Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 337 pages, with illustrations by David Gentleman throughout, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies, introduction by Aileen Ward, leather spine with gilt title and decoration, slipcase included. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SARTON on half-title page. light soil to rear panel of dust-jacket otherwise VG/VG.
New York, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WRIGHT on title-page.
hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY JOOST (AUTHOR) Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused the other. Gradually it emerged that Saddam Hussein, with the tacit support of his western allies, was responsible. This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.
Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle." SIGNED BY PEARSON on half title page.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.
Softcover. New York, Jay Street, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and pine, slight stain to for-edge, else a very neat, tight copy.
hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Heritage Press, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Inscribed by Normal Rockwell. Brown/tan cloth boards decorated with animal designs with gilt lettering along spine. B&w and color illustrations. Comes in slipcase. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacekt. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Mark Teague. SIGNED BY TEAGUE WITH A SKETCH opposite title page and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on laid-in bookplate. Like new in dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Helen Craig. Covers with some light abrasions, minor soiling. Some small spots on a few pages. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. UK, Scorpion Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DELBANCO on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Collier/Macmillan, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to spine and edges. SIGNED BY PROULX on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY PROULX on title page. Proulx"s first novel, a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Ltd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Burgundy cloth, gilt spine and front facsimile signature; signed by author in black ink to limitation page, copy #310/500; 2 sections of black & white photographs; tan paper covered slipcase. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966-1968 and held the position of United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Mild wear to dust jacket top edge. Light fading to top boards. Foxing and faint soiling to text block. A bright and tight copy.
NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 168 pages. SIGNED BY PATERSON on title page. Color dust jacket illustration by Barry Moser.
Softcover. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, number 100 of 300 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, Susan Nees in the rear. Sewn into handmade heavy paper wrappers. Also inscribed on the half title page.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Ltd. Ed., 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY COWARD. Cream colored cloth with NC embossed on cover, black spine label with gilt lettering that has a narrow chip down the center. Spine darkened. No. 64 of 301 signed copies. Top edge gilt. Binding tight. Red slip case has light wear. The witty English playwright, composer, director and actor Noel Coward's autobiography. With b&w photos scattered throughout, including author frontispiece photo.
Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY CLARK on title page. 318 pages. Dust jacket with light scratches, sticker residue. Internally very good.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Entertainment, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STOTTLEMYRE on title page. Dust jacket and front cover board beneath on front has scratches (small tears) and groves to bottom. Remainder mark on bottom page block.