Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 9 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1944 but a later reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red. 195 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Helene Carter, Great Puppet Theatre illustration on end papers in blue. Color illustrated title page and facing page, single page color illustrations between pages 60 and 61, 102 and 103, 126 and 127 and 176 and 177 plus many black and white illustrations. No date but appears to be 1930s. Mild shelf wear, spine faded otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 13 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1944 but a later reprint. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in white, 84 pages. Decorative woodcut on endpapers. Internally bright and clean. Illustrated throughout with beautiful woodcut engravings by John Farleigh. Designed by Farleigh. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 16 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1942 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel about two Cuban sisters who have been estranged for 30 years. One smuggled herself off the island in 1962 and the other still lives in Cuba and is a devoted daughter of the revolution. It is the story about the power of family myth to mask, transform, and, finally, reveal the truth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Co., 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with paste-down illustration and black lettering on cover. The story follows the adventures of a young man named Jack Hampton, who dreams of becoming a pilot and joining the United States Army Air Service during World War I. Despite facing many challenges, including a disapproving father and a rival for the affections of a young woman, Jack perseveres and eventually earns his wings. Once in the air, Jack proves himself to be a skilled and daring pilot, participating in a number of dangerous missions against the German enemy. Front hinge partially cracked, light shelf wear.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 222 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and tear. Price clipped. Minor spotting on front flyleaf, title page and dedication page. Clear protective cover and in overall clean condition.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Penn Publishing, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcoverm 111 pages, color frontispiece, b&w drawings by Hattie Longstreet Price. Brown cloth with color label , chipped at edges. Cloth edges worn, spine lettering faded. hinges tender.
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. Dallas TX, Taylor Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 168 pages. A brief history with some 300 color and b&w illustrations of covers, posters, publicity shots of detective and spy stories, TV, and cinema.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black, white, and blue embossed cover illustration. B&w line drawings throughout by Perkins, 189 pages. Copyright page states 1925 but no date on title page so assumed a reprint. Light bump to top corner otherwise a clean, bright copy .
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black, white, and blue embossed cover illustration. B&w line drawings throughout by Perkins, 189 pages. Copyright page states 1925 but no date on title page so assumed a reprint. Light bump to top corner otherwise a clean, bright copy .
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine. 408 pages with b&w illustrations. Classic work by the famed science fiction author and engineer, providing a fascinating account of pyramids, aqueducts, catapults, fortifications, ships, and technology from the ancient world to the Renaissance. No First Edition indicated on copyright page so assumed early reprint.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page and Co., 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with gilt design and lettering, 485 pages. Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) was an American author from Virginia and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. She published over twenty books and received much critical acclaim. During Reconstruction, Glasgow's writings were notable for diverging from the norm and portraying a changing South when it was popular to idealize Southern life before the Civil War. The Ancient Law follows the life of a financier who tries to redeem himself after going to prison for fraud. Pencil name on front fly leaf, gilt on spine lightly faded otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with title, drawing of a deer. Contains color and b&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, H.Z. Walck, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Walter Erhard. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket 320 pages. With almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.This richly annotated edition includes bonus material from acclaimed children's literature scholar Leonard Marcus. Enriched by Jules Feiffer's splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster's offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. The expansive annotations include interviews with the author and illustrator, illuminating excerpts from Juster's notes and drafts, cultural and literary commentary, and Marcus's own insights on the book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new. This is the sequel to THE BAXTER TRUST, continuing the story of New Yorker Steve Winslow, a lawyer with only one client.
Hardcover. NY, Avon Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pen note to owner on front flap. Very good, clean condition.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island. Clean copy.