Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price clipped dust jacket.545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. While visiting her brother, who is researching the biochemical properties of snake venom, mute Zoe Carver attempts to discover the truth about the tragedy that claimed her voice.
Hardcover. Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 177 pages. Perhaps the most significant and influential figure in this century's wave of American realism, Raymond Carver (1938-1988) is credited not only with reviving the short story as an artistically legitimate form, but also with perfecting minimalist fiction. Moving chronologically through Carver's complete short fiction canon and examining key stories in depth, Ewing Campbell traces the author's development through and beyond literary minimalism, into the tradition of tragic allegory. He explores Carvers persistent use of myth and archetype; motifs of the grotesque; religious iconography; and oppressed, spiritually paralyzed characters. From the earliest stories through the latest, Campbell illuminates Carvers constant fascination with the way individuals connect or fail to connect with one another. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light spots to top edge otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Roger Rasmussen travels to the Boy Scout Jamboree in Southern California. 180 pages, b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1997-04-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and damp-staining to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrup, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 black & white illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Red cloth spine faded on parts of spine and rear panel. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Attractive gilt-decorated front cover.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, turquoise cloth with black and silver stamping. Bright unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY LURIE on front fly leaf .
Hardcover. Chicago, P.F. Volland Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 96 pages. Color illustrations by John Rae. In super clean, tight condition.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, with illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Decorated cover and gilt title. Minor edgewear and rubbing, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Tissue guard on frontispiece illustration. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 355 pages. 4 color plates and many b&w illustrations by Helen Mason Grose. Dust jacket with light soil. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, originally published 1903, 355 pages, 6 color plates, numerous full-page & in-text b/w illustrations, blue cloth, full pictorial label front cover.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Co./Books of Wonder, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket. 291 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Helen Mason Grose. Afterword by Peter Glassman. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, price clipped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott , BC Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A Book Club printing of the first (and only) Dr. Coffee full length mystery. Doctor Daniel Webster Coffee, pathologist demonstrates that scientific knowledge is deadly to crime. 222 pages, no marking.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 394 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. SIGNED IN RED PEN BY FUNKE on title page. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages. Hardcover. Navy top edge. Toning throughout. Light foxing to endpapers. Original dust jacket with toning, faint foxing to inside edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, uncor. proof, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. TIght copy.
Hardcover. NY, Juniot Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages. Color frontispiece, 9 b&w plates by Marguerite DeAngeli. Red cloth with blue lettering. Spine slightly cocked, previous owner's inscription on front paste-down. Still very good.
Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow Company, Reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Alexander Key. Pages 15-51 with shallow bump to top right corner of pages. Front cover with 2 quarter size stains, standard wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark brown decoration and titles, 244 pages, b&w illustrations by Lee Townsend. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean interior. Vintage children's book about a young orphan who works with harness racing horses.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black design, 310 pages. Color frontispiece illustration by N.C. Wyeth, numerous black line drawings by Andrew Wyeth throughout. A rare instance of father and son artists collaborating. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black illustration and lettering. 670 pages illustrated with contemporary prints. Historical novel of the destruction of Charleston (symbol of an era) , with a man of destiny theme. Young Perry wants to be a gentleman; he is tutored by the man who eventually turns out to be his grandfather. He does newspaper work in Charleston, he does his bit in the Civil War; the siege of Charleston forms the local point for Northern hatred. Spine cloth worn at top and bottom, clean copy.
NY, Jr. Literary Guild, BC Ed, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations, endpapers by Henry Pitz. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. 256 pages.
Hardcover. London , A. & C. Black, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 color plates by Allan Stewart. Decorated gray cloth with top edge gilt. Covers show light wear, previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Small red mark in corner of front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf otherwise VG.
Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. National Book award winner for 2014. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. Features 4 illustrations. Foxing to endpapers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st US, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout by T. De Thulstrup. 1st edition. Blue cloth covers, red and gilt decoration on spine and front cover board. Cover wear due to age: slight fraying to top and bottom of spine as well as a small bit at edges of boards, light soil to covers and pages yellowed. Spine cocked. Original owner signature on front flyleaf, former owner bookplate on front endpapers.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fools' Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary. The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until...Set in the Upstairs, Downstairs world of Victorian England, this is an ingenious and gripping tale by the acknowledged master of the English crime novel.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, INSCRIBED and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Scribner, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, almost new-looking condition. Black & white illustrations by Chorao. Hardbound, dust jacket. Author/illustrator's first book.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What motivates us to reread literary works? How is our pleasure, interpretation, involvement, and evaluation different when we read a literary work and when we reread it? This fascinating book by Matei Calinescu is the first to focus on the implications of rereading for critical understanding. Drawing on literary theory, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and previous theories of reading, Calinescu describes the dynamics of rereading and explores the sometimes complementary, sometimes sharply conflicting relationships between reading and rereading. Calinescu analyzes fictional works by Borges, Nabokov, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, and Henry James, among others, explaining how reading texts is related both to symbolic play or make-believe and to games with rules. He reviews the history of reading in modern times, discussing, for example, how the Reformation led to rereadings of Scripture and how the proliferation of books during the Enlightenment led to a shift from "intensive reading" to "extensive reading." Calinescu looks at the distinctions between reading and rereading from the perspectives of the age, situation, and gender of the individual reader. He discusses the problems raised by secret or oblique languages and codes - devised to evade censors, communicate with a select audience of "secret sharers," or play games of hide-and-seek with the reader - and shows that they naturally lead to rereading a text. Calinescu argues persuasively that an understanding of rereading is useful in formulating both analytic strategies of practical criticism and a poetics of reading. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&w drawings by Garth Williams. Stated First Edition, dust jacket unclipped with $3.50 price. Jacket with light edgewear, chipping, small piece gone from top of spine. Book is clean and tight.
Hardcover. London, Bantam, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Wraparound band with blurb by Ian Rankin present, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 232 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Illustrated plates of old advertising. Yellow cloth covers w/ red decoration. Worn, chipped, price-clipped dust jacket - now protected by clear plastic cover. Light foxing, soiling to edges; else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 210 pages, b&w illustrations by Lloyd Coe. The legend of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) told especially for young people. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.
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