fiction

Hardcover. New York, McClure Phillips & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 32 b&w illustrations by Karl Moseley. Second state, without ads in rear. Beige cloth with 3-color design on front cover. Rear hinge partially cracked, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription opposite title-page. Color and black & white illustrations by Disney. Cover shows some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with Julie Andrews on the cover. This is an altered version of the famous series by P.L. Travers based on the Disney motion picture. Illustrate in b&w, 4 color spreads. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows very minor wear otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Hardbound.

Hardcover. NY, Penzler Publishers, reprint, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 342 pages. When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters, a fact that becomes unavoidable when she suddenly disappears with his fortune.

Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 43 pages. A book-length poem, Wampanoag Traveler, is told from the point of view of one Loranzo Newcomb, a fictional eighteenth - century natural historian, gardener, lone wanderer, fabulist, and failed lover. The poem is arranged in fourteen sections that deal variously with such subjects as gardening, the mystical delirium that follows a poisonous snakebite, failed love, hummingbirds and skunks, and the young Newcomb's apprenticeship to a "birdmaster" who bears a close resemblance to Audubon. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green and Co, 3rd pr., 1933, Book: Good, Hardbound, 198 pages. Illustrated by Frank McIntosh. Translated from the Swedish by Siri Andrews. Color frontispiece. Illustrated endpapers. Purple cover with black lettering and decoration. Faded spine. Soiling to covers. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket cover with a faded spine, unclipped. 217 pages, Young adult novel about migrant farm workers. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.

London , Thomas Nelson, 1st, n.d. (circa 1910), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 color plates , including title page (not credited), 332 pages plus publisher's ads. In 2-color and gilt decorated maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederick T. Chapman. Short tears to rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature and stamp front endpaper. Light soil to covers. Green top edge. Corners bumped. Two boys' adventures trying to obtain the bicycles they dream about.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. This fascinating book examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the origins of modern philosophies about the nature of war and conflict. Daniel Pick compares philosophical and historical models of conflict with fictions of invasion and biological speculation about the nature and value of conquest. He discusses the work of such familiar commentators on war as Clausewitz, Engels, and von Bernhardi, and examines little-known writings by Proudhon, De Quincey, Ruskin, Valery, and many others. He explores nineteenth-century English fears of French contamination through the Channel Tunnel and the widespread continuing dread of German domination. And he analyzes the history of the widely-shared European belief that war is beneficial or at least functionally necessary. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering, 125 pages, b&w illustrations by Harper Johnson. Children's story of a boy and his horse, living on a New Mexico ranch. When the Spanish cavalry needs horses for fighting the Indians, the horse is comandeered, and later captured by a Comanche warrior. Covers with light soil, clean internally, no markings.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages, illustrated in b&w. Dark ble cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, one plate loose, but intact, light foxing to top edge, else a very neat copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins Press, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BEGLEY on the front fly leaf in the year of publication. This autobiographical Holocaust novel won the Hemingway/PEN Award in 1991. The French version (Une education polonaise) won the Prix Medicis etranger in 1992. Begley's debut novel. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch , 1st UK, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt. Red pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Parker McAllister. A general survey of the history of the region told through the exciting anecdotal history of those who published primary accounts of their early reconnaissance in the region, starting with Barkley and thence to Gray, Ebey, Hancock, Sylvester, et al. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover. Original dust jacket with attractive graphics, and only light marginal wear to edges. Top edge yellow. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Baskerville, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light stain to top edge, not affecting pages. Dust jacket corner chips, edgewear, otherwise VG/VG. When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends, Kate, Annie, and Oola, are determined to turn the tables on the stalker

Honesdale, PA, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages, Black & white illustrations by Christoher Zhong-Yun Zhn. Review copy. An intimate look at family and village life in southeastern China, approximately 50 years ago. Ying, 10, is raised by her beloved grandmother. Ah Pau is thrifty, wise, and firmly rooted in her culture's traditions and superstitions. She guides Ying and her cousins with a firm and loving hand. As in First Apple (Boyds Mills, 1994), in which the little girl was a year younger, Ying must raise an ambitious amount of money. This time, she must bargain with her mercenary cousin Kee, and deal with the class bully.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 362 pages. 12 color plate illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Green covers with gold lettering and color illustration pasted on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on back of title-page. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light spotting throughout. Hinges cracked. Corners and spine rubbed. Tear to top of spine. Light rubbing, soiling to covers.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 259 pages. Color plates and black & white illustrations by George Soper. Gilt top edge. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and green decoration. Frontispiece detached from book. Scribling in pencil on front end paper. Soiling to first few pages. Small soiling mark near fore edge to last few pages.

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in pale yellow, in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A novel about a San Francisco journalist who matches wits with a gang of drug dealers. With illustrations by Chauncey Maltman. Clean.