Sketches By Boz & Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 1885

Gold Medal Books #1153, 1961. Paperback, Paperback ORIGINAL, stated 1st Edition, Sept. 1961, water stain back cover & few pgs back book, minor crease Cvr, VG-,AS-IS, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.

New York: Harrison of Paris, 1934. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition, No. 475 of 895; SIGNED by Porter on title page; later issue with error corrected by a cancel; 8vo, rust cloth in green slipcase; vg (small stain on front board; faint black smudge and mark on rear board; spine sunfaded; spine ends bumped; small black mark on spine tail; eps and pages toning) in good+ slipcase (rubbed and worn; panels toned and sunned; chipping on and near foreedge; edges torn; corners bumped and worn; tears along edges). Note: this was probably signed at a much later date than publication; the signature is not on the limitation page, and it employs a light blue permanent marker-type pen, like a Flair or Pentel. Also, included is The New Mexico Quarterly Review: Volume XV, No. 3, Autumn, 1945 which includes the article 'The Art of Katherine Anne Porter' by Vernon A. Young (good only: covers heavily creased; number written on front cover; tear to front joint; spine torn and splayed;… Read More

Leiden, Netherlands: A.W. Sijthoff, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Dutch edition, vg in green cloth, no dj. Book is slt. cocked and has a shelf-rub where the pages sag. INSCRIBED on ffep: "For Bill de Kooning with best wishes" (famous Dutch artist Willem de Kooning). 381 pp.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. fine in Very Good DJ; dj protected by new mylar wrap.. 8 vo; red tweed paper boards with black spine covering & silver spine lettering; 277 pages. illust. dj. author's first novel after publishing a volume of poetry;

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. As New/As New. First edition First printing, Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London UK FIRST EDITION and FIRST PRINTING. WON THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR 2007. The book is unread and is in mint condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969, 4th edition. (Hardcover) 961pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Green leather decoratively stamped in gilt and green. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon page marker, appendices, tables. The spine is faded. Revised by Dorothy Eagle. (Reference).

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/good. [6], 101, [1] p.; 20 cm. Beige cloth spine with grey paper over boards. Paper labels on spine and front board printed in black with red borders. Dust jacket printed in red and black with advertisement for War Savings Stamps on back section. Advertisement for the YMCA on back flap. First edition. The first state with "recuiting depot" on p. 78, line 1. These stories framed as letters from Indian and Afghan soldiers were first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May and June 1917. Contents: A Retired Gentleman -- The Fumes of the Heart -- The Private Account -- A Trooper of Horse. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Frank P. Hadley. Book is in Very Good Condition: corners rubbed; head of spine starting to fray; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed and soiled; old repair to inside; minor loss at ends of spine and flap folds.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920,1948. Condition: Fine. Original ¼ black and blue cloth covers, blind-stamped, flat spine with gilt title. , 255 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1984. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0224021168 . xiii, 224pp. Illustrations and photos. Kit Williams, the craftsman and author/illustrator, initiated a worldwide craze to unearth a golden hare buried somewhere secret that only Williams and Gascoigne knew about. Elaborate visual and written clues were hidden in Williams bestselling book Masquerade. The clues were apparently somewhat esoteric, so the hunt went on from September 1979 to March 1982. All the clues and the ultimate location of the Golden Hare puzzle included in the appendix. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .