Search Results: Fiction from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Eugene, Oregon: Castle Peak Editions. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1991). Softcover. 0-912950-66-8 . Bound at left with black comb, stiff wraps. An anthology offering 24 short stories, features work of a number of well-known authors, Commentaries and Glossary at rear. ; 7-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 228 pp; Includes work from Katharine Brush, Thomas Wolfe, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, T.S. Coleridge, John Galsworthy, William Carlos Williams, Willa Cather, John Updike, John Cheever, D. H. Lawrence, Shirley Jackson, Carolyn Gordon, James Hurst, Ron Silva, Irwin Shaw, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James B. Hall, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville and James Joyce. This item is listed in OCLC at 41807439. That entry does not now list a holding (1/2021); in 2018. OCLC noted one holding, in Alaska. ; Covers partly detached at ends, some wear at corners from reading, text clean and unmarked. .

Boston: Dana Estes & Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1901). Hardcover. A finely bound set, with leather (calf) spines and corners, spines with red labels denoting series title, gilt decorations and individual volume titles on spine, top edge gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, each volume with guarded frontispiece and additional illustrations on plates. Note that this set is heavy. It has been priced to include USPS Media Mail shipping within the continental U.S. for the normal shipping charge. Shipping to other locations or by other methods will cost more. ; 5-1/2" x 8"; Still an attractive set, though with flaws. Individual volume conditions vary from Good to VG+. Many volumes have minor defects, such as nicked corners, wear at spine tops, wear along edges of boards. Four volumes have waterstaining, seen faintly on the spine and page edges, limited within to the first and last few pages, no odor. One volume has two loose signatures. A few volumes show splIts to the… Read More

Los Angeles, Cal.: Sanderson-Whitten Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1901. Hardcover. Contents include: A Terrible Temptation / F.C. Burnand -- George de Barnwell / William M. Thackeray -- A prophetic account of a grand natural epic poem, to be entitled "The Wellingtoniad," and to be published A.D. 2824 (November 1824) / Thomas B. Macaulay -- St. Twel'mo; or, The Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga / John Paul -- Lessons in Biography / Rev. John Beresford --John Jenkins; or, The Smoker Reformed / Bret Harte -- Ho-Fi of the Yellow Girdle / T.T.T -- Walton Redivivus, a New River Eclogue / Thomas Hood. Red cloth, white spine label, frontispiece and the occasional additional illustration on plates. [A hard-to-find title, with some bibliographical oddities. It appears to be a low budget reprint of a volume in the 1870s Treasure Trove Series. The same publisher created another title Half Hours with Great Humorists listing the same authors. Also, the word Authors is taken… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1933. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers blue cloth, blindstamped silhouette of boy in oval on front cover, gilt lettering to spine, frontispeice portrait, twenty full page illustrations by John Sloan. Blue dust jacket repeats frontispiec e image, yellow and black lettering. ; 5-1/2" x 7-3/4"; 253 pp; Book with slight lean and slight wear to corners and spine ends. Jacket spine sunned, edgeworns with small closed tears and tiny losses, in clear protective cover. .

Taipei, Taiwan: Imperial Book, Sound & Gift Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. Reprint. Hardcover. A printing not normally found, from Taipei, in inexpensive cloth with newsprint-like paper. Publishers red cloth, gold spine lettering, copyright page contains publication info mostly in Chinese. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; 244 pp; Book has little wear, solid binding, pages clean and free of tears or writing. Lightly shelfworn jacket has a single 1/2" closed tear and is lightly toned along the top edge of the front. Jacket retains original $8.95 price and "A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection" on inside front panel. .

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers green cloth, front cover with decorated with blindstamped and dark green trees, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, frontispiece and five additional b&w illustrations on plates, publishers ads ata rear. This copy with an inscription on the front free endpaper penned and signed by the author: To Mr. Charles T. Scott / None genuine without the signature / Stewart Edward White. ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 260, [12] (ads) pp; Signed by Author; Light cover wear, spine a bit dulled, solid hinges, prior owner bookplate to front free endpaper, both endpapers with yellowed tape residue, a single digit penned to rear free endpaper, text pages are clean and unmarked. .

New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1897). Hardcover. Burgundy cloth, front cover and spine with gilt lettering and design of stylized lilies having initials DD at bottom of front cover, frontispiec e and additional illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, guarded decorative title page with initials BR at bottom, followed by printed title page. ; 4-3/4" x 6-3/4"; 245 pp; Spine a bit dulled, slight cover wear, prior owner name inked to front free endpaper dated August 1904, paper toned, one quarter-sized faint dampstain to top margin of guard and each title page, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Publishers green cloth, ruled and lettered front and spine, top stain yellow. Tan dust jacket with picture of the title black spaniel ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 179 pp; Book little worn but ex-library (withdrawn) from the Women's City Club of Grand Rapids, marked only with stamps to both free endpapers. Jacket is not marked but is worn slightly along bottom edge, more along top edge with short closed tears and small losses, price clipped, protected by mylar cover. .

