Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 157 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, gray laminate dust jacket with color illustration, dark gray endpapers. Clean dust jacket and covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very neat, copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 285 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Unclipped dust jacket has slight rubbing, now protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY SHEPARD on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Faith Jaques. Library Edition. Story of Victorian England set in a family shop in the back streets of Manchester, England. Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future. Clean copy.
Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. The most popular of Capp's hundreds of distinctive characters was the Shmoo. This lovable little creature loved mankind so much that it would sacrifice itself and turn into a ham steak, a gallon of milk or a dozen eggs: whatever its owner desired. Its whiskers made nice toothpicks and its eyes could be recycled as buttons. Most important, a Shmoo could reproduce faster than a rabbit. Thus, if you had one Shmoo, you were set. You didn't need to work at all. Thus did the apparent book for mankind become its curse and the powers that be decreed that all Shmoos must be exterminated. Capp's insightful morality tale was so popular that it spawned an unprecedented merchandising bonanza. Two introductions, by David Schreiner and by science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, are illustrated with various Shmoo toys manufactured. The large back cover photograph shows a selection of Shmoo merchandise in color from the Denis Kitchen collection. Also featured in this volume: Flying Sausages (parody of "Flying Saucers," a term first coined a few months earlier; Fearless Fosdick, Nightmare Alice, Salomey, Adam Lazonga, Moonbeam McSwine, Cousin Weak-Eyes and Marryin' Sam. See also our Shmoo Facts Sheet for some amazing statistics about this character's popularity.
NY, Morrow, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A twelve year old boy tries to return the mountain lion he's raised from a cub to her native habitat in the Idaho mountains.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 9th, 1937, 149 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rear end paper dry and starting to separate. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front pages. Light corner bumps. Illustrations by Lynd Ward.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up shot to death on the roof of New York's seediest strip club? It's up to detective John Blake to uncover his ex-girlfriend's secret life as a strip tease queen. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he uncovers, until a shattering face-off in an East Village tenement changes his life forever.Stunning debut novel from an author whose stories have been selected for BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR and THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES, as well as short-listed for the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a small European hotel in the late 1940s a bizarre group of characters, who all seem to be on the run from some past financial, personal or political horror, come together.
Hardcover. New York, Appleton, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 6 B&W illustrated plates. With a nice INSCRIPTION BY SEAWELL on preliminary page. New photograph of Seawell tipped-in. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Gilt decorated covers. A bright copy.
Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Harry Toothill. Bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st illust thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover, 335 pages. Eight color plates by Reginald Birch. Corners lightly bumped. Small book shop sticker on inside back cover. Back cover soiled in places. Previous owner's inscription on reverse of frontispiece.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket and pictorial frontispiece. Color illustratioms by Reginald Birch. Light wear to edges, and light hinge crack. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf and bookplate on end paper.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering and black drawing on cover. 160 pages. Eight color plates by Marion Mildred Oldham. Spine a little faded, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. SIGNED BY MOSLEY ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers, red spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. Covers unmarked, very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering. 210 pages plus publisher's ads, b&w illustrations, frontis with tissue guard. Penciled inscription and embossed stamp on prelim blank page, otherwise clean. Charming Victorian juvenile by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".
Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press , 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with intricate gilt design and color paste-down illustration on front cover. This is the first modern edition of Little Women to feature the complete illustrations of Clara Miller Burd, originally executed in 1926. Burd's brilliant color plates and detailed drawings bring the world of the March family to life. An introduction by Alice A. Carter, an expert on Golden Age illustration, explores Burd's life and the work of early twentieth-century women illustrators.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murderers more gleefully gruesome, and his vampires and werewolves more bloodthirsty and feral than any other artist. These horror and suspense tales - from the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories - offer everything a horror fan could ask for: re-animated bodies and body parts, a ghoul who stores bodies like a squirrel stores nuts, a vampire who moonlights at (where else?) a blood bank, greedy business partners, corrupt politicians, jealous lovers, revenge from beyond the grave, and a healthy complement of vampires, werewolves, and assorted grotesqueries. All leavened with the cackling, pun-laced humor of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis can present them.
