New York: Alfred A. Knopf [with "Blakiston" on dust jacket], 1944. Early American Wartime Reprint. Cloth. 8vo, maroon cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on spine with blind-stamped initials of the author "JMC" on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped), red topstain, xv, [xvi-xx] + 327 pages. SCARCE..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc. / Seymour Lawrence, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, one-eigth red cloth with gold lettering on spine over pale beige boards, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), 149 pages. Frank Conroy (1936 – 2005) published five books, including the highly acclaimed..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1899. Various artists. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), red cloth with gilt lettering on spine & front cover, illustrated with B&W glossy frontispiece and 11 full-page glossy B&W plates & several in-text images by..... More
New York: Amy Einhorn Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, blue quarter cloth over blue boards with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a house and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over blue boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a girl doing a backflip, 208..... More
Cleveland New York: International Fiction Library, 1905. First Thus (presumably reprints the Perry Mason Co. Boston edition from 1905). Cloth. 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"), red cloth with black lettering and B&W silhouette logo of a girl with book facing a similar boy inside a sylized room flanked by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, dark green quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over ivory boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of a bird of paradise's tail feathers by Gabriele Wilson, vii..... More
New York: Farrar * Straus * Giroux, 1983. First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black one-third cloth with gold lettering on spine over dark blue boards with gold "B.M." and blind-stamped spiral on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) designed by Cynthia Krupat, xiii, [xiv-xvi] + 349, [350]..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo,light yellow quarter cloth with irridescent blue-green lettering over pale blue boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with a [woman's' hand grasping the Statue of Liberty torch just below bronze hand of the Statue, [viii] +..... More
New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Peter de Sève. Later printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, light brown-gray quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over light yellow boards with "Mark Twain" signature embossed in gold, Foreword and Afterword by Roy Blount Jr., archival mylar-protected humorous pictorial dust..... More
Reading, MA. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo (6"x 8 1/2"), quarter white cloth over pale blue boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Dana Coe, 229 pages. Bailey White (born 1950) is a...... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Boards. 8vo, speckled yellow boards with neon scarlett lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped), xii + 243 pages. Xu Xinrán is a British-Chinese journalist, author, speaker, and advocate for women's issues. She was well known for travelling..... More