First Editions

First Editions

Adams, Douglas, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Short Story (Gramercy Books, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 0-517-22695-2. Leather bound with gilt titling, the last word in the misadventures of Arthur Dent. Very good condition. HBB price: $85.

Anthony, Edward, O Rare Don Marquis: Author of archy and mehitabel and other hilarities (Doubleday, 1962, 1st ed., 1962). LOC 62-7596. A fine, entertaining biography of humorist Don Marquis (1878-1937), creator of that immortal pair, archy and mehitabel. Hardcover, 8.5” x 6”, unclipped dust jacket with some wear. Yellowing and some spotting on the edges. Overall good condition; eminently readable. HBB price: $17.95.

Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1986). Famed tale of the United States’ evolution into a monotheocracy whose people made the Puritans seem like an average night at Studio 54. A dystopian favorite! Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Auel, Jean, The Shelters of Stone (Crown, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-609-61059-7. Fifth in Auel’s bestselling Earth’s Children series. Hardcover,unclipped dust jacket in mylar; as new condition.  HBB price: $49.95.

Axelrod, George, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1956). LOC 56-6818. George Axelrod (1922-2003) had the gift. He started in radio, then moved into TV, producing program scripts and gags for Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. His 1952 play, “The Seven Year Itch”, ran for three years and was a blockbuster hit film with Marilyn Monroe. Axelrod followed that with “Rock Hunter” about a fan magazine writer who sells his soul to the Devil (in the person of a literary agent; Axelrod wrote the dedication, “Ten percent of this play is dedicated to Irving Lazar,” his own agent) in return for success as a playwright. The show ran for over a year and was adapted into a much-altered movie in which bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield was the only thing left from the original. Axelrod went on to do successful adaptations for The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and other films). Hardcover, 145 pp, 8.25” x 5.75”, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Baldacci, David, The Winner (Warner Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, December 1997). ISBN 0-446-52259-7. A woman on her way to a John Grisham novel gets hijacked by this tale of a rigged $100m lottery prize. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, autographed on title page. Border’s “autographed by author” sticker on the front end pages. Very good condition: $35.

Berendt, John, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Random House, 1994). ISBN  0-679-42922-0. “The Book,” they call it in Savannah. This shaggy dog tale wraps around a murder trial, but the stars are locals like drag artist Lady Chablis, who- after playing herself in the film version, announced she expected to be the first performer in history to win Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Autographed at Clary’s Cafe’ in Savannah. HBB price: $35.

Bellow, Saul, More Die of Heartbreak (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1987). ISBN 0-688-06935-5. “I am a phoenix,” one character says, “who runs after arsonists.” A sex farce about two midwestern academics by the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner (1915-2005). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $120.

Blyth, R.H., Zen In English Literature and Oriental Classics (Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1st ed., 1942). A vegetarian and World War I conscientious objector imprisoned for his beliefs, Reginald Howard Blyth (1898-1964) emigrated to Korea as a college professor of English in 1925. He studied zen, learned Chinese and Japanese, and, after divorcing his English wife and marrying a Japanese one, moved to Japan in 1936. There he taught, and wrote a series of books on zen and haiku. Though interned by the Japanese for the war, Blyth emerged as liaison between the Imperial Household and General MacArthur’s occupation staff, and became tutor to the current emperor, Akihito. Blyth had a major influence on Western thought about zen and haiku, especially among the Beat writers of the 1950s. Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics was his most popular book; in this wartime, English-language version it is quite rare, and rarer still with a very good dust jacket as HBB’s copy sports. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. 5.25” x 7.25”. HBB price: $175.

Brinkerhoff, Peter C., Faith-Based Management: Leading Organizations That Are Based On More Than Just Mission (John Wiley, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-471-31544-3. First-of-of-its-kind guide to managing in the environments that make faith organizations different from the average nonprofit. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $50.

Brown, Alton, I'm Just Here For The Food (Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 1-58479-083-0. The irrepressible Food Network host’s first cookbook, “one for people who would rather understand their food than follow a recipe.” Ohhhh….kay. Hardcover, oversized, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $35.

Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, typo at p. 243 corrected, 2003). ISBN 0-385-50420-9. The first of symbologist Robert Langdon’s sprints through history and scenic locales. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price; 150.

Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition (Doubleday: 1st ed., 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-385-51375-5. With all the copies Da Vinci sold in 2003, the publishers figured there must be some milk left in the cow and brought out this lavishly-illustrated version of Robert Langdon’s  first adventure in Action Symbology. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $100.

