Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. Color illustrations by Aldren Watson. Light soil to dust jacket. Otherwise very good. SIGNED BY ALDREN WATSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown and Co., 5th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nolan and INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Price clipped from dust jacket, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. McKinleyville CA, Fithian Press/, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY COHEN on the front fly leaf. Robert Cohen is the founding Chair of Drama a the University of California, Irvine, and has written 20 book on theatre. In this memoir, he recounts the "lucky breaks" that took him from being a college student preparing for law school to a long career as a man of the theatre. The first lucky break took place in his junior year of high school when Judy Berkenbilt asked him to be in "Belles On Their Toes," a play she was directing. She wanted to cast him as a policeman but after reading the script, Cohen asked for the role as the family handyman, which she agreed to. He identifies Lucky Break #2, in the same year, as ending up in a Vocational Typing class when he transferred out of the Mechanical Drawing class to escape a creepy instructor. He became a fabulous typist and was able to earn lunch money in college by typing papers for other students. Lucky Break #3 was getting into the 12th grade Advanced English class taught by Miss Casey, which advanced his intellectual development and reading "like crazy." Lucky Break #6 was being asked to take over as coach of the swimming program at the camp where he was a counselor. When Cohen did not have the $20 needed to to get a Water Safety Instructor certification, the camp owner asked him take over the drama program instead. And so on.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY ROWENA MORRILL 26 color reproductions of her fantasy art. Paperback edition.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY SLEIGH on the title page. Widely considered one of the finest poets of his generation, Tom Sleigh brings to his new collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship. In these poems, small things reveal large metaphysical and historical correspondences. In "Newsreel," for instance, the entire Cold War era comes to a drive-in movie theater, as Marilyn Monroe's screen image gives way to a tale of sci-fi Armageddon. In the elegiac "New York American Spell, 2001," Sleigh combines ancient spells with reportage of terrorism. Sleigh's overarching theme is the ever-changing face of love. As in Ovid's Metamorphoses, his poems reveal the workings of eros, for good or ill, in all its public and private guises. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Orlando, Harcourt, Inc., 2nd Printing, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON BOOKPLATE ("AN AUTOGRAPHED EDITION FROM CHINABERRY" BOOKPLATE). Full color illustrations by Ivan Bates. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Green boards with small black embossed graphic illustration to front, bright red cloth spine with gilt titles, pale green textured dust jacket with a large b&w woodcut and red titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Article on Mary Azarian from the periodical New England Monthly dated August 1984 included, protected in plastic. Very light rubbing to dust jacket; a beautiful clean, tight children's book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Seymour, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SCOTT GUSTAFSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. The Woodlands TX, New Century Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 585 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR to fellow publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife. The kidnapping of the first son of aviator Charles Lindbergh became the crime of the century and defined 'media circus.' As much as the world in the 1930's loved 'Lucky Lindy' for his flight from New York to Paris, so the world despised the kidnapper of the Lindbergh's child. Although the crime occurred in New Jersey, the FBI maintained complete files on the case, because ransom money crossed state lines. These are the complete, never-published, FBI files on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. The files end with the single word PENDING, as the case was still in progress. This is time stopped in 1934.
Softcover. NY, Pantheon, ARC, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated wrappers, an advanced reading copy. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Finalist for the National Book Award.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Wells and SIGNED BY WELLS on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CANNELL on title page. Clean, like new. An Ellie Haskell mystery, now the mother of infant twins who feels like the magic has gone out of her life. The fifth mystery by Cannell.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Norfolk UK, Black Dog Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Author signed. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "These essays, written over a 30-year period and published to celebrate the Benson Medal for Literature awarded to Ronald Blythe in 2006, offer Blythe's lingering comment on his life as a writer."
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 183 pages. INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on the title page. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf. Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, between parent and child, and between estranged spouses
Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kalman and SIGNED BY KALMAN. This is the inspiring true story of the John J. Harvey--a retired New York City fireboat reinstated on September 11, 2001. Originally launched in 1931, the Harvey was the most powerful fireboat of her time. After the September 11 attacks, with fire hydrants at Ground Zero inoperable and the Hudson River's water supply critical to fighting the blaze, the fire department called on the Harvey for help. There were adjustments--forcing water into hoses by jamming soda bottles and wood into nozzles with a sledgehammer--and then the fireboat's volunteer crew pumped much-needed water to the disaster site. The John J. Harvey proved she was still one of New York's Bravest!Maira Kalman brings a New York City icon to life, celebrating the energy, vitality and hope of a place and its people.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by David Wiesner. SIGNED BY WILLARD. Light edgewear to dust jacket, dust jacket price clipped, remainder ink dot to top edge.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE on title page. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. Very little wear to cover and dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy. When Hilary Knight discovered mice in his studio, he set about designing them a special outdoor home. The mice had unique talents of their own. Maude, an expert needle-mouse, complemented Max's way with a hammer. Both shared a keen eye for found objects. Mr. Knight's watercolor journal of this charming couple's enterprise, accompanied by Maude's daily notations, has become a joyous celebration of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Hardcover. New York, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY KNIGHT. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. Very little wear to cover and dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black top edge. Edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A juvenile novel about two runaway children during the London blitz. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. 5th in the Thursday Next series. Promotional postcard laid-in. ("Tricks of the Trade Revealed" postcard #7 showing Fforde and his clones manically signing books.). Clean, like new.
New York, Hyperion Books, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated and SIGNED BY YACCARINO with a small sketch.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket, 286 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 253 pages, INSCRIBED BY TAYLOR on the title page. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean. First Mail West recounts the colorful history of stagecoach lines on the Santa Fe Trail during the height of overland traffic from 1850 to 1879. Desert, rain, snow, wind, outlaws, Indians, buffalo stampedes, and business competitors challenged, and sometimes scuttled, the operation of stage lines between Missouri and New Mexico. The author describes the topography, roads, rolling stock, stations, accommodations, and natural and human dangers along the trail, and analyzes the fierce competition between independent lines for passenger traffic and federal mail contracts.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION. Hardcover, 323 pages. Black & white photography. Cover has light edgewear. One of 260 signed and numbered copies bound in publisher's original black half cloth and tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece illustration of Harry B. Smith, and 25 additional photographic illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 132 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper, light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. As a serviceman in Paris after World War II, Peter Miller served as a US Army Signal Corps photographer. By day, he would snap one-star generals greeting four-star generals, and the innumerable grip and grins of Congressmen visiting soldiers. By night, Miller traversed the city of light, capturing the resilient spirit of Parisians in the wake of the devastating war. Miller's photographs reflect the vision of a sparkling city while his recollections document the wonder and enchantment felt by a young man from Vermont. From pictures of the Latin Quarter brimming with American jazz and blues to alluring models on the runways of Christian Dior; from romantic courtships in the streets to hobos along the River Seine, Miller captures these sights and impressions in dynamic compositions and sensitive recollections that are striking, compassionate, and a joy to all lovers of the city of light.
Hardcover. Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, Aardvark Publications, Incorporated, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Very minor wear on spine edge and cover corners. Lots of pictures, almost all in color. In excellent condition, a very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages, illustrated by the photographer's miniature tableaux, all in color. INSCRIBED BY TRESS on title page. Cardboard slipcase.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORBES on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Riverdale-on-Hudson NY, The Sheep Meadow Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. INSCRIBED BY BARNSTONE on the title page. Barnstone was a distinguished professor emeritus from Indiana University. He was in China during the Cultural Revolution, which is central to this collection. Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, visiting his friend Melrose Plant in Long Piddleton, looks into the murder of Simon Lean, whose body is discovered stuffed into an antique secretaire a abattant. Working with help from the usual cast of zany characters, Jury goes about his business in his customary leisurely and self-assured manner and pieces together a very strange tale of greed, jealousy, and murder.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.Trucks of different shapes and sizes share one important purpose in this classic picture book from the bestselling creator of Moonshot and Locomotive.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY LEVINE on the half-title page. Pro football player turned lawyer Jake Lassiter is savoring a drink at a South Beach bar when a beautiful young woman shoots the man on the next bar stool and faints in Lassiter's arms. It's one way to get clients, he figures. The woman, Chrissy Bernhardt, is charged with the first-degree murder of her father, whom Chrissy believes abused her as a child. Lassiter takes the case, which is complicated by the fact that Chrissy's repressed memories of her father's abuse have been "unlocked" with the help of a therapist who turns out to be her late mother's former lover. The seventh Lassiter novel continues the series' steady improvement. Lassiter is smart, tough, funny, and very human. He's coming on fast as one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Essay by Paul J. Karlstrom. With 365 illustrations including 260 plates in full color.
Hardcover. Richmond VA, Johnson Publishing Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray illustrated cloth, 306 pages with index. B&w illustrations by John Rae, several maps including endpapers. INSCRIBED BY HANNA on the front fly leaf. "The major, detailed study of the exodus of the Confederate government from Richmond; thoroughly researched and well-written." [Martin Abbott]. minor bumps to cloth covers, name tipped-in on dedication page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Dust jacket wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Poseidon Press, uncor. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Softcover with minor wear on paper wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy. Sticker on front wrapper.
Hardcover. London, Orion, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. A reissue of the auhor's first novel issued in 1986. SIGNED BY RANKIN on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 148 pages. Esther Heins' watercolors of leaves and flowers organized by month of bloom, crisp interior. A full color botanical drawing left-hand page is dedicated to each species. On the right page is explanatory text. Free of any markings, not ex-library. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST HEINS on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. When her father is detained at Heathrow Airport for smuggling, Louise Gerard and her friend Edward Cole investigate, leading to a chase through Paris that forces Louise to realize just how much she does know about the smuggling ring. Clean copy.
Hardcover. White River Jct VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on title page and INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Novelist and shepherd Mitchell presents this account of what happened after a biologist from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department asked for permission to track bats on his farm. The author having been an iconoclast since his youth, the book is as much a story about a back-to-the-land Vermont farmer coming to collaborate with government as the story of the bats for whose benefit the forested land was managed. This idealist muses on the process of balancing concerns of money, ecology, independence and co-dependence, wrapping up the book with insights learned in convoluted manner about nature, society, and himself.