Buzzards Peacocks & Nightingales
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The "Buzzards is a bit of criticism in Free Verse; Peacocks is a poetic short story and Nightingales a book of poetry.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The "Buzzards is a bit of criticism in Free Verse; Peacocks is a poetic short story and Nightingales a book of poetry.
New York: Random House, The Modern Library, 1957. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Madame Bovary, originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, first published in 1856.The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities.....
New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1927. First Edition, First Printing. A mystery story for children, set in the Pyrenees during the late Eighteenth Century.
New York: Crown Publications, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. When controversial radio talk host John Truth broadcasts a terrorist threat of a man-made earthquake, few people take it seriously. Crackerjack young FBI agent Judy Maddox is assigned to track down the elusive, sinister.....
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini. [New York Times Book Review].
Los Angeles: Gem Publishing, 1926. Second Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 'Each story is a gem, both for its quaint pretty tale and for the unusually sweet rhythmic style in which it is written'. - Oregon Journal.
1948: Little Brown, Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. A story of a god who becomes a man.
Northridge, California:, 1979: Lord John Press, 1979. No Binding. Background Information: English novelist and essayist, master of layered story-telling, illusionism, and purposefully ambiguous endings. Fowles's best-known novels include The French Lieutenant's (1969), adapted into screen in 1981, and The Magus (1965), which has gained a cult status. His protagonists must.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century,A classic of early twentieth century fiction. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr. The novel became Fox's.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Illustrated by R. B. Birch. A Very Good Hardcover. John Fox Jr. wrote primarily on life in rural Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Born in Stony Point, KY, he made his name as a novelist after settling in Big Stone Gap, VA, where he spent.....
Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Piper Press, c1980. Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published.....
Benzonia, Michigan: Presscraft Papers, 1960. Gwen Frostic was an American artist, entrepreneur, author, and Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductee. A lifelong resident of Michigan, Frostic is known for her naturalist, Linocut block print artwork, created using Original Heidelberg Platten presses.
Benzonia, Michigan: Presscraft Papers, 1970. Gwen Frostic was an American artist, entrepreneur, author, and Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductee. A lifelong resident of Michigan, Frostic is known for her naturalist, Linocut block print artwork, created using Original Heidelberg Platten presses.
Benzonia, Michigan: Presscraft Papers, 1958. Gwen Frostic was an American artist, entrepreneur, author, and Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductee. A lifelong resident of Michigan, Frostic is known for her naturalist, Linocut block print artwork, created using Original Heidelberg Platten presses.
London: Duckworth, 1929. 2nd Edition. A Near Fine Hardcover. John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
Kobenhaven, Denmark: Gydendalske Boghandel, 1933. Hardcover. John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. The three titles are the three books of The Modern Comedy.
New York: Viking, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 'A fresh and often very funny perspective on contemporary Russia.' [San Francisco Chronicle] A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1945. Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958). Very Good in a Poor Dust Jacket. Robert John Gibbings was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history.
New York: Alfred A Knoff, 1973. Deluxe Edition. A Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Slipcase. The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's.....
First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. An allegorical tale about a quiet and unassuming young man whose powerful presence changes the lives of his small town neighbors.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. A first-rate historical novel that is also a novel of ideas--a taut, beautifully controlled short book with none of the windiness or costumed pageantry so often associated with fiction attempts to.....
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Will, the narrator of this powerfully charged novel, discovers that his father, a political activist and local hero in their South African town, has become involved with a white woman. Wrenching.....
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 2nd Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Humanists Alberti, Pico, Budé, and Kepler, all major figures of their time and now major figures in intellectual history, are examined in the light of their distinctive ways of reading.Investigating a period of two.....
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1985. Book Club Edition [BCE]. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The second novel in her "Alphabet" series of mystery novels. The plot centers around the efforts of Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California, to locate a missing person.....
Lyon Mississippi: The Derrydale Press, 1991. J. Alden Twachtman. Limited Edition. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Slipcover. Background Information:Gordon Grand was a successful New York businessman who rode with the Millbrook Hunt, was widely praised for his literary accomplishments is widely considered a recognized authority on the background and.....