Hardcover. NY, J.B. Lippincott Company, 2nd pr., 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Mary Shepard. Moderate wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, The Century Company, 1st illustrated, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. 12x 13". Illustrated with b&w drawings.by the Rhead brothers. Decoration on front cover in limited color of a man running away. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Small dent on rear cover edge. The cover is worn and slightly soiled and age-darkened but otherwise clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max's life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you. Like new.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light pink cloth soiled, worn, 251 pages, B&w illustrations by Nancy Bankart Gurney. Interior clean and bright. The tales and adventures of Toby Tottel. An interwoven series of adventures very much of the "fantastical" and colorful, there are more colors than the pink the title mentions and much more wordplay. Visit the island of Purganda, Hedgehog Market, The Magical Forester, The Sinful Miller, etc.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a spine label, 192 pages, b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-lib with stamping, mild residue to endpapers.
Hardcover. Boston, Jordan, Marsh & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated cloth with a blue cloth spine design in gilt with a smiling Pinocchio. An early appearance of Pinocchio in English. Translated from the Italian with an Introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth. This is the first pirated edition. A second printing the following year (1899) had 4 color plates. This edition with Enrico Mazzanti's black-and-white in-text illustrations, not credited. 212 pages, bright, sharp condition.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with 3-color decoration to cover, 181 pages. Eight 2-color illustrations, plus illustrated title page, artist not credited. Covers worn, spine faded, hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf. Contents clean. Uncommon edition.
NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.
Hardcover. Boston/New York, Books Inc, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in black, 252 pages. Charming and unusual b&w drawings by Louise Beaujon. Dust jacket worn, tape repaired on reverse.
New York, Julian Messner Inc., 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound in a damaged dust jacket. Previous owner's signature back of front endpaper. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Waterstains to covers. Spine wear. Dust jacket with large chunk missing from top of spine and back cover. Pinto Goodluck, a little Indian boy, lived with his mother, his grandfather and his burro, Ambrosio. His grandfather made beautiful jewelry from silver and turquoise. Then the Great War came and all the young men went away and the turquoise mines were closed. Grandfather knew of a secret mine but it was a long way off and the journey was full of danger. How Pinto found the secret mine and brought home the turquoise is an absorbing adventure story beautifully illustrated in b/w and color by Bronson.
Hardcover. Boston , Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in red and gilt, 306 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Frontispiece piece protected by tissue guard. Unusually bright, clean copy. Light cornerwear to cover.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, b&w illustrations by Jack Russell. What space travel was going to be like (from the perspective of 1961). Requirements for astronauts, spaceships and capsules, space pioneers. Book has small red star stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good. Dust jacket with chipping, light tape repair.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. SIGNED BY DEAN on the half-title page. 246 pages, a adventure story featuring pirates by this Vermont author. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Comapny, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and tears. Clean and tight internally. Illustrated by Marc Simont. A story of 1939 New York, climaxing with a race between a steam engine and a team of horses, with appearances by Walt Whitman, Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper, Samuel Morse, and other luminaries of the age.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages. B&w illustrations by Victor Mays. Light blue cloth cover has fading around spine. Two teenage boys take a summer job along the Maine coast that turns into a mystery adventure. No markings.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Children's Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR Nancy Willard AND ILLUSTRATORS THE DILLONS on title page. Very clean and tight copy. Funny picture book about how the housekeeper of Bosch deals with his crazy personality & art. A witty tale by Willard with amusing color illustrations by the award-winning husband and wife team.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY LEAVITT on title page. Pristine copy.
Hardcover. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 163 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Previous price sticker on front flap of price-clipped dust jacket, small cut on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.