Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 5th pr., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in maroon. B&w drawings and endpapers art by Kurt Wiese. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages, yellow cloth covers with red and green design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear but clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 118 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B/w illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Ex-lib with minor stamping, envelope residue on rear end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 197 pages. Slight wear and creasing to dust jacket, some foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy protected by mylar cover. The author's third book, an amusing collection of satiric sketches. 20 stories beginning with 'Walt and Will' a freewheeling version of the creation of the Disney empire. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth covers. Covers moderately worn. Bookplate on front end paper, previous owner's name written on front fly leaf, otherwise tight copy. Brick cloth covers w/a green & pink floral design by Margaret Armstrong was stamped on the front cover & spine. Five tales from the author's native Georgia. In the first story set in 1850, Free Joe is a freed slave whose serious demeanor and energy are a bit troublesome to slave-owners.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 434 pages, three novels. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Small red ink heart top front end paper, otherwise VG. Dust jacket w/edgewear, chips.
Hardcover. New York , Broadway Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 546 pages, bright copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRICE on the title page.
hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Novel based on a true piece of colonial history when 25 European radicals met on Lamu planning to travel inland & set up a Utopia on Mount Kenya.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 294 pages. SIGNED BY LEACOCK and dated Nov 25, 1927 on front fly leaf. Book was first published in 1917, this is the 1924 Edition. No dust jacket, cover has light flecking to edge, spine darkened, otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. At the funeral of his Peace Corps buddy, John Morgan, only Kinky notices that the body in the casket is not that of John, leading him to solve a mystery with origins in the jungles of Borneo twenty years ago. Bright. clean copy.
NY, P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. B&W illustrations by William Wilson. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover284 pages. In a nice dust jacket that shows slight spotting to back and little to no edgewear. Spine modestly cocked. American first edition (per publisher's requisite "First edition" statement and "BCD . . ." The adventures of Monkey from his departure from the jungle to his arrival in England where he makes many friends." A later book in the writing career of British author P.L. Travers most renowned for her authorship of the Mary Poppins series.
Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historical adventure. A young Spaniard goes to sea on a voyage to the Yukon and British Columbia to trade with Indian trappers. It is the late 18th century and sea otter pelts are bringing high prices. The plan is to proceed down the coast of North America, collecting hides from the natives. But things do not go according to plan. Mild chipping wear to rear of dust jacket, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with cat on cover and lettering on spine in dark blue. Another in her series on the Mitchell family. Scarce in the hardcover first U.S, printing. Previous owner's name on first page, otherwise clean. Lacks dust wrapper.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with titles and cover illustration in orange. With a frontispiece by Frank M. Rines. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Federal Book Company , reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages, 5 b&w plates. Green cloth covers with orange, black design and gilt title on spine. Color illustration on cover label. No year given, appears to be circa 1900. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, American Tract Society, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt design on spine and cover. 160 pages, 4 b&w plates. Foxing to frontis and title page. Second book by author about Frolic, a six-year old girl whose real name is Florence. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York , Scribners, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt, 304 pages. Spine faded. Previous owner's bookplate, inscription front end paper. Otherwise clean. First edition with publisher's "A" on copyright page.
Softcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press , 1st, 2010, Softcover, 224 pages. color illustrations throughout. It's a situation we are all acquainted with: planning to visit friends in an unfamiliar part of the city, you draw yourself arudimentary map with detailed directions. In March 2008, graphic designer Kris Harzinski founded the Hand Drawn Map Association in order to collect just such drawings of the everyday. Fascinated by these accidental records of a moment in time, he soon amassed a wide variety of maps, ranging from simple directions to fictional maps, to maps of unusual places, including examples drawn by well-known historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton, and Alexander Calder. From Here to There celebrates these ephemeral documents usually forgotten or tossed aside after having served their purpose giving them their due as artifacts representing stories from people's lives around the world. There is the young woman suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who created maps of the Humira injections on her stomach and thighs to help her remember the sites, and give them time to heal. Or the young boy who imagined a whole country for ants and put it to paper. Lucas from Australia drew an obsessively detailed map of his local traffic island, and a teenage girl contributed a map of her high school locker. Two American tourists got lost in the Bulgarian mountains following the hand drawn map of a local, and Britanny from Denmark drew directions to an animal rights protest in Copenhagen. The maps featured in From Here to There are as varied and touching as the stories they tell.
Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Daye Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket ($2.00 on flap), 183 pages, b&w illustrations by Allen Congden, Introduction by Walter Hard. The semi-autobiographical novel of city dweller making a living on a farm in Vermont. Written during the Great Depression. Scarce, especially in this great condition. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Byron Goto. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.
Softcover. London, Mitchell Beazley, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, illustrated in color with almost 300 book jackets. In this revealing and highly entertaining look at the great book jackets of the 20th century from around the world, author Alan Powers tells the story of the book jacket from its early days, via the advent of the paperback, to the most eye-catching covers produced today. With over 300 illustrations, including first editions by famous artists, jackets by key designers and artists, groundbreaking series from major publishing houses, and classic pulp-fiction jackets, this unique and fascinating insight into the world of the front cover will appeal to anyone with a passion for books and graphic design.
Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page ("Rodney Wingfield 1990"). The first of the author's Inspector Frost mysteries, originally written in 1972 at the prompting of Macmillan (and spurred on by a non-refundable advance of GBP50), the manuscript was promptly rejected, before eventually being published in Canada in 1984. This UK edition followed some five years later and the Yorkshire Television adoptions staring David Jason appeared soon after. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, black & white lithographs by Feodor Rojankovsky. #4 of Pere Castor's Wild Animal Books. Transl. by Rose Fyleman. Cardboard covers with dust jacket. Dust jacket with closed tear to rear panel.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club , 1st, 1933, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in red. 319 pages. Red dyed top edge. Light toning throughout, previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Otherwise clean. A strange epidemic is sweeping the Riviera. In desperation the French authorities call upon Dr Petrie to find an answer. During this crisis, a mysterious siren on the beach captivates Alan Sterling. She tells him her name only ? Fleurette ? and flees. When Petrie's lab cultures show up sleeping sickness and plague, they call in Sir Denis Nayland Smith. It is not long before their investigations lead them to Fleurette ? and to Dr Fu Manchu.
Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , The Century Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive cloth with drawing of two boys on horseback on the front cover. Sequel to "Pinkey Perkins: Just a Boy". 391 pages, illustrated in B&W by George Varian. mild soil to cover. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 70 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Jane Fonda's China Syndrome by Nancy Naglin; War in Space by Stella Morris; The Great H. G. Wells Film Revival by Joseph Kay; H. G. Wells Revival - Return of the Time Traveler by Barbara Lewis; Interview: Timothy Leary by Robin Snelson; The 23rd Century: A Vision for Star Trek by Jesco von Puttkamer; Building the First Space Colonies by Gerard O'Neill; The Sound of the Future by Todd Rundgren; and How to Design a Getaway Special to Space by G. Harry Stine; along with the usual features, including a painting of Titan by Don Davis.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 70 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: NASA and Hollywood Search for Aliens, SF Art by Foss, Alien Movie, Larry Niven on Riches Beyond Earth, much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 68 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Kitt Peak- Guided Tour of Tuscan's Observatory, New Improved Human Genetic Engineers tackle the secrets of DNA, Interview John Varley, The Black Hole, unidentified Flying Oddball, Star Empires, The Whole World in Your Hands- Tomorrow's Computers Go into the Closet, Video Image- Preview of TV's Martian Chronicles, Brain Aldiss, and much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 68 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Man on Mars by '88, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles on TV, Frank Herbert on filming Dune, Farming Beneath the Sea, Russian Space Art, much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 68 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Harlan Ellison interviewed; In Search of Albert Einstein: Celebrating the Genius Scientist's 100th Birthday; 007 in Space: Photo-preview of James Bond's Space Shuttle Epic; Vincent Difate - Science-Fiction Artist; Tomorrow: Can Space Technology Save the Seas? by Jacques Cousteau; much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Arthur C. Clarke Interview, Disney and Von Braun, Civilization in Space, Things to Come, Norman Spinrad, much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Cover art of 'Star Hawks' by Gil Kane. An often overlooked magazine with a great interview with the Hildebrandt brothers. The interview reveals that they only had 36 hours to put together their original Star Wars poster that would eventually cement Star Wars as a classic. Magazine also features a spread of the Sci-Fi art of John Berkey (another classic Star Wars artist), Buck Rogers comes to TV, much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Jerry Pournelle interview, Superman the Movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Flash Gordon, David Hardy Art, Wally Schirra on the Earth from Space, much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Data bank, Logan's Runner William F. Nolan. Still Sittin' On Top of the World- The Amazing Group 1 Astronauts, Star Trek - The Movie, The World of SF Pulps, Civilization in Space, Space Now! - The L-5 Society's Henson Family Writes a Future scenario, SF Graphics- Boris Meets Barbarella, Navy Drops a Boom Theory, Space Art of Robert McCall, and much more.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the 1950s and 1960s, giving particular emphasis to the significance of myth for the group in its reception of science fiction and its engagement with fantastic art. Offering new readings of the art and writings of the later generation of Surrealists, Gavin Parkinson demonstrates how they were connected to the larger cultural and political debates of the time. Whereas earlier Surrealist art and writing drew on psychoanalytic practices, younger Surrealists engaged with contemporary issues, ideas, and themes of the period of the Cold War and Algerian War such as parapsychology, space travel, fantastic art, increasing consumerism in Europe, emerging avant-gardes such as Nouveau Realisme, and the rise of the whole genre of conspiracy theory, from Nazi occultism to flying saucers. Futures of Surrealism offers a unique perspective on this brave new world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cedar Grove NJ/UK, Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 2006, Hardcover, 343 pages, in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. Collects eight stories. Reynold's first short story collection, the five sf stories set in the Revelation Space universe and adding three new novellas written specially for this edition. Great Wall of Mars; Glacial; A Spy in Europa; Weather; Dilation Sleep; Grafenwalder's Bestiary; Nightingale; Galactic North and an Afterword.
London, Victor Gollancz, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light spine fade. The author's scarce second novel.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pizzolatto, author of the short story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea (2006), delivers a taut first novel suffused with a strong noir sensibility. Roy Cady is working as a strong-arm man for a low-level New Orleans gangster when two events change his life: he's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and his boss puts out a hit on him. Soon enough, Roy and a young prostitute, Rocky--thrown together after a blood-spattered encounter with the would-be hit men--are on the run, traveling from New Orleans to Galveston. "Nothing ends well," Roy muses at one point, and, of course, we know from the start that this road trip is on a collision course with disaster.