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Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st US, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in dark green. In a worn, chipped dust jacket. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY OTTO on the title page. This captivating novel opens in 1917 as Cymbeline Kelley surveys the charred remains of her photography studio, destroyed in a fire started by a woman hired to help take care of the house while Cymbeline pursued her photography career. This tension-- between wanting and needing to be two places at once; between domestic duty and ambition; between public and private life; between what's seen and what's hidden from view--echoes in the stories of the other seven women in the book. Among them: Amadora Allesbury, who creates a world of color and whimsy in an attempt to recapture the joy lost to WWI; Clara Argento, who finds her voice working alongside socialist revolutionaries in Mexico; Lenny Van Pelt, a gorgeous model who feels more comfortable photographing the deserted towns of the French countryside after WWII than she does at a couture fashion shoot; and Miri Marx, who has traveled the world taking pictures, but also loves her quiet life as a wife and mother in her New York apartment. Crisscrossing the world and a century, Eight Girls Taking Pictures is an affecting meditation on the conflicts women face and the choices they make. These memorable characters seek extraordinary lives through their work, yet they also find meaning and reward in the ordinary tasks of motherhood, marriage, and domesticity. Most of all, this novel is a vivid portrait of women in love--in love with men, other women, children, their careers, beauty, and freedom.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition first printing of the first novel by this author and the first novel in the Warren Ritter series. A strange thing was happening to Warren Ritter. He certainly didn't believe in the tarot. He was a businessman, setting up a folding table on a San Francisco street where a stream of passersby could bring him as much as a hundred dollars a day when the weather was right. But he was beginning to notice more and more that what he had learned to predict from his tarot cards seemed to be coming to pass with an unsettling regularity. It made him do odd things. Like stop teenage Heather Wellington's tarot at nine cards instead of ten. The first eight had been ominous, the ninth more upbeat, so Warren simply stopped the reading there. It was only after Heather had left that he looked at number ten-it was the Death card. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Black & white drawings by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears. Inside tape repair to top & bottom of spine tears.

Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with a color illustration on cover paste-down. Color frontispiece and 11 line illustrations by Stuart Hay. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 233 pages, with illustrations by Leo Politi and Spanish glossary in rear. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 681 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Criterion Books, 1st US, 1957 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Translated by Gwen Marsh. 170 pages, illustrated in B&W by Felix Hoffmann. Spine faded, dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third in Alldritt's sequence of novels about the English Midlands, this time with Edward Elgar as protagonist. Paints a picture of Edwardian social life, the music and the manners, in the provincial towns of the area.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 341 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless copy. Curtis was a Newbery Medal winner for his title Bud, Not Buddy. This bookis the tale of eleven-year-old Elijah, born in Buxton, a settlement of runaway slaves across the border from Detroit and his journey through the horrors of slavery and aspirations of justice, courage and hope.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some minor wear. Hardbound. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. The winner of the 1970 National Book Award for children's literature retells a Hebrew legend with vivid simplicity and an internationally respected artist interprets it with a sincerity and fresh vision reminiscent of medieval art.

Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press,, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Blue and black illustrations by Joe Beeler. Some very minor wear to dust jacket, internally clean. A novel of mountain man violence and survival.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else alike new.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Red boards. Color pictorial dj. Clean, unmarked, tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Henry Hoyt, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 344 pages, several b&w plates. Embossed red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIBBONS on title page.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 146 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, & World, 3rd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 432 pages. An early copy of Lewis's famous novel about a preacher who goes off the rails. A very good copy dated 1927 and stated third printing with the "3" at top of copyright page.

Hardcover. London, George Newnes, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bertram Prance. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Light foxing to some pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, hardcover with gray cloth covers with black lettering, decoration. Light spotting to covers otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and lightly spotted dust jacket, 192 pages. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Illustrations by Walter Trier. First printing of the new translation by Eileen Hall. This copy is bound in original yellow linen covered boards with black titles to the front and spine. Kastner's first major success, the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship, and remains his best-known work, and has been translated into at least 59 languages. The most unusual aspect of the novel, compared to existing children's literature at the time, was that it was realistically set in a contemporary Berlin peopled with some fairly rough characters, not in a sanitized fantasy world; also that it refrained from obvious moralizing, letting the characters' deeds speak for themselves. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.