Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st , 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY RUTH SAWYER on half-title page. Hardbound, 108 pages. Illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum in color and b&w. Previous owner's signature and stamp front fly leaf. Illustrated endpapers. Tan cloth cover, no dust jacket. Pink top edge.

Hardcover. London, Dent, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. B&w illustrations by Leonard Lubin. INSCRIBED BY FOX on title page. Light wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and author's initials on front cover. #253 out of 300, numbered and SIGNED BY DILLARD and in a printed slipcase. Dillard's first novel, a tale of rough settlement life in northwest Washington state in the 1850s. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Udall's second novel introduces Golden Richards, a builder, with four wives, 28 children and a propensity to create trouble for himself and his family. SIGNED BY UDALL on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/New Haven, Coward-McCann / Yale University, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, #38/525 copies, Numbered and SIGNED by Wilder on a leaf tipped onto the copyright page, bound in faux-vellum spine, flowered paper covered boards. Mild foxing to a few pages, otherwise clean. A one act play whose action spans 90 years in the home of one family, specifically in the dining room during Christmas dinners. laid in is a page of The Yale Alumni Weekly from 1931 with a review of the play.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 2nd pr., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark gray boards with black cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. 350 pages, b&w illustrations, color endpaper maps. INSCRIBED BY RYAN on half title page and dated Dec 59. In 1956 Ryan began to write The Longest Day,which tells the story of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, later published in 1959. It was an instant success, and Ryan helped in the writing of the screenplay for the 1962 hit film of the same name. Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author US $175,000 for the screen rights to the book. Lacks dust jacket, a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Forge Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARTIN on the title page. Rare book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, are back for another treasure hunt through time. These main characters from previous books "Back Bay" and "Harvard Yard", are in search for an early, annotated draft of the Constitution which was stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. Clean copy. Autographed copy sticker on front cover.

Hardcover. Portland ME, Home Ice Productions, 2nd pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Laura Winslow. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What would YOU wish for? That's the question a thoughtful chickadee named Dirigo asks his friends who have traveled from all over Maine's woods, waterways and wilderness to celebrate his birthday. Gathered around the dandelion birthday candle, each animal offers Dirigo a special wish as they take turns telling stories about their own Maine birthdays. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR INGALLS on the front fly leaf. The desperate struggle between the aging Manchu Empress T z'u-hsi and her young nephew the Emperor, at the close of the nineteenth century. A story told as a parable against both Japanese occupation and the Communist rule. Small ownersjp stamp on first page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition/first printing in unread very good condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author/illustrator Mordicai Gerstein. In 1972, French aerialist Philippe Petit stole into the nearly completed construction site of the World Trade Center, strung a tightrope between the two towers, and the following morning gave the city of New York an incredibly daring and long remembered performance. Gerstein was awarded the 2004 Caldecott award for his illustrations, with the two fold-out panoramas that capture the drama, excitement, and anxiety of the historic death defying feat. Like new. No sticker.

NY, Hat & Beard Press, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 X 12", 196 pages. Beckman mixes her rare, early b&w photos of graffiti artists with splashes of color by celebrated urban artists. This unique collaboration creates an exciting expression of original hip-hop culture. SIGNED BY BECKMAN WITH A SKETCH OF A CAMERA on title page. Very scarce in a small printing.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover First Edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR RICHARD NIXON. First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page). Blue cloth slipcase, Richard Nixon's blue ink signature appears on special leaf bound-in immediately between front free endpaper and half-title. A very good copy in a very good slipcase. No dust jacket. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.25 pounds and will require additional postage and insurance for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Milkweed Editions , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY JAMES on the title page. Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Albion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The fictional story of one man's obsession with the Grateful Dead, and the revelations he experiences while following the band from show to show at the turn of the millennium. INSCRIBED BY BARUTH on half title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH TAN AND SHIELDS on the half-title page. On a rainy afternoon, a woman shares with three restless granddaughters her "earliest memory" from her childhood in China. Adapted from Tan's The Joy Luck Club , the haunting tale that unfolds is worthy of retelling--and of repeated rereading. The narrator, Ying-ying, recalls waking up at the age of seven on the morning of the Moon Festival; it was a steamy day, and "the sun drove rays through the bamboo curtains like knives." Filled with similarly vivid images, Tan's lilting text conveys Ying-ying's contagious excitement about the festivities. These include the appearance of the Moon Lady, who can fulfill one's secret wish. Later, celebrating with her family on a "floating teahouse," Ying-ying loses her balance and falls into the lake, where she is caught in a fisherman's net. He returns her to shore, where her secret wish is granted: she is found by her family, and thus learns a lesson about which kind of wishes come true. Tan has done a superb job of distilling this incident for young readers, who will be as mesmerized by the expressive narrative as by Schields's ornately detailed paintings, ablaze with luminous color.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jerry Pinkney and SIGNED BY PINKNEY.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. When a legendary freedom fighter is kidnapped, his close friend the Libyan dictator angrily blames the CIA. In retaliation, the Libyans kidnap the U.S. Presidents brother. Enter the Mordida Man--an independent fixer and bribery expert who must find and free the Presidents brother without causing an international incident.

Hardcover. Algonquin Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. When Alizee Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters, and moving between the past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into the divisiveness of prewar politics and the largely forgotten plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States. It captures both the inner workings of New York's art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American school of Abstract Expressionism.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket. Bright blue cloth covers with spine label. 257 pages. Frontispiece, 9 black and white illustrations. The Mysterious Science of Law was based on Boorstin's Yale SJD thesis. (He also held an Oxford BCL and was admitted to the Inner Temple.). It was the first of many important books by Boorstin, who went on to became a prominent historian and, from 1975 to 1987, Librarian of Congress. Appears to se SIGNED on the inside cover and dated Dec., 1941. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kellogg. INSCRIBED BY KELLOGG WITH A TADPOLE SKETCH on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 225 pages. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on the title page. Three Vermont women enroll in a nature writing class, only to find themselves drawn into a plot to commit an act of destruction in the name of the environment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth-coherent characterization, linear plot, symbolism-became tools of New Journalism. The New American Novel of Manners explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism.In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America's modern-day manners in its semiotics, in the system of signs that envelops us-the blue jeans people wear, the fast food they eat, the decor of the bars they drink in and the rock-and-roll lyrics that play through memories. The new generation of mannerists describe lifestyles that are determined by words and images, by actions that are dictated by what has been read and seen, and patterns of behavior in which life is edited and fictionalized. Klinkowitz reveals a fiction that is once again capable of reflecting the way people live. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MACAULAY on the half-title page. The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth. Autographed sticker on cover, a clean, bright copy.