Little Golden Book #128; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28 pages; 1952 Simon & Schuster. HC 1st "A" edition and printing. Bound in the uncommonly seen full pictorial cloth "Goldencraft" binding, marketed to schools and libraries as edition that would stand up to heavier use. This copy from a a personal collector is tight fresh and very neat with no marks of any kind. Pictorial thatch/weave pattern in turquoise green with pictorial title panel to cover in 6 colors and titles lettered in black to spine. Trace toning to cloth at spine. The "A' 1st printing is in the gutter of the last pic... View More...
Little Golden Book #118; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28 pages; 1951 Simon & Schuster. HC Little Golden Book #118. 1st edition, 1st "A" printing. Tightly bound and fresh in color pictorial boards and gold foil backed spine. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to extremities. No marks. VG++ or better View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; 1966 Random House. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright title lettered dust jacket with publisher's $5.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears generally unread; no marks of any kind. Just trace shelf evidence to jacket edges. Just about as new. NF/NF View More...
B&W Photographs, Plans and Maps; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 562 pages; 1997 University of Chicago Press. Stout square format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread; no marks. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos, plans and maps. Whisper of shelf evidence to jacket edges but generally as new. F/NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Pictorial map rear endpage; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; Soundly bound and clean with original wraparound pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's green cloth with title lettering in red. Gift inscription penned neatly to front endpage. Cloth lightly crimped with trace fray at spine ends; a small pencil tip eraser sized ink spot to the cover board. Dust jacket is much worn with chipping at spine ends, furring over flap fold edges and sunning at spine. Prior owner has reinforced partial splits in the jacket joints with applications of cloth thin tape to the blank, reverse surface of the jac... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; 1929 Houghton Mifflin Company. HC 1st Anerican edition. Bound in original ribbed green cloth with titles brightly in orange to cover and spine. Cloth nciked and slightly frayed at spine ends and corner tips. Binding a little shaken with a pair of mild internal splits between signatures. G+ View More...
Color Plates and collotypes; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 233 pages; HC/DJ. 2nd printing, same year as 1st. Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's green cloth with titles in blue-black to spine. Cloth lightly crimped at spine ends; mild shelf bump base of spine. Light foxing and toning to endpages and to pages adjacent to the color plates. A few instances of mild gapping between signatures. Illustrated with 20 color plates from paintings by Lloyd and Reile, and with b&w photos and collotypes. Original dust jacket with color illustration is rubbed and worn at edges; ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages; [SIGNED] 1st and 2nd printings before publication. Essentially the 2nd printing of the 1st edition, both issues printed prior to the official release set by the publisher. Warmly inscribed in red pen by Buechner "For Sam[? ], thirty-four years after the fact, with admiration and affection from his fellow author and Lawrentian, ...December 1984." Solid clean copy in original black cloth with title lettering in metallic copper to spine. Dust jacket bright and clean with publisher's $3.00 issue price on unclipped front flap. Jacket is rubbed at spine ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages; A very attractive copy, snug bright and fresh. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine very bright; Buechner's name in blind to cover board. Edges sharp and unrubbed with crisp square corners. Dust jacket uniformly bright to all surfaces, with but a whisper of shelf evidence to spine ends. A rather mysterious set of very light circular "quarter-sized" overlapping impressions to the cloth of the rear board has no apparent cause. The tightly bound book feels unread and the crisp dust jacket has no corresponding set of impressions. As such it is very... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; 1983 Alfred A. Knopf. HC/DJ. 1st American edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $15.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light dust spotting top edge of pahge block amd trace foxing to the cream quarter cloth backed spine. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed at edges with just mild shelf soiling to cover panels. Gift inscription penned neatly to front endpage. VG/VG View More...
1; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages; 2003 Alfred A. Knopf. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Bright tight and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Feels and appears generally unread and about as new. No marks. Handsome copy. F/NF View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 272 pages; Inscribed and signed by Burgess on the title page to Jere Real. Jere Real was a professor at Lynchburg College; he coordinated visits and played host to the authors who appeared at the college as part of the Thornton Writer-in-Residence and Guest Reader program. Snug, bright and neat in a crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with 1st issue $15 (until Dec. 1970) price intact to unclipped front flap. Trace shelf rub to jacket at spine ends. Publisher's black top stain is solid and uniform. Handsome copy, not often seen in signed copies. N... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Burke on the title page, "To Emma / with thanks for your friendship; / [SIGNATURE] / Xmas 2002." Jacket is price clipped from the top corner of the front flap. Otherwise just about as new. NF/VG++; Signed by Author View More...
Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages; [SIGNED with MLS] Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Inscribed and signed by the illustrator, Barry Root, on the title page. Laid in at front is short MLS from Root to a patron with original mailing envelope date May 31 2000. The note is written on fine drawing paper and features a small color drawing of the "Messenger." It hanks the recipient for sending along NY Magazine and NY Times reviews of the book; copies of both reviews laid in at front. Also included in the mailing envelope is a longer hand-written postcard from Kimberly Roo... View More...
Color Frontis and b&w Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 402 pages; 1910 Houghton Mifflin. HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover but a bit dulled at spine. Boards a little shelf rubbed and slightly frayed at corner tips Illustrated with a color frontis and b&w plates on glossy stock from art by Rose O'Neill. G++ to VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; 1955 Vanguard Press. HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pale blue cloth with pictorial vignette to cover and titles at spine in darker blue. Cloth lightly toned at spine. Front flyleaf and half-title page excised, possibly to remove ownership name or gift inscription. Decent reading copy of an uncommon title. Adapted into the 1958 film directed by Jerry Hopper starring Brandon deWilde and Lee Marvin. Good only View More...
Color & b/w illust; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 2nd edition/printing (of 7 total printings issued. ) Snugly bound in original blue 1/4 cloth backed, pictorial paper covered boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket that has some mild drakening to the front spine edge from likely exposure to smoke from a fire. Jacket is crisp edged with mild fading at spine and some light edge rubbing and superficial nicking. Book feels and appears generally unhandled with contents in exquisite condition. Mild shelf scrape to lower edge of boards. Illustrated thorughout by Grant's art work, most... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 309 pages; HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Exceptionally bright and fresh copy in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial jacket with publisher's $25.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Signed by the author to the title page. Handsome copy. F/F; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; 1964 M. S. Mill Co. & William Morrow. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Tightly bound and very neat in crispe edged and bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Hint to toning to whites of jacket design and a tiny closed tear top edge rear panel with an old tap mend. NF/VG+ View More...
Color frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273 pages; HC tightly bound in publisher's highly decorative pictorial color illustrated brown cloth. Pictorial designs to cover and spine in green, red, yellow and black with gilt title panel to spine. Very handsome copy, quite snugly bound and fresh; just trace shelf wear to cloth at spine ends. Illustrated with a color frontis on glossy stock from a painting by Dwiggins. A touch of superficial soiling to the bottom edge of the title and frontis pages. Exceptionally nice copy. NF View More...
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