Search Results: Titles starting with S from Supercalifabulistic Books

New York & London: The Cooperative publication Society New York & London Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No Publishing date, circa 1800's.Frontspiece of Rutger's Mansion.Clean, tight copy. Gold title to spine.Corners ever so slightly bumped. Corner of first (fly) page torn. Black boards, embossed on spine and front cover with a heart inside a rose. Includes the Whim Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Lanstaff, Esq. also Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus. ..."Juan Ponce De Leon might now almost be considered a governor without territories, and a General without soldiers. His villages were smoking ruins, and his whole force did not amount to a hundred men, several of whom were disabled by their woulnds...One of his most efficient warriors was a dog named Beriezillo, renowned for courage strength and sagacity. It is said that he could distinguish those of the Indians who were allies from those who were enemies of the… Read More

New York: The Modern Library, 1918 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F/NJ Flexible blue leatherette cover with gold MODERN LIBRARY embossed logo on front. Slight wear at spine. Former owners name stamped in front flyleaf pattern of leaping dancers and on title page (LEO SHOOB). "THE MODERN LIBRARY OF THE WORLDS BEST BOOKS" This early Modern Library edition marked the precipitous climb of Andreyev's career, in a time of turmoil in his homeland, Mother Russia..

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG/Good. Hard cover book is in very good ++++ condition. Slightly bumped at corners, Orange/brown covers with yellow titles to spine and cover. Tight , clean edition. No marks. Appears unopened. Colorful dust jacket has multiple small tears along edges. "The reader will find himself living among lust Englishmen and women who were well aware of good food, good drink,ad pleasurable living. They were an adventurous, hard-headed group, united in their campaign for freedom of worship. With them the reader will go through their term of exile in Holland, their long and troubled voyage from Old Europe to new America, and their hazardous period of settling on a strange, bleak coast. With the keen, humorous, analytical eye of the first rate modern scholar and the chaste and limitless style of the first rate modern writing man, Mr. Willison has produced a realistic picture of these men and women who so often have been… Read More

Revell, New York 1967 First Edition. NF/VG Red boards with black titles on spine. Price of 2.95 on DJ. Clean tight copy with the exception of a return address sticker of PO. 117 pages. DJ is rubbed and shows a little shelf ware. B&W photos of Dale, Roy and Sandy Rogers also General Westmoreland and many U.S. Servicemen and women.

Doubleday New York 1957 First Edition as stated. VG/VG Black and gray boards, Silver and black titles to spine. PO's signature on first page,no other marks, otherwise clean. DJ has chipping , closed tears and a one inch open tear at top front. A Novel of Impersonation : a Frenchman and Englishman.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1963 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated, "First American Edition". NF/VG, Clean, tight,edition. Appears to be unopened. DJ is uncllipped, price of $4.95. "Nothing is ever over. You thread things on your life and think you've finished with them but you haven't because it's like beads on a string and they come round again. When it comes round again then if it is possilble you give what you failed to give before to someone else. You will have made reparation for we are all one person.".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Introduction by Robert Seltzer. Book is close to as new. Very little wear to the brown leather cover. Book has gold Modern Library design on front cover and gold lettering on spine.Pages are tight and clean. Spine is straight and tight.Corner and spine edges are straight.
A minister learns of a foiled assassination plot on him by five leftist revolutionaries, and the trauma this inflicts on his peace of mind. The novella then switches to the courts and jails to follow the fates of seven people who have received death sentences. The five failed assassins, an Estonian farm hand who murdered his employer, and a violent thief. These condemned people are awaiting their executions by hanging. In prison, each of the prisoners deals with their fate in his or her own way.

The Sioux by Irene Handl
This copy is in near fine condition!
Stated First

Published by Knopf
"A dazzling and wholly original novel! The story of an aristocratic French family living in our time with a style and arrogance that are emphatically feudal." It has nothing to do with the Sioux tribe of Native Americans.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near Fine/ VG, Illustrated boards are tight and unmarked. A couple of fingerprints on interior pages.Illustrated DJ has a 3 inch closed tear on right front. Every race ad every country has its own increasingly bizarre hang-ups. Animals too, as Ronald Searle now reveals. They have universal ones, and however resigned we may be about our own peculiarities, it is comforting to know that there are equallly imbecilic inhabitants of the Animal Kingdom: consider the sad case of the vegetarian vampire bat, the hygienic rat, the affectionate asp, the crocodile shedding genuine tears! To all of these misfits Ronald Searle applies his piercing eye and mordant pen to produce a superb and hilarious collection of full-color close-ups, which will do much to enhance his reputation as The Man Most Animals Would Enjoy Eating First! A five-star dish for all..

