Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 337 pages, like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED -MORE LIKE INITIALLED - BY SMITH on the title page.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Mylar cover. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Hailed by Time as an "extravagantly comic" novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America's South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool shark On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a "woman named Drown." He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they're heading farther south together--to Florida--where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life's laboratory is about to get quite contradictory.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DOYLE on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth stamped in white. Black & white illustrations by W.B. King. Bright. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Mylar protected pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. A collection of three novellas, featuring: a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from Montana who smells like wheat.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages (Vol. I) and 528 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 56 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. Frayed wear to spine tops (more so on Vol. 1). Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages (Vol. I) and 489 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 46 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including frontispiece and illustrated title page in Vol. I. Color frontispiece in Vol. II. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and some chipping to spine edges Front hinge on Vol. I is cracked, cover still attached. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages (Vol. I) and 508 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 52 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. More serious chipping to top of spine on Vol. II, and frayed wear to top of spine on Vol. 1 Rear hinge of Vol. II is split about 3/4 of the way down, but cover is still attached. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, a classic adventure of the early Florida frontier., winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. 14 color plates and endpaper illustration by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket with a short scratch to front panel.
Hardcover. NY, McBride, Nast and Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shelf wear on bottom edge on board. Light soil on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down and opposite title page.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a decorated cloth binding, 4 black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 363 pages. Introduction by Melvin van Peebles. Originally published in 1953 as "Cast the First Stone" which was edited and changed by the publisher and now has been restored to how Himes intended it to be "with its raw honesty and startling compassion entirely intact." His novel of Jimmy Monroe portrays an African American prisoner who must endure racism, homosexuality, and prison corruption, all of which test the limits of his sanity, his capacity for suffering, and his definition of love. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, DoubleDay, uncor. proof, 2002, Book: Very Good, 209 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood,