Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third Easy Rawlins mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Finding seeds of inspiration in the stories of the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers--characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Arranged by Rachel Field. Color, b&w Illustrations by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Paper covered boards with pink label on cover, w/ some discoloration, corner wear. Middle third of book w/ light crimp to bottom corner.
UK, Goldmark Uppingham, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus acknowledgements. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Sinclair brings together an impressively predatory and seedy group of contemporary antiquarian book-dealers and an investigation of the 19th century Jack the Ripper murders. The double plot fuses a hunt for rare books and the Ripper.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. A nice copy of Bulgakov's 1920's novel that became the play 'The Days of the Turbins' in 1926. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, George Doran, reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. No colophon on (C) page. Spine cocked.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with soil, major chipping, tape repair. 128 pages. Frontispiece illustrated by Lee Haynes. Many illustrations in b/w, a few indicate B. Stevenson as artist, the rest are not specifically identified. Illustrated end papers. Seventeen chapters telling of the growth and experiences of a young American Indian boy.- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Half cloth boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Number 77 of no more than 100 copies authorized for distribution by Signed Editions Limited. Dust jacket has light crease on front flap.
New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth cover, leaping stag embossed on front. 94 pages. Black & white illustrations by Seredy. Previous owner's signatures on front end paper. Slight discoloration to edges of pages. Water stain to covers. Faded spine.
Hardcover. NY, Viking/Jr. Literary Guild, 1st , 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers, red lettering on spine. Leaping stag embossed on front. No dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Seredy. Light residue to rear end paper suggests ex-lib otherwise clean with light wear. Cloth corners with minor fraying.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in an orange cloth binding. Light shelf wear, soil. By the author of the Fu Manchu stories, this novel is a mixture of romance & secret-service intrigue set amidst the milieu of a vaudeville troupe of the East.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. Author's first book. Lovely copy in protective brodart cover. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. Authors first book. Lovely copy in protective brodart cover. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with some fading to spine. 152 pages, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise very good. The story of a 15 year old loner runaway who finally gets another chance. Not wanted by her mother, a Mexican-American girl chooses to live in an old woman's home rather than be sent to a juvenile hall. Influenced by the Los Angeles Police Department Explorer Program.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 391 pages, poor dust jacket tattered with a chunk gone from spine and rear panel. An anthology edited by Derleth, collecting previously published stories by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Theodore Sturgeon, Algernon Blackwood, and others. Grey cloth with green titling and decoration, with b&w illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. Spine square. Binding sound. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, illustrated in b&w by James MacDonald. Black cloth with yellow lettering and design. A tale of stagecoachs and highwaymen in New Hampshire. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, illustrated in b&w by James MacDonald. Black cloth with yellow lettering and design.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages. Earl Pryor is the biggest thirteen-year-old anyone ever saw. He's taller than a lot of grown-ups. He's got a hairy chest. He shaves. High school kids ask him to buy them beer. Everyone thinks Earl's so tough, such a troublemaker, such a man. They come to him looking for a fight. And Earl will fight them. But he's not so tough: He loves his mom, loves his dad. Still, a man's got to take care of himself. He's got to make people respect him. If Earl's dad has taught him anything, he's taught him that. When Earl gets suspended from school for a week for fighting, he figures he'll fill up the days somehow. But a lot can happen in a week. His family is falling apart. Everything he counted on is falling apart, and Earl's still learning what it really means to be a man. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Grey cloth covers with silver titles to cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous charts, illustrations and photos in b&w. Cream cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, small 1 centimeter chunk missing from top spine edge. Small bump on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.