Brown, Dan, The Lost Symbol (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2009). ISBN 978-0-385-50422-5. Robert Langdon’s sequel to The Da Vinci Code. This time he tackles Freemasonry, the Founders, and more tunnels. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $125.

Brown, Dan, Inferno (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2013). ISBN 978-0-385-53785-8. The third of Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers, this time set in Florence, the story driven by references to Dante’s Inferno. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $100.

Buckley, William F., Jr., Overdrive: A Personal Documentary (Doubleday & Co., 1st ed., 1983). ISBN 0-385-18269-4. The celebrated conservative activist/writer documented a week in his life in this book. Reviewing it in The New York Times, Nora Ephron concluded, “A boy born to a small oil fortune grows up to be a man with three homes, five in help, a wife on the best-dressed list and the secure belief that even his preference in peanut butter will be of interest to his fans. His attitude toward life is so cheerful and good-natured - and what's more, he's right about the peanut butter - that it seems almost churlish to point out that it is possible to spend too much time in a limousine. The English used to say, give an Irishman a horse and he'll vote Tory, but never mind.” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, autographed on bookplate. HBB price: $35.

Bush, Barbara, A Memoir (Lisa Drew Books/Scribners, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-202-519275-2. The matriarch of the political dynasty tells of her life with George and all the Bushes. Autographed on title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition.  HBB price: $50.

Capote, Truman, The Collected Stories of Truman Capote (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-679-64310-9. It’s easy to remember Capote (1924-1984), if at all, as the outrageous, dissipated,, social and media star he was in the 1960s and ‘70s. His short stories remind readers what a remarkable, even prodigious talent he was in his youth. This collection has a thoughtful introduction by Reynolds Price. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with 1.5” tear at bottom right corner of front dust jacket. Very good condition. 297 pp. HBB price: $30.

Child, Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone; Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 2 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed, 1st/2nd printings before publication, 3rd printing, December, 1970). First mention of “asbestos cement” at the bottom of page 71. LOC 61-12313. The sequel to the classic that catapulted Child to fame, covers seven subjects: soups; baking; meats; chickens: charcuterie; veg; and desserts. Hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition; a small divot out at the top of the spine. Title page and logo printed in blue. 7.25” x 10.25”. HBB price: $25.

Child, Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone; Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol.1); Child, Julia; and Beck, Simone, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. 2). Knopf, 1961, 1970; first book club edition (title page and logo for Ecole Des 3 Gourmandes is in black). 6.5” x 9.5” No dust jacket. Very good condition. Inscribed by Julia Child and her husband, Paul Child, who illustrated both books. Envelope address tag for owner on front end page of each. HBB price: $500 the set.

Child, Julia, From Julia’s Child’s Kitchen (Knopf, 1975, stated 1st. ed., 1975). ISBN 0-394-48071-6. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with some wear and tear to edges. Book condition very good. Signed by both Julia Child and her husband/illustrator, Paul Child without her trademark inscription, “Bon Appetit!” Envelope address tag for owner on front end page. HBB price: $300.

Child, Julia, Julia Child & Company (Knopf, 1st ed, 1978). ISBN 0-394-73532-3. Paperback, 8.5” x. 11”. Julia Child is said to have commented she hated to see copies of her books without cooking stains on them. This one would make her happy; the covers indicate close proximity to the owner’s mise en place. The colorfully-illustrated text, however, is in very good shape. Inscribed by both Julia and Paul Child- without her signature “Bon Appetit!” on the title page. A number of recipes and articles are laid in. HBB price: $200.

Child, Julia, The Way to Cook (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1989). ISBN 0-394-53264-3. An innovative cookbook organized around how to cook something basic (chicken, anyone? poach an egg?), with variations thereon. As entertaining as Julia can be in print. Illustrations everywhere. Hardcover; quarto, unclipped dust jacket, inscribed on the half-title page. Very good condition. 511 pp. HBB price: $195.

Conroy, Pat, The Prince of Tides (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1986). ISBN 0-395-35300-9. Searing tale of a South Carolina Low Country family worthy of a Eugene O’Neill play. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, Brodart cover, fine condition. inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan.  HBB price: $350.

Conroy, Pat, The Prince of Tides (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1986). ISBN 0-395-35300-9. Searing tale of a South Carolina Low Country family worthy of a Eugene O’Neill play. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition.  HBB price: $100.

Conroy, Pat, Beach Music (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1995). ISBN 0-385-41304-1. Conroy’s Holocaust-meets-Low-Country-angst novel. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $50.

Conroy, Pat, My Losing Season (Nan Talese/Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-385-48912-9. The author of Prince of Tides recalls his senior year on The Citadel’s basketball team. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed on title page. HBB price: $100.

