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Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with minor wear, 94 pages, illustrated in b&w by Symeon Shimin. A young boy's adventures growing up in a Caribbean fishing village.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a black-lettered leaf-green cloth spine over grass-green boards; in a illustrated dust jacket with striking artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon. Historical novel of the XVIII dynasty pharaoh, Akhenaten, told from the perspective of his strong, proud mother, Empress Tiye, who effectively ruled Egypt for years. Gedge's earlier Egyptian novel, CHILD OF THE MORNING was hailed by critics.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1988, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Nottingham Society, Ltd Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. B&w frontis. First published in 1846, The Two Dianas is among the most well-known work in Dumas' Valois romances- which dramatize the intrigues & debacles of the real-life Royal House of France during the fourteenth-sixteenth century. His 1891 novel, The Page of the Duke of Savoy is the fictionalized tale of a woman who is forced to impersonate a man in order to remain by the side of her beloved Duke. Page 15 has a couple tape repairs where page was opened carelessly, several dog-eared pages, otherwise clean 12th volume from the set. Limited to 1000 copies.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. With an Introduction by John Hampden and illustrated with lithographs by Lynton Lamb. Last novel of the author's famous Barsetshire Series, which Trollope wrote for the 1882 Christmas number of Good Words shortly before he died. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 142 pages; color plates by Yvonne Gilbert and black and white illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert. 19 folk tales from across the world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.311 pages, illustrated in b&w by David Small. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 311 pages. Illustrated in b&w by David Small. Remainder mark to top edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of two kids who witness a violent crime they think was committed by their neighbor (an undertaker). However, since these two are always telling made-up stories nobody believes them. They have to find the evidence. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Missing front fly leaf, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Baker & Taylor Company, 2nd pr., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated olive cloth covers with titles in black in ruled border. Titles on spine in orange. 396 pages. Five black & white illustrations plus frontispiece with tissue guard by F.R. Gruger. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Rubbing to corners and spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. SIGNED BY GROFF on the title page. A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. Signed sticker on cover otherwise clean.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that's the life she was trapped in--until she met Jack.Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery and walk away with a suitcase full of cash. But there's nothing like money to come between lovers--money, and other women. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories--observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his bestselling fiction. Now, The View from the Cheap Seats brings together for the first time ever more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts the author's experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Limited to 504 signed copies, this being no 265. Bound in original publishers quarter vellum, with green cloth boards, vellum dusty, cloth faded. An anthology of the author's writings from 1921 to 1930. The work concerns the history of an unnamed fictional village, and is divided into alternating chapters with different headings. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with Williamson's familiar owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece and two brief sketches by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some uneven fading to the cloth and a little darkening to the vellum backstrip, as is common with this production.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Orange cloth cover, minor wear to cover and dust jacket. Inside is clean and bright. A very tight copy. The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, in pictorial green cloth stamped in 3-colors. 84 pages illustrated with 3 b&w plates by W.H.D, Koerner. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. One-color and full-color illustrations by Fred Marcellino. Dust jacket spine has a tear, price stamp on flap. Clean copy. While other young weasels dance under the pines, Bagley thinks about Bridget, the mesmerizing fish who lives in a pond down the brook from his den. Only a true hero can save Bridget from the gruesome death that awaits her.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine, 246 pages. Four color plates plus numerous b&w drawings by Rosalie K. Fry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ward,Lock & Co Limited, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, 24 color plates by Harry G. Theaker. No date. The Sunshine Series. Green cloth spine, illustrated cardboard covers. Hinges cracked, edge and corner wear to covers, internally very good.

Hardcover. London, Macmillian and Co., 1st illust thus., 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Decorative-gilt red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. 330 pages plus publisher's ads. New Edition with 100 b&w illustrations by Linley Sambourne. Water-Babies, a children's novel written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863; written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. Mild slant to spine, bump to front cloth cover.