Dust Jacket Books

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Barbara Bush's A Memoir Signed by her, in a great condiiton. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by the author and former spy John le Carré. It follows the endeavours of the taciturn, ageing spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service. The novel has received critical acclaim for its complex social commentary and, at the time, relevance, following the defection of Kim Philby. It was followed by The Honourable Schoolboy in 1977 and Smiley's People in 1979. The three novels together make up the "Karla Trilogy", named after Smiley's long-time nemesis Karla, the head of Soviet foreign intelligence and the trilogy's overarching antagonist.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last novel to feature the latter and was succeeded by Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which had been written in the early 1940s but was published last. Elephants Can Remember concentrates on memory and oral testimony.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition of the 2nd installment of the Jurassic Park Trilogy - Four years after the original film, John Hammond (Attenborough) loses control of his company InGen to his nephew, Peter Ludlow (Howard). On the verge of bankruptcy, Ludlow intends to exploit dinosaurs from InGen's second island, Isla Sorna, with plans for a new dinosaur theme park in San Diego. Hammond sends a team, led by the eccentric chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Goldblum), to the island to document the dinosaurs and encourage non-interference, although the two groups eventually come into conflict.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition Biography of The Great George Gershwin. A self-confessed modern romantic, "a man without traditions,'' George Gershwin wrote hundreds of lively, expressive, perfectly crafted songs, the opera Porgy and Bess and longer, more pretentious works that, 50 years after his death, remain in the repetory. Arguably, he is the most popular American composer of all time. In describing Gershwin's life and career, this long book, by a prolific writer on American music and military aviation, lists the highlights, repeats many familiar anecdotes and, curiously, does not include in the bibliography the Charles Schwartz biography that for some 15 years has been regarded as the standard work. For many readers, the most interesting part of this book will be the epilogue describing the later career of Ira Gershwin, who died in 1983, after ``he had just enjoyed some of his favorite chocolates.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is a 1977 short story collection by British author Roald Dahl. The seven stories are generally regarded as being aimed at a slightly older audience than many of Dahl's other children's novels. The stories were written at various times throughout his life. Two of the stories are autobiographical in nature; one describes how he first became a writer while the other describes some of Dahl's experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War. Another piece in the collection is a non-fiction account of a British farmer finding a legendary haul of ancient Roman treasure. In 2023, the title story of the collection, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", was adapted into a short film directed by Wes Anderson with Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular character, alongside Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade.[2] Another short story from the collection, "The Swan", was also adapted into a short film directed by Anderson in 2023 and subsequently included into his 2024 anthology film.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Misery is a psychological horror novel by US author Stephen King, first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987. The novel hinges on the relationship between its two main characters \u0096 novelist Paul Sheldon and his self-proclaimed number one fan Annie Wilkes. When Sheldon is seriously injured following a car accident, former nurse Annie rescues him and keeps him prisoner in her isolated farmhouse. Misery, which took fourth place in the 1987 bestseller list, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Rob Reiner, in 1990, and into a theatrical production starring Laurie Metcalf and Bruce Willis in 2015.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Sir John Hunt 1st Edition of The Conquest of Everest - The Conquest of Mount Everest, announced on The very day of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, has captured the imagination of the entire civilized world. "In the human terms of physical effort and endurance alone," the Duke of Edinburgh writes of this momentous achievement, "it will live in history as a shining example to all mankind.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. True Rare First Edition copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Has misprint on page 100 which reads eleven outstanding O.W.L.s. should have read Ten outstanding O.W.L.s. In later editions this mistake was corrected.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First impression. The Golden Age, first published in 1895, is a collection of childhood reminiscences by Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in the Willows. The Maxfield Parrish edition of The Golden Age was the first illustrated edition, published in 1899. It was bound in red cloth, with the title page dated 1900. This 1904 edition contains new photogravure reproductions of the Parrish illustrations, including the title page dated 1900. Photogravure frontispiece, title page, and 17 plates by Parrish, all with captioned tissue guards, tailpieces Photogravure is a complex intaglio printing process that uses a photographic image to etch a copper plate, resulting in a high-quality print with rich tones and subtle details. It's a "photomechanical" process where a light-sensitive gelatin tissue is exposed to a film positive, transferred to a copper plate, and then etched to create the image.Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front lettered in orange and black on white ground above an illustration of a castle by a river in gilt, green, and orange, within a single rule black border, light brown printed endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Edition May 1941 - Great Condition - Steinbeck s desire to work on a movie without any involvement from Hollywood, together with his love for Mexico, led to the controversial 1941 semi-documentary The Forgotten Village. The film was produced in 1940 after several discussions with Herbert Kline, Paul de Kruif, and Pare Lorentz, on a budget of $35,000 it was released in September 1941 in NYC and November across the USA. Steinbeck s fascination with themes that convey a strong social message is obvious in The Forgotten Village, where the central figure is a boy who detaches himself from an archaic society dominated by superstitions and joins a world of reason and scientific progress. The boy comes to the realization that education is the only tool that can help break the wall of ignorance that separates the remote village from the rest of the world, and can ultimately save the members of the small community from suffering and death. As Jackson Benson points out, Steinbeck s previous contact with the migrant camps, his witnessing of the terrible life conditions that could have easily been prevented, play an important role in the writer s rendition of the clash between two very different ways of thinking and living.