Search Results: Authors starting with K from Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB

Vancleve, MS: Ramble House, 2001. First (Limited) Edition, First Printing. Softcover. 24mo. 5.75 x 4 inches. 243 pp. Fine / Very Good+. Small softcover in stiff wraps with pictorial dust jacket. "000157" stamped on first front flyleaf. Text block square and tight; interior pristine. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear. Extremely scarce limited first printing of a novel written in 1958. Introduction by Francis M. Nevins.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 305 pp. Very Good / Near Fine. Association copy. Signed by author on title page, "John D MacDonald Sept 1981," with inscription to friend and fellow writer Joe L. Hensley on front free endpaper, "For Joe and Charlotte, Somebody sent me a tear sheet of Don's article in GAMES saying 'This guy will write for ANYBODY!' Am soon sending you a fantastic pic of Nussbaum, with a letter. Best, John and Dorothy." Three-quarter light blue paper over quarter dark blue cloth on board, spine bearing stamped foil silver titles. Slightly canted, very light shelf wear, slight bumping at top and bottom of spine, outer corners front and back slightly rubbed, three-quarter inch crease at top of leaf 149/150, else Very Good. Glossy pictorial dust jacket has light browning along top-inside edge, slightly bumped at top and bottom of spine, else Near Fine with price of $15.95 unclipped. Dust jacket now in archival… Read More

Hill & Wang, New York, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 246 pp. Near Fine/Very Good-. Original grey cloth on boards. Rust-colored lettering on spine. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Frontispiece of photos. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Slight wear to lower edges of case and small bump to upper tip of rear board. Very slight soiling to text block edges, with a scattering of foxing to fore-edge. Interior pristine. Dog-ear corner crease to leaf 193/194. Unclipped dust jacket shows edgewear, rubbing, several closed tears, and chipping, primarily at head and tail of spine. Dust jacket now in archival protective sleeve. The harrowing story of the author's six-year ordeal, from her prosperous middle-class family home in Poland, through her enslavement by the Nazis regime, to her liberation by American troops.