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Doubleday New York 1947 First Edition. Near FIne/none . Like New Condition with no DJ as issued. Dark Burgundy boards with blue and gilt titles and illustrations to spine. Corners ever so slightly bumped. No marks, clean copy. BEAUTIFUL copy . Would make a great gift.

Doubleday & Co 158 First. Good+/good+ Light gray/yellow boards showing considerable wear. DJ has taped tears, chipped edges and corners. Gift inscription to PO on first fly leaf. No other marks. Interior pages clean, no tears. Fun tale, presenting a series of seemingly unrelated events. Delightful, humorous fun. Combines japaneese haiku , french surrealism in 'ol fashion comic style.

G.P. Putnam's Sons NY and London 1915. VG+/GOOD+ Purple hard boards, tight clean edition. Each interior page has flower and gilt border around text. DJ is in Good + condition. It has been taped at the top and bottom edges to the book. Has chipped and open tears along top and bottom edges.

Little Brown and Company, 1901 Near Fine copy, no dj.. Bright Burgandy boards with gilt title cirlcled by gilt flowers. GORGEOUS copy. Gilt titles on spine with fancy LBC insigna.

Roberts Brothers 1892 Good/none. Original dark blue cloth with red titles and illustrations on the front board and gold titles on the spine. Loose binding, a loose page, one 1/2 page torn out. A few pictures scribbled on. Many pages at back of book with list of "new publications".Contents: I. A Book of Nonsense II. Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets III. More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany Etc. IV. Laughable : A Fresh Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Etc. "With All The Original Illustrations"This was a well loved book - obviously read over and over again as family entertainment!

Harcourt & Brace 1943, First. VG/none. Rust orange boards with black titles to spine and illustration of young man on bike with dog chasing (delivering telegrams) . Also an illustration of a young boy on the spine. PO's signature on first fly leaf. Otherwise, a clean tight copy - no other marks. No DJ. The Human Comedya loving novel about a family during WWII. It was made into a movie starring Mickey Rooney , Fay Bainter and Frank Morgan. The book won a Pulitzer Prize, and the movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Rooney received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actor.

Charles Scribners, 1949 First Edition. VG/none. Chocolate brown hard boards, white title on spine - library edition w/ library stamps. Some of the interior pages have small tears at the bottom from turning then pages of this well loved book. Beautiful, quaint water color illustrations by Leo Politi. Illustrations on every page. Caldecott award winner 1950. A delightful story of friendship between a young boy and an old man who is the Bell Ringer at San Juan Capistrano Mission. Juan, the young boy makes friends with all the sparrows that return every year.

Windmill Books / Simon and Schuster New York 1969. VG++ / none Dark green oversized buckram boards, tight, clean copy other than PO's signature on inside of front cover. No dirt, finger smudge marks, stickers, etc. No DJ. Number line reads " 13,14,15" . Scarce, hard to find copy. Bight colored illustrations on every page. Caldecott award winner 1970. Also on list of banned/ suggested to be banned books for having animals as characters in the story. The magic pebble grants wishes. Be careful what you wish for!

Harper & Bros, 1945 War Edition. NF/Good- Scarce, hard to find copy. Hard boards are in excellent, like new condition! Tight clean copy, no marks. Light brown boards illustrated with orange and black. Thurber and his wife on bunny rabbit carousel ride. Even spine is in excellent condition. Bright colors. DJ is present, but not in tack. It's in 4 pieces with considerable edge wear. It has the exact illustration as the hard boards.Back of DJ titled "The Critics say of James Thurber, and begins "I regard Thurber as Ohio's gift to the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations and I am just going to continue to be glad that he is around, and the moral of that is: 'Always look a gift horse in the face, especially if Thurber threw it." - Frank Sullivan.... "A JOYCE IN falseface, Mr. Thurber strews hilarious pages with characters who take their subconsciouses out on benders. There's beautiful method in this madness." - Charles Poore, N.Y. Times

Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1949 "First and Second Printing before publication" SCARCE Edition. VG/none Orange boards bright, very good condition. Po's signature, no other marks. Slight bumping to corners, spine edges, light staining also along outside edges of page

Messner, New York
NF Boards, VG Dust jacket
Not price clipped. Price of $3.50
NF dark grayish green boards. No dings, no bumping, clean, no marks, no p o's, no book plates, no stickers. Tight bindings.
DJ is in very good condition. Shelf wear, tiny tears along all edges.
Great B&W photo of the author on back sitting at a table in jeans and tennies with her feet propped up. "Grace Metalious is the most surprising new novelist of the year. In Peyton Place this Pandora in blue jeans lifts the lid off a small New England village, in the most explosive novel since Kings Row.Made into a motion picture and became a cult classic t.v. series.

