Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with slight odor. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck. 93 pages. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 3rd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY HIAASEN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, red cloth spine with gilt titles, bright color illustrated jacket with acetate protective covering. Slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Douglas & McIntyre, 2nd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, Arizona, Northland Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 98 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERCEVAL with personal note to previous owner from him and his wife. Cover shows very light wear and soiling. Internally clean. Beautiful color and black & white sketches of Navajos and Arizona landscape. With a descriptive text by Clay Lockett.
Hardcover. M Q Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and illustrations by the author. Light dust jacket corner wear, remainder line on top edge, otherwise, spotless and bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 247 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Nevada Publications, 1st, June 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 208 pages, b&w photographs and maps throughout. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY THE DILLONS on title page.This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son. Here's a beautiful, powerful, truly unforgettable story about family, memory, and freedom.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY THE DILLONS on title page.This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son. Here's a beautiful, powerful, truly unforgettable story about family, memory, and freedom.
Softcover. Middleton, CT, Wesleyan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Additional folded broadside laid-in, also SIGNED.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 355 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SIMIC on the half title page. Also a handwritten postcard from Simic laid in as well as two related newspaper clippings about the book.
Hardcover. US, Acatos Editions, 1st, 2002-01-01BBI, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST to Dick Clark and his wife Betty. Clark was Bentons art instructor in the late 50s. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Woodstock, Elm Tree Press, 1st Thus, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. INSCRIBED BY MARY M. BILLINGS FRENCH TO HERBERT H. HINES, WHO WROTE THE INTRODUCTION. Black & white tipped-in photographic illustrations. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 121 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP EDGE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Black & white illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, In 1986, the illustrator James McMullan traveled to Southern California on an assignment for an advertising campaign. There he began work on a series of paintings for the Newporter Resort in Orange County. While the project didn't allow him the creative freedom he normally had, McMullan still managed to bring his artistic flair to the images. Unfortunately most of the paintings were never used. This painting features the driveway and landscaping leading up to the entrance. Image size: 17 X 12", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.
Newport RI, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. No. 65 of 500 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a tipped in subscriber page. 510 pages, illustrated in color and black & white throughout; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Ribbon marker. Enclosed in a blue cloth slipcase with a pictorial label. All clean, very good plus.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY STANLEY BURNS on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop and reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities.
Globe Pequot Press , 1ST, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. In a series of colorful vignettes, a veteran newspaperman recreates a madcap era during which more than a dozen newspapers lived and died in 'the Row' on Boston's Washington Street. This is a story of fierce circulation competition and the often-outrageous journalism it inspired. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 300 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 64]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 73 pages.
Niagarail Publications, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. INSCRIBED by both authors and stamped "Author's Proof Copy" on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.