Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by Nonny Hogrogian. Ex-lib with small spine label and envelope reside on rear endpapers. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Secker and Warburg, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Author's 1st book of fiction, and 2nd under his name. Rear of dust jacket with water stain - book unaffected. Publisher's stamp on front flyleaf stating "Showroom Sample." Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Joe Gunther and his team-the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)-are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and back-up. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd, seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen year old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.At the same time, an old, retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn't murdered. And a patient who calls herself The Governor has walked away from a state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out that she was indeed once "Governor for a Day," over forty years ago, but that she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her from revealing something that she saw all those years ago. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a bright gilt, black and red design. Illustrated with 31 b&w drawings by F. O. Small. Small, previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf (dated 1891). Rosalind, Marjory, and Ida are the three eldest children of Col. And Mrs. Peel, who are off in India with their younger children. The Three Little Maids live with a governess back in England and this is their tale.
Hardcover. NY, Richard R Smith, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 348 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light toning throughout. Red dyed top edge with some fading. Original dust jacket with tears, chips, and age toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding.
Hardcover. Boston, Dana Estes, reprint, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 244 pages. Yellow pictorial cloth, minor rubbing. Black & white illustrations by Ethelred Barry. Title page states Eighth Thousand. Clean.
Hardcover. London, Elkin Mathews and Marrot Limited, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color decorated boards with an orange cloth spine, 36 pages. Paper label on front with title. SIGNED BY COLUM on the limitation page, this is #263 of 500 for sale. Endpapers darkened otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Ipswitch UK, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Horizontal quarto (10-7/8" x 9") in a three-piece binding of linen sides printed in a pattern of scarlet, slate, and yellow vertical stripes with a shelfback of ochre buckram stamped in gold leaf; 224 pages. Introduction by Stella Gibbons. Designed by John Lewis and printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd. Illustrated by John Griffiths with 2 double-spread color drawings and numerous black-and-white part-page and marginal sketches. Copy #1370 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, illustrated in b&w by James, green cloth covers with a black and gilt design. Square, bright copy with a small brownish stain to top inch of spine, Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Mild soil to covers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 45 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Green cloth spine with illustrated boards. Dust jacket with light edge wear, chunk gone from rear panel at top, smaller corresponding piece gone from rear board. Interior bright, clean.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with orange lettering on the cover and spine, 433 pages. No colophon on title page or copyright page. Red top edge faded. This was Dos Passos' second book -- published when he was just 25 years old, and having spent the end of WWI as a volunteer with the ambulance corps in Spain and Italy during WWI. This is a profoundly anti-war book - and remains a high-water mark of realism in war writing. Second state with the correct "singing" on page 213. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Bound from English sheets. 17 black & white illust. by Lewis Baumer. Front hinge cracked. Several corners creased, one corner (page 23). Page 13 with tear. Decorated green covers.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edgewear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston/London, Walker Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Haunting and deeply moving - a beautifully illustrated, fictionalized account of a formative time in the life of the teenage girl who wrote our most enduring horror story. Long before Mary Shelley published her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1818, at the age of nineteen, she shared fireside ghost tales at the home of family friends in Scotland. It was there that the headstrong girl - orphaned by her mother, spurned by her stepmother, and sent away by her father - spent two of her happiest teenage years. The brooding Scottish landscape and warm family atmosphere so influenced the author's life and art that some believe her famous novel took root there. To illuminate this period in Mary Shelley's life, Sharon Darrow skillfully spins fiction from fact. Her words are masterfully matched by Angela Barrett's exquisite, atmospheric, authentically detailed illustrations. The result is a rich tapestry of stories within stories - those told, those written, and more extraordinary, those lived. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark green lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 309 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, reprint/BC Ed., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, clean unmarked copy with front gutter crack. In a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FFORDE on the title page "Jasper", postcard laid in - The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular series. Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Clean copy.
London, Collins, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light soil, small stain to bottom of dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 122 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis N. Cote. An historical adventure set in Cape Ann, Massachusetts during the 1870s. Stated first edition with $1.75 on flap. Clean copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #862. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.