Search Results: Authors starting with S from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: A Bantam Book by arr. w/ Houghton Mifflin., 1945. 1st Bantam printing. 5. 25c. Unabridged. 1921 author copyright.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Some loss to cover clear sealer, exposing more brilliant color cover art. Tightly bound. Lower inside front pages: small diminishing "cinder" burn.. 1 First edition. 416 p. Mass-market (rack) paperback. Classic humorous fiction set in France among the lordly and one who was acknowledged by his "godfather" to be of special merit if not admittedly of the same branch of the tree. But if he looks like the tree, etc. When Bantam began publishing affordable "mass market" versions of popular books, only 4 each month were published. This edition, number 5, thus appeared in the 2nd month of a new publishing and marketing venture, reassuring readers on the cover the contents are "Complete and Unabridged", and providing striking and artistic "tasteful covers".

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1937. Hard cover. Good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Lower and upper spine ends compromised: chipped, fraying. Slight spine tilt. Corners bumped. Back cover stain. DJ in pieces, tucked inside. "N.S. Hope, Sept. 1937", 1st free endpaper; also "T.A..... 1 iv, 379 p. 21 cm. Born in Jesi, a small city in the Italian Marches, of Italian and English parentage, and educated in Switzerland and Portugal, Sabatini sets many of his novels in Jesi's glamorous history, rich with violence and beauty. This work begins with a mockery of royalty, as a royal youth raised in the gutter is interviewed, displaying the language of his crass upbringing.

Boston: New York.: Houghton Mifflin Company., 1923. 1921 edition was in May; 16th impression, July 1923.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner "Robert A Hall, Omaha, Nebr." Lower spine fray; corner bumps.. 1 Black cloth over boards, red front and spine titles. vi, 392 p., 1 l. 20 cm. Historical fiction romance featuring the amiable Scaramouche of France, later portrayed in a Hollywood B&W film starring a dashing Stewart Granger. Born "with a gift for laughter and a sense that his world was mad, " Andre-Louis, his paternity was unknown in his village. That was cleared up when a nobleman announced he was his godfather. So begins a seesaw of personal conflict: Republican or Aristocrat. He would become a comedian in performance, a political conscience of sorts as the French Revolution tensions mounted.

New York.: Popular Library., 1924. Later 1924 Houghton Mifflin, unabridged. 1st this pb. P.L. #91.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. Sturdy. Minor edge wear. Front cover vertical bending. Back cover soiling.. 1 First edition. 315 p. Vintage historical novel paperback: Set on the high seas and at various ports of call, readers learn of Sir Oliver Tressilian, born to an enterprising English father, who might have become Lord High Admiral of England were he not prone to intrigue. The era was of sailing ships, swashbuckling, the northern Africa slave market, huckstering, Mohammedans, scimitars, trading, romance, and judgments made. Intriguing cover artwork not credited. Italian-born author of "Scaramouche", 1921.

Garden City, N. Y: Nelson Doubleday, 1988. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Moderate edgewear, spine edge bumps. Prior owner bookplate.. 0 602 p.; 22 cm. White and blue paper covered boards.

Philadelphia / London.: J B Lippincott., 1932. Presumed 1st; no print line.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Library rebind. Tightly-bound. A few interior soil spots.. Gallagher, M J (Illustrations by).. 1 317 p. Sturdy blue-green woven cloth over boards. Stamped gold spine titles w/ library catalog I.D. 21 cm. Vibrant bold pen&ink artwork throughout; frontispiece set against bright yellow. Youth classic fiction. Title page subtitle: "In which Tony Lee takes to the water trail of ark and broadhorn, flat and keel and threshing steamboat down and up the blue Ohio and the mighty Mississippi in those days when the big rivers were the highways of commerce and adventure". A Preface offers an historic overview of river travel, "River Craft and River Men", and following the Contents page (16 chapters: "Trouble for Tony Lee" to "Tony Sees It All", more history in "Big River Trails" with mileage. Tony Lee, age 12 or 14, is introduced… Read More

Flossmoor IL.: Good Earth Publishing., 1987. Followed 1985 edition.. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine. Small soil spot, bottom page block. Back cover slight blemishing, top. Unmarked inside.. Besowshek, Kimberly Ann (Illustrations by).. 1 White covers, black titles, red screen-print style blossoms. [328] p.28 cm. Pen&Ink realistic drawings, USA Maps showing regions. Glossary. Index includes name, zone, plate, page. Horticulture reference. Front 3 pages identify types of leaves and branching in simple line drawings. More thorough plant renditions in full section, separate from info, keyed to page. Plant info lists scientific and common names; Adaptability to Zones; Culture (soil, light, drainage, etc. ); Ornamental Quality.

New York.: Atlantic Monthly Press., 1996. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light page block foxing.. 1 Maroon paper over boards. Gold spine titles. 330 p. Audience: General/trade. Anthology of writings about the adventures of hunting and fishing over the 20th century. Published from 1926 to 1996: 18 hunting tales; 19 fishing tales; 13 adventure tales, all from the pages of the periodical magazine, Sports Afield. Editor Jay Cassell had been on the magazine's staff for 17 years.

Hoboken NJ.: John Wiley & Sons., 2004. First edition. 1s print.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Small patch damp stain. lower side page block.. 1 Glossy photo illustrated paper over boards. 244 p. Black & white photos, graphs, charts. Resources. Glossary. Index. Audience: General/trade. Chapters: The Soil Ecosystems; Fertility; Compost; Analysis; Pests; Cultural Practices; Simplicity Versus Stability.

