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NOAH'S ARK.
Edition: First printing.
London: Gollancz, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, a wry account of a mismatched marriage and the survival of love at all odds. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-575-035013.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59009More details Price: $25.00 -
THE TRAVELLING HORN PLAYER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, one which shift from Scotland to Rome, from London to the Cotswolds. It begins with the accidental death of a young woman, an event that touches many lives in sometimes surprising ways, a book both funny and touching. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-670-883573.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (not very noticeable peeled spot to the dj, rem line.)
Book ID: 19705More details Price: $17.00 -
TEMPLES OF DELIGHT
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third highly praised novel: "a strange and magical story that parallels the plot of Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute.'....complex and ambitious with much to say about friendship, family and growing up.". ISBN: 0-8021-14229.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (some bleeding from cloth spine to interior of dj.)
Book ID: 23052More details Price: $12.50 -
FROM POOR LAW TO WELFARE STATE: A History of Social Welfare in America.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Macmillan / Free Press, (1974.). Covers the colonial period to the post World War II decades. Bibliographies after each chapter. Index. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-02-9327008.
Condition: Good condition (some creasing and wear to covers.)
Book ID: 20797More details Price: $9.50 -
FOOD TO SOME, POISON TO OTHERS: The Food Allergy Detection Program.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Hollywood, FL: Frederick Fell Publishers Inc, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A handbook, an allergy detection book, and a cookbook all in one. What initiated this book was the fact that none of the elimination diets at the time took into account that many individuals could not digest soluble fats. Also, all the diets were in food form, without any instruction on how to include these foods in meals. This book uses the menu method to detect problem foods and includes 175 allergen free recipes. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page. Glossary, bibliography, index. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-88391171X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58788More details Price: $18.00 -
THE REBELLION OF THE HANGED.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Hill & Wang, (1974.) dj. Hardcover - The fifth of Traven's jungle novels, set in Mexico in the early 20th century, during the birth of the Mexican revolution, and originally published in Spanish in 1952. 248 pp. Dust jacket by Bill Tinker. ISBN: 0-8090-8046x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a few spots to the tinting on the top edge)
Book ID: 64360More details Price: $25.00 -
MISCHIEF.
Edition: First Canadian printing.
Toronto: S. B. Gundy, (1925.). Hardcover first edition - Uncommon edition of this novel by this British playwright known for his 'farces.' 315 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in mauve cloth with dark brown lettering and decorative borders (gift inscription dated Christmas, 1927, toning to the endpapers, but overall a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 39633More details Price: $20.00 -
MADAME AUBRY DINES WITH DEATH
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Mme Aubrey, a young graphologist employed by the Surete in Paris.
Condition: NF/VG (some staining to dj, mostly visible on the interior only.)
Book ID: 6779More details Price: $15.00 -
EACH OTHER'S VICTIMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author ventures into 1960's East Village in search of a son who shoots speed and takes LSD. - graphically describes.the East Village drug scene. 128 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (missing front endpaper.)
Book ID: 25214More details Price: $12.50 -
MARY POPPINS COMES BACK.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1966.) dj. Hardcover - The second in the Mary Poppins series with illustrations by Mary Shepard. Notation on front cover of dust jacket "the famous character on which the Walt Disney film is based." 268 pp,
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 75982More details Price: $21.50 -
MARY POPPINS and MARY POPPINS COMES BACK. (2 book set)
Edition: First US printings.
Condition: 'Mary Poppins' is very good overall in blue boards with a slight spine slant, mild toning to the pages (bookseller ticket on rear endpaper) in a good only example of the more uncommon dark blue dustjacket with tears along the folds, and the side of the spine, loss of about 1 cm inch at top of spine, and 2 cm at the foot, but still attractive. 'Mary Poppins Comes Back' is also very good in light green boards with mild toning to the pages (bookseller ticket on rear endpaper) in a good only dustjacket mising approximately 1 in at the top of the spine, other small chips and short closed tears, but still attractive. Both dust jackets have the original price of $1.50 still present.
Book ID: 89265More details Price: $1,450.00 -
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK CHICAGO
Edition: 3rd printing.
Chicago: Urban Research Institute, (1984, c 1981) dj. Hardcover - A book which presents the African American Chicago community through the personal experiences of Dempsey Travis (a businessman, jazz musician and civil rights activist, as well as author), his family, and his fellow Chicagoans. . . "a comprehensive, intimate story of African Americans in Chicago, starting with John Baptiste Point du Sable, who was the first non-Native American to settle on the mouth of the Chicago River" to current events. Illustrated with many photographs. Sources, index. xix, 379 pp. ISBN: 0-941484009.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79383More details Price: $16.50 -
FINDERS KEEPERS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. The second Ben and Carrie Porter mystery.
