Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. 231 pages, 5 b&w plates by Ida Waugh. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint , 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated with drawings throughout by John Sloan. Nice copy in the scarce dust jacket, lightly chipped and soiled. 262 pages.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 103 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Victor Ambrus. Geraldine McCaughrean retells the story for young adults of the crazed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 529 pages. Material for this novel based on the life of Amedeo Modigliani is based on letters, family papers and interviews with the Modigliani family by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st UK, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 290 pages, illustrated with b&w drawings by Louis Slobodkin. The first British editon of a book originally published in 1941 in the US. Dust jacket with light edgewear, short tear.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 4th pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Light wear to top & bottom of spine, edgewear. Nice reading copy.
NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 5th, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Color illustrated dust jacket with chunks gone from top & bottom of spine, edgewear. Nice reading copy.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mohawk is an outstanding first novel, a poignant, unforgettable story of old passions and enmity set in a leather town in upstate New York where the tanneries have long ago begun to close down. Writing with extraordinary assurance, Richard Russo unfolds the story of a mystery that has bound two families, the Grouses and the Gaffneys, together for over two decades. 'Mohawk' is a drama of small-town life that captures all the comedy and tragedy of the human experience. This is the first hardcover edition of Russo's first novel. The U.S. first edition of Mohawk was published as a softcover original edition by Vintage Originals in 1986. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. 'An I CAN READ BOOK'. Features full color illustrations by Mamoru Funai. Stated first edition. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, John Baker, 1st , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Nickless.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 262 pages, 10 color illustrations by Grace G. Wiederseim (creator of The Campbell Kids). Red cloth covers with color illustrated label on front, gilt lettering on spine faded. The front hinge has cracked and exposed the thread beneath. Binding is still sound and text and plates bright.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. This first volume of Mome features the following: John Pham's (Epoxy) 221 Sycamore Ave., Paul Hornschemeier (Mother Come Home and Forlorn Funnies) contributes a six-part graphic novella titled Life with Mr. Dangerous, Anders Nilsen's The Beast is a full-color, 12-page absurdist monologue by a single character on the push-and-pull of art and politics, Jeffrey Brown contributes an autobiographical piece, David Heatley contributes the first of a series of fictional stories revolving around a cast of characters in a town called a Overpeck (also the name of the strip) that follows a bizarre dream logic, Andrice Arp adapts a Japanese fairy tale called Jewels of the Sea, Kurt Wolfgang examines death, Gabrielle Bell examines the existentialism of the dot-com boom, Jonathan Bennett dances with the Ventures, and Sophie Crumb (Belly Button Comix) delivers a piece of comics biography. With cartoons by Martin Cendreda.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. This first volume of Mome features the following: John Pham's (Epoxy) 221 Sycamore Ave., Paul Hornschemeier (Mother Come Home and Forlorn Funnies) contributes a six-part graphic novella titled Life with Mr. Dangerous, Anders Nilsen's The Beast is a full-color, 12-page absurdist monologue by a single character on the push-and-pull of art and politics, Jeffrey Brown contributes an autobiographical piece, David Heatley contributes the first of a series of fictional stories revolving around a cast of characters in a town called a Overpeck (also the name of the strip) that follows a bizarre dream logic, Andrice Arp adapts a Japanese fairy tale called Jewels of the Sea, Kurt Wolfgang examines death, Gabrielle Bell examines the existentialism of the dot-com boom, Jonathan Bennett dances with the Ventures, and Sophie Crumb (Belly Button Comix) delivers a piece of comics biography. With cartoons by Martin Cendreda.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way.First publication anywhere!First female author in the history of Hard Case CrimeRolling Stone on MONEY SHOT: "An instant pulp classic."Bloomberg News on MONEY SHOT: "Christa Faust's MONEY SHOT has to be an early contender for mystery debut of the year...MONEY SHOT has no peer in hardboiled writing about the sex industry." Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Rae D. Henkle, 1st , 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in red on the front and the spine. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. A New England mystery, beginning with a strike at a tannery. Another challenge for Detective Peter Creighton.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, illustrated in b&w by Enver Ahmed. In a chipped but bright dust jacket that's unclipped. Hindu & Muslim village boys fight monkeys over possession of a tree; all make peace; boys & monkeys rescue Muslim villagers from city ruffians.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A large and awkward New England family salvages life the best it can in the aftermath of the sudden death of the mother, Rosie Vincent. The author's first novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Tucson AZ, Dennis McMillan, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Firmly rooted in the hard-boiled tradition, these 13 stories from Phillips showcase the cool exuberance of black Los Angeles PI Ivan Monk, whose family connections tend to prod him into taking cases no one in his right mind would investigate. Nostalgia is a recurrent theme, as in "Through the Fog Softly," which introduces Monk's father, Josiah Monk, as a soldier in Korea, and in Monk's love of 1950s and '60s cars. Some tales verge on fantasy, such as "The King Alfred Plan," which imagines a scheme to round up blacks into concentration camps. A pseudo-screenplay, "Bring Me the Head of Osama Bin-Laden," is the weakest effort in an otherwise strong collection. At his best, Monk displays something of the cockiness of Robert Parker's Spenser and the racial awareness of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins. Monk has a toughness all his own, however, and a noir sensibility shines brightly in stories like "Lowball" and "The Raiders." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, T. M. Cleland, in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies. Embroidered cloth cover with gilt title on brown leather, 3/4 slipcase, illustrations and decorations throughout, overall, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 246 pages, b&w plates by Karl Anderson. Rough-cut pages. Light edge wear to covers, small stain on rear. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Toni Patten. A young reader's novel set in Jamaica.