Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, NA, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations. Pink endpapers. Preliminary page missing. Inscription at top of title page. Cover features image of girl and boy near a tree; decorated in red, blue, black, and gold. Some light rubbing at top and base of spine, and corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, W. & R. Chambers , 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages, hardcover. Illustrated by Horace Gaffron. Stamped and illustrated boards. Children's book on the Royal Scots in Gallipoli during WWI. Fading to spine. Staining to rear panel. Corners bumped. Heavy age toning and foxing to text block edges. Frontispiece intact. Scarce. A bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Faro, Inc., 1st thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. black cloth with title on spine label, 313 pages. A good+ copy of the first edition [1930 on the title page] of the William Faro pirated hard cover edition, lacking the dust-jacket. "Revised, 1930, by William Faro, Inc." on copyright page. No markings, edgewear to cloth covers, corners. mild wear to top of spine. Binding solid.
Hardcover. New York, Authors & Newspapaer Association, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with 3-color decoration, 317 pages. 4 color plates by Arthur William Brown. Previous owner's signature on title page and front end paper. Gutter crack at title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Co, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 326 pages, cloth bound, gilt lettering and illustrations embossed on front cover and spine. Circular stain on front cover, light wear to edges of cover, spine cocked, corners of some pages creased, previous owner's inscription to blank prelim page, red sticker residue to prelim page.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead , 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with drawing of dog on cover. The previous owner has created a wrap-around dust jacket using the title page soread from in the book. Illustrated with drawings in blue & red by Addison Burbank. Laffy is a smooth Fox Terrier who became mascot of the Navy Training School (Salvage) in New York City. Ex-lib with stamp on rear fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tom Shephard is the new homicide detective in swanky Laguna Beach, California, and he's come to town from L.A. after killing a boy in a justifiable homicide. But the rep and the psychological baggage has followed him to Laguna Beach. Shephard has barely found his desk when he's called to the scene of a particularly brutal homicide in which the victim has been doused in turpentine and set ablaze. Shortly thereafter, a second victim is dealt a similar fate, and Shephard finds himself drawn into a complex mystery involving sex, blackmail and murder that stretches back forty years and that also involves members of his own family. Paper tanning slightly. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ballantine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. SIGNED BY GOODMAN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, black spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Unmarked boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden in the depths of Heart Lake for more than two decades. Now Jane has returned to the school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories. And young, troubled girls are beginning to die again-as piece by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface. . . .
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in light blue cloth, 184 pages. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers and endpapers. Spine and corners a bit bumped. Tale of young Lance Chapelle and his horse Cherry set in 1870s Vermont.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy in protective brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy in protective brodart cover. Walker Percy (1916-1990) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a U.S. senator. Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of the alienation of modern American culture, Percy was the bestselling author of six fiction titles--including the classic novel The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the National Book Award--and fifteen works of nonfiction.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 285 pages, in light green cloth covers with dark green lettering. Some small holes along edge of spine, otherwise clean. With a bright color dust jacket with minor chipping, edgewear. Internally clean and crisp. A true collector's copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt decorated cover and spine, top edge gilt. 313 pages, with illustrations throughout. Stories and sketches about Holland and the Dutch. Mild foxing throughout and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macaulay Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 333 pages, illustrated in b&w by Joe Banks. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. Fact and fiction mix in this first truly international survey of a vibrant, burgeoning field, its masterful twenty-first-century practitioners, and their work. William A. Ewing, the eminent photography author and curator, has selected 240 photographs by over 100 photographers, ranging from renowned figures such as Andreas Gursky, Richard Misrach, Susan Derges and Edward Burtynsky, to younger rising stars, including Olaf Otto Becker, Pieter Hugo and Penelope Umbrico. Each represents an individual or original viewpoint of a shared concern for our rapidly changing environment. Organized into ten themes: Sublime; Pastoral; Artefacts; Rupture; Playground; Scar; Control; Enigma; Hallucination; and Reverie. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, Page and Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Cream colored covers with illustrated label pasted on front. Top edge gilt , clean.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and yellowing to dust jacket edges. An otherwise tight copy. First printing of the author's first book, which won an Edgar as Best First Novel.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURKE. Like new condition.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering on front and spine. Moderate edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Top right page block has abrasion on corner. Top spine heavy fraying to fabric. Illustrated in b&w by Norman Price
Hardcover. New York, Lovell, Coryell & Co., 2nd pr., 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. 293 and 292 pages. 3/4 leather covers w/ gilt lettering and design on spine. Gilt top edges. Marbled end paper. Rough-cut pages. Light rubbing, edge wear to covers. Front hinge on Volume II slightly cracked. Else very clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CRAIS on title page.