Hardcover. Nashville TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. The first English translation of the last work of Gogol to be published during his lifetime. The only important nonfiction prose work of the Russian novelist, the*e thirty-two critical essays, written in the form of personal letters, define Gogol's views on religion, morality, and aesthetics and provide a key to the underlying motives and messages of his earlier fiction, including Dead Souls and The Inspector General. Translated from the Russian by Jesse Zeldin.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket ($3.95 on flap), b&w illustrations by Maurice Sendak. "Childhood" focuses on the character Nikolenka, a young boy who shares many similarities with Tolstoy himself. The novel provides an intimate and nostalgic portrayal of Nikolenka's inner world as he navigates the joys, sorrows, and formative experiences of his early childhood. Set in rural Russia during the 19th century, the novel captures the idyllic and carefree nature of Nikolenka's early life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 171 pages. Black & white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Dust jacket price clipped and lightly soiled. Dust jacket chipping at spine.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1837, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & Company, BC Ed., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 314 pages. A first Book Club Edition, as there is a small dot on bottom right of rear board, $3.00 price on front flap with "Book of the Month Club Selection". No statement of edition on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate and name on front endpaper. Dust jacket has 1" gone from bottom of spine. No other markings.

Hardcover. New York, J.H. Sears & Co. Inc., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Cloth boards with color paste-down illustration of Nip and Tuck on cover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and six full page color illustrations by Leila C. Freeman. Faint rubbing on front cover along spine approx. 1". Minor wear to spine top and bottom and corners. Printed bookplate has light crayon printing over letters. A beautiful book.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Two private investigators--Bill Smith and Lydia Chin--investigate a construction site plagued by thieves and a murder, in a case that leads them into the darkest depths of the underworld.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 192 pages. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety? Clean.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a $2.75 price on flap. 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Garrett Price. SIGNED BY JOHNSON "with best wishes" on the 2nd blank page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 213 pages. Author's first book, a rather off-beat coming-of-age story. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on covers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine wrinkled.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading along spine edge. Clean. The eighth literate mystery featuring English professor/sleuth Kate Fansler.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Palazzo, previous owner's sticker on front endpaper and minor edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth over boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Color frontis and b&w plates by W. C. Trout. A story set in the Caucasus Mountains follows the adventures of a Georgian boy named Gogi and his sister Keto. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stalking a serial killer in Miami. Remainder line to top edge.

Hardcover. New York , Saturday Review Press, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.

Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with blue design of doll with dog on front. llustrated in color, b&w by Anne Vaughan. Previous owner's signature opposite first blank page, faint foxing to color illustrated endpapers otherwise tight, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket. Susan Araminta is different from all the other dolls because her face was made of wood. She is put in a box with some old clothes and left at the curb. The trashman with a horse and wagon means to take her home to his little girl but she falls off the wagon and lands in the street. There she is discovered by the gruff Scottish Terrier Mister MacHugh who rescues her.

Hardcover. NY, Walker, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Pomeroy OH, Carpenter Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, illustrated by David Lynas. Includes numerous black and white photos of attractive female nudes. Ribald adventure in the style of Henry Miller. Johnson's second novel to be published, though the third to be written, takes up the whole issue of who gets published and why. It takes as its main subject the uproarious literary politics of the late 60's, when the government first set up the National Endowment for the Arts, and fools and crooks and serious editors asked for money to keep small-scale literary operations afloat in a sea of conglomerate-owned houses and declining public taste. One of the best parts is the description of the first COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers) meeting. The two main characters, a truck driver named Gasserpod Peasporr Slocum, and his mentor, a small magazine editor, Ellis Schoenobatic, take us on a marvelous tour of the USA, into all the current scenes -- political, artistic, sexual -- and finally back to Sausalito and the girl they left behind. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Buzza Company, 5th pr., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages illustrated throughout by Knight in color and b&w, color endpaper illustration. In a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. Light musty odor.

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, gilt title on spine faded. 74 pages, translated from the German into English by Richard L. Simon. Stream of consciousness novella of pre-WWI Vienna. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 373 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KESSLER on the title page. Clean copy.