Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, Ltd. Ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy #40. Titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's matching cloth slipcase with a small bump/nick to the top corner.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with brown lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 301 pages. Rear dj lists Triangle Books. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam's, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Seasoned Detective Sergeant Stanley Moodrow of Manhatten faces off with a deranged enemy, Johny Katanos, whose sick acts of violence push Moodrow into a relentless manhunt that may boast no survivors.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., reprint, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages, blue cloth covers with embossed design and bright gilt decoration of handshake. Seven b&w plates and title page drawing by F.O.C. Darley. Previous owner's signature otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. Light green fabric covered boards with color decoration. Previous owner signature. Some age wear to covers: light soil, fraying. pages lightly yellow with age. In good condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue and orange. 239 pages, illustrated in b&w line by Harry Farny. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philsadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Hardcover with yellow cover boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white by Armstrong Sperry. Tight copy with only minor soil to pages.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth boards, orange title label to upper board and back strip, black lettering, orange end papers, top edge stained red, black illustrative boarders on leaves. Two stories: "The Story of a White Blackbird" and "The Young Foreigner". Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's grey - blue cloth, with image of two little confederates peeking around a bush at enemy cavalry. 156 pages + ads in rear : plates. 1898 reprint of the 1888 edition. This unforgettable tale by one of the South's greatest 19th-century storytellers has been a favorite of children since its original publication. Two little boys, Willie and Frank, are trapped between Union and Confederate lines in war-torn Virginia. The secrets they must keep and the dangers they confront make for an exciting story.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black, white and gilt design on front cover and spine. 191 pages, plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates by Reginald Birch. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 191 pages + publishers ads. B&w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Blue cloth, gilt decorations and titled to front and spine, no dust jacket as issued. Slight wear and rubbing along edges, light bumps to edges of spine, else a very nice, tight copy.
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. Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, C. B. Falls. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages, b&w plates by Manning DeV. Lee. Historical fiction romance between a young converted Quaker woman and a Puritan man set Nantucket in the 1650's. Short inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped with dark green design. B&W illustrations by Joshua Tolford. Ex-lib with stamping, light residue to end papers. Juvenile novel set in Maine about a 12-year-old mischief maker who decides to reform upon the arrival of his war hero uncle.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Edgewear. Dust jacket price clipped, light chipping, rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Jill Pinkwater in b&w. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HESS on title page. Bottom corner slight bump. Tight copy.
New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Black & white illustrations by Glen Rounds. Dust jacket with light rubbing. Relates how Uncle Lemon got his spring in the middle of the driest summer on record and the troublesome consequences it brought him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt desin. Frontispiece by W. Herbert Dunton. Covers with wear to corners, top and bottom edge of spine.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton , reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 265 pages plus ads in rear. 112 black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Red cloth covers with decorations, gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages plus ads in rear. Illustrated in b&w by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Brown cloth decorated in gilt and black (bright gilt drawing of rabbit with pipe on front). First printing with no mention of this title among 8 pages of publisher's ads in back and the word presumptive in the last line on page 9. Endpapers feature a light gray butterfly pattern. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations by Billings. Title in gilt on spine. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with ornate gilt decorations on cover and spine. Color pastedown on front cover features Tom with little blonde girl. Very uncommon. Retold by Edith Robarts for the Stories for Children series. 8 Color Plates including cover (not credited); 4 1/2" x 6"; 91 pages. No date but circa 1912. One color plate loose (at page 56) but all there. Nice clean copy of a rare edition.
Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett, 1st Ed., 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set, 312 and 322 pages, hardcovers, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on front and gilt lettering on spine. With the six original steel-plate engravings and with title-pages illustrated with large vignettes. First edition with Hobart & Robbins slug on the copyright page. Both volumes state Twenty-Fifth Thousand on the title page indicating a probable fourth printing. The first was five thousand and sold out immediately. Both volumes with chipping and fraying to top and bottom of spines, Vol. 1 with about 1/4" cloth missing at bottom. All corners show wear, spines slightly cocked, but bindings are tight. Clean set, with very minor foxing.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Orig. pub. in England as "Himself Again".
Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full red leather covers with gilt decorations, spine has raised bands; marbled endpapers; satin ribbon marker; all edges gilt; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean. First published in England in 1935. Introduction by Lord Atkin. Albert Haddock, the hero of countless lawsuits in A.P. Herbert's misleading cases, made his first public appearance in Punch about 1924. This collection of Misleading Cases contains many more sly jests at the absurdities of English law and will teach the reader more about the legal processes than lawyers know themselves.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages, tissue guard frontis, and b/w plates by A. B. Shute. Red cloth, gilt title front and spine, pictorial front cover with flag and man on horse. #4 in Old Glory Series. Front and rear hinges cracked, inscription on front
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with beveled edges, ornate black and gilt stamped design on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. 315 pages, 44 b&w engravings, most full-page. A tale told from a dog's point of view. Front and rear hinges cracked, front endpaper missing, wear to spine extremities. Interior is clean and bright. Margaret Thomson Janvier was an American poet and author of children's literature who published under the pseudonym Margaret Vandegrift. Scarce title.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt-blocked decorated dark green cloth in slipcase. 172 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Angela Thirlwell. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, John C. Winston, rep, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color label on front cover, 282 pages. Color frontis and 11 black & white and illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. Blue line drawing of the Alcott home on the end papers by C. M. Burd. Yellow top edge. Rear cover has some spotting. discoloring to top. Otherwise a clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. WInner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. One of his landmark, defining works. Ha Jin has seamlessly and eloquently melded historical fact with personal experience. His short stories have been compared to the works of Isaac Babel, the greatest Russian short-story writer of the 20th century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 554 pages. This compilation of correspondence is aptly titled. British travel writer and novelist Chatwin traveled widely, constantly, and obsessively--everywhere under the sun, in other words. He possessed a restless soul, to be sure. And to a large degree, he was secretive; information about his homosexuality and his affliction with the AIDS virus was closely guarded. He cast a personal spell with his charm and a lasting one through his works, which are so imaginative they are pure excitement to read; at the same time, however, it can be confusing to determine whether to see them as fiction or nonfiction. Nevertheless, beginning with his first published book, In Patagonia (1977), Chatwin maintained a reputation among discerning readers for his riveting characters--invented or not is unimportant, even in his travel books--and his rigorously precise writing style. Chatwin's wife and his biographer (Bruce Chatwin, 2000) combined efforts over a two-decade period to retrieve more than 90 percent of Chatwin's correspondence from childhood to immediately before his untimely death at 48. Chatwin's many appreciators will see the compilation in its overall significance as a personal visit with one of their literary heroes, as much as that is possible now. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages. An historical novel of China's 1930's struggle with Japan. B&W illustrations by Margaret Ayer. Dust jacket with light edgewear, small hole in rear panel. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 169 pages. clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out--and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.On the 30th anniversary of the death of the masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime published Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford's rarest titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Chunk gone from rear panel of dust jacket. Paper tanning.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages. SIGNED BY NOVA ON TITLE PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket and edges, else a lovely copy in protective brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Hardcover in slip case, no dust jacket. NUMBERED 319 of 500 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Black cloth covered slip case, and cover boards. Spine heavily faded with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride and Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, illustrated in b&w by John O'Hara Cosgrave ll. Dust jacket worn, chipped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 115 pages, b&w illustrations by Decie Merwin. Completes author's trilogy of books recalling her own childhood in the mountains of Kentucky. Light spotting to covers, some tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 4th pr., 1986, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. NEWBERY MEDALIST author. The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible & sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace. Juvenile mystery. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, william Morrow, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman--friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a child, and the death of a father. Use Me explores the fierce bonds between close friends, fathers and daughters, mothers and children, and the underlying desire and loss inherent in these ever evolving relationships.