Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Light wear to dust jacket. Includes fifteen famous stills from the film. Released in December 1942, "Casablanca" is the classic of all classic films, the enduring triumph of Hollywood's golden age. This volume contains the complete screenplay as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the Oscar-winning movie was made.
New York, Scribners, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black stamping, 329 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Cover has light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Lending library stamp, lettering on front and rear end papers. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Sauk City, WI, Mycroft & Moran, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 281 pages, one of 3000 copies. Foreword by Vincent Starrett, monograph by Michael Harrison. End paper map, dust jacket very good with light soil, minor edgewear. Two small ink notations on front flap.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages. SIGNED BY GORES ON TITLE PAGE. Brown boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Extremely slight rubbing to boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in black cloth with red heart on front cover, red lettering to spine, stated "First Published 1953" on copyright with no other printings indicated. No dust jacket. Aside from two flaws this copy is a very good-fine copy. There is a light price sticker shadow to front fly leaf. The second flaw is scraping to the bottom fore-edge of front cover., exposing the board underneath. More detailed close-ups available on request. Otherwise a bright, tight copy of the first novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A humorous mystery set in the hills of Tuscany. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , William Morrow, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Mauve color cloth with a bright gilt decoration on cover, top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Part of the Nicholas Barlow series. When his star author turns up dead and his million-dollar manuscript disappears, publisher Nicholas Barlow helps homicide detective Lt. Scanlon search for clues, with Nick's bedridden brother masterminding the investigation from Connecticut. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, with drawings by Annie Newnham and introduction by Frank Delaney, yellow slipcase with pictorial cover on yellow cloth board. Unmarked and bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Company, Inc., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar. Red cloth cover boards, white title on spine. Slight tanning to edges from age. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, large chunk gone from back of dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Newmarket Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SWAN on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 421 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. Prose (Blue Angel; The Lives of the Muses) tests assumptions about class, hatred and the possibility of change in this novel, a good-natured satire of liberal pieties, the radical right and the fund-raising world. The "changed man" of the title is Vincent Nolan, a 32-year-old tattooed ex-skinhead who appears one morning in the New York offices of World Brotherhood Watch, a foundation headed by Meyer Maslow, a Holocaust survivor. Vincent declares that he has had a personal conversion (never mind that it was triggered by a heavy dose of Ecstasy) and wants to work with the foundation to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me."
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers Publishers, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 133 pages. All 4 color plates by Sigismond Ivanowski are present. Purple cloth with gilt decor and titles. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to covers with slight fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America,, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light sticker residue to rear panel, 1096 pages. The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Yellow cloth covering with black lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge of papers stained blue. Previous owners' names written in red pen on top of front end paper. Related ephemera laid in. B&W photos from Fox Movietone movie. Cover corners bumped, front and back covers slightly marked. A couple spots of discoloration on page edges.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pges. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear to cover.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages. Author's first novel in like-new condition. INSCRIBED BY MCCORKLE on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Walker's debut novel about a war vet-turned banker robber.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 439 pages. Hardcover. International Limited Edition #959 out of 1000 printed sets. B/w illustrations/plates with tissue guards. Covers bound in dark green cloth (Some rubbing to front and back, and slight fraying top and bottom of spine). Paste down title label on spine (some tanning to label, but in good shape and legible). Dent to bottom edge front cover. Gilt top edge. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.