Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine. A collection of 16 poems by Meredith, all based on the fictitious painter Hazard. #66 of 100 copies numbered and SIGNED on a tipped-in prelim page. In addition, also INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & CO, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy soil on cloth covers. Previous owner's name on end paper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Spine shows small tears and soil/wear. Front hinge tender.
Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHANKMAN on title page.Distraught over her ex-boyfriend, Harry's new girlfriend, Samantha Adams, is eager to forget her troubles at a friend's blowout engagement party but finds them multiplying when the prospective groom is kidnapped and held for ransom. Sixth novel in the Samantha Adams series - this one is set in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY WERTMULLER, Italian screenwriter and film director. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for Seven Beauties in 1977. She is also known for her films The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy and Swept Away. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 4th pr, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY PRELUTSKY on dedication page. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket with edgewear, some residue, clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY COCKEY title page.
Hardcover. NY, Balzer + Bray, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. In Heart and Soul, Kadir Nelson's stirring paintings and words grace 100-plus pages of a gorgeous picture book. SIGNED (REALLY INITIALED) BY KADIR WITH 2011 DATE on title page.Heart and Soul is about the men, women, and children who toiled in the hot sun picking cotton for their masters; it's about the America ripped in two by Jim Crow laws; it's about the brothers and sisters of all colors who rallied against those who would dare bar a child from an education. It's a story of discrimination and broken promises, determination, and triumphs. Winner of numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor is told through the unique point of view and intimate voice of a one-hundred-year-old African-American female narrator.
Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JUSTER on front fly leaf. Caldecott winner. Very clean and tight copy. Illustrated in color by Chris Raschka.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IN FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal.
Hardcover. London/NY, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Photographer Andrew Shaylor has been given unique and long-term access to the secret world of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Over 300 stunning photographs reveal the rich diversity of the HAMC. Includes HAMC events, members? motorcycles (always Harley Davidsons), clubhouses, over 100 incisive portraits and a multitude of details that uniquely define HAMC culture. Specially commissioned foreword by American legend Sonny Barger, internationally well-known and respected member of the HAMC. Limited to 1000 copies SIGNED by Andrew Shaylor on the limitation label to the front endpaper.
Softcover. Waitsfield VT, Vermont Crossroads Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in hardcover in 1966. Harbor Springs in northern Michigan was where the Hemingway family vacationed from Chicago as early as 1900, when Ernest was age 1. Trips there followed during his youth and into his early years as a professional writer. The setting of Walloon Lake and the region and characters of Little Traverse Bay found their way into some of his stories. Includes three of Hemingway's short stories originally published in the Oak Park (Ill. ) High School Tabula, here reprinted for the first time. Mild wear, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover, decorated blue boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP OF PRELIMINARY PAGE. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. One the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Slight darkening to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. The Hague, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages, exhibition catalog for the sculptor's work at the XVIII Venice Biennale, b&w illustrations. A conversation with the artist by Reinhard Niedermeier. Light fading to pink wrappers. Text in Italian and English. SIGNED BY VISCH on inside rear cover with his address and pnone number.
Hardcover. New York, Paula Wiseman/Simon & Shuster, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KATE FEIFFER AND JULES FEIFFER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Jules Feiffer. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Christelow and INSCRIBED by her on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JOHNSON. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Scholastic Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Kadir Nelson. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. A Caldecott Honor Book. No sticker to the dust jacket
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 4th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HARRIS AND EGGERS on the title page. If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's in mid-stride, moving forward. But why? In this fascinating and fun take on nonfiction for kids, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential of an entire country's creation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. 104 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Shawn Harris. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 149 pages. SIGNED BY YOLEN on title page. Black & white illustrations by David Wilgus. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Otherwise very good.