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Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, stamped in gray and black, 208 pages. In his two earlier novels, "The Sea of Grass" and "The Trees," Conrad Richter has made a solid contribution to the long shelf of Americana; in "Tacey Cromwell" he goes back into the Arizona Territory a half century ago, to find a protagonist in the hennaed sporting-house madam who gives the book its name. Like others of this celebrated sisterhood, Tacey yearns for a husband and social esteem. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with green and gilt stamping. A story of love, murder and suicide, described by one critic as "atmospheric to the verge of mystical." The novel concerns a woman named Felicia Lissell, who travels to Rhodesia with her aunt, to visit the farm of Dick Cardross, but she doesn't suspect that "dangerous social complications awaited her in the gay English colony nearby." The author, born Lilian Julian Webb in London in 1862, was a resident of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1896. She achieved international recognition with the publication of her story collection "Virginia of the Rhodesians" in 1904, and went on to great success as the author of numerous novels. Owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with a black cloth spine. 252 pages, b&w photographs, map end paper. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Additionally with a note to the title page stating she has hand-corrected some 20 errors in the printed text, unique thus. An epic poem "on the lives of a young composer-aviator and his intimates and casual acquaintances the accumulated wisdom and lore of the world in which we live." Winner of the Yale Poetry Award. No dust jacket. Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, this being the result. Spine gilt faded.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red endpapers. Decorated cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. An innovative exploration of the place of the erotic in Renaissance art and culture, focusing on a notorious set of images created by the young Italian master Giulio Romano. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 139 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marjorie Flack. Previous owner's bookplate pasted to half-title page. INSCRIBED BY LOMEN to previous owner on front flyleaf. Clean cover.

1986, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Spine lightly faded on dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rhonda McClun. A dandelion in the garden of an autocratic rose-fancier triumphs over the threat of extinction.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil opposite half title page. Full color and black & white illustrations by Masha. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 156 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illust. by Henry Pitz. Ex-lib with modest marking, residue. Dust jacket with light chipping. Glue abrasion on title page at gutter.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth spine with color pictorial boards, 248 pages. Illustrated in color and black/white by Anne Anderson and Alan Wright. Edges of cover chipped, paper tanning, chipping to paper on rear cover. hinges tender. No date.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering and decoration on spine and front board. The author's reminiscences of time in the trenches during World War I. An American serving at the time with British 'Tommies', he also wrote 'Over the Top' and other books about his experiences. Front fly leaf missing, book opens to half title page, otherwise a clean, tight 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. Philadelphia, PA, Carey, Lea & Carey, Second series, 1829, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol 1: 296 pages. Vol 2: 286 pagesHardcovers. Brown boards, paste down title on spine in black. Original owner inscription on front flyleaf of both books, original owner's signature on back pages. Pages untrimmed, rough edged, tanning and foxing to pages. Binding very good, spine straight. Agewear throughout, in very good condition for its age. Good solid volumes of Sir Walter Scott's tales as told to his grandson.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with a bright pictorial label on front cover. Five color plates by Paul Strayer (one repeated on cover label). 320 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages. 4to. Original black cloth, gilt titles, black top page ridge. Tipped in color illustrations and full-page engravings by Harry Clarke, illustrated label on front board. An attractive edition of Poe's classic collection of stories.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in b&w by Tom Feelings. Black cloth covers with gilt snake drawing on front. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Spine slightly cocked, clean copy.

Softcover. US, Pillsbury Institute of Flour Milling History, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Softcover with light wear to edges and paper wrappers. Illustrated in black and white by Henry C. Pitz. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 96 pages. Color and black & white photography. Color illustrations. Book illustrators discuss their art w/examples throughout: Victoria Chess, Pat Cummings, Leo & Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, Lois Ehlert, Lisa Campbell Ernst, Tom Feelings, Steven Kellogg, Jerry Pinkney, Amy Schwartz, Lane Smith, Chris Van Allsburg & David Wiesner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear and chipping. Illustrated end papers. Black & white illustrations by Sgt. Glen Rounds. Light gutter crack by title page.

Softcover. Baltimore MD, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Black illustrated wraps. 95 pages. Numerous b&w plates. Accompanying a loan exhibition from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, this catalogue includes an introduction by E. Maurice Bloch, prints by such artists as Albers, Altoon, Asawa, Celmins, Cremean, Diebenkorn, Frasconi, Townley and many more, as well as a bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. Valencia CA, Black Belt Communications, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 41 pages illustrated in two and three colors by the author. Tale of a young boy set in contemporary (1950s) Japan. Inscription on front fly leaf. An unfortunate musty odor.

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. Four b&w plates by J. Allen St. John. "Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators." Clean copy.