Hardcover. NY, Appleton-Century Company, 1st, 1940, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped with drawing of three cowboys and lettering in red. 260 pages, b&w illustrations by James McKell. Cloth covers with light soil. Spotting to spine. A western tale for young adults. No markings.
Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 198 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane's house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today's visitor is confronted by a dense, complex series of spaces, a strange aCCU1mulation of rooms, objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light, shadow, color, fiction and narrative, vistas, spatial complexity, the fragment, and the mirror to produce a spectacular space. No dj issued, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated in b&w by Fermin Rocker. Children's story about Nial Wren, a 13 year-old goat herder who lived in the early 1800"s near Brooklyn. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. When her husband, Ben, drags her to the States for a gourmet cooking competition, the nervous and pregnant Ellie Haskell encounters mystery and murder in the American Midwest.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker & Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards with blue cloth spine, 150 pages, b&w illustrations. A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions. James Salter is considered one of America's greatest prose stylists. The Arm of Flesh (later revised and retitled Cassada ) and his first novel, The Hunters, are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of flying and aerial combat. A former Air Force pilot who flew F-86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration of the pilot's life. This book collects passages from two other books he wrote about his military flight career and entries from his personal journal kept during his tours of military flying duty through flight training in late WWII, into combat duty in Korea in 1952, and through his post war flying up into the early 1960s. Masterfully edited by Jessica and William Benton, it has been organized chronologically and simply is wonderful. You can read from the journal entry, and then it is followed by fiction he created using that experience. No dust jacket, clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very clean, tight copy. Varied in theme, situation and character, this collection of vivid and gritty short stories deals with the brutality in intimate human relations, the exquisite horrors of New York City, looking at the worst and laughing to save sanity. all unmistakably Leonard Michaels.
Hardcover. Boston, Lamson Wolffe, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 126 pages, with illustrations by Henry Sandham throughout. Gilt top edge and titles. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's bookplate and pencil marking on front endpaper, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, Reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 199 pages. Illustrated with four full color plates by Lois Lenski. Light wear to covers with minor fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, First Edition, 1936, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Rear board detached with tender cloth connection to spine. Tender front board. Spine full length exposed, with frayed original cloth. Sunfading to covers. Full color illustrations by Bemelmans are clean, unmarked with toning to edges. A couple pages have foxing, fingerprints to last page.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Mystery #80. Light crease along spine and top corner worn. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear fly leaf, number 940 of a limited 1500 copies, color illustrations by Edmund Dulac throughout, golden metal cockerel affixed to front cover, illustrated cover jacket, slipcase. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover with very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rectangular paste down illustration to front board with small chips to edges. Frontis illustration, "Stood and Watched the Ocean and the Sky," in black & white. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Else quite clean, a few small spots to some pages, a nice copy with light toning & tight binding.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with edgewear, chunk gone from bottom of spine. Previous owner's heavy pencil markings still visable on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 273 pages. Illustrated with brown woodcuts by Angelo. Lightly soiled endpapers. Stain to top of book cover. Spine a bit cocked. Pink top edge. Recounts the experiences of an Italian immigrant boy living in California. The sequel to Angelo's Nino with delightful, simple illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. Boston, The Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 154 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by H. Boylston Dummer. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B207. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine.
Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 151 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson. Green cloth cover. Tear to top back cover edge. Light water damage to first pages, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Howell, Soskin, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover with light soil to covers. Previous owner's name and pencil inscription on front fly leaf. Illustrated by Pers Crowell. Tight copy with spine faded.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Nice, bright dust jacket with minor wear to upper edges of spine, protected by clear brodart cover. A very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 274 pages. B&w decorations by Lois Lenski. A nice selection of Canadian stories. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Gentleman. Dust jacket shows some minor wear, chunk gone from top of spine, rear panel.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcopy. Gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Clean inside and out, in great shape. From the front flap: "At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. ...Goldengrove takes its place among the great novels of adolescence, beside Henry Jame's The Awkward Age and L. P. Harley's The Go-Between."
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated in color by Trina Schart Hyman. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY HYMAN pasted on front fly leaf. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's fourth book. Basis for the movie by the same name starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. The Dorchester neighborhood is no place for the innocent, the young, the defenseless or the pure. This is a territory of broken families, bitter cops, whacked out ex-cons, and a mother who watches herself on the nightly news as her missing child floats further and further into the unkown. Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, don't want this case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they embark upon an investigation and ultimately risk losing everything- their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives-to find this little-girl-lost. Capturing the voices that echo within blue collar Boston, Dennis Lehane is a master storyteller, who weaves together embittered people, tattered emotions, and brutal crime to create relentless, heart-pounding novels of suspense. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Black Classic Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, quarter green cloth cover with patterned boards, 368 pages. A novel from Norway. Translated from the Norwegian by Edwin Bjorkman. Front dust jacket flap glued to inside front cover.Clean bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 5 color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Dj w/ soil, edgewear. Covers have moderate edgewear. Tight copy.
Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new. Richard Bausch "tells the heartwarming and riotously funny coming-of-age story of Walter Marshall, whose fumblings toward manhood coincide with cataclysmic change in the country."
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket. The year is 1963, and young Denise Palms has rejoined her family in Detroit where she must work to make a place for herself and prepare for the arrival of her mother's new baby. The baby will mean the end of Denise's afterschool lessons with a stern teacher who insists that Denise learn to speak "proper" English to make herself heard. Verdelle's intuition and ear allow her to dramatize precise moments of Denise's self-recognition and, in the process, offer an inside look at a maturing intelligence. The Good Negress marks the arrival of an original voice in contemporary fiction.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by cartoonist James Stevenson. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, acetate-protected dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket, overall a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. In her twelfth adventure, Ellie Haskell leaves her family at Merlin's Court to travel to her old boarding school, St. Roberta's, at the request of her former headmistress, Mrs. Battle. Someone has stolen the Loverly Cup from St. Roberta's trophy case. The cup is awarded to the winner of the lacrosse championship match, and for the first time in nine years, St. Roberta's has lost the cup and needs to pass it along to the winning school. Ellie returns to St. Roberta's, without her trusty housekeeper and sleuthing partner, Mrs. Malloy, on the pretext of needing some rest. She investigates staff, students, and some former graduates of the school while trying to come to terms with her guilt over her past failure to speak for a fellow student who was wrongly expelled. During the investigation, a beloved teacher, Ms. Chips, dies. Is it an accident, or is it murder?
Softcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w drawings by Dirk Zimmer. Set in Boston in 1636, a valuable pig escapes from Goody's sty and must be rescued by the determined lady. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 251 pages. A story of murder and family intrigue set in Ireland.
Hardcover. NY/Oxford UK, Routledge, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 190 pages. This book examines Gore Vidal's lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, it argues that his interaction with antiquity was central to the way in which he viewed himself, his writing, and his world. Divided between the three primary subjects of his writing - sex, politics, and religion - this book traces the lengthy dialogue between Vidal and antiquity over the course of his sixty-year career. Broughall analyses Vidal's portrayals of the ancient past in novels such as Julian (1964), Creation (1981) and Live from Golgotha (1992). He also shows how classical literature inspired Vidal's other fiction, such as The City and the Pillar (1948), Myra Breckinridge (1968), and his Narratives of Empire (1967-2000) novels. Beyond his fiction, Broughall examines the ways in which antiquity influenced Vidal's careers as a playwright, an essayist and a satirist, and evaluates the influence of classical authors and their works upon him. Clean copy.
NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages. Acclaimed novel based on the life of botanic artist William Buelow Gould (1801-53). In this account, Gould is a white convict condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1828 and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, falls in love with a black woman and discovers too late that to love is not safe. The book's design features colour reproductions of Gould's original art work, and each chapter is printed in a different colour ink. The book has been awarded the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal, and the Australian Publisher's Association 2002 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Best Designed Book of the Year. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 277 pages. "An intimate, vivid, emotionally truthful, and often funny portrait of an educated and sexually voracious male in the second half of the twentieth century...Wonderfully engrossing." -- The New York Times Book Review. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages plus 16 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Scarce dust jacket is bright with light chipping. Several pages with light soiling to margins.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY MICHAELS at the 2003 Breadloaf Writer's Conference.
Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 155 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth spine over blue-gray paper-covered boards, designed by Amy Richards (author's daughter, unsigned binding) with Madonna lilies stamped in dark blue to upper cover and spine, title and author stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, rough cut edges, with frontispiece and three full-page black and white illustrations by Merrill. Name of previous owner on front flyleaf.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 370 pages. A tale of the grandsons of a Slovenian immigrant vividly portrayed with settings in the California coastal towns of San Francisco and San Pedro.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. B&w illustrations by W.T. Mars. Dust jacket with edgewear, big chunk gone from rear panel. Excellent young adult mystery novel about two boys stranded on the moors who find a partly destroyed statue. It won a Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association for outstanding children's book of the year in 1965 in Britain.