Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, reprint, 2004-03-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Frank Tousey, 1st, 1909, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled wraps in color, worn, chipping, short tears to margin, chipping of cover but not affecting image. Cover art is bright. Owner's name written in ink above masthead. 30 pages, cheap pulp paper. Offered for cover art.
Softcover. NY, Frank Tousey, 1st, 1909, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled wraps in color, worn, chipping, short tears to margin, chipping of cover but not affecting image. Cover art is bright. Owner's name written in ink above masthead. 30 pages, cheap pulp paper. Offered for cover art.
Chicago, A.C. McClurg, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth. Eleven color illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. Mild wear to covers. "When Mr. O'Callaghan dies after a long, severe, and expensive sickness, he leaves his widow a state of unlimited poverty and seven boys." The dialect is said to come close to the speech of Irish immigrants in 1900. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Francisco Mora. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. In this witty, fast-paced sequel to Getting Even, seventh-grader Iris Bloom can handle anything, whether it's a fashion crisis or the despicable Corky Newton. What's more, she is certain she doesn't need a baby-sitter. But when a visit alone to the mall ends in a frightening near-assault, she changes her mind.
Hardcover. Huntington Beach CA, Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Limited edition #114of 150 copies. Pink marbled covers with leather band on spine. Acetate dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Spiegelman. Clean, tight copy. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem, basis for two stage musicals and a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch. Remainder dot to top edge.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 241 pages. In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time--or the wrong thing, every chance he gets. But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get ugly, fast--and odds are, it'll have something to do with the bombshell wife of his Bugs' new employer. In WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from THE KILLER INSIDE ME that made his reputation, in a virtuoso, multi-character portrait of how one man's life can take a turn for the worse. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow,, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Private detective Moses Wine becomes involved with author John Hecht in an attempt to clear him of the murder of a TV anchorwoman.
Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 185 pages. Black & white ilustrations by Raymond Lufkin. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips to top & bottom edges, price clipped. A boy's adventures on the Mississippi River.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 321 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FORD on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Gammell. Great, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Though his parents explain there have been no mammoths for over 10,000 years, Will goes out in the snow one day, certain he will meet some.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1117 pages. The Library of America edition of Faulkner's work publishes for the first time new, corrected texts of The Unvanquished, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, and The Hamlet. (The corrected text of Absalom, Absalom! was published by Random House in 1986.) Manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, and published editions have been collated to produce versions that are faithful to Faulkner's intentions and free of the changes introduced by subsequent editors. Clean copy.
NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages. Black & white drawings by Douglas Gorsline. Back & white photos by William Henry Jackson. Dust jacket with chip to spine bottom, closed tear.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Aliki. With her characteristically sprightly words and pictures, Aliki brings Shakespeare's life, times, and legacy to life in this highly acclaimed information-packed treasury that is truly for readers of all ages. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare's world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., $3.95 price. Color illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. William wants a doll but his father tries to discourage him. 32 pages. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages. Black cloth. Ex-library with stamp on front endpaper. Tape on inside flap of dust jacket and inside cover of book - front and rear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Willow doesn't know what to do. Her mother has taken off again, she has to look after her brother Twig, and they're out on the streets of Vancouver with nowhere to go. Then Willow remembers her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Gram doesn't even know Twig exists, and Twig is, well, difficult. But Gram is her only hope now. After a few urgent phone calls from a police station in Vancouver to Ontario, Willow and Twig are on their way across the country to a grandmother they hardly know, and a strange household made up of an eccentric uncle, a hostile aunt, and a motley crew of animals. Clean, like new.
New York, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 109 pages. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. Conrad, the boy who gave Annie a willow whistle, improves her father's opinion of him when he helps save his classmates stranded in the schoolhouse by an early blizzard.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, blue cloth, later printing, first published in 1935. Black titles on spine. Name stamp on inside front cover. Paper tanning but a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 4th pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH A INK SKETCH OF RATTY on the blank page opposite the spot illustration in front. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Reprint, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Nancy Barnhart. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Darkening to cloth spine. Titles on spine, and cover in gilt. Gutter cracked onpages 94/95.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 107 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by Caswell. INSCRIBED BY CASWELL on front fly leaf. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Black & white illustrations by Arthur Conrad. Dust jacket has edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy. Previous owners name on front end paper. Illustrated by Wendy Watson.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pink cloth covers with black drawing and lettering, 55 pages illustrated in b&w by Mircea Vasiliu. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR WITH A DRAWING OF A SEAGULL CARRYING A FLOWER TO FELLOW ILLUSTRATOR KURT WIESE, dated 1957. Quite a scarce book even without the signature. Clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth stamped in dark blue, 89 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper. Mild spine faded. Corners and spine rubbed.
NY, Cowles Book Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors by Richard Cuffari. The story of the champion race horse Top Gallant. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, The World Publishing House, 1st US, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover. With 60 b/w illustrations/plates. B/w illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. No other printings mentioned on publication page, either 1st edition or very early printing. Cover boards bound in green cloth, title reverse in gilt on spine, black decoration on spine and front cover board, decoration blind stamped on back cover board. Some rubbing and chipping to boards (see images). Some tanning to edges and pages, doesn't affect illustrations or text. Some foxing on a few pages (see image). Binding remains tight. Spine very slightly cocked. Short stories by literary master Jules Verne, beautifully bound and ready for display. Illustrated by Henri Theophile Hildibrand, well known for his illustrations in Verne's books.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in white, 350 pages, illustrated by Helene Carter. Front hinge cracked, shelf worn.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 224 pages. Translated from French by Marion Saunders. Black & white illustrations by Lucile Blanch, winner of French award for juvenile fiction. Dj chipped, worn.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 80 pages, b&w drawings by Arvis Stewart. Bold name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in gilt, orange, black and gray. 353 pages. Publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis, map & 6 b&w illustrations by Wal Paget. A bright, clean book in the original pictorial binding.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Illustrated by Katherine Milhous. Book club edition as per dust jacket and spine, but copyright page shows "A." Green cloth covers with orange creche design on front and orange lettering on spine. Dust jacket back cover lightly soiled, top edges worn. Boards are slightly bowed. End papers lightly foxed, pages in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages plus 32 page catalog of additional titles. Hardcover. Features 12 black & white illustrations by W. H. Margetson. Previous owners inscription on preliminary page. Green cloth covers with titles and decoration on front cover and spine. Covers show standard wear. Binding somewhat loose. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing , 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Frank Schoonover. White stamped lettering, decoration worn on front, light fraying to green cover boards, light soil. Internally good.
Hardcover. NY, Liveright, Inc./Junior Literary Guild, Book Club Ed., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, black cloth, yellow lettering, Decorative endpapers. B&w illustrations By Raphael Doktor. An illustrated history of Jesuit missions in North America starting in 1632. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pink lettering on the front cover, the spine with white lettering. Tommy Hambledon's first postwar adventure and it leads him on a dangerous chase around London in a search for money and murderers. Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth illustrated boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. 380 pages plus 26 pages of publisher's catalogs at end. 10 b/w illustrations by William Rainey and three one page maps. Spine a bit faded, light soil to rear cover,otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Yellow cloth cover with gilt lettering and color embossed illustrations, b&w frontispiece and 7 illustrations by Charles Copeland. Cocked spine, wear to cover corners and edges, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight copy.