Corbett, Jim, The Corbett Collection (Safari Press, 6 volumes slipcased, 1991). ISBN 0-940143-54-2. Legendary British/Indian hunter /conservationist James Edward Corbett (1875-1955) devoted much of his life to hunting down and killing man-eating tigers and leopards. Between 1935 and 1954 he wrote six books on his experiences: My India; Jungle Lore; Man-Eaters of Kumaon; Temple Tiger/Tree Tops; and Leopards of Rudraprayag. Attractive five volume set, hardcover, very good condition. A prize for the big game enthusiast and pre-independence India fans. HBB price: $150.

Coy, John, Night Driving (Henry Holt, 1996, 1st ed. 3rd printing). ISBN 0-8050-2931-1. A small boy recalls an overnight drive with his dad for a camping trip in the mountains, circa 1950. Magical illustrations by Peter McCarty. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Crichton, Michael, Disclosure (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1994), ISBN 0-679-41945-4. Fatal Attraction meets the dot.com boom. Made into a Michael Douglas movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $45.

Crothers, Tim, The Man Watching: A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever (Sports Media Group, 1st. ed, later printing, 2006). ISBN 978-1-58726-434-4. Eighteen national championships and a 94% win rate seem to back up the claim at the University of North Carolina’s women’s soccer team is about as good as they get. Hardcover, dust jacket price clipped, very good condition, autographed by Crothers and Dorrance.

Deighton, Len, Spy Sinker (Cornelia and Michael Bessie/HarperCollins, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). Another in the series describing the complicated life of Fiona, double agent in the last days of the Cold War. Very good condition. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. HBB $35.

DeMille, Nelson, Night Fall (Time Warner, stated 1st ed., 1st printing, November, 2004). Five years after its explosion and crash off Long Island, TWA Flight 800 haunts FBI agent Kate Mayfield. She convinces her husband, an anti-terror expert, the case is worth another look, and this ripped-from-the-headlines novel is off and running. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket fine condition. HBB price: $25

Dole, Elizabeth, Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (Carroll & Graf, 1st ed., 2004). Bon mots collected by the NC native, former senator, cabinet officer, presidential candidate and American Red Cross president over her long career in public service. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, almost fine condition, 8” x 6”. Autographed on the title page at a Salisbury NC bookstore, February 19, 2005. HBB price: $15.

Du Maurier, George, Trilby (London: Osgood & McIlvaine & Co., 1895). Said to be the inspiration for The Phantom of the Opera, this novel inspired the Trilby hat (worn by a character in the stage play), introduced the phrase “in the altogether” and inspired the notoriously litigious artist Whistler to threaten suit over a character (Du Maurier apologized and rewrote the offending sections). Du Maurier also introduced the character Svengali, whose name became a synonym for  a man holding utter sway over a submissive woman. Hardcover, blue boards with gilt titling on cover and spine. 447 pp, octavo, with six pages of publisher’s ads. Slight separation of spine at back endpapers; small tear across bottom of spine. Bookseller label of Gilbert & Field, 67 Moorgate Street, London E.C., which operated at that location from the mid-1870s to circa World War I. HBB price $75.

Edgar, Walter, Partisans & Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned The Tide of The American Revolution (William Morrow, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2001). ISBN 0-380-97760-5. The prominent South Carolina historian’s account of the British invasion of the Carolinas, and how it led to their defeat. Edgar is a fine writer. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, mylar cover, octavo, 198 pp. very good condition. HBB price: $30.

Edgerton, Clyde, Where Trouble Sleeps, (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997, 1st ed. 1st printing). ISBN 1-56512-06102. The saga of Listre, NC continues as a stoplight gets installed and outsiders start showing up. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Edgerton, Clyde, The Floatplane Notebooks (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1988). ISBN 0-945575-00-9. Another in the series of tales set in Listre, North Carolina, this novel chronicles the Copeland family as they gather, through the generations, each May to clean up the family graveyard.Anyone who’s ever been to such an event will know how true this story rings. Excellent, as-new copy; hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Christmas, 1988 inscription on the front paper. HBB price: $100.

Eliot, T.S., Murder in the Cathedral (Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1st ed. 1935). Cloth boards; near-fine book with very good unclipped dust jacket. Octavo, 86 pp. Dramatization of the murder of Thomas a Becket in 1170. HBB price: $250.

Eisenhower, Dwight D., At Ease: Stories I Tell To Friends (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1967). LOC 67-13781. The former president’s reminiscences of his life up to his becoming President. Entertaining, less formal than his official memoirs. Hardcover, octavo, 400 pp. Unclipped dust jacket, some wear and tear at the edges. Good condition: HBB price: $15.

