Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages: (1) 472, (2) 520, (3) 568. Hardcovers. 3 VOLUME SET. International Limited Edition Set: #959 out of 1000 printed sets. All volumes: B/w illustrations/plates throughout, each with tissue guard, bound in green cloth (some fraying at top and bottom of spine), paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to labels, but all are in good shape and legible). Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age, a few small spots of soil or rubbing to covers. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Moni falls in love with her brother's English classmate, and leaves Calcutta to start a new life with him in London, where she faces prejudice, sexism, and betrayal. Of the fragile love between the assured Englishman, Anthony, and the bright but sheltered young Bengali woman, Gupta weaves a provocative and utterly empathetic tale of awakening and hard discovery, steeped in cultural protocol and taboo, in Jane Austen and the verse of Tagore. Author's first novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C McClurg & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers with light wear, fading. IIllustrated by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong.
Softcover. New York, Perma Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Paperback. Perma Books #M3091. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Light creasing to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance.But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia's days, a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy, an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy's, she encounters a random assortment of customers, including Anthony, a lost soul who spends most of his life online, chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11--the screenname of Victor Prine, an anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all for his beliefs. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, International Polygonics, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 and 302 pages, two mystery novels in one volume. Clean, like new. Reprint of two mysteries first published in the 1930s.
Hardcover. Boston, James Munroe, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with embossed design on covers, gilt title on spine. 252 pages. 2 volumes in one. A fictional account of Thomas Morton's "Merry Mount" community, arguably America's first notable contrarian movement: anti-Puritan, devoted to public sinning, and credited with erecting the first Maypole in North America. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Corners bumped. Rubbing to extremities. Chipping to spine cover. Light foxing to a few pages.
Softcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, adv. reading copy, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover with minor wear to wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.
hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case.
Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages. Authors 1st book. Small stain to rear dust jacket flap. Light shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. The seemingly mundane events that occur to a young man on his lunch hour are magnified in his mind into complex statements on the modern condition.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HENDRICKS. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Bros., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Ex-lib but only minor stamping. G+ condition. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth over boards, with gilt lettering on spine; black lettering and a full-color illustration on paper label on the front cover. No date listed on title page; copyright page dated 1927. 397 pages. First edition thus, with Wyeth's illustrations: a color-illustrated title-page, nine color plates, and color-illustrated endpapers. Tan dust jacket with black lettering on the spine and front cover, rear panel chipped. Color illustration paste-down on the front panel has minor spotting.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A massive novel illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. John Gardner's final novel follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal descent, which he seems powerless to arrest, he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, which seems to be haunted by the ghosts of an incestuous family. Mickelsson's farmhouse sanctuary was (it turns out) not only the residence of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, but the scene of a murder; the place is haunted. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A massive novel illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. John Gardner's final novel follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal descent, which he seems powerless to arrest, he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, which seems to be haunted by the ghosts of an incestuous family. Mickelsson's farmhouse sanctuary was (it turns out) not only the residence of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, but the scene of a murder; the place is haunted. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped (13.95) dust jacket that has fading to spine and a 2 X 3" chunk gone from bottom of spine and rear panel. Midnight's Children chronicles modern India through the lives of the one thousand and one children born within the country's first hour of independence on August 15, 1947. First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel, also acclaimed as the Booker of Bookers. Stated First Edition, preceding the English edition which was made up from the American sheets. NOTE: Publisher's remainder stamp to bottom edge. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIM PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket, in protective mylar cover. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 445 pages, b&w illustrations by Rini Templeton. Dust jacket with light sun fading and chipping, small tear to upper edge of front cover, slight stain on spine, else a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers. Previously published in 1921 as a magazine serial by The Curtis Publishing Company under the title: "Two and Two". Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Good, lacking dust jacket, 346 pages. Yellow cloth covered boards, lightly soiled with light wear to edges. Black dyed top edge. Light toning throughout, some finger prints to few pages, otherwise clean. Mystery set during the time of the Napoleonic wars.