Softcover. Paris, Dragon's Dream, 1st English transl., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brilliant color illustrations throughout. Superb very fine detailed art, in this Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, graphic novel masterpiece, with incredible color pictures. Measures 8.5" x 11". One of the great French Comic Artists, with some of his strips appearing in Pilotte magazine; He became best know in North America for his work in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine. Clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. Scottsdale AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Features author Edna Ferber on the set of Giant in 1955 trying to clear James Dean of a murder charge.
Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTSON on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Taylor Oughton. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Light browning to endpapers otherwise very good. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with blue lettering, 309 pages. Historical novel set in New Bedford takes up the story of Russell Ashmead, the mildly rebellious middle son of a prosperous New Bedford family, when he is in his late teens, and follows him to the brink of old age. Over the course of the book he assists the escape of a fugitive from enslavement, sails as a foremast hand on a whaling ship, and is witness to fraud, riot, mutiny, and murder. He experiences romance at home and abroad, manages a textile mill, and becomes a shipowner. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green/Jr. Lit. Guild, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 4 color plates by Karl Muhlmeister. B&W illustrations, endpapers by Peter Hurd. Transl. from German by F.T. Cooper. 306 pages, decorated blue cloth. Bright, tight copy.
New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Dust jacket worn very slightly from previous use. Otherwise in very good condition.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, tan cloth covers, paper browning. Nice three-color dust jacket with light edge wear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light soil to top pages, abrasion on title page. Black and white pictures throughout, some color.
Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages. Green cloth, gilt. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 2nd in the 'Mammoth' series of books. It is sixteen thousand years before the birth of Christ. And every human alive wakes to the calls of mammoths. Separated from his family, the young bull Longtusk begins a lonely odyssey that will take him into the heart of a new, alien culture. Captured and trained by The Lost - pale predators sweeping up from the South - Longtusk faces a bleak future.
Hardcover. NY, Criterion, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. A story of the Underground Railroad. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A debut collection of short fiction from the author of the novel Leaving the Land, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Douglas Unger's fiction is sharp-edged and compelling, whether he's exploring his own boyhood on the street ("Autobiography") or the life of a student lab assistant who bonds with a burnt-out rhesus monkey ("Leslie and Sam") or the strange fate of a young woman who returns from a second honeymoon on a paradisiacal Brazilian island to succumb to a mysterious disease ("Tide Pool"). The collection is capped by the powerful novella "Looking for War," where a would-be war correspondent, whose older brother is a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, stumbles upon his own war in a grisly five-minute action in the jungles of Paraguay.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine. Racetrack announcer/amateur sleuth Jerry Brogan tries to find the killer of the horseracing world's most hated man.
Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design. Color frontispiece and black & white drawings by Wilfred Jones. Published simultaneously with the Little Brown trade edition. Clean, no dust jacket.
Softcover. London, The Hogarth Press Ltd, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. A mystery featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and a pricless bronze lamp from Egypt. First published in 1949. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. Stated First Edition on copyright page. SIGNED BY WELTY in her small, dainty hand on the front fly leaf, which has some age-tanning to the paper. Losing Battles was Welty's fourth novel and her longest. She worked over fifteen years on it.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Tight copy with light wear to covers, but heavy fading on spine and edges of front and rear covers.
Hardcover. Secaucus, New Jersey, Lyle Stuart Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Bright yellow boards with red spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. A very neat, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. The sequel to Fforde's first literary detective novel, The Eyre Affair, starring the inimitable protagonist, Thursday Next. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, spotless and tight copy with dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize winner's debut collection of short stories, set in his native Washington, D.C.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with cover label, gilt lettering and design faded. This is a American Indian legend called Lost Indian Magic, a mystery story of the Red Man as he lived before the White Man came, Eight color plates by Carl Moon, the one opposite page 70 is loose and laid in. Covers worn, hinges cracked, no markings.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Blue cloth covers with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with all 12 color plates, end papers illustration, edges tinted yellow. The rear cover cloth has some light wrinkling. Bookplate on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 360 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Aqua blue cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is an early 1920s printing with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Richard Egielski. Small closed tear and scratches to rear dust jacket cover. Light creasing to front flap. Nice, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition with similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, NBM Comics Lit, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. Graphic novel in which famed early twentieth century actress Louise Brooks returns to her home town of Wichita, Kansas and gets involved in a murder mystery.
Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. An adventure tale set in Central America and the Yucatan . B&w illustrations by Vaclav Junek. Map, 191 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers faded at spine and worn at corners. Frayed at top spine. Gutter cracked at page 65, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Like new in unclipped dust jacket. A foray into the "war summer" of 1968 that illuminates the complexities, sensibilities, and passions of the time.
Hardcover. NY, Criterion, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 603 pages. Classic study of American Fiction from 1789 till 1960. Tight and square. Unmarked, clean copy.
Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st paperback., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 page, illustrated by Gluyas Williams with black & white drawings and two-color illustration on front cloth cover. Benchley's 2nd book. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Mild wear.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 248 pages. This short story collection contains: A Time of Learning; The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner; Love, Death, and the Ladies' Drill Team; Home Coming; The Battle of the Suits; Tom Wolfe's My Name; Learn to Say Good-by; A Little Collar for the Monkey; Public Address System; Foot-Shaped Shoes; Horace Chooney, M.D.; The Linden Trees; Breach of Promise; and The Singing Lesson. Stated first edition. Clean copy.
NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 281 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Softcover. New York, Faber, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Berkley Prime Crime, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. The 6th mystery set in the small town of Pecan Springs, Texas, featuring former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles. Bayles investigates the murder of retired Texas Ranger Roy Adcock which hits surprisingly close to home. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends Saturday mornings watching cartoons and eating Cocoa Puffs out of an Empire Strikes Back bowl, and devotes the rest of the weekend to his other favorite hobbies: sports and girls. His credo, to think and act like a thirteen-year-old boy at all times, has worked well enough to land him a decent job writing headlines for the New York Tabloid. But neither his personal life nor his professional life has any forward momentum; he's occupied the same cubicle since the first George Bush was president and is currently "between girlfriends." At thirty-two, it starts to occur to him: There's a fine line between picky and loser. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DAHLOV IPCAR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Dahlov Ipcar. Degree of fading to spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Brodart cover to dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the S. Miriella Gable Prize. Amy Hempel has said "Victoria Redel's contribution to the literature of obsession is rendered with unusual delicacy and daring." In this exquisite debut novel, Victoria Redel takes us deep into the mind of a very singular mother, and yet through her we see the dangerously whisper-thin line between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all devotion. After all, "Who has ever wanted to share a love?" Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, August 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 224 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.