Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, 198 pages. Illustrated title page and 8 color plates plus endpapers illustration by Maxfield Parrish. Despite the 1904 date on title page, this is a reprint with a 1922 date on the copyright page, and a list of many Scribner illustrated classics (published later than 1904) on the last printed page. Gilt lettering on spine mostly gone or faded, but the rest of the book is clean and bright. There is a small scar to front label on scroll at top right.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SARTON on half-title page. light soil to rear panel of dust-jacket otherwise VG/VG.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles, gilt pictorial and border to front board, color illustrations by Franklin Booth, including tissue-protected frontispiece and 3 full-page color plates, decorated figures by W. A. Dwiggins. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; a clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth covers stamped in white, 213 pages. Black & white illustrations by James Reid. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Edgewear. Corners worn, bumped. Previous owner's signature in pencil front endpaper.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
New York, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WRIGHT on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historic novel set in 17th century Spain during the Inquisition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle." SIGNED BY PEARSON on half title page.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small hardcover, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Field. Plain yellow cloth. Light scuff to top of boards at spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Gutter crack on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, The Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with 3-color decoration to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 156 pages Illustrated with b&w photos of a boy's life in the north. Light shelf wear, mild residue to rear inside cover.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 251 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and black, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and dark blue, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. A chilling and brutally funny romp through the American South. As high sheriff of Potts County, Nick Corey spends most of his time eating, sleeping and avoiding trouble. If only people--especially some troublesome pimps, his foul-tempered wife, and his half-witted brother-in-law--would stop pushing him around. Because when Nick is pushed, he begins to kill . . . or to make others do his killing for him!The basis for an aclaimed French film noir, Coup de Torchon. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with silver and blue metallic titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Mark Teague. SIGNED BY TEAGUE WITH A SKETCH opposite title page and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on laid-in bookplate. Like new in dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 3rd Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, faded gilt title on spine, 480 pages. Contains local folklore under various heading such as Giants, fairies, Tregeagle, mermaids, sorcery & witchcraft etc. A few black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Crosby Nichols and Co., 1st US, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages. A collection of French tales translated by Mrs. L. Burke. B&w line plates. In original bright blue embossed cloth with gilt design and lettering. 6-page publisher's catalog in front of the book Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1859.Just the slightest wear to spine extremities otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 152 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket price-clipped and slightly worn, chipped with small chunk missing from front cover. Internally very good.
Softcover. New York, Collier/Macmillan, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to spine and edges. SIGNED BY PROULX on title-page.