Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1st Thus, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 437 total pages, two volumes. Hardcovers. Domestic shipping only. B/w illustrations throughout (tipped in plates). Gilt top edges. Half leather bound, marble gilt boards, gilt title on leather spine with raised bands (gilt slightly faded). As is with agewear: Volume 1 has front cover board completely detached and cover board of Volume 2 is partially detached, pages unmarked with tanning from age. Previous owner attached (via old style paperclip) a relevant document within. "Edition De Luxe. 500 Copies Printed, of Which This is No. 204". Collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving under pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, University Microfilms/Xerox, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a color label of 3 children on cover. 64 pages. A facsimilie of the 1881 first printing by Estes & Lauriat. Pictures by Henry Richards (the author's husband). Light wear, rubbing to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy. This edition printed in 2-colors, while the original featured bright chromoliths. Now very scarce.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Mark Eastbrook. It's been 33 years since the world-class thief known only by his last name--Nolan--last appeared in a novel by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Max Allan Collins. Since then, the big man has gone straight and even proposed to his longtime lover, Sherry. But when their honeymoon plans take them to a Las Vegas casino with Mob connections, it's going to take all of Nolan's survival instincts--and the help of his old friend and frequent accomplice, Jon--to keep him from an unmarked grave in the unforgiving desert. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Ontario Review Press, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light shelf-wear. Nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. The third Florida based thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him "the Mark Twain of the crime novel" and Elmore Leonard described this book as "the funniest I've read in a long,long time." In this book, he skewers the cosmetic surgery industry.
Hardcover. Princeton, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, a clean, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY POVERMAN on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on the dedication page, dated 1966. No dust jacket. With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdoor work and play, but Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be cross, Master Christopher Dock is kind, firm, and patient.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy, otherwise.
Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red covers with white stamped lettering, with some smudging and decoration on front. Illustrations by Ernest Fuhr. Black & white frontispiece. Front hinge torn on preliminary page. Light edge wear to covers, previous owner's markings on front end paper.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Young Readers, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 124 pages illustrated in b& w and color by Jon Klassen. Badger is a quiet, solitary geologist intent on his important rock work. Skunk is an outgoing, friendly, unwelcome new roommate. They have nothing in common. Aunt Lula must have been crazy to suggest it-this is never going to work out. But, the more time they spend together, the more they learn about each other. Maybe they have more in common than they realized, and maybe being roommates is just what they both needed. And who knew chickens were such conversationalists and story lovers? In a classic odd-couple pairing, Badger and Skunk show how opposites attract and that making friends means opening yourself up to possibilities.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. , 1st, 1963 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 62 pages, illustrated in B&W by Douglas Gorsline. dust jacket with light edgewear, price clipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, 1st, 1969, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 284 pages. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author (1930-2008), a ribald satire that became a small-scale literary cause celebre after an excerpt published in The Paris Review in 1967 ignited a somewhat bizarre censorship attempt in the Long Island town of South Farmingdale, N.Y.; in the course of the kerfuffle, TPR editor George Plimpton interceded to speak out against the censorship, and subsequently agreed to published the full novel under the Paris Review Editions imprint. Better known as a poet and essayist, Wiebe enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Cincinnati; at least one critic has declared his work to be in the same darkly comic literary vein as that of Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs and Flannery O'Connor. Clean copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s817. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, signed copy with only minor wear to cover edges. A tight copy. Front cover has diecut with "signed first edition" sticker on front.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 78 pages. Black & white illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. Dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing. Remainder mark bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages, stated 5th printing. Dust jacket unclipped with light tanning. ($5.95 on front flap; 0369 on back flap). INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY VONNEGUT on the half-title page. Appears to inscribed by Vonnegut to a third party; "Earle F. Hiscock/ May 27, 1969 from RCH & Lynn SH/ Kurt Vonnegut Jr." Related newspaper clippings laid in at front.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Historical novel for young adults about a slave doctor in the West Indies in the 1680s. Originally published in the Netherlands in 1965. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. David Cleveland, the official investigator for the English Jockey Club, is sent to Norway to help investiagte the disappearance of an English steeplchase jockey.
Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, Uncorrected proof, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, b&w drawings by Karen Usborne, INSCRIBED BY WILSON to Irving and Joyce (Adler) on the title page and dated August 1970. Wilson has also added 3 titles to the list of his previously published books on the opposite page. Joyce Adler wrote several books on Caribbean literature and Harris. She has marked up this book in pencil and pen with underlining and marginal notes. This edition published before the hardcover printing. Peach color wrappers faded..
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, with drawings by Karen Usborne throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket 128 pages, color illustrations by Michael Foreman.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 151 pages. Small name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages. By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for her lost love; of Dmitry Ilich's elaborate seduction of Olga Mikhailovna; and more. In the tradition of such writers as Gogol and Chekhov, Tatyana Tolstaya transforms ordinary lives into something magical and strange. Like new.
Hardcover. Alburquerque, University of New Mex, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Conversations w/ Walter Satterthwait & Ernie Bulow. Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. In addition to the fun of eavesdropping on the unmistakable camaraderie of these two friends, readers will enjoy the several Satterthwait short stories included here--one of his African series, one featuring his latter-day version of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op in a New Mexico setting, and one previously unpublished masterpiece of comic horror that, as Ernie Bulow points out, was influenced by nothing so much as E-C comics, the popular horror books of the early 1950s.
Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Francis X. Loughlin is an aging police detective haunted by a twenty-year-old homicide involving a young female doctor. A man named Julian Vega was put away for that crime, possibly without sufficient evidence, when he was seventeen. As Blauner's novel opens, Vega has just been released from prison, on a technicality, when Loughlin is called to investigate a crime that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the earlier murder. Though the book sometimes takes the easy way out (the climactic twist feels both generic and arbitrary), it is elevated by Blauner's surefooted characterization of Julian. Newly free, struggling to find his way, dependent on the (somewhat tenuous) kindness of strangers, he is both sympathetic and tough; his portrait has a complexity that few authors could achieve. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, 1st US, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 266 pages. Black & white and color frontispiece illustrated by C. B. Falls. Front hinge cracked. Soiling to covers. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Faded pink top edge. Spine faded.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers, 317 pages. Corner of first page of book torn. Rubbing to extremities.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 317 pages, yellow cloth with brown lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. An attractive copy.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages, hardcover. Illustrations by Vee Guthrie. Illustrated green boards. Soiling to front and rear panels. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards as well. Corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TILE PAGE. Book and dust jacket show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Headline Book Publishing, London, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 533 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, supplemented with an interview of the author, a short story by the author, and discussion questions. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with two small closed tears. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, also INSCRIBED by him on blank prelim page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. An uncommon biography of strong-willed Greenwood, Mississippi professional studio photographer Lillian Spurrier with the autobiographical musings of her like-mannered daughter, Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963), who taught creative writing at Ole Miss, authored one book of fiction titled IN THE PINK (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), was a close friend of Eudora Welty, and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1935. Topp family b/w portrait images upon front and rear endpapers.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. Orange cloth-covered boards, black cloth spine, black illustrated dust jacket. Clean covers, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt titles on spine, color illustrated on cover pastedown, 263 pages, 6 color and 8 b&w plates by Will James. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Otherwise clean copy.
NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 190 pages. Dust jacket illustration by Alan Cobe. Gerald Briggs runs away from his home, a thriving sheep farm, and from his stepfather's crooked ways. He and his lamb Smudge stay quietly with an old hermit until he uncovers thefts and violence. Dust jacket price-clipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design and lettering. Illustrated with four 2-color plates and endpapers art by Richard Rogers. SIGNED BY STACKPOLE on title page. Light pencil marking to pages throughout otherwise a nice, tight copy. Uncommon title of an adventure set on Nantucket Island.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and yellowing dust jacket. Tromp Kramer, Africaner police detective, and Mickey Zondi, Bantu police sergeant, in Trekkersburg, South Africa, are featured in this fourth detective novel by McClure. Exotic dancer Eve?'s sensual act features a five-foot royal python. When she is discovered in her dressing room dead of strangulation, her dancing partner turns out to be the murder weapon.
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