Resultados de búsqueda: Signed By the Author from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Scribner. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. 0684197189 . Signed by the late author on the title page. The eighth installment in the author's Martha's Vineyard Mystery series featuring food-loving, fisherman and part-time private eye, J. W. Jackson. ; Martha's Vineyard Mysteries; 282 pages .

NY: Berkley Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Printing. Hardcover. 0425190145 . Signed by the author on the title page. A Mommy-Track mystery featuring former public defender, now full-time SAHM Julie Applebaum. Author photo on rear jacket flap. Waldman is a former public defender herself and now stay-at-home mom and wife of author Michael Chabon. ; Mommy-Track Mysteries; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages .

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 0393028542 . Signed by the Edgar Award winning author on the title page. The author's first book and first mystery in his hardboiled series set in 1940s Los Angeles featuring Easy Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, who decides to earn some money after being laid off from his factory job investigating the whereabouts of a blonde bombshell and jazz aficionado. Winner of the 1991 Shamus Award. The book was later made into a 1995 film of the same name featuring Denzel Washington in the title role. ; Easy Rawlins Mysteries; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages .

NY: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Printing. Hardcover. 034544972x . Signed by the author on the title page. Author photo on rear jacket flap. The second novel in the Anthony Award winning author's series featuring Los Angeles journalist Molly Blume. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 385 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket toned.. 1979. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0316455016 . Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A memoir by the Pennsylvania born actress about her rural childhood and teenage years in New York, where she roller skated her way into a Broadway career. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket; Dampstained at lower margins of boards, . jacket rubbed and lightly tattered.. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Library of Congress number 63-17203. Green cloth boards with black cloth backstrip. Index, bibliography, notes, illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages .

NY: Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed at corners and head and tail . of spine.. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed decorative boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine. A collection of poems by the Long Island University Professor. Laid in is handmade Christmas card signed by Winthrop and Carleton Palmer with pen and ink design by Carleton Palmer on front. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages .

NY: Fawcett. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Spine cocked, jacket scuffed.. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 0449905306 . Signed by the late author on the title page. Author photo on rear jacket flap. The first book in the Inspector Monk series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages .

NY: The Ronald Press Company. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn, endpapers and page tops foxed, . jacket sunned and heavily tattered.. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. For beginners, the book shows the fundamentals of field archery and hunting. For the seasoned bowhunter, there are suggestions for increasing hunting skills and success, as well as preserving trophies. Blue boards with titles stamped in silver on front boards and spine. Warmly inscribed by Metcalf on front free endpaper to one of his "best students". Index, glossary, many black and white photographs and illustrations. ; Ronald Sports Library; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 213 pages .

NY: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2006.. Second Printing. Hardcover. 089296023x . Signed by the author on the title page. The author's first book, which was nominated for an Edgar Award, featuring debutante-turned-journalist Madeline Dare, the poor relation of a blue-blood Oyster Bay family, who lives in Syracuse, New York and looks to solve a cold case gruesome double murder. There's lots of 80s pop culture references, Struwwelpeter, the cutting of paper silhouettes, wisecracks and esoteric railway information to fill in the gaps. A great read. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 305 pages .

NY: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name on front pastedown endpaper.. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0892965576 . Signed by Mayor on the title pages. The fifth mystery featuring Brattleboro, Vermont homicide detective Joe Gunther. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages .

Tokyo: University of Tokyo. Very Good; Covers lightly scuffed.. 1963. Softcover. Yellow perfect bound softcover. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to Dr. Lester Strock, a noted American geochemist. A collection of scholarly articles and research findings written in English, French, and Esperanto (Dr. Minami was a scholar of Esperanto as well). Many photos and illustrations. Only 2 copies noted in WorldCat. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages .

Duxbury, MA: Friends Of St. John, Church Of St. John The Evangelist. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket dampstained.. 1981. Hardcover. Inscribed by the retired Episcopal Canon on the title page. Navy cloth binding. A series of talks made by Burnham at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Duxbury, Massachusetts, concerning the reconciliation of scientific thought and religious faith. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 114 pages .

NY: Monacelli Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 1580930859 . Inscribed by Rudnick on the front free endpaper. Two decades of over 150 color photographs by Rudnick documenting the restorations of The New York Public Library, Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Central Terminal. Afterword by Rudnick. ; 184 pages; Signed by Illustrator .

NY: Vantage Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, price inked on top corner of . front free endpaper, jacket lightly soiled and tattered.. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0533007291 . A fictionalized story of two of Thomas Jefferson's granddaughters, Anne and Ellen, aged 13 and 11, and the time they spent visiting with the President at his beloved Monticello on one of his breaks from the White House in 1804. Pen and ink illustrations by the author throughout. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .

NY: J. F. Taylor & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, especially at spine, corners . worn, front hinge tender, foxing to leaves surrounding frontispiece.. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Original navy decorated cloth. Top edges gilt. Black and white illustrations by Bernard J. Rosemeyer and Chauncey Gale. 327pp + [16]pp of publisher’s ads. A lost race novel purporting to be an explorer’s account of an expedition to Antarctica and the South Pole. Signed by Albert Bigelow Paine on the title page. Further inscribed on the front free endpaper “To A Scientist but not “the scientist”. From The Author”. Stamp on front pastedown notes “From Edward F. Bigelow, Stamford, Conn. ” ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Citadel Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and has large tear repaired . with tape.. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. A 1950s Eames era home decorating book for your interior design library. A great reference for anyone interested in decorating a room or a whole home in Fifties style. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Supplementary readings, glossary, many black and white photographs and illustrations. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 155 pages .

NY: International Publishers. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered, two dings to front jacket . panel which extend to front boards.. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Woodcut portrait of the author as frontispiece by Sanda Aronson. Library of Congress number 68-27936. A collection of poems by the labor and civil rights activist, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. ; 189 pages .

NY: Avon Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. 0380973510 . Signed by the author on the half-title. One of three historical mysteries featuring midwife Hannah Trevor, who labors in post-Revolutionary War Maine. Lawrence penned a fourth historical novel in 2000, "The Iceweaver", in which Hannah's daughter Jennet is the main character. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages .

Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press. Good; Covers worn and soiled, some finger soiling to first several pages.. 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 0935796290 . Signed by Healy on title page. Illustrations, bibliography. A biography of the Adirondack guide (1817-1905). ; 114 pages .