Search Results: Literature & Classics from A&D Books

New York: Swann Galleries, 1999. Paperback. Near Fine paperback with perhaps a touch of soiling to the covers, otherwise fine. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The catalogue for an auction of 19th & 20th century literature held at Swann Galleries, NYC, November 18, 1999, their Sale 1842. The morning session featured 19th century literature sets and bindings and the afternoon 20th century literature. Staple-bound, thin card wrap; unpaginated [ca. 68 pages]; unillustrated; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. LAID-IN is the prices realized sheet for this auction.

np: Lannan Foundation, nd [2001]. Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine hardcover with thin flexible boards with a touch of shelf wear; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A collection of seventeen poems by Adrienne Rich, two of which were previously unpublished at the time. Afterword by the author. From an edition limited to 2000 copies. 48 pages; 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Cover photographs by Uta Barth.

New York: Scribner, 2006. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. As New hardcover in dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The second novel from the author of Brick Lane. SIGNED BY ALI on the title page; no inscription. 240 pages; 9.25 x 6.25 inches.

New York: One World/Ballantine, 2004. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Based on the life of Dr. May Chinn, this novel sweeps from the era of slavery to the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. SIGNED BY HAULSEY on the title page a non-specific inscription: "Peace & Love." 352 pages; 8.5 x 5.75 inches.

Ephemera. This is not a book. An original pinback button (pin-back or badge) issued as a promotional give-away for the Artemis Fowl book series written by Eoin Colfer. This was distributed at a book signing with the author at Books of Wonder, NYC. 2 x 2 inches with a locking pin to the back. Condition: Fine. Ships the next business day, carefully packaged.

New York: Miramax, 2004. Hardcover. SIGNED. First American edition, first printing. Fine/As New hardcover; no dj as issued. Contains: two original stories; behind-the-scenes interviews with major characters and Colfer himself; coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate; a section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristics and personality traits; technical diagrams of Foaly's inventions. Text by Eoin Colfer. SIGNED BY COLFER on the half-title; no inscription. 196 pages; b&w illustrations; 5.5 x 7.25 inches. Books ship the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box.

New York: Listening Library/Random House, 2002. Audio Cassette. First edition. Six NEW audio cassettes in a Fine/As New box with illustrated packaging materials. Never played. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Text by Kevin Crossley-Holland; read by Michael Maloney. 6 audio cassettes; approx. 9 hours; box size, 6 x 4 x 2.6 inches. Unabridged audiobook of the second volume in the popular Arthur Trilogy, following The Seeing Stone. Arthur de Caldicot is now squire to Lord Stephen of Holt Castle. But his dream is to escape the shadow of his unfeeling father, meet his birth mother, marry the beautiful Winnie, yet maintain his ties with his friend Gatty. And to become a Crusader.

New York: Atria, 2004. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover with a touch of tanning at the edges in a Fine dust jacket; appears new and unread. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 272 pages; 9.25 x 6.25 inches. SIGNED BY RUX on the title page; no inscription.

Winnipeg: Larkuma, 2003. Paperback. SIGNED. First edition. Near Fine paperback with light rubbing at the edges; appears unread with square tight binding and no creasing to the spine. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Contributions by Uma Parameswaran, Kent Davies, Anne Stewart, Giselle Villegas, Kit Walsh, Stephanie Harvard, and Susan Tschetter. SIGNED BY PARAMESWARAN on the title page in full and additionally inscribed on the half-title.121 pages; 6 x 9 inches. Scarce.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover in a Fine dust jacket. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 228 pages; 5.5 x 8 inches. SIGNED BY KINCAID on the half-title; no inscription.

New York: Anchor, 2005. Paperback. SIGNED. First edition, first printing, paperback original. Near Fine/Very Good with a touch of wear at the edges and extremities and a touch of handling wear; square tight binding, no creasing to spine. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 368 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches. SIGNED BY DAWESAR on the title page; no inscription.

New York: West Egg, 2003. Magazine. First edition. Fine magazine. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The September/October 2003 issue of Book, the magazine published by Barnes & Noble with: articles and/or interviews with Jhumpa Lahiri, Madeleine Albright, James Lee Burke, Jonathan Lethem, Maxine Hong, Sara Peretsky, Ray Bradbury, and others; a special section on upcoming movies based on books with short interviews with Dennis Lehane and Stephen King; book reviews and much more. Edited by Jerome V. Kramer. Perfect bound; 96 pages; color illustrations throughout; 8.25 x 10.75 inches.

New York: Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. SIGNED. First American edition, first printing. Fine hardcover in a Fine dust jacket. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 229 pages; 8.5 x 6 inches. SIGNED BY DESAI on the title page and dated in 1989; no inscription.

Akashic Books, 2006. Paperback. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Appears to be new and unread with a hint of shelf wear. Fine paperback with French folds. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The author's second novel--a paperback original--about an orphaned teenage girl who flees relatives who want to prostitute her. SIGNED BY ABANI on the title page; no inscription. 120 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 inches.

New York: Hudson House, 2000. Hardcover. Revised and expanded, first printing. New hardcover in a New dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Foreword by Graham Greene; text by Richard Lancelyn Green and John Michael Gibson. 726 pages; 6.25 x 9.25 inches. An indispensable font of information.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. NEW hardcover in a NEW dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Illustrated by Jules Feiffer; story by Lois Lowry. 186 pages; 28 b&w illustrations; 5.75 x 8 inches. SIGNED BY LOWRY & FEIFFER on the title page; no inscription. A wry, dry princess tale from Lowry, with illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Feiffer.

Gordon Thomas Ward, 2007. Hardcover. SIGNED. Fine clothbound hardcover in a Fine dust jacket. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A memoir describing the author's childhood in Bernardsville, NJ. Text by Gordon Thomas Ward. SIGNED BY WARD on the title page, inscribed and dated in 2006. Author's business card laid in. 180 pages; b&w photos sprinkled throughout; 6.25 x 9.25 inches.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED. First thus, first printing. Fine/As New hardcover in a Fine/As New dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. Note that the white line along the spine in our photo is the reflection of the flash. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The second (or third) book in the Wolves Chronicles, written by Joan Aiken with a cover illustration by Edward Gorey. SIGNED BY AIKEN on the title page; no inscription. 233 pages; 5.75 x 8.5 inches.

New York: Holiday House, 1980. Hardcover. Fine cloth-bound hardcover with a touch of weakness at the spine ends and a touch of wear at the tips in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light shelf wear and a two-inch closed tear to the back panel. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. First edition, possibly a later printing. 94 pages; b&w illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 7.25 inches. A blind outlaw horse is tamed by a boy who can not speak.

New York: Viking, 1945. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Very Good clothbound hardcover with rubbing to the extremities, a short tear/crease to one corner of the first two pages, a bookstore sticker to the front paste down, and light signs of handling in a Good+ dust jacket with a moderately faded spine, chips to the extremities and to one edge, soiling/foxing, and a long closed tear to the front. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A "tender and funny, gay and sad" story set during World War II in Regensburg, Germany, pitting Anton, who raises radishes on an island that periodically disappears under the flood tide and therefore has no legal existence, against the town's Nazi officials, who resent Anton's autonomy. Written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962). 153 pages; color title page + 14 color plates + illustrated end papers; 5.75 x 8.5 inches.