Softcover. NY, Stone Street Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, black paper wrappers with illustrated label on front. SIGNED BY MCCORMICK on (C) page Lino cut Illustrations, calligraphy & translation by McCormick. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the S. Miriella Gable Prize. Amy Hempel has said "Victoria Redel's contribution to the literature of obsession is rendered with unusual delicacy and daring." In this exquisite debut novel, Victoria Redel takes us deep into the mind of a very singular mother, and yet through her we see the dangerously whisper-thin line between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all devotion. After all, "Who has ever wanted to share a love?" Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, August 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 224 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY JONG on front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Post Mills VT, Chelsea Green, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HELEN NEARING on the title page. illustrated with black and white photographs covering the many years of Helen and Scott Nearing. Here for the first time, Helen Nearing writes about a relationship with the young Krishnamurti, and when she went to Scott Nearing at the age of 24, he was 45; and their move to Vermont in 1932. Then in 1953, their move to Maine. Helen's memoir of their life together and an inspiring testimony to the ideals they stood for: self-sufficiency, simplicity, social justice, and peace. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BAKER on title-page. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. San Diego, Junction Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. A veteran of the New York avant-garde still best remembered for her rebellious '60s play Futz, Owens resurrects the painter Leonardo da Vinci; two of his models, Flora and Mona (Lisa); his student Salia; and Luca, his teacher. Luca is given the poem's near-omniscient "I"; the piece as a whole is less concerned with the biographical Leonardo than with the physical, social and emotional circumstances of representative creation and the elaboration of sexual expression in portraits. To this end there are many descriptions of women's bodies that are spat back at the reader-as-observer in colloquial bursts. INSCRIBED BY OWENS on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Delta, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Corner and edge wear otherwise very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 53 pages, illustrated in b&w by Franz Deak. SIGNED BY GALLICO on the front fly leaf, additionally INSCRIBED BY VIRGINIA BARONESS LUDMILA VON FALZ-FEIN just below Gallico's signature. Dated 7/6/57. This charming tale about a little Liechtenstein cow with great ambitions was the first of his works to be published in Liechtenstein. The story was first printed in the Christmas issue of The Sketch (London). Mild edgewear to dj, clean copy.
Hardcover. Quick, Vaduz, Quick, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with edgewear, Signed and inscribed to former owner by Paul Gallico and signed by Baroness von Falz-fein (Mother of Ludmila), otherwise unmarked clean and solid copy. Charming story of The Weakling, a cow with great ambition to be the champion milk prducer in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Gallico was a resident of Liechtenstein at the time the book was written. Later, in 1963, Gallico married the Baroness, 30 years his junior.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 5th pr, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Blue cloth cover with small gilt illustration embossed to front, gilt lettering embossed to front and spine, 270 b&w plates, appendix of supplemental b&w plates of art pieces described in collection. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 2 small squares of tape residue to opposite endpaper, light foxing evident of front and rear endpapers, light wear to cover. This extensive catalog is one of the finest for the study of colonial and early American furniture, painting, and the decorative of arts of the period of 1720-1820.This beautifully printed volume, set in Monotype Bembo and with full-tone collotype illustrations, established a high visual standard for furniture catalogs.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Frontispiece illustration by Rockwell Kent. 1000 pages plus commentary in rear by John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams and others. Previous owner's name on title page, gutter loose at title page. Rear hinge cracked. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SIS on copyright page with bird sketch. Madlenka has a brand-new soccer ball and aspirations to be a soccer star. As she dribbles it around her urban neighborhood, she encounters plenty of opponents willing to play with her: A mailbox, a dog, and a parking meter. She plays with a group of cats at the local park with a tree acting as a goal, of which she easily scores. Goal!! The crowd goes wild! She meets of with Cleopatra who also wants to play. "Are you ready?" Madlenka asks and off they go. The author's thin black line illustrations give a an overhead perspective of the soccer field surrounded by tall buildings as other neighborhood children come to join the game.In the back of the book, Sis gives a history lesson about the early versions of soccer along with how soccer is pronounced by countries all over the world because "The whole world wants to play soccer!"
Hardcover. Mount Vernon NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st yhus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover very good in glassine dust-wrapper and slipcase. Illustrated with gravures from Eechings by Sigmund Abeles and #1370/2,000 copies signed by him. Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau. Quarter black morocco spine decorated in gilt over gray striped cloth, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press, Special Reader's Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Crisp, bright copy with minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY NAIPAUL. Like new condition in a bright dust jacket. The author's fourteenth and final novel.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 101 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Serena Riglietti. SIGNED BY SUSAN COOPER on title page. Clean, tight copy with minor edge wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Random House Studio , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout by Claire Keane. SIGNED BY KUNKEL on the title page. In the beginning, there was a boy named Robert McCloskey, growing up in Ohio, his hands always moving, always creating. Many years later, after attending art school in Boston, he would reflect on his days wandering through Boston Garden and write the classic picture book Make Way for Ducklings. In the beginning, there was also a girl named Nancy Sch n. She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, working in her father's greenhouse, twisting wire and boughs into wreaths. Many years later, Nancy would look at Robert's drawings in Make Way for Ducklings and get the seed of an idea. That seed became the beloved bronze sculptures of Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings that stand in Boston Garden today. This stunning and clever picture book biography intertwines the lives of two phenomenal artists--who were contemporaries and friends--and reveals the extraordinary impact they've had on generations of children.
Hardcover. US, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear to boards, faint foxing to edges.