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Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Co,, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Very nice copy in brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Light fading to top otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 12th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 830 pages. Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethems words, wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him.This Library of America volume brings together four of Dicks most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary drug tycoon can transform himself into a godlike figure transcending even physical death.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic society where status is measured by the possession of live animals and religious life is focused on a television personality, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryonically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory half-life, pursues Dicks theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&w illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. Dust jacket with light soil, corner chipping. Young reader's story about a boy who makes a pair of skis so he can ski down the hill in back of his house. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photography as Fiction includes seventy-six color plates illustrating works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 416 pages. The history of photography has been told many times, but never before through the incomparable collection of photographs at The Museum of Modern Art. This publication charts the medium during the height of the modernist period, from 1920 to 1960. with 550 b/w and color illustrations. The book begins with an in-depth introduction followed by eight chapters of full-color plates, each introduced by a short essay. Masterworks by photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray and Aleksander Rodchenko appear alongside lesser-known gems, and diverse notions of modernism enrich classic interpretations, so that the beautiful fictions and messy realities of photography are complicated, refreshed and, above all, enjoyed. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green covers with gold and red decoration. 437 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard by Jessie McDermott. Spine a bit loose. Green covers with gold and red decoration. Wear to corners, spine.

Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, Amador Publishers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. INSCRIBED by author to Roger Shattuck, literary critic and historian. Publisher's release laid in. 240 pages. "Childhood overseas. Trying to find oneself as an artist. Growing up Latino. Music, musicians, and an eccentric musicologist. A nightmarish piano recital. Abortive romances. Loneliness, silence. The problem of fascism. These are among the subjects evoked in this collection of 14 pieces. Atmospheres vary from wholesome to sinister. Settings include San Juan, Philadelphia, Cambridge, Manhattan, Tucson, Berkeley and an imaginary isle of silence. In the title piece, the Chicano jazz pianist falls in love with a sorority girl who believes in Ayn Rand. To get in her good graces, he reads all of Rand and ends up converted -- with strange consequences." Spine slightly cocked. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Clarion, Ltd. Ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 244 signed (#176). SIGNED BY TREVOR AND ILLUSTRATOR HOGARTH. Color illustrations by Paul Hogarth. Cardboard covers. 20 pages. The story first appeared in the October 30, 1995 issue of The New Yorker.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. Pick-Up is really two different books contained within a single cover. The first half describes in raw, realistic detail the hopeless, despairing and desperate, lives of a man and a woman, both alcoholics, barely surviving in post World War II San Francisco. The second half of the book consists of one man's account of his first hand experience with the criminal justice system. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white illustrations by the Haders. Shows some minor wear and age. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Century Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Century Mystery #27. Light soil and mild wrinkling to front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Ford's first book. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips to corners. small tan stain to top corner (about 1/4" triangle). Unclipped.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 60 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Dust jacket with edgewear, fading to spine. A story that takes place during the Sanfrancisco earthquake. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st thus, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w by Frances Brundage. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 199 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael Foreman. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin, of what is afoot . . . "

Hardcover. NY, J.B. Lippincott Company, 2nd pr., 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Mary Shepard. Moderate wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, The Century Company, 1st illustrated, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. 12x 13". Illustrated with b&w drawings.by the Rhead brothers. Decoration on front cover in limited color of a man running away. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Small dent on rear cover edge. The cover is worn and slightly soiled and age-darkened but otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max's life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you. Like new.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light pink cloth soiled, worn, 251 pages, B&w illustrations by Nancy Bankart Gurney. Interior clean and bright. The tales and adventures of Toby Tottel. An interwoven series of adventures very much of the "fantastical" and colorful, there are more colors than the pink the title mentions and much more wordplay. Visit the island of Purganda, Hedgehog Market, The Magical Forester, The Sinful Miller, etc.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a spine label, 192 pages, b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-lib with stamping, mild residue to endpapers.

Hardcover. Boston, Jordan, Marsh & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated cloth with a blue cloth spine design in gilt with a smiling Pinocchio. An early appearance of Pinocchio in English. Translated from the Italian with an Introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth. This is the first pirated edition. A second printing the following year (1899) had 4 color plates. This edition with Enrico Mazzanti's black-and-white in-text illustrations, not credited. 212 pages, bright, sharp condition.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with 3-color decoration to cover, 181 pages. Eight 2-color illustrations, plus illustrated title page, artist not credited. Covers worn, spine faded, hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf. Contents clean. Uncommon edition.