Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover.339 pages. Slight sunning to dust jacket spine, else a very nice, tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with green and white design on front cover, spine with green lettering. 32 b&w plates by Remington.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #104. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Frot wrapper is separated from spine. Pencil notation to first page.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 211 pages. The author's first collection of short stories, ten stories which explore the British experience of France over a period of 300 years, from the 17th century to the present. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a beautiful copy,
Hardcover. NY, Horn Book, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 359 pages. Using as a framework his two essays "Out on a Limb with the Critics" and "Coming to Terms with Criticism," Paul Heins has selected contributions which expand and elucidate "the invariable questions that beset the criticism of children's books: the classification, defense, and evaluation of children's literature." Included is the controversial exchange between Eleanor Cameron and Roald Dahl on the validity of the child as critic; Jane Langton's perceptive and original discussion of the fine distinction between fantasy and reality in literature; Alvin Schwartz's remarks on folklore and humor; Mary Orvig's consideration of Swedish books in translation; and treatments of individual titles such as Watership Down, Tom Sawyer, and A Wizard of Earthsea. Name and stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by McCully.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. Black & white illustrations (plus color frontis) by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age, soiling to back cover, weak binding. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Provides fresh insight into the age old tale of a woman who grows as an individual and literally explodes out of her marriage. May Sarton describes the burgeoning artist confined by a social contract. Light fading to spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear is price clipped - now protected with clear plastic cover. Minor sun fade to top and bottom edges of covers. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1170. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge cracked.
Hardcover. NY, Macaulay, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers with titles and image of talon in black. Black & white frontispiece by George W. Gage. Light wear to covers otherwise VG.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Stated first edition.
Hardcover. New York, Sun Dial Press, Inc., Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. Reprint. Price clipped dust jacket with darkening to spine, chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Covici-Friede, 2nd pr., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. Previous owners name and the number "10" on front endpaper. Top edge stained black. Price clipped dust jacket with light chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. Text and Black & white illustrations by A. Vimar. Full color illustrated cover with light rubbing to edges, darkening in spots. Clean, unmarked pages. Good plus condition.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered they weren't his only lover, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency--me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his body, the office safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was missing.From the pen of MWA Grand Master Ed McBain comes this unforgettable story of warring agents and Hollywood dealmaking, murder and scandal--and passions igniting in the dark of night. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Louie the loan-shark's life is a big nothing until he becomes caught up in his uncle's scheme to rig the state lottery, and then he has more excitement than he can handle.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages. When Danita finds out that she has an older half brother, she must reexamine the way she sees her father & family.