Softcover. Merrick NY, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1st pbk, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Edited and translated from the Italian by Stanislao G. Pugliese. Ignazio Silone, anti-fascist and founding member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) offers a politically conscious and soul searching memoir which details his own PSI activities and the various factors engendering the "necessity for action on behalf of liberty and democracy among the working classes." Over the course of his political career, Silone wrote a number of fiction and non-fiction works, and was imprisoned in Italy, France, Spain, and finally in Switzerland where he composed this memoir in 1942. Often compared with Andre Malraux and Albert Camus, Silone was awarded an honorary degree by Yale University, was a recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, and was twice considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. INSCRIBED BY PUGLIESE on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 272 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard by F. Y Cory. Spine slightly cocked. Soiling to covers. Light rubbing to spine, corners.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages illustrated in b&w by Fanny Cory. Blue cloth covers with white design and lettering. Capsule newspaper review pasted to inside cover, otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, worn dust jacket, 93 pages illustrated in b&w by Richard Erdoes. Written By the well-known raconteur who was often seen on Jack Paar's Tonight Show. The tale is narrated by Pinky Whiskereeno, a laboratory mouse who's suddenly lured into the wild open world. Large child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages: (1) 472, (2) 520, (3) 568. Hardcovers. 3 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 (some fraying at top and bottom of spine), paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to labels, but all are in good shape and legible). Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age, a few small spots of soil or rubbing to covers. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Moni falls in love with her brother's English classmate, and leaves Calcutta to start a new life with him in London, where she faces prejudice, sexism, and betrayal. Of the fragile love between the assured Englishman, Anthony, and the bright but sheltered young Bengali woman, Gupta weaves a provocative and utterly empathetic tale of awakening and hard discovery, steeped in cultural protocol and taboo, in Jane Austen and the verse of Tagore. Author's first novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C McClurg & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers with light wear, fading. IIllustrated by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice unclipped dust jacket, 148 pages. Black & white decorations by Isa Barnett. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. An exciting story based on the perilous expedition of the fore-and-aft schooner, United States, to the Arctic in 1860.
Softcover. New York, Perma Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Paperback. Perma Books #M3091. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Light creasing to covers.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Stamped on green cloth covers. Moderate wear to edges, and covers. Tight copy. Novel set in the fur trapping region of the Cree Indians in Canada.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pges. Blockprint illustions by Helen Sewell. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Discreet tape repair page 88. Dust jacket with chips bottom edge, bottom corner.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages.Remainder mark bottom edge. Fourth book in the series about the life-sized rag dolls. Seventy-year-old Sir Magnus, grandfather of a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human, has a premonition that all of them will soon die and that they will return to being lifeless and useless". Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 220 pages.Remainder mark bottom edge. Third book in the series about the life-sized rag dolls. Restless young Pilbeam excites a series of ardent admirers who threaten to pierce the familys veil of secrecy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 2nd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance.But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia's days, a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy, an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy's, she encounters a random assortment of customers, including Anthony, a lost soul who spends most of his life online, chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11--the screenname of Victor Prine, an anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all for his beliefs. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, International Polygonics, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 and 302 pages, two mystery novels in one volume. Clean, like new. Reprint of two mysteries first published in the 1930s.
Hardcover. Boston, James Munroe, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with embossed design on covers, gilt title on spine. 252 pages. 2 volumes in one. A fictional account of Thomas Morton's "Merry Mount" community, arguably America's first notable contrarian movement: anti-Puritan, devoted to public sinning, and credited with erecting the first Maypole in North America. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Corners bumped. Rubbing to extremities. Chipping to spine cover. Light foxing to a few pages.
Softcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, adv. reading copy, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover with minor wear to wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case.
Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages. Authors 1st book. Small stain to rear dust jacket flap. Light shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. The seemingly mundane events that occur to a young man on his lunch hour are magnified in his mind into complex statements on the modern condition.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HENDRICKS. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st illustrated thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Edited by Virginia Kirkus. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Henry C. Pitz. Corners bumped. Spine and corners rubbed. Spine faded. Soiling to covers. Gutter cracked on pg 177 and 272.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Bros., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Ex-lib but only minor stamping. G+ condition. Clean.
NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH AN INK SKETCH OF A FAIRY SITTING ON A TOADSTOOL on the title page. Minor wear to dust jacket, yellowing a bit at edges.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 397 pages, a classic adventur of Czarist Russia. 10 color plates including title page by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth over boards, with gilt lettering on spine; black lettering and a full-color illustration on paper label on the front cover. No date listed on title page; copyright page dated 1927. 397 pages. First edition thus, with Wyeth's illustrations: a color-illustrated title-page, nine color plates, and color-illustrated endpapers. Tan dust jacket with black lettering on the spine and front cover, rear panel chipped. Color illustration paste-down on the front panel has minor spotting.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A massive novel illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. John Gardner's final novel follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal descent, which he seems powerless to arrest, he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, which seems to be haunted by the ghosts of an incestuous family. Mickelsson's farmhouse sanctuary was (it turns out) not only the residence of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, but the scene of a murder; the place is haunted. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A massive novel illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. John Gardner's final novel follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal descent, which he seems powerless to arrest, he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, which seems to be haunted by the ghosts of an incestuous family. Mickelsson's farmhouse sanctuary was (it turns out) not only the residence of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, but the scene of a murder; the place is haunted. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bedford, MA, Applewood Books, reprint, September 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations and paper cut-outs throughout. A very clean, tight copy. An exciting story of the new horse, Tanglefoot, that Mickey and Minnie buy. They accept a bet that he can beat Farmer Goat's horse. Collector's Edition of the scarce 1934 edition.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper covered boards with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, spine ends and corners with light wear, First Edition, frontispiece portrait of author with tissue guard. INSCRIBED BY DASKAM on front fly leaf and dated May 1903. Daskam(1876-1961) was a prolific author of adult and children's fiction whose best-known work was MEMOIRS OF A BABY (1904), a satire on modern methods of child training. Clean copy.
hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Peter Sis. A tale of Touch, a runaway orphan boy who seeks help from the ghost of a magician. The Great Chaffalo obliges the boy with a stallion with a golden mane and a hide as fine as China silk. But Touch discovers even this wonderful horse cannot take him beyond the reach of his troubles. A tale of innocence in a world of villainy, of things that are seen but are not what they seem -- a tale of mystery and wonder. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red stamping. 40 pages have 1/2" worm hole in margin bottom - not affecting text. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 350 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 65]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 162 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose color cloth stamped in black, 276 pages, b&w illustrations by W.C. Nims. Number 2 on copyright page so presumed 2nd printing. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped (13.95) dust jacket that has fading to spine and a 2 X 3" chunk gone from bottom of spine and rear panel. Midnight's Children chronicles modern India through the lives of the one thousand and one children born within the country's first hour of independence on August 15, 1947. First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel, also acclaimed as the Booker of Bookers. Stated First Edition, preceding the English edition which was made up from the American sheets. NOTE: Publisher's remainder stamp to bottom edge. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial cloth, 275 pages, b&w drawings by Jacob Bates Abbott. Midnight is a colt who was born wild and never tamed. His mother, Lady Ebony, belonged to Major Howard ran away to join the band of wild mares which the chestnut stallion was leading. Midnight learned a lot from his beautiful mother who sacrificed herself for the young stallion. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st US, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 208 pages. Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend-a holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing, and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar. But over the course of the four days we discover the deep uncertainties that exist between them.
Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIM PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket, in protective mylar cover. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, scarce true first printing with b&w drawings by Clara Skinner. 113 pages, blue cloth covers.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with dark blue design, lettering. Color frontispiece, 3 b&w plates by Marguerite DeAngeli. Front hinge tender. A novel set during the American Revolution.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 445 pages, b&w illustrations by Rini Templeton. Dust jacket with light sun fading and chipping, small tear to upper edge of front cover, slight stain on spine, else a nice, tight copy.