Softcover. NY, Scribner, ARC, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Near fine in wrappers. 317 pages. Glossy paperback is Advance Reader's Copy. SIGNED BY NELSON. Her third novel.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages, 13 b&w illustrations by T. de Thulstrup. Mustard cloth with bright 3-color and gilt design.
Softcover. Arcadia Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 290 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Philadelphia, John Winston, 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, color frontis, b&w drawings and end paper illustration by Hamilton Greene. A story of a young boy spending the summer logging in Seattle.
Softcover. New York, Harmony Books, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1989 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. Small crease to top corner, otherwise Very good.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&w illustrations by John Kaufmann. The adventures of a young Arctic seal told from his viewpoint. Clean copy.
Softcover. Paris, Dragon's Dream, 1st English transl., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brilliant color illustrations throughout. Superb very fine detailed art, in this Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, graphic novel masterpiece, with incredible color pictures. Measures 8.5" x 11". One of the great French Comic Artists, with some of his strips appearing in Pilotte magazine; He became best know in North America for his work in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine. Clean, sharp copy.
Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTSON on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Taylor Oughton. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Light browning to endpapers otherwise very good. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with blue lettering, 309 pages. Historical novel set in New Bedford takes up the story of Russell Ashmead, the mildly rebellious middle son of a prosperous New Bedford family, when he is in his late teens, and follows him to the brink of old age. Over the course of the book he assists the escape of a fugitive from enslavement, sails as a foremast hand on a whaling ship, and is witness to fraud, riot, mutiny, and murder. He experiences romance at home and abroad, manages a textile mill, and becomes a shipowner. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Dust jacket worn very slightly from previous use. Otherwise in very good condition.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, tan cloth covers, paper browning. Nice three-color dust jacket with light edge wear, chipping.
Hardcover. NY, Criterion, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. A story of the Underground Railroad. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A debut collection of short fiction from the author of the novel Leaving the Land, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Douglas Unger's fiction is sharp-edged and compelling, whether he's exploring his own boyhood on the street ("Autobiography") or the life of a student lab assistant who bonds with a burnt-out rhesus monkey ("Leslie and Sam") or the strange fate of a young woman who returns from a second honeymoon on a paradisiacal Brazilian island to succumb to a mysterious disease ("Tide Pool"). The collection is capped by the powerful novella "Looking for War," where a would-be war correspondent, whose older brother is a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, stumbles upon his own war in a grisly five-minute action in the jungles of Paraguay.
Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design. Color frontispiece and black & white drawings by Wilfred Jones. Published simultaneously with the Little Brown trade edition. Clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. Stated First Edition on copyright page. SIGNED BY WELTY in her small, dainty hand on the front fly leaf, which has some age-tanning to the paper. Losing Battles was Welty's fourth novel and her longest. She worked over fifteen years on it.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Tight copy with light wear to covers, but heavy fading on spine and edges of front and rear covers.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. The sequel to Fforde's first literary detective novel, The Eyre Affair, starring the inimitable protagonist, Thursday Next. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 360 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NBM Comics Lit, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. Graphic novel in which famed early twentieth century actress Louise Brooks returns to her home town of Wichita, Kansas and gets involved in a murder mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers faded at spine and worn at corners. Frayed at top spine. Gutter cracked at page 65, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Like new in unclipped dust jacket. A foray into the "war summer" of 1968 that illuminates the complexities, sensibilities, and passions of the time.
NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 281 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends Saturday mornings watching cartoons and eating Cocoa Puffs out of an Empire Strikes Back bowl, and devotes the rest of the weekend to his other favorite hobbies: sports and girls. His credo, to think and act like a thirteen-year-old boy at all times, has worked well enough to land him a decent job writing headlines for the New York Tabloid. But neither his personal life nor his professional life has any forward momentum; he's occupied the same cubicle since the first George Bush was president and is currently "between girlfriends." At thirty-two, it starts to occur to him: There's a fine line between picky and loser. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Brodart cover to dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the S. Miriella Gable Prize. Amy Hempel has said "Victoria Redel's contribution to the literature of obsession is rendered with unusual delicacy and daring." In this exquisite debut novel, Victoria Redel takes us deep into the mind of a very singular mother, and yet through her we see the dangerously whisper-thin line between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all devotion. After all, "Who has ever wanted to share a love?" Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, August 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 224 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.