Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 pages. Adam Joshua can't understand why his parents want to move. He certainly doesn't! Who will his best friend Peter get to collect ants with, or to play star commander and Frankenstein if he's gone? Moving. Muck! But moving is just the beginning of a whole series of new events for Adam Joshua. There's also a new baby sister, monsters in the night, loose teeth, new friends, dinners with his Great-Aunt Emily, and lots more. Janice Lee Smith humorously chronicles the ups and downs in the life of a small boy, and Dick Gackenbach perfectly captures Adam Joshua's spunk and spirit in his delightful drawings.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. When a legendary freedom fighter is kidnapped, his close friend the Libyan dictator angrily blames the CIA. In retaliation, the Libyans kidnap the U.S. Presidents brother. Enter the Mordida Man--an independent fixer and bribery expert who must find and free the Presidents brother without causing an international incident.
Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis S. Glanzman. Straight, tight binding. Orange cloth cover slightly faded at spine, with minor edgewear to corners and top spine. A nice copy. "Patriotic Tim Griffith, of Stonebury, wants to do something for the Army, and with the help of a mule rescued from the town bully, he and a young friend get a chance to join the local boys' troop as mule skinners."--Kirkus.
Hardcover. Algonquin Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. When Alizee Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters, and moving between the past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into the divisiveness of prewar politics and the largely forgotten plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States. It captures both the inner workings of New York's art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American school of Abstract Expressionism.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth with an orange and black design of a woman astride a horse, in a bright wraparound dust jacket with light edgewear and chipping (featuring a Frank Tenney Johnson illustration). 336 pages plus publisher's ads, 4 b&w plates. Name in pencil on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with edgewear, 95 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Paul Geiger. A fast-moving mystery for young adults by a Newbery Honor winner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, frontis. with tissue guard., 277 pages. Original blind decorated black cloth with embossed illustration to front board. A mystery novel by the author of The Phantom of the Opera, one of the first in the 'locked room' sub-genre, first published in 1908 by Daily Mail (UK) and Brentano's (US) (Adey [Locked Room Murders] 1201). It has been adapted to film several times. The S.S. Van Dine Detective Library edition. Name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Eric Auden, recently estranged from his wife and the world, finds himself one snowy day in New York's greatest art museum confronting the cool marble contours of the Goddess of Desire, forty-five centuries old and still a bit of a flirt. Helplessly enchanted, and hoping to revise his life, he steals her." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. The fourth mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new. A lawyer who sleeps with his secretary, will do anything to get his client off, has his own private eye, and battles a frothing prosecuting attorney.
Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 225 pages. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on the title page. Three Vermont women enroll in a nature writing class, only to find themselves drawn into a plot to commit an act of destruction in the name of the environment. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth-coherent characterization, linear plot, symbolism-became tools of New Journalism. The New American Novel of Manners explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America's modern-day manners in its semiotics, in the system of signs that envelops us-the blue jeans people wear, the fast food they eat, the decor of the bars they drink in and the rock-and-roll lyrics that play through memories. The new generation of mannerists describe lifestyles that are determined by words and images, by actions that are dictated by what has been read and seen, and patterns of behavior in which life is edited and fictionalized. Klinkowitz reveals a fiction that is once again capable of reflecting the way people live. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 162 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. When Mrs Tovey's beloved Siamese Solomon dies she gets a replacement and happiness comes again to this normally hilarious household. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.
Hardcover. US, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A panorama of some of the most creative and subversive art of our times, this one-of-a-kind anthology celebrates the artistry and insight of comic book art, graphic novels, and graphic journalism from the 1960s to the present. Classics such as R. Crumb's I Remember the Sixties, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Spider-Man saga "The Final Chapter," and Dan Clowes's Caricature are featured, plus new sequences of work by Chris Ware and Ben Katchor created exclusively for this volume. The book is divided into four main galleries: Underground Comics, Silver Age Super Heroes, A Raw Generation, and Dark Fiction and Deep Fantasy, and includes a special supplement of four-color work by Lynda Barry and others as well. In his lively introduction, Bob Callahan celebrates the achievements of American comic book art from the late 1930s to the present.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light wear to upper edge of pictorial dust jacket, remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A suspense novel dealing with psychic powers and politics.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 242 pages. Gray cloth cover with minor bumping to corners and edges. Residue from small sticker on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. A series of short stories based around the Nazi regime during it's tenure in Germany and Europe.
Softcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, ARC wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Softcover, tan wrappers with type, Advanced Reading Copy. Author is a renowned French film director as well as a screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films. This is his second book and first novel. A memoir of a Parisian gentleman's love for a prostitute pre-World War 1.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled and worn dust jacket, 186 pages. The little world of a public school, with its grudges and rivalries, reaches out into the little world of the aged, as the Old Boys grimly battle over the post of President of the Association.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing Co,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 87 pages, limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY NAY on the half-title page. "This is the real authentic story of an old Vermont country doctor written not as fiction but as the life of one of Vermont's oldest physicians....that beloved figure, the old-fashioned country doctor..." Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Author's fourth novel, set in the steamy bayou town of St. Bruno. Woodrell reunites the three Shade brothers with their dissolute father. Aged rake and reprobate John X. Shade returns to his native Louisiana bayous, where he reviews his checkered past. Vengeful sociopath Lunch Pumphrey is hot on his trail, bent on recovering $47,000 stored in John X.'s safe, but Shade's young wife has absconded with the money in order to launch her singing career, leaving their daughter, toughly precocious Etta, in her father's care. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page following the free front endpaper. (signature only). Stated 1st AMERICAN edition, no number line ( 1st printing). Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light chipping. Humorous tennis novel by the son of Groucho Marx. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that is unclipped. First edition of this first novel by Coover. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 249 pages. The original, complete, and totally unedited scripts from the now famous BBC "Hitchhiker Radio Show." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 218 pages. Frontispiece illustration by F. C. Yohn, two illustrations by A. B. Frost, and several photographic illustrations. A mixture of stories about Kentucky and about Holland. Red cloth stamped in gilt, black and green, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Small area of fade to red cloth on front. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else a lovely copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by Marcia Sewall.
