Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust wrapper. Previous owner's initials front end paper.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sheriff Chick Charleston asks Jason Beard, a deputy, to investigate the murder of an oil company stenographer who secretly moonlighted as a prostitute.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROBINSON on title-page. Tight copy with only minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. In a bright dust jacket. An outstanding collection of short fiction about the Deep South. Franklin won an Edgar Award for the title story. The author's first book.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight, It's as if Raymond Carver were still alive and living in the Deep South. Or, imagine a world created by Jim Harrison and Cormac McCarthy and plunk it down in the woods of southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw as moonshine.Tom Franklin's eloquent deceptively simple prose evokes a world of hunting and fishing, shotgun shacks and trailer parks, poachers, and lawmen, factory workers, poor white trash, and bucket-o-'blood boozers. His stories are laced with naked violence, hot food, and the ever bitter sweat and tears of human relationships.
Softcover. New York, William Morrow , uncor. proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SARTON on half-title page. light soil to rear panel of dust-jacket otherwise VG/VG.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles, gilt pictorial and border to front board, color illustrations by Franklin Booth, including tissue-protected frontispiece and 3 full-page color plates, decorated figures by W. A. Dwiggins. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; a clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
New York, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WRIGHT on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historic novel set in 17th century Spain during the Inquisition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle." SIGNED BY PEARSON on half title page.
Softcover. New York, Collier/Macmillan, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to spine and edges. SIGNED BY PROULX on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY PROULX on title page. Proulx"s first novel, a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Proulx"s first novel a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."
Hardcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished black calf, raised bands on spine, stamped with gilt design, leather label with title in second compartment. Marbled endpapers, 609 pages. The engraved plates suffer from oxidation (tanning) and have no captions other than the page numbers. The vignette illustration on the title page has "Weller" (rather than "Veller") indicating a later issue. The binding is sound, light edgewear to leather covers. Has the two title pages, errata slip and binders directions. The 2 Buss plates included. Pictures available.
Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Black cloth covers with faded gilt title. 126 pages with frontispiece illustration in 2-colors by Robert Locher. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Firbank's first book published in the United States, a novel of West Indian life and manners. It was the first of his works that wasn't entirely self-financed, and despite the miniscule print run, the book was given a lavish treatment by Brentano's, published with a generous introduction by Carl Van Vechten, who was intent on making Firbank's work better known in America. Understandably, the inflammatory title roused an outcry in the African American press, though Nancy Cunard wrote a defense of Firbank and his use of the name in the Associated Negro Press, and the novel received a surprisingly positive review by W.E.B. Du Bois. Light shelf wear.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fifth mystery featuring tough Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his 'connected' partner Angie Gennaro and sometimes sidekick Bubba. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 479 pages. Predestined, Whitman's first and most successful novel, is a remarkably con-trolled, inexorably plotted story of Felix Piers, born to wealth and misfortune, who was predestined to a life of failure. The rich, varied background of New York City's many sides provides the compelling backdrop to this deterministic novel. First published in 1910, one of the titles in the Lost American Fiction Series. The author is an over-looked American literary naturalist whose Predestined compares favorably with the work of Frank Norris. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages, plus 8 pages of publisher's advertisments. Illustrated by C.S. Reinhart, Green cloth covers with dark green and gilt decoration and spine gilt lettering. Dated previous owner's inscription front end paper. Light edgewear to spine, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. The au pair for the Porter family, Haitian-born Simone, becomes witness to the family's casual cruelty, observing the activities of Rosemary, a sculptor, her philandering husband, her mercurial friends, and her strange children. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 411 pages, illustrated with 192 line drawings. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover design is bright, spine a little less so, with a touch of cardboard showing through cloth at bottom edge and corner. Front hinge partially cracked. Back cover with several small white spots. "Ladies Library Association #246" in ink on front fly leaf, contents page a little frayed on fore-edge. Interior pages clean, very good. This is the First Edition, second state. Copyright page states Franklin Press, corrected text on pages 124, 263 and 362.