Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 275 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Portsmouth NH, Dartmouth Outing Club/Peter Randall, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. Foreword by David Bradley. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page.
Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED AND DATED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. A sequel to the Patchwork Quilt. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by AUTHOR, Elizabeth Bluemle. Illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLUEMIE on title page. Color illustrations by C. Brian Karas. The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon -- tap, tap, boom, boom! As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of community, while G. Brian Karas's warm illustrations show the smiles to be had when a storm brings strangers together as friends.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Pristine copy in a dust jacket.
Softcover. Washington DC, The Catholic University of America Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 pages, original printed wraps. VG, light wear to edges of covers. INSCRIBED BY 0'MALLEY on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with fourteen illustrations, by Jessie Wilcox Smith and Florence Scovel Shinn. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine & illustrated cover label. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. A nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Quercus, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, SIGNED by Penney. When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature.
Hardcover. Utah, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Clean inside. From the dust jacket front flap: "In his latest book,..., Cheuse once again presents a vividly rendered gallery of characters traversing a shifting moral landscape, this time the 'new' South and West of the eighties."
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages, 4 b&w illustrations by C.S. Reinhart, each with a tissue guard. Green cloth with with black design, gilt lettering on spine, edges stained red. This copy INSCRIBED BY HARTE on a blank prelim page and dated the year of publication. Hinges partially cracked, front fly leaf opened roughly (possibly for inscription on following page), binding a little shaken.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy SIGNED on title page, by Timberlake, with the inscription "Keep loving, keep fighting!/Amy Timberlake"). Pearl and brown boards w/silver spine lettering. A young girl unafraid to fight injustice finds herself in a battle against the richest woman in town. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington, DC, Encino Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated in black & white by Pat Oliphant, the award-winning editorial cartoonist. SIGNED BY OLIPHANT with his pequin sketch. Quarterbound w/green lined paper covered boards w/dark green cloth covered spine, no dj issued.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 2nd printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on title page. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. What do leprechauns do? They bury a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, of course. But as Mrs. Bally Bunion's ox, Miss Maude Murphy's hen, and Old Jamie soon find out, they can't resist having a little fun along the way. For, besides burying pots of gold, mischief is what leprechauns do!
Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a reprint of a classic. SIGNED by illustrator Marc Simont on half title (page 15). No dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIM-PAGE. Minor rubbing to pictorial dust jacket, else a lovely copy in clear mylar cover. A mystery set in Paris in WWII.
Hardcover. London, Ellesborough Press, Ltd., reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages, illustrated. A look at early golf in the Aberdeen area, focusing on the history of the Aberdeen Golf Club. Facsimile edition of the original 1909 edition. original full dark green morocco, gilt-stamped vignette on front, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Unnumbered of 200 copies. SIGNED on the limitation page by J.S.R. Cruickshank, former Captain of The Royal Aberdeen Golf Club. Spine faded to brown otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 104 pages. SIGNED BY JACKSON on the title page. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with pictorial design on front in red and black. The Bedtime Story-Books. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated. "Sincerely your friend, Thornton W. Burgess Nov 12, 1919 Chug-a-rum!" Six b&w plates by Harrison Cady. Front hinge cracked, binding shaken. but holding. Some star stickers on front endpapers, Still, a nice early Burgess signature.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Victoria Chess. Five brief episodes in which Stanley Kane and his friends, the dog, pig and two cats, explore the use of their senses. INSCRIBED BY GOLDBERG on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket with a small chip, closed tear, Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. The Air's Accomplices vividly evokes poet Brendan Galvin's love for the rugged landscapes of Cape Cod and Ireland and their elusive inhabitants. Weaving themes of death, migration, and aging into an exploration of the natural world, Galvin's work reflects a deep engagement with the places he and his family have called home, as well as with the triumphs and tragedies of human life. Faint corner crease to cover. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Newbery Honor-winning author McKissack and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Pinkney have outdone themselves in this heart-warming picture book infused with humor and the true spirit of Christmas.Christmas always comes to Nella's house, but Santa Claus brings gifts only once in a while. That's because it's the Depression and Nella's family is poor. Even so, Nella's hoping that this year she and her two sisters will get a beautiful Baby Betty doll. On Christmas morning, the girls are beside themselves with excitement! There is Baby Betty, in all her eyelash-fluttering magnificence. "Mine!" Nella shouts, and claims the doll for herself. But soon she discovers that Baby Betty isn't nearly as much fun as her sisters. SIGNED BY PINKNEY.