Softcover. New York, DoubleDay, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, Book Club , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, George Braziller, Uncorr. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pale green wrappers. An uncorrected proof. In her ninth novel, one of France's major authors examines the issue of self-love through a long and convoluted dialog taking place between parts, or strands, of a personality. The separate parts of the personality take on distinct voices and have quite different interpretations of events and exchanges that have occurred within the life of the collective "we," engaging in rambling, speculative, often accusatory reminiscences. The novel progresses in a slow, circular fashion: tension is built up entirely from within the character, between its voices. Much is kept vague, as if written from, or descriptive of, a dream state. This is a fascinating novel, full of the elliptical yet probingly psychological prose so characteristic of Sarraute. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Westvaco Corp., reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Limited edition. 286 pages. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped baseball design to the upper board. Decorated endpapers. With head and tail bands and a ribbon place marker. A fine copy in decorated stiff card slipcase. A limited edition of Lardner's first book, produced in an unspecified quantity as a Christmas gift for customers of the Westvaco Corporation. Illustrated with color reproductions of vintage baseball cards. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Henri Castang finds police investigation dangerous when an old friend and Irish bureaucrat is shotgunned, but his wife gets the answers by pursuing questions his police-cohorts would never think to ask.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 page, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine. SIGNED BY BEST on the front fly leaf. Stated first printing. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood,
Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Dust jacket color design by Douglas Hall. Dust jacket with closed tears, soil.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with 2-color illustration on cover label and 5 b&w plates by Ralph Boyer. Spine cloth has tan spotting otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages, illustrated with many b&w line engravings by various artists. Light tan cloth covers with bright gilt and dark brown design. Copyright page states 1888, so assumed a reprint. Clean, bright copy.
hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Louise Yates. Clean, unmarked copy with light fading and minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 267 pages, includes glossary and notes. 50th Anniversary Edition with b&w drawings by Ed Young. Gilt Newbery Medal on front of dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Label on spine chipped. Red covers with light fading on spine. Clean, tight copy. Frayed on top spine material.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar and Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages, b&w line illustrations, some two-color by Robert Fawcett. Maroon cloth with paper labels on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with wear, chipping. Previous owner's signature crossed out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. Illustrated with halftone drawings by Carse. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with chipping, edgewear, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. NY, Roy Publishers, 1st US, n.d. (1963), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&w illustrations by William Randell. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, An opportune meeting with a pickpocket and a pupil from a charity school sets events in motion that drastically and irrevocably change the lives of an orphaned brother and sister existing by their wits in the streets of London. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, R. H. Woodward Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w and with color lithographs that are bright & clean. Edges lightly foxed. Corners bumped.
Hardcover. Menlo Park CA, Lane Book Co.,, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 64 pages. Contains black & white photography by Martin Litton and Frances Coleberd. A Sunset Junior Book. Tim and Maria Black live at Oak Valley Ranch, where their days pass in a gay mixture of fun and work. They go on hayrides, search for wildflowers, and at one point in the story Maria gets lost! Buck, a blacksmith, comes to work at Oak Valley. Buck discovers there is a great deal to learn from the children about the ranch. In return, he explains his trade to them and helps them care for their horses. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Some tape residue to covers and dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages, Color frontispiece and end paper illustration by Maud and Miska Petersham. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Chunks missing on top and bottom.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 245 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows minor wear at top of spine. '1968 Honor Book' sticker on cover. Clean, tight copy.
Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. B/w illustrations by Walter Bobbett. Scarce. Brown pictorial cover with spine slightly cocked. Light edgewear to top and bottom spine, internally very good. A collection of stories told by natives on the East Coast of Africa. Translated from the Swahili by the author.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An intricately woven tapestry of friendship and love follows Zazoo, who lives with her adoptive grandfather in his village in France, as she learns about the history of World War II and Vietnam through her Grand-Pierre and, with the help of Marius, the bicycle boy, and the local pharmacist, makes a startling discovery that forces her to face the past. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY KUBINYI front end paper. Black & white illustrations by Kubinyi. Some very minor wear to dust jacket, mostly nice and clean.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim. Remainder dot bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY BELL on half-title page.
Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Harry Gainesborough, a children's book author who has written nothing since his daughter's death, fears that his weirdest book, "Zod Wallop," is actually coming to life when a series of horrible coincidences occur. Sly humor and eccentric characters raise Spencer's third novel (following Resume, with Monsters) far above run-of-the-mill fantasy fare. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages. Hardcover with blue covers and gilt lettering on frontand spine. Light edgewear and small nick to cloth spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Charming black & white drawings by Winifred Bromhall.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, Truman and Spofford, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes complete, 327, 306 pages. 2-color and b&w illustrations by Henri Lovie and Charles Bauerle. Original brown cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Pre-Civil War black author, a novel about slavery. Previous owner's small name stamp on inside front covers, otherwise both volumes tight and clean, all plates present. Light corner wear to covers and spine extremities. Vol. 1 has a small chip to the bottom of spine cloth, top spine edge has small tear starting. Interior very good.
Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Green cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. 1054 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original pale blue boards with darkening at backstrip, silver lettering on spine. 252 pages. First UK printing. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.