Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st US, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout by T. De Thulstrup. 1st edition. Blue cloth covers, red and gilt decoration on spine and front cover board. Cover wear due to age: slight fraying to top and bottom of spine as well as a small bit at edges of boards, light soil to covers and pages yellowed. Spine cocked. Original owner signature on front flyleaf, former owner bookplate on front endpapers.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fools' Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary. The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until...Set in the Upstairs, Downstairs world of Victorian England, this is an ingenious and gripping tale by the acknowledged master of the English crime novel.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, INSCRIBED and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&w drawings by Garth Williams. Stated First Edition, dust jacket unclipped with $3.50 price. Jacket with light edgewear, chipping, small piece gone from top of spine. Book is clean and tight.
Hardcover. London, Bantam, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Wraparound band with blurb by Ian Rankin present, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 210 pages, b&w illustrations by Lloyd Coe. The legend of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) told especially for young people. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, SIGNED BY RANKIN on the title page.
Hardcover. New York, New American Library, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Light residue where price sticker was removed on front fly leaf. Light soil to white jacket. Gardner's first book.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the 1930's eleven-year-old Julia goes to spend the summer with her playwright father and finds that he has abandoned her to the care of her pre-occupied stepmother who seems unaware of the strange voices that haunt Julia every night. Slowly Julia begins to put names with the voices and finally unravels the 300-year-old mystery surrounding the Harkin family. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, Anansi, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease, Donald, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating family stories he has never shared with anyone, hoping to preserve history for his children. The dignity of Donald's death and his legacy encourages his loved ones to find a way to redeem and let go of the past, whether through his daughter's immersion in Chippewa religious ideas or his mourning wife's attempt to escape the malevolent influence of her own father. A deeply moving book about origins and endings, and how to live with honor for the dead, Returning to Earth is one of the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and will confirm his standing as one of the most important American writers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Beige boards, 1/4 cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dj in mylar cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket, light foxing to edges, else a lovely copy in clear brodart cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with American Book Award sticker on front. Josephine Gattuso Hendin captures the New York Italian immigrant scene with startling precision, bringing to life the intricate web of a community's everyday transactions and exploring the multifaceted father-daughter relationship at the heart of the Italian American family.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., First Edition, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Tan cloth boards with black titles & horse decorative illustration to spine. Light scuff mark bottom rear edge. Green top edge. Toning throughout. Original dust jacket with moderate wear to edges, light toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Pages untrimmed. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 416 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear, soil, and rubbing to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Authors 1st novel. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 249 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn, w/ creases and pieces missing from edges of spine; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY KENEALLY on title page. Sticker residue front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped, else in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound, 258 pages. Illustrated by Julian Brazelton. Foxing top edge. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Two small chunks missing from top and bottom of spine. Brodart on dust jacket. Pencil mark front cover. Spine sunned.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1983, Hardcover, 368 pages, a classic adventure of a shipwreck and survival. 14 color plates including title page and endpapers illustration by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 237 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Mild soil to edges, covers. Historical fiction for young adults based on the life of Roland, warrior of France, nephew of Emperor Charlemagne. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Scarce 1st edition. Tan decorated cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. 31 beautiful line drawings by Alice Barber (Stephens) who is not credited on the title page but whose signature can be seen on the plates. Binding slightly cocked but still very intact. Light rubbing to edges and spine.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with purple WRB and decorative design on cover, purple/red lettering on spine with green filigree. Suspense noirish novel. Night club singer marries man with a past and secrets. Back cover with faint staining otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 3rd pr., 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, red and gilt, 147 pages. Five plates printed in 3-colors by Adelaide Eberhart. Cover design signed "E", probably the same artist. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Rostnikov has been ordered to go on holiday to Yalta. While he is away, rumor has it that he will be demoted. He's so good at his job, he makes the bureaucrats look bad. However, not only do Rostnikov and his associates keep their jobs, they manage to solve a kidnapping, robbery, and murder in the process.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Originally published by Lion Books as a paperback in 1954. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 205 pages. Black & white illustrations by Howard Simon. Review slip laid in. Residue from paper clip front endpaper. Top corners a bit bumped. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. In matching slipcase.
Hardcover. East Yorkshire UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. In matching slipcase.
Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in very worn, chipped dust jacket with tape repairs, 241 pages, frontispiece by Edward Shenton. Novel based on the historic 1780 Indian raid on Royalton, in the White River Valley of Vermont. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Escaping into the fantasy world of the movies, where fathers don't disappear, mothers have no secrets, and little brothers don't cry over missing stuffed animals, twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, while performing community service for a crime she didn't commit, is forced to face the reality of her life. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Green cloth covers, gilt design, some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing on a few pages, otherwise inside is clean, with b&w illustrations by A. B. Frost throughout. A nice copy.
hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Color comic illustrations make up this graphic novel. Bottom corner bumps otherwise, bright, and lean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Red decorative staining to page block and black satin ribbon marker.
Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine of cover faded. Tight copy. Illustrations by David Hendrickson.
Hardcover. London, England, j.W. Arrowsmith, 1st Edition, 1898 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece, illustrations throughout by illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson. Tanning from age throughout, pages untrimmed, deckled. Letter from the author dated "17th Sept: 03" laid in (see image), possibly to William Heinemann. Green cover boards, gilt title on spine, front cover. Some agewear to spine top and bottom. Binding very good, spine straight. Very good condition.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Rare Bird Books, 1st US, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Advance Readers Copy. 'A great Russian novel in the grand Russian tradition' - LE FIGARO. Years after the death of their beloved son, there is a knock at the door of Nikolai and Vera's apartment. Introducing himself simply as 'Sergeant Bertrand', the unknown visitor triggers a precipitous journey into the depths of the human soul. Hailed as an early masterpiece of post-Soviet literature, Russian Gothic is now available in English for the first time. Three decades after it was written, its complex portrait of grief, misogyny, violence and love is as fresh, shocking and relevant as ever. Aleksandr Skorobogatov was born in Grodno in what is now Belorussia. He is one of the most original Russophone writers of the post-communist era. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Otto Penzler, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with a drawing of a saddle on front cover. 184 pages. Black & white illustrations by Earl Mayan. Faded green top edge. Corners slightly bumped. Spine faded. No dust jacket. Rick and his sister Jinny help raise an orphan filly. Clean copy.
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