Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 435 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Short closed tear to dust jacket bottom edge, dust jacket top edge has light bumping and minor fading. Unmarked, a clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #193. Chipping to spine edges. Moderate creasing to wrappers.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illust. by Leonard Weisgard in 3-colors. Light soil to dj, front flap clipped at bottom.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 83 pages. This slim novel concerns a family trying to fill the gaping void left by the loss of a mother. The author's clipped dialogue and meticulously pared-down descriptions convey a deceptive simplicity--there are deep, intricate rumblings beneath the surface calm of MacLachlan's words. When his mother walks out on 11-year-old Journey and his older sister, Cat, the boy refuses to believe she will not return. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 200 pages. Joyce Cary long a popular author among discriminating readers, is gaining a wider audience for his novels every year. This critical study of his work considers the developing relationship between his matter and his manner. It especially emphasizes his growth as artist and thinker. Looking closely at the language and structure of Cary's books, the author examines all the novels- the African ones, the historical ones, and the two trilogies most of them in detail. To gain an overall view he also considers Cary's nonfiction and some as yet unpublished material. While this study is essentially non-biographical, it does analyze Cary's interpretations of history, sociology and politics as they are gathered from the actions and words of his colorful characters. One of the most intriguing features of Dr. Wolkenfeld's book is the dialogue between characters of the various novels, where likenesses as well as dissimilarities, which reveal so much about Cary as a writer, become evident. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Story based on the popular radio series, Captain Midnight. World War II adventure novel for young adults, set on a hidden air force base in the South Pacific. Paper tanning, name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt. 339 pages, b&w frontis. Bright copy with name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Minotaur, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean, like new. While most travel to Concord, Massachusetts to relive America's Revolutionary past, Harvard professor Sweeney St. George has come looking for a different sort of history. An expert on funerary art, she roams the local cemeteries, fascinated by the macabre carvings of a celebrated stonecutter and hero of the Revolution--a project that takes a strange turn when a man dressed in a uniform of 1775 is found.
Hardcover. Leipzig, Germany, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, plus postscript in rear, GERMAN TEXT. Purple cloth cover with Art Deco motif. Light edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 83 pages, b&w illustrations by W. T. Smedley. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to cover corners. Small stains on rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. With b/w illustrations and a color jacket by John Schoenherr. A juvenile novel set in the Alaskan Arctic, about an Eskimo girl surviving in a wolf pack. Winner of the Newbery Medal. The first English printing.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 275 pages. A very clean, tight copy. An epic storyteller who deals in great vistas and vast distances. The author's second collection of three novelllas, including a continuation of the adventures of Brown Dog, "The Seven-Ounce Man."
Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , proof wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an uncorrected proof in green wrappers, great condition. A collection of three novellas, one of which features Harrison"s memorable character, Brown Dog.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Tan cloth covers with maroon titles and illustrations on cover and spine. Dust jacket with darkening, three spots of staining on spine, light edge wear. Line of holes created by hole punch along right side of front inside dust jacket flap - from top to bottom. Dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Sauk City WI, Arkham House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. 394 pages. Limited to 1559 copies; the sixth Arkham House book, Introduction by R. H. Barlow. 14 weird stories, 11 from WEIRD TALES (from 1924 to 1933) and all but one set in the West Indies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy of the Nobel laureate's eighth collection of shorter fiction.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. Color plate and black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom and Don Nelson. Green covers with gold lettering and paper color illustration on front cover. Light green top edge. Marking, soiling to cover. Internally clean, light yellowing at edges of pages.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 4th pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 7 plates by J. R. Allen. Dust jacket with chipping, light soil.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Doran and Co., reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover with a black decoration of a sailing boat. This is the uncommon 1928 reprint, notable for the 35 b&w illustrated plates by different artists but not credited. The chapter decorations are by John Lockwood Kipling. The book is square and clean, the spine gilt has faded, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. Ex-library with a stamp on front fly leaf and a scar to rear endpaper where pocket was removed. The covers have light tape marks where dust jacket was attached to book. Otherwise clean. Junius and his father travel "over far" - back to the Caribbean to rescue his grandfather and to reclaim their lost heritage.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 109 pages. Illustrated in b&w by the author. Decorated torquoise cloth covers with spine fade. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Livingston, MT, Clack City Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 502 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) Miles Franklin Award Winner (Australia's highest literary honor).
