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Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. B&W illustrations in text and full-page plates with tissue guards. Green cloth with black and gilt design. Binding a little shaken but solid, light wear to cloth edges. Small tear to spine cloth. Scarce.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2nd, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers and spine. Covers and end papers slightly soiled; else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 17 black & white drawings by Bridgeman. Gilt lettering to covers with some spot fading to light blue cloth. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinous University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear, spine fading and rubbing, internally cleann and tight copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Hector Bossange, reprint, 1829, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two parts in one volume, 136 + 203 pages, bound in maroon half leather over marbled boards, gilt design on spine. Edition Stereotype: D'apres le procede de Firmin Didot. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and blank prelim page, moderate foxing to pages.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, blue cloth covers with dark blue design. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. . Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, not price clipped ($2.50).

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 467 pages. Lovely copy. Like new hardcover in a dust jacket. Employing a variety of techniques-unattributed dialogue, stories within stories, passages from term papers and a waitressing manual-Chavez's accomplished first novel weaves the interlocking histories of the Dosamantes clan and the fictional New Mexico town of Agua Oscura. But the author, a playwright, actress and story writer, seeks to be more than a compiler of earthy, colorful tales about love, marriage, death, trailer parks and pickup trucks. Here is an updated Pilgrim's Progress with a Chicana feminist twist: Chavez follows the spiritual journey of her narrator, Soveida Dosamantes, who grows from a shy fearful girl to become a vulnerable, obliging waitress and, finally, a forceful woman ready to make difficult choices. Her highly readable style effortlessly mixes Spanish and English in a way that won't jar the monolingual reader ("May [the Virgin Mary] spare you a drunken man... smelling of frijoles and beer. Dios mio el gas!"). And if there is an occasional excess of sentimentality, there is never a dull moment in this rich polyphonic novel.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st American Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, pink title on spine, boards in excellent condition. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar for protection. Pages have some very light tanning, unmarked. "Sansom has coupled his storyteller's art with his incomparable and lucent style."

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 372 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 372 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear and fading to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 136 pages. Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter:Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, & Co. , reprint, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beautifully decorated green cloth stamped in gilt. Teg, deckle edges. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Exterior clean and bright. Interior with stamping, marking to several pages, from a private library.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover. Full color paste down illustration on front cover - minor chip of paper missing at bottom of interior red line of Fairy Caravan banner. Title in gilt on spine. Full color plates and black & white illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Previous owners name (written in pencil) erased at some point. A nice copy.

NY, Paddington Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket, light fading to spine. Black & white illustrations, 569 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages. Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm. Pullman retells his fifty favorites, from much-loved stories like "Cinderella" and "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel" and "Hansel and Gretel" to lesser-known treasures like "The Three Snake Leaves," "Godfather Death" and "The Girl with No Hands." At the end of each tale he offers a brief personal commentary, opening a window on the sources of the tales, the various forms they've taken over the centuries and their everlasting appeal. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Publisher's release and photo of author laid in. Foxing to top edge. Spine slightly cocked. Else a very clean, tight copy. The author's first work of fiction and his second book to be published (the first being a philosophical work published 1988 under the title "Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970"). Writing of this debut Novel in the New York Times, Anne Gotlieb stated "This is a strange and often wonderful hybrid -- an ebullient philosophical novel in the form of a folktale-cum-black girl's odyssey. It is a book bubbling like a conjure woman's kettle with African lore, preserved intact in the half-magical, half-demeaning world of Hatten County, Georgia."

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Price clipped from dust jacket, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Otto Penzler, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations by Kenneth Rowell. 61 pages. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Hardcover.