Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. "She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eye shadow on her eyelids You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing." With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with spine label lightly chipped. 315 pages, two short novels in one book. Inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Very good in a nice dust jacket with fading to spine. Novel about a high school senior who is facing the military draft and his conflicting feelings. Milton Glaser art on dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, G. P. Putnams, 2nd, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Diana Thorne. Moderate wear to edges, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 146 pages, illustrated in b&w by James McMullan. Story of Memini, the Wildflower Wizard, who at the time of this story is almost 1500 yrs old. Small stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a very worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel, a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean.
NY, Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers with orange lettering. 267 pages, b&w illustrations including endpapers map by William Siegel. A fictional account of Lawrence of Arabia's exploits in the Middle East written for juveniles. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Stanley Paul, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Society novel, 159 pages.Translated from the Polish by S.C. de Soissons. De Soissons also provides a eulogistic 5 page introduction.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with brown stamped decoration, 288 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Dark gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. The 5th and last volume in the Katy Did Series. Light soil and shelf wear, white smudge to rear cover, previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, fictitious autobiography, very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Donald Fine, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. A Devon village during the hot, dry days of a devastating 1984 summer drought forms the backdrop to the story of thirteen-year-old Alison, youngest child of prosperous farmers, her family, and her friendship with the son of a local viscount.
Hardcover. London, John Long, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,320 pages, blue cloth cobers with black and red design, gilt title on spine. Minor edge wear and rubbing, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. A scarce copy with very clean pages and tight binding.
London, W. Foulsham & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 224 pages Edited and 'slightly abridged' edition for the modern boy. Color frontis. Jacket illustration is of a pirate holding a torch up in the air with a sword in the other hand and many men behind him. No date, appears to be early 1950s. Wear to top of spine cloth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Light orange boards, brown cloth spine with stamped gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color, with mylar protective covering, brown endpapers. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; an exceptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Those who dread the dentist's chair will crack a smile at this uproarious fourth and final volume in Babson's Perkins & Tate series. Here the public relations team is called in to cap the bad press that is sure to follow when a dentist who attends to celebrity smiles finds a top model dead in his chair. Perkins & Tate slog on valiantly in aid of a dental practice that has gone bonkers. A hilarious cast of characters on the premises includes an inventor of a new anesthetic, a mad former Army dentist who believes that both World Wars are yet to be won and who, accordingly, gives orders to all and sundry, a sadistic driller who aims for the neck, and a waiting-room full of celebrities brought together by faculty grins and personal designs on the dentist. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Uncorr. Proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Uncorrected Proof. Tight copy.
Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Light fading to spine and small scratch to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 173 pages, b&w illustrations by John Schoenherr. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with a green and black decoration to the front cover. 4 b&w plates by George Varian. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 123 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Polgreen. Previous owner's stamp front endpaper. Light soiling endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Decked foreedge. Teal fabric covered, Very clean inside and out. Review from back cover, "There's a cast of characters worthy of a modern-day Shakespeare; bathetic descriptions of using the lavatory that would have had Beckett smiling; and the gods' playful pursuit of women that could be lifted straight from Ovid's The Art of Love. Banville, already esteemed for the brilliance of his language, proves in this novel to have a mastery, too, of these many colliding universes."
Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Poseidon Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with very nice dust jacket in brodart cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnams, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set in limp black leather covers with bright gilt decoration. 394, 411 pages. Hildegarde Ed. with ribbon markers.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Clean copy. Ghote comes to a cold and drizzling London for a international conference, but becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of a radiant niece.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small half inch chunk missing from rear dust jacketpanel at bottom edge, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on edges, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. The author's first novel - actually a novel within a novel - a "wryly funny and original novel for Everywoman who has ever asked herself "isn't there more to life than this?"
Softcover. London, Granta, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Free Press , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sherlock Holmes comes to South Central Los Angeles. Only he's black, never finished high school, and can't seem to hold on to a regular job. Instead Isaiah Quintabe- or IQ, as he is known - spends his time and uses his formidable intelligence to help others. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. The first book by this Japanese-American writer who grew up in the same kind of neighborhood as IQ, this was nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, for the Anthony Award, selected as one of the best books of the year by the NY Times and more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The true first (UK). Paper tanning slightly at edges.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First novel by the noted cartoonist and children's picturebook artist. In a pictorial library binding and lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a small hole in rear panel.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putman's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket, 447 pages. B&w photos. Although he aspired to Princeton, Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff (aka Shaw) had to settle for local Brooklyn College, where he seems to have enjoyed football more than his studies. From his mid-20s, however, Shaw (1913-1984) was a highly regarded New Yorker short story writer ("The Girls in Their Summer Dresses") and left-wing playwright ( Bury the Dead ), and later became a successful Hollywood script writer and novelist ( The Young Lions ; Rich Man, Poor Man ). This sympathetic, objective biography, by a Vanity Fair contributing editor, convincingly shows how Shaw's career, character and fiction, influenced more by Hemingway's lifestyle than by his writing, were marked by incongruities. Far from abating with age, his romantic and alcoholic appetites overwhelmed him. Years of high living in Europe, surrounded by adoring friends, softened his self-judgment, and he took to writing "fluffy essays for swells." The New Yorker dropped him, and "serious" critics panned his novels. Shnayerson capably contrasts Shaw's inclinations and personality with his subject matter and literary output, and is especially astute at explaining the complications of being a commercially successful midcentury American writer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages, with b&w Illustrations by David Omar White. Minor rubbing and foxing on cover edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. A boy in Northern Iran leaves his family and grows up to become a guide for rich hunters. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st , 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light mauve cloth with a green, white and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. 4 color plates by Howard Pyle. Front hinge crack, light soil, wear to covers, internally very good. A story set in 14th Century Venice.
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