New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, including glossary of Japanese terms. B&w drawings by William Hutchinson. Ex-library copy. Blue dust jacket with faded spine; small tear to top left front cover. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gay. Morrow Eagle Library Edition. Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Make-believe and reality are beautifully intertwined when a toddler invites first a butterfly and then others to go for a ride on his stroller. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Izzi's first book, a mystery set in Chicago.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, rep, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 354 pages. Foreword by Irvin S. Cobb. Darkened spine. Light soiling to covers. Light rubbing to corners and spine.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages plus "A Word to Grown-Ups" and Ad. Hardcover. Features 4 full color illustrations by Harry L. Smith. Dust jacket with light chipping at corners, top and bottom of spine - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and edge wear to covers. Light chipping, faded spine with soil to rear dust jacket. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese.
Softcover. New York, Green Dragon Books, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Paperback. Cover art by Hoffman. Light soil, wear and corner crease. First few pages separated from glued binding. Fragile.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 118 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color by Tony James Chance. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 356 pages. Color and b&w illustrations by Richard Powers. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London , E. Nister, unk, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 319 pages. 6 color plates and 70 half-tone illustrations by W. Paget. Green cloth covers with red, yellow, and gold decoration. Gold and black lettering. Beveled edge. Front hinge cracked. Soiling to covers. Wear to extremities. Sticker on front end paper.
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in blue, b&w illustrations by Richard Kennedy, 77 pages. Collects seven stories, at least two of which are fantasies (fairy folk). Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st limited, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Hardcover with original slip case. (1st LIMITED EDITION #1337 OUT OF 2000. Monthly letter laid-in.)(SIGNED AT BACK PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR) Bound in green/blue, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Vibrant color and b/w illustrations throughout by Charles Raymond. Slip case has a little bit of age wear. Spine has a touch of shelf wear. In very good condition, clean and bright inside.
Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages. 4to. Original black cloth, gilt titles, black top page ridge. Tipped in color illustrations and full-page engravings by Harry Clarke, illustrated label on front board. An attractive edition of Poe's classic collection of stories.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in b&w by Tom Feelings. Black cloth covers with gilt snake drawing on front. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Spine slightly cocked, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover boards. Ex-library embossed stamp on title page. light markings on rear end paper. otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages, plus two pages of publisher's advertisement in rear, dark green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on endpaper, spine lightly cocked, minor corner and edge wear. Binding cracked on front and rear fly leaf, but all pages intact. Overall, clean and tight copy with bright pages.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, na, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface by Mrs. Maxwell Scott. 389 pages including glossary. 12 color plates by Simon H. Vedder. Previous owner's bookplate. Maroon cloth, gilt decorated. Top edge gilt.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A gold Signed Cooy sticker is affixed to front. SIGNED BY BOYLE on a tipped-in page in front, T.C Boyle is an acclaimed author, winner of the Pen/Faulkner award and finalist for the National Book Award. Described as "both a suspenseful trip across America and a moving story about language, love and identity from one of America's most versatile and entertaining novelists" this story of a 33 year old deaf woman whose identity has been stolen is the closest thing to a thriller Boyle has written.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY ANTONYA NELSON ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy. Minor wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else like new. Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist leaves his wife a few weeks later, she begins to fall in love with his friend, creating a triangle that threatens to destroy all three and their families. The wife must decide between two very different men, whom she loves in very different ways. As the focus of the novel turns toward the woman in the middle, it becomes increasingly clear that whomever she chooses, the effect on the lives of everyone involved will be immeasurable.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 275 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. Canberra, ANU Press/Australian National University, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part created by, and give rise to, a wide variety of poor social and developmental outcomes. These include uneven economic development, low public health, lack of social cohesion, crime, fear and insecurity. A further very visible problem is the attacks on men and women who are accused of being practitioners of witchcraft or sorcery, which can lead to serious bodily harm, banishment and sometimes death. Today, many communities, individuals, church organisations and policymakers in Melanesia and internationally are exploring ways to overcome the negative social outcomes associated with witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs. This book brings together a collection of chapters written by a diverse range of authors, both Melanesian and non-Melanesian, providing crucial insights both into how these practices and beliefs are playing out in contemporary Melanesia, and also the types of interventions that are being trialled or debated to address the problems associated with them. Some light marking to several pages.
Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 96 pages. Color and black & white photography. Color illustrations. Book illustrators discuss their art w/examples throughout: Victoria Chess, Pat Cummings, Leo & Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, Lois Ehlert, Lisa Campbell Ernst, Tom Feelings, Steven Kellogg, Jerry Pinkney, Amy Schwartz, Lane Smith, Chris Van Allsburg & David Wiesner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, David McKay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor chipping to dust jacekt edges.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 431 pages. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Very good.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with dark green lettering and decoration to front cover, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 252 pages. Rear dj lists to The Last of the Great Scouts. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, striped pictorial cloth, 288 pages. 13 b&w illustrations plus endpapers drawing by F. Luis Mora. Spine label faded, owner's name on verso of frontis, top of spine with light fraying. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Keith Beaumont, an ace British Arctic troubleshooter and scientific expert is despatched to research base Target-5 on the icepack near Greenland to intercept a Soviet defector named Gorov who is carrying secret documents detailing a submarine defence network. The contents could upset the balance of world power, as these stories dictate, so when Beaumont and Gorov are tailed by Soviet airborne assault troops, they must head towards the edge of the ice pack in a perilous journey. This is a short but thrilling novel firmly set in the 1970s. Clean copy.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. Four b&w plates by J. Allen St. John. "Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadephia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in an edgeworn dust jacket, 131 pages. Favorite childhood stories from Rudyard Kipling, The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson, among others, illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor in her inimitable style. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Tait, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. ISBN sticker on inside of back cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laid-in illustration on front cover of mam puma and her kittens. The story of a mother puma and her 2 kittens. Wonderful 2-color animal drawings by Paul Branson. Covers show moderate edgewear and rubbing, but overall good, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Pristine copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Ward & Drummond, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt, 418 pages, 6 b&w plates by Helen Strong. Mild rubbing, edgewear to covers. A novel extolling the temperace movement. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, G. Bell and Sons, reprint, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, with illustrations by Jack Matthew. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, chunks missing from spine edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, tattered dust jacket. Novel by an American journalist about fighting in Greece during WW2. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 752 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Never before has Gordimer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, published such a comprehensive collection of her nonfiction. Telling Times represents the full span of her works in that field-from the twilight of white rule in South Africa to the fight to overthrow the apartheid regime, and most recently, her role over the past seven years in confronting the contemporary phenomena of violence and the dangers of HIV. The range of this book is staggering, and the work in totality celebrates the lively perseverance of the life-loving individual in the face of political tumult, then the onslaught of a globalized world. The abiding passionate spirit that informs "A South African Childhood," a youthful autobiographical piece published in The New Yorker in 1954, can be found in each of the book's ninety-one pieces that span a period of fifty-five years.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with some darkening to spine. "Rob decided to call the newborn calf Temba Dawn for she had been born early on a frosty September morning on their farm in Scotland." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press , 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, clean (see images). A few pages have a touch of fingerprint soil, otherwise still bright and completely intact. Original owner's dated inscription on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Scarce. In beautiful condition. The animals share strategies to avoid throwing a temper tantrum.
Softcover. Cleveland OH, Arthur Westbrook Co., 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback pulp detective mystery from about 1920. A sequel to the author's "The Coral Pin". Yellowing paper and a poor printing job, typical of these dime novels. An attractive color cover with light creasing, edgewear. Back cover missing.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages plus ads. Illustrated with black & white stills from the film by Cecil B. De Mille. Previous owners name in small print at top of half title page. Very good dust jacket shows light chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering shows some flecking at edges. Rubber stamp to inside front cover otherwise clean internally.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with fourteen illustrations, by Jessie Wilcox Smith and Florence Scovel Shinn. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine & illustrated cover label. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. A nice copy.