Hardcover. London, T. Nelson and Sons, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped with black and gilt design, 235 pages, engraved frontispiece and numerous other plates and in-text drawings. Light shelfwear, previous owner's inscription, signatures on front endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 774 pages, this includes: Kindred, Fledgling, and the following storie:. Childfinder; Crossover; Near of Kin; Speech Sounds; Bloodchild; Amnesty; Book of Martha; The Evening and the Morning and the Night;--- Essays include: Lost Races of Science Fiction; Positive Obsession; Furor Scribendi; The Monophobic Response; Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories --- Chronology; Notes on the Text; Notes Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Neely, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. One small stamp at lower left corner of inside front cover. Front hinge cracked but holding. Minor foxing to areas of cloth cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Created by a master entertainer, this new collection of seven science fiction stories highlights the antics of androids, lizard men and humans alike.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. When a museum administrator is stabbed to death with a hat pin, popular Boston detective Sarah Kelling must interrupt her seaside idyll to pursue the case.
Hardcover. NY, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Feiffer. SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND FEIFFER on title page. After a nearly 50-year wait, Juster's reunion with his Phantom Tollbooth collaborator Feiffer is squarely in keeping with their earlier fairy tale drollery. Feiffer's ogre, scrawled in scribbly brown outline, snores on his back in a forest of Lilliputian trees in one spread, then strides off in search of a snack in the next. (Feiffer often draws him from the boots up, the better to convey his massive size.) The ogre's victims usually cower hopelessly before him, but this time, the specimen he encounters--a slim, wide-eyed young woman in a long blue dress--undoes him with kindness. Oh, you're not really so terrible, she says sweetly. I'll bet if you brushed your teeth, combed your hair, found some new clothes, and totally changed your attitude you'd be quite nice. The ogre's mighty tantrum shakes the forest, but she remains calm. Would you consider doing that for the orphans' picnic next week? I know the children would love it. The ogre's speedy exit--he drops dead--is a bit of a throwaway, but Juster's narrative insouciance and Feiffer's pen and brush haven't lost their magic.
Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Feiffer. SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND FEIFFER on title page. After a nearly 50-year wait, Juster's reunion with his Phantom Tollbooth collaborator Feiffer is squarely in keeping with their earlier fairy tale drollery. Feiffer's ogre, scrawled in scribbly brown outline, snores on his back in a forest of Lilliputian trees in one spread, then strides off in search of a snack in the next. (Feiffer often draws him from the boots up, the better to convey his massive size.) The ogre's victims usually cower hopelessly before him, but this time, the specimen he encounters--a slim, wide-eyed young woman in a long blue dress--undoes him with kindness. Oh, you're not really so terrible, she says sweetly. I'll bet if you brushed your teeth, combed your hair, found some new clothes, and totally changed your attitude you'd be quite nice. The ogre's mighty tantrum shakes the forest, but she remains calm. Would you consider doing that for the orphans' picnic next week? I know the children would love it. The ogre's speedy exit--he drops dead--is a bit of a throwaway, but Juster's narrative insouciance and Feiffer's pen and brush haven't lost their magic.
Hardcover. Paris, Garnier Freres, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, French text, 589 pages with 4 color gravures by M. E. Bayard bound in 1/2 leather. Calf spine with gilt decorations and title label, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled boards and end papers.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's blue cloth with decoration of men sitting at table and smoking cigars. Humorous essays, including "The Social Life of a Newt." Author's first book. This copy published without the four pages of advertisements at the back (no priority known). 234 pages. Tiny hole near bottom of fist two pages, not affectin title page. Previous owner's inscription dated 1921 on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Author's 1st book. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Gluyas Williams. Two-color drawing. on front cloth cover. Previous owner's signature front end paper, mild tanning to end papers. Slight wear to cloth hinges.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #626. Lightly soiled and spine is cocked. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear at very edges. A nice copy. The fourth novel by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike features Joey Robinson, an advertising consultant in Manhattan who describes the recent visit he, his second wife and his eleven-year-old stepson made to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black/green spine with gilt lettering; first Scribner's edition with 'A' to copyright page; no jacket. 913 pages, clean, tight copy. A fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick. Francis Starwick was based on Wolfe's friend, playwright Kenneth Raisbeck. The novel was published by Scribners and edited by Maxwell Perkins.The narrative of Of Time and the River closely follows the events of Wolfe's own life from 1920 to 1925.
Hardcover. New York, Linden Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Remainder stamp bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. This political thriller set in Ireland was a bestseller there and caused some apprehension in political circles.
