Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Jules Feiffer. SIGNED BY NORTON JUSTER. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Feiffer. SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND FEIFFER on title page. After a nearly 50-year wait, Juster's reunion with his Phantom Tollbooth collaborator Feiffer is squarely in keeping with their earlier fairy tale drollery. Feiffer's ogre, scrawled in scribbly brown outline, snores on his back in a forest of Lilliputian trees in one spread, then strides off in search of a snack in the next. (Feiffer often draws him from the boots up, the better to convey his massive size.) The ogre's victims usually cower hopelessly before him, but this time, the specimen he encounters--a slim, wide-eyed young woman in a long blue dress--undoes him with kindness. Oh, you're not really so terrible, she says sweetly. I'll bet if you brushed your teeth, combed your hair, found some new clothes, and totally changed your attitude you'd be quite nice. The ogre's mighty tantrum shakes the forest, but she remains calm. Would you consider doing that for the orphans' picnic next week? I know the children would love it. The ogre's speedy exit--he drops dead--is a bit of a throwaway, but Juster's narrative insouciance and Feiffer's pen and brush haven't lost their magic.
Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Feiffer. SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND FEIFFER on title page. After a nearly 50-year wait, Juster's reunion with his Phantom Tollbooth collaborator Feiffer is squarely in keeping with their earlier fairy tale drollery. Feiffer's ogre, scrawled in scribbly brown outline, snores on his back in a forest of Lilliputian trees in one spread, then strides off in search of a snack in the next. (Feiffer often draws him from the boots up, the better to convey his massive size.) The ogre's victims usually cower hopelessly before him, but this time, the specimen he encounters--a slim, wide-eyed young woman in a long blue dress--undoes him with kindness. Oh, you're not really so terrible, she says sweetly. I'll bet if you brushed your teeth, combed your hair, found some new clothes, and totally changed your attitude you'd be quite nice. The ogre's mighty tantrum shakes the forest, but she remains calm. Would you consider doing that for the orphans' picnic next week? I know the children would love it. The ogre's speedy exit--he drops dead--is a bit of a throwaway, but Juster's narrative insouciance and Feiffer's pen and brush haven't lost their magic.
Softcover. Providence RI, Berg Publishers, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages. Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community. WITH A CARD SIGNED BY ALL 3 AUTHORS LAID IN.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages. SIGNED BY RICH on title page. Light soil to dust-jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Linden Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Remainder stamp bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York , Balzer + Bray, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 40 pages illustrated in color by Shea. SIGNED BY SHEA. In this humorous paean to fatherhood, a hippo explains that he is so smart that he shows his dad how to do things. Shea goes through a series of scenarios in which the father gets his son to do what he wants by pretending he doesn't know how to do it correctly. When the youngster claims to be "busy getting dressed," the pictures show him watching TV in his underwear. The father proceeds to mix up his clothing and asks, "Is this how you get dressed?" prompting the child to respond, "Oh, Daddy! This is how you get dressed!" And so it goes on.
Hardcover. Long Beach CA, privately printed, 3rd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 527 pages followed by author's 9 page catalog of ads for his titles. Maroon cloth with black lettering. Gilt lettered spine with Upton Sinclair at foot of spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR'S WIFE on front fly leaf, "With best wishes Mary Craig Sinclair, Long Beach, Calif., July 6 '28". Minor soil to covers, slight cock to spine, overall very good.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 264 pages, yellow and black boards with black cloth spine, spine label. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF by author but not signed: "To my Ol' Man William (otherwise Little Father) from one of "his chillun" (otherwise me) with love and gratitude for a brief but happy visit. July 20/29/ Claman Towers, South Duxbury Mass" Book slightly cocked, front hinge fragile, light wear.
Softcover. Leopard Publishing Ventures, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages, illustrated. Built in the cottage orne style from a plan by the Regency architect John Nash (1752-1835), Old Came Rectory is the historic home of the poet philologist, William Barnes (1801-1886), Thomas Hardy's mentor. Amid gatherings of poets, writers and historical figures, how many discussions around the fire of this homely home have gone on to shape the world we know today? INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on Dedication page.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, Rep., 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY BURGESS on front fly leaf and dated 1927. 7 color plates (out of 8) by Harrison Cady. Unfortunately, the frontis is missing and one plate lose with fraying on top edge.
Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 434 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket; else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996-06-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, illustrated in b&w by Henry Gillette. INSCRIBED BY DEAN on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Book has a slight slant, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED "Liz" ON THE TITLE PAGE. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED WITH SKETCH BY ILLUSTRATOR AND AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY on front fly leaf with a typed personal note to the inscribee, also SIGNED. Black & white illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SCHWARTZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Schwartz. Dust jacket with light edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, First Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket, price-clipped with light wear to edges, light toning. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York , Putnams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 74 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DE PAOLA on title-page. Illustrated in B&W by De Paola. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ace, Limited, 1987-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Number 41 out of 150 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Grey marbled boards over red spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 170 pages with b&w drawings by George. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. All numbers including 1 on copyright page. A like-new signed copy of the sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning, My Side of the Mountain. This time, Sam must save both his younger sister and his trusty falcon, Frightful. Dust jacket art by Ted Rand.
Hardcover. Springer, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 894 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS on front fly leaf. This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biologicaland from an insular perspective, successful struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SHULMAN on half-title page about the woman's group to which the book was donated for an auction dated 1998.
Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY BYRD. "Byrd sure shoots a mean game with words. His language, his subject matter, his sensibility are there to remind us that 'we really inhabit / the holy body of God,' that we are all 'hungry ghosts / all of us." Ultimately, Byrd's book is about the community Byrd has learned to embrace--his book is a work that pays homage to those who have formed him--his neighbors, his children, his wife, the poets whose voices still urge him to write. This is a book for everybody." --Benjamin Alire Saenz. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Down East Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf.Tugboats hold a fascination not only for anyone who has worked aboard a vessel or around a harbor but for many land-bound folks as well. There is something about their chunky, powerful build and their often risky but vital work that excites our interest and admiration. The captains and crews of the tugboats are justifiably proud of what they do, and they have some great stories to tell about the ships and barges they tow or push; the harbors, storms, tides, and dangerous passages they must negotiate; the unions; the pilots; the different designs and capabilties of their boats; and the way the boats and their livelihood are irrevocably changing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. SIGNED BY ATKINSON on front fly leaf along with previous owner's inscription. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts by Don Freeman. One year in the life of the New York journalist and drama critic. Written in a diary format, by month and day. No dust jacket, very good copy.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The most inventive and irresistible book of the year spans a mere 26 letters (don't they all!) and 112 pages. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, Once Upon an Alphabet is a creative tour de force from A through Z. Slyly funny in a way kids can't resist, and gorgeously illustrated in a way readers of all ages will pour over, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet in a way that will forever raise the bar. In Once Upon an Alphabet, #1 New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers has created a stunning collection of words and artwork that is a story book, alphabet book, and gorgeously designed art book all in one.
Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 Volumes: (SIGNED). In slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).1916-1945 The Radium Era.1845-1875 The Anesthesia Era.1876-1900 The Antiseptic Era.1901-1915 The X-Ray Era.Limited to 6,500 copies including a special edition of 500 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.
Hardcover. New York, Red Ozier Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 3rd printing, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in full color by Ted Lewin. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Canyonville OR, self-published, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 page stapled booklet, b&w historical photos. A pictorial history of a small Oregon town. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 4th printing, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. INSCRIBED BY LOIS LOWRY on title page "for Karen with love." Dust jacket shows light wear. In protective plastic jacket.
Softcover. New York, The Spiral Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12mo. Printed wrappers. Decorations by Philip Grushkin. First edition of Frost's Christmas poem for the year. INSCRIBED BY FROST on first page: "To Garry Simpson from Robert Frost/At Miami arranging (?) March 4, '57". Light soil to outer wraps, Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. The sixth novel in the 'Thursday Next' series. Clean, like new. Collectors postcard included.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 590 pages. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR MOLLY STEVENS ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, b&w photo illustrations, black cloth covers, gilt on spine faded. INSCRIBED BY SHAWN and dated Nov. 5 1960 on front fly leaf. No dust jacket. Ted Shawn was an American dancer and choreographer. Considered a pioneer of American modern dance, he created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. After their separation he created the all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. Covers Shawn's travels and tours: with the army, in the Orient; and his creation of the Denishawn Dancers with the male athletes at Springfield College. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages with color illustrations. SIGNED by illustrator. Oops! follows a family through the streets of Paris as they try to get to the airport for their vacation. Back at their apartment, their house-sitting aunt slips on some soap, setting off a chain reaction of events that create some extreme roadblocks for the family's trip. A movie shoot, a parade, policemen, rampaging bears, aliens, and much more collide in this remarkable new picture book adventure. The book includes a gatefold page at the end that explains in detail the train of chaos on the previous pages.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First printing of the revised Harper Collins edition (the title was originally published in 1960) in virtually As New condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Maurice Sendak on the title page; Ruth Krauss' legendary book of good and useful things to know, such as what kind of face to make when you say please. Masterfully illustrated by legendary illustrator Maurice Sendak; 48 pages.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First printing of the revised Harper Collins edition (the title was originally published in 1960) in virtually As New condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Maurice Sendak on the title page; Ruth Krauss' legendary book of good and useful things to know, such as what kind of face to make when you say please. Masterfully illustrated by legendary illustrator Maurice Sendak; 48 pages.
Softcover. Belgium, Brepols Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on front fly leaf. Light pencil marks to several pages.
Hardcover. Denver CO, Big Mountain Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY GLAZIER on the front fly leaf and signed "Lyle". The poet's first book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. INSCRIBED BY PAYNE on the half-title page and also SIGNED on the title page. In Orion on the Dunes, the first biography of Beston, scholar Daniel Payne-granted unrestricted access to the writer's archives and drawing on interviews with friends and family-has crafted a scrupulously researched narrative; one presenting a masterful portrait that traces the intellectual growth and tumultuous life of a vital American writer whose work and thought have exerted a tremendous pull on poets, naturalists, and novelists alike. This is the story of a life, at once hidden and transparent, that is here finally revealed. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 391 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY PAYNE on half title page and SIGNED again on title page. The first biography of the writer/naturalist, and one of the leading founders of the modern environmental movement, Henry Beston. Scholar Daniel Payne-granted unrestricted access to the writer's archives and drawing on interviews with friends and family-has crafted a scrupulously researched narrative; one presenting a masterful portrait that traces the intellectual growth and tumultuous life of a vital American writer whose work and thought have exerted a tremendous pull on poets, naturalists, and novelists alike. This is the story of a life, at once hidden and transparent, that is here finally revealed. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY ON BLANK PRELIM PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page, illustrated in color by Mikolaycak, light wear to dust jacket spine and corners.