Hardcover. New York, NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers. Sticker on rear dust jacket over bar code.
Softcover. Freedom CA, Crossing Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages. The author's second book. In 10 astute, mildly zany and often wickedly funny stories, Kirshenbaum peers at a multifaceted assortment of modern relationships. A wife who decides to organize her life by making lists of "Things to Do" discovers she married not for love, but for a good health plan. If you are a woman with a past, there is no point to an attachment with a man who thinks only of the future, according to "Past Perfect." Reality may encompass a gray Honda Civic in suburban Connecticut, but to the narrator of "Wheels," true love is a sleek, cobalt-blue Alfa Romeo on the open road. "Pravda" describes two women, friends of many years, who spend a fall afternoon outdoors on a bench discussing Marxism, men and amorality. An American couple who have come to Romania in search of romance to save their marriage find only "Travail"; the highlight of their vacation is the sight of three stuffed goats in pink tutus.
Softcover. NY, Crown, proof wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, 288 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Publisher's letter to booksellers laid-in. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A Stokes, 1st US, 1938, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth with faded gilt title on spine, 320 pages. Black and white illustrations and a color frontispiece by Isobel and John Morton Sale. Cloth dulled, faded on spine, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dj with light edgewear, price clipped. Soil on fore edge.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and decoration, 235 pages. Mary Shepard's map of Miss Poppins' "Long Walk" and b&w drawings throughout by Shepard. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Zondervan, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, 94 pages. "The story of a Scottish lassie who went to the west coast of Africa and tamed the savage tribes ..." Color frontis., Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, illustrated by Gordon Browne. Illustrated cardboard covers, worn and chipped at edges. Fragile book with tender hinges. Ewing's last work, first serialized Aunt Judy's Magazine 1883-84. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. 64 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Margot Tomes. A tale of the King's birthday & the marzipan shop on the narrowest lane in England.
New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. 64 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Margot Tomes. A tale of the King's birthday & the marzipan shop on the narrowest lane in England.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated 18th-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy. A novel of terror set during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 108 pages. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear and fading.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light sun-fade and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A novel about the author Henry James that attracted praise from reviewers nationwide. It's a bold writer indeed who dares to put himself inside the mind of novelist Henry James, but that is what Toibin, highly talented Irish author of The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, has ventured here, with a remarkable degree of success. The book is a fictionalized study, based on many biographical materials and family accounts, of the novelist's interior life from the moment in London in 1895 when James's hope to succeed in the theater rather than on the printed page was eclipsed by the towering success of his younger contemporary Oscar Wilde. Thereafter the book ranges seamlessly back and forth over James's life, from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States-including the suicide of his father and the tragic early death of his troubled sister Alice-to his settling in England, in a cherished house of his own choosing in Rye. Along the way it offers hints, no more, of James's troubled sexual identity, including his fascination with a young English manservant, his (apparently platonic) night in bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes and his curious obsession with a dashing Scandinavian sculptor of little talent but huge charisma. Another recurrent motif is James's absorption in the lives of spirited, highly intelligent but unhappy young women who die prematurely, which helped to inform some of his strongest fiction. The subtlety and empathy with which Toibin inhabits James's psyche and captures the fleeting emotional nuances of his world are beyond praise, and even the echoes of the master's style ring true.
New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with a pictorial label on front cover.403 pages with color illustrations and numerous pen & ink vignettes by John Rae. Internally and externally very good. Masterman Ready, (1841), was one of the first historical adventures written for young readers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CUSHMAN on title page. Dust jacket illust. by Trina Schart Hyman. Dust jacket spine faded, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Translated from the French by Virginia Vaughan. Ex-lib with markings, reside to front endpapers. Mild dampstain to bottom of last 100 pages. An attractive reading copy despite faults. Mauprat is a novel by the French novelist George Sand about love and education. It was published in serial form in April and May 1837. Like many of Sand's novels, Mauprat borrows from various fictional genres- the Gothic novel, chivalric romance, the Bildungsroman, detective fiction, and the historical novel.
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 443 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HORGAN on the front fly leaf and dated 1972. Horgan's attempt to remind readers of a great 20th century English writer who lost visibility after his death in 1945. Bibliography of Baring's books.
 "Market!by: Lewin, Ted")
 "Married Life and Other True Adventuresby: Binnie Kirshenbaum")
 "Martian Chronicles, The by: Bradbury , Ray")
 "Martin Dresslerby: Millhauser, Steven")
 "Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Fieldby: Eleanor Farjeon")
 "Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, Theby: Alexander, Lloyd")
 "Mary Poppins in the Park by: P. L. Travers")
 "Mary Slessor: The White Queen of Calabar by: A. R. Evans")
 "Mary's Meadow and Letters from a Little Gardenby: Ewing, Juliana Horatia")
 "Marzipan Day on Bridget Laneby: Cassedy/Margot Tomes, Sylvia")
 "Marzipan Day on Bridget Laneby: Cassedy/Margot Tomes, Sylvia")
 "Mason & Dixon: A Novelby: Pynchon, Thomas")
 "Masques (SIGNED COPY)by: Pronzini, Bill")
 "Master Key, Theby: Togawa, Masako")
 "Master of Miracle, The - A New Novel of the Golemby: Ish-Kishor/Arnold Lobel, Sulamith")
 "Master of the Crossroadsby: Bell, Madison Smartt")
 "Master of the Moorby: Rendell, Ruth")
 "Master, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Toibin, Colm")
 "Master, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Toibin, Colm")
 "Masterman Readyby: Merryat/John Rae, Captain (Frederick)")
 "Match Point for Murderby: Platt, Kin")
 "Matilda Bone (SIGNED COPY)by: Cushman, Karen")
 "Mauprat. A Novel by: George Sand")
 "Maurice Baring Restored: Selections from His Work, Chosen and Edited, with an Introductory Essay and Commentaries by Paul Horgan (SIGNED COPY)by: Horgan (Ed.), Paul")