Color loss at periphery, one faint spine crease, 373 pp text is crisp and unmarked, not browned, not brittle. Solid reading copy. The fourth book in the spellbinding new Landry series. Pearl hopes for happiness, but destiny is drawing her deep into the shadows of her family's tainted past. View More...
Very good First Edition hardcover in salmon cloth covered boards with line illustration of a bald patron, sitting at a cloth covered table smoking his cigar and looking at his watch irately while waiting for his dinner companion. Author wrote the following on fep: "For Mr. Oscar Straube, in appreciation of his guided tour of K.C.'s town and country chateau. Sincerely, Raymond Andrieux", (after which is drawn the red/white/blue flag of France). Under that author continues "The River Club K.C. July 24, 1957. Please bear in mind that all happenings, locales, dates and characters ("especiall... View More...
1st edition hardcover in blue boards with gilt titles. Light surface wear and color loss to extremities of unclipped dj. Displays well in new mylar. 364 pp text tight and bright, no names or writing, just a brown soil spot on the edge of page block. Inspirational fiction. The legend of Old Faithful is a story of changed lives. From the hardship and struggle of life in the Kansas dust bowl during the great depression to the picturesque mountains of Eastern Kentucky the story of love and life unfolds. Gene Stratton is searching for the meaning of life and happiness that seems at times so ... View More...
First edition hardcover in light grey cloth covered boards sporting an illustration of a woman with a mask and police-style cap with visor holds two guns up to an elderly moustached gent who stands with his hands up. Solid reading copy with moderate surface soil, bumped corners and spine ends and two 'dings' on foot of frt board, gilt spine title on soiled backtstrip. Hinges are fine, page block tight, no names or tears within, pages are clean and tissue guard is present on b/w illustrated frontis and 15 other full page illustrations within (all present). One of two story collections wri... View More...
Tight bright 1st edition exlib hardcover with pocket and all pages present. 356 pp. Mapped endpapers w/yellow tape stains. Second fep has dedication bookplate signed by the John Beaty Family donating this book in the name of C. A. Utz to the Orange, VA Library. Also has a ink note at head of same page that states: "Given in affectionate memory of C. A. Utz by The John Beaty Family Feb 29th 1972". This page is torn from spine 3" up from foot but remains tightly bound. "A group of young people struggle with their emotions, their problems of love and marriage, in the shadow of oncoming war. Th... View More...
1st edition hardcover in navy boards with gilt lettering has sharp tips and spine ends. Unclipped dj sunned on backstrip and on board fore-edges. Front dj flap has a couple of vertical creases. 131 pp text is crisp and unmarked. A wonderful collection of short stories based on various human reactions to normal situations. View More...
Author's 1st edition paperback presentation copy, signed on fep: "To Trish, Best Wishes Fred Broussard 8-3-02 Ft. Riley, KS." 201 pp. Crisp unread glossy paperback in gift-quality condition. A dark comedy, drama set in a locale suggestive of "Deliverance" combined with the slapstick humor of "Mad, Mad World" - the reader is guided through a journey of unforgettable situations. The story of an illiterate teenage female forced to flee her home or become an insurance benefit. Some of the teen's confrontations with males are frightening while other situations are riotously funny. View More...
Brilliant hardcover with sharp tips and bumped spine ends, light crease on rear dj flap fold in, else as new. Unclipped dj in new mylar is fab shows negligible brushes at tips from storage. Book Club smaller version than the publishers first, measuring 8 1/2" tall with April 2003 on copyright page and complete number line. View More...
2nd printing paperback. Front and back covers slightly curled. 291 pp. "When the President of the United States plans to close all national parks four days a week, Lou and Martha Underwood quit their TV news jobs and launch a nationwide campaign to halt the plan. Traveling in a used motor home once owned by a hooker, the couple encounters mystery, mayhem, and misunderstandings. View More...
1st edition hardcover, author's presentation copy, with the following on slightly soiled fep: Edna Shauholzer Sept 1913 Presented by author (in pencil). Very small red bleed mark at foot of fep, 313 pp text has some foxing but is not musty. Nice dark red hardcover with bright gilt titles. Corners bumped and rubbed, rear hinge cracked but page block solid. A work of fiction with a b/w photo frontis of a woman in a nurse's uniform. Mentions the Huguenots in the author's forward and in chapter list. View More...
