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Hardcover. NY, Street & Smith, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages, b&w cartoon illustrations by John Crossley. Decorated beige cloth covers, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY , Harper and Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Randy Gaul. dust jacket price-clipped. Four short stories: The Shade Cutter, Enemies of the Eye, Slaves of Sham, Country Pay. The tales present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.

Philadelphia, Westminster Press, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Black & white illustrations and color dust jacket drawing by James Hough. Crease to top of page 16. Dust jacket with top & bottom of spine worn.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages: (1) 312, (2) 321. Hardcovers. 2 VOLUME SET. International Limited Edition Set: #959 out of 1000 printed sets. All volumes: B/w illustrations/plates throughout, each with tissue guard, bound in green cloth (slight fraying at top of spine), paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to labels, but both are in good shape and legible). Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, price-clipped. In this masterwork of confessional literature, a man approaching middle age recalls his impetuous youth with fondness, remorse, and astonishment. Vance Bourjaily's memoir is a frank and introspective look into his early years as an alcoholic and drug addict. The book chronicles Bourjaily's struggles with sobriety and his journey back to self-respect and confidence. Bourjaily provides readers with a candid look into the depths of addiction and the lengths to which people will go to escape from their problems. No edition or printing indicated. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1st , 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Terra cotta cloth with beveled edges, gilt lettering on spine, Houghton Osgood imprint. Spine is slightly cocked. Nice, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1st US, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Green cloth hardcover. Spine cocked. Rear interior hinge cracked. Some stress to binding threads that hold page sections. Moderate fraying to cloth at bottom of spine. Rubbing to corners of front cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page and Co., reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with spine label, top edge gilt. A volume from Disraeli's collected works, a reprint of the 1844 edition. Two b&w illustrations by Byam Shaw. The first of a trilogy of novels (together with Sybil and Tancred) which marked a departure from Disraeli's silver-fork novels of the 1830s and which are his most famous. The book is set against a background of the real political events of the 1830s in England that followed the enactment of the Reform Bill of 1832. In describing these events Disraeli sets out his own beliefs including his opposition to Robert Peel, his dislikes of both the British Whig Party and the ideals of Utilitarianism, and the need for social justice in a newly industrialized society. He portrays the self-serving politician in the character of Rigby (based on John Wilson Croker) and the malicious party insiders in the characters of Taper and Tadpole. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, Ardis Publishers, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 430 pages. Clean, bright copy. Contents: The Steel Bird by Vasily Aksenov, Snowball Berry Red by Vasily Shukshin, A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov, The Exchange by Yury Trifonov, Life in Windy Weather by Andrei Bitov, Belshazzar's Feasts by Fazil Iskander, Downstream by Valentin Rasputin.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Vanise Dorsinville is fleeing Haiti while Robert Dubois abandons his life in New Hampshire; a novel of how their lives collide. Continental Drift is the story of a young blue-collar worker and family man who abandons his broken dreams in New Hampshire and the story of a young Haitian woman who, with her nephew and baby, flees the brutal injustice and poverty of her homeland. A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Hoyt's sixth novel is an international spy thriller that twists the face of the Cold War into a crooked grin when a working model of a small atom bomb falls into the wrong hands and ends up targeted for New York City.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 3rd pr., 1935, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, hardcover. Illustrated by the author and Helene Carter. Spine cracked at front panel. Heavy edgewear and fading to boards. Water damage to text block. Light soiling to boards. Mild age-toning to text block. Faint foxing and spotting throughout, mostly to preliminary pages. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A fair reading copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in light blue, 318 pages. 1922 on title page so true first. Novel about cowboys and a copper mountain written by an actual cowboy. Spine faded, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages illustrated in color by P. Craig Russell. A first printing of the graphic novel adaptation of the 2002 novel.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 9th impression, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Red pictorial cloth, gilt, sunned spine. Color plates by Maria L. Kirk. Pictorial end papers. Spine starting.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 276 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Gilt decorated blue cloth covers.

Softcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st ARC, 1992, Softcover. Advance uncorrected proof in non-pictorial tan card covers. Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, gets a job appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video, but when the forklift is used to murder a young secretary, Charles must find the killer. Publisher's PR release laid-in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.