Child of God by Cormac McCarthy - 1973

New York: Random House. Very Good in As New dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394487710 . Very good hardcover in As New facsimile dust jacket, which is wrapped. Stamp of original pricing on front end sheet. Excellent copy. No visible markings or underlining inside. ; 5 7/8" x 8 3/4"; 197 pages .

New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 197 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with red and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price cut. Minor shelf wear. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket. Foxing to edges of text block and rear pastedown. Interior pages clean. Sticker adhered to front pastedown. Shelved in Case 8. 1372787. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Random House, 1973. First edition (stated). Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of McCarthy's third novel, a work of great vigor and depravity praised by the optimistic but anonymous jacket copywriter as "perhaps the most accessible of McCarthy's novels." Perhaps. CHILD OF GOD considers the limits of human degradation, a topic of interest to the author in his pathbreaking youth just as it would be in his illustrious and acclaimed old age. The novel was the occasion of a literary achievement against which all the hollow machinery of latter-day Hollywood could avail nothing; its ill-conceived 2013 film adaptation at the hands of a much-overmatched James Franco soon fell from the world and left no marks in its passing. Presented with a card signed by McCarthy's legendary Random House editor, Albert Erskine, a gentleman of the old school who left no recorded objections to the novel's necrophilia and merely requested from his author some elaboration of the details (Luce). 8'' x… Read More

New York: Morrow Junior Books., 1995. First edition.. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Stephen T. Johnson. Illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson. New York: Morrow Junior Books, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. faint rumpling to the jacket, otherwise near fine. ISBN: 0688134645

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

Doubleday & Co., 1949. Used-very good. Hard Bound

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.