48pp. Pictorial orange and black boards. Author Inscription on the half-title page. Sticker ghost on the lower right corner, otherwise .as new. Book of poetry. View More...
215pp. New in new jacket. Simon and Schuster review card laid in. The actor-playwright tells the story of a boy growing up in Alabama in 1963, a youngster who becomes torn between his idol, Dr Martin Luther King, and his father, a Korean War veteran who believes in fighting fire with fire. View More...
96p. A near fine copy, in a good d.j. which has some soiling on the blank side and a near one-inch tear near the bottom of the spine and a small chip in the same area. View More...
Pictorial Boards, 6 color Pop-ups by Edward Gorey. Author signature under one of the two flaps signed by Gorey in his inimitable fashion of crossing out his printed name and signing underneath it. A supreme production with design by Ib Penick, exhibiting Gorey's hauntingly odd characters and events."There was a family whose name was MacFizzet (Two parents, five chlidren) who only last fall put on their best clothers and then set out to visit the varied distractions of Hickyhacket Hall" View More...
Orange pictorial boards. Light tape ghosts on the endapers, scuffing to the spine edges, otherwise internally fine, unmarked. Price-clipped pictorial jacket has rubbing to the extremities, tape ghosts to the flaps.. The Glorious Nosebleed trips through the alphabet with illustrations that are both strikingly funny, and a bit weird, all the way from "She wandered among the trees Aimlessly" to "He wrote it all down Zealously." A classic of Gorey's imaginative and darkly humorous mind. View More...
78p. A fine copy, in a near fine d.j. "A ten-year-old girld from New York City lears about the traditional fisherman's way of life when she spends the summer in the remote Newfoundland fishing village of Salvage." (LC Online Catalog.) Many photographs. View More...
[29]p. A fine copy, in a fine d.j. A picture book for children. " A young man has a lifelong love of rock collecting that eventually leads him to work at a science museum." (LC Online Catalog). View More...
Unpaginated. Glossy paper boards with a Gorey illustration on the front, black lettering on the spine. Pictorial endpapers have very minor wear along the extremities. Creamy pale yellow pages are clean and unmarked. Filled with striking drawings by Gorey and the text is written in his hand. A unique poem with even more unique illustrations. Perfect for any Lear or Gorey lover, or fan of literary nonsense. View More...
126pp. Yellow boards, black lettering. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, many of them of the original computers. Minor wear to the corners of the front panel, othewise unread, internally fine copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket is bright with minor edgewear. in mylar sleeve. A young adult's introduction to the world of computers, starting with the abacus, invented over 2,000 years ago, the history of the computer is traced through the first digital computer, Harvard's Mark I, p to the most sopishticated electronic digital computers in use today. View More...
Pictorial Cloth. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 96p. A near fine copy, with the former owner's signature and name and address stamp on the front paste-down endpaper, in a very good d.j. with a 1 1/4" tear at the bottom of the front panel and a very small nick at the top of the back panel. View More...
