NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with light fading to spine. The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939-1945.
Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane Company, 3rd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. 180 pages, color frontis. In this historical romance, Katrina Trask brings to life the story of King Alfred's Jewel, a precious gem from the time of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs. The novel follows the jewel's journey through the centuries, and the lives of the people who owned and cherished it, from medieval times to the present day. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages, illustrated in b&w by Charles Keeping. Ex-lib with stamping and residue to endpapers. An adventure story from a 13th c folk-poem with elements from invasions of the 9th and 10th century, redone by a well known modern writer and illustrator. Prince Horn, driven from his father's kingdom at 15 by Turkish invaders, flees to Westernesse and becomes a page at the royal court. Then his love for the Princess is treacherously revealed and he is exiled to Ireland, from which he battles to free his kingdom and win his princess. Published when the author was 24, and the second of his many vivid translations and retellings of traditional narratives.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 398 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.INSCRIBED BY GAVIN on front end paper. Slight bottom edge soil.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, with illustrations by Paul Brown. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and foxing on top and fore edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A humorous spoof on the hard-boiled detective genre. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 338 pages. Light edgewear to dj, remainder dot bottom edge. A novel of Henry Knox's 1776 winter raid on Fort Ticonderoga to bring cannon to beleaguered Boston. Endpapers map. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Top edge gilt. Gilt title on white cloth spine, front cover with sea motif in silver over gray paper. Title on pastedown in upper right corner of front cover. Hand numbered #93 of 675 copies. Features 10 full color tipped-in plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Cover corners with light/moderate rubbing. Hinges intact but tender. Nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, In the early 1950s, Katie Takeshima and her family live in Iowa, where her parents own a Japanese supermarket. When the store goes out of business in 1956, the family moves from Iowa to an apartment in Georgia, where Katie's parents work at a chicken hatchery with other Japanese families. Hardcover, 244 pages. Newbery Award winner. Very good pictorial dust jacket without award medal present, unclipped. SIGNED NEWBERY AWARD BOOKMARK ENCLOSED signed "Cynthia".
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Photo of author laid-in, translated from Japanese by Simon Grove.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sam's friends, Oscar and Fred Arm, identical twins, are of opposite opinions as to whether or not he should marry Claire, a wealthy young debutante, and work secretly to alter their wedding plans.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth with blue lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Inscription, date on front fly leaf, with Christmas stamp, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf, otherwise VG.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DORFMAN on title page.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Eight b&w plates by illustrator (not credited). Decorated yellow cloth covers with light soil, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Paterson NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering, 114 pages. Five b&w plates by Anthony A. MacGrath. From a private school library with light stamping, gilt faded.