Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 370 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
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. Brooklyn, NY, Handprint Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Written in 1888 by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Casey at the Bat is probably the best known baseball poem ever penned. In this classic piece, the Mudville nine trail entering the bottom of the ninth inning, and mighty Casey heads to the plate with a chance to tie the game. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BING on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Minocqua, WI, Willow Creek Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHER). In excellent shape. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, clean inside and out.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Stadler. SIGNED WITH A DRAWING OF A PIG BY ARTIST on front end paper. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Several blank pages with childrens markings, internally clean. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 3rd Printing, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ELIZABETH COATSWORTH AT BOTTOM OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1931. Front cover with areas of foxing to cover hinge and along right edge - approximately 3/4" from top to bottom. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Athenuem, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAHY on the title page by winner of 1982 & 1984 Carnegie Medal.
Hardcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PILCHER on title page. The history of surgical education at the University of Vermont, from 1804 to 2008. Large format. Handsomely produced and illustrated. 444 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by author Diane Mott Davidson directly on the title page; The first Goldy Bear Mystery. Someone put rat poison in the coffee at the banquet and police have shut down Goldy's catering business until the matter is cleared up. Since this is Goldy's only source of income, Goldy decides she'd better do a little sleauthing of her own. Laid in is a pink sheet of recipes from Goldy's Kitchen. Clean, collectible copy of the first book in the series.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 9th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MACAULAY on the half title page. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. 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. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. Small white-out of old ink price on front fly leaf, remainder mark to top edge.
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, 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. France, Diffusion Glenat, 1st, N/A, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to dust jacket spine. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BOOKPLATE WITH SIGNATURES OF BILL LITTLEFIELD AND BERNIE FUCHS. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 3rd Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. INSCRIBED BY BILL LITTLEFIELD ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Bernie Fuchs. First edition, 3rd printing. Vermont Council on the Humanities stamp at bottom edge of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PARKER with his usual scrawl on the title page. Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, become entangled in the affairs of the Mafia and in an internecine struggle for control of the Boston underworld when they set out to find the errant spouse of the daughter of big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura.
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. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY CREELEY, numbered 125 of 150 signed hardcovers. Tight copy with light edgewear to cover boards.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. SIGNED BY BOTH KENNEDYS on title page. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter.Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter. Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York. Clean copy.