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Calkins Creek, Honesdale Pa., 2000. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Karen Winnick (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is NEW, SIGNED by Karen Winnick on the first free end paper. dated 11/2000, the date of publication. Priced (15.95) jacket is as new. In this true story of bravery and determination, a young girl named Sybil Ludington, risks darkness and danger to help the Revolutionary War effort. The British are invading and it is up to hr to muster he troops for defense. Signed by Author

About this Item: Putnam, New York, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book is AS NEW in a very fine priced (25.95) dust jacket. " Dear Chief Stone: I know you have been looking for me. I won't turn myself in, i probably should but my obsession won't let me. What I know is that my life is becoming more unbearable every time. But I need to see, I need to know their secret.The Night Hawk".

New York, New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1937. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7.75x5.5. A hint of creases to spine, otherwise a fine copy in a solid jacket that is a little rubbed, faded, and frayed and with two pieces of tape on verso. Not price clipped ($2.50)Introduction by Ernest Hemingway, is quite a good example of " florial" Hemingway at its most indulgent. . To quote Hemingway, " The introduction is a charming and impatient confession of the bald commercial exploitation of Hemingway's name.... the only way a young writer can get a collection of stories published is to have ' a name writer' do a preface for it. Bahr is a fine honest writer with a talent which is both sturdy and delicate.....I feel very good that they are being published and ask you to excuse the preface" Inscribed " to Alice and Joe sincerely Jerry Bahr. First edition, first printing with a Scribner "A " on verso of title page. Book is inscribed "To Alice and Joe... Jerry Bahr This is a… Read More

About this Item: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1910. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is very good+, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering over boards. Internally the book is unmarked and very clean. Top edge is gilt. Book was translated by the author from Sanskrit., and one might mistakenly think as the title might suggest, that the book deals with geology, but rather it deals with what the Hindu's term vas infirmius or woman. Rather then rocks and minerals, the story really plays lightly with s somewhat softer substance, which only disconsolate lovers in the depth of their dejection ever venture to compare with harder substances, a woman. Book is scarce and very collectible.

About this Item: The Ruckle Press, East Orange, 1926. Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Walter Karig (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited edition 251/300 in near fine condition and signed by the author is a very fine follow-up book to his classic book Written in Sand. The author was the editor of the Newark Evening News where some of his poetry appeared. His poetry is very accessible and stands the test of time. Very nice collectible. Signed by Author(s).

About this Item: Doubleday Canada, Canada, 2016. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is Near Fine in a very good priced (CAN 32.95) dust jacket. Book is unmarked internally and possibly unread. Very nice condition. Filled with romance and magic, The House oat the Edge of Night is a sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting Mediterranean island of the coast of Italy. Catherine Banner has written an enthralling, character rich novel, epic in scope but intimate in feeling. At times, the island itself seems alive, a mythical place where the earth heaves with stories and this magical novel takes you there. A wonderful book to read over and over.

SIGNED NEW FIRST EDITION book and NEW priced (16.95) jacket are in new unmarked except for author signature on first free end paper. " Woodrow's warmth and charm will delight children, parents and teachers as they follow his path to the presidency. This is a remarkable book that is bursting with educational content while capturing the interest and imagination of children.Woodrow For President is a treasure for every elementary classroom and a fine collectible suitable for any library and for any age

New York, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1931. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8x5.75 inches. Doris Flather. An essay for book lovers, Limited to 1000 unnumbered copies. Beautiful Marble boards. Slipcase which has fine paper label, and shows significant wear at corners. Silk ribbon placeholder built in. A mint copy in a VG slipcase.

East Rutherford New Jersey: george putnam, 1984. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. 9.75x7.75. Limited to 750 copies. Unopened shrink wrap. New copy. A perfect collectors copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. 1st Edition First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new first edition by Nobel Prize winning author Issac Bashevis Singer, The Certificate begins in 1922 and David Bendiger, an aspiring eighteen and a half year old writer, arrives in Warsaw, penniless and homeless. His only contacts are sonya, a young woman he has had amorous dealings in the village they left, and a Zionist functionary who informs him he ha qualified for a certificate permitting him to emigrate to Palestine. But in order to make the journey David must enter into a fictitious marriage with a woman so eager to get to Palestine that she will pay all the expenses. A wonderful story by a master story teller. Book is as new as is priced jacket (22.00). Protected in Mylar

