Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to dust jacket rear. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. llustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Dust jacket with light edgewear. The adventures of a ceramic mouse that magically comes to life.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY CLARK On title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillian & Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Good, 2 volume set, identical beige cloth covers stamped in green and gilt. Volume 1 with a frontis. of the author. Mary Augusta Ward CBE (nee Arnold; 11 June 1851 - 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. This novel is a Victorian family saga, focused on a family estate, a spurned lover, and a devious villain. Marcella Boyce is young, bright, and taken with socialism. When her parents inherit the family estate in the country Marcella takes up the miserable conditions of the local workforce as her cause. She falls in love with the local favorite son, a Conservative, vying for a seat in Parliament. Socialist Marcella must discover if she can live with a man with different politics, and her feelings on the issue threaten to damage a number of lives. Spines darkened. Previous owner's name on the title pages of both volumes, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 363 pages, very good in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY DOCTOROW on tipped-in page in front. A handsome First Edition of Doctorow"s masterpiece, shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize, and winner of the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Softcover. NY, Crown, proof wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, 288 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Publisher's letter to booksellers laid-in. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated 18th-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy. A novel of terror set during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A novel about the author Henry James that attracted praise from reviewers nationwide. It's a bold writer indeed who dares to put himself inside the mind of novelist Henry James, but that is what Toibin, highly talented Irish author of The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, has ventured here, with a remarkable degree of success. The book is a fictionalized study, based on many biographical materials and family accounts, of the novelist's interior life from the moment in London in 1895 when James's hope to succeed in the theater rather than on the printed page was eclipsed by the towering success of his younger contemporary Oscar Wilde. Thereafter the book ranges seamlessly back and forth over James's life, from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States-including the suicide of his father and the tragic early death of his troubled sister Alice-to his settling in England, in a cherished house of his own choosing in Rye. Along the way it offers hints, no more, of James's troubled sexual identity, including his fascination with a young English manservant, his (apparently platonic) night in bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes and his curious obsession with a dashing Scandinavian sculptor of little talent but huge charisma. Another recurrent motif is James's absorption in the lives of spirited, highly intelligent but unhappy young women who die prematurely, which helped to inform some of his strongest fiction. The subtlety and empathy with which Toibin inhabits James's psyche and captures the fleeting emotional nuances of his world are beyond praise, and even the echoes of the master's style ring true.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light sun-fade and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Translated from the French by Virginia Vaughan. Ex-lib with markings, reside to front endpapers. Mild dampstain to bottom of last 100 pages. An attractive reading copy despite faults. Mauprat is a novel by the French novelist George Sand about love and education. It was published in serial form in April and May 1837. Like many of Sand's novels, Mauprat borrows from various fictional genres- the Gothic novel, chivalric romance, the Bildungsroman, detective fiction, and the historical novel.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.
Hardcover. New York , Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations by Fletcher Ransom. Light wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Covers with light wear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations, color label art by Alice Barber Stephens.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap , Rep., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange, 304 pages plus publisher's ads. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Winner of the Maxwell Perkins Prize. "Meditations in Green is a brilliantly conceived, compellingly told tale of the Vietnam war and its aftermath, a chronicle of the corruption and decay of Spec. 4 James Griffin under the pressures of an unreal war." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages. Some foxing to top edge, slight edgewear, else a very nice, tight copy in protective mylar cover. First edition of the author's first novel, about the Vietnam War and its aftermath, winner of the Maxwell Perkins Prize.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages illustrated in b&w by Fanny Cory. Blue cloth covers with white design and lettering. Capsule newspaper review pasted to inside cover, otherwise clean, bright copy.
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.