Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, illustrated in b&w by Neill. Rust colored cloth with color plate on front cover. Some faint marking to front end paper illustrations, otherwise clean, tight copy. Musty odor.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece Wonder Tales, Marine Warner invited the collaboration of five writers with a special sympathy for the French stories they render here in burnished, cunning, and amusing English. "The White Cat", "The Subtle Princess", "Bearskin", "Starlight", The Counterfeit Marquise", and "The Great Green Worm" are as unforgettable today as they were when they were first published centuries ago. Translated by Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery, Ranjit Bolt, A.S. Byatt and Terence Cave. with small black and white drawings by Sophie Herxheimer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by F.S. Church, 150 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt design of flying horse in front of moon, beveled edges. All edges gilt. Light fraying to top, bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down.
Hardcover. Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Harold Berson.
Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st Printing, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages, blue covers with cloth yellow spine. Black and blue illustrations by Marc Simont throughout. Interior clean. Dust jacket color illustrated with protective mylar cover, one corner slightly bumped. Very nice tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations and color frontispieces by W.W. Denslow. A slight musty odor from being packed away. Smudges on some of the pages, otherwise clean. Bindings tight. Spines straight. Some foxing to edges.The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: 267 pages. Red spine, which is faded with a touch of foxing.The Marvelous Land of OZ: 287 pages. Blue spine which is faded with a touch of foxing.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by the author. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Gruelle. Bright cardboard covers in color, wear to corners. Light tape shadow to front endpaper illustration, otherwise clean internally.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where in 1910 they are the only blacks.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages, b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. A tale set in pre-WW1 England. A generous impulse prompts Pansy to change clothes with a girl from the workhouse, beginning a series of strange adventures which involve Pansy being mistaken for a workhouse child, being chased hither and thither, being locked in a butcher's cellar, and being forced to hide on top of a haystack at night terrified that she is being hunted down by dogs.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages (Vol. I) and 528 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 56 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. Frayed wear to spine tops (more so on Vol. 1). Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages (Vol. I) and 489 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 46 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including frontispiece and illustrated title page in Vol. I. Color frontispiece in Vol. II. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and some chipping to spine edges Front hinge on Vol. I is cracked, cover still attached. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages (Vol. I) and 508 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 52 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. More serious chipping to top of spine on Vol. II, and frayed wear to top of spine on Vol. 1 Rear hinge of Vol. II is split about 3/4 of the way down, but cover is still attached. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Softcover. Louisville KY, Sarabande Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 202 pages. If it's possible to be dubbed a "master storyteller" this early in one's career, then Leung's enchanting debut short story collection most assuredly has earned him the title. As diverse as they are similar, Leung's characters and their conditions run the gamut from elderly widower to precocious youngsters, porn star to AIDS victim, serial killer to estranged sisters, and all are lucidly portrayed in prose that is achingly lyrical and elegantly refined. Leung's stories are startling in their depth and intricacy. INSCRIBED BY LEUNG on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&W illustrations by William A. Kolliker. Review slip laid in. Some browning to dust jacket flaps, uneven color to light blue cloth covers. Traces of paper clip to a few pages, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy. Tunis' World Series is Book #2 in his 8- book series on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball -- World Series champs.
Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 73 pages plus index, b&w illustrations and dust jacket painting in color by Lewin. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.
New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, b & w illustrations by Ted Lewin, clean, tight copy, tear and slight wear to edges of dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Coward-McCann Inc. , 1st US, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages, hardcover. Being the further adventures of the Treasure Seekers. With illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. Rough-cut fore edge. Heavy bumping to corners. Small tear to page 11 taped. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Mild age toning and foxing to preliminary pages. A tight and clean copy.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 160 pages. Ten black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom. Previous owner's signature on title-page. Dust jacket with large chunks gone from top edges. closed tears, soil. Story of a giant volcano eruption in the African jungle'
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. One of 500 SIGNED BY BENEDICT on a special tipped-in page.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. A collection of short stories which illuminate, with imagery and humor, the darkest corners of the American soul. The author attempts to capture the personalities of rural America, shaped by poverty, cruelty and an odd compassion.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 145 pages. Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction by exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa and the works of Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe and Amos Oz. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. First edition. Beige/light brown cloth with reddish lettering/decoration, top edge stained red as issued, 202 pages, illustrated with drawings. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by F.Y. Cory. Bright decorated green boards with gilt lettering. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue coth with orange titles, 94 pages. B&w and 2-color illustrations by Mildred Boyle. Soiling to endpapers, covers worn. When John Taylor and his parents move from their apartment in the big city to a house in the suburbs, the adventure has just begun. With a big backyard and woods to explore, he quickly finds that there is a whole exciting world to discover with his new friend, Jim. As the boys search for answers to the mystery that they uncover, they learn that treasured friendships can be found in the most unexpected of places.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages. Hardcover with very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, a classic adventure of the early Florida frontier., winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. 14 color plates and endpaper illustration 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 with a short scratch to front panel.
Softcover. Canada, Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages, Softcover with light wear to wrappers. b&w photographs, bibliography. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, McBride, Nast and Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shelf wear on bottom edge on board. Light soil on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down and opposite title page.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a decorated cloth binding, 4 black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black with a color paste-down illustration on cover. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates by Ralph Carlyle Prather. Worn copy, previous owners notation on prelim page.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Limited to 350 copies. Line drawings by John Ward. Brown cover boards with gilt rose decoration on front. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages plus notes on the woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some wear. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 363 pages. Introduction by Melvin van Peebles. Originally published in 1953 as "Cast the First Stone" which was edited and changed by the publisher and now has been restored to how Himes intended it to be "with its raw honesty and startling compassion entirely intact." His novel of Jimmy Monroe portrays an African American prisoner who must endure racism, homosexuality, and prison corruption, all of which test the limits of his sanity, his capacity for suffering, and his definition of love. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Gale Research Co., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes with orange cloth covers. 275, 335 pages. Biographical data are interspersed with autobiographical and critical excerpts from the writings of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors and illustrators. B&w illustrations throughout. Name on front fly leafs, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages, color frontispiece, fold-out map of Tokyo Bay, cream colored cloth with Japanese characters on front. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight copy.