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. GrandPré, Mary (illustrator). 1st Edition. Impressive true First Edition with error pages 683 and 684. Original error made by the author when she wrote they found seats in the topmost row of the stands only to find on the next page that Hagrid had squeezed his way all along the row behind. This mistake was corrected in later editions.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King. While maintaining a horror style, the novel is an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods. King has since soured on The Tommyknockers, describing it as "an awful book", due to his drug addiction while writing the novel, though acknowledges the story's potential: "There's really a good book in here, underneath all the sort of spurious energy that cocaine provides, and I ought to go back." A miniseries adaptation of the same name was released in 1993.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Ford, George Cephas (illustrator). 1st Edition. Recounts the high and low moments of the renowned black singer and actor's life and career and of his efforts on behalf of equal opportunities and rights for all people. Signed by both Eloise Greenfield the Author and George Ford the Illustrator. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Harry Potter and the the Deathly Hallows first edition, first issue that contains an error missing the last 30 pages, had a few hundred released before it was noticed. 759 pages in this True First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This was Jack London's first book, published in 1900. It was a collection of nine of his early short stories about the Klondike gold rush and life in the far North. He had previously spent time living among the miners and trappers in the Yukon and these stories reflect those experiences.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. GrandPré, Mary (illustrator). 1st Edition. True 1st Edition no year number on the spine with errors First, on page 157 "Percy" is misspelled "Perry" - Second, the large "2" is missing from the spine of the dust jacket. - The lettering on the Spine of the Dust Jacket is raised indicating a true first state Dust Jacket. All errors were corrected early in the first printing of the first American Edition. I can send the photos if you need more. Thank You!

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, UK first edition, first printing by J.K. Rowling. The book is published by Bloomsbury and issued in hardback. States: First Edition on title page signifying it s first edition first print status.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality", with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature.It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was banned in the United States. Its publication in 1961 in the United States by Grove Press led to obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography in the early 1960s. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the book non-obscene. It is regarded as an important work of 20th-century literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. The Long Valley is a collection of short fiction by John Steinbeck. Most of the stories appeared originally in literary periodicals, and were first collected by Viking Press in 1938. Ranked among Steinbeck's "finest and best-known" fiction, these are among the most frequently anthologized of Steinbeck's stories, widely read by university undergraduates and high school students.Author and social critic Andre Gide declared that several stories in The Long Valley "equaled or surpassed" those of Russian author Anton Checkov. "The Murder" and "The Promise" were selected for the O. Henry Prize anthology for short fiction in 1934 and 1938, respectively. The Dust Jacket is a Facsimile.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Little, Brown republished them in this anthology in 1963. It was the first time the novellas had appeared in book form. The book was the third best-selling novel in the United States in 1963, according to Publishers Weekly.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Reivers: A Reminiscence, published in 1962, is the last novel by the American author William Faulkner. It was published a month before his death. The bestselling novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963. Faulkner previously won this award for his book A Fable, making him one of only four authors to be awarded it more than once. Unlike many of his earlier works, it is a straightforward narration and eschews the complicated literary techniques of his more well-known works. It is a picaresque novel, and as such may seem uncharacteristically lighthearted given its subject matter. For these reasons, The Reivers is often ignored by Faulkner scholars or dismissed as a lesser work. He previously had referred to writing a "Golden Book of Yoknapatawpha County" with which he would finish his literary career. It is likely that The Reivers was meant to be this "Golden Book". The Reivers was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Mark Rydell and starring Steve McQueen as Boon Hogganbeck. In the early 20th century, an 11-year-old boy named Lucius Priest (a distant cousin of the McCaslin/Edmonds family Faulkner wrote about in Go Down, Moses) somewhat unwittingly gets embroiled in a plot to go to Memphis with dimwitted family friend and manservant Boon Hogganbeck. Boon steals (reives, thereby becoming a reiver) Lucius' grandfather's car, one of the first cars in Yoknapatawpha County. They discover that Ned McCaslin, a black man who works with Boon at Lucius' grandfather's stables, has stowed away with them (Ned is also a blood cousin of the Priests).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED (JOHNSON, LYNDON) WHITE, WILLIAM S. THE PROFESSIONAL: LYNDON B. JOHNSON. BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1964. OCTAVO, ORIGINAL RED CLOTH, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. First edition, fourth printing, of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William White s history of Johnson HE FELT, ALL AT ONCE, THE WHOLE WEIGHT OF THE COUNTY : THE PROFESSIONAL, PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION TO LABOR LEADER JOHN L. LEWIS. Signed by Author(s).

