Search Results: Titles starting with S from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Mulholland Books | Little, Brown, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, seal broken at the opening. Grey cloth, faintly bumped. Square and firmly bound with the laid-in material. An effort between Dorst and Abrams to publish a "story within a story" featuring a library book and the various marginalia and notes left in it throughout the years.

Cambridge: South End Press, 2002. Paperback. Fine. Second Printing. Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book in the "Radical Sixties" series put out by the press.

Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sacra Pagina Volume 5. Series Edited by Daniel J. Harrington. Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faded at the spine. Yellow boards, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with red ink panels and gilt lettering and rules on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.

New York: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.50), rubbed at the edges, tape on the flaps. Blue-grey buckram, some rubbing, with gilt lettering on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, red top stain, inscription on the front endpaper and title page, clean otherwise. A collection of Jarrell's essays and fables that "balances his ironic and devastating observations on the decline of taste, learning and culture in the United States.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges with some toning and light staining to the spine and back wrap. Square and firmly bound, a few small stains at the edges, clean internally. Pinsky's first collection of poetry.

[n.p], [n.d.]. Hardcover. Near Fine. Expanded from an article in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. Illustrations by Lowell Hanson. Inscribed by Kennedy opposite the title page. Near Fine. Thick boards covered in leopard print, gilt pastedown on the front board. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A thin volume detailing the Kenyan safari of two reports from South Dakota, one hoping to come home with a leopard stole.

Oberlin College, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Stuart Friebert and Dana Habova. Foreword by Lewis Thomas. FIELD Translation Series 3. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.95), lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Blue cloth with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

London: Saxon & Co, 1886. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 100 copies signed by M. French Sheldon, Henry Morton Stanley, and Edward King. Translated by. M. French Sheldon. Very Good. Leather binding by Zaehnsdorf, faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges and joints. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, silk endpapers with a small chip to the front endpaper, label inside the front board, Royal Yacht Squadron label on the verso of the front endpaper, additional inscription on one of the front flyleaves. Flaubert's best-selling historical fiction about the theft of a sacred veil after the First Punic War.

Philadelphia: International Publishing Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. A bound collection of four salesman samples of books from the International Publishing Co. About Very Good. Each sample includes the cover design, with the last three also including a spine sample, a prospectus printed on pink paper, and excerpts from the text. Eight leaves of ruled paper serving as order forms are tipped into the back, only seven of which have been filled out for order of the ABC book with all orders going to the same town in Pennslyvania. A unique volume that speaks to a time gone by in American publishing and bookselling history.

San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Greenleaf Classic GC407. Introduction by Daniel Gregory, PhD. Very Good, wraps lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Bound with a slight forward lean, two faint creases down the spine, clean internally. A Paris-set sex trafficking sleaze novel about a red-haired white virgin forced into sex work by a Black woman and her daughter.

New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Bambara on the half-title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.95). Quarter red cloth with black paper on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bambara's debut novel, one that "explores the narcissistic qualities of despair and the tremendous responsibility of being a well person.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Seventh Printing. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned and soiled, chips and creases to the edges. Brown cloth, pushed at the corners, with grey ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the verso of the frontispiece, clean otherwise. Ford's humorous seafaring burlesque adventure.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Ward on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00). White paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. With Hurricane Katrina building in the Gulf of Mexico, Ward's National Book Award-winning novel tells the story of twelve days in the life of a family fighting for survival.

New York: Bantam Books, 1991. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed by Flinn on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a few surface creases at the spine. A story of a San Francisco murder worked by Spencer Holmes, the grandson of Sherlock Holmes.

Los Angeles: M. Rieder, 1904. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps generally toned, creased and with some abrasions on the front, torn at the head of the spine. Square and firmly bound with two staples, publisher's stamp on the title page. An oblong paperback containing many black and white photographs of Golden Gate Bridge and park, Yosemite, the Lick Observatory, and other locales of note.

New York: Vertigo / DC Comics Inc, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Introduction by Stephen King. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($29.95 on the back panel). Brown paper on the boards with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The eighth collection of Gaiman's acclaimed comic book series, featuring issues #51-56.

New York: Vertigo / DC Comics Inc, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Introduction by Frank McConnell. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($34.95 on the back panel). Black paper on the boards, bumped at the lower corners, with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The ninth collection of Gaiman's acclaimed comic book series, featuring issues #57-69.

Riverside: Hillacre, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in a Good slipcase, completed, faded at the edges, and partially split at one of the joints. Dark grey paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front panel. Square and firmly bound with a frontispiece of Lincoln Stevens, two publisher's subscription cards laid-in, clean internally. A separate appearance of Reed's poem printed for friends by Frederick C. Bursch.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Arvigo on the half-title. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. Arvigo's account of her "quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Singer on the title page. Translated from the Yiddish by Jacob Sloan. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed at the edges, toned at the back panel. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An apparent first paperback printing rebound into boards and with a first issue dust jacket.