San Francisco: R. Travers Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0-9653211-0-X . From the rear of the jacket: The Decisive Heart weaves a tale based upon the little-known last years of Leon Trotsky in Mexico, with delicious side excursions led by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Henri Breton, and others...a story of intrigue in pre-war Mexico...at the dawn of World War II. Red cloth, gilt lettering front and spine. Publishers jacket with cover image of Frida Kahlo. This copy with presentation inscription penned and signed by the author on the half-title: To ______ _____, Be decisive. Bob Perrey.; 5-3/4" x 8-1/4"; 340 pp; Signed by Author; Top corners of book lightly bumped, very slight wear along bottom edge. Jacket bumped at top corners, worn along top edge, slightly worn along bottom edge, not price clipped, in clear protective cover. .

Stockholm: A. B. Bohlin & Co.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. A later printing of a work originally translated into Swedish in 1904. Spamersche Buchdruckerei in Leipzig. Beautifully bound with leather corners and spine, five spine bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Marbled boards and endpapers. Two volumes bound into one book. ; 5" x 7-1/2"; 208+299 pp; A beautiful book, with only traces of wear at the tips of the binding. .

Glasgow, Manchester, and New York: George Routledge and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. Reprint. Hardcover. A volume in The Jules Verne Library. Translated by Henry Frith, printed by the Crystal Palace Press. Publishers blue cloth with cover illustrations front and spine. This volume with the bookseller stamp for Doxey, Importers, San Francisco. Undated copy, later 1880s to early 1890s. ; 5" x 7"; 270, [2] (ads) pp; William Doxey would become a printer and later publish The Lark. ; Covers worn, discolored spine and area of front panel, waterstaining at spine top seen only from outside the book (not visible on pages), prior owner name stamped on FFEP. Spine cocked, hinges remain solid, a few creased corners, one with a tiny loss, foxing to page edges. .

London: Faber & Faber. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Reprint. Softcover. 0-571-14151-X . Third printing of paper edition. This copy signed by the author on the half-title page. ; 5" x 7-3/4"; xxiii, 172 pp; Signed by Author; Very slight wear at corners, price sticker on rear cover. .

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Early science fiction with first appearance in book form of The Brick Moon. Rebound in maroon leatherette with stamp of The Dragon Bindery inside rear cover, gilt spine lettering, black endpapers. ; 5" x 7-1/4"; 293 pp; Covers are fine, solid binding, signatures are slightly offset from one another - as when binding was resewn, a few small stains to pages that are otherwise clean and free of tears or writing. .

Garden City, N. Y.: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1919). Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth with orange lettering. Doubleday 1918, 1919 copyright; no date on title page. This copy with the signature of the author on the front free endpaper. ; 5-1/2" x 8"; 289 pp; Signed by Author; Rubbing at corners and top/bottom of spine, slight lean, pages clean and ujnmarked. .

Sebastopol and Berkeley, CA: Mina Press Publishing Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1984). Softcover. 0-942610-03-2 . Stiff wraps, perfect bound, cover design by S. Nikki Laven. Rear cover incorrectly notes ISBN as 0-942610-0302; correctly shown on the copyright page (0-942610-03-2). $3.95 pirce to rear cover.; 5" x 7-1/2"; 164 pp; Publishers old stock with faint creasing to front cover, otherwise little wear. .

Sebastopol and Berkeley, CA: Mina Press Publishing Co.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (1984). Softcover. 0-942610-03-2 . Stiff wraps, perfect bound, cover design by S. Nikki Laven. Rear cover incorrectly notes ISBN as 0-942610-0302; correctly shown on the copyright page (0-942610-03-2). $3.95 pirce to rear cover.; 5" x 7-1/2"; 164 pp; Publishers old stock with no wear of note. Appears unread. .

New York, Washington, Hollywood: Vantage Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. An uncommon novel about a public health nurse in a place called Suburbia, California. Green cloth, black spine lettering, pictorial jacket. This copy has a typewritten note presenting "your free copy" and a copy of the publishers advertising flyer laid in (scan available for viewing upon request).; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; 249 pp; Corners slightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed and lightly worn along top and bottom edges, in clear protective cover, . .

New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. (1929). Hardcover. Light green cloth, blindstamped circle with image of title characters, black lettering front and spine, color frontispiece, decorative initial caps and illustrations within text. Light green jacket, illustration front and lettering in white. ; 5-3/4" x 8"; 210 pp; Front hinge cracked and a bit loose though holding well, lengthy inscription inside front cover from Roosevelt School in Ponca City [Oklahoma] including several classmate signatures, pages clean and otherwise unmarked. Jacket well-worn along edges, with small losses along top and bottom of spine, not price clipped ($1.50), in clear protective cover. .

Paris: Fernand Nathan. Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. Green paper boards, green cloth spine, front cover with illustration in diamond, text in French, illustrated with drawings. A volume in the Collection " or et noir ". ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/4" (13,3 x 18,4 cm); 254 pp; Boards rubbed and edgeworn, rear board with crack, front hinge tender, 1931 gift inscription to front free endpaper, spotting to endpapers, paper toned, binding cracked between pp 98-99, a few spots of soiling but pages are unmarked and generally clean. .

Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0-316-74233-3 . Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, text (translated from the braille by the author) accompanied by a few b&w photographs by Luther Sledge.White dust jacket, braille to exterior panels, black and olive text. Copyright page states First Edition and has codes T08/72 beneath.; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 308 pp; Spine gilt a bit rubbed, spine a bit cocked at top, no inscriptions, text clean and unmarked. Jacket has small hole to fromt panel at one of the braille dots, a few spots of light soiling, edgeworn with one 1/2" closed tear along bottom edge, price clipped, protected by mylar cover. .