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New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Edward A. Wilson. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in., pp. 68. Gray-blue boards with silver title to spine. Illustrated with four color plates and in-text ink drawings by Edward A. Wilson. Sunning to top of boards. Decorative bookplate from "Library of the University of Oregon" on front pastedown, marked as "Withdrawn." 1 x 1 inch sticker residue to front endpaper. Spine and hinges are tight. Rubbing to corners and spine edge, and chips at spine bottom, of dust jacket. Protected in mylar. Drawings by Edward A. Wilson, Introduction by Lincoln Colcord. "The story of two youngsters who took a backwater voyage up the Columbia River in search of adventure and found the realities of life" (Dustjacket flap).

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. Black, cloth-covered boards, ruled in blind. Spine sunned and a wee bit of fraying to spinecaps. Pages lightly toned. 173 pp. A novel set in Vienna whose characters step outside the moral boundaries of traditional married life. Widowed Beatrice is vacationing with her son Hugo, who is about to begin an affair with a woman which his mother (Beatrice) does not approve of. Her mother begins a passionate affair with Hugo's best friend, and it is eventually revealed that Hugo's father had many extramarital affairs during the course of his marriage to Beatrice. And so it goes. And goes. And goes.

New York: Random House, 1966. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Good Only. Octavo. Green cloth binding over blue-gray boards with black, yellow and white arrow design to front. Rubbing soiling, some spotting to extremities. Spine lean. Reading copy of this classic mid-sixties narrative of late Beat-ish artistic culture. Farina was a handsome folksinger-writer of Cuban-Irish descent, who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. Farina was a handsome Cuban-Irish folksinger-writer who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. At age 29, Farnia tragically died in a… Read More

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 5.4 x 8.2 in., pp. 178. Red boards, with red title to black spine. Light rubbing to edges of boards and top and bottom of spine. Slight nudge to bottom corner of front board. Light wear and age-toning to edges of dustjacket.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Octavo, 5.3 x 8.2 in., ppp. 221. Light blue boards with dark blue title to cover and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Top edges of boards lightly faded. Age-toning to endpapers. Chips to top of spine and fore-edges of price-clipped dustjacket. Light sunning to dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. The author's first collection of twelve works of short fiction. The stories were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, and other magazines. "Chute reportedly published her first story before she was 20. Much of her early work was adventure and sports stories for boys, such as "Oh, Say Can You Ski?" (Boys' Life, January 1938), and this probably inspired her to use her initials as a pen name to disguise her gender, as many female writers did at the time. She continued to write similar material, as well as romance stories for women's magazines, through much of the 1940s,… Read More

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Octavo. First printing October 1956 stated on copyright page, indicating a first edition. Light green paper-covered boards with yellow lettering on spine. Slight bump to spine heel. Very light sunning to extremities. Deckle edge. Binding is solid, edges clean and bright. Dustjacket illustration by Edward Street shows a line-drawn urban street scene highlighted by bright red patch of color behind the title. This same theme wraps onto the spine. Dustjacket has a few 1/4" chips to top and bottom of spine and small 1/4" chips to all flap corners. Dustjacket has closed 1" tear to bottom edge of back cover. Original $3.00 price. 206 pp. A collection of seven stories by the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and National Book (Spectator Bird) award-winning author. All stories previously appeared in popular magazines of the era. "These stories range from classic lyric mood to straight… Read More

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.6 in., pp. 229. Blue cloth boards with silver title to spine. Ink stamp to front pastedown reads: "With compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc." Light mark and quarter inch closed tear at base of dustjacket spine. Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino (October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005), was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film Blackboard Jungle was based. Hunter, who legally adopted that name in 1952, also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, among others. He wrote 118 novels, of which "Come WInter" is the 58th.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1988. Limited First Edition. Leather-bound. Fine. Octavo, 6 x 9 in., pp. vii + 244, Signed by author on front flyleaf. This Franklin Library Limited edition is bound in light brown, genuine leather with elegant 22-karat gold accents. Gilt lettering on classic hubbed spines of three raised bands dividing four panels. All edges gilt to protect against dust and moisture. Marbled endpapers, and sewn-in silk ribbon book mark. Pages are thread-sewn for strength and durability, have long-lasting, acid-neutral, archival quality paper, and a handsome, readable typeface. Clean, tight, bright. Includes separate advertisement for the publication from The Franklin Library.

Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews and McMeel, 1979. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in. pp. 88. Signed by the author on the title page. Yellow-green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Two inch closed tear to top of dustjacket. Small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine and front corner. Protected in mylar. Barry Holstun Lopez (1945 - 2020) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He was the winner of the National Book Award in 1986 for his book, Arctic Dreams.

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1950. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good. Eight fictional pieces by one of the early American masters of the short story (and novels). 8vo. Forest-green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to fspine. Very light shelfwear to extremities. Of James, an American who became a naturalized British citizen, Britannica writes: "His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and wisdom of the Old..."

