Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book and SIGNED BY KRAMER on title page.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR, Michael McCurdy. Illustrated with sepia wood engravings. Blind-stamped boards. Dust Jacket lightly faded. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, Revised, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Jump the Sun/Hyperion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on reverse side fly leaf. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st , 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 211 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled edges. Blue cloth cover boards, white title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket has extensive agewear, wrapped in clear plastic mylar for protection. Tanning from age to pages and edges, doesn't affect text or illustrations.
Hardcover. London, Readers International, 1st UK, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY DORFMAN on title page, 1st pub in 1973 in Argentina, translated by George Shivers.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to mylar-protected dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige buckram and boards covered in dark blue paper. Copy #794 of 1500 designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press and illustrated with 15 wash drawings in color by Charles Raymond. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Dickens' tenth novel, unusual from his others in its short length, and for not having scenes set in London. The satirical novel is instead set in the fictitious industrial mill-town Coketown Dickens wrote this serialised novel hoping to boost the sales of his periodical 'Household Words', which it indeed did. In a blue slipcase with one corner with a minor bump.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Brassey's, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR opposite title page. The 369th became one of the few U.S. units that American commanding general John J. Pershing agreed to let serve under French command. Donning French uniforms and taking up French rifles, the men of the 369th fought valiantly alongside French Moroccans and held one of the widest sectors on the Western Front. The entire regiment was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the French government's highest military honor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Brassey's , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations, 293 pages. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS on the title page.
Softcover. Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 149 pages. Minor rubbing, edgewear to cover wraps. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 362 pages, SIGNED BY AW on title page. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman -- a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer -- whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1sr, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth, 430 pages. Epic novel set in Nantucket and New Zealand in the 1830s during the great days of sperm whaling. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Top corner of covers bumped, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 44 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Two-tone illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Writing in colored pencil on front end paper. Light soiling. Tear to rear end papers. Fade marks to covers. Discoloration to top edge of book. Dust jacket with chipping, chunks missing from top and bottom. Significant rubbing and wear. Price clipped.
Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. 290 pages, in very good condition.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, Reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages. Hardcover, glazed boards with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear. Six beautiful pop-up images by Jan Pienkowski throughout. INSCRIBED BY PIENKOWSKI on inside front cover. Library Association award sticker on front cove. Tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Candlewick, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st US, 1987-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 51 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MULDOON on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MULDOON on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine. A collection of 16 poems by Meredith, all based on the fictitious painter Hazard. #66 of 100 copies numbered and SIGNED on a tipped-in prelim page. In addition, also INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & CO, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy soil on cloth covers. Previous owner's name on end paper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Spine shows small tears and soil/wear. Front hinge tender.
Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHANKMAN on title page.Distraught over her ex-boyfriend, Harry's new girlfriend, Samantha Adams, is eager to forget her troubles at a friend's blowout engagement party but finds them multiplying when the prospective groom is kidnapped and held for ransom. Sixth novel in the Samantha Adams series - this one is set in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY WERTMULLER, Italian screenwriter and film director. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for Seven Beauties in 1977. She is also known for her films The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy and Swept Away. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 4th pr, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY PRELUTSKY on dedication page. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket with edgewear, some residue, clipped.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY VOIGT on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY COCKEY title page.
Hardcover. NY, Balzer + Bray, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. In Heart and Soul, Kadir Nelson's stirring paintings and words grace 100-plus pages of a gorgeous picture book. SIGNED (REALLY INITIALED) BY KADIR WITH 2011 DATE on title page.Heart and Soul is about the men, women, and children who toiled in the hot sun picking cotton for their masters; it's about the America ripped in two by Jim Crow laws; it's about the brothers and sisters of all colors who rallied against those who would dare bar a child from an education. It's a story of discrimination and broken promises, determination, and triumphs. Winner of numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor is told through the unique point of view and intimate voice of a one-hundred-year-old African-American female narrator.
Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JUSTER on front fly leaf. Caldecott winner. Very clean and tight copy. Illustrated in color by Chris Raschka.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IN FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover, decorated blue boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP OF PRELIMINARY PAGE. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. One the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Slight darkening to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Paula Wiseman/Simon & Shuster, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KATE FEIFFER AND JULES FEIFFER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Jules Feiffer. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Christelow and INSCRIBED by her on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JOHNSON. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Scholastic Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Kadir Nelson. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. A Caldecott Honor Book. No sticker to the dust jacket
Hardcover. San Francisco CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. 104 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Shawn Harris. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Red cloth with gilt titles. Covers worn with rubbing/fraying on edges, spine faded. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY EARLEY on the title page during the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Vermont in 1997.
Hardcover. Brookfiled, VT, Ashgate, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 159 pages. 24 color plates and 144 B&W illustrations. Black pictorial dust jacket. Black boards with silver gilt title to spine. Herkomer: A Victorian artist is a study of the life and work of the Victorian portraitist and social-realist painter, a self-made polymath whose boundless enthusiasm led him to take an early and important interest in photography, film-making, stagecraft and motoring. Biography of artist by publishing company laid-in. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on front fly leaf. Small remainder line to bottom edge. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Fort Lee NJ, Barricade Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ALLEN on the title page. An autobiography covering Allen's fifty years in radio and T.V. Allen was the creator and first host of the Tonight Show. B&w illust., 308 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Wendy Watson. SIGNED BY BOTH CLYDE AND WENDY WATSON on title-page. Dust jacket with rubbing, price-clipped. Minor wear on dust jacket.