Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, reprint, 1879, Book: Good, 529 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Moderate fraying and rubbing to covers.
Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett, 1st Ed., 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set, 312 and 322 pages, hardcovers, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on front and gilt lettering on spine. With the six original steel-plate engravings and with title-pages illustrated with large vignettes. First edition with Hobart & Robbins slug on the copyright page. Both volumes state Twenty-Fifth Thousand on the title page indicating a probable fourth printing. The first was five thousand and sold out immediately. Both volumes with chipping and fraying to top and bottom of spines, Vol. 1 with about 1/4" cloth missing at bottom. All corners show wear, spines slightly cocked, but bindings are tight. Clean set, with very minor foxing.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Orig. pub. in England as "Himself Again".
Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full red leather covers with gilt decorations, spine has raised bands; marbled endpapers; satin ribbon marker; all edges gilt; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean. First published in England in 1935. Introduction by Lord Atkin. Albert Haddock, the hero of countless lawsuits in A.P. Herbert's misleading cases, made his first public appearance in Punch about 1924. This collection of Misleading Cases contains many more sly jests at the absurdities of English law and will teach the reader more about the legal processes than lawyers know themselves.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt-blocked decorated dark green cloth in slipcase. 172 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Angela Thirlwell. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, John C. Winston, rep, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color label on front cover, 282 pages. Color frontis and 11 black & white and illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. Blue line drawing of the Alcott home on the end papers by C. M. Burd. Yellow top edge. Rear cover has some spotting. discoloring to top. Otherwise a clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. WInner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. One of his landmark, defining works. Ha Jin has seamlessly and eloquently melded historical fact with personal experience. His short stories have been compared to the works of Isaac Babel, the greatest Russian short-story writer of the 20th century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 554 pages. This compilation of correspondence is aptly titled. British travel writer and novelist Chatwin traveled widely, constantly, and obsessively--everywhere under the sun, in other words. He possessed a restless soul, to be sure. And to a large degree, he was secretive; information about his homosexuality and his affliction with the AIDS virus was closely guarded. He cast a personal spell with his charm and a lasting one through his works, which are so imaginative they are pure excitement to read; at the same time, however, it can be confusing to determine whether to see them as fiction or nonfiction. Nevertheless, beginning with his first published book, In Patagonia (1977), Chatwin maintained a reputation among discerning readers for his riveting characters--invented or not is unimportant, even in his travel books--and his rigorously precise writing style. Chatwin's wife and his biographer (Bruce Chatwin, 2000) combined efforts over a two-decade period to retrieve more than 90 percent of Chatwin's correspondence from childhood to immediately before his untimely death at 48. Chatwin's many appreciators will see the compilation in its overall significance as a personal visit with one of their literary heroes, as much as that is possible now. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages. An historical novel of China's 1930's struggle with Japan. B&W illustrations by Margaret Ayer. Dust jacket with light edgewear, small hole in rear panel. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 169 pages. clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Chunk gone from rear panel of dust jacket. Paper tanning.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages. SIGNED BY NOVA ON TITLE PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket and edges, else a lovely copy in protective brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Reagan Arthur Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. His second novel, after THEN WE CAME TO THE END, which won the PEN/Hemingway prize for best first book of fiction. The New Yorker chose Ferris as one of the twenty best authors under the age of 40 in 2010. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Overall, clean tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Hardcover in slip case, no dust jacket. NUMBERED 319 of 500 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Black cloth covered slip case, and cover boards. Spine heavily faded with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride and Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, illustrated in b&w by John O'Hara Cosgrave ll. Dust jacket worn, chipped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 115 pages, b&w illustrations by Decie Merwin. Completes author's trilogy of books recalling her own childhood in the mountains of Kentucky. Light spotting to covers, some tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 4th pr., 1986, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. NEWBERY MEDALIST author. The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible & sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace. Juvenile mystery. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, william Morrow, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman--friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a child, and the death of a father. Use Me explores the fierce bonds between close friends, fathers and daughters, mothers and children, and the underlying desire and loss inherent in these ever evolving relationships.