Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Previous price sticker on front flap of price-clipped dust jacket, small cut on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with design of boy and girl on merry-go-round ride, 200 pages, illustrated in 3-colors by Margaret and Florence Hoopes. Front fly leaf missing, name on title page, otherwise clean, sound copy of this 30s school primer.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust wrapper. Previous owner's initials front end paper.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Early Book Club Edition. 293 pages. Light wear to mylar protected dust jacket with slight sun-fade to spine. Tiny chip missing from lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Port Washington NY, Kennikat Press, 1ST, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown covers with yellow and green lettering on front and spine and green sports figures on front. 112 pages. A Critical Look at Game, Sport, and Survival in Contemporary American Fiction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sheriff Chick Charleston asks Jason Beard, a deputy, to investigate the murder of an oil company stenographer who secretly moonlighted as a prostitute.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROBINSON on title-page. Tight copy with only minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 122 pages. Five black & white and color plates by Earl Oliver Hurst. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Faded yellow top edge.
hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. Black & white and Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Illustrated end papers. Translated by Georges Duplaix. Corners show heavy wear with chipping and fraying. Light soil on spine.
Softcover. NY, Frank Tousey, 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled wraps in color, worn, light edgewear but not affecting image. Cover art is bright. 30 pages, cheap pulp paper. Offered for cover art.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Hardcover, red cloth, faded at spine. Stamped in red and black. 361 pages plus four pages of ads at the rear. 8vo. Silhouette frontis and 51 full page silhouettes by Warren Rockwell. The further largely autobiographical stories of the lad Plupy and his youth in the Exeter, NH of the 1860's. Rear hinge cracked, mild soil to front fly leaf, bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. In a bright dust jacket. An outstanding collection of short fiction about the Deep South. Franklin won an Edgar Award for the title story. The author's first book.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight, It's as if Raymond Carver were still alive and living in the Deep South. Or, imagine a world created by Jim Harrison and Cormac McCarthy and plunk it down in the woods of southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw as moonshine.Tom Franklin's eloquent deceptively simple prose evokes a world of hunting and fishing, shotgun shacks and trailer parks, poachers, and lawmen, factory workers, poor white trash, and bucket-o-'blood boozers. His stories are laced with naked violence, hot food, and the ever bitter sweat and tears of human relationships.
Softcover. New York, William Morrow , uncor. proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial pastedown on the front cover. With 9 color plates by Maxfield Parrish, including the illustrated title page. 199 pages, two-color drawing on endpapers by Parrish. Spine has a 1/2" tear to top front edge, otherwise very good. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, 198 pages. Illustrated title page and 8 color plates plus endpapers illustration by Maxfield Parrish. Despite the 1904 date on title page, this is a reprint with a 1922 date on the copyright page, and a list of many Scribner illustrated classics (published later than 1904) on the last printed page. Gilt lettering on spine mostly gone or faded, but the rest of the book is clean and bright. There is a small scar to front label on scroll at top right.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SARTON on half-title page. light soil to rear panel of dust-jacket otherwise VG/VG.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles, gilt pictorial and border to front board, color illustrations by Franklin Booth, including tissue-protected frontispiece and 3 full-page color plates, decorated figures by W. A. Dwiggins. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; a clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth covers stamped in white, 213 pages. Black & white illustrations by James Reid. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Edgewear. Corners worn, bumped. Previous owner's signature in pencil front endpaper.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
New York, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WRIGHT on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historic novel set in 17th century Spain during the Inquisition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle." SIGNED BY PEARSON on half title page.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small hardcover, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Field. Plain yellow cloth. Light scuff to top of boards at spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Gutter crack on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, The Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with 3-color decoration to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 156 pages Illustrated with b&w photos of a boy's life in the north. Light shelf wear, mild residue to rear inside cover.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 251 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and black, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and dark blue, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. A chilling and brutally funny romp through the American South. As high sheriff of Potts County, Nick Corey spends most of his time eating, sleeping and avoiding trouble. If only people--especially some troublesome pimps, his foul-tempered wife, and his half-witted brother-in-law--would stop pushing him around. Because when Nick is pushed, he begins to kill . . . or to make others do his killing for him!The basis for an aclaimed French film noir, Coup de Torchon. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with silver and blue metallic titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Mark Teague. SIGNED BY TEAGUE WITH A SKETCH opposite title page and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on laid-in bookplate. Like new in dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 3rd Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, faded gilt title on spine, 480 pages. Contains local folklore under various heading such as Giants, fairies, Tregeagle, mermaids, sorcery & witchcraft etc. A few black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Crosby Nichols and Co., 1st US, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages. A collection of French tales translated by Mrs. L. Burke. B&w line plates. In original bright blue embossed cloth with gilt design and lettering. 6-page publisher's catalog in front of the book Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1859.Just the slightest wear to spine extremities otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 152 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket price-clipped and slightly worn, chipped with small chunk missing from front cover. Internally very good.
Hardcover. NY, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black and white illustrations by Saul Lambert. SIGNED BY FOX on title page. Dust jacket edgewear, chipping. Small ink mark on front panel.
Softcover. New York, Collier/Macmillan, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to spine and edges. SIGNED BY PROULX on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY PROULX on title page. Proulx"s first novel, a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Proulx"s first novel a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."
Hardcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished black calf, raised bands on spine, stamped with gilt design, leather label with title in second compartment. Marbled endpapers, 609 pages. The engraved plates suffer from oxidation (tanning) and have no captions other than the page numbers. The vignette illustration on the title page has "Weller" (rather than "Veller") indicating a later issue. The binding is sound, light edgewear to leather covers. Has the two title pages, errata slip and binders directions. The 2 Buss plates included. Pictures available.
NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Posthumous collection of short stories, burlesques, poems and whimsies published in the HOUSTON DAILY POST in 1895 and 1896, with an introduction by Florence Stratton. Clean copy.