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Hardcover. London, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with silver and blue metallic titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Mark Teague. SIGNED BY TEAGUE WITH A SKETCH opposite title page and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on laid-in bookplate. Like new in dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 3rd Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, faded gilt title on spine, 480 pages. Contains local folklore under various heading such as Giants, fairies, Tregeagle, mermaids, sorcery & witchcraft etc. A few black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Crosby Nichols and Co., 1st US, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages. A collection of French tales translated by Mrs. L. Burke. B&w line plates. In original bright blue embossed cloth with gilt design and lettering. 6-page publisher's catalog in front of the book Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1859.Just the slightest wear to spine extremities otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 152 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket price-clipped and slightly worn, chipped with small chunk missing from front cover. Internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Viking/Literary Guild, reprint , 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY PROULX on title page. Proulx"s first novel, a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."

Softcover. New York, Collier/Macmillan, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to spine and edges. SIGNED BY PROULX on title-page.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Proulx"s first novel a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."

Hardcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished black calf, raised bands on spine, stamped with gilt design, leather label with title in second compartment. Marbled endpapers, 609 pages. The engraved plates suffer from oxidation (tanning) and have no captions other than the page numbers. The vignette illustration on the title page has "Weller" (rather than "Veller") indicating a later issue. The binding is sound, light edgewear to leather covers. Has the two title pages, errata slip and binders directions. The 2 Buss plates included. Pictures available.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Posthumous collection of short stories, burlesques, poems and whimsies published in the HOUSTON DAILY POST in 1895 and 1896, with an introduction by Florence Stratton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 278 pages. Illustrated by John Gincano. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Heavy soiling to spine and edges of covers. Fade marks. Book covers a bit warped. Corners a bit bumped. Small chunk missing from p. 117, and tears to surrounding pages, but no harm to text. The book tells of the author's family immigrating from England to New York and then to Iowa and their lives on the Iowa prairie.

Hardcover. New York, Grossett and Dunlap, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 178 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with internal pages lightly worn. Dust jacket has chipping and fraying.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages Black & white drawings by Manning deV. Lee. Dust jacket with small chunk from bottom front edge.

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Black cloth covers with faded gilt title. 126 pages with frontispiece illustration in 2-colors by Robert Locher. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Firbank's first book published in the United States, a novel of West Indian life and manners. It was the first of his works that wasn't entirely self-financed, and despite the miniscule print run, the book was given a lavish treatment by Brentano's, published with a generous introduction by Carl Van Vechten, who was intent on making Firbank's work better known in America. Understandably, the inflammatory title roused an outcry in the African American press, though Nancy Cunard wrote a defense of Firbank and his use of the name in the Associated Negro Press, and the novel received a surprisingly positive review by W.E.B. Du Bois. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fifth mystery featuring tough Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his 'connected' partner Angie Gennaro and sometimes sidekick Bubba. Clean copy.

Hardcover. East Yorkshire, UK, PS Artbooks Ltd., 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy. A collection of "Ghost" comic books from 1951 to 1953. Issues 1 through 7.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 168 pages. SIGNED BY PATERSON on title page. Color dust jacket illustration by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with art by Barry Moser. Book Club Edition, clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 479 pages. Predestined, Whitman's first and most successful novel, is a remarkably con-trolled, inexorably plotted story of Felix Piers, born to wealth and misfortune, who was predestined to a life of failure. The rich, varied background of New York City's many sides provides the compelling backdrop to this deterministic novel. First published in 1910, one of the titles in the Lost American Fiction Series. The author is an over-looked American literary naturalist whose Predestined compares favorably with the work of Frank Norris. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by Emma Brock.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 273 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Humanities Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 276 pages. George Lukacs on Appearance and Essence, Erwin Pracht on Socialist Realism, S. Petrov on Realism, Robert Weimann on point of view in fiction, B. G. Zhantieva on Joyce's Ulysses, Werner Mittzenzwei on the Brecht-Lukacs debate, and five other major essays. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY CLARK on title page. 318 pages. Dust jacket with light scratches, sticker residue. Internally very good.