Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages, Hardcover with dust jacekt. SIGNED BY FLEISCHMAN on title-page. Black & white illustrations by Jos. A. Smith. Spine faded, therwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Lavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Louise Birt Baynes and Ernest Harold Baynes. 145 pages. Super condition, bookmark of former Governor of Vermont (Redfield Proctor) on inside front cover. Otherwise bright and clean.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon Graphic Library, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light edgewear to cover wrapper. Color comics throughout by Chris Ware. Clean, tight copy. This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray booards with red and blue pictorial design, 124 pages + 1 ad. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Oliver Herford. Ex-lib with label pasted on front pastedown. Die-cut library stamp on title page. Covers soiled, worn. Interior bright and clean.

Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 3rd, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white drawings by Eric Von Schmidt. Jingo Hawks, of Mrs. Daggatt's Beneficent Orphan House in Boston, is hired out to General Dirty-Face Jim Scurlock as a chimney sweep. A mysterious Mr. Peacock 'buys' Jingo and they set out on a treasure hunt, pursued by Daggatt and Scurlock. Hilarious scenes follow . . . . Expressive line drawings enhance this rousing adventure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illusrations by Norm Chartier. Publisher's lending library stamp on front endpaper. Light soil to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Lodestar Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy with light edgewear to covers.

NY, Lodestar/Dutton, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth with a color label on front cover, 316 pages. Eight color plates by Clara M. Burd. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DUVOISIN on half title-page. Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Light wear to cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth, 207 pages. black & white illustrations by Eunice H. Stephenson. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Front cloth cover with two- color illustration and black lettering. Edgewear bottom edges, spine top and bottom. Still very good.

Hardcover. NY, Random House/Literary Guild , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, with sepia-tone Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 970 pages. Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first time. Collected in this first volume are Didion's five iconic books from the 1960s and 1970s: Run River, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, and The White Album. Whether writing about countercultural San Francisco, the Las Vegas wedding industry, Lucille Miller, Charles Manson, or the shopping mall, Didion achieves a wonderful negative sublimity without condemning her subjects or condescending to her readers. Chiefly about California, these books display Didion's genius for finding exactly the right language and tone to capture America's broken twilight landscape at a moment of headlong conflict and change. Remainder dot to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1st US, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages, with publisher's advertisement in back. Decorated cover and illustrations throughout. Corner and edge wear and fray, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, and spine soiling. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 6th, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 475 pages. Hardcover with dark green covers, gilt lettering and dog illustration in gilt on front. Gutter cracked throughout and repaired in places. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf. Cover boards fraying at corners and small rips to top spine with small piece missing.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st book, SIGNED BY ERMELINO. Stamped #s on front end paper, & half-title page.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has a paper scar to spine where label was removed. Illustrated on dj and cover of a man standing at a bar. B&w illustrations by Jack Gallagher. A satiric view of tipplers, depicted in the character of a Falstaffian American male apparently meant to counteract the caticature of prohibition and prohibitionists as a pinch-faced old spoil sport put forth by the cartoonist Rollin Kirby in the "New York World."

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. No dust jacket. Author's first book. 214 pages. Light wear to edges of cover. Minor foxing on edges, but inside pages are clean and bright. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young William Jones is on a desperate search through darkest London for John Diamond, the son of a man his father apparently once cheated badly. Will he find him? Originally published in the United States in 1980 as"Footsteps", the novel combines a cast of remarkable eccentrics with superb sensory descriptions. The title was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.

Hardcover. Boston, Usher & Strickland, 1st, 1841, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, embossed brown cloth covers, gilt on spine. An autobiographical narrative with temperance leanings. Much on nautical life from the seaman's perspective: whaling, slave trade and daily life aboard a ship. Three page preface signed L.C. Scarce. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. This book offers eleven essays on Fante's career, ranging from close thematic analysis of individual stories and novels to broadly informed assessments of Fante's life and art in the context of his times. Major areas explored in the book include Fante's treatment of the Italian-American experience; his relationship to other American writers of the 1930s and beyond; the deeply Catholic nature of Fante's fiction; his unique and still-seminal vision of Los Angeles; and his lifelong concern to render in fiction both the comedy and the horrors of the writing life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Colored decoration on front cover, light rubbing. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 513 pages. Hardcover. Light green boards with dark green and gold gilt decoration on front cover and spine. Some light chipping to edges and corners of boards. Previous owner's inscription dated "Xmas 1894". Pages lightly tanned with age, otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 860 pages. Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction he published in The New Yorker (more than any other writer to this day) came to epitomize the kind of short story featured in that magazine, and his impeccable ear and skillful dialogue have influenced later writers such as Raymond Carver. Bringing together sixty stories written over four decades--the largest, most comprehensive collection of O'Hara's stories ever published--former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath presents a fresh and arresting new perspective on one of American literature's master storytellers. Clean copy.