Ellroy, James, My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1996). ISBN 0-679-44185-9. The author of The Black Dahlia sets out to close the file on his mother’s murder unsolved after 38 years. Hardcover, octavo, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. “Signed by the Author” sticker on front of dust jacket. HBB price: $200.

Ervin, Senator Sam, Humor of A Country Lawyer (University of North Carolina Press, 1st ed., 1983). ISBN 0-8078-1566-7. Reminiscences by the famed chair of the Watergate Committee. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, inscribed “To Bruce Wofford, with all good wishes” and dated October 23, 1983. HBB price: $40.

Eumenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st ed. 1993). ISBN 0-374-28438-5. The novel that caused a sensation. Hardcover unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $125.

Follett, Ken, Code to Zero (Dutton, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2000). ISBN 0-525-94563-6. Page turner about a rocket scientist in 1958, stricken by amnesia as America’s space program reaches a crisis. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new, 356 pp. HBB price: $35.

Frazier, Charles, Nightwoods (Random House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4000-6709-1. A gripping tale of an Appalachian woman Luce, who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins. By the author of Cold Mountain. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

Friedman, Thomas L., The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 0-374-29288-4. The New York Times columnist explains the ways of the world in another best-seller. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 488 pp. HBB price: $125.

Garreau, Joel, The Nine Nations of North America (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1981). ISBN 0-395-29124-0. This enormously-discussed book proposed breaking the US, Mexico and Canada into nine countries based on geographic and socioeconomic affinities. Given the “great sorting” that has gone on since and the increasing vogue for seccesh talk on the political right, its day may be returning. Hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition, underlined text by previous owner. Autographed. HBB price: $20.

Graham, Rev. Dr. Billy, Peace With God: How To Choose In The Hour of Decision, (Doubleday & Co, 1953, later reprinting). LOC 53-5967. An early work by the renowned evangelist, reissued after his famous 1957 New York Crusade that drew some 2m people. The book sold more than 2m copies and was re-issued in a revised version in 1984. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $250.

Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume 2 (Charles L. Webster Co., 1st ed., 1886). Hardcover, no dust jacket, green boards with gilt titling and Grant medallion on cover. Tissue guard with frontispiece illustration; 32 engraved illustrations and maps. Good condition; one signature (pp. 275-86) separated from topstitching. HBB price: $150.

Graves, Robert, The Antigua Stamp (Seizin Press/Random House, 1st U.S. edition, 1937). Two children: the boy grows up to be a novelist; the girl, an actor-manager of a theater company. They both feud over the Antigua stamp, a rare object in their collection. A sardonic romp by the author of I, Claudius. Octavo, 325 pp. Hardcover, good condition; wear to the dust jacket, some taped but happily, not yellowed. The U.S. 1st is more scarce than the U.K. 1st. HBB price: $150.

Green, Ron, Shouting At The Amen Corner: The Masters- Dispatches from the World’s Greatest Greatest Golf Tournament (A SportsMasters Book, Sports Publishing Inc., 1999, 1st ed.). ISBN 1-58382-018-3. Charlotte Observer columnist collects 45 years of Masters articles. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Grisham, John, The Client (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-385-42471-X. Child sees murder, hires an unlikely lawyer.Menace ensues. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Grisham, John, The Chamber (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-385-42472-8. A Mississipp1 Klan’s member’s long-delayed retrial for a racially-motivated murder. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $125.

Grisham, John, The Runaway Jury Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-385-47294-3.The jury in a ruinously costly tobacco liability trial starts acting oddly in its deliberations. Are they being controlled? Or going rogue? Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $65.

Grisham, John, The Partner (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1997). ISBN 0-385-47295-1. A missing person becomes unmissing. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $100.

Grisham, John, A Painted House (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2001). Six weeks in the life of a young boy on a sharecropping Arkansas farm. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Grisham, John, The King of Torts (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-385-50804-2. Public defender meets loser client meets Big Pharma. Piles of cash are contended over. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Gurganus, Allan, Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1989). Child bride of an ancient Civil War soldier, Lucy Marsden is now herself 99, and seized of the notion to tell her life’s story. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Hamilton, Virginia, In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1988). ISBN 0-15-238740-4. A remarkable collection of 25 creation stories from cultures around the world, illustrated by the incomparable Barry Moser. 10.25” x 8.5”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Harris, Joanne, Chocolat (Viking, 1st American ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-670-88179-1. A mysterious woman moves into a French town along with a strong north wind. She is a single mom, refuses to attend church, and opens a chocolate shop. A hit movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $150.

