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London: Chapman & Hall In Very Good+ condition. Bound in half red morocco over marbled boards. Five raised bands on the spine, with each compartment stamped decoratively in gilt. Top-edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Quarto. 293pps., with a frontispiece of the author. Undated (circa 1910). There is light rubbing to the edges of the binding, otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound; no foxing whatsoever and no previous ownership markings. From the Books of the Verulam Club. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.. Half-Leather.

Boston: Atlantic Little, Brown & Company, 1956. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full red cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in black. Shenandoah Valley map-endpapers. 316pps. There is a bit of a roll to the spine and there is some very light dustspotting atop the textblock. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous owner's markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has faint spotting, light general edgwear, and modest chipping at the tips. The original price is intact. Overall, a nice clean copy.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...<big>I</big>t was July, 1864. Deep in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, there would shortly begin a struggle which could give the advantage in the Civil War to either side. Opposing the veteran campaigners led by the South's Jubal Early was a dispirited collection of Union troops. But they would be caught up and set ablaze the the whirling drive of a… Read More

Dallas, TX, U.S.A.: Baskerville Publishers, Incorporated, 1995. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Fully bound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Silver endpapers. 356pps. Very mild and indistinct bumping to a couple of tips, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear or previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is lightly rubbed; no chips or tears. The original price is intact. A very nice copy. "...On a foggy summer day in 1941, 36 people set out in a boat for a pleasure cruise off the coast of Maine. They are never seen alive again, and their vessel, 'The Raven', is never found. Landesman uses this true story as a basis for his eerie, intriguing first novel, telling the tale of a community torn apart by mistrust and tragedy..." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. ISBN:… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1968. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Maroon boards. The spine is gilt-stamped. Octavo. 306pps. There is faint soiling to the page-edges and a bit of tanning to the endpapers, otherwise overall clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is rubbed and has shallow chipping at the tips and spine-ends; there is, also, some sunfading to the rear panel. The original price is intact. ".A man is missing. His name is Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files: all of them Confidential or above. It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse -- and that's probably not an accident. Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing… Read More

London: Leslie Frewin, 1975. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Fully-bound in black cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. Violet endpapers. 256pp. A very nice copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is lightly rubbed at a couple of tips; no chips or tears. The original price of $4.50 (Stirling) is intact on the front flap. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . ISBN: 0-85632-144-3. First Edition, First Printing. Illus. by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor . Schalken the Painter Legend of Dunblane Gothic Victorian Horror Dublin Ireland Chapelizod. Catalogs: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Irish History/Literature/Tradition , Horror, Literature, World.

Forest Hills, MD, U.S.A.: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2002. As New in an As New dustjacket. Fully bound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Orange endpapers. 185pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. One of 1,000 copies SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on a special limitation page. ".Andy lives in a quiet little village, enjoying bike rides with his friend Stig, adventures in the woods, wild stories -- all too aware that he's growing up fast. The last thing Andy expected to be doing this summer was fighting witches. His village is flooded with nightmares when the resting place of a centuries-old witch is disturbed, the witch is awake and the nightmares she spent her life drawing from people are running rampant. It soon becomes clear that this is not as simple as good against evil, and Andy is… Read More

As New in a Fine dust jacket. Bound in full black cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front panel are lushly stamped in gilt. Black endpapers. 280pps. First Printing. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean,tight, square and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in an archival sleeve, is mildly rubbed at the extremities. This copy is #67 of 100 SIGNED by the author on a special limitation page. 41-D. Seller Inventory # 422-6022

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1925. In Very Good condition. Bound in gray wraps. Quarto. 429pps., with illustrations. Four quarterly volumes, covering the entire year of 1925. There is a bit of sunning to the spines, modest wear to the edges of the wraps, and some page-corners are bumped. Otherwise clean, bright, and soundly bound. No writing and no previous ownership markings. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE MAGAZINES JOURNALS COLLEGE BERKELEY ARTICLES ESSAYS LITERARY CRITICISM EDITORIALS JOURNALISM POETRY FICTION DIGESTS. Catalogs: NonFiction, Literature & Fiction, U.S.A..

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2007. New in a New dustjacket. Cream-colored boards with a red, gilt-stamped backstrip. Quarto. Red endpapers. 292pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price (25.95) is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. "...German-born Walter Schoen, now living in Detroit, is a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler. Walter's American wife, Honey Deal, doesn't know he's a German spy, but she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand -- it's time for a divorce. Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshals Service. He's looking for a German officer who escaped from a POW camp in Oklahoma. Carl's pretty sure Walter's involved, so Carl gets to know Honey, hoping she'll take him to Walter. Honey likes Carl and doesn't much care that he's married. But all Carl wants is to get… Read More