Hardcover. NY, Canongate, 2nd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A re-telling of the story of Odysseus, with his wife Penelope and her twelve maids narrating from their viewpoint and with their insights. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Ariel Books, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. A teenage boy's adventure on a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City in the 1870s. B&w illustrations by Tom Leamon (Tom Lea? Looks like his work). Light shelf wear, no dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 368 pages. Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kantstudien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical philosophy, as well as hostility towards his work because of his defense of Jewish scholars in a Germany controlled by Nazism. However, it is widely acknowledged today that The Philosophy of 'As If' is a philosophical masterwork. Vaihinger argues that in face of an overwhelmingly complex world, we produce a simpler set of ideas, or idealizations, that help us negotiate it. When cast as fictions, such ideas provide an easier and more useful way to think about certain subjects, from mathematics and physics to law and morality, than would the truth in all its complexity. Even in science, he wrote, we must proceed "as if" a material world exists independently of perceiving subjects; in behavior, we must act "as if" ethical certainty were possible; in religion, we must believe "as if" there were a God. He also explores the role of fictions in the history of philosophy, going back to the ancient Greeks and the work of Leibniz, Adam Smith and Bentham. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1981, Hardcover in a bright, slightly worn dust jacket. Illustrations throughout the text by Michael Foreman. The pig Plantagenet cannot decide whether he likes the free but frightening life of his cousin, the boar Grondin, better than his own simple farmyard existence until a plan emerges to destroy the forest and its inhabitants.
Hardcover. London, Ernest Nister, 1st, n.d. (circa 1900), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover , tan boards with beveled edges decorated in 5 ciolors + gilt. 5 brilliant chromolith plates , 12 full-page b&w Illustrations by Walter Paget, all edges gilt. With an Introduction by The Right Rev. Handley C, G. Moule. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Page Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original cream cloth stamped with multi-color design with an Indian watching Old Faithful geyser erupt. 346 pages, six b&w plates by Walter S. Rogers. Spine lettering faded otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 177 pages. Originally titled The Gigantic Shadow. The second and last title featuring Inspector Crambo. Dust jacket with edgewear, Owner's name on half-title page.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that has some edgewear and chipping. No date but probably an 90s printing with a $14.95 price on flap, Newbery Honor sticker on front. "Junior Brown, a 300-pound musical prodigy with a neurotic, overprotective mother, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatever, have been on the hook from their eighth grade classroom all semester. Junior and Buddy are among the most original and memorable characters in recent fiction for young readers. Writing with imagination and tough-minded humor about what happens when despair is no longer tenable, miss Hamilton has told a fable of courage and strength. It is a story of tomorrow." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 5th pr., 1928, Hardcover, red cloth covers with a dust jacket that has the top 1" of spine gone. Strange psychological mystery. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 167].
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, 336 pages, b&w drawings by Lea. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Novel about Hank Spurling, a Marine hero of the war in the Pacific, who returned to the Cloudrock Mountains in Wyoming. In the early days of World War II, Lea became a war correspondent for Life magazine, executing paintings of action in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific, China, North Africa, and Europe. Lea's career thereafter involved both painting and writing, on a variety of subjects but generally reflective of his roots in the Southwest. Clean copy.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 238 pages. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.A fantasy adventure featuring a battle between good and evil. Lots of swords, kingdoms and enchanters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , J. B Lippincott Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 360 pages, 4 color illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood. Green cloth binding with pictorial cover stamped in red, black and gilt. Minor edgewear, internally very good.
Hardcover. Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Music inspired, science fiction and fantasy combined in a way that revolutionized poster art of the Psychedelic 1960's-era. Famous for his rock posters, The Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren, a Detroit, Michigan based artist, showcases his posters which were as important to the Detroit Music and Art history as were the music legends themselves; The Who, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd to name a few. The book's forward is written by Mitch Ryder, who was lead vocalist of a Detroit 1960's rock group The Detroit Wheels. The introduction is by Russ Gibb, a former radio personality and rock promoter from Dearborn, Michigan, who played a major role in the late sixties/early seventies Motor City music scene.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel which takes a deeply irreverent look at literature, politics, patriotism and religion.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Tan brown cloth covers stamped in black. Illustrations for DJ and frontispiece by I. B. Hazelton. Wartime paper resulting in tanned pages. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, The Crime Club/ Doubleday, Doran & Co.,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in red. Dust jacket cover panel tipped onto inside front cover with flap copy opposite on front fly leaf. Attractively done. A Hildegarde Withers mystery. Classic crime tale from the 1930s set south of the border in old Mexico. 293 pages.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red, black and gilt with a oval pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Stories of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky. Mild fraying to top of spine, otherwise very good, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt stamped design on front cover, 232 pages. Copyright page states 1899 but roman numerals on title page say 1900, so perhaps second printing. Clean.
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