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New York: Brewer and Warren, 1930. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rockwell Kent. N by E is a story of an actual voyage to GHreenland in a small boat; of shipwreck there and of what, if anything, happened afterwards. It is not just a story, it is a story of Rockwell Kent and his travel to an through Greenland. Book is profusely illustrated with black and white prints (over 150) many of them full page dramatic scenes. Rockwell Kent is not only one of the most prolific artist of this genre, he is arguably the finest. Book is in very good condition, square and not bumped in any way. Tan cloth over boards are fine with the exception of the spine which is age stain and foxed. Front paste down and ffep are foxed and front edge is slightly tanned. Book retains a nice black/gray top staain. Book is INSCRIBED BY KENT" To my ^ no our now close new friends .... and .... ........ who, happily, for us, are now (March 29, 1968) with us… Read More

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: Penguin Press, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. book is as new with a very good priced (26.95) jacket with some wrinkling to the front. This is the story of a cit. The northwest corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And the many people in between. every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic novel follows four Londoners as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. This is a fine reader and a good addition to any library.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1972. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Naive and Sentimental lover is l love story about 38 year old man who has had phenomenal success in business and not so in his life. Suddenly and overwhelmingly he falls in love with a couple and their life style and the way they feel From hs first surreal meeting with Shamus and Helen at night, in a great, deserted English country house to Paris, where he takes Shamus, drunk and out of control, on a vital trade mission, to london, where he secretly installs them in an elegant flat, to a final desperate confrontation high in the Swiss Alps-Also Cassidy is on the great adventure of his life. This novel by spy novelist extraordinar, is a departure from the novels which made him an icon author. Book is in very fine condition. Spine has a very slight crease and in very gently bumped at spine ends. Book is bound in brown cloth over board and has gilt lettering on front… Read More

About this Item: Black Sparrow Pr, Santa Rosa, California, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Book is very fine . Quarter bound in Brown cloth over printed boards. Book is limited to 300 trade copies and 150 numbered and signed copies. This is # 24/150. After reading Eliot Weinberger's fine and quite thorough introduction is becomes obvious that Clayton Eshleman was quite the player. Eshleman is one of America's foremost poets translator and editor most noted for his translations of Cesar Vallego and has been awarded The National Book Award, The Landon Award and twice the American poets award, and quite a few other awards for translation and poetry. His bibliography for prose and poetry is exhausting and very extensive. Book is very fine, rare and collectible. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001721

About this Item: Black Sparrow Pr, Santa Rosa, California, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Very Fine limited edition # H/26 signed copies. Book is rare and collectible with an original tipped in poem of love and caring written in 1983. This addition poem available only in the 26 lettered copies. The easiest description of the American award winning poet, translator and editor, he is a man who has so far had a full and productive life. His poetry is evocative, sensitive, worldly and easy to enjoy. This is a very fine internally flawless copy, rare and collectible. Letter H/26. Signed by Author

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A novel in four movements. An h EROTICA l novel, a grand and loving tragi-comic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, by Burgess out of Ludwig van, that unteases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed- in liberty, equality, fraternity and Beethoven. Book in very fine condition, internally perfect, top rear corner of spine slightly wrinkled. Nice pale green top stain at top and semi-trimmed fore and bottom edge. Jacket is near fine + with small closed tear at front cover. Priced at ($7.95) on front flap. Signed by author to ..., on title page. A very nice collectible.

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century. Book has gray cover and in very good + condition, except for the black and gold printing on spine only which is rubbed and missing 3 letters, spine ends are bumped, but corners are straight and pointed. Book had a label , possibly an ex-libris or library label removed from front paste-down, else VG+. jacket is in VG condition and is price clipped.Spine ends and rear fold are chipped. Saying all that it is a quite nice collectible. First edition with A-P under First edition.

