Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt vignette of windmill and black borders to front cover. 310 pages.Originally published in Aunt Judy's Magazine as: The Miller's Thumb in 1873. Appears to be the first U.S. printing. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 114 pages. "This debut novel--by an acclaimed Argentinean writer, and first published in 1958--centers on a sixteen-year-old who becomes pregnant after an assault by an older man. Setting the story in the sweltering heat of Argentina's Pampas, Gallardo re-creates the world of ranchers and missionaries from the perspective of the girl, with her adolescent confusion and private sense of guilt. Gallardo juxtaposes her solitary desperation--she visits a local medicine woman for an abortion, and gallops recklessly on horseback to induce a miscarriage--with the conservative Catholic society that closes ranks against her." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, New York Review Children's Collection, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Illustrated in red, black and white throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Wendy Watson. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Light gutter crack.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Dust jacket with edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Lattimore. Bright blue decorated cloth. Bottom of spine has fraying, scuffing to edge otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Literary Guild/Doubleday Doran & Co., reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black stamping, 281 pages. Endpapers and b&w illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. The boyhood adventures of Jerry Foster set in rural Wisconsin in the 1800s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 16 black & white drawings by George Foster Barnes. Front fly leaf is missing and there's some shelfwear to gilt-decorated covers. Rear cover has light wrinkle to cloth. Still, a clean, tight copy and relatively scarce. Depicts NY city street life in the late 1800s.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy has been signed on the half title page, with an inkstamped monkey. A Nick Magaracz detective story by the author (AKA Irene Fleming) of the Mother Lavinia Grey series and and 'Girl on the Run'. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, illustrated with b&w photos depicting rural life. Excellent condition in a bright dust jacket that has only a 3/4 inch chip to rear panel. Slight slant to spine.
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.
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.