Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FFORDE on the title page "Jasper", postcard laid in - The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular series. Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Clean copy.
London, Collins, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light soil, small stain to bottom of dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 122 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis N. Cote. An historical adventure set in Cape Ann, Massachusetts during the 1870s. Stated first edition with $1.75 on flap. Clean copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #862. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Roger Payne. Bruce joins his father, Dr. Barnett on an expedition to Australia's outback to look for the Queensland marsupial tiger which is supposedly an extinct mammal.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Alan E. Cober. 141 pages. In a lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, The Vanguard Press, Inc., First Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 161 pages. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges. Bright dust jacket with tear to top edge & toning. Creases to interior flaps. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Mary Hamilton Frye. Price clipped dust jacket chipped and worn along top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, author's first novel. Black cloth with light soil, dust jacket is bright, unclipped, but has a light pink line about 5 inches in length along right of cover. SIGNED BY LLOSA WITH HIS INITIALS AND UNDERLINED ON TITLE PAGE. Author signed at a reading at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket and foxing to fore edge. Light soil on top page block. Light fading to black cloth cover boards, otherwise tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 37 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in black & white by Joan Berg Victor. Dust jacket shows light wear at edges and sun fading on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, small closed tear to dust jacket. Stamp on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations. by Ray Prather. Ex-lib with marking, residue to rear end papers, cover. Award winning-Hamilton's second "Jahdu" book of tales, in which Mama Luka who introduced young Lee Edward to the magical stories, must leave her tight little place in Harlem because her building is being torn down. The boy is sad but he knows that she will move where he can visit and grab a new Jahdu story for him out of the air.
Softcover. Union City CA, Fault Publications, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Unpaginated, but 48 pages, illustrations by Susan Seeley Hay. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page. A collection of short stories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 180 pages. INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on the half title page as well as SIGNED on the title page. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York , F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color label and frontispiece in color, 13 B&W line plates by Berta & Elmer Hader. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Covers faded.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. Black & white illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. 128 pages. Parts of dust jacket pasted to front & rear end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. The adventures of a cocker spaniel puppy and his family.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Illustrated by Guy Brown Wiser. Previous owner's signature and review stamp front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to covers. Corners a bit bumped. Covers with slight bend. Small tear in front pastedown. Pink cloth cover.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 290 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fourth and final book in the Sally Lockhart series and the ONLY hardcover edition.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 290 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fourth and final book in the Sally Lockhart series and the ONLY hardcover edition.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran , 1st ed., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 318 pages. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Dark top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, darkened spine, tear to front cover.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, gray coth covers stamped with blue decoration. Black & white illustrations by Berry. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers. Mild waterstains to cloth,. corners bumped.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small Library of Congress stamp on front fly leaf otherwise very good. A young adult novel about tin mining in Australia.
Hardcover. London, Harper Collins, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth, blue lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, light scuffing to edges of cloth. Bright dust jacket. Priscilla's vagabond family finds an unexpected home in Massachusetts but not until Priscilla accepts herself and her unusual family does she find contentment.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 6th pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 254 pages. Historical novel centered around the alleged ringleader of the Salem "witches," Tituba, a slave from Barbados. Clean.
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, Blue Sky, 1st pr, October 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Unpaginated, color illustrations by the Dillons.A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black, 72 pages, illustrated in b&w by Nils Hogner. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #1241. Light reading crease to spine. Light crease to rear wrapper.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TROCHECK on the title page. The second mystery featuring cleaning lady and sometime sleuth Callahan Garrity Set in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Spectra, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 434 pages. Winner of the 1999 Hugo award for best Science Fiction novel of the year,
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st US, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages. This is Petterson's third novel, first published in Norway in 1996 and translated into English, by Anne Born, two years later. A girl reminisces about growing up in Nazi-occupied Norway and forming a bond with her brother, active in the resistance, within an unhappy family. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on covers. Light fraying on edges. Wrinkling on spine. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Author on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1sr, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Janet Chenery. Dust jacket with $1.95 price at top right corner of inside flap. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers, and some pages. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear on covers and dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slim, square hardcover in color illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. 32 pages. Illustrated with color drawings. Pencil name on front fly leaf, covers with mild soil, paper chipped on spine. Otherwise clean. The charmingly illustrated escapades of Toby and Sue and Cinder (the cat) and Chalky (the little white dog).
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pictorial label on front, 252 pages. Beautiful full color frontispiece illustration of Toby Tyler with a monkey (repeated on cover), plus 21 line drawings by W.A. Rogers.
Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, reprint, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 212 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Four color and other b&w illustrations by Everett Shinn. Dust jacket with chipping, small tears.
Hardcover. New York , Century Co., reprint, 1907, Book: Good, 236 pages, b&w line illustrations by Reginald Birch (not credited). Green cloth with gilt, silver and plum decoration. Previous owner's decorative bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean with light foxing. Gutter crack on page 48.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 187 pages. The author "chronicles the adventures of an innocent abroad, an American Yankee footloose in the land beyond the bamboo curtain. Mike Halsey is a thoroughly modern Friedman sort of fellow who lives well if uneasily with his lovely lady Pam, his big-guy dog Mort and his wood-burning stove.until one morning, shaken by his inability to get the papers from the Redneck Deli, he feels an old, unsettling urge coming on-the last time it happened he ended up on the coast of Finland. He reaches into his glove compartment for his ever-ready passport, and finds himself on his way to the San Francisco airport, Tokyo bound." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st , 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Color, black & white drawings by A. H. Watson. Front & back hinges tender. Page 84 color plate loose and laid-in. Red cloth binding with stain to back cover, spine fade.
Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with cover illustration, 295 pages, illustrated throughout, gilt top edge and title. Spine fade and minor corner and edge wear, ex-library stamps, letter F on spine, and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and end paper. Internally a clean and tight copy.