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Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, G. P. Putnams, 2nd, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Diana Thorne. Moderate wear to edges, clean copy.

New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with drawings by Charles Robinson. A like-new copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Walter Scott Publishing, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 348 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Walter Savage Landor's most celebrated prose work. This collection features a series of dialogues that blend historical and fictional figures, spanning from antiquity to Landor's contemporary period. The conversations are structured in various formats, including classical dialogues, discussions between sovereigns, and exchanges among literary figures, showcasing Landor's classical influences and intellectual rigor. Spine color faded, name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 213 pages. Light bump to lower edge of spine, else a lovely copy of the author's first book. Blurbs by Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, Wright Morris & Larry Woiwode on back cover.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 146 pages, illustrated in b&w by James McMullan. Story of Memini, the Wildflower Wizard, who at the time of this story is almost 1500 years old. Small stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a very worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel, a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Derrydale, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Richard Doyle. Edited and with a Foreword by Cary Wilkins. Dust jacket shows some wear and minor soiling. The King and Queen of the country next to Fairyland are blessed with a daughter whom Prince Comical rescues in the land of magic Mushrooms. Originally published in England in 1869.

NY, Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers with orange lettering. 267 pages, b&w illustrations including endpapers map by William Siegel. A fictional account of Lawrence of Arabia's exploits in the Middle East written for juveniles. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Stanley Paul, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Society novel, 159 pages.Translated from the Polish by S.C. de Soissons. De Soissons also provides a eulogistic 5 page introduction.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this story in verse, Godden has created a new & delightful myth out of the story of the Flood. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Westvaco Corporation, Ltd. Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, Bound in light brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decoration on the covers. In a pictorial cardboard slipcase illustrated with Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley painted by Paul Cezanne. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories Indian Camp and The Three Day Blow, and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision. Limited Edition, privately published by Westvaco. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers Publisher, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Moderate wear to covers.

Softcover. Chicago/NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrapper, 367 pages. No. 57 in the Oriental Library. Chip to paper spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Watkins w/readers excerpt booklet laid-in. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Imagine an American city in the near future, populated almost wholly by street dwellers, squatters in ruined buildings, scavengers for subsistence. Suicide clubs offer interesting ways to die, for a fee, but the rich have fled with their jewels, and those who are left survive on what little cash trade-in centers will give them for the day's pickings. This enthralling, dreamlike fable about a peculiarly recognizable society, now in the throes of entropy, focuses on the plight of a young woman, Anna Blume. Anna has memories of a gentler life, but comes to the city in a "charity ship" to hunt for her missing brother. She first finds shelter with a madman and his wife and later experiences a brief idyll with a writer, Samuel Farr.Together they live in the deteriorating splendor of the marbled public library. Promise is ultimately rekindled when the survivors consider taking to the road as magiciansan action implying that art and illusion can save. Auster, an accomplished stylist, creates a tone that deftly combines matter-of-factness and estrangement. The eerie quality is heightened by the device of a narrator who learns everything from Anna's journal. Light scratches to rear of dj. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, like new in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Ecco Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, light rubbing, mild soil to the unclipped dust jacket, small tape repair to inside of jacket at top of spine, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with brown stamped decoration, 288 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Dark gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. The 5th and last volume in the Katy Did Series. Light soil and shelf wear, white smudge to rear cover, previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.