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Unpaginated. 4to. Boards in dustjacket. Matching pictorial boards and jacket. Winner of the 2009 Caldecott award; no sticker to book or jacket. Signed by author and illustrator on title page. Book in fine condition aside from slight wear to spine ends. Jacket near fine with minor scuffing and light wear to spine foot.
The House in the Night.
Swanson, Susan Marie.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Price: $500.00
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342 pp. 8vo. Signed first edition. Minor soiling to head of textblock and fpd, binding very lightly shaken. Otherwise in excellent condition. Clean and crisp. Slight yellowing to dj flaps. Author's signature to title pg.
A Home at the End of the World.
Cunningham, Michael.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1990.
Price: $50.00
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Short 4to. 136 pp. Quarter vellum over boards. Heavy wear including rubbing, bumping, board exposure at edges, paper to boards chipped and peeled, stains, and soiling. Hinges lightly split in places. Interior soiled, foxed, stained, with offsetting from text. Ffep torn in half horizontally, both pieces still attached to hinge. Insect damage to part of covers and some page edges. "Attempted in Imitation of Mr. Locke's Manner. With a Dissertation on James III, 1420, or an Essay to reconcile what St. Paul has said concerning Men's being justified by Faith, with what St. James has said concerning their being justified by Works."
A Paraphase and Notes on the Epistle of St. James.
"Peirce, James".
London: Richard Ford, 1738.
Price: $350.00
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36mo. 427 pp. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, shaken, former owners notes in pencil to endpapers. Part of the Big Little Book series. Illustrated throughout. "The engines quickly failed for lack of fuel. With the control rudder also shot away, the pilot was unable to keep the plane on an even keel. In a few moments the giant bomber began to careen wildly.""
Lieutenant Commander Don Winslow.
Martinek, Frank V.
Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935.
Price: $28.00
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48mo. 286 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, top right corner of cover and text block edge have been lightly chewed, drawings in pencil to paste-downs. Illustrated throughout. Part of the better little book series.
Donald Duck in Volcano Valley.
Disney, Walt.
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1949.
Price: $20.00
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8vo. 265 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, very light off-setting to free end papers from dj. Light rubbing and tiny tears along dj edges. Book is in great condition. SIgned and inscribed by Harry Blackstone. Illustrated instructions for magic tricks throughout.
Blackstone's Secrets of Magic.
Blackstone, Harry.
New York: George Sully & Co., 1929.
Price: $500.00
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8vo. 154 pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, very slightly askew. Cover art bright. What did he have that every woman wanted? "A restless suburban wife, her thirsting teen age daughter, her husbands voluptuous mistress..All three were at the tender mercy of the handsome man-servant!"
Private Chauffeur.
Demexico, N.R.
New York: Universal Publishing, 1960.
Price: $12.00
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12mo. 190 pp. Corners lightly bumped, slight rubbing to covers. Pages nice and clean, binding tight. "Sin spy - Larice was never sure about Hank Kirkland. At first he was a secret agent of one power, and then another - but the only real secret power he had was the ability to rush the shameless wanton to a height of screaming ecstasy, again and again, reveling through all the shame and degradation at his evil command."
Sintrigue.
Aldrich, Curt.
San Diego, CA: Corinth Publications, Inc., 1965.
Price: $20.00
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12mo. 190 pp. Corners lightly bumped, slight rubbing to covers, pages clean and binding tight. "Vengeful Vixen - Laura just wouldn't quit. She had a millionaire husband, she had two butterflies tattooed on her tender torso; she had Darryl- yet she demanded more, more!"
Swap Trap.
Dextor, John.
San Diego: Corinth Publications, Inc., 1965.
Price: $42.00
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12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. 143 pp. Small tear and pen mark on front cover. Pages 97-143 are folded up at bottom corner. Sunned. The daring story of a private nurse and an actress who trade identities and their strange love for one man.
Dangerous Trade.
Thornton, Charles.
New York: Designs Publishing Corporation.
Price: $27.00
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8vo. 125 pp. Some rubbing and light soil to covers, wear to covers at edges, former owner's small pencil mark front cover, pages browned slightly. Young, tender, beautiful Virgie- the sort of girl men dream about- was a part time member of the world's oldest profession.
Virgie, Goodbye.
Rothman, Nathan.
New York: Avon Novels, 1952.
Price: $40.00
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