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1940 hardcover. The book is in excellent condition with a name on the cover page, very light edge wear and the flaps of the dust jacket used to be glued inside the covers - some of the paper remains. The dust jacket is very worn/not all there.

S.l.: s.n., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good -. [6], 365, [1] p.; 25 cm. Original black faux-leather cloth with blind-stamped title at head of spine between double blind rules. Front board has blind-stamped emblem within triple-ruled border. Title vignette of eagle in front of stars, holding arrows and a olive branch, within a laurel wreath, the latter only printed in red. Title page is preceded by two pages: another title page repeating the eagle emblem without the wreath and adding "privately printed"; and a page of limitation stating that the edition was limited to 500 copies, but without a copy number or signature. This is the third of the pirate editions described by Lawrence in "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger." In Very Good- Condition: joints, center of spine, and corners rubbed; head of spine frayed; a few pages opened carelessly (resulting in chip out of upper edge of title page); slightly soiling along a few margins; back endpapers stained; slightly cocked but solid.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Most uncommon signed. Winner of The National Book Award.

Chicago / Seattle: Acme Novelty Library / Fantagraphics, 1994. Signed by Chris Ware. First edition / First printing. Oversize illustrated stapled cardstock covers. 11" x 13.75 Fine. Issued without dust jacket, Mylar jacket supplied.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Signed on the title page by Dave Eggers, dated 2/28/00 and inscribed To Barbara: OK now. Yes. Yes. D.E. First edition / First printing. Mauve paper spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Selected as one of the 10 best books of 2000 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Nancy's Mysterious Letter: Keene, Carolyn. Copyright 1932, Grosset & Dunlap. RARE Nancy Drew #8, 1939 issue thus. Includes original "HEADLINE BOOKS FOR GIRLS" DUST JACKET. RUSSELL H. TANDY COVER ART. Since the dj Back panel authors are: Faith Baldwin through Ann Spence Warner and titles listed were published in 1931, this may be a first state unclipped dust jacket. Price on front flap is 5050. USED. Good Condition/ Good Condition DJ. Summary: "By mistake Nancy Drew receives a letter from England intended for an heiress, also named Nancy Drew. When Nancy undertakes a search for the missing young woman, it becomes obvious that a ruthless, dangerous man is determined to prevent her from finding the heiress or himself."

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2014. Signed by Richard Ford on the title page and dated December 4, 2014. Also Signed by Richard Ford on a specially printed tipped-in page. F irst edition / First printing. Special signed edition: One of an unknown number of copies signed by the author on a specially printed bound-in page. White paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A coda to the Bascombe Trilogy.

New York: Scribner, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Hell. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. The author's first novel. Member of several early Punk groups: Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers. Leader of the Voidoids, seminal Punk-Rock group.

New York: Viking, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine first issue dust jacket with "Clarke" misspelled as "Clark" on the spine. Booker Prize Winner.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Signed and dated 9/17/22 by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eight years before Covid, Quammen warned us about the dangers of zoonosis, or the cross species transfer of disease. Breathless directly address the science and history of Covid. Quammen did little in the way of publicity and appearances for this book. He did a pre-publication appearance at Town Hall in Seattle in mid-September. Our copy was signed and dated 2.5 weeks before publication. Breathless was a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. Song of the Dodo was awarded the 1997 John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the 1996 New York Public Library/Helen Bernstein Award, and the 1996 BP Natural World Book Prize. It was Selected One of the Eight Best Books of 1996 by The New York Times Book Review. Boilerplate Rhino won the 2001 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Signed by the author on the title page. Additionally inscribed: To Mark. First U.S. edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First U. S. edition / First printing. Green paper spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize. Ranked 4th in the 2019 Guardian list of the Best Books of the 21st Century. Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Basis for the 2010 Mark Romanek film, starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.

New York: Viking, 1986. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Additionally inscribed: To Camille, with best wishes. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, mauve paper-covered boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The author's most popular novel, an historical novel told from the point of view of a Blackfoot Indian coming of age in the 1870's, just as his culture was threatened with extinction.

New York: Riverhead Books. 2019. Signed in silver on the title page by Marlon James. First edition / First printing. Paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Black Leopard Red Wolf is a Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. Marlon James won the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings. Black Leopard Red Wolf has received ecstatic reviews, including a front page review in The New York Times Book Review from Michiko Kakutani.

A ten-volume set of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Not ALL the works, by any means, but a nice representative sample. This is identified as the de Luxe Edition and is part of a limited, numbered set published about 1910 for sale in America. This is #590 of 1,000 (see photo #10). The books show wear at many corners and the top and bottom of the spine, to varying degrees. Gilt top page edges. Books of this age often develop hinge splits where the glued portions meet the stitched body. While these can occur in the front or rear, the front is more common, due to the way people normally hold books. Only three of these volumes have developed a mild split, all in front, near the title page. In a few volumes some of the lower edges of some pages have not been separated (see photo #12). The titles are as follows:
The Light That Failed; 2. The Phantom Rickshaw; 3. Plain Tales from the Hills; 4. Backroom Ballads and Other Verses; 5. Soldiers Three; 6. Under the Deodars; 7. Mine Own People; 8. The Story of the… Read More