New York: Stokes, 1902. In Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Fully-bound in black cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front board are stamped in gilt and blue. General shelfwear: light bumping to tips and to the spine-ends. A small Brentano's Bookseller label is on the rear pastedown. This volume is first-state with the frontispiece in sepia. There is a 1/2" closed tear on the title page. Overall, a nice clean copy. Buy with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee.. First Edition, First Printing. Catalogs: Wild West, Literature, U.S.A..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1995. As New in an As New dustjacket. Light blue boards quarterbound in light blue cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in silver. Blue topstain. 215pps. A flawless collector's copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has the original price on the front flap. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. "...A wonderfully original, deeply moving, and wryly funny novel about the clash between the absolutes of science and the vagaries of human experience. Written with lyrical sparseness and hilarity mixed with sadness, it is a beautifully rendered portrait of the emotional life of a scientist and a resonant tale of the disillusionment that haunts us all..." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1942. In Near Fine condition. Bound in full beige cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front panel are stamped in blue. Blue topstain. Quarto. [viii] + 388pps. + [ix]. Also 46 illustrations and a fold-out map of Nevada. Stated First Edition. No dustjacket. There is light rubbing and bumping to the extremities and a small, previous owner's nameplate is affixed to the ffep. Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . First Edition. RICHARD G LILLARD DESERT CHALLENGE FIRST EDITIONS AMERICAN WESTERN STATES NEVADA HISTORY GEOGRAPHY MINING CAMPS CARSON VIRGINIA CITY GHOST TOWNS RENO LAS VEGAS. Catalogs: NonFiction, American History.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1997. As New in an As New dustjacket. Gold and black boards. The spine is stamped in silver. 377pp. A flawless copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-pge. "...George Sueno rose out of the barrios of East L.A. His partner, Ernie Bascom, escaped the mean streets of Detroit. And both have found a home in the U.S. Army -- the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in Korea. Their beat is Itaewon, the red-light district of Seoul. Together they've looked into every bar and brothel, making sure the bourbon is chilled...and the women hot. When a working girl offers them a hundred bucks to deliver a note to Cecil Whitcomb, a British member of the U.N. Honor Guard, Sueno and Bascom are happy to oblige. They figure not only is it a good deed, it's also easy money. But reality… Read More

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Fully bound in yellow cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in metallic green. Green endpapers. 245pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest rubbing wear to the extremities and a couple of small, closed tears with attendant creases at the top of the rear panel; the original price is intact. The author's first novel. "...Edyth, wife of King Harold of England, disappeared forever on the day of the great Battle of Hastings in 1066, taking with her the legitimate heirs to the thrones of England and Wales. This is the story of that amazing woman, who loved and married the King of Wales and then the man who would be King of England, only to witness his historic defeat by the light of Halley's Comet..." Purchase with confidence:… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1938. Very Good in a Good+ dustjacket. Blue and green boards. Both the spine and the decorative front board are stamped in white. Blue topstain. 213pps. Stated First American Edition. Rubbing wear to the extremities and a small, faint soil-mark on the fore-edge. Internally, there is a tidy gift inscription and a previous owner's bookplate on the ffep. The binding is sound and square, the pages are clean and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a loss of 1/2" at either spine-end and shallow chipping at the tips; the original price is intact. A nice copy in a decent jacket. "...Here are three women. Once -- not so very long ago -- they were three little girls in Holland frocks, enjoying blackberrying and swinging on gates. They meet again for a short time as adults when their very different paths cross. In the interval one of them, in unusual circumstances, has committed a murder of mercy and thwarted her own life in order to atone: another has discovered… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1905. Very Good in the publisher's original full green cloth. The spine is stamped in white and gilt; the decorative front board in white and red. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 182pps., plus ads, 5 color plates, a frontispiece, and numerous line drawings. Second state, with the 'Metropolitan Magazine' stamp on the copyright page. There is light rubbing wear to the tips and spine-ends and uniform browning to the pages. Sporadic fox-marks. The front hinge is just starting, though the binding is stable; all pages are intact. No previous ownership markings. Comes with a glassine wrapper to preserve the boards in their clean condition.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the 'game.' Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, 'the Pride of West… Read More

Union Square, New York: The Century Company, 1902. In Very Good+ condition. Oversized cream-colored wraps printed in orange and black. Pps. 770 - 863 of volume XXIX. This magazine is in excellent, clean condition with a few faint specks and with modest wear at the spine-ends and at the edges of the wraps. The text is quite clean and bright; no previous ownership markings. The binding is sound. Published in July of 1902, this magazine which includes an abridgement of 'The Cruise of the Dazzler,' (twenty-eight pages with double-columns of text), actually preceeded the hardcover first edition by three months (Century would publish the book in October of that year under the St. Nicholas books imprint). This is part of the magazine's series of long-stories-complete-in-one-issue. A rare and intriguing item for the London collector, being the first publication of his first novel (following early collections of short stories). ".Joe Bronson, dissatisfied and unhappy in school, decides to run… Read More

PA: The Franklin Library, 1988. In Fine condition. Bound in full, rich black leather, stamped in decorative gilt on all sides. Raised hubs on the spine. All page-edges gilt. Decorative endpapers and a matching ribbon bookmark, sewn in. 328pps. A beautiful copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. SIGNED by the author exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Includes a special introduction by the author that is not in the trade issue. Frontispiece by Anthony Russo. The publisher's promotion sheet is laid in.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. SIGNED by the Author. Limited First Edition. Full-Leather.

New York: Scribner's, 1930. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in the full blue cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt (still brilliant). Octavo. Red and beige map-endpapers. [xii] + 394pps., + 24 illustrations. First printing (Scribner's 'A' and seal). There are mild touches of rubbing to the cloth, otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. The text is immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is slightly sunned and toned and has light rubbing wear to the tips and the spine-ends; the original price is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy -- scarce in jacket. ".John Marsh graduated from Harvard in 1823. He was the first schoolmaster in Minnesota. He wrote a dictionary and a grammar of the Sioux language. He married a beautiful half-breed -- French and Indian -- and by her had a son whom he believed dead for many years, ultimately to find him begging at his door unaware that he… Read More