East of Eden (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. Reprint of centennial edition. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. 601 pp. Inspiration for the 1955 James Dean film, by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. "In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John... Read More
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The Grapes of Wrath
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 144x80x32. Early reprint of trade edition (no book club indent on rear corner). Lacks jacket. Spine and edges toned, ink name and date (1940) on front endpaper, front hinge just beginning to weaken, large tear to binding edge of title page and dedication page. 1939 Hard Cover.... Read More
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The Winter of Our Discontent
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. First trade edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket foxed. Top page ridge lightly soiled. 1961 Hard Cover. 311 pp. "In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had "resumed his position... Read More
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Inside Television's First War: A Saigon Journal
by Steinman, Ron
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2002 Hard Cover. 262 pp. Inside Television's First War recounts Ron Steinman's tenure as head of the NBC news bureau in Saigon from April 1966 until July 1968. This... Read More
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The Ranchers: A Book of Generations
by Steiner, Stan
New York: Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Faint foxing to top ridge. 1980 Hard Cover. 241 pp. Talks with ranchers and homesteaders about the old days, revealing the kind of courage, independence, and dignity that keeps them bound to their farms and traditions.
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The Charterhouse of Parma (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 150)
by Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle De; de Balzac, Honore; Moncrieff, C.K. Scott
New York: The Modern Library, 1937. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Modern Library edition, Toledano 150.2, binding 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine and edges faded, pencil name and date on front endpaper. 1937 Hard Cover. lxxxi, 343 pp. Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, with A Study of M. Beyle... Read More
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The Red and the Black (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 157)
by Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle De; Moncrieff, C.K. Scott
New York: The Modern Library, 1926. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 6x5x1. 1931-39 printing of Toledano 157.1, binding style 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, a few minor blemishes to boards, several small spots on fore edge, ink name and date on half-title page. 1926 Hard Cover. vi, [2], 287, [1], v-vi, 9-349, [9] pp.... Read More
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Fireworks Over Toccoa
by Stepakoff, Jeffrey
New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Signed by author. First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Minimal wear to corners. 2010 Trade Paperback. viii, 263 pp. An unexpected discovery takes 84-year-old Lily Davis Woodward to 1945, and the five days... Read More
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Zeppelins: German Airships, 1900-40 (Osprey New Vanguard, 101)
by Stephenson, Charles
New York: Osprey, 2004. 4th Printing. Soft Cover. Fine. 7x0x9. Palmer, Ian. Fourth printing. An exceptional copy. 2004 Soft Cover. 48 pp. On 2 July 1900 the people of Friedrichshafen, Germany, witnessed a momentous occasion - the first flight of LZ 1, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's first airship. Although deemed a failure, a succession of better craft (LZ2... Read More
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Castles: A History of Fortified Structures Ancient, Medieval and Modern
by Stephenson, Charles
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2011. First American Edition. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 10x7x0. First American edition. A nice copy. 2011 Large Softcover. 288 pp. While the word "castle" conjures up an image of the classic medieval stone edifice, resplendent with towers and turrets, battlements and barbicans, and the odd oubliette, the impulse to build defensive works is... Read More
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A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States; Its Causes, Character, Conduct, and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall., in Two Volumes
by Stephens, Alexander H
Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Corners a bit rubbed, front hinge of first volume weakening, front matter of first volume a bit foxed, pencil marks in margins of a few pages, ink name and date on verso of first volume front free endpaper (and in pencil on flyleaf of... Read More
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From Darkness to Light: or, The Basilisk's Love
by Stephens, Henry Pottinger; St. Leger, Warham
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1886. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Rear board soiled, hinges starting, pencil names on front free endpaper. 1886 Hard Cover. 248 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. Scarce - only two in OCLC. A novel about a man struck blind by a withering look from a... Read More
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Death on the Deep (A Crime Club Mystery Story)
by Stephenson, H.M
Garden City, New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fine. 0x0x0. First edition. Includes new facsimile dust jacket, as well as portions of the original underneath (flaps, rear panel, and small portion of front panel). Former library copy with stamps on endpapers, edges a bit foxed, front hinge... Read More