About this Item: B.W. Huebsch, New York, 1915. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book is in Near Fine condition. The spine has a slight bump at bottom.Internally the book is unmarked in any way. The top edge of the text block is trimmed. The bottom and fore edge are untrimmed. Priced (50cents net) dust jacket is near fine with a nicely repaired small tear on the verso. On June 14, 1915, the board of trustees of the university of Pennsylvania voted not to reappoint Dr. Scott nearing assistant professor of economics for the coming academic year (1914-1915). The apparent reason for his dismissal was apparent disagreements on economic policy, and religious and economic conformity and most importantly, freedom of speech and employee/employer relationship. This book is historically important. Protected in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 001621

Florance Italy: Privately Printed, G. Orioli, 1929. 1st Edition First thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. #378 of 475 Signed by author. Original boards, spine evenly faded, a short tear in one leaf, otherwise nearly mint, unopened copy of this most uncharacteristic gruesome romantic fantasy. A wonderful Norman Douglas collectible.

About this Item: Villard, New York, 1994. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket with wonderful pictures and recipes. The best chefs in Hawaii have banded together for one purpose: to transform the islands into a mecca for superlative cuisine uniquely identifiable to the region. Now this sensationally stylish cuisine appears in the first comprehensive, fully illustrated cookbook of its kind. throw out your notions of standard luau fare.bold vivacious, and completely new, the cuisine of America's fiftieth state is now on the culinary map. This book is essential to a complete culinary library.

About this Item: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, California, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Very fine limited edition copy O/26. This edition was published in wrappers; there are 200 cloth trade copies, 150 hardcover copies that have been numbered and signed and 26 special copies with a tipped in holographic poem by the author. Book is pristine. Book is quarter bound in multicolored cloth over printed boards. Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain Poets and the New School. He was a contributor to The Village Voice from 1969 thru 1984. The poet explored intimacy and domesticity. Book is very fine and very collectible. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001725

About this Item: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, California, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. Fine book is signed by the author Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) on the page after the title page. Book is limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. The is copy 22/150. Joel Oppenheimer spent a year at Cornell University, a semester at the University of Chicago and a year " floundering" until he entered Black Mountain College when he studied with M. C. Richards, Paul Goodman and Charles Olson. his columns appeared in the village Voice and he received a Caps grant in poetry and an NEA in 1980. Along with his poetry and prose, Oppenheimer published two non-fiction books about the New York Mets and Marilyn Monroe. The authors poetry is interesting and evocative. Book is pristine, unmarked and unread. Collectible. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001710

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. #352 of 2000 signed by author, in recognition of The University of Pennsylvania conferring of doctor of law degree. This is a copy of the lecture he gave that day Feb. 16th 1936. Book in unopened condition. Jacket in VG spine faded and neatly repaired on verso unclipped($2.00) cover, which has tanning at folds and browned at spine, else fine.

Berkley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The guide to cool, odd, risky, and gruesome ways to make a living.

London: Cassell and Co. LTD., 1967. 1st Edition First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very fine + copy in like dust jacket which is not price clipped (30/-net) 14 stories by the solitary traveler, who tells the stories of the Mexican peasants. The author is reclusive and gives little information about himself, which makes his writing all the more appealing.Mylar protected. A near perfect copy in a near perfect jacket. A great collectible, unread and internally flawless .

London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in fine condition. A fine biographical account of Douglas through the critical eyes of one of Douglas's biographers. He talks about facts and fictions of Douglas's writing. Book has slight wear to spine ends and corners. Spine is very slightly faded. Book is unopened and unread. Marbel boards. A fine Douglas collectible. #9 of 260 copies.

New York, New York: The McBride Company, 1953. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A short pictorial consisting of 17 plates and a short biography of Douglas by his and his wife's kinsman. #295 of350.Book Fine. No copyright information or date as per publishers design. Jacket near fine with repaired tear at top of spine. Price clipped and minor browning on spine and folds.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. BOOK IN FINE CONDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR on card (4.25"x3") pasted down on decorated ffe. Book perfectly clean and unopened. Jacket is unclipped ($4.95) with wear to spine ends and front corners. Three small tape repairs to verso. A fine collectible. 436 pages + a small portfolio.

About this Item: Curtis Pub Co, Indianapolis, 1979. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION AS NEW in priced (15.95) dust jacket. There are lots of books about Norman Rockwell, but there's one like this! The works of Norman Rockwell cataloged by date and illustrated for easy identification. This book is not so much about him as by him. It's all here: the history of a prolific artist as told through his work, eleven Chapters and 1000 illustration of pure Rockwell. This is a fun book to look at with nostalgia, and an important reference guide to one of America's greatest artists. Book is a fine addition to any Rockwell collection. Seller Inventory # 001491