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book and Jacket are as new in Brodart protection.Death of a loved one, crime, sex, what could be a better read, by NOBEL WINNER issac Bashevis Singer. It is 1906. The death of his seventeen year old son, Arturo, has disrupted the life of Max Barabander in Buenos Aires, sending him back to his roots in Warsaw, while his wife stays in south America. Having attained wealth and respectability after youth of poverty and a prison hitch in Warsaw for theft, Max revistis scenes of the past in the thieves' quarter near Krochmalna Street, finding congenial underworld company. Sex, drugs and rock and roll, Singer at his best.

New York: Random House, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Publication of this long-awaited novel, the author's first in fifteen years (1970), and her finest, is a major literary event. it is a story of rural Mississippi ( THE LONGEST FOUR LETTER STATE IN THE COUNTRY)in the 1930's that will immediately be recognized as a classic in the seriocomic tradition in American fiction. Book is very fine, with autographed sticker centered on ffep. Internally flawless. Jacket is price clipped and in fine condition, with very slight wear at spine bottom and 1" from top corner. A fine collectible by a fine southern author. First Edition stated.

New York: George Braziller, 1974. Hardcover. As New/Publishers Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a very fine reprint of the original manuscript that is housed in the Cloisters in new York, which is part of The metropolitan Museum of Art. Slipcase is as new.

About this Item: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Markham Ontario, 2004. Soft cover. Condition: New. John Beder (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED NEW book. Book is signed on the title page to a young fan. the wonderful illustrations by John Beder make this book a fine addition to any child's library or a fine gift for someone else's library. Children will enjoy the soft, realistic watercolors and recognize the energy and joy of life shared by the characters. Signed by Author

New York, New York: J. B. Ford and Company, 1871. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in good condition. There is a bookplate on the front and rear paste down and ffe has a repaired 1" tear at lower left bottom. Spine ends are frayed, but maroon and black binding is in fairly good condition. Book is quite tight but a bit cocked. Tips on corners are very slightly bumped. All in all a nice collectible and in quite good shape for a book nearly 145 years old.474 pages + 8 pages of advertisements.

New York: Viking, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A non-fiction collection from Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner Saul Bellow. A recollection and reflection of over four decades of writing great literature. Book and unclipped ($23.95) jacket in as new condition. Unopened. Mylar protected.

U.S.A.: Viking Adult, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as America's greatest living writer, for more than sixty years, he has been stretching our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his fresh and exhilarating perceptions of life. Through Bellow's eyes, the world always seems sharper, richer, funnier and infinitely more capable of surprising us than it did before. This wonderful collection of thirteen of Bellow's finest short stories has been introduced by James Wood with a preface by Saul's wife Janis Bellow. This fine copy is in an equally near fine Unclipped ($30.00 jacket with modest shelf wear and a tiny closed tear. This is a fine reading copy and collectible, suitable for any library.

New York: William morrow and Company, 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Explaining why he left Paris for the Middle West, Kenneth says, " it's where the action is. book in as new unopened condition. Flawless inside. jacket is priced ($17.95). and is near perfect except for small wrinkle at top edge of jacket in front, quite minor.

New York, New York: Viking, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A play by Saul Bellow. " It would be rank pedantry not to be grateful to Saul Bellow for the flood of antic imagination, mad rhetoric, and comic fantasy that he has poured into this improbable, yet serious farce" So states Howard Taubman in a review for the NY Times. Book Mint, jacket has tiny spot at top front next to spine, tiny spot at top of front fold , light wear at front fold and three small spots at bottom of jacket front. An extremely fine jacket. Not price clipped ($3.50). Mylar protected.

New York: Random House, 1994. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. John Berendt's wonderfully imaginative novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is SIGNED by Berendt on the first free end paper. This copy is as new, unmarked and unread. A beautiful signed copy.Price jacket (25.00) is very fine. On May 2nd, 1981 shots rang out in one of Savannah's grandest mansions. Was it murder or self defense? Berendt's spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well bred society ladies, the turbulent young red neck gigolo: the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the " soul of pampered self-absorption" ; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer, the sweet talking piano playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black débutante ball; and Minerva,… Read More