Search Results: Fiction from Lippincott Books

New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1997. Unrevised Proof . Soft cover. Near Fine. Unrevised proof. 263 pp. Includes Sources, Acknowledgements, and Valediction.

New York: Crown, 1998. Uncorrected Proof . Soft cover. Near Fine. 212 pages in proof.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 151, [3] pp. From the library of Robin McKinley, science fiction writer and wife of mystery author Peter Dickinson, with her bookplate on front pastedown. A detective story of a Newport wedding. Hubin. A Bobbs-Merrill Pocket Book Series of adventure, mystery, and humor. "Pocket Book " in this case being a hardcover book. Lightly foxed endpapers, and spine slant, else VG

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. 260 pp. 2 pp of advertising. Francis Hopkinson Smith had several successful careers: engineer, artist, illustrator, and short story writer. He worked on the foundations for the Statue of Liberty, and later developed a reputation for portraits and genre painting. In his fifties he began a new career as a writer. Green cloth. Spine slanted, missing ffep, else VG.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Previous owners signature. Dust jacket has light edge wear. VG/VG.

Indianapolis,: Bobbs-Merrill, 1910. Probable First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Will Grefe. 322, [3] pp. Frontis and 4 black & white plates. Slight spine slant and soiled top edge. Dustjacket is missing lower half of front with creases and tears on the remaining edges. Tears on spine repaired with filmoplast tape.

Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995. Uncorrected Page Proof . Soft cover. Very Good+. Uncorrected Proof. 279 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. Advance Copy . Soft cover. Very Good. 259 pages. Her last novel; Colwin died in 1992. Corners bumped.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. VG++/NF. 206 pp. Attractive cream covers, brown cloth spine with gilt title. Light wear to bottom corners. REVIEW copy with slips laid in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 318 pp. Author's first novel. In original dust jacket with design by Cleon, short for her full name: Cleonike Damianakes, known for her jacket art of Hemingway and Fitzgerald titles and other novels of the period. Spine slants slightly to right, bottom of spine bumped. Dust jacket yellowed, with stained areas on back panel spine, minor chips at top and bottom of spine. Presents well; photographs supplied on request.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First English Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 443,[1] pp. In second issue dustjacket, with kudos from Nelson Algren, James Jones, Irwin Shaw, Kenneth Tynan and the New York Times on back panel. Red cloth, spine title gilt. Green dye on top edge faded near spine, and faint spot on bottom edge. Dustjacket is priced 21s.net on front flap, with wear on corners, and light soiling on back panel.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/GVG. Yellow cloth. 263 pp. Sir Henry Merrivale. Crease on front board else VG In dust jacket with tear and small hole towards lower back edge of the spine otherwise quite presentable.

Wichita, Kansas: Watermark Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG/GVG. 252 pages. Title page inscription reads: " -To Janwillem Van de Wetering 3/5/92 Thanks for the blurb. I hope to meet you some day. Purnell Christian." From the library of Janwillem van de Wetering. Water damage to top corners of jacket and boards, not affecting the text.

New York: Knopf, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/GVG. 240 pp. Blue cloth, spine title gilt. Dustjacket is NOT price-clipped, shows light edge wear.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1988. First Edition, Review Copy . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 178 pp. White paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in silver. Review slip laid in. Each story in this remarkable collection is filled with the rich complexity and fresh complicity of the human condition.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 282pp. Mottled blue paper-covered boards, blue cloth spine with gilt title. Bottom corners very slightly bumped.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap / Dodd, Mead., 1941. Cloth. VG/VG. Grosset & Dunlap binding using Dodd, Mead sheets of first edition: "Dodd, Mead & Company / New York 1941" on title page, "Copyright, 1941, / Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc" on copyright page, Dodd, Mead endpapers; red cloth binding with Grosset & Dunlap on spine. The $2,000.00 Prize Western. Previous owner's name on front paste-down, some foxing on endpapers. VG in VG dust jacket.

Pittsburgh: J. R. Weldin & Co, 1885. First Edition, Signed . Hardcover. Very Good. 207, [1] pp. A Civil War novel by a veteran of the war. Dr. Winslow was active as an advocate for homeopathy in the 1880's, and this book was reviewed in 1885 in a Homeopathic journal, The Medical Counselor: "... the interest of the little book is heightened by the fact that it deals with matters of actual occurrence, and constitutes a contribution to the history of the civil war on a subject which has been slighted heretofore. " Menendez 1010. Maroon cloth, blind-stamped decorative design on front and back boards with spine title gilt, and blue and black floral endpapers. "Compliments of the author" in pen on the ffep. Spine faded & spotted, corners bumped, but still an attractive copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 371 pp. Orange cloth. Cloth has faded on spine and is lightly soiled. Initial pages at front and back have foxing. Hinges are tight.

New York: G.W. Carleton & Co, 1871. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 300 pp. Green cloth with title in gilt shield on spine, purple endpapers. First edition of the author's fifth book, a novel set in ancient Persia. Walworth wrote rather lurid historical novels, his best known being Warwick. His personal life would have made a classic second rate novel of the period. The son of a popular judge in Saratoga Springs, he married his ste sister. Early in the marriage it turned out Walworth was a wife beater. After years of separations and increasingly odd behavior Mansfield moved to New York City. The letters he sent to his wife included death threats, and in 1873, Francis Hardin Walworth, his 19 year old son, resolved the situation by going into the city and fatally shooting his father. Wright II 2621. Original owner's name on ffep ornamented by beautifully drawn flourishes. Spine slant, edge wear, some foxing throughout. Good