Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Full color and black & white illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse. Faint foxing along hinges on preliminary pages. Rubbing along cover edges and spine, upper right corners with shallow bump. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, Reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 full pages (last pages missing). Brown cloth, pictorial paste down, rubbing with faded spine. Black & white illustrations by John Neill. Previous owner's name on book belongs to page. Front fly leaf missing. Hinge cracked.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Dust jacket unclipped, edgeworn, chipped. Nickle-size paper scar to front of dj above title. Clean copy. A mystery surrounding Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Spain, and brother to the exiled Napoleon, living in exile himself in the United States.
Hardcover. NY, Robert Carter & Brothers, reprint, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and black, 436 pages plus publisher's ads. Miller's first prose work, a mixture of legend, folklore, history and contemporary observation, 'a delightfully affectionate picture of his birthplace'. First published in the UK in 1835. Includes the author's dedication and his Introduction to the Second Edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's red and black marble-patterned cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Scoop is a humorous novel in which Waugh satirizes foreign correspondence and sensational journalism. Specifically, it tells the story of William Boot, an inexperienced journalist and author of a nature column for The Beast. This real life reporter was identified as Lord Deeds. Boot is mistakenly identified as his novelist cousin and sent to the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia to cover its socialist insurrection. Ironically, Boot's naivete allows him to get the real "scoop" not reported by more experienced journalists. Notably, Scoop is based on Waugh's own experiences working as a journalist for the British Daily Mail during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia. Clean, square copy.
Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages, illustrated throughout in red and black. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black titles. 312 pages, color frontis and b&w drawings by James. Letter "A" on the copyright page. Mild shelf wear. Previous owner's bookplate on the front leaf otherwise clean.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover,170 pages in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. When Nick investigates what he thinks are screams coming from the bushes in the park, he discovers the school outcast practicing his trumpet. Ratbag, a lanky, unkempt black boy who has a reputation as an unpleasant loner, may be different, but he is blessed with phenomenal innate musical talents. His talent is brought to the attention of the school band director, who uses his teen prodigy to lead his British school to the national playoffs in Amsterdam, where a mystery begins. Nick and Ratbag become unknowingly involved in a major drug-smuggling operation, and the boys are used as bait for police.
Hardcover. NY, Delilah/ Putnam, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 158 pages. Beefcake and cheesecake photos of Hollywood stars and wannabes, in color and black and white. Photographs from the Kobal collection. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Roma, CalicEditori, First Thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover in Italian text. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Bright navy dust jacket with photograph & red printed titles. Clean, unmarked & crisp copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by the New Yorker cartoonist.. Light edgewear to dust jacket. This is the original first printing with b&w drawings by Stevenson. It was re-issued in 1994 with re-colored plates.
Softcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 145 pages. Black and white photographs and sketches throughout. Cohesive history follows the evolution of United States coastal defense from the 1700s until World War II. Appendix. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Contains some black & white photos of the Sebei people. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white line drawings by c. Illust. Library Binding Ed. (not ex-lib.) Light spotting on rear cover otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Fraying on corners.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white line drawings by Uri Shulevitz. Library Binding Ed. (not ex-lib.) Light spotting on rear cover otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. Black & white illustrations by Judith Gwyn Brown. Dust jacket with color cover illustration. Chunk from bottom spine, closed tears.
Hardcover. Los Angeles CA, Philosophical Research Society, 19th ED., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured black boards with red and gold gilt lettering design on front cover. Bronze color title on spine B&w illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp, 245 pages. Clean, bright copy. A reduced facsimile of the 1928 edition.
Hardcover. NY, David Kemp & Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 117 pages. Secret Writing is an authoritative popular work for the beginner as well as the advanced enthusiast, explaining the principles underlying the construction and deciphering of all types of cryptograms, ciphers and codes. Numerous problems and teasers are presented, and the key to their solution suggested. The author was a long-time editor and writer for pulp magazines and contributed a cryptography column to The Shadow magazine. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 429 pages. Brown cloth with embossed red image of Seale gagged and bound in the courtroom during the Chicago 8 Trial. A gorgeous copy of Bobby Seale's narration of the Black Panther Party's origins and his relationship with Huey P Newton. Written as Seale was on trial as part of the Panther 14 in New Haven and during the Chicago 8/7 Conspiracy trial. Dust jacket is bright with original $6.95 price intact and unclipped. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 340 pages. The majority of the letters in this collection pertain to Reznikoff's personal life, addressed chiefly to his wife, Marie Syrkin, and his lifelong friend and sometime employer in Hollywood, Albert Lewin.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering on spine, 289 pages. Collects poems from four of Sandburg's works. "A collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln." Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Crown Publishers, Inc., 5th printing, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Preface by Joe Brooks. Hundreds of drawings, eight pages in full color. Black cloth cover, oversized, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has some wear to edges and corners. Clean, unmarked copy.