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Suzette's Family by: Evatt, Harriet
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Suzette's Family
by: Evatt, Harriet

Hardcover. New York , Bobbs-Merrill Co. , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 132 pages. Tall book. red cloth covers. Black & white illustrations by Evatt. Mild waterstains to covers. Spine faded. Corners a bit bumped. A charming story set on the island of Orleans in the St. Lawrence River near Quebec, against the backdrop of the opening years of World War II.

Record # 500521

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Sweet Pea: A Black Girl Growing Up in the Rural South by: Jill Krementz
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Sweet Pea: A Black Girl Growing Up in the Rural South
by: Jill Krementz

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket. 94 pages. Features a short foreword by Margaret Mead. Includes numerous black and white images by Jill Krementz. Light tan cloth with blue lettering on spine. The book is in clean, excellent condition, the dj fair to poor.

Record # 399176

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Sweet Possum Valley by: Govan, Christine Noble
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Sweet Possum Valley
by: Govan, Christine Noble

Hardcover. Boston, Jr. Lit. Guild/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with black stamped illustration on front cover. B&w illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Mild stain to several pages and light rubbing to covers, otherwise tight and clean. Faded spine.

Record # 354859

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson by: Haywood, Will
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Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
by: Haywood, Will

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 461 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of boxing legend. Mild fading along spine of dust jacket cover. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Rough-cut edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 359631

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by: Hamilton, Virginia
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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by: Hamilton, Virginia

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil spot on bottom of page block. Dust jacket is protected in plastic, but has light abrasion to paper near bottom spine front. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 59830

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Swimmy by: Lionni, Leo
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Swimmy
by: Lionni, Leo

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages, boards. Story of a little black fish, the only one left from an entire school. 1964 Caldecott Honor Book. Color illustrations by the author. Small brown stain on front of dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear and chipping.

Record # 202922

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Swineherd, The by: Andersen, Hans Christian
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Swineherd, The
by: Andersen, Hans Christian

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color, black & white illustrations by Anastaiya Archipova. Color illustration on front of glossy boards.

Record # 502187

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Sword In The Stone, The by: White, T. H.
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Sword In The Stone, The
by: White, T. H.

Hardcover. New York , G. G Putnam's Sons , 1st , 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages hardcover. Blue cloth bindings. Black and white illustrations at chapter headings. Illustrated flyleaves and end pages. Top edge decorative stain. Gilt decoration on spine and cover. Some shelf wear and soiling on front and back cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 857203

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by: Barry, Lynda
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Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
by: Barry, Lynda

Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 2nd, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352526

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Symbols of Ideal Life - Social Documentary Photography in America 1890 - 1950 by: Stange, Maren
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Symbols of Ideal Life - Social Documentary Photography in America 1890 - 1950
by: Stange, Maren

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This book traces the history of this genre and its main participants, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee. Clean copy.

Record # 609077

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 
 

Systematic Pomology by: U. P. Hedrick
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Systematic Pomology
by: U. P. Hedrick

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black stamping, 488 pages. This is the original edition from 1925. Presents an approachable path through the discipline, covering how pomology connects with botany, plant breeding, and practical fruit-growing. It highlights how to describe, classify, and compare varieties, and it provides models for student projects and laboratory work that can be adapted to different regions and teaching needs. B&w illustrations, clean copy.

Record # 472387

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Systemes Agraires et Progres Agricole: L'Assolement Triennal en Russie aux XVIII - XIX Siecles by: Confino, Michael
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Systemes Agraires et Progres Agricole: L'Assolement Triennal en Russie aux XVIII - XIX Siecles
by: Confino, Michael

Softcover. Paris, Mouton & Co., 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 495 pages. FRENCH TEXT. 10 black-and-white plates. Some creasing along spine. Minor edge wear. Binding a little cracked where plates begin and end. Good, unmarked copy. (Agrarian Systems and Agricultural Progress: Three-Field Crop Rotation in Russia in the 18th and 19th Centuries).

Record # 856409

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

T-Model Tommy by: Meader, Stephen W.
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T-Model Tommy
by: Meader, Stephen W.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., True 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 305 pages. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Hinges cracked. Illustrated endpapers. Review stamp front fly leaf. Discoloration, soiling to covers. Orange cloth cover with black lettering and decoration. Corners worn, bumped.

Record # 500573

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Tacey Cromwell by: Conrad Richter
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Tacey Cromwell
by: Conrad Richter

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, stamped in gray and black, 208 pages. In his two earlier novels, "The Sea of Grass" and "The Trees," Conrad Richter has made a solid contribution to the long shelf of Americana; in "Tacey Cromwell" he goes back into the Arizona Territory a half century ago, to find a protagonist in the hennaed sporting-house madam who gives the book its name. Like others of this celebrated sisterhood, Tacey yearns for a husband and social esteem. Clean copy.

