Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #901. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #750. Spine fragile. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, with illustrations by Sarah S. Stilwell throughout. Gilt titles and top edge. Minor corner and edge wear, frontispiece illustration loose, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Light pencil markings throughout. Ex-library copy with all usual stampings and markings. Light soiling to cover board edges., two abrasions on rear fore edge. Retro printed graphic to cover and spine, printed in black & wine. Toning to pages throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 5th pr, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Library of America, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1408 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, fine condition with ivory slipcase decorated with gilt design. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction, and an ALA Notable Book. With an African American protagonist, this is a young adult coming of age book set in hills scarred by strip mining. Newbery Medal on front jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, minor edgewear to dust jacket. Madame Aubry is a lovely seventeenth-century sleuth who does much of her best thinking while in bed with her lover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #106. Light peeling to laminate. Map on rear cover. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Pierre Louys Society, 1st Thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. 12 Full color Illustrations by Clara Tice. Limited edition of 1250 copies - this being hand numbered #47. Front hinge cracked with front cover still attached firmly to spine cloth. Text and illustrations clean and bright.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st Edition, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 151 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear with chipping about the edges and fading (see image). Boards are bound in pink cloth, black title on spine and front cover board. Some tanning to edges and pages (see image), doesn't affect text or illustrations. In great shape. A charming children's book, early Maurice Sendak illustrations. Great for a collector.
Hardcover. Mount Vernon NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st yhus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover very good in glassine dust-wrapper and slipcase. Illustrated with gravures from Eechings by Sigmund Abeles and #1370/2,000 copies signed by him. Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau. Quarter black morocco spine decorated in gilt over gray striped cloth, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very nice condition, some very minor wear to dust jacket but otherwise new-looking. Nice color illustrations by Demi.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in 3-colors by Wallace Tripp. Page 26 has crease. Back interior paste down has production flaw- does not effect inner pages. Light marking on cover. Otherwise, Clean, tight copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 93 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bill Sokol. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Library bookplate front end paper and residue from paper pasted onto rear endpaper. Residue from library label on dust jacket spine. Otherwise very good.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press, Special Reader's Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 266 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Maroon cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is a second printing from 1923 with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Short tear to top of spine at rear edge, cover plate with light rubbing, mild soil.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Mel Furukawa. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping. Laid-in: Slip showing this a review copy.
Hardcover. New York , Macmillan , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Decorations by Boris Artzybasheff. Light wear to edges. Previous owner's sticker on copyright page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, end papers drawing, b&w illustrations by Arthur E. Becher. Red cloth covers with gilt design.