Softcover. New York, Popular LIbrary, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Eagle Book #EB96. Spine edge tanned. Ink notation on first page. Creasing to cover wrappers.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, dark green cloth with black decoration, b&w drawings by Kipling. Top and bottom of spine cloth with light fraying. Otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 3rd Pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Library Edition with spine sticker (NOT EX-LIB). Young adult science fiction novel, the first in a trilogy, and at the time one of the few novels for young readers in the genre to feature black characters and by a black author. The book won a Coretta Scott King honor in 1979.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 3rd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Library edition sticker shadow on dust jacket spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of book first published in 1922.Color plates and b&w illustrations by John R. Neill.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top. First edition of this large adventure novel by the author of the Dortmunder series of humorous crime stories.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with orange cloth spine, paper spine label chipped. First printing with Doran logo on copyright page. With a preface by Hilaire Belloc, 333 pages. "Bramah attained commercial and critical success with his creation of Kai Lung, an itinerant storyteller. He first appears in The Wallet of Kai Lung which was rejected by eight publishers before Grant Richards published it in 1900. It was still in print a hundred years later. The Kai Lung stories are humorous tales set in China, often with fantasy elements such as dragons and gods." Covers rubbed, edgeworn. Clean internally.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, reprint, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with tan cloth spine with a blue title label. Preface By Hillaire Belloc. 'Bramah attained commercial and critical success with his creation of Kai Lung, an itinerant storyteller. He first appears in The Wallet of Kai Lung which was rejected by eight publishers before Grant Richards published it in 1900. It was still in print a hundred years later. The Kai Lung stories are humorous tales set in China, often with fantasy elements such as dragons and gods." Numeral 1 on copyright page, no date on title page, so suspected 2nd printing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages, hardcover with like new, bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages, illustrated in b&w by E. Harper Johnson. Dust jacket very good, price-clipped.
Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Collectors, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Masterpieces of Science Fiction Series. 281 pages, lovely color frontispiece by Richard Powers. Blue genuine leather with gilt decorations, no dust jacket as issued. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark. Lovely copy, like new. Collectors notes laid in.
NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt, red and green decoration to cover and spine. 429 pages + ads. Black & white illustrations by A.I. Keller and D. Potter. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Front hinge partially cracked. Spine fade.
Hardcover. London, Adam and Charles Black, reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Contains black & white and color illustrations. Faded spine and chipping to top of spine. Foxing to front edge. Gilt top edge.
Hardcover. Glens Falls, Champlain Publishing, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Blue cloth covers with title rubbed from spine and some rubbing to gilt title on cover. Book has slight damp smell. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in 3-colors by Ellie Simmons. Illustrated gray cloth with a edgeworn dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Despite the disapproval of her mother and three sisters, Katie Thorne persists in her search for a husband, approaching her goal along an open road of initially promising but ultimately unsuitable candidates
Hardcover. New York, Junior Books- Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Black & white and color illustrations by Holbrook. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Soiling to covers. Tear at top of spine. Corners a bit bumped, rubbed.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Ex. library copy with stamp to endpaper. Red cloth covered boards with black design & black printed titles to spine. Illustrated in black & white by Al Savitt. Dust jacket with dime sized chip to lower right corner, light toning & pen mark to price corner, non clipped. tone to top edge & light scuff marks to rear. Clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. Alpharetta GA, Black & White Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, also INSCRIBED by him on dedication page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 281 pages, b&w illustrations. "For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest lapse of attention could convert a fire from friendly ally to ravaging destroyer. To examine the cultural context of fire in "combustible America," Margaret Hazen and Robert Hazen gather more than a hundred illustrations, most never before published, together with anecdotes and information from hundreds of original sources, including newspapers, diaries, company records, popular fiction, art, and music. What results is an immensely entertaining and encyclopedic history that ranges from stories of the tragic "great fires" of the century to fire imagery in folktales and popular literature. Dealing more with technology than with fire in nature, the book provides a vast amount of information on fire manipulation and prevention in urban life. Hazen and Hazen discuss the people who worked with fire--or against it. Founders, gaffers, blacksmiths, boilers at saltworks, and housewives knew how to "read" a fire and employ it for their purposes. A few dedicated investigators inquired about the scientific nature of heat and flame. And firefighters gradually progressed from "bucket brigades" to "using fire to fight fire" with the newly invented steam engine. The colorful stories of these Americans--the risks they took and the rewards they received--will fascinate not only social historians but also a broad audience of general readers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Co, 2nd Ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with 3-color decoration. Four Illustrations in color by W. Herbert Dunton. Illustrated end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Roschl. Dust jacket price clipped, spine faded, has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. A Stone Age boy takes a far journey on the Great River (the Danube) to find special rocks (obsidian?) in an island in the sea.
Hardcover. New York, Friendship Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages, color illustrations by Wood. Red cardboard covers with black lettering and drawing of African child. Front fly leaf missing, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the start a young man who finds himself at the wrong end of the system, a system he will never beat, one that he suddenly finds himself at the end of a noose for rape and murder. Set at the Time of Crecy, young Martin finds himself going from a life of routine drudgery to one where his life depends on those around him a soldier in the Kings army.