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.6 in. , p. 340. Light blue cloth boards with red title to spine. Sunning to spine, rear board, and top edge of boards. Red endpapers. A couple small chips to dustjacket edges. Llght sunning to back of dustjacket. Protected in mylar.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. 12mo, 7.25 in. x 5.2 in. pp. 159. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Biege paper boards over brown cloth spine with gilt title to front and spine. From the dustjacket: "In this collection of twelve stories the author evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, with nature. In these stories we find men or women - sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded - who have an experience that is profound, unsettling, and oddly liberating." Barry Holstun Lopez (1945 - 2020) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He was the winner of the National Book Award in 1986 for his book, Arctic Dreams.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 6 in., pp. 485. Signed in blue ink by the author on the front free endpaper. Ochre paper boards over dark blue cloth-covered spine. GIlt title to spine. Title page hand-corrected in ink from "(a novel)" to "(an honest novel)". Light age-toning to dustjacket. Protected in mylar. First issue dustjacket, with the errors "mist" for "myth" and "$19.95" on the front flap, and "Mickey" for "Becky" on the rear flap. Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. "The Fool's Progress" was his final novel.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Signed by author on title page. Protected in mylar. "The Fortress of Solitude is a 2003 semi-autobiographical novel by Jonathan Lethem set in Brooklyn and spanning the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. It follows two teenage friends, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, one white and one black, who discover a magic ring. The novel explores the issues of race and culture, gentrification, self-discovery, and music. The novel's title is a reference to the Fortress of Solitude, a fortress constructed for Superman." (from Wikipedia).

New York: Random House, 1967. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Joseph del Gaudio (Jacket Design). Octavo, 8.6 in. x 57 in., pp. 278, [1]. Stated first printing. Black cloth boards with stamped silver motorcycle design to front and red and silver title to spine. Publisher's black topstain. Dustjacket price: $4.95. Very light wear along edges of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. Beautiful copy of one of the archetypal cornerstones of the 1960s and the often bizarre and iconoclastic gifts this era bestowed upon the general consciousness of that (now this) generation. How much we then gained. How much we've since lost!

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Signed by the author on title page. Very light rubbing to extremities. "Autographed" sticker to front of dustjacket; store sales sticker to rear. Comedian David Cross weaves "his media mockery, celebrity denunciation, religious commentary and sheer madness into book form, revealing the true story behind his almost existential distaste of Jim Belushi ("The Belush"), disclosing the up-to-now unpublished minutes to a meeting of Fox television network executives, and offering up a brutally grotesque run-in with Bill O'Reilly. And as if this wasn't enough for your laughing pleasure in these troubled times, some of the pieces splinter off with additional material being created online in exclusive video and animated web content created solely for the book-a historical first (presumably)! With a mix of personal essays, satirical fiction posing as truth, advice for rich people, information from America's… Read More

Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 7.2 in. x 4.5 in., pp. 252. Red cloth boards with gilt floral design and title to front. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing and light soiling to boards. A couple small black stains to front and spine. Corners ndged. Penmark to rear endpaper. Light age-toning to pages, with spotting to endpapers. Pierre Loti (pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud, 1850 - 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.

New York: Random House, 1948. Stated Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Only. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.5 in., p. 247. Black cloth boards with blue and gilt title and gilt dotted-line design to front and spine. Light shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Bottom corners lightly nudged. Bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Several larger chips and closed tears to dustjacket's front and spine, but front picture and text unaffected. Price clipped. Prtected i mylar. Sold by "Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco."

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. David Palladini. Octavo, 6 x 8.75 in., pp. 243, Signed by author on front flyleaf, protected by tissue guard. This Franklin Library Limited edition is bound in light brown, genuine leather with elegant 22-karat gold and turquise accents. Gilt lettering on classic hubbed spines of four raised bands dividing five panels. All edges gilt to protect against dust and moisture. Red marbled endpapers, and sewn-in silk ribbon book mark. Pages are thread-sewn for strength and durability, have long-lasting, acid-neutral, archival quality paper, and a handsome, readable typeface. Clean, tight, bright. Frontispiece by Kinuka Craft. Includes original "Notes from the Editors" from The Franklin Library. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. From Wikipedia: "The Alexandria Quartet (of which Justine is the first) is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1932. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 8 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 537. Signed by the author on the top of title page. Ochre cloth boards with brown title and rifleman to front over black cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Ligh rubbing to extremities and light soiling to boards. Brown and black ink to title page. Endpaper maps. Clean, solid textblock. Stewart White (1873-1946), American author and conservationist wrote The Blazed Trail (1902), as well as many other works of a metaphysical nature, works of history, travel and adventure books, children's books, essays, and short stories. His books were often of a motivational nature, and squarely based on his own life's experiences, many of them based in the American west. (from The Literature Network).