly read-aloud story for bed-time reading memories. Each page has illustrations by Martha Alexander that are in soft and soothing blues, grays, and greens with cute little faces on all the characters focusing on nature. Pages not numbered. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages, hardcover, illustrated boards with green cloth spine. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. mild shelf wear, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A simple discussion of the physical characteristics and probable origins of the races of the world. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin.
New York, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 109 pages. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. Conrad, the boy who gave Annie a willow whistle, improves her father's opinion of him when he helps save his classmates stranded in the schoolhouse by an early blizzard.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. A description of that gentle beast, the upland gorilla, and of the African terrain and people. Mr. Schaller has written an informal and exciting story of his two years of travel and observation in East and Central Africa. No markings.
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