Hardcover. UK, Printed by Cox, Sons and Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 140 pages plus bibliography and index. A study of a little West Somerset town. 8 b&w plates. Privately printed, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Mild soil to dj, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BECK on title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Chicago, Regnery Gateway, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 191 pages. John Chamberlain, a veteran newspaperman and reviewer for the New York Times and other prestigious publications, shares the story of his career. INSCRIBED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Introduction by William F. Buckley.
NY, Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on blank prelim page, Clean copy. A wildly exuberant, wily new novel about a race that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country (and continent) as it does about the three audacious individuals who take part.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, wrinkling to front flap. SIGNED by author and movie star Goldie Hawn directly on the title page with purple flair pen. A rather unconventional memoir from one of the world's most beloved actresses. Goldie writes about everything from her early years as a little girl who felt like an ugly duckling to her go-go dancing years in New York in the Sixties to Hollywood and memorable films like the Oscar-winning Cactus Flower, Swing Shift, and Private Benjamin. She speaks of her relationship with her family, her partner Kurt Russell, her children Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, Wyatt Russell, and her stepson Boston Russell.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover with an orange slipcase with a tipped-in plate to the front panel. . No dust jacket. Limited to 350 copies. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 23/350.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEAVER on the title page to fellow writer Barry Estabrook. A school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. Waiting for them are three escaped convicts with nothing to lose. Now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything to gain. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to the spine. Photo frontispiece. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. The Johnny Appleseed Bookshop became one of the most beloved bookstores in the state. Started by Ruth Hard the daughter of Walter and Margaret it soon attracted a following of from Vermont and nearby New York and Massachusetts. Major literary figures of the day, Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Alexander Woollcott, Pearl Buck, all part time residents of the state, quickly became regulars. The store closed in 1980 after almost 50 years in business in Manchester, Vermont. Her bookshop sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Lanham, University Press of America, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light foxing to edges and covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") handsewn and handbound in full crimson Oasis goatskin leather stamped in black. The original French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing pages. Copy #794 of 1000 numbered copies illustrated with 8 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe printed in two colors on handmade paper and SIGNED by the photographer and the translator. "Of the arresting photographs used to illustrate the book, several of the images rank among the photographer's most famous".
Hardcover. Boston, Garden Press, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 143 pages, b&w frontispiece. INSCRIBED BY BAYLEY on front fly leaf. Maroon and gray cloth with gilt lettering on front cover.
Hardcover. Saxonville, Mass., Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR YOSHI on title page. Book is printed back to front. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.
NY, Pippin Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY ECK on half-title page and SIGNED on title page. In addition, a handwritten note from co-author Winterrowd laid-in.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA , Harvard University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS UNTEMEYER BY WHITMAN on half-title. Title-page engraving by Michael McCurdy (repeated on dust jacket ). Dust jacket with light edgewear.
New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1998 (1955), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. 65 pages plus scrapbook. In new condition. The original story and pictures of Eloise plus previously unpublished illustrations by Knight and photographs of Kay Thompson. Signed and dated by the illustrator, Hilary Knight, the year of publication. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.
Hardcover. Brookfield, Connecticut, Roaring Book Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY MACDONALD WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH TO GREEN PREVIEW PAGE. Color illustrated covers and dust jacket, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by MacDonald. No signs of wear, pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BRINK at 1998 Breadloaf Writer's Conference. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK on title page. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother?
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Adele and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cecile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. "Please try not to lose anything on our trip," Adele tells her brother with a sigh. But how can Simon remember to keep an eye on his belongings when there are so many wonderful distractions and astounding sights to take in? The endearing team from Adele & Simon returns in a cross-continental adventure that reflects the vitality of early twentieth-century America, from the Boston Public Garden to San Francisco's Chinatown. Stunning pen-and-ink-and watercolor illustrations are filled with innumerable hidden treasures, and endpapers featuring a period map of America extend the fun. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK.
Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Snowy Owl Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Ice has determined the course of Adirondack history in many surprising ways: from landscape to wildlife, harvesting to logging, barrel jumping to ice climbing and hail damage to ice storms. These accounts trace the history of that influence. The 360 page, soft cover book of personal stories, observations and over 200 photos, is the author's tribute to a fast disappearing era. Cover wrappers with mild wear, corner creases. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear/soil. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUBUS on title page and also INSCRIBED by him on the opposite blank leaf. Previous owner's signature and address on the front fly leaf.