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By: 076537062XCard, Orson Scott
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Tor: 2013
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition
Seller ID: 2266124
Spine creased. 2013 Mass Market Paperback. Inspiration for the 2013 film. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew Ender Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candida... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company: 1896
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2205610
Front free endpaper removed. 1896 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 586, [4] pp. 8vo. A decoratively bound illustrated edition of Alcott's classic novel, with more than 200 engravings by Frank T. Merrill, and a picture of the Home of the Little Women by Edmund H. Garrett. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2005
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203805
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1092 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of three novels by the American writer, member of the Transcendentalists, and friend of other New England intellectuals such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, with chronology and notes following text. Includes: Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys. Th... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Rayo: 2005
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2200692
2nd printing. Spanish text. Near fine.Jacket lightly toned, scuff mark to jacket front, jacket spine edges bumped. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 381 pp. Spanish text. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well.Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish milita... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200693
First edition. English text. Near fine.Near Fine. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 390 pp. English text. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well.Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego le... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1528178
First edition. No jacket. Boards rubbed, pages toned. 1930 Hard Cover. 284 pp. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4. Inspiration for the Western film starring John Wayne. View more info
By: Arlen, Michael
Price: $30.00
Publisher: George H. Doran Company: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270160
First edition. David Diamond's copy (his stamp on title page), No jacket, bottom edges lightly rubbed, pencil note on front and rear endpapers. 1924 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 350 pp. The Green Hat perfectly reflects the atmosphere of the 1920s—the post-war fashion for verbal smartness, youthful cynicism, and the spirit of rebellion of the bright young things of Mayfair. Iris Storm, femme fatale, races around London and Europe in her yel... View more info
By: Asher, Jay
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Razor Bill: 2008
Seller ID: 2206226
Minor crease to front wrapper. 2008 Trade Paperback. 288 pp. Now a Netflix Original series. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made t... View more info
By: Austen, Jane
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1985
Seller ID: 1529607
1985 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her 'duty' -- to arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen's most technically brilliant achievement, 'Emma' sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power. View more info
By: Austen, Jane; Jones, Vivian
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2005
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2261018
1st printing. A nice copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. 392 pp. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen sho... View more info
By: Barrie, J.M. [James Matthew]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: American Publishers Corporation: 1897
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2077493
First thus. An exceptional copy. 1897 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 375, [6] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles & elaborate gilt decorations, top edge gilt. A new edition revised by the author, with a literary and biographical portrait preceding text, photographic frontispiece, and several engraved plates. A novel by the creator of Peter Pan, and inspiration for the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film, originally 'published in 1891 and dramatiz... View more info
By: Bauby, Jean-Dominique; Leggatt, Jeremy
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Vintage International: 1998
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition
Seller ID: 2201100
Movie tie-in edition. Reprint. 1998 Trade Paperback. 131 pp. In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the 43-year-old editor of French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left him permanently paralyzed, a victim of 'locked in syndrome.' Once known for his gregariousness and wit, Bauby now finds himself imprisoned in an inert body, able to communicate only by blinking his left eye. The miracle is that in doing so he was able to compose this stunningly eloquent memoir.In a... View more info
By: Baum, L. Frank
Price: $750.00
Publisher: The Reilly & Britton Co.: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2122112
First edition, first state, binding A (Bienvenue 47; Hanff 61) - advertisement on verso of ownership page lists through John Dough and the Cherub; metallic background and accents to front picture plate; black & orange pictorial endpapers. Two tiny chips from edge of color plate on front board, rear hinge just beginning to weaken, corners a bit rubbed, pencil name on ownership page. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 295, [1] pp. 8vo. Light blu... View more info
By: Baum, L. Frank
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Michael Neugebauer / North South Books: 1996
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by illustrator
Seller ID: 2199320
2nd printing. Signed by illustrator on bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Includes 3D glasses and large color poster. 1996 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 103 pp. For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however,... View more info
By: Baum, L. Frank
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Reilly & Lee Co.: 1910
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2204604
Reprint from between 1934 and the late 1950s (Bienvenue p. 49). Front hinge loosening, first gathering sprung. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 295, [1] pp. 8vo. Yellow cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. Black & white illustrations by John R. Neill. The sixth title in Baum's immortal Oz series. View more info
