AIDS and Its Metaphors (SIGNED) by Susan Sontag - 1989

London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529

New York: D. Appleton, 1929. First American Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good DJ. 278 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. A Lightly Used Book, Gilt Still Brilliant, No Wear. Dj Front Flap With Quote From Virginia Woolf, "It Would Be Difficult To Find A Fellow To It In English. One Cannot Bring To Mind At The Moment Any Living English Writer So Intelligent, So Dextrous, So Accomplished As M. Maurois". Dj Lightly Used, Slight Browning To Spine And Rear Panel And Flap Edges, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50], 3/16" V-Chips At Top Corners Of Spine Edge, 1/8" Losses At Upper Tips, A Few Minute Holes In White Areas Of Publisher's Logo On Spine (Possibly Acidic Ink?).

New York: Venture/Simon and Schuster, 1947. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the FIRST EDITION of HERMAN WOUK'S very first novel: AURORA DAWN, written during his final year's on a WWII ship in the Pacific fleet. Later on, Wouk would win the Pulitzer Prize for CAINE MUTINY, and his WIND'S OF WAR would become a famous television mini-series. Many other novelists, publishers and historians have called Wouk "an American Tolstoy." The 1947 date on the copyright page matches the 1947 on the title page, making this a FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8", 241 pages, with the ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Overall book is NEAR FINE. Pages = FINE: old price on first fep, light staining from glue on front reverse cover and first and last fep's, else very clear, tight, sharp, no additional marks. Cover (blue cloth boards with gold gilt design and "H W" on front, gold gilt… Read More

Rome: FAO, Living Marine Resources of Somalia (Fao Species Identification Field Guide for Fishery) 1996. Paperback.

New York, Manyland Books, 1971, hardcover, xv-131 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, light wear to spine ends, some white spotting to boards. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight nicks to heel of spine, two short closed edge tears to rear panel, one nick to rear flap fold, in new Brodart sleeve. A classic of Lithuanian literature and three shorter works from the eminent author. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of the author. Translated from the Lithuanian by Danguole Sealey, Algirdis Landsbergis, Stepas Zobarskas, and Clark Mills. Biographical Outline by Antanas Vaiciulaitis, Edited by Nola M. Zobarskas, Introduction by Charles Angoff. ISBN 9780871410382

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.

Ward, Lock & Co., London, 1903, 380 pages, 5" x 7.75", Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, endpapers removed, foxing on first 6 pages, bumped corners, otherwise clean and tight. Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 – 1914) was an American actor and writer.

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).

This beautifully preserved book is in Near Fine condition. Boards, titles and decorative design are all bright and clear with no fading or chipping. Pages are clean and hinge is tight. Minor bumps to head and foot of spine. End papers are slightly soiled and original owner's name is in pencil on FFEP. There are very minor scuffs to the front cover pictorial pastedown.
The author was a noted stage and screen actress of her day as well as an author and a Harper's correspondent in World War I. She was married to Walter Hale, an artist, illustrator and actor who could have been the illustrator of this book as he illustrated many other books for Louise. Priced to sell! There is only one other 1st Edition of this title for sale on the web at a much higher price.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.

Very Rare First edition 1928 hardcover by a New Zealand authoress, Jean Devanny. She was a pioneer writer and the author of "The Butcher Shop". The spine of the jacket states this book is "a powerful study of a woman's personality in a remote New Zealand bush town". The text has no writing and is in good condition with only lightly faded pages. The jacket is worn with a few tears and crinkles plus rubbing, but still colorful. It is adhering to the cloth covered boards and there is foxing to boards. Hinges are intact. Good binding.