New York: Scholastic Press, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original black cloth, pressed diamond pattern - black on black, with lettering in red to the spine. This is the Deluxe Edition, designed by David Saylor with illustrations by Mary GrandPre. Dust jacket with wrap-around art, illustrated endpapers in a flawless illustrated slip-case.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Good. Original black cloth, with red stamping to the spine. In the dust jacket which shows overall moderate wear with some loss along the fore-edge of the front panel. Illustrated endpapers. Inscribed and signed by the author at the half-title. Drawings by Margaret LeFranc.
London: Macmillan, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original navy blue cloth, lettered in silver to the spine. From a special limited edition of 1000 copies, this one being #888. Signed by the author to the Limitation Page. Housed, as issued, in a lovely illustrated slip-case. The first volume of the "Void" trilogy. From the library of science fiction.....
London: Hamilton & Company, (1952). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Near Fine. Original tan cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a bright and very pleasing copy of the dust jacket. One man attempts to arouse the people that earth is about to be destroyed. Earth has been knocked off its orbit by too many explosions from futile.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Original terra cotta cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. A bright and pleasing dust jacket with a minor chip and a few closed tears. A reprint copy of the author's first and perhap most loved book.
New York: The Modern Library, (1960) but 1966. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very lovely copy of this Modern Library Giant. Original dark green cloth with decoration in red and letters in silver.
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1917). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Original dark orange cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. With a Foreward by General Bramwell Booth. The extremely rare dust jacket is complete with some minor chips - one to the lower right corner of the front panel and another at the.....
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a bright and complete dust jacket. Drawings by J. Groenvelt. A lovely clean, bright and solid copy.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A clean, bright and solid copy of this very good introductory work describing the ordeal of the Allied landing in Normandy. The book is very solid indeed. The bright jacket has a small chip at the bottom edge of the front panel, else fine. Wrap-around cover art. The.....
Princeton: Scientific Publishing Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original light brown buckram cloth, lettered in dark brown to the spine. Full color frontispiece which mirrors the dust jacket art. A strange amalgam of genuine scientific research with a fictional account of a voyage to the moon. Large octavo. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy.....
London: The Bodley Head, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. Good / Good. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. The dust jacket is complete. The text block is clean and bright and the hinges strong. The difficulty with this copy is that the rear panel of the jacket adhered itself to the rear board, most likely from dampness. The.....
London: Batsford, (1954). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine. In a very nice example of the price-clipped dust jacket, showing only minor edge-wear. Illustrated throughout. Minor foxing to the fore-edge but the text-block is clean. A very good and solid copy of this important reference...
New York: TOR - A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2005). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed, dated, and inscribed to fellow author, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. A lovely copy with a very interesting provenance.
Chicago: The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original burgundy cloth boards, lettered in white to the front panel and spine. Previous owner date written to front free endpaper - "August 1939." An immaculate copy. Clean, bright and solid. Dozens of in text illustrations. Ten pages of ads to the rear.
New York: Random House, (1954). First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of this collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures. "A NEW collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, never before published in book form, based on unsolved cases from the original stories." Previous owner book-plate to the front paste-down, mostly hidden by the.....
London: Dent, Everyman's Library, (1966). Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a very nice example of the dust jacket. The first and certainly most influentlal biography of Charlotte Bronte. All other scholars owe a huge debt to Mrs. Gaskell. This copy has the book-plate of renowned author Barbara Mertz who wrote.....
New York: The Modern Library, (1939) but circa 1954 -1960. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original pale green cloth with small running man to the front planel with gilt lettering on green background to the spine. Verso of the jacket lists all Modern LIbrary titles to date. This is a Modern Library Giant. The jacket is bright and complete. The.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1973). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original white cloth with lettering in gilt to the spine. In a lovely bright and complete dust jacket. First Printings of American Authors, Bruccoli & Clark, p 237.
London: Jonathan Cape, no date but 1925. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a complete and very sharp example of the scarce dust jacket. Minor soiling else fine. A really nice copy of this collection of posthumous poems.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original pale green paper with white label to the front panel. Black cloth spine with white label. In the scarce complete dust jacket showing only minor edge-wear and some scuffing to the spine. Contains essays on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence and John Masefield, to.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of South Carolina. Sponsored by Burnet R. Maybank, Governor of South Carolina. Octavo, xxvii, 514 pages. Illustrated throughout with three maps in text, a tour key map at the front endpapers, and a large.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. The book that started the saga of Thursday Next. A clean and solid copy. Pages toned evenly as is very common with this title.
London: Profile Books, (2021). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. Number row on the copyright page with "1" as the lowest numeral. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout with many color plates. A sumptuous production, worthy of the artist. A heavy volume. Overseas shipping will be higher.....
New York: Doubleday, (2021). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. Author's first book. This fascinating and powerful book is gaining a lot of attention. A bold and brave book. The film rights have already been purchased, the director chosen, with the lead role going to Amy Adams.....
London: Harper Collins, (2021). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.