Language: English
Published by Times Books.;.HENRY HOLT, NY, 2002
ISBN 10: 0805069054 ISBN 13: 9780805069051
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, CHICO-CA, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by STUART, GILBERT COVER PAINTING. (illustrator). first edition,3p; 357910864pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE)DUST JACKET.; GOLD SPINE TITLES ON VERY DARK BROWN HARDCOVERS.white endpapers.BLACK TITLES ON LITE GREEN DUST JACKET With 2x3" portrait of Maddison . ***THIS EDITION DOES NOT HAVE A FULL COVER PORTRAIT OF MADISON.it same portrait, but smaller 2x3". ; 184 pages; Not temperamentally suited to be a wartime President, Madison nonetheless confronted issues such as public morale, internal security, relations with Congress, and the independence of the military. Wills traces Madison's later life during which, like many recent Presidents, he enjoyed greater popularity than while in office.
Language: English
Published by Davis Publications, New York, 1983
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of this Collection of 10 Short Stories. Featured are Suddenly in September by Edward D Hoch, An Educated Taste by Maralyn Horsdal, Anything for a Quiet Life by Michael Gilbert, Snookered by Gerald Tomlinson, The Anderson Boy by Joseph Hansen, Death of a Knocker? by Geoffrey Shires, The Grotte de St. Simon by Ian Stuart, A Million Laughs by Ron Goulart, Miss Cinderella by Judith Toral and Death Man's Question by William Bankier. In Near Fine Condition.
Language: English
Published by Davis Publications, New York, 1983
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 10 short stories. Featured are Suddenly in September by Edward D. Hoch, An Educated Taste by Maralyn Horsdal, Anything for a Quiet Life by Michael Gilbert, Snookered by Gerald Tomlinson, The Anderson Boy by Joseph Hanson, Death of a Knocker? by Geoffrey Shires, The Grotte de St. Simon by Ian Stuart, A Million Laughs by Ron Goulart, Miss Cinderella by Judith Toral, Dead Man's Question by William Bankier. Light edge wear. Slight reading crease to front cover near spine. In very good condition.
Published by National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1954
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Softcover. Ten-Color Supplement Map of Northern Africa is missing from volume. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have some wear at spine, light overall soiling and shelf wear. Contents: Grosvenor, Safari from Congo to Cairo. Jones and Boyer, Here's New York Harbor. Lamb and Boyer, Crusader Lands Revisited. Gullers, Viking Festival in the Shetlands. 10.0" tall. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
Published by National Geographic Society, Washington, 1972
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Sound binding, clean and bright interior. Wrappers are yellow and white with picture of a Kenya leopard. Lightly shelf worn overall. Contents: Fisher and Nebbia, African Wildlife: Man's Threatened Legacy. Jones and Madden, Maryland on the Half Shell. Weaver, Apollo 15 Explores the Mountains fo the Moon. Kunstadter, Spirits of Change Capture the Karens. Hawkes and Collison, Happy Birthday, Otto Lilienthal!; 10.0" tall; 185 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
Published by National Geographic Society, Washington, 1947
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Sound binding. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have light wear at spine, overall handling wear and light soiling. Contents: Colton, Eclipse hunting in Brazil's ranchland. Guild and Fletcher, Exploring America's great sand barrier reef. Jones, Indian life before the colonists came. Kilbon and Weber, Born hunters, the bird dogs. Colton and Palmer, Split-second time runs today's world. 10.0" tall. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
Language: English
Published by Blue Ribbon Books, Garden City, NY, 1946
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Reprint. Good plus with bookplate on front pastedown and some mild abrasions to red cloth. In good plus dust jacket with some fraying at spine ends and front corners. No markings. Previously published under the title SPORTING BLOOD in 1940. 362 page collection of short stories by various mystery authors involving either indoor or outdoor sports. Also includes stories on coin and book collecting and even chess. The paper is quite good for a vintage reprint book.
Language: English
Published by Carroll & Graf, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 088184344X ISBN 13: 9780881843446
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by various authors including Stephen King and Peter Lovesey. Price clipped otherwise in near fine / near fine condition.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. 437pp, octavo, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with gilt titles, light corner wear, owner's name, jacket is toned and has pieces missing to the top of spine. with author's corrections incorporated in the text.
