fiction

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light chipping. Humorous tennis novel by the son of Groucho Marx. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that is unclipped. First edition of this first novel by Coover. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 249 pages. The original, complete, and totally unedited scripts from the now famous BBC "Hitchhiker Radio Show." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 218 pages. Frontispiece illustration by F. C. Yohn, two illustrations by A. B. Frost, and several photographic illustrations. A mixture of stories about Kentucky and about Holland. Red cloth stamped in gilt, black and green, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Small area of fade to red cloth on front. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else a lovely copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with black stamping, 48 pages illustrated in b&w by Jay Yang. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by Marcia Sewall.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 185 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. "It is ample token of Maxine Kumin's talents as poet and novelist that this compelling novel never departs from the substance of real life. She invests with new insight the homely details of a New England suburb and the crises that punctuate life with familiarity and the saving grace of humor. The broad canvas of The Passions of Uxport offers the reader richness of character, scene and perception, and the wry wisdom of a woman of experience." Tape repaired dj, book is clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1949, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Golden Story Book, #9, 128 pages illustrated in color by Aurelius Battaglia. This Golden Story book tells four The Penny Puppy, Hook-and-ladder Pepper, Jill's Jack and The Friendless Puppy. Penny Puppy is a story about a little homeless puppy and how he comes to find his home. Hook-and-ladder Pepper is about a Dalmatian that belongs to Firehouse #3 and his duties and adventures there. Jill's Jack tells about how Jill came to be Jack's girl and The Friendless Puppy tells how he found a friend. Clean copy,

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages. Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising, a physicist and war veteran awakens 150 years later--on the eve of a new Dark Age. Edward Shanks (1892-1953) was an English author, poet, critic, and journalist. He was the editor of Granta just before serving in World War I and is perhaps best remembered today as a war poet. The People of the Ruins is his only science fiction novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ariel Books, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. A teenage boy's adventure on a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City in the 1870s. B&w illustrations by Tom Leamon (Tom Lea? Looks like his work). Light shelf wear, no dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 368 pages. Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kantstudien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical philosophy, as well as hostility towards his work because of his defense of Jewish scholars in a Germany controlled by Nazism. However, it is widely acknowledged today that The Philosophy of 'As If' is a philosophical masterwork. Vaihinger argues that in face of an overwhelmingly complex world, we produce a simpler set of ideas, or idealizations, that help us negotiate it. When cast as fictions, such ideas provide an easier and more useful way to think about certain subjects, from mathematics and physics to law and morality, than would the truth in all its complexity. Even in science, he wrote, we must proceed "as if" a material world exists independently of perceiving subjects; in behavior, we must act "as if" ethical certainty were possible; in religion, we must believe "as if" there were a God. He also explores the role of fictions in the history of philosophy, going back to the ancient Greeks and the work of Leibniz, Adam Smith and Bentham. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1981, Hardcover in a bright, slightly worn dust jacket. Illustrations throughout the text by Michael Foreman. The pig Plantagenet cannot decide whether he likes the free but frightening life of his cousin, the boar Grondin, better than his own simple farmyard existence until a plan emerges to destroy the forest and its inhabitants.

Hardcover. London, Ernest Nister, 1st, n.d. (circa 1900), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover , tan boards with beveled edges decorated in 5 ciolors + gilt. 5 brilliant chromolith plates , 12 full-page b&w Illustrations by Walter Paget, all edges gilt. With an Introduction by The Right Rev. Handley C, G. Moule. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Page Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original cream cloth stamped with multi-color design with an Indian watching Old Faithful geyser erupt. 346 pages, six b&w plates by Walter S. Rogers. Spine lettering faded otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 177 pages. Originally titled The Gigantic Shadow. The second and last title featuring Inspector Crambo. Dust jacket with edgewear, Owner's name on half-title page.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that has some edgewear and chipping. No date but probably an 90s printing with a $14.95 price on flap, Newbery Honor sticker on front. "Junior Brown, a 300-pound musical prodigy with a neurotic, overprotective mother, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatever, have been on the hook from their eighth grade classroom all semester. Junior and Buddy are among the most original and memorable characters in recent fiction for young readers. Writing with imagination and tough-minded humor about what happens when despair is no longer tenable, miss Hamilton has told a fable of courage and strength. It is a story of tomorrow." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, 336 pages, b&w drawings by Lea. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Novel about Hank Spurling, a Marine hero of the war in the Pacific, who returned to the Cloudrock Mountains in Wyoming. In the early days of World War II, Lea became a war correspondent for Life magazine, executing paintings of action in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific, China, North Africa, and Europe. Lea's career thereafter involved both painting and writing, on a variety of subjects but generally reflective of his roots in the Southwest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , J. B Lippincott Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 360 pages, 4 color illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood. Green cloth binding with pictorial cover stamped in red, black and gilt. Minor edgewear, internally very good.

Hardcover. Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Music inspired, science fiction and fantasy combined in a way that revolutionized poster art of the Psychedelic 1960's-era. Famous for his rock posters, The Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren, a Detroit, Michigan based artist, showcases his posters which were as important to the Detroit Music and Art history as were the music legends themselves; The Who, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd to name a few. The book's forward is written by Mitch Ryder, who was lead vocalist of a Detroit 1960's rock group The Detroit Wheels. The introduction is by Russ Gibb, a former radio personality and rock promoter from Dearborn, Michigan, who played a major role in the late sixties/early seventiesMotor City music scene.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel which takes a deeply irreverent look at literature, politics, patriotism and religion.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Tan brown cloth covers stamped in black. Illustrations for DJ and frontispiece by I. B. Hazelton. Wartime paper resulting in tanned pages. No markings.