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Mary, Mary (The Modern Library, No. 30)
by Stephens, James; Colum, Padraic (Introduction)
New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc. [The Modern Library], 1919. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1919 first thus, Toledano 030.1, binding style 2, olive Brodzky endpapers. Lacks jacket. Corners a bit rubbed,. xiii, 263 pp. Introduction by Padraic Colum. James Stephens was an Irish novelist and poet who "brought a fresh and distinctive element into the... Read More
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Mary, Mary (The Modern Library, No. 30)
by Stephens, James; Colum, Padraic (Introduction)
New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc. [The Modern Library], 1919. First Thus. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 1919 first thus, Toledano 030.1, binding style 2, olive Brodzky endpapers. Lacks jacket. Front joint rubbed, blank paper mounted on front endpaper, apparent portion of absent jacket mounted on half-title page (includes blurb about author and this work). xiii, 263 pp. Introduction by... Read More
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Stephans' Railroad Directory, in Two Volumes: Volume 3A; Volume 3B - Railroad / Railfan 1929-1987
by Stephans, Karen & Earl
Chenango Forks, New York: Tioga Publications, 1988. Large Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Edges lightly rubbed and beginning to delaminated. 1988 Large Softcover. Continued pagination 336; 337 - 557, A81, B8, C6 pp. Two volume set. CONTENTS: Operating Instructions (UBRI); The Source (History); Locomotives; Extras; Rent-a-Kid Photo Copies; Passenger Equipment; Dispatchers Report; Freight Cars; Non-Revenue Equipment; Deadheads; Traction; Structures,... Read More
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Snow Crash
by Stephenson, Neal
New York: Del Rey, 2017. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2017 Trade Paperback. 468 pp. Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and... Read More
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The Baroque Cycle Three Volume Set: Quicksilver; The Confusion; The System of the World
by Stephenson, Neal
New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12x10x8. All three volumes are first printings of the first editions. Minimal wear to corners. Bindings tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. Three hardcover volumes. "The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels written by American writer Neal... Read More
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Captain Ravenshaw; or, The Maid of Cheapside - A Romance of Elizabethan London
by Stephens, Robert Neilson
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Pyle, Howard; et al. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him) with his ink stamp on front endpaper. Spine... Read More
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Modern Witch Tarot Deck
by Sterle, Lisa
New York: Sterling Ethos, 2019. Hard Cover. Fine. 7x5x1. New. Still in shrink wrap. 2019 Hard Cover. 56 pp. The strength of traditional tarot symbols combine with diverse bodies, up-to-the-minute fashion, and the strength and power of twenty-first-century witchcraft, where we make our own magic. The 78 cards of the tarot deck are rich with meaning - archetypes... Read More
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The House Without a Door (Pocket Books 774)
by Sterling, Thomas
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1951. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. First printing. Rear cover lightly soiled. 1951 Mass Market Paperback. 247 pp. An agoraphobic heiress finally decides to leave her apartment, only to immediately become tangled in a murder plot.
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. by Mr. Yorick
by Sterne, Laurence
London: James Fleming, 1769. Fourth Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Fourth edition. Front board loose, one leaf (pp. 143/4) loose, 1 inch chip from marginal corner of another leaf (pp. 155/6), boards a bit rubbed. 1769 Full-Leather. 240 pp. Engraved frontispiece of author. Full leather, burgundy morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. A Sentimental Journey Through France and... Read More
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The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)
by Sterne, Laurence
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Austen, John. Notes from the Editors booklet laid in. Blemishes on gilt edges. 1980 Full-Leather. xiv, [6], 444 pp. 8vo. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, pink ribbon marker bound in. Woodcut illustrations by John Austen. Originally published in... Read More
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My First 79 Years
by Stern, Isaac; Potok, Chaim
New York: Knopf, 1999. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x10. First trade edition. Tiny ink line to front jacket. 1999 Hard Cover. 336 pp. For sixty-four years, Isaac Stern has been a great--and greatly loved--performing artist, famous for his profound music-making, his gusto for life, his passionate dedication to sharing his knowledge and wisdom with... Read More
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A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy, with Selections from the Journals, Sermons, & Correspondence of Laurence Sterne (International Collectors Library)
by Sterne, Laurence; Cross, Wilbur L
Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library, 1926. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards lightly rubbed. 1926 Hard Cover. xx, 281 pp. Brown boards with blind-stamped design on front, gilt titles and decorations on spine and front, top edge gilt, ribbon marker bound in, decorated endpapers. A novel by the author of The Life and Opinions... Read More
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