Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 2nd Printing, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 1980 Second Printing. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page opposite title page, Also - INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR TOM FEELINGS on same page. Black & white illustrations by Tom Feelings. Faint foxing to endpapers, small moisture stain at very bottom right corner of pages. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges, areas of rubbing - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FFORDE and signed "Jasper" on the title page. Thursday has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap--as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid in. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 467 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - ("SPECIAL AUTOGRAPHED EDITION"). Previous owners notes and related clippings adhered to inside front cover and front endpaper. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Covers show light wear, with some rubbing to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 633 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 60 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Love Songs of the Little Bear Friendship Box Four adorable board books, one for each season of the year and packaged in a carrying case with a plastic handle. SIGNED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON FRONT OF GIFT BOX.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, quarter red cloth over pictorial boards. First Edition stated on copyright page. 88 pages; color illustrations, including endpapers by Duvoisin. A tale of brown peoples and Hindu temples, mud huts, fighting cocks and volcanoes. SIGNED BY DUVOISIN opposite title page.
Softcover. Paris, Pierre Seghers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Hand stamped #35 of 300. Maroon paper covers with paste down titles on spine and front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on dedication page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. West Kingston, RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Roy G. Krenkel ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket shows heavy rubbing and wear with tears, chipping and rips. Currently covered in plastic brodart. Internally clean.
Hardcover. unknown, private publishing, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. INSCRIBED BY PHINEAS SPAULDING. Includes Life and Selected Poetry of Caroline A. Spaulding. Brown cloth covers, beveled edges, black stamped boarders and pictorial, gilt titles to spine, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece of author's portrait, decorated endpapers. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages. INSCRIBED WITH DRAWING BY AUTHOR TO FRONT PRELIM PAGE. Collection of children's poems with b&w illustrations by Marc Simont. Color illustrated dust jacket show light wear. Overall a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, illustrated in color by 43 illustrators. SIGNED BY SIX OF THE ARTISTS ON PUBLISHER'S BOOKPLATE PASTED OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE: STEVEN KELLOGG, LANE SMITH, ALICE PROVENSEN, TRINA SCHART HYMAN, BARRY MOSER, NATALIE BABBITT. Wraparound cover band present.
Hardcover. San Diego, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in glossy boards, color illustrations, no dust jacket issued. A collection of illustrated anecdotes about (their) dogs by 43 children's books artists including Hyman, Provensen, Kellogg, Moser. Yorinks, Lane Smith. Wendell Minor & many more. Contributions donated to The Company Of Animals Fund. Publisher's original 4" cover "band" still attached to book. SIGNED by Marcellino, Lane Smith, Steven Kellogg, others. Babbitt, Trina Schart Hymen, Alice Provenson on bookplate.
Hardcover. New York, HarperTempest, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FRAYN on title-page.
Softcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 107 pages, b&w engravings by Steven Sorman. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 4th printing, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Dj wrapped in clear plastic brodart.
Hardcover. New York, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 237 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ZINSSER on the front fly leaf. A life-long baseball fan describes spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton, Florida, in an account filled with interviews, baseball lore, and information on techniques. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 406 pages, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies, introduction by John T. Winterich. Decorated cloth board with gilt title and slipcase, very clean and tight copy.