Hardcover. England, PS Pubishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. Gray cloth, gilt. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Introduction by Gregory Benford. #129 in limited series of 300 signed copies. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and Benford.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Faded spine and light soil. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket, light foxing to edges, else a lovely copy in clear brodart cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with American Book Award sticker on front. Josephine Gattuso Hendin captures the New York Italian immigrant scene with startling precision, bringing to life the intricate web of a community's everyday transactions and exploring the multifaceted father-daughter relationship at the heart of the Italian American family.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardover in a worn dust jacket. Illustrated black & white "Hoosier Pictures" by Will Vawter. 188 pages. Previous owner's signature front end-paper. Dust jacket with chunk gone from top edge. Chips to bottom edges. Scarce in dust jacket,
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., First Edition, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Tan cloth boards with black titles & horse decorative illustration to spine. Light scuff mark bottom rear edge. Green top edge. Toning throughout. Original dust jacket with moderate wear to edges, light toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Pages untrimmed. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by David Levine. Clean copy.
Makato, MN, Creative Editions, 1st w/ illustrations thus, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Gary Kelley. Washington Irving's 1820 classic tale is brought to life for new generations with the illustrations of Gary Kelley, who thoroughly researched the Revolutionary-era Dutch settlements of the Hudson River Valley in NY in which the story is set to add a realistic, yet "dreamlike, Gothic perspective." Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 416 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear, soil, and rubbing to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Authors 1st novel. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 249 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn, w/ creases and pieces missing from edges of spine; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY KENEALLY on title page. Sticker residue front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped, else in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 11th, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Color, b&w Illustrations by the Hollings, big tears to 2 pgs but repairable as everything present. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound, 258 pages. Illustrated by Julian Brazelton. Foxing top edge. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Two small chunks missing from top and bottom of spine. Brodart on dust jacket. Pencil mark front cover. Spine sunned.
Hardcover. NY, The Wise-Parslow Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with orange stamping, 96 pages. Color illustrations by Eleanor Campbell. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Originally published by Volland in 1931.
Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap & Co.., reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Red cloth cover with colored design, some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing on some pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean with 9 color plates by N.C. Wyeth including title page. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1983, Hardcover, 368 pages, a classic adventure of a shipwreck and survival. 14 color plates including title page and endpapers illustration by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Paperback. Norfolk, Virginia, The Donning Company, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. Oversized, cover has light wear to corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. A nice copy. Provides plot summaries for more than eighty episodes of a Japanese animated science fiction series and shares drawings and profiles of the main characters.
Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible covers, 540 pages, 1,500 illustrations in full color. A visual survey of the scientific developments and cultural significance of robots documents the history of automatons, androids, and other forms of artificial intelligence, both of the fictional and real-world arenas, in a volume that features interviews with scientists, doctors, toy creators, science-fiction writers, and more.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 235 pages. INSCRIBED BY FORD on title pg.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY FORD on title-page. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket price-clipped.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 237 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Mild soil to edges, covers. Historical fiction for young adults based on the life of Roland, warrior of France, nephew of Emperor Charlemagne. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Scarce 1st edition. Tan decorated cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. 31 beautiful line drawings by Alice Barber (Stephens) who is not credited on the title page but whose signature can be seen on the plates. Binding slightly cocked but still very intact. Light rubbing to edges and spine.
Hardcover. New York , Dial, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Collection of short fiction including the title story, the basis for the film "Rollerball" directed by Norman Jewison and starring James Caan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in red and blue, 186 pages. B&w drawings by Valenti Angelo. Light shelf wear. Name on front fly leaf otherwise no marking.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 10th pr., 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, ex-lib with worn dust jacket. Normal stamping, residue to endpapers. Interior clean. b&w drawings by Angelo. Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 209 pages, decorated gray cloth covers. Title page with red decorations, small red circular decoration on each page. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with purple WRB and decorative design on cover, purple/red lettering on spine with green filigree. Suspense noirish novel. Night club singer marries man with a past and secrets. Back cover with faint staining otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages with b&w photos by Gloir Kitt Lindauer and Carmel Roth. Clean, bright copy with unclipped dust jacket, $3.95. Mild soil to jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Syd Hoff. An I Can Read Mystery in illustrated glossy boards with a bright dust jacket. Partially price-clipped otherwise clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece by Maud and Miska Petersham. Blue cloth covers w/ yellow lettering and design. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers. Hinges cracked. Else pages clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, reprint, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with white cloth spine, gilt lettering. 120 pages. Originally published in 1872, this edition notable for 3 bright color lithographic plates, b&w text drawings not credited. Fly leaf missing as book opens to the half-title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Berkley Prime Crime, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Driving out to Rosemary's house on an errand, China discovers her accountant has been murdered. With one abusive ex-husband and plenty of former clients in the picture, there's no shortage of suspects. And with a vengeful ex-convict on the loose, there's plenty for China to worry about. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 3rd pr., 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, red and gilt, 147 pages. Five plates printed in 3-colors by Adelaide Eberhart. Cover design signed "E", probably the same artist. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Rostnikov has been ordered to go on holiday to Yalta. While he is away, rumor has it that he will be demoted. He's so good at his job, he makes the bureaucrats look bad. However, not only do Rostnikov and his associates keep their jobs, they manage to solve a kidnapping, robbery, and murder in the process.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1869, but a later 1880s printing. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Slight spine slant.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 142 pages. Humoroue instructions for the man living on his own. Cartoons by Quenin Blake. Book is clean, very good, dust jacket is worn, chipped.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Originally published by Lion Books as a paperback in 1954. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, unread copy.
Softcover. NY, Mysterious Press, reprint, 1989, Softcover, mass market paperback, 163 pages. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive.A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 147 pages with b&w illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. This book was reprinted in the early sixties with a different illustrator. Covers have edgewear, lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Limited edition. Brown leather with elaborately decorative 22Kt gold gilt embossed to the front and rear covers and to the spine, gilt embossed titles, rules and decorations to the nicely hubbed spine, sewn head and tail bands, all page edges fine gilt, satin moire end-papers, and bound-in silk ribbon marker. A collection of thirty-five of the best stories by Lardner. 569 pages. 2-color illustrations by Gerry Gersten.Clean copy.