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Paducah Kentucky: Turner Pub Co, 1989. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. LIMITED EDITION, limited to 1000 copies SIGNED on front paste down and first free illustrated page by 6 retired WWII airmen including the president of the P-38 national Association, Joseph A. Kuhn who also signed his picture insice the book. .This book was published to commemorate the heroic efforts made by the men who flew and serviced the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. The Lightning was introduced during WWII after many years of tedious designing and risky test flights. The P-38 served it's men well through its versatility and adaptability to many situations.It served as a bomber escort, day/night fighter, precision bomber, long range photo reconnaissance plane, tank buster, and in numerous other capacities, This book is a historical text which gives an overview of the P-38 Lightning, the men who designed and tested the plane and the men and women pilots and ground crews… Read More

About this Item: Delacorte Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing book is VERY FINE in a fine priced (24.95) dust jacket. Book is pristine and unmarked probably because it was never opened. Nobody writes novels like Elmore Leonard, with his crackling duologue, breathless pacing, hilarious hard luck, unfailingly human characters.In this sizzling novel Leonard's adrenaline charged of crime and retribution whee double crosses become triple crosses, revenge is where you fine it and absolution is just around the corner. This is a fine addition to any crime and justice library. VERY FINE.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. Limited Edition First thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this best known work by Huneker. Binding is 1/4 vellum colored spine over green boards with fine paper label at spine. #20 of 1200 printed. Privately printed for subscribers only. 7 line book dealer description on verso of back board dated 1949 Jacket is VG with chipping to spine ends and extremities. jacket quite good but somewhat fragile and freshly repaired at spine folds. Exlibis on front paste-down Publishers? SLIPCASE included.

New York: horace Liveright, 1929. First Illustrated Edition First thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Majeska. This beautifully illustrated by Majeska and beautifully written by Huneker, fine. A minor bump to front corner tip, . Spine is a beautiful black and red, with gold lettering and design. Back board is loose at binding, else very fine. jacket is VG with tape repairs to verso and chips to spine top and bottom and folds. There is a 2"x1/2 loss at back of cover. Book was limited to 1250 copies. Very Good Jacket is unclipped ($15.00). This is the only fictional novel by one of America's great critics. ( early 20th century) H. L. Mencken wrote: " What chiefly marks this book, is it's prodigious gusto, the abounding joy with which it is slapped together, It is in a very real sense, the crowning work of a great writer." A fine collectors item with fabulous deco period illustrations

New York: St. Martins Press, 1979. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wonderful book in mint condition as is jacket($10.95) unclipped. A presentation copy with nice inscription and sketch of polo player by Kosinski and signed by author. In mylar protection. A beautiful collectors copy.

About this Item: Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1944. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stanley Kunitz's second book of poems is in near fine condition with slightly faded spine lettering and a small bump on the spine bottom. Book is unmarked and very clean. Thee is a previous owners name on the FFE. This is a First edition and a stated First printing. Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006 100years) was a brilliant poet who won The Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1959 and was appointed United States Poet Laureate twice (1997 and 1974) along with other numerous prestigious awards. Although Passport to the War has some of Kuntiz's best known poems, the book received little notice, and soon fell out of print. Seller Inventory # 001598

Wilton Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1985. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Original tissue. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kyffin Williams. Book is in as new condition, with original tissue, with small tear on recto. The book is Patagonia through the eyes of the two authors who signed this limited edition of 250 copies (196). Woodcut are wonderfully done by acclaimed artist Kyffin Williams. A fine collectible for Theroux collectors.

New York: Harcourt Brace and World, Inc., 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine Rod Steiger film, made from a fine book, and this book is in fine + condition in a near fine jacket, with a prominent ($4.50) price4 on front flap. Jacket has minor chipping to spine ends and corners. Interior is perfectly clean and unread. A great collectible, for many different collectors. Mylar protected.

New York, New York: Covici.Friede, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Original tissue. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in near fine condition, original tissue is quite worn and torn, now mylar protected. Book shows some darkening at spine and front of nicely embossed gold cloth. Slipcase is worn and in good condition. it is a strong slipcase with significant wear toes all extremities. #44 of 300 copies of which 275 are for sale. nopened.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Robbie Feaver is dying. He loves his wife, has a great practice and has a slush fund for the judges who make him wealthy. Greed and human failing and Scott Turow, who could ask for more. Book is near fine with slightly faded spine, internally mint. Priced jacket ($22.00) is in fine condition with minor wear to top edge by spine.

