Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 335 pages. A novel set in the high-gloss world of contemporary Mexico's societal and intellectual elite. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, H. Maxwell, 2nd Ed., 1801, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, worn leather covers, 252 pages, (Chapters XI-XVIII). Volume 2 ONLY. A 1799 novel by the American author Charles Brockden Brown. Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters (his only remaining family) on a farm outside Philadelphia, is determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave. Walking near the elm tree under which Waldegrave was killed late one night, Huntly sees Clithero, a servant from a neighboring farm, half-dressed, digging in the ground and weeping loudly. Huntly concludes that Clithero may be the murderer. He also concludes that Clithero is sleepwalking. Huntly decides to follow Clithero when he sleep walks. The novel was published by Hugh Maxwell. It is considered an example of early American gothic literature, with themes such as wilderness anxiety, the supernatural, darkness, and irrational thought and fear. Covers rubbed and worn, front cover detached, two bookplates on inside front cover.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green pictorial cloth, 241 pages. An historical adventure set in Ireland. A novel on Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the last significant claimant of the Stuart dynasty to the British throne and leader of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745-46. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Uncommon title.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st US, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in dark green. In a worn, chipped dust jacket. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY OTTO on the title page. This captivating novel opens in 1917 as Cymbeline Kelley surveys the charred remains of her photography studio, destroyed in a fire started by a woman hired to help take care of the house while Cymbeline pursued her photography career. This tension-- between wanting and needing to be two places at once; between domestic duty and ambition; between public and private life; between what's seen and what's hidden from view--echoes in the stories of the other seven women in the book. Among them: Amadora Allesbury, who creates a world of color and whimsy in an attempt to recapture the joy lost to WWI; Clara Argento, who finds her voice working alongside socialist revolutionaries in Mexico; Lenny Van Pelt, a gorgeous model who feels more comfortable photographing the deserted towns of the French countryside after WWII than she does at a couture fashion shoot; and Miri Marx, who has traveled the world taking pictures, but also loves her quiet life as a wife and mother in her New York apartment. Crisscrossing the world and a century, Eight Girls Taking Pictures is an affecting meditation on the conflicts women face and the choices they make. These memorable characters seek extraordinary lives through their work, yet they also find meaning and reward in the ordinary tasks of motherhood, marriage, and domesticity. Most of all, this novel is a vivid portrait of women in love--in love with men, other women, children, their careers, beauty, and freedom.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Red boards. Color pictorial dj. Clean, unmarked, tight.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIBBONS on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, & World, 3rd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 432 pages. An early copy of Lewis's famous novel about a preacher who goes off the rails. A very good copy dated 1927 and stated third printing with the "3" at top of copyright page.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, hardcover with gray cloth covers with black lettering, decoration. Light spotting to covers otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfed A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Novel set in a small town in Maine. Made into an HBO mini-series with Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt and Paul Newman.
Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 6th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt titles, 313 pages. First novel in what eventually became a trilogy depicting the gradual redemption of Durtal, the hero of the author's notorious La-Bas (1891), which portrayed the Satanism of fin-de-siecle France (in addition to certain depravities of medieval France). Translated from the French With A Prefatory Note by C. Kegan Paul. Light shef wear.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Trixie Dolan, ex-movie star, is back in London sharing quarters with her actress friend Evangeline Sinclair. Evangeline is writing her memoirs and when she discovers that an old rival is writing hers as well, trouble begins. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, George Routledge and Sons, Reprint, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. No publishers date - circa 1880's - inscription on front endpaper dated Christmas 1886. Gray green cloth with decoration on spine and cover in black. Spine title on gilt background. Features 126 black & white illustrations by Riou. Tanning to preliminary, and rear pages. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. INSCRIBED BY HARDING on the title page.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st English, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, minor foxing on fore edge and light water stains on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Ciroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.