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.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.
Hardcover. New York , Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations by Fletcher Ransom. Light wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Laszlo Acs. In a bright unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago IL, A. C. McClurg & Co, unknown , 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white plate illustrations by Troy and Margaret Kinney. 219 pages. Green cover with white lettering and illustration. "14" written in white pen on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Edgewear, corners bumped. Soiling and rubbing . Previous owner's signature front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Covers with light wear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations, color label art by Alice Barber Stephens.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Translated by Elisabeth P. Stock. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows age and some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, BC Ed., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in full color and two-colors by Kurt Werth. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Clean, bright copy. When a tornado strips his precious topsoil and leaves behind a menagerie of extraordinary animals, Josh McBroom opens a zoo to raise the money to replace his topsoil.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Robert Weaver. Edgewear. Dust jacket with light soiling.
Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, ARC, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. An Advanced Reading Copy. B&w illustrations byJon Agee. A National Book Award Finalist. The overweight Hubble family and a pair of newlywed woodchucks have something in common; they are all being terrorized by a tyrannical toddler named Margaret. How it all turns out is the subject of this funny children's novel with witty b&w drawings. Clean.
Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy. This story collection contains: First Love; The Butcher's Daughter; The Whore Mother; The Garden of Eden; Northern Summers; The Dead; The Enemy; The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters; and The Meat Eaters.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap , Rep., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange, 304 pages plus publisher's ads. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Winner of the Maxwell Perkins Prize. "Meditations in Green is a brilliantly conceived, compellingly told tale of the Vietnam war and its aftermath, a chronicle of the corruption and decay of Spec. 4 James Griffin under the pressures of an unreal war." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages. Some foxing to top edge, slight edgewear, else a very nice, tight copy in protective mylar cover. First edition of the author's first novel, about the Vietnam War and its aftermath, winner of the Maxwell Perkins Prize.
Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover. 1929 first edition. Black cloth covers with title and authors name in green on spine. Foxing to front and rear endpapers. Introduction by Will Harvell. Scarce. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1020. Cover Art by Clark Hulings. Ink notation on first page. Light wear to edges of paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A brief survey of life in five North American Indian tribes--Makah, Hopi, Creek, Penobscot, and Mandan--at the time Columbus arrived in the New World. Nice 2-color drawings by Mad artist Jack Davis. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with heavy chipping and wear. B&w illustrations by Paul Brown. Worn edges to cover. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Softcover. Merrick NY, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1st pbk, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Edited and translated from the Italian by Stanislao G. Pugliese. Ignazio Silone, anti-fascist and founding member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) offers a politically conscious and soul searching memoir which details his own PSI activities and the various factors engendering the "necessity for action on behalf of liberty and democracy among the working classes." Over the course of his political career, Silone wrote a number of fiction and non-fiction works, and was imprisoned in Italy, France, Spain, and finally in Switzerland where he composed this memoir in 1942. Often compared with Andre Malraux and Albert Camus, Silone was awarded an honorary degree by Yale University, was a recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, and was twice considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. INSCRIBED BY PUGLIESE on the title page. Clean copy.