Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. "She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eye shadow on her eyelids You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing." With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and sketches by Lewin. A memoir of his brief stint as a professional wrestler.
Hardcover. NY, Beginner Books/Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 62 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos by Lynn Fayman. An early reprint of this classic Beginner Book authored by the wife of Dr. Seuss. Flap price of $2.50.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with spine label lightly chipped. 315 pages, two short novels in one book. Inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #814. Cover art by Milton Charles. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 57 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Betsy Lewin throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small stain to fore edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Very good in a nice dust jacket with fading to spine. Novel about a high school senior who is facing the military draft and his conflicting feelings. Milton Glaser art on dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 115 pages, b & w illustrations by Clarke Hutton, slight foxing to end papers, some wear and soiling to cloth cover, fraying to bottom of spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Metro Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, 8 pages of color photos. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth bound cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with design. Some age wear to covers (see image). Some fingerprint smudges (see image) and tanning throughout. Original author's name written on title page (see image). In very good shape for its age, no pages missing. True and fictional shortstories about French culture.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters. The top 2 inches of the cardboard spine is missing. Binding sound. One of the six discontinued Seuss titles.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Richard Floethe. Dust jacket shows some wear, chipping and small tears.
Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, G. P. Putnams, 2nd, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Diana Thorne. Moderate wear to edges, clean copy.
New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with drawings by Charles Robinson. A like-new copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 213 pages. Light bump to lower edge of spine, else a lovely copy of the author's first book. Blurbs by Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, Wright Morris & Larry Woiwode on back cover.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 146 pages, illustrated in b&w by James McMullan. Story of Memini, the Wildflower Wizard, who at the time of this story is almost 1500 yrs old. Small stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a very worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel, a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Derrydale, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Richard Doyle. Edited and with a Foreword by Cary Wilkins. Dust jacket shows some wear and minor soiling. The King and Queen of the country next to Fairyland are blessed with a daughter whom Prince Comical rescues in the land of magic Mushrooms. Originally published in England in 1869.
NY, Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers with orange lettering. 267 pages, b&w illustrations including endpapers map by William Siegel. A fictional account of Lawrence of Arabia's exploits in the Middle East written for juveniles. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Stanley Paul, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Society novel, 159 pages.Translated from the Polish by S.C. de Soissons. De Soissons also provides a eulogistic 5 page introduction.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this story in verse, Godden has created a new & delightful myth out of the story of the Flood. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Westvaco Corporation, Ltd. Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, Bound in light brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decoration on the covers. In a pictorial cardboard slipcase illustrated with Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley painted by Paul Cezanne. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories Indian Camp and The Three Day Blow, and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision. Limited Edition, privately published by Westvaco. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ecco Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, light rubbing, mild soil to the unclipped dust jacket, small tape repair to inside of jacket at top of spine, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with brown stamped decoration, 288 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Dark gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. The 5th and last volume in the Katy Did Series. Light soil and shelf wear, white smudge to rear cover, previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, fictitious autobiography, very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth covers, 8 b&w plates. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, front hinge tender. 192 pages. Light soil, foxing to a few pages.
Hardcover. NY, Donald Fine, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. A Devon village during the hot, dry days of a devastating 1984 summer drought forms the backdrop to the story of thirteen-year-old Alison, youngest child of prosperous farmers, her family, and her friendship with the son of a local viscount.
Hardcover. London, John Long, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,320 pages, blue cloth cobers with black and red design, gilt title on spine. Minor edge wear and rubbing, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. A scarce copy with very clean pages and tight binding.
London, W. Foulsham & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 224 pages Edited and 'slightly abridged' edition for the modern boy. Color frontis. Jacket illustration is of a pirate holding a torch up in the air with a sword in the other hand and many men behind him. No date, appears to be early 1950s. Wear to top of spine cloth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Password to Larkspur Lane. Name on inside front cover. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Light orange boards, brown cloth spine with stamped gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color, with mylar protective covering, brown endpapers. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; an exceptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Decorative end papers with "This is my Book" free of any names. A ghostly figure wheeling and pirouetting in the sunken garden of an old estate, a wrongly-filed law suit, and a case of mistaken identity- How Brantwood's teenage detective extricates herself in this exciting case provides an unforgettable story of courage, adventure and mystery. Presumed reprint as the last title on flap is Double Disguise (#16).
Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Maroon cloth, white lettering. Spine faded. Illustrated in b&w by Gluyas Williams
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Those who dread the dentist's chair will crack a smile at this uproarious fourth and final volume in Babson's Perkins & Tate series. Here the public relations team is called in to cap the bad press that is sure to follow when a dentist who attends to celebrity smiles finds a top model dead in his chair. Perkins & Tate slog on valiantly in aid of a dental practice that has gone bonkers. A hilarious cast of characters on the premises includes an inventor of a new anesthetic, a mad former Army dentist who believes that both World Wars are yet to be won and who, accordingly, gives orders to all and sundry, a sadistic driller who aims for the neck, and a waiting-room full of celebrities brought together by faculty grins and personal designs on the dentist. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Uncorr. Proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Uncorrected Proof. Tight copy.
Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. Clean copy.