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About this Item: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2020. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW First edition first printing in NEW priced (30.00) dust jacket of famed American reporter Bob Woodward's latest book on corruption at the highest levels of American politics. Woodward's new book, Rage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. In 17 on the record interviews of Woodward over seven volatile months an utterly vivid window into Trump's mind the president provides a self portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the " dynamite behind every door". Rage has a large index and a large listing of source material along with a dozen photographs. Book is NEW.

New York, New York: Parke- Bernet Galleries Inc., 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Original tissue. 10 x 7 inches. Catalog listing of some of the outstanding collection of the late A. Edward Newton , for sale. Book fine with worn tissue jacket. Perfect label on front of book is a copy of the bookplate of A. Edward Newton.

About this Item: University Press of New England, Hanover and London, 1996. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition First printing book is fine with a fine un-priced dust jacket. Book is unmarked and unread " The book lays out new territory, thanks to Sweeting's hard digging, boldness, and eye for underground connections. Treating literar4y works, buildings, gardens, and manners as shape-shifting of each other, he ingeniously plots the aesthetics of gentility in antebellum America". This study of a unique coalescence of literature, architecture, and gardening illuminates the widely held belief that efforts to reform the world began at home, that beautiful and clean houses produced morally beautiful and spiritually clean people.

New York: The Typophiles , 1964. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Original tissue. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Typophile chap books: XXXX this memoir has been designed by Joseph Blumenthal composed by the Peter Pauper Press printed at the Spiral press and the Meriden Gravure Company bound by the H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company, Inc. type face: Granjon for text, Garamond for display paper: Curtis Rag; cover, Tweedweave cloth: Bancroft Linen Finish Seven hundred cipies printed for subscribers, contributors, and friends of Peter Beilenson. Book is Very fine, quarter cloth binding over paper boards with peter Pauper logo on front board. A wonderful homage. Very collectible, in near fine original tissue with a few chips to spine top. Interior flawless and unread.

About this Item: Franklin Library, Franklin Center Pennsylvania, 1979. Hardcover. Condition: AS New. 1st Edition. AS NEW First Edition book is bound in fine brown top grain leather with gilt blind stamps on the front, rear and spine lettering. Book has gilt edges and a fine silk page holder tipped in. Book has never been opened. Included are notes from the editors. Bruce Mason, the protagonist has appeared several time in Pulitzer Prize winning author Wallace Stegner's earlier fiction, most notably in his great family saga, The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943). Now a sixty-eight year old bachelor, the editor of an influential business magazine in San Francisco, Mason has returned to the town of his adolescence and early manhood for man hood for reason he does not fully understand. Like all of Stegner's work, this is a fine story told by a master story teller. Book is quite collectible and a great addition to any fine library.

aAbout this Item: Lyons Press, New York, 2012. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. AS NEW First edition First printing book in near fine priced (24.95) dust jacket which has a wrinkle at the bottom front of the jacket. Book is pristine, unmarked and unread. "Heywood is a master of his form "--Detroit Free Press Lute Bapcat, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who, in 1913, is hand picked by Theodore Roosevelt himself to become one of Michigan's first civil service game warden. His Territory: the Keweenaw Peninsula. Being from Michigan, trust me, it is beautiful up there. With a stunning array of characters, fascinating historical detail, and Joseph Heywood's trademark writing about Michigan's wilderness, Red jacket chronicles a bloody labor strike marked by sabotage tactics, such as slaughtered deer, flooded animal dens, poisoned trout streams and well water, and deforestation all designed by mine operators to deny nature's bounty to… Read More

About this Item: Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 1991. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book and priced (18.95) dust jacket are in near fine condition. Book is unmarked except for a sticker on the FFE. Red Orc's Rage is a striking and original novel that creates a tension between realism and the fantastic which will give serious reader food for thought and give the pulp fiction reader constant injections of excitement and entertainment. Farmer writes with energy, clarity and conviction, and leaves it ambiguous as to whether this is a psychological fantasy novel, or a literal fantasy. Big fun for fantasy reader and collectors.

About this Item: Sage Books, Denver, 1955. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book is very fine, bound in red cloth with silver lettering. book is inscribed at length " This is for love with affection and with fond memories of the wonderful Hounds? at Flathead Lake" The setting for this rhythmic and beautifully rhyming and perfectly phrased story is set at the Elbow Room, a cocktail lounge in the Henning Hotel in Casper, Wyoming. And the story about cattle wars and hangings and shootouts, some real and some fictional happen one night in October. Book is very interesting and in some ways, fun to read. Collectible. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001618

: McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1971. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine + first edition in a fine-jacket with repaired tear at bottom of spine very minor chipping to top extremity. Jacket is not price clipped ($7.95) A nice personal note to collector tipped in on card with picture of Jesse Stuart signed by Jesse Stuart. The book deals with reflections, thus the name. Forward by Jesse Stuart. Jesse a living legend among Southern writers participates here in a bold experiment. Trusting the man who visited his farm for eight days to talk about his 1000 acre farm, his writing, his views on the world today (1971) he spoke freely to Dick Perry about the things closest to his heart. " What wouldn't I have given to be able to have such a record, made in the lifetimes, of the writers i most admired, Twain, Frost, Edgar Lee masters and Sandburg". Book is a fine collectible oral history of one of America's best and least known writers. Tipped in… Read More

The Donning Co., Virgina Beach, VA., 1997. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR Carlton County Minnesota, has a rich history. looking at a road map of Minnesota, or even driving through Carlton county will not enlighten the visitor to the important role the county has played in the history of the Arrowhead region. Fine regional history. Signed by Author