Published by Viking, 1957
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First U.S. edition. Text block concave, small chip at the bottom of the dustjakcet spine.
Published by Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1957
Seller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Grey cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine is clean and unworn. Binding sound. No ownership or other marks. Top edge of text block tinted light grey. Not a remainder or former library book. DJ has lightly faded spine, multiple tears and a few small chips at edges, Tears have been reinforced with clear tape at head and tail of spine. DJ is not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages.
Language: English
Published by Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1844
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good-VG. 1st Thus. Dark blind-stamped cloth covers, clean but occ. surface marks, extremities sl. bumped, back joint rubbed with some cloth breakage towards top. xlii+224; fr. hinge cracked, prev. owner's sig. fr. free end-paper, neat 4 ll. pencilled genealogical note bottom margin p. vii (Editor's Preface) otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, Scarce account of Catholic priest's efforts on behalf of three Scottish 'ladyes' with much interesting contemporary observation.
Language: English
Published by London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1957
Seller: Hodmandod Books, Biggleswade, BED, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue-grey cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 437 pages. Frontispiece a b&w photograph of James, Nora, Lucia and Giorgio in Paris in 1924; facsimile reproductions of two letters within the text. Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned; the tinted blue top edge of the text has faded. Jacket is price-clipped, with slight fading at its spine and a tanned rear panel.
Language: English
Published by Carrol & Graf, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 088184344X ISBN 13: 9780881843446
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by various authors including Stephen King and Peter Lovesey. SIGNED by Edward D. Hoch and Stuart Kaminsky above their stories. Two tiny 1/4-inch closed-tears to the rear cover's bottom edge. Price clipped otherwise in near fine / near fine unread condition. Signed by Author.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1957
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
437 pp. Large 8vo, original cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper; very slight shelfwear; tight and sound in a jacket with the printed price altered in ink; a coin-sized chip at the top of the spine; and some light edge wear and dust-soiling.
Language: English
Published by DaDaBaby Enterprises, North Vancouver, B.C.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Complete run -- 11 issues of this poetry zine edited by TISH prodigal Jamie Reid. published ca. 1992-1997. All are in fine condition .
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1957
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Large 8vo. 437 (7) pp, frontis. First Edition: 1957. Not Price Clipped. 3/16" line of chipping along top and bottom edge spine of dj with two additional small chips along bottom edge rear panel of same, with sun-darkened spine. . Only the slightest external wear, else, Pristine Interior. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. DJ handles nicely n acetate protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book.
Language: English
Published by The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition thus. First edition of Ulysses published after Sylvia Beach relinquished her copyright. Revised by Stuart Gilbert, whose corrections some consider little more than Joyce's own. This is the paperback edition released in two volumes, here rebound in a dun half-cloth. Second volume is square and tight. First volume has some separation to spine, including a small number of loose pages, and would benefit from being resown. An esteemed and important edition of Joyce's Ulysses.
Published by Brooklyn: Neon, 1957
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Solid copy of the third issue of this important fifties literary magazine edited by Gilbert Sorrentino. No markings, light wear and toning to covers. Not Signed.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1957
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good tight copy, some age tanning & spotting to preliminary pages & page edges, top corners bumped, wrapper frayed at edges.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1957
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
437 pp. Large 8vo, original cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Spine lettering slightly dull; a few small stains to blank leaf at rear; otherwise fine in a jacket with slightly darkened lettering on the spine.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. First printing of the 1966 edition, slipcased three volume hardcover set, all of the books have a slight lean to their binding, bumps to their spine ends, and a touch of wear to their fore edges. Overall, this is a solid, bright, Very Good+ set in Very Good dust jackets, which all have sunning to their spine, bumps with some areas of creasing and tearing to their spine ends and corners, rubbing with a few small smudges, and a hint of edge wear, while Vol. III also has a few stray marks at the tail of its spine. Set is housed in a Good+ slipcase, which is unevenly sunned, has bumps to the corners, light wear to the edges, rubbing with some smudging to the panels, and mild wrinkling to the paper at the tail of the rear panel with some flaking at the head.