By: Blake, Nicholas (Lewis, Cecil Day)
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202720
First American edition. Lacks jacket. Portion of front jacket flap mounted on front endpaper beneath dealer bookplate. Cover lightly smudged. 1938 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. A novel written pseudonymously by Irish author and British Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, father of actor Daniel Day Lewis. The book was adapted into an Argentinian film entitled La Bestia debe morir in 1952. View more info
By: Boulle, Pierre; Fielding, Xan (Translator)
Price: $300.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 2010
Seller ID: 2268790
From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date (6/8/2010) in black ink on front flyleaf. 248, [4] pp. 8vo. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece by Dennis Lyall. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Boulle's classic 1963 novel differs in several ways from the 1968 movie and its various spinoffs. While the bare-bones story is familiar—a... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1923
Seller ID: 2194844
Ink gift note dated 1931 on front endpaper.A few light stains on jacket spine, tear along spine edge of rear jacket panel with amateur repair attempt. 1923 Hard Cover. 284 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and matching jacket art by George W. Gage. A western focusing on an Airedale named Sonny and the man who adopted him after finding him in the desert. Inspiration for the screenplay entitled 'Teeth', which Fox Films produced in 1924. View more info
By: Bronte, Emily; Winterich, John T.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980
Seller ID: 2205692
1980 Full-Leather. xxx, 331 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, purple ribbon marker bound in. Lithographs by Barnett Freedman. Includes publisher's preface, 'How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich, biographical notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, editor's preface to the 1850 edition, and family tree of characters. The classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern Engl... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Picador: 2002
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2200721
Reprint. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 315 pp. Basis for the film starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Gabrielle Union and Alec Baldwin. Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himse... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Picador: 2002
Seller ID: 2202342
Pages toned. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 315 pp. Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. ... View more info
By: Capote, Truman
Price: $2,250.00
Publisher: Random House: 1965
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263973
Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown mor... View more info
By: Carey, Peter
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Faber and Faber: 1997
Seller ID: 1540016
Minor wear to corner. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A novel which tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling and for Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1865. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives are changed for ever. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Pocket Books: 1945
Seller ID: 2200031
Spine creased, edges rubbed, ink date on front wrapper verso, pages toned. 1945 Mass Market Paperback. 237 pp. A melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century. A psychological novel of Suspense. Contented Dr. Balley, New York bound, meets an appealing spinster on the plane, learns enough of her story to catch his interest, finds himself obsessed with speculation about her, and suggests that she stay at his hotel. The next morning he hears she has died at her brother's h... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)
Price: $250.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA: 1975
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 1996832
An exceptional copy. 1975 Full-Leather. [iv], 161 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. An exceptionally decora... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)
Price: $150.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA: 1975
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2140629
An exceptional copy - no wear or internal marks. 1975 Full-Leather. [iv], 161 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel through... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis [Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Lee and Shepard, Boston / Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham: 1872
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200523
First American edition ('wade' for 'wabe' on p. 21). Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down (some loss from edges), new end sheets. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, pencil name and year ('R.P. Blake 1880') on front flyleaf, a number of illustrations colored with pencil by a young reader, some quite nicely done. 1872 Hard Cover. x, [1]-224 pp. 8vo. The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. This first Amer... View more info
By: Chabon, Michael
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Villard Books: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201005
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 368 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the film starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDorman, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, and Robert Downey, Jr. Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hol... View more info
By: Chevalier, Tracy
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196017
First edition in second state jacket (correction to 'Earring' on rear jacket panel). Signed by author without inscription on title page. Pages toned, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 248 pp. Inspiration for the motion picture starring Scarlet Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Cillian Murphy. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-... View more info
By: Christie, Agatha
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1945
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2260243
First thus. Top edge faintly foxed, mild cosmetic wear to boards, minimal loss from jacket corners, two closed 1/2 inch jacket tears on rear panel. 1945 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 264 pp. 8vo. Photoplay edition with scenes from the 1945 20th Century Fox motion picture directed by Rene Clair. Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, et al pictured on front jacket panel, endpapers, and frontispiece, with three double-sided full-page st... View more info
