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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing to edges.

Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wraps, 616 pages. Clean, bright copy. Sojourner Nadine Jane Johnson, also known as Mosquito, is an African-American truck driver. Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of her accidental and yet growing involvement in "the new underground railroad," a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants. Mosquito's journey begins when she discovers Maria, a stowaway who nearly gives birth in the back of the truck; Maria will eventually name her baby Journal, a misspelled tribute to her unwitting benefactor Sojourner. Along the road, Mosquito introduces us to Delgadina, a Chicana bartender who fries cactus, writes haunting stories, and studies to become a detective - one of the most original and appealing characters in all of Jones's fiction. We also meet Monkey Bread, a childhood pal who is, improbably, assistant to a blonde star in Hollywood, where Mosquito pays her a memorable visit. As her understanding of the immigrants' need to forge new lives and identities deepens, so too does Mosquito's romance with Ray, a gentle revolutionary, philosopher, and, perhaps, a priest.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 8 sepia-toned plates by Alice Barbara Stephens, 7 tipped-in. Lovely decorated green cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise very good. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 50 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Color illustrations by Karl Larsson. Dust jacket shows much wear, soiling, chipping, some small tears, one large tear at top left hand corner of back cover. Internally there is some soiling but mostly clean.

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, octavo, black cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt decoration, title and spine titles. 291 pages. Uncut edges. With twelve full page engravings, capitals and decorations by Frank C. Pape. The cover and spine gilt is bright. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, octavo, black cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt decoration, title and spine titles. 291 pages. Uncut edges. With twelve full page engravings, capitals and decorations by Frank C. Pape. In a black paper dust jacket with light gray decoration, light edgewear. The cover gilt is bright but there is moderate flecking/discoloration to the black cloth in areas. Endpapers have some tanning, interior is clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York , Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 373 pages. Color frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens. Beige cloth covers with ornate floral design in three colors. Half title page with top corner clipped, several pages with tape repairs, otherwise a choice copy of this scarce title.

Hardcover. London, Henry, Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, embossed design on green cloth covers with frontispiece illustration and gilt title on spine. No date printed on copyright page, previous owner's inscription on fly leaf dated 1915. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very bright, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages. 3 color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Black & white pen drawings by Edmund H. Garrett. Back gutter cracked from hinge. Cloth covers with black illustration and lettering on front and spine.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece. [The Children's Friend Series]. Green cloth, Gilt Lettering On Front Cover, Pink Lettering On Spine, Front Cover decorated in three-color design. First Published In A Periodical In 1887, New Copyright 1903 by adopted son, John S.P. Alcott. Some slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine and corners of cover boards. In very good condition.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. B&W illustrations by Oliver Herford. Each page with red border decoration. Previous owner's inscription on front pastedown. Blue cloth cover with paste-on label illustration.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 142 pages, b&w drawings by William Moyers. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, price-clipped. Book with blue cloth covers, very good, clean.

Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY McKNIGHT on title-page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace World, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. With minor wear to covers and dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 100 pages. Numerous black & white photographs. Corners bumped & edgeworn. Soiling, scratches to covers. Lots of photos, and text describing the process of making movies in the 1930s, aimed at young readers.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket with moderate wear, areas of staining, tape repaired tears. Clean, unmarked pages. A child eye's view of moving day. No statement of first on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Friendship Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with silver stamping, 128 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Kurt Wiese. The adventures of Mpengo and his sister who live in a village in the Congo.

Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's red and black marble-patterned cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A collection of eleven short stories, some of which became inspirations for his novels. Frontispiece illustration of man falling off a bicycle, by Thomas Derrick. Clean, square copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY STRAND on title page. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

Hardcover. NY, Alliance Book Corp.., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A story about the famous ideal American boy as an adult. The author is also known as Burt L. Standish. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, currentlly covered in plastic brodart. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with chipping, closed tears. Greatly disappointed that the celebrated Miss K will not be their teacher, Finley Streeter and Stanley Dragavich pull pranks on the new teacher in their small town. Dust jacket and B&W illustrations by Ben Stahl.