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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.

Hardcover. Princeton Providence, Princeton University Press / Brown University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovers. Complete in two volumes. Volume I: The Journals of Clermont-Crevecoeur, Verger, and Berthier. Volume II: The Itineraries, Maps, Views. Both volumes are fine in near fine unclipped dust jackets. Housed in a lightly rubbed slipcase that has a chip to one of the pictorial labels. INSCRIBED BY CO-EDITOR ANNE BROWN on the half title page in Vol. 1. Mild residue to prelim page in Vol. 2, otherwise nice, clean and unmarked. Vol. 1: 351 pages, Vol. 2: 362 pages, color and b&w illustrations, indexed, fold out maps. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY COLLINS on the title page. A collection which includes some of Collins' most anthologized poems, including "Introduction to Poetry," "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House," and "Advice to Writers".

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 16 pages of color illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. Nicknamed the "Real-Life Lorax" by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman-aka "CanopyMeg"-takes us on an adventure into the "eighth continent" of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action. A blend of memoir and fieldwork account, The Arbornaut gives us the chance to live among scientists and travel the world-even in a hot-air balloon! It is the engrossing, uplifting story of a nerdy tree climber-the only girl at the science fair-who becomes a giant inspiration, a groundbreaking, ground-defying field biologist, and a hero for trees everywhere. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 181 pages. Miss Alexandria Morley, an elderly aristocrat, battles a coal company over tax fraud while maintaining old-world principles in her Victorian mansion. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on the front fly leaf. A bright, sharp copy missing the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Trumbull CT, Greenwich Workshop, 5th pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, 160 pages. INSCRIBED BY DOOLITTLE on the half-title page. Filled with visual surprises, Doolittle's art engages both the eye and the mind, encouraging the viewer to look beyond what is seen at first glance. In the book's text, the artist describes her aim of slowing down the viewing process and explores. One folding plate sticks out a tad from the text block and has a minor crease otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 160 pages. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. A writer and critic looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st pbk., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Author's second novel and basis for the acclaimed Andrew Dominik film starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, and Sam Shepard. Originally published in hardcover in 1983. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A PEN/Faulkner Award nominated novel. The story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica - the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half African father, abandoned as an infant. INSCRIBED BY KINCAID on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Champaign IL, Sagamore Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 307 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED by all contributors on the front free endpaper - Kerry Keene, Raymond Sinibaldi, David Hickey, and Babe Ruth's granddaughter Linda Ruth Tosetti. The definitive work on his early years, The Babe in Red Stockings, represents not only a detailed study of his remarkable on-field achievements, but also delves into his happy-go-lucky, playful, and occasionally temperamental nature. Dozens of new pieces of information are added to further complete the portrait of one of America's most fascinating figures, the one and only Babe Ruth.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 96 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. Lovely color illustrations by Rebecca Guay. Let yourself be drawn into the magical world of the dance with this sumptuous anthology. Love, laughter, betrayal, adventure and tragedy intertwine to create stories that will reach deep into the heart and dreams of the reader. The story of "The Sleeping Beauty" will whisk you away to the thorny castle where Princess Aurora awaits her prince; the comedy and confusion of "Coppelia" will delight you, and the magical adventures of Clara in "The Nutcracker" will entrance you. Featuring a brief history of classical ballet, as well as historical details of each dance, composition, choreography and early performances, this book will captivate anyone with a love of this awe-inspiring art.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 3rd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Giovanni Manna. SIGNED BY MATTHEWS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. When young Tom of Warwick is sent away to a castle to learn about knighthood and chivalry, at first he finds the castle cold and unfriendly, but the action-packed stories of kindly Master William, the armorer, inspire Tom to work hard in the hope of one day becoming a real knight. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a color drawing of a lamb by Morgan on the front fly leaf. After her grandmother dies, a little Tuscan girl cannot stand the sound of bells until the good-hearted schoolmaster introduces her to some belled lambs. Morgan's bright, folksy illustrations evince a hearty rusticity perfectly suited to the sweet and compassionate story. Small tear to dj at top of spine, otherwise a clean copy.