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New York / Boston: HarperCollins, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED and DATED by the author "May 3, 2002", the first day of publication, directly on the title page in blue ballpoint pen and inscribed "To Lennie / Enjoy this strange tale." First edition, first printing, with "First Edition / May 2002" stated on the copyright page with full number line beginning with "1". Dust jacket has the publisher's $27.50 price on front flap. FINE book in NEAR FINE dust jacket. Both the book and the dust jacket are nearly pristine and as new. But the book has a very slight bump at the top corner of the rear spine fold with matching slight creasing and a tiny closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel of the dust jacket. The jacket also has a slight touch of wear along the top spine edge. Otherwise both the book and the jacket are in extraordinary flawless condition with no sunning or wear. Book's interior is pristine and pages… Read More

New York: Hannover House, 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, with title page dated 2003 and no later printings cited on the copyright page. Publisher's 34.95 price on front flap of dust jacket. Black hardcover with gold lettering on spine. 400 pages including index. B/w photos and illustrations. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Book has coffee stains along the outer fore edge that don't penetrate to the text pages. Light wear to the edges but no bumping. Some writing in ink on front endpaper. Otherwise excellent. Bright, clean, tightly bound and square with nearly flawless pages except for one page with a light bottom corner crease..

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. The true first trade edition, first printing, with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page in the first-state dust jacket with the $10.95 publisher's price on the front flap and the "0171" date code at the bottom edge. Later printings are slightly smaller so that dust jackets without the "0171" code will not fit correctly on this larger volume, including the second-state dust jackets that came with the smaller second-state stated first editions. Reddish-orange cloth boards with black cloth spine with blue lettering and orange decoration. Golden-tan endpapers. 487 pages. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs. NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Book is very bright, clean and unworn with no sunning. Tightly bound, straight and square, with strong hinges with no cracking. Fine except for slight wrinkling to the cloth at foot of spine and some slight faint foxing along… Read More

New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1938. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Fifth Edition. Stated "Fifth Edition" on copyright page with 1938 copyright date. Blue cloth hardcover with silver title block on spine. Large and heavy book. Illustrated. 764 pages. In VERY GOOD condition. Title block on spine is heavily rubbed obscuring the title lettering but still legible. Sun toning to spine and edges of boards. Some faint staining to boards. Tightly bound, straight and square with no cracking to the hinges. Nearly flawless text pages. Front endpaper excised. Previous owner bookplate on front endpaper and previous owner signature on half-title page..

Troy, New York: H. B. Nims, 1886. Book. Illus. by W. H. Bartlett, et al.. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. "A Series of Twenty Steel Line-Engravings by W. H. Bartlett and Others With Descriptive Text by H. P. Willis and Others, Including Poems by American and Foreign Authors." First edition, first printing, with title page dated 1886. Huge folio-size book bound in embossed forest-green cloth ornately decorated in gilt and black on front cover and spine. Gilt-covered page edges. Measures approx. 13" x 10 1/4". 84 text pages. Heavyweight paper. All 20 engravings are b/w on unpaginated plates protected with tissue. In VERY GOOD + condition. Exterior is very bright and clean with only slight wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Otherwise, almost no exterior wear with gilt bright, shiny and unworn. Pages and engraved plates are all bright and clean with no foxing, staining, creasing or tears, except two plates have a few small open tears at the… Read More

New York: Free Press, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, with full number line on copyright page. NEAR FINE book in FINE dust jacket. Light foxing on the outer edges of the text block. One tiny chip on top edge of jacket. Book and jacket are otherwise bright, clean and in Fine condition with pages appearing unread. No previous owner markings..

Oxford: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1925. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First illustrated edition, first printing, first state, with the plate showing the Old South Church in Boston incorrectly as the place where Patrick Henry gave his famous "Give me liberty, or give me Death" speech at page 271, which was substituted with the plate showing the Boston Harbor in the second state. The vast majority of the first-state copies were recalled and destroyed by the publisher with only 12 known copies surviving. In the original-issue dark-blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover. xiii + 354 pages, followed by 15 pages of b/w maps. Many full-page b/w illustrations throughout. Large, heavy book measuring 8 1/8" x 5 5/8" x 1 1/8" and weighing nearly 2 pounds. In NEAR FINE condition. Book is very bright and clean, tight and square, with strong, firm hinges with no cracking. Very slight bumps to the tips of two corners, very… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Book. Near Fine +. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, first printing, with "First American Edition, 1999" stated on copyright page. Translated by H. T. Willetts. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $35.00 price on front flap. Dark-blue hardcover with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Large, heavy, very thick book measuring 9 1/2" x 6 7/8" x 2 1/4" and weighing nearly 4 pounds.1,014 text pages. NEAR FINE + book in FINE dust jacket. Book is nearly as new except for just slightly bumped bottom corner tips and a slightly concave spine. Pristine interior with pages obviously unread. No previous ownership markings. Dust jacket is close to flawless and as new and is protected in an archival mylar cover..

London / New York: The Chesterfield Society, 1908. Book. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Special Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Centenary Edition Deluxe. Copyright date 1908 by the Lincoln Centenary Society. Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. Three-quarter dark-red morocco leather binding with off-white cloth boards and gilt lettering and Art-Nouveau style floral decoration on the spine. Gilt-covered top edge. Marbled endpapers. xxiv + 417 pages. Untrimmed page edges. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln protected with tissue and eight other b/w illustrations on glossy plates. Large and heavy book measuring 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 5/8" and weighing 2 pounds. In VERY GOOD condition. Top edge of spine chipped away with loss of lettering. Heavy wear to the leather joints and cracking to the inner hinges but still secure. Light surface wear to the spine but with gilt remaining very bright and unworn. Rubbed leather corner tips. Otherwise Fine. Bright and clean, tight and… Read More