New York: Signet / New American Library., 1967. 3rd printing.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover wear. Age-toning. Creasing. Interior unmarked.. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 176 p. Large red 'M' on cover w/ 3 die-cut 'Bullet' holes through front. Literary journalism: Author John Sack follows an Army Company from barracks inspection at Fort Dix to the senseless killing in Vietnam of a 7-year-old girl. Infused with serious reporting, humor, lyrical word-smithing. Considered one of the most important books to "come out of Vietnam" during the 1960s.

Toronto.: Alfred A Knopf Canada., 1995. Book Club Edition. 1st Canadian Edition. Book-of-the-Month-Club.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Ex-library.. 1 Gold Cloth and paper over boards. Silver spine titles. Off-white jacket w/ black, teal titles. Skilled essayist and professor of clinical neurology, Oliver Sacks presents here tales of seven travelers, each in their own environments. Sacks "feels like a neuroanthropologist", as well as a physician. He reconstructs the mental acts we take for granted. One of Sacks's prior collections is "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat".

New York.: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1985. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. 1st free end paper top corner clipped. Jacket, pages, edges all clean, save for library markings, tape residue. Clear cover had protected jacket.. 1 203 p. B&W photo plate sections. Audience: General/trade. In 1981, Camelia Mohammed, a graduate student in Boston with an assumed identity for her protection, was watching TV when she saw the President of her country, Egypt, assassinated. Anwar el-Sadat was her father. Camelia wrote this memoir about him, the visionary statesman and Muslim, and their father-daughter relationship.

London.: Oxford University Press., 1961. Earlier Constable Company Ltd, 1927 1st. No. 35 Oxford PBs.. Trade paperback. Very good. Sun-fade to spine.. 1 438 p. Includes index. Gray front covers w/ gold Trollope graphic portrait, front. Back cover gold Biographical: Anthony Trollope, when he died, "there passed not only the mid-Victorian novel, but a social epoch also", from introductory chapter. Sections: Anthony's Mother, 7 chapters; Anthony, 11 chapters; The Final Scene; The Portrait of Anthony; The Books; Appendices; Index.

Old Saybrook CT.: Globe Pequot Press., 1998. 6th edition, 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. 18 cm. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Hiking, Walking Guidebook with clear directions, maps for each, informal notes on geology, vegetation, wildlife, more. 32 leisurely walks: woodlands, ponds, dunes.

Pocket Books, 1997. A 1986 publication, reprinted.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate cover wear; no spine creases. Tight.. 0 Movie Tie-in, cover photo: Jodie Foster & Matthew McConaughry. 434 p. A novelized look at the future, 1999, by Pulitzer Prize winning astronomer-author of "Cosmos".

New York.: Dell Publishing Company by arr. w/ Delacorte Press., 1977. First edition. 1st Dell printing. TM 681510.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Light surface wear. Clean pages. Tight. Age-toning.. 1 156 p. Mass-market (rack) paperback. Turquoise page blocks. A novel of a woman's many loves. In this account, three: her husband Alan, her nonsexual affair with Julius, and her romantic and sensual Louis.

Dell Publishing Co. by arr. w/ E.P. Dutton., 1962. First edition. S29. 60¢ original price. 1st Dell printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Single spine crease. Light cover surface wear.. 1 127 & 159 p. Mass-market (rack) paperback. RARE: French author Francoise Sagan was 18 when "Bonjour Tristesse" was first published, a novel of sophisticated amorality; and 2 years later, "A Certain Smile" was like reading a young girl's private diary.

Dublin NH.: Yankee Inc., 1985. Wraps. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Light cover surface wear.. Brush, Jerome (Art Advising by), and Sterns, Jos. (Cover drawing by), and Tolman, Francis W P (2 woodcuts by). 1 Paper magazine cover. 60 p. Includes illustrations. Blue and white historic reprint edition. 8.5x11in. Stapled binding. Advertsiements, stories, B&W drawings, artwork. In 2010, Yankee Magazine celebrated its 75th Anniversary of its monthly periodical chronicling New England strories, poetry, people, and traditions. This edition is a facsimile of the very first publication in 1935. Special Features include: Agriculture; Textiles; America Takes Up Forestry; Shoe Industry in New Hampshire; Book Lady of the Air; Dreams and Observations. Other themes: Country Dance; Gertrude Stein (about) a satirical play; Keene NH; Concord NH; Election Day.

London: Granta, 2000. First edition. 3rd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor spine crease. Slight cover wear. Near fine. Unmarked inside.. 1 xxi, 345 p.; 24 cm. Pictorial cover, news events. Permissions acknowledgments; index. Collection of essays, commentary on the last 6 years of the 20th century regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts. Edward Said, Prof. of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, has been a lone, strong, eloquent, Western-based voice supporting the rights of the Palestinian people.

New York: W W Norton & Co., 1968. First edition. 1st printing, this edition.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. A few sentences are underlined in ink. Minor cover scuffing, light soiling.. 1 Trade paperback. 158 p. Essays by Russian physicist on the themes of international dangers and hopes. His imprisonment by the Soviet Union had been anticipated when this was published, for his writings and their politically outspoken contents. Originally published in the New York Times, July 22, 1968.