Hardcover. New York, J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Front hinge intact but tender. Full color and black & white illustrations by Milo Winter and Charlotte Becker. Light foxing to front cover color paste down illustration. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint , 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Top edge gilt. Embossed cover with gilt decorations. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Decorated front panel. Gilted top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by noted illustrator A.B. Frost. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Heavy bumping to all board corners, all edges slightly frayed. Mild fading and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, with eight illustrations and a pictorial spine and front cover. Minor edge wear and rub, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color frontispiece by W.J. Aylward/ b&w Illustrations by Pyle. Internally tight & clean. Mild water stain on back cover. Brandywine Edition.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 114 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Lattimore. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Review stamp front fly leaf. Edgewear, corners a bit bumped, rubbed. Spine bumped, faded. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, blue paper-covered boards. Light wear to book and dust jacket. SIGNED BY TREVOR on blank page proceeding the half-title page.
Softcover. London, FABER AND FABER, uncorrected proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial cover. Light wear to covers. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Illustrated with 10 color plates by Peter Hurd (1st edition by this illustrator) Tight copy. Light rubbing to lettering on spine.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 334 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges and preliminary pages.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. Black and white Illustrations by Pyle. Tissue over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear to covers. Back hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustration in white of children along a bannister on front cover. Copyright 1899, with no previous printings listed. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green cloth with dark green lettering on cover, 79 pages, b&w frontis. Seven stories set in New England and told, in part, in dialect. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean. It's the last swimming season for Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff, and their coach is building their self-discipline in a grueling four-hour-a-day test of stamina designed to bring them to the outer edge of their capabilities. As it turns out, Stotan Week is also the week in which secrets are revealed, and the four friends must draw upon their new strengths for an endurance they never knew they'd need.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Decorated endpapers. Former library book with residual labels, seals and markings. Covers bound in navy blue, some age wear: fraying to top and bottom of spine, corners of covers, yellowing to pages and edges, spine broken at front and back endpapers, but still intact. In very good condition for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition (NOT ex-lib). B&w illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Tales of the Fox sisters and horses that wore charms. This collection of true tales of spiritualism in America is a rare read. The stories are as entertaining as Sleepy Hollo, the only difference is that many of these strange tales are thought to be true. Clean copy.