The Dark Wind by Hillerman, Tony - 1982

New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1979. SIGNED by John Updike on the title page. The dustjacket has light soiling and a 1/4" closed tear top edge of rear panel.. SIGNED. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1868. Paperback. Good. [2], 396, [2] p.; 25 cm. Original printed wrappers. Woodcut illustration on front wrapper drawn by Henry Anelay and engraved by H. Carter. Date of publication inferred from publisher's advertisement on first page following text: "Get up your clubs for 1869!" Printed wrappers and final leaf contain publisher's advertisements. Some unopened leaves. Very scarce in original illustrated wrappers. In Good Condition: wrapper fore-edges and lower edges chipped; wrapper separating from head of front joint for 3 cm. and from tail of back joint for 10 cm.; wrapper is slightly soiled; fore-edges of front wrapper and pages through p. 116 damaged, without loss of text; occasional light foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Didier, Publishers, 1944. Near Fine, slight toning to end papers, in a Near Fine dust jacket, small closed tear bottom edge front panel, spine uniformly browned. Lovely Marcel Vertes illustration front panel of dust jacket. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Austin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. One of 500 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and signed by John Fowles at bottom of page 64. Near Fine, a few small rubs to marbled boards, spine a touch sunned. . SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR. Limited Edition. Quarter Morocco. Near Fine. Small 4to. Limited Edition.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. First British Edition/ Very Good, small bumps to corners, prior owner name and small spot of soiling at half-title page. In a Very Good dust jacket, 1/8" of paper loss at spine ends, top corner front flap crease, spine a shade darkened. Basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical and for the 1961 movie, starring Nancy Kwan. Dust jacket art by Shirley Hughes.. First British Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

[4]+392+[2] pages with a frontispiece from a painting by William Van Dresser. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth illustrated in black,cream and orange, lettered in cream and gilt. (BAL 11966) (Sisson & Martens pg 87) First edition.A tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of London's death, he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck. [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex." "It is all sex from start to finish", he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1952. Stated First Edition. Red texture boards are sturdy, hinges OK. Boards have marks from tape. Text is clean and unmarked, pages tanned. Several names in ink on front end page. DJ in poor condition, tear on front cover, stain on back - in plastic ocver. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 1

New York: Random House, 1984. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth. Very fine in very dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First edition / First printing. Off-white cloth. Very fine in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. The author's first story collection, and her second book.