Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. Black & white illustrations (plus color frontis) by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age, soiling to back cover, weak binding. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Provides fresh insight into the age old tale of a woman who grows as an individual and literally explodes out of her marriage. May Sarton describes the burgeoning artist confined by a social contract. Light fading to spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear is price clipped - now protected with clear plastic cover. Minor sun fade to top and bottom edges of covers. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1170. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge cracked.
Hardcover. NY, Macaulay, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers with titles and image of talon in black. Black & white frontispiece by George W. Gage. Light wear to covers otherwise VG.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Stated first edition.
Hardcover. New York, Covici-Friede, 2nd pr., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. Previous owners name and the number "10" on front endpaper. Top edge stained black. Price clipped dust jacket with light chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Sun Dial Press, Inc., Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. Reprint. Price clipped dust jacket with darkening to spine, chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. Text and Black & white illustrations by A. Vimar. Full color illustrated cover with light rubbing to edges, darkening in spots. Clean, unmarked pages. Good plus condition.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered they weren't his only lover, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency--me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his body, the office safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was missing.From the pen of MWA Grand Master Ed McBain comes this unforgettable story of warring agents and Hollywood dealmaking, murder and scandal--and passions igniting in the dark of night. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Louie the loan-shark's life is a big nothing until he becomes caught up in his uncle's scheme to rig the state lottery, and then he has more excitement than he can handle.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages. When Danita finds out that she has an older half brother, she must reexamine the way she sees her father & family.
Softcover. New York, Green Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Paperback. Cover has light soil and creasing. Tanned pages throughout.
NY, Clarion Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages. Color photos and illustrations. Illustrated end papers. More than 130 full-color photographs adorn this handsome re-creation of daily life in a Plains Indian village in 1868. Readers will meet Real Bird and his family, part of a Northern Cheyenne tribe in southeastern Montana. Each member has an important role: Men prepare to become warriors and hunters, while women learn to raise crops and build a home-a tipi-from poles and buffalo hides. The clothes the family wears, from elaborate ceremonial headdresses to colorful beaded moccasins; the foods they eat; the games they play; the crafts and jewelry they make; and the spiritual rituals they perform are among the many topics included. This large-format book, with clear text and informative sidebars, provides a detailed pictorial account of the Plains Indian life more than a century ago. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Translated by Sarah Arvid. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Bright and clean, a tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green and white diagonal striped cloth with green and gold embellishments. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and other drawings by Harry W. McVickar. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean. Cloth spine has some fading.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. B&W illustrations by Tony Chen. Small remainder dot to top edge. In a bright, clean dust jacket. A young boy discovers, when his best friend moves away, that there are a lot of things people are prejudice against. His old friend is against overweight people and many people in the town in which he lives don't think very much of Indians. Tad learns this disturbing part of growing up as he makes friends with a Sioux boy his own age that lives at the Indian school down the road from his father's store.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. Lovely copy of the author's first book. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. When her revenge-hungry ex-husband, Jilly, is unexpectedly released from jail, Ann Kalkadonis fights for her four-year-old daughter's life when the latter is kidnapped by Jilly and a former cellmate.
Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 210 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to pages, and covers. Dust jacket has small chunk missing on top spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Dust jacket art and b&w drawings by Marvin Friedman. A young girl's difficulties with her family and her religion result in a consciousness-raising trip to Israel. Joanne reads the Torah to escape from her nonreligious Jewish family,who prefer her younger sister's company. She decides to go to Israel for a year and is waylaid by a horrible terrorist incident, which helps her to see her life freshly. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Remainder mark to top edge, slight soiling to rear cover of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. An illustrated history of the fabulous pulp magazines from 1896 to 1953. After tracing the birth of the pulps back to the 1882 launching of Golden Argosy magazine, printed on pulpwood pages, Server organizes his unwieldy subject into categories of pulps: adventure, romance and sex, horror and fantasy, private eye, weird menace, science fiction. Each receives a lively capsule history that covers trends, reader (and sometimes, as in the case of the ``Spicys,'' government) response, and writers' bios--which, though sketchy (Hammett's Hollywood experience gets one sentence), resurrect a number of relatively obscure but seminal and fascinating figures, like Conan- creator Robert E. Howard, who shot himself dead at age 30 on the day his mother died, and Frederick Faust (a.k.a. Max Brand), who sometimes wrote around the clock, piling up two or three million words a year. Server attributes the pulps' demise to, among other factors, the advent of TV, paperbacks, and comic books, and he winds up with a note on pulp-collecting. For all of the author's savvy, though, it's above all the eye- popping illustrations (100 color, 57 b&w) that will have readers beaming. Magazine covers (some lurid, some of eerie beauty), sample pages of text and ads (``Raise Giant Frogs'')--the pulps come alive once again here, in all their eccentric glory.
Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Bright dust jacket. Juvenile suspense novel set in North Africa, involving a modern (1960s) day Prester John character.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Black cloth with green lettering and design. Light rubbing to front cover, spine and back cover. Light tanning to front end papers and slight foxing to back endpapers. light musty odor.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages, like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In The Dangerous Husband, they meet and almost immediately fall in love. Like everyone, they have been alone. He is perfect for her - charming and sexy and awkward and sweet. They are forty; it is time for them to marry and shelter each other. When the honeymoon ends, as honeymoons always do, real life begins, with its surprises. He trips up stairs, falls going down. He cooks a tasty dinner and the kitchen ends up looking like a slaughterhouse. Absorbed in sexual experimentation, he shatters the coffee table. He tenderly wrenches her neck; he breaks her arm. It was turning out that my husband's dishevelment was incomparable, potent, ramifying. It could destroy whole little worlds. It will surely destroy her. Unless she can kill him first.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards, 69 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by De Witt Whistler Jayne. Light wear to corners and spine.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Compnay, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 425 pages. 8 b&w illustrations. Illustrated frontispiece. Paste down plate on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, glossy illustrated boards in a bright dust jacket with a flap price of $1.95. Last book listed on rear panel of dust jacket is Here Comes the Strikout, rear flap contains reviews for Little Bear.
Hardcover. NT, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black and orange. 257 pages. When a Civil War veteran who had lost his leg in the fighting and who had been living in the poorhouse comes into an unexpected inheritance, he heads West towards Colorado - and takes 9 year old Danny and his dog with him. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal plates by Rogers, The author was primarily known for being a great illustrator for Harper Brothers during the golden age of illustration. Stated first edition. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in b&w on the front color, gilt lettering on the spine. Robinson (1833-1900) was a noted Quaker author from a well-respected and artistic Vermont family whose writings and art captured the dialect, culture and time of pre-Civil War Vermont, set in the imaginary town of Danvis, largely drawing from his the inhabitants and experiences of Ferrisburgh, VT. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight hardcover. In the summer of 1851, the clipper Flying Cloud made the journey from New York City to San Francisco in a record-breaking 89 days and 21 hours despite several setbacks and dangers along the way. Much of the credit for that voyage goes to Ellen Prentiss Creesy, the ship's navigator. Based on the true story of that voyage, this book expertly describes Prentiss's early life, her love for the sea and the science of navigation, her marriage to Captain Perkins Creesy, and their remarkable accomplishment. Readers will find this fictionalized account gripping and inspiring. McCully's excellent watercolor illustrations include a number of period details and add a sense of movement and drama to the already exciting text. An author's note gives the factual background for the story, and a brief glossary serves to familiarize readers with nautical terms.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 165 pages, b&w illustrations by Milton Johnson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young Nathan and his older brother set sail from Nantucket with a quest to discover the reasons behind the sinking of the ship Amy Foster. A mysterious death and a strange Captain add suspense to the adventure. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 198 pages. Remainder mark to lower edge, else like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. Early Book Club Edition, with H-H code at copyright page, blue cloth with green stamping, lacking "first edition" statement. Burnett's well received novel of a gambler, his love for a dog, and his marriage to a woman "who could never understand his hunger for easy money and excitement, his belief that five might always get him ten, his love of cards, horse racing and dog racing". Very good in bright and attractive jacket (printed without price at front flap), few nicks and light wear. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 295 pages, blue cloth with green design featuring greyhound racer. Novel about a compulsive gambler trying to quit with little assistance or understanding from his wife, was made into a movie in 1934 starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin, remade as "Wine, Women and Horses" in 1937. Spine has major fading, otherwise a clean, square copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1sy, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Author's 2nd book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with minor sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast-a secret mission, a dark voyage. A desperate voyage. One more battle in the spy wars that rage through the back alleys of the ports, from elegant hotels to abandoned piers, in lonely desert outposts, and in the souks and cafes of North Africa.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, which is in a protective sleeve. Remainder mark to bottom text block edge. Bright and clean; a tight copy.