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Harcourt & Brace 1943, First. VG/none. Rust orange boards with black titles to spine and illustration of young man on bike with dog chasing (delivering telegrams) . Also an illustration of a young boy on the spine. PO's signature on first fly leaf. Otherwise, a clean tight copy - no other marks. No DJ. The Human Comedya loving novel about a family during WWII. It was made into a movie starring Mickey Rooney , Fay Bainter and Frank Morgan. The book won a Pulitzer Prize, and the movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Rooney received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actor.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near Fine/ VG, Illustrated boards are tight and unmarked. A couple of fingerprints on interior pages.Illustrated DJ has a 3 inch closed tear on right front. Every race ad every country has its own increasingly bizarre hang-ups. Animals too, as Ronald Searle now reveals. They have universal ones, and however resigned we may be about our own peculiarities, it is comforting to know that there are equallly imbecilic inhabitants of the Animal Kingdom: consider the sad case of the vegetarian vampire bat, the hygienic rat, the affectionate asp, the crocodile shedding genuine tears! To all of these misfits Ronald Searle applies his piercing eye and mordant pen to produce a superb and hilarious collection of full-color close-ups, which will do much to enhance his reputation as The Man Most Animals Would Enjoy Eating First! A five-star dish for all..

Without Dogma by the author of the highly collectible Quo Vadis1899Beautiful Gift Edition!

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. NF/VG, tear at upper back corner of DJ. Tight, clean edition. A book depicting the life of a famous scientist* mathematician* astronomer* philosopher* physicist..

True First Edition1944, same date on title pageVG/VGDoubleday Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust JacketStated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.

Garden City, New York 1934VG/ noneThe collected short stories of W. Somerset Maugham30 Stories: Rain, Fall of Edward, Barnard, Mackintosh, Red Honolulu, Pool, Letter, Before The Party, Force of Circumstance, Outstation, Yellow Streak, P&O, June, Round Dozen, Creative Impulse, Miss King, Hairless Mexican, Gillian Lazari, Traitor, His Excellency, Mr Harrington's, Washington, Footprints in the Jungle,Human Element, Virtue, Alien Corn, Book Bag, Vessel of Wrath, Door of Opportunity, Back of Beyond, Neil MAC Adam

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date, 1948: Stated First Edition. VG+/none. Black boards with author's blind stamp. Gilted titles on spine. Lower front edge of board has a small crimp in it. First page has the top right corner 1" by 3" cut out - perhaps to cut out a PO's signature? otherwise, clean, tight edition. A story of Spain during the inquisiiton in which the people were concernerd with the miracle of how Catalina regained the full use of her leg..

Farrar & Rinehart Book. Very Good. Hardcover.

New York: Delacorte Press, BCE 1977 Book. NF/VG Hardcover. NF dark green/blue boards with black spine - silver titles to spine. DJ states Book Club Edition in bottom left corner, has B&W photo of a young Steven Speilberg on the backside. DJ is in VG with slight edgewear at spine and corners. Tight, clean copy, no marks. "Here is a novel that makes that third kind of encounter an event so colorful, so full of sound and wonder that it dazzles the senses and enriches the imagination. For the dream behind the encounter is as old as man; its fruition as modern and intricate as today's world can make it.".

Chicago: Sage Books, 1961 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. AN/G This grey cloth hardcover is good As New! Sharp corners, straight spine, square, with no shelf wear to speak of. Reprinted hand drawn map of Colorado Springs graces the flyleafs, and on the front interior flyleaf there is 1/2 inch by 2 inch sticker with the former owner's name, and faint signs of a penciled price beneath. Otherwise, not a mark on the book. Dust Jacket is in Good condition. Adorable design of hand illustrated framed "photos" depicting Western life, and framing the title and authors name. Two and 1/2 inch tear at front near spine,one inch tear at title, some creasing and chipping, front flap missing. Four sections of photos and illustrations, 64 pages in all..

Newport in the Rockies. By Marshall Sprague
A Book about Colorado Springs. Marshall Sprague traveled to Colorado Springs from New York to heal from Tuberculosis.
Full of black and white pics and so much History! Including United States Railroad History.

Windmill Books / Simon and Schuster New York 1969. VG++ / none Dark green oversized buckram boards, tight, clean copy other than PO's signature on inside of front cover. No dirt, finger smudge marks, stickers, etc. No DJ. Number line reads " 13,14,15" . Scarce, hard to find copy. Bight colored illustrations on every page. Caldecott award winner 1970. Also on list of banned/ suggested to be banned books for having animals as characters in the story. The magic pebble grants wishes. Be careful what you wish for!

A Very Good copy of the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas written by Gertrude Stein
A Grey Arrow Book, 1960
Awesome collectible cover!
Soft Cover
Born in San Francisco Alice B. Toklas is an indelible figure in modern cultural history.

New York~Covici Friede Publishers,1937. Very Good+/none. Hardcover. First Edition, second state. April 1937. With the word loosely on page 9. pps 186. Solid, collectible copy. VG++/none. Binding tight. Spine straight, corners sharp. Pages are clean. Appears unopened, unread. .

New York: The Viking Press, 1947 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. "Published by the viking press in February 1947, Copyright 1947 by John Steinbeck, Published in the same day by the Dominion of Canada by the Macmillian Company of Canada Limited" Same Date to copyright and title page. VG/none. Original orange cloth boards. Title to spine and upper board, gilt. Blind stamped pictoral bus on front board. pp 312. Pages clean, no marks, tight. Slight water stain on lower half of spine, wraps around front board on left of cover (2 1/2 inches by 2 inches). " Ernest looked at her a little skeptically. He knew the fantastic stories about waitresses who became dramatic stars overnight, but Norma didn't have the bubs for it, he thought, nor the legs. Norma's legs were like sticks. But, then, he knew about two or three picture stars who were so plain without make-up that no one would recognize them off the screen. He'd read about them. And Norma, even if she didn't look it - well, they could pad her… Read More

Scholastic 4th printing (stated)1969 VG/none as issued. Light shelf wear to cover, corners slightly bumped, foxing to a few pages. No Previous owner's signatures, names or any other marks on covers or pages. Original pricing of 45 cents on cover. Collectible.

Doubleday New York 1956, First NF/NF Map Endpapers. Dark green boards with gilt titles on front and spine. No marks, no names, no stickers. Tight and clean, like new. DJ has price of $6.95. Colorful, illustrated dj depicting mountains and an orange sky. The book is a colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed or were tamed by t the geographers call the true Far West - California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. In the cast are Spaniards, Russians, Yankees, southerners; Sutter, whose dream of an idyllic retreat in the foothills of paradise was shattered by the Gold Rush; John C. Fremont, Mark Twain, Brigham Young, Ralston's Ring, and the Big Four; the Silver Kings, H.A. W. Tabor and Baby Doe, the Rose of Sharon and Eilley Orrum, and scores more.

Grossett & Dunlap, 1904 Book. Good. Hardcover. Light green boards with decorations of trees blindstamped. 1904 Grosset and Dunlap, NY. Good/none. Spine faded, torn at top. Binding is loose at front and back. Small ink spot on lower front cover. PO's signature, cate and dedication on first fly leaf. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford..