Item 485Doctor Illuminatus
New Jersey: Princeton. first Edition. Blue Cloth. Fine condition. Item #485
First Editions
Item 2237Inverness Club Its Vibrant Voice Chimes Through the Century 1903-2003
Photographs. First Edition One of 2,000 Copies Printed. 4to.hard cover. 167 pp. Many color and black and white photos. With a suite of 20 pp. of thumbnails of photos used in the book. fine / fine. ISBN: 097217480x Item #2237
Item 490Penny Magazine a Bound Volume
New York: 1833. First Edition. Original leather spine and boards - hinges solid. Very good condition. A few torn pages - one or two with a piece missing. Over 500 pages in all. Item #490
Item 2470A Death in the Family
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, [1957]. First edition. 8vo. Midnight blue cloth covered boards stamped in turquoise and silver. $3.95 price on dust jacket. "Walking" on p. 80. Bookplate on front pastedown. A touch of shelf wear along the bottom edges of covers. Otherwise fine. / in fine dust jacket. Item #2470
Item 2010Sherlock Holmes on Screen Movie and TV
Reynolds and Hearn LTD, 2002. First Edition. Soft Cover. fine. Item #2010
Item 18531 Big Numbers
1990. Bill Sienkiewicz. First Edition. Soft Cover. fine. Item #1853
Item 1954The Origins of the New Testament
Macmillan, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine / fine. Item #1954
Item 2044Bob Son of Battle
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First Edition. Dark Blue. very good. Item #2044
Item 1419Old Age
Paul B Hoeber, 1929. First Ed. _ Signed Limited. Cloth. fine. Item #1419
Item 2295The Young Visitors, Or, Mr. Salteenas Plan
London: chatto and Windus, 1919. With a Preface by J. M. Barrie. 12 mo. Marbled paper covered boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise fine / In fine dust jacket.
"The 'owner of the copyright' guarantees that 'The Young Visitors' is the unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine nears. 'Effort,' however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work. This is no portrait of a writer who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six): it has an air of careless power; there is a complacency about it that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness. It needed no effort for that face to knock off a masterpiece." Item #2295
Item 2419Letters of Ayn Rand
NY: Dutton, (1995). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / in fine dust jacket. Item #2419
Item 1440A Torn Country
Watts, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. fine / fine. Item #1440
Item 2348A Book
New York: Boni and Liveright, [1923]. with illustrations by the author. First Edition. Black paper covered boards. Fine / in very good restored dust jacket. Item #2348
Item 1110The Woggle-Bug Book
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1905. Pictures by Ike Morgan. First edition. 15" x 11-1/8". Perfect bound, green cloth spine, pictorial heavy card stock boards. 48 colorful pp. With custom made clamshell box covered in green cloth to match the book's spine. Slight wear and a touch of soil to covers and spine. Interior is fine. Overall condition near fine. Item #1110
Item 2201Women and Children First
New York: Random House, n.d. ca. 1943. Stated First Printing. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4". Green cloth covered boards. Mustard colored cloth spine with green label stamped in gold. 279 pp. Very good to fine. / Dust jacket with $2.00 price is toned along the spine. A scrape tear along the front hinge and several chips along the top and bottom edges. Some light soil.
The fifth book of short stories by Sally Benson is in a sense a retrospective one-woman show. Its thirty-eight tales, sparkling with wit and alive with character, appeared in The New Yorker between the years 1938 and 1943. The work of a writer whose four previous books - People Are Fascinating, Emily, Junior Miss and Meet Me in St. Louis - earned for Mrs. Benson a national reputation, Women and Children First gives new emphasis to her versatility as a storyteller. Item #2201
Item 2446Act of Darkness
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Black cloth binding with red lettering and decoration. Near fine / in very good dust jacket with light wear and chipping. Item #2446
Item 2443Green Fruit
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1917. First Edition. Brown paper boards with brown cloth spine and gold lettering. Very good + to near fine. Light crease at top corner of free front endpaper. Item #2443
Item 2450Minute Particulars (Signed)
New York: Alcestis Press, 1935. #34 of 135 copies of a signed limited edition. Slim tall 8vo. Cream colored card stock cover stamped in black. Original glassine dust jacket. As new condition / Glassine jacket has a tiny chip at the bottom of the spine. Item #2450
Item 1478Chief (signed)
Dutton. Inscribed and signed by tne author. First edition. hardcover. fine / fine. Item #1478
Item 2225Crusoe's Island in the Caribbean
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1939). Illustrated with 45 photographs. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 9-5/16" x 6-5/16". Green cloth stamped in gold. Map endpapers of Island of Tobago. 339 pp. Fine.
History and observations of life in Tobago in the 1930s. Item #2225
Item 1406Uncle Tom's Cabin of To-day
New York and Washington: The Neal Publishing Company, 1906. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Brown cloth covered boards stamped in gold and black. Photo frontispiece. 244 pp. Inscription on free front endpaper. A touch of rubbing to extremities, only a touch! A little cocked with front cover extending 1/8" over botton cover. Otherwise a tight, clean very nice copy. Very Good. Item #1406
Item 754The History of The Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678-1918)
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (September 1925). With 12 illustrations and 36 maps. First Impression. Thick 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6". Red cloth stamped in gold. 502 pp. including index. Corner tips a little bent. A faint touch of foxing on deckled edge but it does not show up on pages. Overall, tight, clean, very good condition.
With a preface by H.R.H The Prince of Wales, Counel-in Chief and frontis portrait of him. Item #754
Item 2193(Signed) Erections, Ejaculations Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
City Lights Books, 1972. Signed drawings by Bukowski. First Ed. Perfect bound 8vo.soft cover. 8" x 5-5/16". 478 pp..plus 2 pp. Publisher's list. A faint sprinkling of foxing pinpoints on the text block. Spine slightly darkened. Otherwise fine, tight and clean.
Inscribed and signed in blue ink with two illustrations by Charles Bukowski on the title page. Item #2193
Item 1228The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969). Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". 342 pp. Black cloth covered boards with title stamped in copper on spine. Top edge of text block stained light green to match endpapers. Book is in fine condition. / Jacket is crisp. Small triangular chip at bottom of front panel of d.j. Short tiny closed tear at top edge of front panel. Overall, very good to fine.
"Don Carpenter emerges, in this book, not just as a superb storyteller who challenges comparison with the masters of the form, but also as a writer of impressive range and variety." Item #1228
Item 708Life & Times of Michael K
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First Edition. 8vo. Orange paper covered boards with black cloth spine. 184 pp. Tight, clean very good copy with a little foxing on the top edge of the text block. A dime size water stain on endpaper at top of back gutter where a drop of water probably made the spine bleed a little. / A very good to fine dust jacket.
J. M. Coetzee takes us into the world of Michael K, a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. At the age of thirty-one, Michael loses his job as a gardener for the city of Cape Town, and promises to take his ailing mother back to her home town of Prince Albert. On the way there she dies leaving Michael completely alone. He takes refuge on a deserted farm, living off the land "by the rising and setting of the sun in a pocket outside time." . . . In this compelling yet simple story, written in beautiful, spare prose, J.M. Coetzee goes to the center of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision. ISBN: 0670427896 Item #708