BURDETT, JOHN

The Godfather of Kathmandu

New York: Knopf, 2010. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307263193. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The Sonchai Jitpleecheep series of crime novels is mainly set in Bangkok and consists of six books: Bangkok 8, Bangkok Tattoo, Bangkok Haunts, The Godfather of Kathmandu, Vulture Peak, and The Bangkok Asset. They centre on the philosophical Thai Buddhist detective, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and his meditative internal dialogues. Sonchai is a "leuk krung" or half-caste. He is the son of a former "rented-wife" (a type of prostitute) and a "farang." His father was a U. S. Military officer whom he never knew. Sonchai has spent much of his childhood in Europe and the U. S.. A born "outsider", he is also seemingly unbribeable, which increases his alienation from his colleagues. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 41634

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0307263193 Mystery John Burdett Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series

BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON

T. Tembarom

New York, NY: The Century Company, 1913. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Charles S. Chapman. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the accompanying dust jacket. First Edition, with published, October 1913 on the copyright page. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper includes a previous owner's inked gift notation. The edges of the text block has some ground-in dirt and a couple of noticeable spots of dripped dirt to the foredge.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45921

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Editions Frances Hodgson Burnett Pre-1940's Fiction Orphans Orphanages

BURNS, TEX (PSEUDONYM OF LOUIS L'AMOUR)

Hopalong Cassidy and the Trail to Seven Pines

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ to condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one small rubbed and bumped spot to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some toning to the front endpapers and the top edge of the text block has foxing and toning. The dust jacket has some edge wear, nicking and rubbing, especially to the spine joints. There is some light sunning / fading to the spine of the dust jacket. And there is one smallish semi-closed edge tear to the bottom rear edge. The rear cover of the dust jacket has a couple of small spots of foxing as well. The dust jacket features the likeness of William Boyd who portrayed Hopalong Cassidy on both the big and little screens (along with radio). This book, along with three others were written by Louis L'Amour under the pseudonym Tex Burns -- while L'Amour refused to acknowledge authorship of this group of books, he couldn't get away from the fans who saw through the pseudonym to the quality writing that drove the books. These pseudonymous books were the first four hardback novels published by L'Amour. "Louis Dearborn L'Amour (22 March 1908 – 10 June 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels (though he called his work 'frontier stories') ; however, he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum) , science fiction (The Haunted Mesa) , non-fiction (Frontier) , as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into film. John Wayne once said he was the most interesting man in the world. L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers." ". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 34021

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Editions Tex Burns Louis L'Amour Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd Clarence E. Mulford Western Americana Western Fiction

BURROUGHS, AUGUSTEN

You Better Not Cry Stories for Christmas

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2009. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312341911. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the to spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46680

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First E

Keywords: 0312341911 Modern Fiction First Edition Augusten Burroughs Short Stories For Children Christmas

BUTLER, ROBERT OLEN

Countrymen of Bones

New York, NY: Horizon Press, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0818006390. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Goood+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, but has some light wear to the spine ends and corners. "Robert Olen Butler is the author of 12 novels and six short story collections, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In a review for the Guardian newspaper, renowned author Claire Messud wrote, "The book has attracted such acclaim not simply because it is beautifully and powerfully written, but because it convincingly pulls off an immense imaginative risk. Butler has not entered the significant and ever-growing canon of Vietnam-related fiction (he has long been a member) —he has changed its composition forever." Butler began writing novels on the Long Island Rail Road while working as a publicist for Fairchild Publications. "Every word of my first four published novels was written on a legal pad, by hand, on my lap, on the Long Island Rail Road as I commuted back and forth from Sea Cliff to Manhattan," Butler has said of his early writing. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 45924

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: 0818006390 Modern Fiction First Editions Robert Olen Butler Signed Editions New Mexico Archeology Burial mounds Native Americans Atomic Bombs

BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER

Goat-Feathers

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is a small format book - approximately 5 inches by 3 1/2 inches. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been opened a bit roughly, so the foredges of the text pages are a bit uneven and there are some small tears as well. A previous owner's address label was removed from the front endpaper leaving a slightly rough patch. "No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I shall probably by lying at the rate of a mile a minute and cracking myself up something awful!". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 31736

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Ellis Parker Butler Humor Goats Animals Satire Modern Fiction Firsts

BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER

Mike Flannery on Duty and Off

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corner of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. The illustration on the front cover has some light rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb. His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers, and Edgar Rice Burroughs." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 38099

