Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small crumbled tear to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages, cream colored boards with beige cloth spine. First printing with number row starting with 1. Pulitzer Prize Winner. SIGNED BY ROBINSON on title page. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Beach Lloyd Publishers, 2nd Ed., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. pictorial boards, 142 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. I had all kinds of courage and guts; I don t know where that came from, says Fernande Keufgens Davis ( Freddie ) of the risks that she took as a teenager in the Belgian Resistance of World War II. After the shock of finding her formerly occupied village annexed as part of Germany, Davis was drafted to work in a German munitions factory. Determined not to aid the enemy, she jumped from the train and went underground. Clean copy.
Softcover. Southern Domestic, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY RIGBY on the title page. follows one young woman's progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student; from punk show habitue to fledgling musician to cult singer-songwriter who caused a sensation with 1996 debut solo album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. Set in a ramshackle twentieth century New York world of homemade clubs and bands, through love affairs, temp jobs and motherhood, GIRL TO CITY describes the screw-ups and charmed moments it took for a girl in the crowd at CBGB to pick up a guitar and sing her truth on stage, creating an identity as an artist back when female musician role models were still rare. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN on the half-title page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.
Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.
Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BUSCH on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Gitta Rosenzweig , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 421 pages, illustrated with b&w, color photographs. A self-published memoir chronicling her family's past during the Holocaust. The author was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Poland, later immigrated to America and later returned to trace her parent's history. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Ward & Downey, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 567 pages. Expertly rebound in a plain black buckram with the gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED BY O'CONNOR on the half-title page and dated March 2 1895. O'Connor was a famous Irish politician and journalist. Very clean.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has "Signed First Edition" sticker on front cover. Blue, marbled cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. An exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY LANE SMITH WITH DRAWING OF A PAIR OF GLASSES OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Lane Smith. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH BY AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Eileen Chistelow. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Simon Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with color plates. SIGNED BY L'ENGLE on title page. The birth of Jesus was a Glorious Impossible. Like love, it cannot be explained, it can only be rejoiced in. And that is what master storyteller Madeleine L'Engle does in this written narrative, inspired by Giotto's glorious frescoes from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. With a simple clarity that illuminates the life of Christ, Madeleine L'Engle gives eloquent voice to the miracle of God's love.
Hardcover. New York, Richard Jackson Book/Antheneum Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated in color, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations by Schwartz. Very slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages crisp and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a beautiful book in superb condition.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co , 1st, 1999-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED by author/illustrator Phoebe Stone, with a drawing of an elephant, on front end paper. Signed postcard laid-in. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon and SIGNED BY BOTH DILLONS. In a time long past, in a land far away, a family has suffered an unspeakable loss. But a lonely goblin has been watching. And he knows what to do to help them heal. From internationally acclaimed picture book masters Mem Fox and Leo and Diane Dillon, here is a rich and moving original fairy tale about family, friendship, and the power compassion has to unite us all.
Hardcover. New York, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon and SIGNED BY BOTH DILLONS. In a time long past, in a land far away, a family has suffered an unspeakable loss. But a lonely goblin has been watching. And he knows what to do to help them heal. From internationally acclaimed picture book masters Mem Fox and Leo and Diane Dillon, here is a rich and moving original fairy tale about family, friendship, and the power compassion has to unite us all.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney, CD of Billie Holiday singing "God Bless the Child" included. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 349 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Antheneum Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very clean, tight copy. Varied in theme, situation and character, this collection of vivid and gritty short stories deals with the brutality in intimate human relations, the exquisite horrors of New York City, looking at the worst and laughing to save sanity. all unmistakably Leonard Michaels.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear fly leaf, number 940 of a limited 1500 copies, color illustrations by Edmund Dulac throughout, golden metal cockerel affixed to front cover, illustrated cover jacket, slipcase. Very clean and tight copy.