Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, almost new-looking condition. Black & white illustrations by Chorao. Hardbound, dust jacket. Author/illustrator's first book.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 291 pages. It's a shame that Henry Roth died in 1995, because now readers will never know what happens to his fictional alter ego, Ira Stigman, once he leaves City College. For readers familiar with Roth's series of autobiographical novels, Requiem for Harlem is the last of four books chronicling the childhood and young adulthood of Stigman; for those who have not yet discovered Roth, consider reading the first three in the series to get a handle on the dark, complicated, and rich world Ira Stigman occupies. Set in 1920s Harlem, Roth's novels explore the life of Jewish immigrants. This last installment finds his alter ego about to leave childhood and Harlem forever behind as he begins an affair with Edith, a refined NYU English professor. Roth portrays his youthful self severely here, dwelling on the guilt and self-hatred resulting from an incestuous relationship with his sister and an affair with a young cousin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What motivates us to reread literary works? How is our pleasure, interpretation, involvement, and evaluation different when we read a literary work and when we reread it? This fascinating book by Matei Calinescu is the first to focus on the implications of rereading for critical understanding. Drawing on literary theory, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and previous theories of reading, Calinescu describes the dynamics of rereading and explores the sometimes complementary, sometimes sharply conflicting relationships between reading and rereading. Calinescu analyzes fictional works by Borges, Nabokov, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, and Henry James, among others, explaining how reading texts is related both to symbolic play or make-believe and to games with rules. He reviews the history of reading in modern times, discussing, for example, how the Reformation led to rereadings of Scripture and how the proliferation of books during the Enlightenment led to a shift from "intensive reading" to "extensive reading." Calinescu looks at the distinctions between reading and rereading from the perspectives of the age, situation, and gender of the individual reader. He discusses the problems raised by secret or oblique languages and codes - devised to evade censors, communicate with a select audience of "secret sharers," or play games of hide-and-seek with the reader - and shows that they naturally lead to rereading a text. Calinescu argues persuasively that an understanding of rereading is useful in formulating both analytic strategies of practical criticism and a poetics of reading. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&w drawings by Garth Williams. Stated First Edition, dust jacket unclipped with $3.50 price. Jacket with light edgewear, chipping, small piece gone from top of spine. Book is clean and tight.

Hardcover. London, Bantam, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Wraparound band with blurb by Ian Rankin present, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 210 pages, b&w illustrations by Lloyd Coe. The legend of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) told especially for young people. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, SIGNED BY RANKIN on the title page.

Hardcover. New York, New American Library, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Light residue where price sticker was removed on front fly leaf. Light soil to white jacket. Gardner's first book.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the 1930's eleven-year-old Julia goes to spend the summer with her playwright father and finds that he has abandoned her to the care of her pre-occupied stepmother who seems unaware of the strange voices that haunt Julia every night. Slowly Julia begins to put names with the voices and finally unravels the 300-year-old mystery surrounding the Harkin family. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust wrapper. Translated by Laura Dail, first published in Mexico in 1989.

Hardcover. Toronto, Anansi, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease, Donald, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating family stories he has never shared with anyone, hoping to preserve history for his children. The dignity of Donald's death and his legacy encourages his loved ones to find a way to redeem and let go of the past, whether through his daughter's immersion in Chippewa religious ideas or his mourning wife's attempt to escape the malevolent influence of her own father. A deeply moving book about origins and endings, and how to live with honor for the dead, Returning to Earth is one of the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and will confirm his standing as one of the most important American writers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Light wear to cover. Hardbound. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in silver, 143 pages. Black & white illustrations by various artists, including Harriet Roosevelt Richards and E. H. Garrett. Tear to middle of front end paper. Lower part of front hinge cracked. Spine frayed at top & bottom and corners worn.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white and color illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Mild soiling to covers. Rubbing to corners. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Beige boards, 1/4 cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dj in mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1964, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 65 pages, b&w drawings by Paul Kennedy. The story of another of the Chase family pets, a lovable, exasperating donkey. Set in Maine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Grosse & Dunlap, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear and light small tearing. Covered in plastic bro-dart. Clean, tight copy with light foxing to fore edge text block.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae, Smith and Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Drawings by Edward Shenton, End paper line drawings in orange. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light rubbing on cover. Sun faded spine.

Hardcover. England, PS Pubishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. Gray cloth, gilt. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Introduction by Gregory Benford. #129 in limited series of 300 signed copies. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and Benford.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Faded spine and light soil. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket, light foxing to edges, else a lovely copy in clear brodart cover.