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Ellis Parker Butler Mike Flannery Short Stories Humor Cats Railroads Modern Fiction Firsts

BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER

That Pup

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. 1st Hardback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb. His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers, and Edgar Rice Burroughs." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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Book number: 39008

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First

Keywords: Modern Fiction Firsts

BUTLER, ROBERT OLEN

Wabash a Novel

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co, 1994. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805032002. Illustrated by Kamil Vojnar. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. NEW EDITION . This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but there is one tiny nick with a bit of related bumping to the bottom front spine joint. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 48279

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0805032002 Modern Fiction First Edition Robert Olen Butler Steel Mills Signed Edition Illinois Kamil Vojnar

BYNUM, SARAH SHUN-LIEN

Ms. Hempel Chronicles

Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151014965. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 47358

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0151014965 Modern Fiction First Edition Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum Female Teachers Self-Acctualization New Teachers

BYRD, MAX

Shooting the Sun

New York: Bantam, 2003. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0553802089. Signed edition. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription on the title page, by the author. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Max Byrd was born in Atlanta, Georgia and now lives in northern California. He was educated at Harvard and at King's College, Cambridge, England. He has taught English at Yale and the University of California, Davis, though he left academia some time ago to become a full-time writer. During his teaching years he published a number of scholarly books and articles about 18th-century literature, which now rest in moldy obscurity in a few stately libraries." (from FantasticFiction) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 42473

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0553802089 Modern Fiction First Edition Max Byrd Western Fiction Historical Fiction

CABLE, GEORGE W.

The Grandissimes

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. 1st Illustrated Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Albert Herter. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with an inscription, by the author on the second free page following the front endpaper. This is the First Illustrated Edition. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. This book is in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. There is also a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper, and another owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1880, Cable published his first novel, The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life, portraying multiracial members and different classes of society in the early 1800s shortly after the Louisiana Purchase. It had first been serialized in Scribner's. The plot follows the adventures and romances of several members of the Grandissime family, a French Creole family with mixed-race members. He used this historical romance as a way to explore society and its racial injustice, as he addressed European Creoles, the mixed-race class, plaçage, slavery, and lynchings. In the same year, the United States Census Bureau commissioned Cable to write a "historical sketch" of pre-Civil War New Orleans for a special section of the 10th United States Census' "Social statistics of cities". He submitted a well-researched 313-page history, which was greatly reduced for publication in 1884. A complete edition was not published until 2008." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good .

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Book number: 46957

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition George W. Cable New Orleans, LA Creole Signed Edition

CALDWELL, TAYLOR

The Balance Wheel

Chicago, IL: People's Book Club, 1951. Book Club Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition . There is some light bumping and fraying to the bottom corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There are bug poo trails to the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket has noticeable bug nibbled patches, especially to the flap joints and the rear spine joint. The rear dust jacket flap has detatched, but is still present. "Pennsylvania, 1913. The four Wittmann brothers manufacture steel precision tools. Jochen (Joe) is a ruthless businessman who seeks to improve the bottom line at any cost. Friedrich (Fred) dabbles in Socialism but would never sacrifice his dividends. Wilhelm (Willie) prefers to collect art rather than visit the factory floor. Only Karl (Charles) , a widower, has the vision to keep the family business in the black. Now, as the winds of war sweep across Europe, anti-German sentiment turns the family's allies against them, and war profiteers threaten to remake the entire steel industry into a merchant of death. But Charles's greatest worry is that his son will be shipped overseas to die. " (from FantasticFiction).. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 41918

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Taylor Caldwell World War I Relationships Family Dramas Industries

CALDWELL, TAYLOR

The Balance Wheel

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This copy includes the Scribner A on the copyright page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. The spine of the dust jacket has some light fading.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 44761

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: Modern Fiction Taylor Caldwell World War I Relationships Family Dramas Industries Armaments

CALDWELL, TAYLOR (JANET MIRIAM HOLLAND TAYLOR CALDWELL )

Bright Flows the River

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385141718. Book Club Edition. Illustrated by Fred Marcellino. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light generalized toning, and ont tiny chip to the top spine end. "Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her married name, J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke) , Ceremony of the Innocent, Pillar of Iron (about Cicero) , The Earth is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan) and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer As a Man, appeared in 1980. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 45372

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0385141718 Modern Fiction First Edition Taylor Caldwell American Dream