Harris, Thomas, The Silence of the Lambs, (St. Martin’s Press, 1st. ed, 1st printing, 1988). ISBN 0-312-02282-4. Exceptional copy of the novel that made Anthony Hopkins an international household world as psycho killer Hannibal Lecter. Hardcover, unclipped

Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribners, 1st ed, early, unstated printing, 1940). Regarded by many as Hemingway’s masterwork, this love story set in the Spanish Civil War was published in October 1940 in a first printing of 75,000 copies. It was an immediate success and sold more than half a million copies in its first year. An endpaper note indicates this copy was purchased new in 1941. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket (some small tears and fraying at the edges, some browning on the end papers. Overall, good condition. 8.5” x 6”, 471 pp. HBB price: $100.

Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952, 1st. ed, 1st printing). Ex-library copy. Hardcover, octavo, 140 pp. Some foxing on the end papers; library stamps on front end papers. With unclipped dust jacket in mylar covering. No library tags on the spine. Blue-tinted author photo on back cover. Overall, very good condition. HBB price: $275.

Hockney, David & Spender, Sir Stephen, Hockney’s Alphabet (Random House, 1st US ed., 2nd printing, 1992). ISBN 0-679-41766-4. An oversized, illustrated Alphabet drawn by Hockney, with comments inspired by each letter from over two dozen British and American writers. Originally produced to benefit AIDS Crisis Trust; all proceeds from this sale will be donated to Carolina CARE Partners, towards the same end. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

House, Silas, Clay’s Quilt (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2001). ISBN 1-56512-307-7. Fine tale of an orphaned Kentucky coal miner’s efforts to find a life and a family of his own. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $45.

Housholder, Bob, editor, Grand Slam of North American Wild Sheep (Imperial Lithographers/Roswell Bookbinding, 2nd printing, May 1974). A collection of tales by ten members of the Grand Slam Club of the North American Sheep Hunters Association, describing what it was like to be among the fifty or so hunters to bag all four North American rams. Hardcover with gold lettering/ram’s head on cover and spine, no dust jacket, very good condition, affectionately inscribed by contributor Dr. Roy A. Schultz,DVM to Russ Reid, “one of the best sheep outfitters and sheep guides on the North American Continent!!!” in September, 1977. HBB price: $100.

Howe, Gordie & Colleen, “...and Howe! An Authorized Biography (Power Play Publications, 1995, 3rd printing), ISBN 0-9647149-0-6. The famed hockey star and his wife look back. SIgned by both. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Hughes, Robert, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1997). ISBN 0-679-42627-2. Companion to the PBS series, this volume is classic Hughes: Big, vivid and full of the cocksure judgements, expressed in vigorous prose. The Australian-born journalist (1938-2012)and art critic called the book his “love letter to America.” A large, handsome volume, 8’ x 10”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, near-fine condition. 633 pp. HBB price: $79.95.

Hughs, Rev. G. Carswell, First Church Sermons 1972-1982 (First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, 1st ed., May 1982). Privately printed under a bequest by Beulah Wallace Grier, a member from 1899 to 1978. Thirty sermons from the first ten years ministry of a popular pastor. Hardcover, no dust jacket, privately printed, autographed. HBB price: $35.

Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany (William Morrow, 1st trade ed., 1st printing, 1989). ISBN 0-688-07708-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. 543 pp. HBB price: $75.

Isaacson, Walter, Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9. The monumental life of one of the most influential figures of the last century. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, Very good condition, octavo, 627 pp. HBB price: $85.

James, P.D., The Children of Men (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st American edition, 1993). ISBN 0-679-41873-3. Best known for her Adam Dalgliesh detective novels, James surprised and delighted readers when, at 73, she produced a dystopian sci fi novel in which all the men of England became infertile in 1995. in 2021 things were rapidly unraveling socially, and Oxford don Theodore Faron found himself drawn into the thick of the coming fray. Made into a 2006 film with Clive Owen. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new.

241 pp. HBB price: $100.

Kane, Harnett T., Queen New Orleans: City By The River (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1949). “The Poet Laureate of Louisiana” pens a raucous, affectionate portrait of The Big Easy. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, Brodart cover, very good condition, inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan. HBB price: $60.

Kantor, MacKinlay, Andersonville (World, 1st ed. 1955). LOC 55-8257. Kantor’s best-selling novel of the notorious Civil War prison camp where 50,000 Union prisoners died in fourteen months. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket in mylar, very good condition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Rare in this condition.  HBB price: $175.

