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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. Fine.. Signed advance reader's copy of Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel intertwining Virginia Woolf's composition of MRS DALLOWAY with the lives of two women in later decades. 8'' x 5.5''. Original glossy wrappers. 230 pages. Signed by Cunningham on title page. Minor edgewear.

New York: Amy Einhorn Books / G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. First printing. Near fine in a fine jacket.. Signed first edition of this story of three women in mid-century Mississippi struggling against their roles, adapted into an Oscar-winning film. Octavia Spencer earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the movie adaptation of THE HELP. 9'' x 5.75''. Original yellow boards with gilt lettering. Original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial dust jacket, with illustration by Ellen Granter. 452 pages. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Stockett on the title page: "Feb 10, 2009 / To Laura - / Happy 40th! / Kathryn Stockett." Tiny smudge to front free endpaper. Pages faintly toned. Touches of shelfwear. Else sound and bright.

New York: Random House, Inc, 1963. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First edition, first printing of this Seuss easy reader, blending education with silly rhymes and illustrations. With HOP ON POP, even the littlest readers can enjoy the delightful rhymes of Dr. Seuss. Accompanied by Seuss's distinctive and humorous characters, this simple introduction to phonics was quite innovative in the 1960s - Ruth Strang, a professor at the University of Arizona College of Education, praises the title as "new in concept and content" on the rear of its dust jacket. A charming and timeless reading tool. 9.25'' x 6.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped (195/195) color pictorial dust jacket (for price ref. Younger). Color pictorial endleaves with creatures and simple words. Illustrated in color. 64 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, a couple tiny chips; crack to rear joint, but sound. Binding with light shelfwear, a few small spots of toning. Light toning to turn-ins; front hinge cracked but… Leer más

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. First printing. Near fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel intertwining Virginia Woolf's composition of MRS DALLOWAY with the lives of two women in later decades. 8'' x 5.5''. Original gilt-stamped brown and cream boards. In original unclipped ($22.00) dust jacket. 229, [1] pages. Signed by Cunningham on title page. Previous seller's security tag affixed to rear paste-down. Minor edgewear.

Boston, New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1997. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing and first state of this collection of Sedaris's best Xmas stories, including "Santaland Diaries" - the piece that made him famous. As the original cover was found offensive by some and changed in later issues, it is increasingly uncommon in its true first edition. A nice example. 7'' x 4.75''. Original green boards. In original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Michael Ian Kay featuring Santa at a urinal. 124 pages. Trace shelfwear. Bright and clean overall.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981. First edition. Very good in very good plus jacket.. Signed first printing of the first trade edition, a whimsical family saga of a hotel and a bear and an opera house. Irving's fifth published novel and the basis for a 1984 film adaptation by director Tony Richardson, which inspired co-star Rob Lowe with an everlasting burning hatred for Orion Studios for "killing" a good story; though the story survives in the novel, just the same as it ever was. 9'' x 6.25''. Original half white cloth with dove grey paper-covered boards. Silver-stamped spine. In original unclipped ($15.50) dust jacket designed by Terry Fehr. Grey endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. [14], 401, [1] pages. Scattered foxing to cloth. Light creasing to one corner of rear jacket flap; bit of toning to rear panel.

(London): Thames and Hudson, 2004. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine or better jacket.. Signed limited edition, with two signed and numbered prints, of this "third revised edition" (fourth overall) of one of the most famous artist's books of the last fifty years. A more than 50-year-long undertaking begun in 1966, Phillips' altered book project remains one of the most popular and important artists' book of the last century. Inspired in part by William Burroughs' cut-up methods, Phillips utilized a used book from his local bookshop (the otherwise unremarkable 1892 Victorian potboiler THE HUMAN DOCUMENT by William H. Mallock) in order to create a new work by elaborately coloring, painting over, crossing out, obfuscating, effacing, or otherwise altering Mallock's existing text. In doing so, Phillips allowed a new narrative to emerge, whose "relationship of overlay and latency, of invention and contrast [...] gives the transformed book its tension" (Drucker 110). Originally published in a limited… Leer más

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Barr's tenth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set on and around Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway. 9'' x 6''. Original blue boards. Pictorial endpapers. In original unclipped ($24.95) pictorial dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor. 322 pages. Signed by Barr on title page.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this semi-autobiographical account of Uri Shulevitz's life in America after fleeing WWII with his family, a Caldecott Honor book. Uri Shulevitz got his start as an illustrator for a Hebrew book publisher before being snapped up by Harper & Row as a children's book artist and author. He has earned a Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors for his often dreamy works. 10'' x 10''. Original boards. Original unclipped ($16.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Shulevitz to front flyleaf with simple self portrait. Sharp.

New York: Pocket Books, 1996. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of Gerritsen's first medical thriller, drawing on the author's own background as a physician and marking her transition to crime/suspense after a decade of success in the romance genre. Though the film rights were sold to Paramount and the dust jacket promises "Soon to be a major motion picture," no film adaptation was released. A violin piece based on a character from the novel, however, was: composer Damien Top's "Yakov's Lament," first performed in 2012. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter grey cloth with red boards. In original unclipped ($22.00) pictorial dust jacket by John Stephens. 344 pages. Minor edgewear.

New York: Random House, 1990. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition, review copy, of the author's first and only novel, including a character based on Janis Joplin, to whom the author was once engaged. A lifetime of difficult relationships with substance abuse inform this San Francisco-set book. Signed copies are scarce, as Morgan tragically died in a motorcycle accident only a few months after its publication. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth, and black paper boards. In original unclipped ($19.95) jacket. [8], 390, [2] pages. Publisher's review slip laid in. Signed by Morgan to half-title page. Trace wear to spine gilt, else crisp.

New York: Atheneum, 2003. First edition (stated). Fine in fine jacket.. Uncommon signed first printing of Downer's fourth book, a charming middle-grade fantasy with time-traveling dragons. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter blue cloth with pale green boards. Taupe endpapers. In original unclipped ($16.95) dust jacket designed by Russell Gordon and illustrated by Omar Rayyan. 242 pages. Signed by Downer on title page.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this I Can Read Book, retelling an old folk tale and wonderfully illustrated in color by the author. 8.5'' x 5.75''. Original pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($4.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 64 pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this haunting and surreal reflection on the Japanese American internment during WWII, with original self-portrait of Allen Say. Allen Say, born in Yokohama, Japan in 1937, dreamed of becoming an artist from a young age. Before entering the world of children's book illustration, Say worked as a sign-painter and as a photographer, his skills behind the lens landing him a spot in the military newspaper STARS AND STRIPES. He illustrated his first children's book in 1972, and has earned a Caldecott Medal and a Caldecott Honor, among other accolades; Say's work is often based on personal experiences or the stories of family members, and his illustrations are noted for merging "the real and the surreal in his books, using photographs, pen-and-ink sketches, and watercolor paintings to illustrate them" (Oregon Encyclopedia). 11'' x 9''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($17.00) color… Leer más

New York: Delacorte, 1995. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this high-tech (for the 90s) mystery, in which the hardboiled, cab-driving PI Carlotta Carlyle takes her business online with unexpectedly deadly consequences - signed in the year of publication. Linda Barnes's fast-talking, sexy PI Carlotta Carlyle is Boston's answer to Kinsey Millhone. 9.25'' x 6''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 338 pages. Inscribed by Barnes to title page "For Kathleen, / Yours in crime -" dated 2/17/95. Jacket with a hint of soil. Tight.

New York: Hyperion, 2007. Fine in fine jacket.. Handsome first edition of this contemporary YA superhero novel, by the executive producer of the recent Narnia film adaptations. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black and red boards with silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($16.99) dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd. 428 pages. Minor edgewear to jacket.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of this installment in Kijewski's mystery series starring private investigator Kat Colorado, involving country music and country murder in Nashville. 9'' x 6''. Original black boards with red metallic lettering. In original unclipped ($22.95) dust jacket. 323, [1] pages. Signed by Kijewski on title page. Minor edgewear.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed later printing of these two traditional nursery rhymes, enriched and transformed by Sendak's Nutshell Library-esque illustrations. 7'' x 8.25''. Original pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Pictorial endpapers. In original unpriced dust jacket with "40-80 / 1165" printed on front flap. Illustrated in color throughout. Unpaginated. Signed by Sendak on half-title page. Minimal edgewear, a few very faint smudges to rear jacket panel.

New York: Viking, 1996. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this Jamaican romance between an older woman and a younger man, the basis for the hit 1998 film starring Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, and Whoopi Goldberg. 9'' x 6''. Original black cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($23.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 368 pages. Inscribed by McMillan to title page, "Darlene / ____!" Sharp and bright.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1999. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of this late Gorey book of quietly alarming verses, featuring images in color as opposed to Gorey's more typical black and white. 7.25'' x 7.25''. Original color pictorial paper boards. In original unclipped ($15.00) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Gorey in color. [64] pages. Light marginal toning, touch of soil to jacket. Book clean and bright.