New York: Grove Press, 2001. Unrevised and unpublished proofs 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. We meet Greta, a cookbook editor who is chosen by Tavi, the hottest writer of his generation, to edit his new book. The book becomes a best-seller and Greta is propelled out of her marriage by her own ambition and success. Advance proof data on verso. Review slip tipped in.

About this Item: Random House, New York, 1940. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Alexandre Seebriakoff (illustrator). 1st Edition. Perouchka, A ballet by Igor Stravinsky is told by Robert lawrence and was designed by Alexander Benois. This iconic children's story is illustrated by Alexander Serebriakoff. Book is very book with bumping on the spine ends. Book is quarter bound in blue cloth over colorful printed boards. This is a nice book to share with the children. Seller Inventory # 001548

American Institute of Italian Studies, New York, 1975. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST paperback edition by Sister Margherita Marchione to Bernard Vogel (b.1932), with best wishes. Vogel was the minister president of Germany 76/77 and 87/88. Book is signed on the ffe Book is in very good condition. The importance of Philip Mazzei's connection with our founding fathers is now recognized. This book, which began with a grant from the New Jersey American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration Commission, should call up the memory of Jefferson's friend and collaborator. This scholarly book should be extremely interesting to students of the mid to late eighteenth century. Collectible. Signed by author, translator and illustrator

Macmillan, London, 1988. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book and priced (12L.95net) jacket in fine + unread condition. First British. Rembrandt is in his studio painting his famous picture " Aristotle gets ears, he starts to listen. When layers of paint form his mouth he starts talking. And there's very little Rembrandt can do to stop him thinking.And while the philosopher poses for his portrait, Heller poses the eternal questions. And there's very little Rembrandt can so to stop him. Contemporary wit and passionate intelligence Heller does it all in this great read. Very fine and very collectible.

New York, New York: Putnam, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With his first novel, Catch 22, Joseph Heller enter the language. With Picture This , He changes our view of history and look at the contemporary world with the puzzled comic insight if both Rembrandt and Aristotle". Picture this makes it's way from Amsterdam to Sicily and travels through three hundred years of chaos, confusion, violent disorder to land safely at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New, York. The author comically travels through 2500 years of Western civilization to finally realize, that not much has changed over the years. Book and unclipped jacket $(19.95) are beautiful. This is a nice collector copy of a great collectible.

New York: knopf, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A FINE copy of this brilliantly witty account of a progressive women's college, in a very good jacket, somewhat frayed and slightly chipped (well reinforced with tape), with a little fading to spine and a little soil on back panel. Jacket is price clipped.

About this Item: Harpercollins, New York, 1993. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. VERY FINE first edition is unmarked and probably unread in a fine priced ( 22.00) dust jacket. A deeply felt novel of love despite the risks, of tearing apart and coming together, Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma and the Cherokee Nation. Along the way nit introduces a vivid cast of characters. As this spellbinding novel unfolds, it draws the reader into a world of heartbreak and redeeming love, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind. Babara Kingsolver has given us her wisest, most compelling novel. Very fine.

About this Item: HarpPerenM, New York, 1998. Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book is fine, unmarked and unread. This is the twenty fifth anniversary edition.Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup. The author is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks the game. This book of wonder is one of the truly beautiful book of this or any season which, on any page offers a passage one can scarcely wait to share with a friend. A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration. This is a perfect reading copy of a great book. Seller Inventory # 001910

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1988. Unrevised and unpublished proofs 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine review soft cover, with letter from the publisher included. unopened.

London: Duckworth, 1929. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is Very good with soiled untrimmed fore edge and bottom, which are soiled and gilded top. Spine bottom is gently bumped. jack is good condition with extensive tape repairs to verso, modest chipping at extremities, spine is darkened as are folds. This signed copy is #822 of 1250 copies, of this extensive examination of Galsworthy plays. A fine colectible.