Stephen King and f-stop Fitzgerald, Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (Viking Studio Books, 1988; hardcover, 128 pp, ISBN 0-670-82307-4; 1st ed., hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, 10" x 11.25", very good condition). Your price: US $75. Horror and suspense writer Stephen King found his first face-to-grimace encounter with a gargoyle, the grotesque waterspouts that have carried water away from the sides of stone buildings since ancient times. Seeing one up close, King writes, is like "having a nightmare awake."

The avant-gardishly named avant-garde photographer, f-stop Fitzgerald, shares King's fascination, and the two collaborated on what became a 1988 best-seller, Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques. 100 duotones and 24 full-color images menace and confront the reader in a fascinating, up-close-and-personal encounter with an art form we rarely notice at ground level.

King, Stephen, Cujo (Viking, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1981). ISBN 0-670-45193-2. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition; two nicks to back dust jacket. Owner’s name and “1981” inscribed on front endpaper. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Skeleton Crew (G.P. Putnam’s, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1985). ISBN 0-399-13039-X. Twenty-two terrifying tales. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $49.

King, Stephen, The Tommyknockers (G.P. Putnam’s, 1st ed. 1st printing, “Permissions to Come” notation, 1987). ISBN 0-399-13341-3. Be careful what you pull out of the ground: it could be the exposed bit of a buried space vehicle with plans for humanity. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, The Dark Half (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1987). 0-670-82982-X. An author’s pseudonym, resentful of being retired, gets even. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Four Past Midnight (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-399-13341-3. Four novellas: “The Langoliers,” “Secret Window,” “The Library Policeman” and “The Sun Dog.” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition; a slight stain on the fore-edge. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Dolores Claiborne (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-67084452-7. Accused of murdering an elderly woman for whom she cared, and suspected of offing her husband, Dolores tells all- and then some. What did she do? Was she right to do it? 9.5” x 6”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Nightmares & Dreamscapes (Viking, 1st ed., first printing, 1993). ISBN 0-670-85108-6. Masterful collection of short stories. Hardcover, unclipped dusty jacket. Very good condition. 2 copies; one with longhand gift inscription, and dog-ear crease on half-title page; small crease on top front dust jacket flap in the other. HBB price: $125 each.

King, Stephen, Rose Madder (Viking, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1995) ISBN 0-670-85869-2. Gripping tale of a woman pursued by a psycho husband. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $49.00

King, Stephen, Desperation (Viking, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-670-86386-1. A chance gathering of passers-through run up against the batshit-crazy cop of Desperation, Nevada. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: 3 copies; $119 each.

King, Stephen, Hearts in Atlantis (Scribner, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-684-85351-5. Five interconnected narratives, the ghosts of Vietnam lurking in them all. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $75.

King, Stephen, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-684-86762-1. A hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail goes rather seriously wrong. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2000). ISBN 0-684-85352-3. Highly-praised account of King’s evolution as an author. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $59.

King, Stephen, Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-7432-3515-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1st trade ed. 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 1-880148-59-2. The penultimate volume in King’s Dark Tower series. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.

King, Stephen, Duma Key (Scribner, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2008). ISBN 1-4165-5251-0. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $89.

Lamb, Wally, I Know This Much Is True (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1998). ISBN 0-06-039162-6. The 900 pp. saga of twins born at the turn of 1949-50, one schizophrenic. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $95.

Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Grove Press, 1st U.S. ed., “Original Unexpurgated Version”, 1959). “This edition is the third manuscript version, first published by Giuseppe Orioli, Florence, 1928.” With an introduction by Mark Schorer and a preface by Archibald MacLeish. This novel about a woman with the temerity to find a life without sex- her husband was disabled in The Great War caused decades of fuss and scandal in most of the English-speaking world. In an early instance of of congressional Republican literary criticism, Utah Senator Reed Smoot (later to play a memorable role in the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) declared in 1930, "I've not taken ten minutes on Lady Chatterley's Lover, outside of looking at its opening pages. It is most damnable! It is written by a man with a diseased mind and a soul so black that he would obscure even the darkness of hell!" (The American poet Ogden Nash wrote, in response,

Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)

Is planning a ban on smut.

Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.

And his reverend occiput.

Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,

Grit your molars and do your dut.,

Gird up your l__ns,

Smite h_p and th_gh,

We'll all be Kansas

By and by....

Nash, Ogden (January 11, 1930), "Invocation", The New Yorker: 30.

At its 1960 obscenity publication trial in the United Kingdom, the prosecutor summed up with the question that would, doubtless, have echoed through the drawing rooms of Downton Abbey: “Is this the sort of book you would wish your wife or servants to read?” Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth spine over cream-colored paper boards; gilt lettering. Dust jacket very good with light wear along the edging. 8.5” x. 5.25”, 368 pp. HBB price: $175.