Sliver
Author Ira Levin
1991 Bantam Books
Author of Rosemary's Baby & Stepford Wives

With ice and precision of a Master.
Ira Levin has created a mesmerizing story that culminates in a scene of electrifying suspense to rival any he has ever written .

A sinuous thriller, a hypnotic story of suspense.

Windmill Books / Simon and Schuster New York 1969. VG++ / none Dark green oversized buckram boards, tight, clean copy other than PO's signature on inside of front cover. No dirt, finger smudge marks, stickers, etc. No DJ. Number line reads " 13,14,15" . Scarce, hard to find copy. Bight colored illustrations on every page. Caldecott award winner 1970. Also on list of banned/ suggested to be banned books for having animals as characters in the story. The magic pebble grants wishes. Be careful what you wish for!

A young New England boy who was an aviator in WWI, then a newspaper man, a script writer...made into a movie in 1940.

Hardcover VG with no dj
Little Brown and Company , first
1943

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1908 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. F/NJ This blue hardcover with gilt titles is in fine condition. No dust jacket printed for this first American edition. Sharp corners, crisp pages, square and strong spine with very slight wear at edges. Amazing condition for a book printed over a century ago! Original owners Ex Libris sticker on inside front cover. 565 pages to this third tome by the famed ceramacist turned novelist, about early 20th century London and the life of a girl, woven within a fascinating cast of characters.

Someone Knows My Name
VG/VG

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927 Book. Illus. by Alice Barber Stevens. Good. Hardcover. G/NJ Black cloth cover is worn and chipped on corners and spine, one inch tear at top of spine. Red titles. Slight fading on spine. Faint pencil marks on back flyleaf. Beautiful illustrations accompany each section of this coming of age story set to the back drop of Civil War and pioneer adventure in America.

Fantasy Flight Publishing, 2005 Book. Illus. by George R.R. Martin. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. NF/none. A few light scratches to glossy cover. Spine, bindiing in excellent condition. Clean, bright tight copy. The Art of Ice and Fire contains the very best of the artwork done for Fantasy Flight's board game and collectible card game...and a good deal more. In addition to going through hundreds of cards to select the best work from FFG's stable of talented artists, editor Brian Wood has also included cover art from both foreign and domestic edition of A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords, interior illustrations (drawings and color plates) from the limited editions published by Meisha Merlin and Subterranean Press, covers and interior art from the Hedge Knight graphic novel by Mike S Miller, Ben Avery, and the Dabel Brothers, and conceptual drawings and character sketches for the forthcoming line of Ice and Fire miniatures from the Testor… Read More

Charles Scribners, 1949 First Edition. VG/none. Chocolate brown hard boards, white title on spine - library edition w/ library stamps. Some of the interior pages have small tears at the bottom from turning then pages of this well loved book. Beautiful, quaint water color illustrations by Leo Politi. Illustrations on every page. Caldecott award winner 1950. A delightful story of friendship between a young boy and an old man who is the Bell Ringer at San Juan Capistrano Mission. Juan, the young boy makes friends with all the sparrows that return every year.

Soul Catcher by Frank Herbert , author of DUNE
Paperback
Berkeley Edition 1979
Author of DUNE

Soul Catcher by Frank Herbert
Berkley Edition
Stated second printing
1979
By the best selling author of Dune

Doubleday, 1958 Book. Illus. by Tom Dunn. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. VG/VG Gray boards dark blue titles to spine.BCE. No interior marks, tight edition. Beautiful painting by Tom Dunn on front of DJ. some chipping to edges of DJ and one tear at top of spine. A maritime tale set in Singapore and the Seas of the West Indies. Five years in the British Navy gave this young Scottish author his intimate knowledge of the sea, which plays so dramatic a role in this new novel of raw adventure, romance, and personal courage. His special talent for calling up the beauties and terrors of the world of ship and water was first displayed in his best selling novel, H.M.S. Ulysses. .