Record # 472246

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Tagalong Kid: A Katonah Idyll by: Marjorie Balgooyen Drysdale
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Tagalong Kid: A Katonah Idyll
by: Marjorie Balgooyen Drysdale

Softcover. self-published, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages, b&w illustrations. Magic forests, mishaps on the ice, decapitated dolls, abandoned houses, battleaxe teachers, sweethearts and snitches fill the pages of this enchanting memoir. Set in 1950's small-town America, "Tagalong Kid" evokes the author's nearly idyllic childhood in Katonah, New York, "the town that time forgot." Her indulgent older brothers allow her to "tag along" as they pursue a myriad of adventures, both imaginative and risky. Mixing nostalgia with humor, "Tagalong Kid" conjures up that dreamy swirl through which a child's mind gradually comes into focus. With 57 black-and-white vintage photographs. Clean copy.

Record # 472425

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Tagati by: Stockley, Cynthia
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Tagati
by: Stockley, Cynthia

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with green and gilt stamping. A story of love, murder and suicide, described by one critic as "atmospheric to the verge of mystical." The novel concerns a woman named Felicia Lissell, who travels to Rhodesia with her aunt, to visit the farm of Dick Cardross, but she doesn't suspect that "dangerous social complications awaited her in the gay English colony nearby." The author, born Lilian Julian Webb in London in 1862, was a resident of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1896. She achieved international recognition with the publication of her story collection "Virginia of the Rhodesians" in 1904, and went on to great success as the author of numerous novels. Owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 374396

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Tahitit: Voyage Through Paradise by: Eggleston, George T.
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Tahitit: Voyage Through Paradise
by: Eggleston, George T.

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with a black cloth spine. 252 pages, b&w photographs, map end paper. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850893

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Tahl (SIGNED AND CORRECTED BY HAND) by: Jeremy Ingalls

Tahl (SIGNED AND CORRECTED BY HAND)
by: Jeremy Ingalls

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Additionally with a note to the title page stating she has hand-corrected some 20 errors in the printed text, unique thus. An epic poem "on the lives of a young composer-aviator and his intimates and casual acquaintances the accumulated wisdom and lore of the world in which we live." Winner of the Yale Poetry Award. No dust jacket. Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, this being the result. Spine gilt faded.

Record # 387653

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Culture by: Talvacchia, Bette
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Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Culture by: Talvacchia, BetteTaking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Culture by: Talvacchia, Bette

Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Culture
by: Talvacchia, Bette

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red endpapers. Decorated cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. An innovative exploration of the place of the erotic in Renaissance art and culture, focusing on a notorious set of images created by the young Italian master Giulio Romano. Clean copy.

Record # 99041

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Taktuk an Arctic Boy (SIGNED COPY) by: Flack, Marjorie and Helen Lomen
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Taktuk an Arctic Boy (SIGNED COPY) by: Flack, Marjorie and Helen LomenTaktuk an Arctic Boy (SIGNED COPY) by: Flack, Marjorie and Helen Lomen

Taktuk an Arctic Boy (SIGNED COPY)
by: Flack, Marjorie and Helen Lomen

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 139 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marjorie Flack. Previous owner's bookplate pasted to half-title page. INSCRIBED BY LOMEN to previous owner on front flyleaf. Clean cover.

Record # 501638

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Tale Of Dan De Lion, The by: Disch, Thomas M.
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Tale Of Dan De Lion, The
by: Disch, Thomas M.

1986, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Spine lightly faded on dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rhonda McClun. A dandelion in the garden of an autocratic rose-fancier triumphs over the threat of extinction.

Record # 202728

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Tale of Peter Rabbit, The by: Potter, Beatrix/Masha
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Tale of Peter Rabbit, The
by: Potter, Beatrix/Masha

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil opposite half title page. Full color and black & white illustrations by Masha. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Record # 614088

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Tale of the Warrior Lord, The by: Sherwood (Transl.), Merriam and Henry Pitz
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Tale of the Warrior Lord, The
by: Sherwood (Transl.), Merriam and Henry Pitz

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 156 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illust. by Henry Pitz. Ex-lib with modest marking, residue. Dust jacket with light chipping. Glue abrasion on title page at gutter.

Record # 69610

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Tales for Teeny-Wee [Cover Title: Teeny Wee Stories] by: Joan, Natalie
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Tales for Teeny-Wee [Cover Title: Teeny Wee Stories]
by: Joan, Natalie

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth spine with color pictorial boards, 248 pages. Illustrated in color and black/white by Anne Anderson and Alan Wright. Edges of cover chipped, paper tanning, chipping to paper on rear cover. hinges tender. No date.

Record # 380293

Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00