Charles Dickens His Life and Work by Leacock, Stephen ( SIGNED ) - 1934

DOUBLEDAY DORAN, 1936, January 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Doubleday Doran and Co, January 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Doubleday Doran and Co, January 1936. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. Brown cloth Octavo, 322pp., Good. Slight wear, slgiht-to light soiling.. Hardcover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1936. vg-. Hardcover. xiii + 322pp; glossy frontis of Dickens; text clean, slight darkening to hinges; 8.25" tall; light wear to edges of cover .

Doubleday & Co., January 1934. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Spine has mild shelf wear on edges. Pages are yellowing with age.

Doubleday Doran and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1936. hardback. 8.3 X 5.8 X 1.2 inches; 322 pages .

New York: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1936. Hardcover. Used; Good . orange cloth boards with gold and black print on spine; spine and boards have light shelf soiling, Foxing to flyleafs, yellowing to page edges. rough cut side edge. Binding; very good, tight. 8-1/2 x 6 x 322 pages. Stephen Leacock shares the stage with Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world, and at the time of its original publication Leacock’s biography of Dickens was widely and enthusiastically hailed as a vital, grand, and masterful examination of the man and his writing.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Hardcover, salmon cloth in dust-jacket. 322 pages. Chronology, Index. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings from the novels and holograph manuscript pages. No price on jacket flap, presumed book club issue. Dated 1936 on title-page. A well written and researched biography of the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A clean, sound and unmarked copy in a very worn and tattered dust-jacket. Very good in a poor dust-jacket. Podeschi H293.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Hardcover, salmon cloth in dust-jacket. 322 pages. Chronology, Index. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings from the novels and holograph manuscript pages. No price on jacket flap, presumed book club issue. Dated 1936 on title-page. A well written and researched biography of the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A clean, sound and unmarked copy in a very worn and tattered dust-jacket. Very good in a poor dust-jacket. Podeschi H293.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.

New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes… Read More

New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition

New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .

New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).

RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"

SIGNED FIRST EDITION One of the most successful coaches in the history of professional basketball offers his own take on his turbulent 2003-2004 season with the Los Angeles Lakers, chronicling the difficulties faced by the team--difficult relationships, public feuds, the Kobe Bryant rape trial, contract disputes, and injuries--and their successful journey to the NBA finals.

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.

True FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). "Flap Jacket Press trade paperback edition / First Printing July 2007" on copyright page. This small run printing precedes the hardback edition. NEW. Cover Clean, no wear, no tears, no spine creases, protected in Brodart cover. Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Books are Carefully Packed in a Box and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. B103

SIGNED, FIRST UK LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, complete number line to 1) Harvill Secker, London, 2010. NEW, Unread. Author's Signature, no inscription, on a bookplate attached to the first chapter page. Note on bookplate reads "This edition of I Curse the River of Time, signed by the author, is limited to 1,000 copies". Dust Jacket Bright in Brodart protective cover, Clean, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (£12.99). Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Not book club. Fast shipping from Dry, Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number. International ships Air Mail.