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Hardcover. New York, A.L Burt, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Blue covers with black titles, b&w illustrated dust jacket with pink titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Rubbing, edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, dust jacket still very neat with acetate protective covering, pages crisp and unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Overweight Esme Singer eats her way into adolescence--as her beautiful, divorced mother boozes and searches for the perfect man, and her irresponsible father promises the moon but delivers nothing. "Benedict's masterful second novel evokes the anxieties of childhood and adolescence with rare clarity,'' (Publisher's Weekly)

NY, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream. The unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Hardcover. Yellow endpapers. Some agewear. Black cover boards, tan quarter cloth. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned, some chipping with light agewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. Very good condition. Kosinski has written a modern parable, which is actually a suspense story. It is remarkable for its tension, wit, and irony. It is exciting, and it is memorable.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light wear on dust jacket edges. Light rubbing to rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 3rd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 102 pages. Illustrated in line by Catherine Stock. A pampered child is transformed into a cat, with her beloved pet as a guide. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white and some color illustrations by Richard Holberg. Dust jacket worn.

Hardcover. NY, Harpers & Brothers, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering on spine. No names, clean text. No dust jacket.

hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white photos by Harold Burdekin. Light shelfwear to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 4th pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped in dark brown, in a poor dust jacket with large chios to front panel and pieces gone from rear. ($1.50 on flap). B&w illustrations by Lawson, endpapers drawing of Benjamin Franklin (with Amos the mouse) dozing off while flying a kite. Once you've met Amos you'll always remember Benjamin Franklin a little differently than the history books do. The first of Lawson's three animal narrated biographical tales. The basis for the 1953 Walt Disney animated movie. With a promotional sticker on a blank prelim page from a paper company that gave the book as a Christmas gift, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, A. L. Burt, rep, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black, red and gray illustration on front, 315 pages. Black & white frontispiece. Small tear in paper along front hinge. minor edgewear to cover, corners. Clean copy. 

Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham. Some faint areas of soiling on front cover. Pages are clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. B&W illustrations by Leonard Vosburgh. In a lightly chipped dust jacket, price-clipped. A young adult novel set in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 425 pages. Translated by Athena Bell. In the American sector of occupied Berlin, in 1945, a boy discovers the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blond, blue-eyed, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. The bodies of other young women are discovered. American and German authorities must work together if they are to stop the slaughter. Clean copy.

Softcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. Originally published in 1975. The classic tale of a young man attempts to claim ownership of an old barn rumored to contain a hidden treasure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with drawing of Bess riding a donkey. 88 pages with back & white illustrations by Bernice Loewenstein. The story of Bess - who was Elizabeth Coatsworth herself-and her trip to Egypt. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, David McKay, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages, red cloth with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket with light wear, mild fading to spine, unclipped. INSCRIBED BY UPSON on front fly leaf to fellow Vermont author John Clagett.

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AS 'BILL' UPSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Red cloth covers, yellow dust jacket. Light edgewear and mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisped and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C McClurg & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages plus publisher's ads. Color frontispiece by N.C Wyeth. Beige ribbed cloth stamped with a 3-color decoration. Light shelf wear, overall very good, clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 4th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w decorations by James Daugherty. Very nice overall with a bright dust jacket, price-clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, gray cloth stamped in red, 197 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations by Ralph Ray. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Young adult mystery involving Jon and Judy's summer vacay set in Navajo country amongst Zuni and Hopi pueblos.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. Hes also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robins emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mothers brain With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and sons ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers' most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet? Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory. BEWILDERMENT was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY MACDOUGALL on front fly leaf. One-color illustrations by Pat Cummings. Some light sunning to edges, spine of dust jacket, otherwise very good.