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THE WARRIOR OF THE DAWN: The Adventures of Tharn.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1943.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although written as a novel about a Cro-Magnon man and the world 20,000 years ago, this book is very much a Tarzan-like adventure story aimed at older boys, and also a patriotic exercise. As the dustjacket points out 'give Tharn a tommy-gun instead of a flint-tipped spear, and he would be very much at home with the Marines in the South Pacific.' The only fantasy novel and the only one aimed at young people by this writer best known for his hard-boiled mysteries.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket ( a little loss of paper at the ends of the spine, some wear to the folds of the dj, but the cover illustration is still bright and beautiful.)
Book ID: 31643More details Price: $85.00 -
GREAT VENTURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1952.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story writtten for young adults of the ill-fated attempt of the Scots to found a colony in Central America: New Caledonia, a story of heroism, of a young Scotch Laird and his friendship with a Guarani Indian boy, of sickness, pirates, and danger on land and sea. Illustrated with drawings by Christine Price. 239 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (dustjacket has a tape repair the upper edge, discoloration on flaps and endpapers from tape.) Contents are very clean, binding is tight. Back cover of dustjacket advertises Heinlein's The Rolling Stones.
Book ID: 33419More details Price: $25.00 -
SONS OF THE ADMIRAL: The Story of Diego and Fernando Columbus.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: L. C. Page, 1940. Hardcover first edition - Novel for young adults about the sons of Christopher Columbus. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and black and white drawings by Paul Quinn. 373 pp
Condition: Very good+ in beige linen-weave cloth with rust-brown lettering and illustrations .
Book ID: 43574More details Price: $15.00 -
THE FLOATING WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first novel, the story of a Japanese American girl coming of age, and piecing together the story of her family, in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950's. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-670-82680-4.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 16770More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FLOATING WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first novel, the story of a Japanese American girl coming of age, and piecing together the story of her family, in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950's. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-670-82680-4.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 37546More details Price: $32.00 -
CAMPMATES: A Story of the Plains.
Edition: First or early printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1891.). Hardcover - A title in the Harper's Young People series. Adventures of a 17 year old, who as a baby was one of only two survivors of a train wreck, and who left his adopted father to find the answer to the mystery of his identity across the West - from Kansas to New Mexico, from Kit Carson's gold mine to a Mexican wedding. Illustrated with 21 plates. 333 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's advertisements.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with gold lettering and silver decorations (gift inscription dated 1898, spine slightly cocked, a few penciled notations - erasable, but perhaps of interest.)
Book ID: 40222More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BEWILDERED.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this award-winning writer. "In Portland, Orgeon, three high school friends - Leon, Chris and Kayla - spend their time skateboarding, studying foreign languages and classical music, and plotting a shared future that will avoid the superficiality they witness in the adult world around them. There is only one adult they admire, whom they suspect might hold secrets worth knowing." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp. ISBN: 1-596921129.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80161More details Price: $30.00 -
THE AFTERLIFE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2003.). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel - "you'd think being murdered would be the end of things, but for Chuy, that's when his life finally gets interesting." Set in Fresno, California where Soto grew up himself. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary of Spanish words and phrases. 161 pp.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49561More details Price: $20.00
