Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, hardcover. Color illustrations by John Cecil Clay. Margaret Armstrong cover desIgn. Spine has half-inch tear near author's name. Bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Harry Gainesborough, a children's book author who has written nothing since his daughter's death, fears that his weirdest book, "Zod Wallop," is actually coming to life when a series of horrible coincidences occur. Sly humor and eccentric characters raise Spencer's third novel (following Resume, with Monsters) far above run-of-the-mill fantasy fare. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Truman and Spofford, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes complete, 327, 306 pages. 2-color and b&w illustrations by Henri Lovie and Charles Bauerle. Original brown cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Pre-Civil War black author, a novel about slavery. Previous owner's small name stamp on inside front covers, otherwise both volumes tight and clean, all plates present. Light corner wear to covers and spine extremities. Vol. 1 has a small chip to the bottom of spine cloth, top spine edge has small tear starting. Interior very good.

Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Green cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. 1054 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original pale blue boards with darkening at backstrip, silver lettering on spine. 252 pages. First UK printing. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.