Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - 1997-09-23

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

Collins fontana books, 1973. Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. "You could see the Crystal Palace if it wasn't for the houses in between" - Old Music Hall Song. EXCERPT: "What is all this about a book?" I asked. "It's not finished yet," she said, "because I'm not dead yet . . . I want you to put it in order" . . . Remarkably little needed to be done with it. Here and there I have left things out; here and there a phrase has been sharpened. But this is Sarah's book, not mine: Sarah Undridge, who grew up as Sarah Rainborough . . . REVIEWS: "Wonderfully skilful in conveying the atmosphere of life in a prosperous middle-class Victorian Family through a child's freshness and sense of wonder. The Houses in Between is emphatically a book to be read." - Manchester Evening News.… Read More

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 292pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, gilt on spine. Signed by the author on half-title page. Book has a complete number line from 1-10 and is a stated First Edition: February 2004. Book is straight, bright, unmarked, unclipped, unread, and has a Brodart jacket protector. Author also wrote "The Ice Harvest" and "The Walkaway.

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986 First printing of the first edition, beige cloth spine, ivory cloth boards, 144 pages. 1 of only 1,500 copies printed. Winner of The Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. Author's first book. A faint stain to outer textblock, else the book and dust jacket fine, as new condition.

Collins fontana books, 1973. Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. "You could see the Crystal Palace if it wasn't for the houses in between" - Old Music Hall Song. EXCERPT: "What is all this about a book?" I asked. "It's not finished yet," she said, "because I'm not dead yet . . . I want you to put it in order" . . . Remarkably little needed to be done with it. Here and there I have left things out; here and there a phrase has been sharpened. But this is Sarah's book, not mine: Sarah Undridge, who grew up as Sarah Rainborough . . . REVIEWS: "Wonderfully skilful in conveying the atmosphere of life in a prosperous middle-class Victorian Family through a child's freshness and sense of wonder. The Houses in Between is emphatically a book to be read." - Manchester Evening News.… Read More

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 292pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, gilt on spine. Signed by the author on half-title page. Book has a complete number line from 1-10 and is a stated First Edition: February 2004. Book is straight, bright, unmarked, unclipped, unread, and has a Brodart jacket protector. Author also wrote "The Ice Harvest" and "The Walkaway.

Kingsolver, Barbara (1955- ) The Lacuna New York: Harper. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780060852573 . A handsome First printing of the first edition in Fine condition in an equally unblemished dust-jacket . Story of a boy, Trotsky and communism and art...A great read and a fine collectible book.