Published 1941, first edition. Spine intact, no dust jacket, slight discoloration of color and pages, pages intact and good shape. Name sticker in front cover. Overall very good for its age.

345 pages, 54 illustrations. 
 
Books description: 
In the first half of the 20th century, an American couple from Kansas captured the public’s imagination through their films and books of adventure and exotic faraway lands. Martin and Osa Johnson studied the wildlife and peoples of east and central Africa, as is narrated in this book.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

Four Years in Paradise  (First Edition 1941)

Published 1952, first edition. No dust jacket, a bit of wear on edges, but color good. Binding good, pages discolored. Overall very good condition for its age. 

Book description:
This novel follows the Wang family ancestors from 1650 to 1910 as they leave Peking out of loyalty to the dethroned Ming Dynasty and follows them into exile.

The River Garden of Pure Repose (First Edition 1952)

Originally published 1952, but this is the Children’s Book Club first edition published 1955. No dust jacket, former library book stamp and writing on cover page. Pages yellowed, but book color and cover are in good shape. Spine and pages are intact. Overall, good for its age. 

That Boy Johnny! 

Vintage First Edition published in 1955 by Random House Plays (Fireside Book Club edition). Dust jacket is very torn but pages and cover underneath are in great condition for its age. 

Separate Tables  (First Edition 1955)

Vintage First Edition published in 1953. Wear on dust jacket, but cover underneath is in excellent condition. Overall, very good for its age. 

People, Places, and Books (First Edition 1953)

Published 1950, first edition. No dust jacket, yellowed pages. Wear around edges and top of spine, but cover in good shape. Pages and cover intact and tight, definitely not falling out. No writing on pages. 

Book description (full description in photos):
Novel of beauty and enchantment about the heroic people who settled the South Sea Isles before history was written. A moving love story of a young chief and the daughter of his enemy. 

The Far Lands  (First Edition 1950)

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

FIRST EDITION 

Cinder

#hardcover #romance #fiction #delirium #dystopia #dystopian #firstedition

Michigan

Delirium

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#hardcover #firstedition #OwlCrate #fiction #authorsigned Author's letter included.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

These Violent Delights.

Peter Gay

Signed first edition with a library cover on sleeve. Some spine damage. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

Pleasure Wars

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Sarah J. Maas

Ex-Library book, first edition and printed upside down! Underneath the library jacket it is in great condition other than writing on the top. 

Texas

Kingdoms collide in Sarah J. Maas's epic fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series. The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't. With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side, and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, and dark forces become poised to claim her world, the only chance for salvation will lie in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear. In this breathtaking fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, Aelin will have to choose what -- and who -- to sacrifice if she's to keep the world of Erilea from breaking apart.

Empire of Storms - First Edition UPSIDE DOWN PRINTING 

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Aleksandar Hemon

Signed first edition
Crumpled corners and damage to dust cover but pages and binding are good

Illinois

Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno,one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek. This is what we know about Jozef Pronek: He is a young man from Sarajevo who left to visit the United States in 1992, just in time to watch war break out at home on TV. Stranded in the relative comfort of Chicago, he proves himself a charming and frankly perceptive observer of – and participant in – American life. WithNowhere Man,Pronek, accidental urban nomad, gets his own book. Aleksandar Hemon lovingly crafts Pronek into a character who is sure to become an enduring literary icon. From the grand causes of his adolescence – principally, fighting to change the face of rock and roll and, hilariously, struggling to lose his virginity – up through a fleeting encounter with George Bush (the first) in Kiev, to enrollment in a Chicago ESL class and the glorious adventures of minimum-wage living, Pronek’s experiences are at once touchingly familiar and bracingly out-of-the-ordinary. But the story of his life is not so simple as a series of global adventures. Pronek is continually haunted by an unseen observer, his movements chronicled by narrators with dubious motives–all of which culminates in a final episode that upends many of our assumptions about Pronek’s identity, while illustrating precisely what it means to be a Nowhere Man. With all the literary verve ofThe Question of Bruno,but with an engrossing narrative, engaging warmth, and refreshing humor,Nowhere Manbrings to life a protagonist whose very way of looking at and living in the world provokes an exhilarating sense of seeing everything new again. And all the while, the inspired freshness of the prose reminds the reader why Aleksandar Hemon earned such extraordinary recognition after just one book.

Nowhere Man

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J. R. R. Tolkien

First Edition, 4th print. Dust cover has some damage. Book itself is in good shame. Some writing on the inside with a stamp. The map is included in the back. 

Arkansas

Set in a time far earlier than Tolkien's master works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, this is the epic history of the elves, and the grand story of the creation of Tolkien's magical world. The Lord of the Rings narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age; but the tales of The Silmarillion are legends deriving from a much deeper past, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils. Never published in the author's lifetime, The Silmarillion is an essential compendium for all Tolkien fans. It will be published in five consecutive volumes, each completely unabridged. The series contains not only the Quenta Silmarillion, but four other short works: the Ainulindale, Valaquenta, Akallabeth and Of the Rings of Power.

The Silmarillion

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1976 first edition Delaware Sketch Book; by Nancy C. Sawin and Janice M. Carper.

Contains signatures by Nancy C. Sawin and Janice M. Carper.

Pennsylvania

Delaware Sketch Book - Signed

Tennessee

Plantation Life In The Ante-Bellum South

The Slave Community (First Edition)

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Indiana

The final installment in the epic series completes the quest of Roland Deschain, who works to outmaneuver the increasingly desperate acts of his adversaries and confronts losses within his circle of companions.

The Dark Tower

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Wisconsin

Collects the complete series that relates the adventures of young Harry Potter, who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he and others of his kind learn their craft.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Massachusetts

A Novel

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.

It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.

But something has.

As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines.

But to what end?

Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?

As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.

As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.

In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache's home.

A World of Curiosities

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Dr. Jacobi, a Jungian psychologist known for her work in systematizing and clarifying key concepts in C. G. Jung's work, here deals with the process of individuation. According to Jung, this is man's potentiality to come to fullest awareness of his psyche and thus to achieve wholeness. In the light of her studies and of her own practical experience, Dr. Jacobi contrasts the difference between the natural growing process and that deepened by methodical and analytical in-sight. She draws on myths and religious rituals, on initiation ceremonies in secret societies, giving historical perspective to a constant psychological need. Particular emphasis is placed on the phases of transition between the first and the second halves of life, on the distinction between the characteristics and goals of each period. Since Jung's concept applies to society as well as to the individual, contemporary social, ethical, and religious problems, particularly the transformation of man's idea of God, are also discussed. In addition to its lucid exposition, this is an absorbing account of how a psychotherapist sees her work.

First American Edition 1967

The Way of Individuation

Kazuo Ishiguro

Signed first edition! Minor wear to dust jacket (pictured). Otherwise, great condition! Currently selling for $125-$150 from sellers on E-Bay. Great deal! 

Missouri

"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"--

Klara and the Sun

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Stephen King

In pretty good shape but some overall wear around the edges and cover and some small pencil writing on back page (see pictures).

Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to life

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