Harper & Brothers, New York 1938. NF/VG RARE First editonPrice of $2.75 on dj. Blue boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Also a white etching of a horse and buggy on front board. Book is in NF condition, tight, no marks, no smells, no foxing. Original b & w photos throughout depicting a physician's life in over 100 years ago. Rare dust jacket. Water color illustration on front of by Salter showing a physician in a horse and buggy traveling down a country lane. Normal edge and spine wear for a book nearly 100 years old. One small tear in dj at bottom of spine.Here in a book of enchanting intimacy and homely humor is the story of an American country doctor- of countless country doctors all over America. A colorful figure in the medical word today, head of the Hertzler Clinic at Halstead, Kansas, "Pop" Hertzler began his career forty years ago under conditions of pioneer hardship - when it was a case of "root hog or die" for children and adults alike.

New York: Walter J. Black Incorporated, 1924 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F/NJ One Volume Edition, presumed First Edition, no date listed. This 1004 page red leather hardcover is in Fine condition, a high quality antique collection from a classic author. The boards are square, with (very) slight shelf wear at sharp corner. The red leather covers and strong, straight spine are embossed with designs of leaves and ornate borders, as well as a shield on the front cover containing the gilt name of the author to match gilt titles and designs along the spine. All 1004 pages are intact and unmarked. One small sticker (1/2 inch by 1 inch) bearing the price of 50c on back flyleaf. No Dust Jacket. Rudyard Kipling gives life to the world of his imagination with a keen ability to tap into the timelessness of the collective conscious. His stories and poetry, all contained within these pages, speak in his unique voice of a universal desire to understand and relate to all around us. This book is a gem, free to be… Leer más

New York~Covici Friede Publishers,1937. Very Good+/none. Hardcover. First Edition, second state. April 1937. With the word loosely on page 9. pps 186. Solid, collectible copy. VG++/none. Binding tight. Spine straight, corners sharp. Pages are clean. Appears unopened, unread. .

Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1875 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG++/none Hardback, Marbled boards, gilt bands around spine with gilt titles. Clean, tight, unmarked. 756 pages minus glossary. Published in Italian in it's entirely. Illustrated..

New York: The Viking Press, 1947 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. "Published by the viking press in February 1947, Copyright 1947 by John Steinbeck, Published in the same day by the Dominion of Canada by the Macmillian Company of Canada Limited" Same Date to copyright and title page. VG/none. Original orange cloth boards. Title to spine and upper board, gilt. Blind stamped pictoral bus on front board. pp 312. Pages clean, no marks, tight. Slight water stain on lower half of spine, wraps around front board on left of cover (2 1/2 inches by 2 inches). " Ernest looked at her a little skeptically. He knew the fantastic stories about waitresses who became dramatic stars overnight, but Norma didn't have the bubs for it, he thought, nor the legs. Norma's legs were like sticks. But, then, he knew about two or three picture stars who were so plain without make-up that no one would recognize them off the screen. He'd read about them. And Norma, even if she didn't look it - well, they could pad her… Leer más

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1978 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Very good boards, tight, clean, no marks, stains or smells. Little shelf wear at spine ends and corners. Black boards with red spine and gold gilt & silver titles. NOT a bce! Jacket condition is vg. Small tears at spine edges, one 4 inch closed tear along front edge of cover/inside leaf. Herman Wouk is quoted as saying (inside leaf of dj) "These two linked novels tend to one conclusion: that war is an old habit of thought, an old frame of mind, an old political technique, that must pass as human sacrifice and human slavery have passed.I have faith that the human spirit will prove equal to the long heavy task of ending war. Against the pessimistic mood of our time, I think that the human spirit - for all it's dark side that I here portray - is in essence heroic. The adventures narrated in this romance aim to sow that essence in action. "Thebeginning of the end of war lies in remembrance". Herman Wouk.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to title and copyright pages. VG/none. Oatmeal colored/textured boards with imprint of Ernest Hemingway's signature on front cover. First flyleaf partially torn away. Clean, no marks, tight edition. Black title on spine is clear, red background a bit worn.
Considered Hemingway's most important work.

New York: Random House, The Modern Library, 1947 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF/VG Copyright dates, 1919, 1947 no publishing dates. Grey boards with gilt titles to cover and spine, highlighted with hunter green. DJ is worn and has tiny tears at corners and edges depicting a colored drawing of of a small town at the turn of the century.Price on Dj is $1.95 "To Sherwood Anderson, more than to any other American writer, belongs the distinction of having converted mere sectional writing into a universal experience. As the interpreter of mid-western life, he wrought a change in mood and method that was revolutionary. His masterpiece, Winesburg Ohio, became the forerunner of a new and vital school of contemporary writing. Its glowing humanity, its inescapable conviction of truth and its brooding, tender insight make it a book by which Anderson has earned a leading rank among the important novelists of America and certainly among the best of our storytellers.".

New York: Coward-McCann, 1941 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1941 copyright date, no other dates. Near Fine oatmeal buckram boards with gilt titles over burgundy background at spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight edition. PO's bookplate on inner front cover "Mrs. W.J. Coffield". 814 pages, including 10 pages of Author/Title index. 1941 Anthology of contemporary U.S. humor writers. Both editors were contributors of The New Yorker. Kurt Vonnegut (author of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions) said in 1976 that an awful lot of work is rooted in this single book..