Golden Press Inc, New York, 1967. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Just forty two years, (1967) but what a time! Here are the highlights of America's coming of age pleasing to recall, and bittersweet, too, because we can't go back again. In affectionate text and glowing pictures Remember When recaptures those bygone days. Very enjoyable and nostalgic book at America in the late 19th through the mid twentieth century. Book is very good +, bound in nice purple cloth with gilt blind stamp of a heart on the front. Clipped jacket is very good with one closed tear. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. This fine First edition, first printing is Inscribed and dated by the author on half title page, "to:........,Whose appreciation of this book means a lot to its author. Hiram Haydn" Book is in VG condition with bumps to spine ends and one small bump to back cover about 2" in from edge. Very minor flaw. Dust jacket, or should I say jackets, there are two identical jackets on book both VG small chipping to extremities. I don't know why there are two, but both are included. Both jackets unclipped ($5.95).This is a novel that is erudite but also exciting, a novel that bears thinking about repeatedly after one has come away, shaken, from its almost unbearable emotional climax. Report from the Red Windmill is a book of visions about people who are real, whose impulses and reactions are visceral.

About this Item: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1920. First/First Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book is in very good + condition with slightly faded spine lettering with a very fine priced (2.00) facsimile dust jacket. Book is finely bound in bright navy blue textured cloth with a very fine gilt blind stamp on the front. There is a fine book plate and a Christmas inscription on the front paste down and the FFE. Dust jacket is flawless. " Into the midst of Captain Tom Lingard's lawless affair of honour involving the throne of a Malayan prince, blundered the English yacht, fatefully stranded in the midst of what was to be ht dark theatre of war. Of the three white passengers only the owner's wife understood the situation and Lingard. Integrity, the duty of a white to his countrymen in the South Seas, the never broken word of King Tom to a native. unguessable is the inevitable climax of this rescue." This book is a notable Conrad collectible… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In Retuning to Earth author Jim Harrison has given us a tender, profound, and magnificent about life, death and finding redemption in sometimes unlikely places. Donald a middle-aged Chipewa-Finnish man is dying of Lew Gehrig's disease. He realizes no one alive will be able to pass on his family history once he's gone. He began telling his wife Cynthia stories about three generations of his people in Michigan, he had never revealed before. Jim Harrison one of the most important writers plying his craft today, writes about the heart of this country like no other writer. He writes about land spoilage in the past and redemption in the present. Retuning to Earth is the last of three novels dealing with Cynthia, her eccentric brother, her crazy perverted father and " Hemingway's up-North Michigan of the past." Book is as new, and the unclipped ($24.00) jacket… Read More

About this Item: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2002. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. AS new book in a like priced (28.00) dust jacket. Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a yellow man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County, His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's court appointed represent ive receives work that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandloph. Scott Turow is the best at what he does. He writes great crime novels.

About this Item: Authorhouse, 2001. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First edition in fine condition with fine dust jacket. First Books Library. Book is signed on the title page with a nice inscription to a friend. This book is a romantic historical novel. written by the author in his eighty s and centers around a letter received in 1989 by a woman who identified herself as the author's wifes first cousin. They thought their whole family was lost in the holocaust. The book is a work of fiction that is woven around many actual events. Most are horrific but the book shows how decent people never lost their sense of righteousness. A very moving read. Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001480

Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1917. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Slip Case . 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This little masterpiece gives perhaps the best sketch of Spanish low-life that has come down to us. The book has been translated from the Spanish with an introduction and notes by Mariano J. Lorente with a preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Riconete and Cortadillo is more intimate than even Lazarillo de Tormes, truer to nature than Guzman de Alfarache and.........and I suppose because Cervantes says so, that it is exemplary. " There are hours of recreation in which the affected spirit rests" to quote Cervantes.Certainly Rinconete and Cortadillo is a work of recreation, and the affected spirit of reading it may rest and smile at the humor it contains. book is as new unread, flawless, which is amazing for a book printed almost one-hundred years ago. There are eight fine plates by Atalana. Book has a hand made binding by Pat Magarick with a beautiful… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is in fine condition, sharp, square and with wonderful stain on top of text block. Fore edge and bottom evenly and lightly tanned, jacket is VG with clipped price, and wear to extremities. Spine as in most copies is slightly faded, but very readable. inscribed " this story that didn't happen. yet. by author to a friend. Book is unopened. This book is a realistic fantasy on a grand scale, a story of the Jews driven out of the western world to subsist as best they can in the Gobi desert. The narrative itself concerns their long march across Europe and Asia, during which time Jews of a dozen nations, of every character and class, the strong and the weak, the proud and the humble, the learned and the ignorant, the rebellious and the resigned are brought close together by a common fate. 70 years later Michael Chabon, a very fine contemporary author, with a similar premise, put… Read More

About this Item: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 1993. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition First printing book is fine in near fine priced( L15.99) dust jacket with minor rubbing at the bottom of the spine. There is an uncommon burgundy silk page marker tipped in. Margaret Atwood is one of the most distinguished award winning authors, with dozens of literary awards and several dozen honorary degrees from great universities from around the world. 'Zenia is pure, free wheeling malevolence; she wants wreckage, she wants scorched earth, she wants broken glass.' everyone has known someone like Zenia- beautiful and smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, the turbulent centre of her own never ending saga. Roz, Charis and Tony were all contemporaries of Zenia's in the sixties. Each of them had been badly damaged by her once' she has ensnared their sympathy, betrayed their trust, and made off with their… Read More

About this Item: Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing book is very fine in fine priced (27.99) dust jacket. Lustbader's cinematic vision is once again on display as he sends Bourne on a chaotic chase that leads from Washington to Moscow and back again, dogged by pursuers even as he himself pursues. This is a novel that will keep you reading long into the night. A fine addition to your Jason Bourne library.