Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, self published, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, light tan card wraps. SIGNED BY TYLER on title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY ON TITLE PAGE. Red laminate covers and white laminate dust jacket with color illustration, lovely full page color illustrations by McCully. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a beautiful children's book.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpagenated hardcover with dust jacket. Laminated boards SIGNED BY ERIC CARLE on copyright page. On rear end paper there is a sound button. Slight rippling to paper, sound button works. Bright color illustrations by author. Clean, tight copy.
NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh living conditions with minimal privacy. Name on prelim page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Little Simon, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Full-color illustrated pop-ups by Sabuda. SIGNED BY SABUDA on first spread. First Edition with 1 in number row. Like-new condition. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. New York , NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a reprint of a classic. SIGNED by illustrator Marc Simont on half title (page 15). No dj issued.
Hardcover. New York , NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a reprint of a classic. SIGNED by illustrator Marc Simont on half title (page 15). No dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KALMAN. From bestselling author Lemony Snicket and celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman comes an uproarious, whimsical word book like no other. Together, Snicket and Kalman present a strikingly beautiful journey woven from a practical introduction to thirteen wonderful words, featuring such marvels as Bird, Dog, Panache, and Haberdashery. Snicket, the notoriously clever and elusive New York Times bestselling author, pushes the boundaries of storytelling in the most fanciful of ways. Maira Kalman, renowned for her art and design, carries this madcap adventure to wondrous heights with her vision of a world populated with hats, song, and cake. This rollicking, surprising book is a true celebration of words.
Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FLEISCHMAN on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Peter Sis. When Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm--three hundred years in the past! Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone, Buddy washes up in New England, where his plucky ancestor, Abigail, is caught up in the witchcraft mania. In an adventure filled with ghosts, witches, pirates, and razzle-dazzle treasure, Buddy might be able to save his wayward ancestors. But will he find his way back to the thirteenth floor--and home?
Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 194 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing to cover edges. Dust jacket has crease and small closed tear on rear.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE AND SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Black cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 18 color and 400 b&w illustrations, book review included from Maine Antique Digest, August 1977. Light wear to edges of dust jacket; overall a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Abrams Books for Young Readers, 6th pr, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED by illustrator. The family in 365 Penguins finds a penguin mysteriously delivered to their door every day for a year. At first they're cute, but with every passing day, the penguins pile up--along with the family's problems. Feeding, cleaning, and housing the penguins becomes a monumental task. They're noisy and smelly, and they always hog the bathroom! And who on earth is sending these kwak-ing critters? Bright, striking illustrations with lots of opportunity for counting (and lots of laughs).
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOOM on the half-title page. Some of the power of her fiction (Love Invents Us, etc.) comes from Bloom's mastery of the writing craft; more arises from the empathy for human frailty exhibited by this author, who also works as a psychotherapist. Here, eight stories shed insight on the healing properties of love, experienced through unexpected epiphanies, ardent sacrifices and impulsive acts of forgiveness.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY RUFF on the front fly leaf. Ruff traces his odyssey from the hills of north Alabama to the halls of Yale University with stops along the way with some the jazz greats. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.
NY, The Brick Row Book Shop, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1/4 ivory ribbed cloth, marbled paper covered boards with paper title labels mounted on upper front cover and upper spine. 73 pages. INSCRIBED TO COL. RALPH ISHAM BY EDITOR on the front fly leaf. Also laid-in: a Western Union telegram to recipient about purchasing books in London from Balderston. Isham was a avid book collector, his bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Brett Helmquist. SIGNED BY HELMQUIST on title page. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY JACKSON on the half-title page. An alphabet book for young readers presents the black-and-white Holstein cow in the setting of the lush Vermont countryside throughout the changing seasons of the year.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WINSPEAR on tipped in prelim page. Clean, like new. Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger.
Softcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 5th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover with pictorial wrappers. 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. a beautiful clean, tight children's book in great condition. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on the title page.
Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 651 pages. Folding map, 21 illustrations. SIGNED BY BISHOP on the front fly leaf. Drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Warwick UK, The Roundwood Press, 1st thus, 1979, Hardcover. # 91 of 500 copies, Signed by Richard Hamilton on title page, reprint of the French Edition of 1933, 395 pages including Index, illustrated with numerous reproductions of period prints, with fifteen plates, and also some photographed documents. Dark Blue Leatherette with gilt and red titles, top edge gilt, dust jacket, dark blue slipcase with gilt and red titles. A beautiful copy in like dust jacket and slipcase.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BECK on title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Chicago, Regnery Gateway, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 191 pages. John Chamberlain, a veteran newspaperman and reviewer for the New York Times and other prestigious publications, shares the story of his career. INSCRIBED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Introduction by William F. Buckley.
NY, Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on blank prelim page, Clean copy. A wildly exuberant, wily new novel about a race that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country (and continent) as it does about the three audacious individuals who take part.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover with an orange slipcase with a tipped-in plate to the front panel. . No dust jacket. Limited to 350 copies. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 23/350.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEAVER on the title page to fellow writer Barry Estabrook. A school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. Waiting for them are three escaped convicts with nothing to lose. Now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything to gain. Clean copy.
Softcover. Lanham, University Press of America, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light foxing to edges and covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, Headline, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Featuring Chief Inspector Barnaby, as seen in TV's Midsomer Murders. 'A Place of Safety shows Barnaby at his most impressive, faced with a suspect he is convinced is the incarnation of evil, and a village full of secrets.' Clean copy. Caroline Graham was born in Warwickshire, England. Her first Inspector Barnaby novel, "The Killings at Badger's Drift", was selected as one of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time by the Crime Writers' Association.
Hardcover. Verona IT, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovers, two-volume set. Green cloth boards stamped in green and gold with gray endpapers in green paper over boards slipcase with paper spine label. Glassine dust wrappers very good. Signed by artist Fritz Eichenberg on limitation page in back of volume two. (Copy #1370 of 2,000)Books are like new; clean and crisp with no writing or names. Binding tight and pages crisp.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") handsewn and handbound in full crimson Oasis goatskin leather stamped in black. The original French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing pages. Copy #794 of 1000 numbered copies illustrated with 8 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe printed in two colors on handmade paper and SIGNED by the photographer and the translator. "Of the arresting photographs used to illustrate the book, several of the images rank among the photographer's most famous".
Hardcover. Boston, Garden Press, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 143 pages, b&w frontispiece. INSCRIBED BY BAYLEY on front fly leaf. Maroon and gray cloth with gilt lettering on front cover.
Hardcover. Saxonville, Mass., Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR YOSHI on title page. Book is printed back to front. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.
NY, Pippin Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY ECK on half-title page and SIGNED on title page. In addition, a handwritten note from co-author Winterrowd laid-in.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA , Harvard University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS UNTEMEYER BY WHITMAN on half-title. Title-page engraving by Michael McCurdy (repeated on dust jacket ). Dust jacket with light edgewear.
New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1998 (1955), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. 65 pages plus scrapbook. In new condition. The original story and pictures of Eloise plus previously unpublished illustrations by Knight and photographs of Kay Thompson. Signed and dated by the illustrator, Hilary Knight, the year of publication. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.
Hardcover. Brookfield, Connecticut, Roaring Book Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY MACDONALD WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH TO GREEN PREVIEW PAGE. Color illustrated covers and dust jacket, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by MacDonald. No signs of wear, pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BRINK at 1998 Breadloaf Writer's Conference. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK on title page. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother?
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Adele and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cecile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. "Please try not to lose anything on our trip," Adele tells her brother with a sigh. But how can Simon remember to keep an eye on his belongings when there are so many wonderful distractions and astounding sights to take in? The endearing team from Adele & Simon returns in a cross-continental adventure that reflects the vitality of early twentieth-century America, from the Boston Public Garden to San Francisco's Chinatown. Stunning pen-and-ink-and watercolor illustrations are filled with innumerable hidden treasures, and endpapers featuring a period map of America extend the fun. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK.
Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Snowy Owl Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Ice has determined the course of Adirondack history in many surprising ways: from landscape to wildlife, harvesting to logging, barrel jumping to ice climbing and hail damage to ice storms. These accounts trace the history of that influence. The 360 page, soft cover book of personal stories, observations and over 200 photos, is the author's tribute to a fast disappearing era. Cover wrappers with mild wear, corner creases. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear/soil. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUBUS on title page and also INSCRIBED by him on the opposite blank leaf. Previous owner's signature and address on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BANKS on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st Canadian, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BANKS on the half-title page. Tight copy.