Worn hardcover in green illustrated cloth boards with indian in woods with rifle, clipper ship in upper corner, Coopers Novels written on cover. Sea Tales The Red Rover Cooper on spine in black and gilt lettering. Outer edge of frt cover cloth worn, cloth mottled on cover, inner hinge papers cracked, page block tight and holding fine. Text browned and brittle. Tissue guarded frontis. 408 pp. Not pretty but all there, decent shelf spot saver. Displays OK from the backstrip. View More...
Solid reading copy hardcover in burgundy cloth boards with CS (scribner's) gold gilt scrolled entwined initials on frt cover, gilt title on backstrip, discolored cloth on rear panel. Tips and spine ends bumped and brushed. A drip of something has lightened the lower 2.5" of the backstrip and some again diagonally on rear board. Head of page block is gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Front inner hinge paper starting, rear hinge fine. 262 pp. Frontis illustration page is missing, other two plates present. Meeting failure in his search for wealth in the 1851 Australian gold rush, a dispirited Mr... View More...
1st edition paperback. Author's presentation copy, signed on inside rear cover: 19 January 2003 Glenn, May your pleasures be many and your troubles be few. Keep your powder dry. Charles D. Digges Jr. 136 pp illustrated w/drawings. Slight curl to upper fore-edge of rear cover from storage. This unforgettable event of 1840 took place on the open plains where the river bends sharply to the south, just three miles southeast of Saint Louis, Missouri. "New techniques of horseback riding, all the fancy tricks of mounting and dismounting with the horse running at a full gallop, were always in ... View More...
1st D. Appleton and Co. hardcover edition. Scarce 1918 printing in splotchy red cloth with lightly rubbed tips. 309 p. text tight and bright. Name on fep. View More...
1st edition paperback with slight page curl at upper fore-edge of front cover and first four pages, else as new. 268 pp. Ricki England, recently divorced from her husband, finds a support group for women in problematic relationships which soon becomes an activist group, Women Aware and Responsive (WAR), demanding any act they conceive against women and minorities be set right. Evolving from this group is a smaller, core group consisting of Ricki and her two closest friends, which becomes a self-proclaimed vigilante group that steps in when WAR cannot accomplish what it has passively set out ... View More...
1st edition hardcover, author's presentation copy: Signed on fep: To Mike Brombert. You might recognize an incident. Best wishes to a wonderful friend of over 45 years. Enjoy. Neal P. Gillen Wash DC 2009. Mint in mint photo illustrated mauve background glossy unclipped (unpriced) dj. 348 pp. Kitty Gentile began her life on Manhattan's Upper West Side. A selfish and unfeeling child, she was pampered by parents too busy and accomplished to provide love and nurturing, thus contributing to her flawed development. Kitty attended exclusive nursery schools and camps, an elite boarding school and ... View More...
Excellent first edition hardcover in green cloth covered boards with black title spine. Original, color illustrated dust wrapper with wrap around art to the spine, shows a slender brunette in a red dress walking a large hound in a field. Jacket has a small repaired hole on rear panel and light rubbing/color loss at tips. Jacket also has 823A imprinted on the foot of the spine (by publisher, it seems). 316pp text is crisp and clean. Twin sisters fall in love with the same man. View More...
Gift quality Grosset & Dunlap book club reprint hardcover in mossy green colored cloth boards showing light color loss to still sharp tips and bumped spine ends. No names, tears or soil in the 222 pp text. Not exlib, Unclipped dj shows no price at head of frt flap, but does state in corner of lower tip on same flap: The issuance of this complete and unabridged new edition at a low price is made possible by use of the same plates made for the original edition (published by Lippincott 1944), and acceptance by the author of a reduced royalty. Frt dj panel shows a lovely color illustration of... View More...
1st edition hardcover in burgundy floral grid pattern paper on mauve paper covered boards with raspberry cloth spine. 324 pp crisp and unmarked. Unclipped original dust wrapper has a small watermark at foot of front flap fold. DJ now in new mylar and displays well. View More...
