Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Bound in pale orange illustrated cloth with black spine lettering. Top edge with a publisher applied pale orange stain. Map illustrated end papers (Same for front and rear). Color frontis on glossy paper and numerous full page and smaller illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse on plain paper or in-text. Copyright page states 1940 with no other printings stated. Two inscriptions on the dedication page: The first dated 1940, the second from that original recipient to her grandson dated 1986. Nice. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and yellowing to dust jacket edges. An otherwise tight copy. First printing of the author's first book, which won an Edgar as Best First Novel.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURKE. Like new condition.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering on front and spine. Moderate edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Top right page block has abrasion on corner. Top spine heavy fraying to fabric. Illustrated in b&w by Norman Price
Hardcover. New York, Lovell, Coryell & Co., 2nd pr., 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. 293 and 292 pages. 3/4 leather covers w/ gilt lettering and design on spine. Gilt top edges. Marbled end paper. Rough-cut pages. Light rubbing, edge wear to covers. Front hinge on Volume II slightly cracked. Else very clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CRAIS on title page.
Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Minor edgewear, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #909. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1986, Hardcover, 372 pages, a classic adventure of the early American frontier. 14 color plates including title page and endpapers illustration by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Softcover. London, Faber & Fabet, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. INSCRIBED BY HAMILTON on title page. 1st pub. in hardcover in 1991. Light wear to wraps.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with light wear on 3/4 cloth binding covers.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ben Stahl. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 237 pages. Author's critically acclaimed first book marks the debut of an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Wonderfully poignant and witty stories based on people and places she knows well, Ellen Slezak documents the colorful clash of young and old, of religious and secular, of traditional values and the temptations of the flesh. Like Winesburg, Ohio, Last Year's Jesus creates a fully realized world teetering on the brink of change. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated tan cloth covers, 214 pages. Tight, clean copy. Much of text in Scottish dialect, a glossary in the front.
Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Maroon cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. Later Works includes Black Boy (American Hunger) and The Outsider. Clean copy. Mild soil to slipcase.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel It, LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears. Remaider line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. Garden City, NEW YORK, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 303 pages. Some discoloration to end papers. Some soiling to covers. Spine faded. Light rubbing to extremities. No dust jacket.
NY, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Two-color illust. by Leonard Vosburgh. American Heritage Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with closed tear front & back bottom edge, chip to top spine.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st UK, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages, black cloth with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY HEMON on title page.