Leighton, Clare, Southern Harvest (Macmillan, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1943). One of the most famous mid-20th century Anglo-American woodcut artists, Clare Leighton spent the war years in North Carolina. This collection of memories of her travels in the rural Carolinas of that day are brilliantly illustrated by the most singular woodcuts. Truly a lost art! Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket showing some wear and chipping. Very good condition overall. Quarto, 157 pp. Rare. HBB price: $50.

Loring, John, Tiffany Flora/Tiffany Fauna (Harry N. Abrams, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-8109-4573-8. Pair of beautifully-photographed volumes illustrating Tiffany’s output of jewelry and other goods in designs drawn from nature. In a striking white slipcase with nine open circles, front and back, allowing the dust jacket illustrations to show through. Hardcover, unclipped dust jackets, fine condition. HBB price: $125.

Maguire, Gregory, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-06-039282-7. The author of Wicked tells the Cinderella story. Hardcover, dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $60.

Manchester, William, The Death of A President: November 20- November 25, 1963 (Harper & Row, 1st ed., 1967). LOC 67-10496. Solicited by the President’s widow to write this book, Manchester and his publisher found himself on the receiving end of the Kennedy wrath when it was ready to publish- so much so that a disclaimer was printed in it to make clear it was not The Official Death. The first edition was let to go out of print by the Kennedys, making these copies rarer over time. This one is hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, octavo, 710 pp, very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Manser, Hugh, and McGrath, Alister, Packer, J.I., and Wiseman, Donald, Zondervan Dictionary of Bible Themes (Zondervan Publishing House, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-310-20668-5. Over 2000 thematic articles cross-referencing themes, related topics, and Biblical texts. Comparable, the publisher says, to Nave’s Topical Bible. Hardcover, no dust jacket, printed front and back covers, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Man, John, Gutenberg: How One Man Remade The World With Words (John Wiley, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-471-21823-5. A truly remarkable exercise in scholarship, this book seems to have run to ground every shred of documentary evidence to have survived through five centuries of European history to document the life of the man who invented moveable type. The detail is fascinating: how Gutenberg raised money and held at bay investors who wanted to interfere; how he tried to control the spread of his invention in an age without intellectual property laws; and how  the number of books in Europe went from a single wagon-load in 1455 to “tens of thousands, the individual volumes to millions” only fifty years later. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $15.

March,  Joseph Moncure, The Wild Party (Pantheon, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-679-42450-4. Woodcut illustrations by Art Spiegelman. Elegant reissue of the Jazz Age classic, first published in 1928. Spiegelman’s woodcuts are of the period. 8.75” x 5.5”, hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $39.95

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Of Love And Other Demons (Knopf, 1st American ed., 1995). ISBN 0-679-43853-X. A “bookish priest” is sent to conduct the exorcism of an “unruly copperhaired girl.” Romance ensues. Marquez (1927-2014) remains one of the giants of Latin American fiction. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $50.

Maugham, W. Somerset, The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1955), LOC 55-7011. The master story-teller of the last century surveys a scintillating group of his peers through time: Fielding; Austen; Stendhal; Bronte and Balzac; Dickens, Flaubert and Melville; Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Revised and greatly expanded version of the 1948 collection of essays. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with mylar cover. Very good condition. HBB price: $59.95.

McCorkle, Jill, Tending to Virginia (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1987). ISBN 0-912697-65-2. Lumberton NC native McCorkle made an explosive debut, publishing two novels on the same day at age 25. Here she offers a familiar plot- women of the three generations of a family sort things out pending the arrival of the fourth- but told in her own, remarkable way. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Inscribed on the title by the author, in Lumberton, New Year’s Day 1988. HBB price: $24.99.

McCullough, Colleen, Caesar’s Women (William Morrow, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-688-09731-X.  Absorbing tale of the ten years of Julius Caesar’s rise to power in Republican Rome. One of a series of novels by the author of The Thorn Birds on the first emperor’s life and times. Extravagantly autographed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition.  696 pp. HBB price: $50.

McEwan, Ian, Saturday (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 0-385-51180-9. A day in the life of Dr. Henry Perowne, a contented man in the early days of the post 9/11 world, whose day begins with a vague sense of foreboding and goes downhill. By the author of Atonement. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition.

McFarland, Dennis, School For The Blind (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-395-64497-6. A long-separated brother and sister, reunited in their seventies, are forced to reexamine their lives. McFarland’s second novel, a worthy successor to The Music Room. Now out of print. Hardcover; 9.1” x 6.2”, 287 pp. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $33.25.