Condition: F/F. rem mk.
Book ID: 1700More details Price: $12.00 -
BLACK ELEPHANT WITH A BROWN EAR (IN ALABAMA).
Edition: First printing.
New York: Greenwillow Books, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Folk artist Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1854 or 1856, and when he was in his eighties, between 1939 and 1942, he created over 1,200 paintings. This book contains ten full-page, full-color reproductions of his paintings with a story (many based on folktales) by Barbara Ann Porte to accompany each. Frontispiece self-portrait. While published as a children's books, the paintings will appeal to all. Slightly oversized format, 48 pp. ISBN: 0-688143741.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37873More details Price: $25.00 -
LADY, DROP DEAd.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Abelard-Schuman, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon vintage mystery by this Edgar award-winning writer who is credited as being the first to write police procedurals. This novel features a private investigator and a patrolman trying to get back onto the homicide squad, both of whom are convinced that the other one is guilty of the murder of the former movie queen Vivian Vixen. 191 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with somel markings, spine slant, tape ghosts and missing front endpaper in a good only copy of the rather fragile dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 78472More details Price: $27.50 -
THE CORPORATION IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, (1970). Edited and with an introduction by Harry M. Trebing. Includes essays by Andrew Hacker, Adolf A. Berle, Elizabeth B. Drew, Emmanuel Cellar and others on on the beginning of the multi-national corporations. A New York Times Book. Suggested reading, index. 273 pp.
Condition: Very good overall (some stamps on first page)
Book ID: 83930More details Price: $15.00 -
THE STRANGE ORDEAL OF THE "NORMANDIER"
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story told 40 years later by the man who was the wireless radio operator on the tramp steamer, the Normandier, and one of the few survivors of this tragedy.
Condition: VG+/VG (light overall edgewear to dj, faint price stamped on both front endpaper, and bottom edge of text block.)
Book ID: 8917More details Price: $30.00 -
LUCILLE'S CAR CARE: Everything You Need to Know from Under the Hood-By America's Most Trusted Mechanic.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page by Lucille Treganowan. Includes tips on buying a car. Illustrated with photographs, glossary, index. xi, 257 pp. ISBN: 0-786862017.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74596More details Price: $21.50 -
THE COLOUR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning author set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 382 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-374126054.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 68111More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GUSTAV SONATA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which opens in Switzerland in the years after World War II, where Gustav, the only child of a single mother who treats him severely becomes friends with Anton, a young Jewish boy his age and a talented pianist, despite his mother's anti-Semitism. A story which moves back and forth in time. one in which friendship is lost, regained and transformed. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-0393246698.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75833More details Price: $17.50 -
MUSIC AND SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Chatto & Windus, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning author's eigth novel, set in Denmark in 1629. SIGNED on the title page. 454 pp. ISBN: 1-86056027X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 81272More details Price: $35.00 -
SACRED COUNTRY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Mary, who - at age 6 - realizes with perfect clarity and conviction that she is a boy, not a girl, and of the struggles of Mary/Martin in the years to come. A highly praised novel by a writer who is not as appreciated as she should be. ISBN: 0-689-121709.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23711More details Price: $16.00 -
THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER and Other Stories.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Summit Books, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book - her first collection of short stories. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 174 pp. ISBN: 0-671-504630.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped, rem line - a nice tight copy.)
Book ID: 20290More details Price: $17.50 -
THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book - her first collection of short stories. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 174 pp. ISBN: 0-671-504630.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy, but some spotting to the rear cover.
Book ID: 48039More details Price: $19.50 -
INDIAN SINGING IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, (1990.). First edition - A collection of poems illustrated with photographs of the author's mixed media fiber sculptures. Foreword by Colleen McElroy. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-934971-137.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56730More details Price: $15.00 -
GROWING THINGS and Other Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78119More details Price: $30.00 -
SURVIVOR SONG.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun with an incredibly fast acting rabies-like virus - as society disintegrates, a man is killed by an infected neighbor and, in attempting to help save him, his pregnant wife is bitten. Calling upon her best friend, a pediatrician, the 2 embark on a dangerous journey to obtain a C-section to save the baby before the mother succumbs to the infection. 303 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 88927More details Price: $27.50 -
GROWING THINGS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86710More details Price: $28.50 -
GROWING THINGS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 86923More details Price: $24.50 -
FORBIDDEN SANDS: A Search in the Sahara.
Edition: First US printing.
Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a young journalist's trip across the Sahara Desert by camel caravan, in an attempt to find out what was happening at the notorious salt mines at Taoudenni - where they being worked by Malian slaves, as was reported? Map, photographs, index. 197 pp,. ISBN: 0-897330285.
Condition: Ex-library with some markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 84924More details Price: $18.50
