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Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white lettering and drawing of horse's head on cover. 144 pages. Black & white drawings and color frontispiece by Willy Pogany. Pink top edge. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Rubbing, light soiling to endpapers. The story of an old dapple-grey workhouse, Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebby, for short, and the two siblings who love him, Marigold and Noel, who live with their mean old aunt-in-law.

Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #1910. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to cover wrappers.

Hardcover. London, England, j.W. Arrowsmith, 1st Edition, 1898 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece, illustrations throughout by illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson. Tanning from age throughout, pages untrimmed, deckled. Letter from the author dated "17th Sept: 03" laid in (see image), possibly to William Heinemann. Green cover boards, gilt title on spine, front cover. Some agewear to spine top and bottom. Binding very good, spine straight. Very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to utopian writing as diverse as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and Orwell's Animal Farm, they have tested notions of truth, reality, and representation. They have gone beyond their precursors by experimenting with the tensions between ludic and didactic art. Edith Clowes explores these "meta-utopian" narratives, which address a wide range of attitudes toward utopia, to expose the challenge that literary play poses to dogmatism and to elucidate the sense of renewal it can bring to social imagination. Using both structural analysis and reception theory, she introduces readers outside Russia to a fascinating body of literature that includes Aleksandr Zinoviev's The Yawning Heights, Abram Terts's Liubimov, Vladimir Voinovich's Moscow 2042, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia's "The New Robinsons."

Softcover. Los Angeles, Rare Bird Books, 1st US, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Advance Readers Copy. 'A great Russian novel in the grand Russian tradition' - LE FIGARO. Years after the death of their beloved son, there is a knock at the door of Nikolai and Vera's apartment. Introducing himself simply as 'Sergeant Bertrand', the unknown visitor triggers a precipitous journey into the depths of the human soul. Hailed as an early masterpiece of post-Soviet literature, Russian Gothic is now available in English for the first time. Three decades after it was written, its complex portrait of grief, misogyny, violence and love is as fresh, shocking and relevant as ever. Aleksandr Skorobogatov was born in Grodno in what is now Belorussia. He is one of the most original Russophone writers of the post-communist era. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Horace Liveright, 2nd pr., 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red and gilt, 323 pages. Red topstain, with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by the author. Copyright page states: Second printing, September 1928. The first printing was in August. Barnes played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village in the teens. Ryder draws heavily on her childhood experiences in Cornwall-on-Hudson. It covers 50 years of her family's history. Fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams. The book changes style from chapter to chapter, parodying writers from Chaucer to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Spine darkened, light shelf-wear. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 216 pages. Black & white illustrations by Julian Brazelton. Illustrated endpapers. Faded blue top edge. Corners bumped. Soiling to covers.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLERMAN.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The 3rd of his tough gritty mysteries featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro - in a search that takes them from Boston to Florida's Gulf Coast. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Otto Penzler, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with a drawing of a saddle on front cover. 184 pages. Black & white illustrations by Earl Mayan. Faded green top edge. Corners slightly bumped. Spine faded. No dust jacket. Rick and his sister Jinny help raise an orphan filly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. 221 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 221 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with faded spine, library labels on spine, light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A really nice, new-looking, clean copy. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 235 pages. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SPENCER on half-title page. Tight copy with only minor wear to covers.

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, illustrated wraps. SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on the title page. Tight copy with minor wear to paper wrappers.

Paperback. St. Paul, Graywolf Press, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Uncorrected Page Proof copy.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Chas. E. Tuttle Co., reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Fine green textured cover with gilt to front and spine. B&w photo frontispiece. Foreword by John Spargo, Introduction by S. Foster Damon. A collection of tales capturing the essence of 19th-century rural life, primarily set in Vermont. Stories told in dialect, including chapters on trapping, hunting foxes, and some fishing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Chas. E. Tuttle Co., reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Fine green textured cover with gilt to front and spine. B&w photo frontispiece. Foreword by John Spargo, Introduction by S. Foster Damon. A collection of tales capturing the essence of 19th-century rural life, primarily set in Vermont. Stories told in dialect, including chapters on trapping, hunting foxes, and some fishing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1st Edition, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Personal note inscription on front flyleaf and pages 12-13 (see image). Tanning throughout from age. Related newspaper article laid in, discolored page (see image).

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The New Yorker magazine named Matt Klam one of the twenty best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need. Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded room who, upon closer inspection, turns out to be not quite what he expected; a self-doubting young professional attends the posh wedding of his successful friend and delivers a disastrous toast; the chicken one man's girlfriend is preparing for dinner comes to embody the darkly corrosive element in their relationship. These stories crackle with humor, intelligence and style and add up to an outrageously funny, unforgettable debut. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 150 pages. SIGNED BY PIERCE on the front fly leaf. Samantha longs for a part on the stage but in Elizabethan England that is forbidden for girls. She sells oranges instead, hoping to make a living for herself and her invalid mother. However, when her mother dies and Samantha is desperate for a place to stay she realizes the only possibility is to seek refuge with her friend Hugh, an apprentice to John Heminges' theatrical troupe. This requires a reckless masquerade. Rear endpapers with transparent tape.