Pristine First Edition 12th Printing of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Original Dust Jacket. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California on the "mother road", along with thousands of other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future. The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy. A Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was released in 1940.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Horton Hears a Who! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It was published in August 12,1954 by Random House.This book tells the story of Horton the Elephant and his adventures saving Whoville, a tiny planet located on a speck of dust, from the animals who mock him. These animals attempt to steal and burn the speck of dust, so Horton goes to great lengths to save Whoville from being incinerated. Geisel began work on Horton Hears a Who! in the fall of 1953. It is his second book to feature Horton the Elephant with the first being Horton Hatches the Egg. The Whos would later reappear in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The book's main theme, "a person's a person no matter how small", was Geisel's reaction to his visit to Japan, where the importance of the individual was an emerging concept. Geisel, who had harbored strong anti-Japan sentiments before and during World War II, changed his views dramatically after the war and used this book as an allegory for the American post-war occupation of the country. His comparison of the Whos and the Japanese was a way for him to express his willingness for companionship. Geisel strived to relay the message that the Japanese should be valued equally, especially in a stressful post-war era. He dedicated the book to a Japanese friend Mitsugi Nakamura. "A person's a person, no matter how small" is the most popular line from Horton Hears a Who! and also serves as the major moral theme that Dr. Seuss conveys to his audience.Horton endures harassment to care for and ensure the safety of the Whos, who represent the insignificant. Horton Hears a Who! has been well received in libraries, schools, and homes across the world. The book has been adapted as a 1970 television special and a 2008 animated film by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation, and much of its plot was incorporated into the Broadway musical production Seussical.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. GrandPré, Mary (illustrator). 1st Edition. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Deluxe Signed by J.K. Rowling first edition, first issue that contains an error missing the last 30 pages, 759 pages in this True First Edition in The US, Plus some mistakes in Chapter 6 and Chapter 9 Hermione Lies! In Deathly Hallows, Chapter 6 ( The Goul in Pyjamas ), p 96, US edition, Hermione informs Harry that she has modified her parents memory and they have no recollection of having a daughter: I ve also modified my parents memories so that they re convinced they re really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins But later in Deathly Hallows, Chapter 9 ( A Place to Hide ), p 167, US edition, she appears to have forgotten all about it! Ron says But I ve never done a Memory Charm. Nor have I, said Hermione, but I know the theory. Signed by Author(s).

Great First Edition First Printing of The Mansion is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1959. It is the last in a trilogy of books about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi, following The Hamlet and The Town. The Mansion completes Faulkner's trilogy of novels about the fictional Snopes family in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi. The trilogy also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation. The novel charts the downfall of Flem Snopes at the hands of his relative Mink Snopes, in part aided by Flem's deaf Spanish-Civil-War-veteran daughter, Linda Snopes. It falls into three parts: 'Mink', 'Linda', and 'Flem'. Three narrators tell the story: Gavin Stevens, V.K. Ratliff, and Charles (Chick) Mallison.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition - Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963 64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is the first installment of the Dune Chronicles. It is one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. Dune is set in the distant future in a feudal interstellar society, descended from terrestrial humans, in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs. It tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family reluctantly accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange or "spice", an enormously valuable drug that extends life and enhances mental abilities. Melange is also necessary for space navigation, which requires a kind of multidimensional awareness and foresight that only the drug provides. As melange can only be produced on Arrakis, control of the planet is a coveted and dangerous undertaking. The story explores the multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion as the factions of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its spice.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centers on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviors. The story takes place in a fictional future. The current year is uncertain, but believed to be 1984. Much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. The Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance and, through the Ministry of Truth, historical negationism and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Orwell described his book as a "satire",and a display of the "perversions to which a centralised economy is liable", while also stating he believed "that something resembling it could arrive". The novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated. Parallels have been drawn between the novel and real-world totalitarianism, mass surveillance and violations of freedom of expression, among other themes. Facsimile Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a first edition set of History Of The American People by Woodrow Wilson produced by Harper and Brothers 1902. This 5 volume set is bound in dark blue cloth and printed on finely milled paper to last several lifetimes. Books are heavily illustrated both in color as lithographs and steel engravings. Books also contain several pull-out color maps that are usually taken out and sold separately. Condition of books is great, all 5 are very clean and tightly bound.