Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times best-selling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army and the nursing service hold Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry. Then comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he's killed a man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and uncover the truth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 184 pages in color. Anais Nin, the author of works such as Delta of Venus and House of Incest, is the patron saint of taboo-breaking pop culture sexual iconoclasts. Not only is she an inspiration for contemporary figures such as Madonna, but her oeuvre, which encompasses erotica, autobiography, essays, short fiction, novels, and much more, has been adapted into film (Henry and June), television (Little Birds), and other media.The cartoonist Leonie Bischoff traces the life of the prolific writer in this lushly colored graphic novel. It begins with Nin struggling to reconcile the man she married (who had artistic aspirations) with the banker she finds herself living with in the Parisian suburbs. Soon, her obsession with June Miller leads to inspiration. Nin's life and art, the truth and fiction, are further intertwined as she recounts her many sexual liaisons including those with Henry Miller (whom she and her husband subsidize so he can write the controversial Tropic of Cancer), her psychoanalysts, and even her father. Although Bischoff's drawing is largely representational, she occasionally depicts Nin's sexual experiences in scenes as surreal as Nin's own written portrayal of them.
Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 129 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 2nd, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Fraying and heavy rubbing on blue cover boards, corners frayed and ligth worm damage to margins.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, H.W. Fisher & Company, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth on boards with gilt lettering and border ruling around front, gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square. Story about a man from Philadelphia who buys an island in Rangely Lake in western Maine and builds a summer house. Great information about Maine, it's people, the flora and fauna of the area, and history too. Seems to be a blend of fiction and memoir. Color frontis, 15 b&w plates. Small water stain to first 10 pages, in the top of outer margin, not affecting plates or text. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&W illust by John T. McCutcheon. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper.
Hardcover. London, Gryphon Books, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers. 152 pages, color frontispiece by Marcia Lane Foster. INSCRIBED BY BOLTON on title page. The improbable tale of an American half-Cree Indian soldiering in the highlands of Scotland. Scarce title by this author who was also known as Sister Mercedes. Ivy May Bolton was an Anglican nun and writer. She was the daughter of Reginald Pelham Bolton and Kate Alice, and the sister of the playwright Guy Bolton. She lived in England until she was fourteen, when the family came to the United States, settling in New York. She wrote 10 novels for young adults from 1923 until 1952.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages: (1) 400, (2) 383. Hardcovers. 2 VOLUME SET. International Limited Edition Set: #959 out of 1000 printed sets. All volumes: B/w illustrations/plates throughout, each with tissue guard, bound in green cloth (some fraying at top and bottom of spine), paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to labels, but all are in good shape and legible). Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age, a few small spots of soil or rubbing to covers. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Altogether original, at once searing and amusing, this darkly comic novel confronts Harold Klein, now in his infirm seventies, with a strange malady -- the loss of his "inner voice" -- and introduces him to the steamy world of Internet sex. Inexplicably bereft of the mental faculty that would under normal circumstances keep him from blurting out, uncensored, the first thought that pops into his head, art connoisseur Klein wanders one evening into a pornographic Web site, Angelica's Grotto. An ongoing on-line dialogue, totally without verbal inhibition on Klein's part, eventually brings him face-to-face with the brains behind the grotto, an academic sex researcher named Melissa Bottomley. Harold Klein's erotic odyssey takes him not only through unimagined erogenous zones but also into arcane corners of the art world, as he seeks to meet Melissa's need for funding and she his for sexual gratification. As Klein strives to reconcile new desires with old habits, author Russell Hoban compellingly explores the dark relations between art and pornography, acts virtual and real, culture and politics, revelation and privacy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrations in color and black & white by Goodenow. Shows minor wear. Dust jacket shows light soiling and chipping at edges. Hardbound.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page. Clean copy. Two people who can't live with each other or without each other. She wants to have children. He doesn't want to contribute to an already damaged-by-humans planet. This disagreement proceed a series of truly terrible events.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED, dated on title-page by author. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, tan cloth stamped in blue. Color illustrations by the De Leeuws. Previous owner's signature in pencil front endpaper. Soiling to endpapers, covers. The tale of a Javanese boy who has dreams of becoming an acrobat performer.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Cloth covers with gilt stamped decoration on front. gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Cloth covers with gilt stamped decoration on front. gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated red cloth cover with a yawning hippo and bright gilt lettering on front, spine lettering faded. Slight cock to spine. 12 photography plates by Elwin R. Sanborn, Official Photographer for the New York Zoological Society. 72 b&w drawings by the author. INSCRIBED BY BREARLEY on front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
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