Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, library binding. Black & white illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Massachusetts and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Hardcover, pastel peach cloth stamped in dark blue. 175 pages, illustrated with charming b&w drawings by Flavia Gag. Evans' first story about white folks full of the spirit of a vanished era. 12 yr old Emma Belle is in a small Tennessee town in 1881 As the undisputed leader of her two younger sisters she must figure out how to get to Kinfolks Meeting which their mother has opposed. Spine has a small 3/4" tear, otherwise sound, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 217 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank Nicholas. Clean, tight copy. Emmy Lane, a child of itinerant workers, decides to go on a Friends Service Project to a very poor Indian village in Mexico. Although she herself has come from a hard life, she is unprepared for what she finds.
Hardcover. NY, Alfed A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Novel set in a small town in Maine. Made into an HBO mini-series with Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt and Paul Newman.
Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 6th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt titles, 313 pages. First novel in what eventually became a trilogy depicting the gradual redemption of Durtal, the hero of the author's notorious La-Bas (1891), which portrayed the Satanism of fin-de-siecle France (in addition to certain depravities of medieval France). Translated from the French With A Prefatory Note by C. Kegan Paul. Light shef wear.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Trixie Dolan, ex-movie star, is back in London sharing quarters with her actress friend Evangeline Sinclair. Evangeline is writing her memoirs and when she discovers that an old rival is writing hers as well, trouble begins. Clean copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1064. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, George Routledge and Sons, Reprint, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. No publishers date - circa 1880's - inscription on front endpaper dated Christmas 1886. Gray green cloth with decoration on spine and cover in black. Spine title on gilt background. Features 126 black & white illustrations by Riou. Tanning to preliminary, and rear pages. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. London, Batsford, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b/w. A detailed record of important children's books and stories from English literature between 1600 and 1900, with chapters on the "Prehistoric Age", Harris to "Alice", the triumph of nonsense, after Carroll, the importance of pictures, and more. Written by Percy Muir a distinguished English antiquarian bookseller, book collector, and bibliographer who served as president of both the Antiquarian Booksellers Association and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Reprint, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, All edges gilt. Mustard cloth covers with beveled edges. Elaborate gilt pictorial design. Gravure plates, b&w line drawings and text illustrations by Edmund Garrett and Chas Copeland. Patterned end papers. Front hinge starting. Shelf worn cover. Spine ends worn. Blank prelim page missing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. INSCRIBED BY HARDING on the title page.
Hardcover. NY, Enchanted Lion Books, 3rd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Enormous Smallness is a nonfiction picture book about the poet E.E. cummings. Here E.E.'s life is presented in a way that will make children curious about him and will lead them to play with words and ask plenty of questions as well. Lively and informative, the book also presents some of Cummings's most wonderful poems, integrating them seamlessly into the story to give the reader the music of his voice and a spirited, sensitive introduction to his poetry. In keeping with the epigraph of the book -- "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are," Matthew Burgess's narrative emphasizes the bravery it takes to follow one's own vision and the encouragement E.E. received to do just that. Lovely color plates by Kris Di Giacomo enhance the story. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Lousiana State University, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER TO JOHN GARDNER in 1973 on half title page. dust jacket with closed tear to front cover, light edgewear.
Hardcover. Little Rock AK, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 358 pages. For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America's most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his other writings--journalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a play--have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, his first new book in more than twenty years. All the familiar Portis elements are here: picaresque adventures, deadpan humor, an expert eye for detail and keen ear for the spoken word, and encounters with oddball characters both real and imagined. The collection encompasses the breadth of his fifty-year writing career, from his gripping reportage of the civil rights movement for the New York Herald Tribune to a comic short story about the demise of journalism in the 21st century. New to even the most ardent fan is his three-act play, Delray's New Moon, performed onstage in 1996 and published here for the first time.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright. lightly worn dust jacket. Dust jacket is an illustration of a German work camp with a girl and guard on the face. A young adult novel by a Norwegian writer about an escape from a German prison camp in WW2. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark brown stamping, gilt title on spine. Illustrated with 4 b&w plates, not credited. Paper tanning but a tight, bright copy. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering and design. Published February 1928 on copyright page with no other printings. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge partially cracked. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st English, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, minor foxing on fore edge and light water stains on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY MACMILLAN (with Eskimo greeting) on front fly leaf. B&W illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Dust jacket edgeworn, frayed, tape repair and price clipped.