Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

An Obvious Fiction

Dirty Pictures From the Prom

Jan Dunlap

Very good clean tight copy, signed and inscribed by author. First edition.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery

An avid birder with a well-earned reputation for spotting birds, Bob has a natural talent for counseling high school drama queens and an unfortunate knack of discovering dead bodies. Bob has set his sights on finding the elusive Boreal Owl in the Superior National Forest, but when he stumbles across a corpse instead, his hunt for the owl becomes entangled with a shady tree supplier, an environmental activist who looks like his mother, academic rivalries, and dangerous deer hooves.

Signed , inscribed 1st ed. * The Boreal Owl Murder * 

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Trilby, novel by George du Maurier, published in 1894. The novel tells the story of Trilby O'Ferrall, an artist's model in Paris, who falls under the spell of the compelling Svengali, a musician who trains her voice through hypnosis and turns her into a singing star.

Trilby by DV Mavrier 1894 1st edition, 1st printing.


Over 100 black & white illustrations by the author.


Pages clean for an old book. Binding shows spotting/ discoloration. Gilt design on front board.


Good-very good. Illustrations great. Rare illustrations 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Rhode Island

1894 - 1st Edition

Trilby 

Vintage First Edition play published by Random House Play in 1952. Dust jacket is in rough shape, but the cover underneath is in excellent condition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

The Deep Blue Sea (First Edition 1952)

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.

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)

First edition- published in 1964. See photos for condition. 

Arizona

Wind From the Carolinas

First edition with the Wyeth illustrations, with four full page color plates. Published in 1911. Book is fragile but very readable. Great collectors item. See pictures. 

The Long Roll

Politics, the Press, and a First Lady

“East Wing brought back wonderful memories for me...some things I hadn’t thought about in a long time. Mary’s stories about our White House days are accurate and fun to read.”
--Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter

“Mary Finch Hoyt’s memoirs of her years as press secretary to Rosalynn Carter are engrossing, informative and a wonderful read. In a time of ‘spin,’ she tells it like it was to be a part of history in the making. As a reporter on the other side of the fence, I learned a lot.”
--Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers Columnist

“Mary Hoyt helped Senator Ed Muskie’s wife navigate the highs and lows of a tumultuous presidential campaign in an era when it was rare for women to campaign on their own. Her memoir is a faithful and valuable contribution to the political record of those times.”
--Senator George Mitchell, author of “Making Peace”

“East Wing is an insightful and brilliant story that reveals how some of the most remarkable political partners of the 20th century—-including Eleanor McGovern—- found and exercised their public voices.”
--Senator George McGovern, author of “The Third Freedeom”

“In East Wing: Memoirs of Politics, the Press and a First Lady, Mary Finch Hoyt recounts her life journey that brought her to the White House as press secretary for Rosalynn Carter between 1977 and 1981. It is a candid and frank narrative that recaptures the promise and disappointments of the Carter years in a sympathetic yet realistic light. Rosalynn Carter emerges as the First Lady activist that she was, and Hoyt’s account should spark a reappraisal of this important but neglected presidential spouse. The anecdotes about the Carters’ travels, White House events, and campaigning will be a rich trove for future historians of this presidency.”
--Lewis L. Gould, from the introduction to East Wing

SIGNED—East Wing

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Olivie Blake

Original self published edition of Masters of Death by Olivie Blake. Never been read from.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Masters of Death

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First edition printing of Michael Crichton’s Congo

First Edition

Congo

First edition of William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice. In good condition, minor folds and tears on the dust jacket. 

As the fierce lovemaking and fights of Nathan, a paranoiac Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a Polish-Catholic concentration-camp survivor, intensify, Stingo, a writer who lives below them in a cheap rooming house, becomes more and more involved in their lives.

First Edition: Sophie's Choice

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First edition printing of the second book in the Bourne Identity series 

Super-diplomat Raymond Havilland sets up the kidnapping of Jason Bourne's wife, in order to draw Bourne out of retirement and into a Taiwanese plot to seize Hong Kong and incite China against the West

First Edition: The Bourne Supremacy

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California

Holy Place

Triple Cross

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#paperback #firstedition #africanamerican 

Illinois

From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant.  Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
 
Keith Clark examines short stories, novels, and plays by Baldwin, Gaines, and Wilson, arguing that since the 1950s the three have interrupted and radically dismantled the constricting literary depictions of black men who equate selfhood with victimization, isolation, and patriarchy. Instead, they have reimagined black men whose identity is grounded in community, camaraderie, and intimacy.
 
Delivering original and startling insights, this book will appeal to scholars and students of African American literature, gender studies, and narratology.
 

Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson

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#paperback #firstedition #waltdisney #annette #vintage

Utah

Annette Sierra Summer 

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Annette and the Mystery at Moonstone Bay

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#paperback #vintage #disney #annette #firstedition 

Annette and the Mystery at Smugglers’ Cove 

#paperback #firstedition #vintage #disney #annette 

The Desert Inn Mystery

Annette The Desert Inn Mystery 

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Published 1971, Vintage Macfadden 1st Edition

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Dirty Pictures From the Prom

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The Deep Blue Sea (First Edition 1952)

Osa Johnson

Four Years in Paradise (First Edition 1941)

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The River Garden of Pure Repose (First Edition 1952)

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That Boy Johnny!

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Separate Tables (First Edition 1955)

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People, Places, and Books (First Edition 1953)

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The Far Lands (First Edition 1950)

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Wind From the Carolinas

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Mary Finch Hoyt

SIGNED—East Wing

Olivie Blake

Masters of Death

Michael Crichton

Congo

William Styron

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Keith Clark

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Doris Schroeder

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Doris Schroeder

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