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About this Item: 1989. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. J.H. Stroschin (illustrator). New Edition. One doesn't have to read far, in this fantasy inspired creation, to know that it's a book for cloud watchers. Jane Stroschin's delightfully illustrated story is a stimulus for young minds: go ahead, it says, use your imagination. Have some fun and enjoy this cloudy day, It just may turn you into a cloud watcher, too. Signed by Author

About this Item: Hyperion Books, New York, 2007. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Book is AS NEW in a like priced (35.00) dust jacket. Book is unmarked and probably unread in pristine condition. DavidHalberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. Halberstam has used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history; the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest War his best work, the culmination of a career spent examining the defining issues of the last half century. Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest War changes that. At the heart of the book are the individual stories of the soldiers on the front lines who were left to deal with the consequences of the dangerous misjudgments and competing agendas of powerful men. This book is a gem and a must read for anyone… Read More

New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This powerful Pulitzer Prize winning debut novel (FIRST EDITION/ FIRST PRINTING, without Pulitzer sticker, is remarkable in many different ways not the least of which is the author's extraordinary command of language and his visionary insight into the human spirit. When reading reviews of Tinkers, words like originality, freedom, miraculous are frequently used as are richness and brilliance. Book is as new, unread and a rare collectible. First Edition and First Printing, with full number line 135798642. Original $14.95 price on rear cover.

Bloomington,Illinois, 1936. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, Book is fine with a fine priced ($1.00) pictorial dust jacket.With accuracy and honesty of detail the authors pictured the environment in which visitor to Australia would find themselves. (1936) They have compared life in Australia with that in the United States and stressed points of likeness as well as differences. Book is a very interesting early 20th century historical and pictorial document of life down under. Signed by Kilroy Harris and dated 1937 on the page opposite the title page. Fine collectible. Mylar protected. Signed by Author

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. City of Discontent is biography, but not biography in a conventional sense. Mark Harris has reconstructed the life of Vachel Lindsay and the nature of Lindsay's America on a firm base of research. Lindsay has to master his own need for love, his poverty and despair in Springfied. Book is fine. jacket is priced ($4.50) AND IS NEAR FINE + with minor wear to spine ends and slight darkening to folds. Unmarked internally. A great copy

New York: Grove Press, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In Retuning to Earth author Jim Harrison has given us a tender, profound, and magnificent about life, death and finding redemption in sometimes unlikely places. Donald a middle-aged Chipewa-Finnish man is dying of Lew Gehrig's disease. He realizes no one alive will be able to pass on his family history once he's gone. He began telling his wife Cynthia stories about three generations of his people in Michigan, he had never revealed before. Jim Harrison one of the most important writers plying his craft today, writes about the heart of this country like no other writer. He writes about land spoilage in the past and redemption in the present. Retuning to Earth is the last of three novels dealing with Cynthia, her eccentric brother, her crazy perverted father and " Hemingway's up-North Michigan of the past." Book is as new, and the unclipped ($24.00) jacket… Read More

U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. These three novellas are stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wildness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears. In The Best God Forgot to Invent, a man near the end of his life becomes part of an odd band of caretakers for a younger man whose brain has been damaged. In Westward Ho Brown Dog a Micxhigan Indian, wanders the wild of Los Angeles tracking the ersatz Native activist with whom he fled the police in Michigan. And in I Forgot to Go to Spain, an aging Alpha canine, author of three dozen bioprobes takes dinner with a woman to whom he was married nine days in his overheated youth. Book is as new and priced jacket ($ 34.00) is very fine +. A wonderful collectible of one of America's premiere novelists.

New York: Grove Press, 2008. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jim Harrison has again given us an entertaining road novel. There is schmoozing in bars, flirting with younger women, drinking, smoking, indigestion and Harrison's pointed observations on life and love. As always Harrison is humorous, sacrilegious and engaging. Book is near fine with slightly bumped spine ends and a near fine unclipped jacket ($24.00) A fun read.

Atlantic Monthly Pr, New York, 2000. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/ First printing. " Jim Harrison (1937-2016) ought to be considered a national treasure"- The Washington Times. FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING Book is as new in a very fine priced(24.00) jacket. In The Beast God Forgot to Invent, Harrison gives us three novellas that sparkle with the generous humanity and seasoned wisdom of his vision. These are stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wildness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears. Infused with jim Harrison's sly humor and quiet wisdom, these are stories with the expansive grace of the American landscape, urban and rural, This book is a resonant journey through the geography of masculinity from a writer in his prime. This is a very fine copy by a very fine novelist. Collectible.

1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Julip is the story of a bright and resourceful young woman of our times and the mixed horror and pleasure of much older lovers. It is about the recovery rater that the loss of innocence. the book consists of three novels; Julip the title story, the seven once Man continues the adventures of Brown Dog a scoundrel and ex-bible student with criminal tendencies and The Beige Dolorsosa which deals with the regeneration of a man destroyed by one of the latest of our national insanities, political correctness. Book is mint as is priced jacket ($ 21.95) and signed boldly by Harrison on the title page. A wonderful Harrison collectible, First edition, First Printing with full # line.

