Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Edgewear, light rubbing to dust jacket. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black, 96 pages illustrated in line by Brown. Endpapers have child's pencil marks, top of spine is worn, frayed. Corners worn. ONE PAGE (12th from beginning) has a child's crayon marking covering 3 lines of text, not affecting art. Every page has text and drawings on a cream block background.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by David Wiesner. SIGNED BY WILLARD. Light edgewear to dust jacket, dust jacket price clipped, remainder ink dot to top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black top edge. Edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A juvenile novel about two runaway children during the London blitz. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 97 pages. Black & white illustrations by S. Saelig Gallagher. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 24 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. illustrated in color, black & white. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along spine but very attractive.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 122 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Ed Fisher. Blacka nd white. Dust jacket has light fraying and rubbing. Cover boards have edge wear. clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with gilt titles. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with tears, creasing along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION. Hardcover, 323 pages. Black & white photography. Cover has light edgewear. One of 260 signed and numbered copies bound in publisher's original black half cloth and tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece illustration of Harry B. Smith, and 25 additional photographic illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Herman W. Liebert. First publication of a manuscript illustrated ABC by Edward Lear. Letters in red and blue, art in black. Orange cloth with black lettering. Mild chipping to dj spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 62 pages illustrated in b&w by Jules Gotlieb. The story of ten year old Jody from Provincetown Massachusetts and his first trip aboard the trawler, The Flying Codder, to Georges Bank and, afterwards, to New York's Fulton Fish Market. Two small smudges to front cover otherwise clean.
Softcover. New York, Peninsula Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Spiral bound reprint edition privately printed by Peninsula Press in 1994. Previous owners name stamped at top of title page. Black & white illustrations. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Salem, Essex Institute, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 100 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Dust jacket shows light wear and Some light foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.
NY, Knopf, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with a drawing of a monkey on a pole on the front cover. Illustrated in 3-colors and black & white by Meg Wohlberg. Previous owner's signature front end paper, light spotting to covers.
Hardcover. Grafton, Grafton Historical Society, Revised and Expanded, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Revised and expanded edition. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Rochester, NY, Judaic Impressions, 1st Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. SIGNED NOTE FROM TRANSLATOR LAID IN. Hardcover Folio. Cover boards bound in black cloth, white paste-on on spine with title, a touch of fading to spine and some shelf wear. 2 light smudges of soil to 1st poem title page (see image). 3Scarce 1st Edition, only 100 printed. "The five poems (written during the Holocaust) compiled in this book are witness of the unquenchable spirit of man. They are personal, lyrical and so very Jewish. They speak to God - arguing, protesting, demanding, pleading, accusing and longing...".
Hardcover. Boston , D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt, red and black letters and illustrations on front and spine. Assumed first edition and printing since only date is 1892 and no indication of number of printing on copyright or title page as with later printings of this book. 527 pages, book ads in rear. Black and white illustrations by Mente. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house". Previous owner's bboplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle, Co., 3rd printing, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Pictorial dust jacket with soiling and slight wear. Pink boards, black spine. Front flyleaf clipped. Foxing to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st wraps, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 308 pages. A collection of short stories from the winner of the National Book Award 1n 2013. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Hardcover NO dust jacket. Black and white comic. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to boards. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...
Hardcover. Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace Homestead Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 123 pages. Illustrated throughout with wonderful black and white photographs, period advertisements, floorplans, houses, furniture, dinnerware and room designs. Small inscription on front fly leaf otherwise pages white and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Black & white photos. Clean board covers. No dust-jacket issued.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, light fading to top edge. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 374 pages.Translated by Joan Pinkham, notes, bibliography, index, b/w photo plates, white boards/black cloth. Originally published Librairie Flammarion, Paris, 1988. First American Edition.