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Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn price-clipped dust jacket, 84 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Fritz Wegner. Summary: "Unjustly Imprisoned by The Hooded Fang and other big people Jacob Two-Two awaits the aid of members of The Child Power to save him and over two hundred other children."

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rose color cloth with blue design. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Tight copy. Soil on rear cover.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy to front, gilt-stamped title to spine; lime green endpapers. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Colophon page mentions this is the first book written by Roald Dahl for children, second issue with 4-line colophon, bound by The Book Press. Covers show wear and light soil, esp. rear panel. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 11th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works. 970 pages, Remainder mark to bottom edge otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white drawings by Thurber. 124 pages. Previous owner's bookplate. Bright dust jacket with only minor chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. A brilliant, action-packed re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. Copyright pages states First Edition with the number 10 above it, so a later printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt vignette of windmill and black borders to front cover. 310 pages.Originally published in Aunt Judy's Magazine as: The Miller's Thumb in 1873. Appears to be the first U.S. printing. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 114 pages. "This debut novel--by an acclaimed Argentinean writer, and first published in 1958--centers on a sixteen-year-old who becomes pregnant after an assault by an older man. Setting the story in the sweltering heat of Argentina's Pampas, Gallardo re-creates the world of ranchers and missionaries from the perspective of the girl, with her adolescent confusion and private sense of guilt. Gallardo juxtaposes her solitary desperation--she visits a local medicine woman for an abortion, and gallops recklessly on horseback to induce a miscarriage--with the conservative Catholic society that closes ranks against her." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, New York Review Children's Collection, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Illustrated in red, black and white throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Wendy Watson. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Light gutter crack.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Dust jacket with edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Lattimore. Bright blue decorated cloth. Bottom of spine has fraying, scuffing to edge otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Literary Guild/Doubleday Doran & Co., reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black stamping, 281 pages. Endpapers and b&w illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. The boyhood adventures of Jerry Foster set in rural Wisconsin in the 1800s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 16 black & white drawings by George Foster Barnes. Front fly leaf is missing and there's some shelfwear to gilt-decorated covers. Rear cover has light wrinkle to cloth. Still, a clean, tight copy and relatively scarce. Depicts NY city street life in the late 1800s.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy has been signed on the half title page, with an inkstamped monkey. A Nick Magaracz detective story by the author (AKA Irene Fleming) of the Mother Lavinia Grey series and and 'Girl on the Run'. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. In the 1950s, when the world was faced with strange or anomalous threats, there was one man who was called on to set the situation right - Jet Scott of the Office of Scientifact! Whether it was tracking down deadly Banthrax germs, uncovering the source of strange ocean creatures, or discovering the cause of spontaneously combusting pipelines in Saudi Arabia, Jet Scott was the adventurer who could get to the truth!

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Volume 2 of the collected strip from the 1950s. This is a lost gem of American comic strips. Jerry Robinson's fluid style and supreme draftsmanship are on full display here. Fun, fast-paced stories of a character who's part Bill Nye, part Indiana Jones. The highlight of this discovery is seeing how Robinson played with his own style, slightly altering it to suit each story.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, illustrated with b&w photos depicting rural life. Excellent condition in a bright dust jacket that has only a 3/4 inch chip to rear panel. Slight slant to spine.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages, Hardcover with dust jacekt. SIGNED BY FLEISCHMAN on title-page. Black & white illustrations by Jos. A. Smith. Spine faded, therwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Lavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Louise Birt Baynes and Ernest Harold Baynes. 145 pages. Super condition, bookmark of former Governor of Vermont (Redfield Proctor) on inside front cover. Otherwise bright and clean.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon Graphic Library, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light edgewear to cover wrapper. Color comics throughout by Chris Ware. Clean, tight copy. This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray booards with red and blue pictorial design, 124 pages + 1 ad. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Oliver Herford. Ex-lib with label pasted on front pastedown. Die-cut library stamp on title page. Covers soiled, worn. Interior bright and clean.