Worcester Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Limited to 500 copies, unnumbered and unsigned.Fine in quarter cloth binding with fine marbled blue and red and gold boards. Internally fine except for small pencil notation at top of ffe. Spine which has gilded lettering is slightly faded.

Holiday House, New York, 1990. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Deborah Kogan Ray (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED first edition, book is in NEW condition and dust jacket is as new. Book is signed on the title page by Deborah Kogan Ray the award winning illustrator who has collaborated with Brett Harvey on a number of other projects, including Immigrant Girl and My Prairie Year. Two days before Christmas, Papa leaves to get a tree. But there's a howling blizzard and Elenore experiences a prairie Christmas that she'll never forget. Book is Singed by the illustrator.

Holiday House, New York, 1987. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING is NEW as is Mylar protected jacket. Book is signed with great flourish on the title page by Deborah Kogan Ray, the illustrator. Becky and her family move to the Lower East Side of New York ( as did mine) from Russia in 1910. Life is very different in the New World. Becky's large family has to squeeze into a three room apartment, and the streets are noisy and crowded. Learning English at a big school, cooling off under the hydrant, dancing to the hurdy gurdy , sleeping on the roof in the summer heat, going to the nickelodeon these are exciting new experiences.At the same time Becky observes the traditions of the Old World, polishing brass and getting ready for Passover. This is a sensitive, authentic portrayal of a period in America when immigration was at its height. The wonderfully illustrated book is a fine collectible for any library and for any age.… Read More

New York: New Directions , 1969. First Thus . Hardcover. As New/Slip Case . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mint copy of this limited edition of 150 copies this is #52 signed by author. Book opened once or twice to check signature and number. Slip case is fine , Paper slipcase label is fine. Lunar Landscapes is a collection of nine short stories by Hawkes written between 1949 and 1963. Rare and collectible

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. This fine First edition, first printing is Inscribed and dated by the author on half title page, "to:........,Whose appreciation of this book means a lot to its author. Hiram Haydn" Book is in VG condition with bumps to spine ends and one small bump to back cover about 2" in from edge. Very minor flaw. Dust jacket, or should I say jackets, there are two identical jackets on book both VG small chipping to extremities. I don't know why there are two, but both are included. Both jackets unclipped ($5.95).This is a novel that is erudite but also exciting, a novel that bears thinking about repeatedly after one has come away, shaken, from its almost unbearable emotional climax. Report from the Red Windmill is a book of visions about people who are real, whose impulses and reactions are visceral.

Chicago: At the sign of the Gargoyle, 1943. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gargoyle chap book number three. Book in fine condition totally unopened ( uncut) and flawless internally. Spine ends are slightly bumped and bottom of front board is darkened. A great copy of a rare limited edition ( unknown number).

H.J.H. Publications, Teaneck N.J. Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Howard Hazelcorn on title page " Don't get burned" Soft cover book in new condition, unmarked except for authors signature. An illustrated history, 1906 to 1940, with emphasis the early and the excellent. In addition to photographs, we reprint from patents and old catalogs to illustrate toasters having thus far escaped collection. We give our opinions on quality, style and performance and make some statements based on adventurous guesses. We are breaking fresh ground, and corrections will be welcome. This guide is not only a price guide, but an educational tool for collectors. Prices on the toasters in the guide, go from $15.00 to $300.00 . Electric toasters date only from about 1908. Before that, there was no wire that could stand red heat ling enough to work in one. This guide is a must for any serious " toaster collector. Without this guide, your toaster collection might just be toast. ( A… Read More

About this Item: Faber & Faber, London, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book is a NEW first edition/first printing with a full number line beginning with 1. Priced dust jacket (L12.99) is new. The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson shared their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, as well as the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. His finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literture, is the narrative Testament of Cresseid. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War the Testament completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus and Crisyde, offering a tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomedes, and of her subsequent decline into prostitution and leprosy. A master of high narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable, and his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom and delicately pointed with irony. Seven of the fables are here… Read More

About this Item: John Day Company, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Iconic first edition book is VERY GOOD. Book is tight and square and bound in orange cloth over boards. Spine lettering and blind stamp are black. Rare priced (2.50) dust jacket is finely and extensively repaired on the verso. There is a book plate of Allan C. Leverentz, critic and collector of apparently, as a stamp on the FFE states "Books of the Fantastic & Curious from the Collections of Allan C. Leverentz." Many believe this to be the finest novel from the pen of this distinguished German writer, Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) whose macabre creations, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Spider, blood and Alraune, have won for him a world wide audience. Vampire is the strange story of Frank Braun, and how he was cured of a mysterious disease by Lotte, his mistress who loved him more than life. That mysticism for which the author is famous is found in Vampire, as… Read More

About this Item: Dutton Books for Young Readers, New York, 2006. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Henry Cole (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED NEW First edition first printing book in priced (13.99) as new dust jacket. Face your fears like a chicken! When four big chickens see a wolf sneaking near their coop, they run ans hide. But for a bunch of silly chickens danger is everywhere. An upbeat reminder of the power of humor to dispel fear, Leslie Helakoski's rollicking read aloud is illustrated by Henry Cole, whose hilarious artwork captures all the sly, silly humor. This is a wonderful book to read to your children or a fine gift for someone else. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001883