Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, a classic adventure of the early Florida frontier., winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. 14 color plates and endpaper illustration by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket with a short scratch to front panel.
Softcover. Canada, Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages, Softcover with light wear to wrappers. b&w photographs, bibliography. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, McBride, Nast and Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shelf wear on bottom edge on board. Light soil on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down and opposite title page.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a decorated cloth binding, 4 black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black with a color paste-down illustration on cover. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates by Ralph Carlyle Prather. Worn copy, previous owners notation on prelim page.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Limited to 350 copies. Line drawings by John Ward. Brown cover boards with gilt rose decoration on front. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages plus notes on the woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some wear. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 363 pages. Introduction by Melvin van Peebles. Originally published in 1953 as "Cast the First Stone" which was edited and changed by the publisher and now has been restored to how Himes intended it to be "with its raw honesty and startling compassion entirely intact." His novel of Jimmy Monroe portrays an African American prisoner who must endure racism, homosexuality, and prison corruption, all of which test the limits of his sanity, his capacity for suffering, and his definition of love. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Gale Research Co., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes with orange cloth covers. 275, 335 pages. Biographical data are interspersed with autobiographical and critical excerpts from the writings of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors and illustrators. B&w illustrations throughout. Name on front fly leafs, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 47 pages. Story set in Hong Kong. An orphan raised by nine caring uncles, Yin Sun longs to become a kite maker like his best friend. Illustrated in green, maroon, blue and black by H. Tom Hall. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages, color frontispiece, fold-out map of Tokyo Bay, cream colored cloth with Japanese characters on front. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, DoubleDay, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, Book Club , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Henri Castang finds police investigation dangerous when an old friend and Irish bureaucrat is shotgunned, but his wife gets the answers by pursuing questions his police-cohorts would never think to ask.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with minor tape repairs in reverse side, 283 pages. A new collection of 19 stories by the Russian master, Translated for the first time. Translated by Max Hayward. Edited and with Notes by Nathalie Babel. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.