Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1980. Stated First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Stated First Edition, signed by author. Very clean red boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. No previous owner names. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. 183 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is price clipped, has tiny closed tears at spine edges. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. "Ross digs into the American scene, surveying the national landscape and casting an eye on all the big doings in New York, Washington, Calif... View More...
New York: Jack Brussel, 1967. First Edition . Fine/Very Good. Clean, small hardcover book in original unclipped dust jacket. Size approx. 5-1/2" x 6-3/4". Clean orange cloth-covered boards with illustration of naked woman on cover, blue lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Eighty-five illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Oconography by Aymer Vallance. 112 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (4.95 on front inside flap), has small edge chips and short closed edge tears; encl... View More...
Stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Black cloth boards with orange cloth spine, black and gold lettering and decoration on spine. Very light soiling; no fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages are clean and bright, decorated endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Color frontispiece portrait of "Sir Barton"; illustrated with many photographs. 272 pages with Index. Dust jacket is not price clipped (7.50 on front inside flap), has slight edge wear, a few short closed edge tears, light foxing to rear panel; enclosed in new archival ... View More...
Very clean stated First U.S. Edition (and first printing with complete number line on copyright page) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean dark green boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages and edges are clean and bright - no names, writing or marks. 187 pages. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The discovery of a shallow but empty grave, the recovery of a girl'sbody from the sea, and the disappearance of a male guest from the holiday ho... View More...
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Edition. Clean blue cloth boards with names of twelve women blind-stamped on cover, gold lettering on spine. Hint of fading to edges. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 306 pgs. with index. Illustrated with black & white plates. Clean unfaded dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, slight wear and two tiny closed edge tears at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Women. View More...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/fine. First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 392 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Given ... View More...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Third Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean beige cloth boards with black lettering and brown and black design on spine. Author's initials in black on front in brown decorative box. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Small tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Pages and edges are clean, with red top-stained page edges. Illustrated with beautiful black & white photographs. 359 pgs. with 18 page index. Dustjacket is not price clipped and has slight hint of surface wear to edges with a few very small edge chips and cl... View More...
New York: Random House, 1950. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Clean turquoise boards with gold lettering on spine. Slight surface wear to corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 393 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, slightly age-toned, has tiny chip at rear corner of spine base, two closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A powerfully told story about the cause and the cure of many of the insistent tensions that haunt the modern world. 8vo. Fiction. View More...
New York: Random House, 1950. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. "First Printing" stated on copyright page. Clean blue boards with gold lettering on spine. Shallow bump to lower edge of front board. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 393 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, a few tiny closed edge tears at top and bottom spine edges. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. By the author of "The Left Hand is the Dreamer", this is the story of a successfu... View More...
New York: Macmillan, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/fair. First Edition, First Printing (with "Set up and printed - Published April, 1934" on copyright page, 1934 on title page), inscribed and SIGNED by author, in original unclipped jacket. Beige cloth boards with red decoration and lettering on cover and spine; no bumping or wear; just a hint of browning to upper spine and front spine gutter. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean, with clean black top stained page edges, some browning to endpapers. Inscribed by author on title page: "Best of wishes... View More...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Clean blue cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 406 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, no tears, very slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Science Fiction. View More...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition, with "First Published 1962" on copyright page. Author's first book. Very clean blue boards with silver and black design on cover, silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 253 pgs. Clean unfaded dustjacket (design by Tom Adams) is not price clipped, has very small v-shaped chip at base of front panel (under 1/2" deep by 1/4" at widest point). Small closed edge tears. Author's portrait on ... View More...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Stated FIrst Edition. Good/Good. Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Blue paper-covered boards have fading and rather interesting offset transfer from dust jacket; black cloth spine with gold lettering. Tiny dent to bottom front board edge. Binding is tight, hinges are sound - no cracking; pages and edges are clean - no previous owner markings. Slight slant to binding. 270 pages. Dust jacket has light soiling, no chips, not price clipped; 1" closed tear to rear spine fold, wear at top and bottom spine edges; nice large photo of author on rea... View More...
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1916. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. Very clean decorated binding - orange cloth boards with black and orange decoration on cover (boy scouts sitting around a campfire), stamped black lettering and illustration on spine. No fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean beautifully illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen. 251 pages. View More...
Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Clean golden brown boards with brown cloth spine, metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 278 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear or tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Pulitzer prize winning journalist Ross Gelbspan exposes the deliberate campaign by oil and coal interests, teamed with conservative politicians, to confuse the public about gl... View More...
New York: Walker & Co., 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Fine. First Edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with gold lettering on spine. A little light bumping, no other wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean dark green endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with full color plates. 448 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. While the Civil War raged in America, another, very different revoluti... View More...
Oxford University Press, 1943. 2nd Printing. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. 659 pgs. Very clean and tight rust colored cloth book with white lettering and small white map of the world on front. Pages very clean, no names or writing inside. Binding tight and square.World War II. View More...
Clean hardcover first edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with cover illustration by the author. Black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with some fity pen-and-ink drawings by the author, who in addition to being a master storyteller, was a fine artist. 160 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, one short closed edge tear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Fifteen wonderful stories abou... View More...
