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Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 362 pages, SIGNED BY AW on title page. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman -- a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer -- whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Granta Books / Viking Penguin, 1st , 1990, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating novel, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1sr, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth, 430 pages. Epic novel set in Nantucket and New Zealand in the 1830s during the great days of sperm whaling. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Top corner of covers bumped, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 44 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Two-tone illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Writing in colored pencil on front end paper. Light soiling. Tear to rear end papers. Fade marks to covers. Discoloration to top edge of book. Dust jacket with chipping, chunks missing from top and bottom. Significant rubbing and wear. Price clipped.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. 290 pages, in very good condition.

hardcover. NY, Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 166 pages. Black & white illust. by Reginald Birch. Dust jacket worn, large chunk gone from front panel. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 166 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Copyright page has the full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4". Below the number line is "Printed in the U.S.A. 37", and below that is "First American edition, June 1999." Boards are blue with an embossed diamond pattern, and a green cloth spine. The dust jacket has $17.95 price on the upper corner of the front flap. The dust jacket back has a diagonal bar code field on the left side, and the small bar code within has the number "51795". The spine on both the book and dust jacket lack the YEAR 2 badge that was introduced later, and silver lettering is raised on the spine of the dust jacket. This copy has the following first-state errors: on the page flanking the title page indicating Rowling's previous books, "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" instead of "Sorcerer's Stone" and on page 332, the last word "ancestor" should be "descendant".

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The copyright page has the full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0/0 01 02 03 04". Below the number line is "Printed in the U.S.A. 23." The dust jacket back has a red bar code field on the bottom right side, and a blurb on the top that says "Sequel to the #1 New York Time Bestseller HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN". Boards are rust red with an embossed diamond pattern, and a black cloth spine with gold lettering. The dust jacket has $25.95 price on the upper corner of the front flap The first printing has a YEAR 4 badge on the upper spine of both the book and the dust jacket. This is the second novel in the Harry Potter series to carry the badge when first issued. Clean, collectible copy.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Mary GrandPre. This is the true first edition first printing of the US edition of the fifth book in the Harry Potter series. The copyright page states "First Edition" with the full number line, price $29.99 intact.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic Press, 4th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Extremely early (4th) printing of the First American Edition from Oct. 1998 of the very first book in this beloved series. For this printing, the Guardian quote on rear has been replaced with one by Publisher's Weekly, but the original $16.95 price, correct bar code on rear, "J.K." initials on spine, raised title in gilt on front cover, recessed author name in gilt on lower spine, & NO spine symbol. Hardcover book has the patterned purple paper & red quarter cloth-wrapped spine. Clean, collectible copy of this first book in the series.

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fourth printing of the First Edition (with number line on copyright page "5 7 9 10 8 6 4 8 9/9 0/0 01 02" with "Printed in the US 23 below. First American edition, October 1998" )/ First Edition (stated) of Book One of J.K. Rowling's now classic Harry Potter series. This copy has all the points of the TRUE FIRST US EDITION. Book is bound with red cloth spine with gold lettering and has the diamond pattern purple paper over boards. There is no volume number on the spine. The book has green end papers. The second Issue dust jacket has the original $16.95 price and there is no volume number on the jacket's spine (later printings stated the book number) . The blurb on the back cover of the dust jacket is from Pubisher's Weekly (the first issue had The Guardian review). The back cover of the DJ has 2 bar codes at the bottom, with the numbers 51695 above the smaller one. The "Harry Potter" in gold lettering on the front panel of the jacket is raised and there is no date on the title page. Child's marking with green marker on rear endpapers. Finger smudge at top right corner of page 113 which carries to foredge. Small area of discoloration at very bottom of spine cloth. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. In this engaging tale, Honda Katsuichi reconstructs the life of an Ainu woman living on the northern island of Japan over five hundred years ago. Harukor's story, created from surviving oral accounts of Ainu life and culture as well as extensive scholarly research, is set in the centuries before the mainland Japanese nearly destroyed the way of life depicted here. In the first person, the fictional Harukor tells us of her childhood, her adolescence, and her motherhood, drawing on tales and songs performed by her grandmother and other bards. She describes festivals, weddings, childbirth and midwifery, traditional healing methods, battles, and funerals in detail. Her story is followed by the adventures of her oldest son, Pasekur, which end by foreshadowing an early Ainu rebellion against Japanese encroachment.

Hardcover. New York, J.M. Dent and Sons, rep , 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated by the author. Previous pwner's name and bookplate on first few pages. Tight copy with moderate fraying to spine and corners.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine, 367 pages. Translated from the Russian by H.C. Stevens. Continuation the story begun in Virgin Soil Upturned (1935) of a collective farm organized under the supervision of the Communist Party in a small Don village. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with gilt lettering. Clean, brown cloth cover boards. Internal pages clean and signatures tight.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book Club, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 222 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with light wear, tanning to dust jacket, else a neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 222 pages. Story of the boy who helped William Tyndale smuggle into England his new English translation of the Bible.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Black & white illustrations by Berry. Edgewear. Dust jacket with spine fade, chipping, tears, edgewear. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Walker and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHANKMAN on title page.Distraught over her ex-boyfriend, Harry's new girlfriend, Samantha Adams, is eager to forget her troubles at a friend's blowout engagement party but finds them multiplying when the prospective groom is kidnapped and held for ransom. Sixth novel in the Samantha Adams series - this one is set in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers lightly faded. Light wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf and name on end paper. Illustrations by Paul Quinn.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering. Mild edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Illustrated by Paul Quinn.