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Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Light soiling to covers, endpapers. Soiling & chipping to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Books , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Presents the author's reflections on small-town America, current affairs, and insights and anecdotes from his personal life. Clean copy.

NY, Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st US, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, darkening to endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young Jewish girl from a middle-class Russian family recalls the events of her childhood, both good and bad, in a small village just before the Revolution of 1917. Though classed as fiction, this reads more like a vivid memoir of the author's childhood. B&w drawings by Gennady Schikarioff.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt. Orange and white pictorial paste-on cover. Orange and white pictorial endpapers. 36 illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. Includes a section of Flagg illustrations spoofing other contemporary colleagues in their styling, including Howard Chandler Christy, Harrison Fisher, Charles Dana Gibson, among others. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Richard Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Brown is a pseudonym for an Australian academic. Red boards, yellow dust jacket with black titles. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. "She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eye shadow on her eyelids You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing." With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and sketches by Lewin. A memoir of his brief stint as a professional wrestler.

Hardcover. NY, Beginner Books/Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 62 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos by Lynn Fayman. An early reprint of this classic Beginner Book authored by the wife of Dr. Seuss. Flap price of $2.50.

Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Illustrations by Corydon Bell. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light wear, rubbing and foxing to price clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages. His second collection of short stories - 'quick and precise. . . obsessed with city life and the sexual body/erotic mind.' (His first collection was nominated for the National Book Award and this was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the six best works of fiction published that year). Price sticker on front flap otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with spine label lightly chipped. 315 pages, two short novels in one book. Inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #814. Cover art by Milton Charles. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 57 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Betsy Lewin throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small stain to fore edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Very good in a nice dust jacket with fading to spine. Novel about a high school senior who is facing the military draft and his conflicting feelings. Milton Glaser art on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 115 pages, b & w illustrations by Clarke Hutton, slight foxing to end papers, some wear and soiling to cloth cover, fraying to bottom of spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Metro Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, 8 pages of color photos. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with light blue lettering and a paste-down illustration on front cover. 226 pages, advice book for turn-of-20th Century modern girls. These "talks" first appeared in The Delineator under the pen-name Priscilla Wakefield. This book is a collection of 35 of those talks with the aim of self improvement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth bound cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with design. Some age wear to covers (see image). Some fingerprint smudges (see image) and tanning throughout. Original author's name written on title page (see image). In very good shape for its age, no pages missing. True and fictional shortstories about French culture.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters. The top 2 inches of the cardboard spine is missing. Binding sound. One of the six discontinued Seuss titles.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Rubbing and edgewear to boards, corners worn, especially top of spine., though book binding is not affected, pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters.