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Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, First printing. Another well received novel from the author of "Mariette in Ecstacy" A finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED BY HANSEN on the title page. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages, in an unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SIMIC on the half title page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 501 pages. Hardcover. AUTHORS SIGNED INSCRIPTION PASTED ON TITLE PAGE. 3/4 Leather marbled sections, raised bands on spine. Gilt titles and highlights. Marbled endpapers. Gilt top edge. Light rubbing to cover edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, color illustrations by Paul Zelinsky. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. The huge but rather childlike character featured in Prelutsky and Zelinsky's Awful Ogre's Awful Day (2001) returns in a new volume of light verse accomplanied by full-page and double-page illustrations. Taking place during the one-eyed ogre's summer vacation, the first-person poems run the gamut from somewhat gross ("Awful Ogre Has Insomnia") to droll ("Awful Ogre Attends a Concert") to tenderhearted ("Awful Ogre Pays a Visit") to sublime ("Awful Ogre Goes Dragon-Watching"). Prelutsky shows his sure sense of rhythm and rhyme as well as his child-pleasing sense of humor in this series of 17 clearly written poems. Most appear on double-page spreads, accompanied by large ink-and-watercolor illustrations that reflect the tone of the verse. Highlighting the barely controlled chaos of this amiable ogre's world, the pictures create a visually imaginative setting where anything can happen and, in the fun-to-discover details, something often does.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PRELUTSKY AND ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY MACAULAY on half title page. Dust jacket price-clipped. Borrowing from themes of George Orwell's Animal Farm in 1943 and the 1973 movie Soylent Green, David Macaulay's children's book Baaa draws parallels to these stories with demonstrations of matters of overpopulation, resource depletion, social hierarchies, and consumption by depicting sheep evolving to a point of self destruction. The post-apocalyptic storytelling evident in Baaa is reminiscent of Macaulay's earlier work titled "Motel of the Mysteries" in which twentieth century civilization as we know it has ceased to exist. The combination of intellectually savvy text with rich pen and ink drawings complement his analysis of societal ills while supporting a solid body of work.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Very clean and tight copy. Babar, King of the Elephants, receives an invitation to meet with the President of the United States- the perfect excuse for a family vacation! None of the elephants have been to America before, so Babar packs up his family and sets off to see the sights. From the hustle and bustle of New York to the wide open spaces of the Grand Canyon, from riding streetcars in San Francisco to fishing on Lake Michigan, Babar and his family experience America in all its glory and splendor.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Very clean and tight copy. Babar, King of the Elephants, receives an invitation to meet with the President of the United States- the perfect excuse for a family vacation! None of the elephants have been to America before, so Babar packs up his family and sets off to see the sights. From the hustle and bustle of New York to the wide open spaces of the Grand Canyon, from riding streetcars in San Francisco to fishing on Lake Michigan, Babar and his family experience America in all its glory and splendor.

Softcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages, bright, clean copy with a similar, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYNARD with name and sketch on half title page.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Following The Missing Person, her highly praised debut--"A seriously entertaining and probing novel," wrote The Washington Post Book World--Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her impressive range. In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to the Southwest (where a Soviet-era exchange student changes a family's dynamic forever), the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. A tenacious eight-year-old practices piano on paper keys; an expectant mother, settling into an idyllic farmhouse, discovers the tragic story of its previous, rightful inhabitants; and a fictional haunted hospital becomes an obsession for a ghostwriter grappling with her empty nest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by the author. SIGNED BY GRIDER on the front fly leaf and dated 1955. Yellow cloth with gray lettering, dust jacket worn with repaired tears, chipping. Indications that jacket was once stapled to covers, tiny holes visible. Light soil, musty odor.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages, 27 b&w illustrations, index. Black cloth spine over blue boards, spine label. SIGNED BY BEAUX on the title page and dated June 1st 1931. Scarce thus.

Hardcover. New York , Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY FEIFFER on title page. Hardcover, 431 pages, b&w photographs and drawings by author. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Pocket Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 251 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Reminder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st , 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Merle Johnson. Paper on spine chipped. Light lettering on spine. Some wear to front cover. All pages clean and legible. Gutter cracked.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. SIGNED BY WILLARD on title page. Dust jacket price clipped. Tight copy. A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY WILSON with note to previous owner on front end paper. Color illustrations by Wilson. Cover shows some wear. Bump and abrasion on bottom rear cover. Rear cover slightly warped.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator McCully opposite title page.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY FEIFFER on half title page. Illustrated in color.