Hardcover. Long Beach CA, privately printed, 3rd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 527 pages followed by author's 9 page catalog of ads for his titles. Maroon cloth with black lettering. Gilt lettered spine with Upton Sinclair at foot of spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR'S WIFE on front fly leaf, "With best wishes Mary Craig Sinclair, Long Beach, Calif., July 6 '28". Minor soil to covers, slight cock to spine, overall very good.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 264 pages, yellow and black boards with black cloth spine, spine label. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF by author but not signed: "To my Ol' Man William (otherwise Little Father) from one of "his chillun" (otherwise me) with love and gratitude for a brief but happy visit. July 20/29/ Claman Towers, South Duxbury Mass" Book slightly cocked, front hinge fragile, light wear.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 170 pages, top edge gilt, 8 color Illustrations by H.C. Christy. Light wear to cover decoration in gilt and 2-colors by Margaret Armstrong. Light corner wear to cloth.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, Rep., 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY BURGESS on front fly leaf and dated 1927. 7 color plates (out of 8) by Harrison Cady. Unfortunately, the frontis is missing and one plate lose with fraying on top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Berthe Amoss. Ex-lib with light stamp on front and rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 pages, light blue cloth, silver lettering on spine. "A" on copyright page with the Scribner's colophon. Bright, unclipped dust jacket with the $3.00 price, author's blue-tinted photo on rear. A real collector's copy. Wrapped in clear, protective mylar.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st thus, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcovers, uniform blue cloth with paste-down labels on front covers and spines. 1st printings as indicated by the "1" at the end of the text. Complete in 4 volumes: False Dawn (The 'Forties), The Old Maid (The 'Fifties), The Spark (The 'Sixties), New Year's Day (The'Seventies). Decorations, illustrated endpapers by E. C. Caswell. Each volume in Very Good unmarked condition. No dust jackets.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Color, B&W illustrations by J. Clinton Shepherd. Rust color cloth with cover label illustration, 242 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, expertly rebound green cloth with original gilt and black design inlaid on front cover. New color pattern endpapers, 460 pages, plus publisher's ads. Frontis w/ tissue guard many b/w engravings throughout. Various artists. illustrated tale of the triumphs and tragedies of the formation of the English colonies through the French & Indian War. Light shelf wear, no marking.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, illustrated in b&w by Henry Gillette. INSCRIBED BY DEAN on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Book has a slight slant, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Edited by Henry F. May. First published in 1869, this is the first modern edition of the novel many think is the author's best work. 614 pages, small closed tear to dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED "Liz" ON THE TITLE PAGE. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace World, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white woodcuts by Enrico Arno. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.
Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, First Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket, price-clipped with light wear to edges, light toning. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A 5-year-old Tomie worries over the health of his baby sister, learns to read in one weekend (with a pilfered schoolbook), and helps his father pave the new driveway (to a too-fine polish!). In the spirit of his earlier memoirs, the Newbery Honor-winning 26 Fairmount Avenue and Here We All Are, author Tomie dePaola recounts the (mostly) serene days between the end of kindergarten and the beginning of first grade. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Rep., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white and 2-colors by T.M. and M.T. Bevans. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Ace, Limited, 1987-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Number 41 out of 150 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Grey marbled boards over red spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 13th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light gray cloth with red stamping, 239 pages. Color frontis and b&w illustrations by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. With 10/7 Thirteenth Edition D-V on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate, mild residue on front endpapers, otherwise clean. Nice early reprint of this classic.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 170 pages with b&w drawings by George. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. All numbers including 1 on copyright page. A like-new signed copy of the sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning, My Side of the Mountain. This time, Sam must save both his younger sister and his trusty falcon, Frightful. Dust jacket art by Ted Rand.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by the author.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by the author.
Hardcover. NY, Longman's, Green and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers stamped in black. B&w illustrated in b&w by Sanford Tousey. An authentic adventure story of the California gold mining camps, contrasting east and west coast cultures. Author was Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judy Pedersen. Dust jacket with edgewear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SHULMAN on half-title page about the woman's group to which the book was donated for an auction dated 1998.
Hardcover. New york, Doubleday, Page & Co, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover with colored stamped decoration on front. Light rubbing to cover boards. Light fraying to corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Red Ozier Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Shelton CT, First Editions Library, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages. This is a facsimile reprint of the Viking Press first edition originally published in 1962. Only 5,000 printed then. Bright, unclipped dust jacket (with the $4.95 price on flap) and a matching slipcase.
Hardcover. Seattle, Sasquatch Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 4th printing, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. INSCRIBED BY LOIS LOWRY on title page "for Karen with love." Dust jacket shows light wear. In protective plastic jacket.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. The sixth novel in the 'Thursday Next' series. Clean, like new. Collectors postcard included.