Hardcover. New York, DC Comics/Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Hardcover with slipcase. Illustrated with full color reproductions of classic Batman strips from 1943-1946. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 304 pages plus ads in rear. Some rubbing to spine and corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. B&w illustrations by Paul Galdone. A young boy of the Louisiana Bayou wants to be hunter and fisherman like his father. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. SIGNED BY LEONARD ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers with silver titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. No wear to dust jacket or covers, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 324 pages. Stated: "First Edition - Published April 1937" - 2nd impression. Blue cloth cover. Fade to spine. Top edge stained red. Previous owners name on front endpaper. '0185' stamped at bottom of first page of Contents. Streaks of discoloration on some groups of pages.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages, green cloth covers with gilt lettering a little dulled on spine. First printing with March 1922 on copyright page and no Scribner colophon. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Otherwise tight, clean.
Hardcover. New York, New Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 383 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER AND TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Overweight Esme Singer eats her way into adolescence--as her beautiful, divorced mother boozes and searches for the perfect man, and her irresponsible father promises the moon but delivers nothing. "Benedict's masterful second novel evokes the anxieties of childhood and adolescence with rare clarity,'' (Publisher's Weekly)
NY, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream. The unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Hardcover. Yellow endpapers. Some agewear. Black cover boards, tan quarter cloth. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned, some chipping with light agewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. Very good condition. Kosinski has written a modern parable, which is actually a suspense story. It is remarkable for its tension, wit, and irony. It is exciting, and it is memorable.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Patterned paper over boards with green cloth over spine. Dust jacket very worn, chipped withtop 2" gone from spine. Illustrated platesby Joe Pye throughout printed on brightly colored paper. First Printing of this comedy of manners of the popular early 20th century man of letters. Book is clean,, free of marking.
Hardcover. NY, Harpers & Brothers, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering on spine. No names, clean text. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. B&W illustrations by Leonard Vosburgh. In a lightly chipped dust jacket, price-clipped. A young adult novel set in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 425 pages. Translated by Athena Bell. In the American sector of occupied Berlin, in 1945, a boy discovers the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blond, blue-eyed, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. The bodies of other young women are discovered. American and German authorities must work together if they are to stop the slaughter. Clean copy.
Softcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. Originally published in 1975. The classic tale of a young man attempts to claim ownership of an old barn rumored to contain a hidden treasure. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, gray cloth stamped in red, 197 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations by Ralph Ray. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Young adult mystery involving Jon and Judy's summer vacay set in Navajo country amongst Zuni and Hopi pueblos.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. Hes also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robins emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mothers brain With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and sons ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers' most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet? Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory. BEWILDERMENT was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sequel to The Chocolate War. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel for older children featuring a family of six children, living on Poseidon, one of the islands of Atlantis. Dust jacket art by Enrico Arno.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unusual work in that Gallico wrote this not as a sequel to his book THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE but rather as a sequel to the film version. The film featured some plot and character changes which Gallico incorporates into this novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from England to the New World in 1851.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, First Edition, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with embossed art nouveau design, light green ink & gilt titles. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Light foxing to a couple interior pages, and last illustration. Otherwise light toning to edges, clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 184 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. A novel of "wartime love and death" in the London of 1917. In the heroine Julia Ashton, Doolittle creates a vibrantly sensitive character through the evocation of her feelings, moods and memories. Previous bookseller's price sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild /Doubleday, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a light stain to rear panel. Decorated endpapers, B/W Illustrations by the author, 215 pages. A tale about a young English farm girl and her love for her pet donkey, Biddy Christmas, and a little gray pony, Pip. Pencil name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, dust jacket illustration in color, b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Previous owner's inscription, dust jacket price-clipped otherwise clean, very good. The story of a farm family's Saint Bernard.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When their two-million-dollar Japanese smuggling assignment hits a snag, professional gunrunners Altmeyer and his wife, Rachel, risk nuclear disaster to complete their task. 248 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages. Clean copy. The second novel in the L.A. Quartet from this master of noir that began with The Black Dahlia, followed by this second novel, then L.A. Confidential, and finally White Jazz. The Red Scare is in full bloom in the Los Angeles of 1950 in this dark tale of three men caught up in a massive web of ambition and deceit.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury , 1st US, 2002-07-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and rubbed dust jacket. Ex-lib with stamping to front fly leaf, envelope inside rear cover. Interior clean. Translated from Swedish by Florence Lamborn. Illustrated in b&w by Don Freeman.
Softcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 B&W cartoon illustrations by Dick Dorgan. Illustrated cardboard covers. Small tear to spine edge, otherwise Very good.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction--and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together--but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States? Like new.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 180 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. Exposing the humor in violence and the seamy side of riches, Canning follows the maneuvers of Sir Anthony Swale, an aristocrat who has spent his privileged life in quest of rare art treasures, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain. Small inials on front pastedown otherwise clean in a bright unclipped dust jscket.
Hardcover. NY, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to bright dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Slight creases to pages 239-241. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in pale yellow, cover label illustration, 288 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Copeland who also did the endpapers drawing. Previous owner's signature on blank page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. U. S. O. stamp inside front and back covers. Remnants of label on back end papers. Black cloth covers with green lettering on front and spine. Some white spots on covers. Clean. Scarce. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner's girlfriend. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Archaia, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout by Fincher/Hyman. Clean, tight copy with minor if any wear to edges.
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