Hardcover. Overlake Publishing, 1ST, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 335 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page to the previous owner, a Major in the US Air Force Reserve. His ownership signature on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Richard Egielski. SIGNED BY EGIELSKI with a sketch of a rat on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, a pictorial history of the wedding ritual. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. A collection of his New Yorker drawings.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 333 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by author. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Time-Life Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 51 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Color illustrations by Phelan. Corners and spine lightly rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, tears, rubbing.

Softcover. Essex New York , Eyrie Publications , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Spiral bound softcover. Black & white photographs and maps throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Map of Whallonsburg, New York laid-in. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. Black & white illustrations by Edward Koren. Red remainder mark on top edge at spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on title page.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch Limited, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 93 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Quentin Blake. Dust jacket with light wear, slight fading along top edge. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author and SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ with a small sketch under his dedication.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in color and SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD & FLOWERS ON the front fly leaf. Bright copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF AN ANGEL on the front fly leaf.

Softcover. Louisville, KY, Sarabande Books, 1st wraps, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, author's first book. SIGNED BY CLARKE on title-page. Original Paperback Edition.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Shulevitz and SIGNED BY HIM. In this charming story about imagination and adventure, told with Uri Shulevitz's signature playfulness and style, a little boy learns how to be courageous, both on the high seas and at home. The tale is based on a childhood memory from the time when the author/illustrator and his family lived in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Shulevitz and SIGNED BY HIM. In this charming story about imagination and adventure, told with Uri Shulevitz's signature playfulness and style, a little boy learns how to be courageous, both on the high seas and at home. The tale is based on a childhood memory from the time when the author/illustrator and his family lived in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ALDREN WATSON ON TITLE PAGE. Cover boards show moderate edgewear/soil, and corners lightly frayed/soiled. EX-LIBRARY with usually stamps and adhesive residue. Rear end paper has paper pasted in for due dates.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cover boards clean and bright. Illustrated in color and b&w by Aldren Watson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. An amusing coming-of-age memoir of a young girl growing up in Newark where her mother was a landlord in an apartment building.

New York, Blue Sky Press, 4th pr. , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY BANG Laid-in. Color illustrations by Bang. Caldecott Honor Book and Charlotte Zolotow award winner, no award medals on dustjacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Young Readers;, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. A lunar guide describes the folkloric names of twelve moons according to Native American tradition and showcases their defining characteristics in short verse and beautifully detailed hand-colored woodcuts. SIGNED BY AZARIAN.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on copyright page by Lewin. A look at Brazil's Pantanal marsh describes the various types of creatures who inhabit it, from the South American caiman, to the world's largest rodent, to storks, egrets, and herons.

Hardcover. New York, Tambourine Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover wth dust jacket. Illustrations in color by Kimberly Bulcken Root. SIGNED BY ROOT on title pg. Closed tear to front panel of dust jacket otherwise VG.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED by author/illustrator Phoebe Stone, with a drawing of a flower, on front end paper. Signed postcard laid-in. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2nd printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by color. INSCRIBED WITH DRAWING BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st trade ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white cloth stamped in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover. Fine in a blue cloth slipcase with a color illustration paste-down on front. The author's strongest collection of stories and the last to be published in his lifetime. One of only 250 numbered copies of the publisher's limited first edition SIGNED by the author. This copy is unnumbered. Carver died at the age of only fifty, shortly after this book was published.

Softcover. Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. SIGNED BY ST. JOHN at the 2000 Breadloaf Writers Conference. Essays and reviews by poet David St. John of collections of verse by poets including Marvin Bell, Charles Wright, Donald Hall, Randall Jarrell, Pablo Neruda, Donald Justice, Mark Strand, Jorie Graham et al, followed by six interviews with David St. John (in various journals).

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Children's Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Vladimir Radunsky . SIGNED BY RADUNSKY. In this soothing rhyme we explore the sleeping habits of some favorite inhabitants of the world of fairy tales and find fairies, wizards, goblins, and even children all find peace under the same bright moon.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1ST, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY EGIELSKI. No dust jacket issued. Paper engineering by Gene Vosough. 16 pages, 8 two-page pop-ups, all tight with crisp edges and in working order. Clean cover, solid binding.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 431 pages, with unopened CD in back. SIGNED BY HALL on title page. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Includes CD of author reading book.

Hardcover. U.K., Educational Explorers , 1st English, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages.. Hardcover, no dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY GATTEGNO on front end paper. Translated from French by Ann Reed. Color paintings by Susan Kohn. Illustrated cloth.

UK, Goldmark Uppingham, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus acknowledgements. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Sinclair brings together an impressively predatory and seedy group of contemporary antiquarian book-dealers and an investigation of the 19th century Jack the Ripper murders. The double plot fuses a hunt for rare books and the Ripper.

Hardcover. New York , Little Simon, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, In red boards with white ridged decorations tipped to cover, color pop-up illustrations throughout, 20 pages. SIGNED by Carter.

Softcover. Portland ME, F/64 Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pages. Regional history of a major transportation hub between Vermont and New Hampshire. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with color illustrated label on front cover. INSCRIBED BY BURGESS on front fly leaf. 8 Color plates by Harrison Cady. Green Forest Series

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by George Booth with bookplate SIGNED BY BOOTH laid in. While preparing to spend a quiet day on the river, a young girl finds her little boat filled with a group of uninvited guests and so decides to make the best of things, but when a crocodile appears, she decides enough is enough.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w art by Ed Young. SIGNED BY NORMAN on title page. Red remainder line bottom edge otherwise near fine.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED TO "GEORGE" by AUTHOR ON HALF COVER. Otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls--also named the year's best novel by Time--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. We all know the joke. We've all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we've found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too--and they have some wacky and downright hilarious ideas about why that chicken really did cross the road. Mo Willems's chicken confesses his motives to a police officer; David Shannon's chicken can drive a car; Marla Frazee's chicken is looking for a more luxurious coop; and Harry Bliss's chicken encounters aliens. And this is just the beginning. One thing is for sure--you won't cross this book without a good laugh!

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, reprint, 2004-03-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Appleton, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 290 pages plus ads. Illustrated with black & white photographs. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on back of half-title page. Front hinge crack but still held by spine mesh. Otherwise a very nice copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Light wear to cover. Dust jacket has some some wear and bumped edge. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Paperback. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Hirsch's hastily scrawled signature on title page SIGNED BY HIRSCH at 1999 Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont. Clean, bright copy.