Search Results: literature from North Country Books

NY: Printed by Profile Press for the Gotham Book Mart, 1972. #495 of 500 copies. Paperback. VG+. Sewn wraps, red card covers with light wear, tightly bound, pages clean and unmarked. Experienced full-time used & antiquarian bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket. A well kept copy for 60+ years. A near pristine copy in blue boards, minor wear to corners, tightly bound, top edge tinted slate yellow as published; unmarked, bright and clean pages. Dust jacket illustrated by Ava Morgan, very light light wear, clean, photo of the author on the back panel, and now protected in a clear archival cover. An superb copy in the hardcover book club edition for the choosy reader/collector (or as a gift). Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994 (selling online since 1998). Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

Guernica Editions, Inc., 2021. Paperback. VG++. Slightly larger than average trade paperback with light cover wear only, clean, no spine crease, contents clean and unmarked.

NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. VG+ in Good or better dust jacket. Green (not blue) cloth with only light shelf wear, very clean and tightly bound, covers firmly attached; former owner's penciled name on front flyleaf (R. Bell, may be erased), otherwise, and unmarked copy with clean and still bright paper (wartime low grade paper used). Dust jacket show wear: shallow chipping, short tears to edges, with 3 inch scar to front panel, not price-clipped and now protected in a clear archival sleeve. An above average copy with a presentable dust jacket.

Broadway Literary Texts, 1999. Paperback. Near Fine. Trade paperback, two leaves dog-eared, o/w like new, clean/unmarked

London: Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2007. First British Edition. Hardcover. As New in As new dust jacket. A fresh copy in the hardcover, unread, as new -- unmarked, dust jacket not price-clipped and now protected in a clear archival sleeve. Signed by the author on the tile page.

Detective Book Club, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine. Three titles in one book. Illustrated covers, minor wear, clean and tightly bound; an unmarked copy with clean pages. No dust jacket, if issued. A very nice copy.

NY: Masquerade Books, Incorporated, June 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in NF dust jacket. Hardcover with very light wear -- clean, tightly bound, unmarked. Light wear to dust jacket, clean, not price-clipped.

Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003. First edition, second printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Trade paperback with minor wear, clean, no spine crease, clean and unmarked. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. With it I have five playing card like advertisements with different color photos and text on the backsides, like new.

NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. VG+ in Fair dust jacket. Smallish book with light wear, minor soiling. tightly bound, clean and unnmarked with low grade paper with light toning. Dust jacket with chip and tears. Dj blurb by Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Roosevelt and Bernard Baruch. Summary: The Answer is a 1955 anti-war science fiction novella by Philip Wylie. The US and USSR are conducting nuclear tests and both discover they have killed an Angel in the form of a beautiful young boy. Initially both sides suspect each other, but they ultimately discover that the message is the Answer to all man's dilemmas - love one another

NY: Delacorte Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in VG++ dust jackeet. Hardcover with minor wear, very clean and tighly bound; book is free of marking, pages bright and clean. Dust jacket with light wear, not price-clipped and now protected in a clear archvial sleeve.

Behrman House, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Trade paperback with light wear to cover corners and some page corners, none severe, otherwise clean, no spine crease; an unmarked copy with bright and clean pages. An excellent reading copy.

NY: The Sea Horse Press, 1981. Apparent First Edition, Paperback. Paperback. VG++. Trade paperback with just light cover wear, clean, spine not sunned, no spine crease; internally fine, unmarked. Experienced full-time used & antiquarian bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket. A well kept copy for 60+ years. A near pristine copy, teal colored boards, minor wear to front cover corners,; top edge of text block tinted a dark gray, as published, unblemished, tight, unmarked, pages bright/clean. Dust jacket illustrated by Paul Bacon., rubbing to edges, tiny tears, sunning to spine, clean and now protected in a clear archival cover. An excellent copy in the hardcover book club edition for the choosy reader/collector (or as a gift) Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994 (selling online since 1998). Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition, First Printing (British). Hardcover. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket. Black hardcover with very light edge wear, clean and tightly bound; contents unmarked with very light age-toned paper. Dust jacket clean with light surface wear to rear panel, not price-clipped.

St. Lukes Press, 1987. Paperback. VG++. Trade paperback with just light cover wear, clean, no spine crease; an unmarked copy with clean pages. A novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Paperback. Good or better. Trade paperback, front cover with wear, clean, well bound, no spine crease; an unmarked copy with clean pages; half-title page creased, bottom edge of several leaves cut/short tears -- appear the binder did not cut the pages neatly, so someone opened them roughly. Despite faults, a very good reading copy.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. VG+ in VG++ dust jacket. Hardcover with light wear, minor spine lean, tightly bound; an unmarked copy with clean pages. Dust jacket with just light wear, not price-clipped. Signed by the author on the title page.

Boston: Bullfinch Press / Little, Brown and Co., 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover with p-o illustration of dog on cover, minor wear, clean, spine not faded, tighly bound; an unmarked copy with clean pages. No dust jacket, if issued. Inlcudes poetry about dogs by Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Udike, Louise Gluck, Howard Nemerov, Mary Oliver, Ogden Nash, Wordsworth, Maxine Kumin, Robinson Jerffers and others.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket. Hardcover is tight clean and unmarked with minor shelf wear; dust jacket is lightly worn, clean, spine not faded, not price-clipped and now protected in a clear archival sleeve.