McKissick, John (with Billy G. Baker), Called To Coach II (United Graphics, 2004, 1st ed, #1688 of 3100 copies, 2004). ISBN 09759948-0-8. A book of “life lessons” from the winningest high school football coach in America. McKissick became head coach at Summerville, SC High School in 1952 and has remained there ever since. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

McMurtry, Larry, Texasville (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1987). ISBN 0-671-62533-0. The sequel to The Last Picture Show, Texasville returns to Thalia, Texas in the oil boom of the 1980s. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

McMurtry, Larry, Buffalo Girls (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-671-68518-X. McMurtry’s fictional take on the life of Calamity Jane. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

McMurtry, Larry, The Evening Star (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1992). ISBN -0-671-68519-8. Aurora Greenway, copes with a new passel of family troubles in the sequel to Terms of Endearment. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Medlicott, Joan, The Ladies of Covington Street Send Their Love (Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin’s Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2000). ISBN 0-312-25329-X. Three ladies of a certain age kick off the traces and move to make a new home for themselves in the small town of Covington, North Carolina. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $35.

Meir, Golda, My Life (G.P. Putnam’s, 1st American ed., 1975). ISBN 399-11669-9. The autobiography of the first woman prime minister of Israel, one of the most charismatic figures of her day. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket mylar cover, octavo, 480 pp., fine condition. HBB price: $75.

Michener, James A., Sayonara (Random House, 1st ed., 1954). LOC 54-5953. Tale of an American air force officer about to take a plus posting and marry the perfect girl. Of course, he falls for a Japanese dancer. A 1950s Madama Butterfly, made into a Marlon Brando film in 1957. Hardcover, not price clipped, mylar cover. Very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Michener, James A., Caribbean (Random House, 1st ed., 1989). ISBN 0-394-56561-4. One of the master’s sweeping historical novels. Hardcover, not price clipped, 672 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Morgan, Max, Pilot’s Journal (Chronicle Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1997). ISBN 0-8118-1755-5. The 1946-49 flight journal of Max Morgan, former Royal Canadian Air Force flyer and owner of the legendary Paris jazz club, Aerobleu. Long thought lost; rediscovered in 1997, some four decades after Morgan disappeared during the chaos of the Cuban Revolution. Hardcover, 5.75” x 11” in the original, stainless steel slipcase. For more about Morgan and the Aerobleu era, see Stuart Ellliott, “The Media Business: Advertising,” The New York Times, October 15, 1997. Exceedingly rare;  highly collectible. HBB price: $395.

Moseley, J. Rufus, Manifest Victory: A Quest and A Testimony (Harper & Bros., 1947). Born in Elkin, NC, educated at Peabody, Mercer,Harvard and Heidelberg, Rufus Moseley (1870-1954) was a leading mid-20th century American Christian mystic. From 1910 he gave up his professorship at Mercer and spent the rest of his life living off the proceeds of his pecan grove near Macon, GA, and contributed an occasional column to The Macon Telegraph. He wrote two highly successful books; Manifest Victory is a sort of Augustinian confession. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, autographed. Rare. Inscribed to “Brother R.A. Taylor” in February 1950. HBB price: $150.

Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84 (Vintage International, 1st ed., 1st printing, May 2012). ISBN 978-0-345-80293-4. This deluxe three-volume paperback boxed set--gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging--is a collector's item in the making. It beautifully showcases Haruki Murakami's most ambitious novel yet, "1Q84"--a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's. The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84--"Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a question." Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector. An instant bestseller around the world, "1Q84" is a tremendous feat of imagination from one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary writers. Fine condition, HBB price: $40.

Nabokov, Vladimir, Glory (McGraw Hill, 1st ed., 1971). ISBN 07-045733-6. First published in Russian in 1932, Nabokov and his son, Dmitri, translated it into English for this edition. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price $50.

Nabokov, Vladimir, Quartet (Phaedra Publications, 1st ed., August 15, 1966).  LOC 66-28101. In a long, January 1966 review in The New Republic, John Appel, Jr. noted, Now in his sixty-seventh year, Vladimir Nabokov is suddenly upon us. Of course, he was here all along, but his oeuvre was like an iceberg, the massive body of his Russian novels, stories, plays, and poems remaining untranslated and out of sight, lurking beneath the visible peaks of Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962). In the last eight years, however, six of his books in Russian have been translated and three out of print novels reissued. Nabokov's own translation of Lolita into Russian and a collation of stories known as Nabokov's Quartet appeared quietly this autumn…” These four stories, two published in the U.S. for the first time, show the master in top form. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, white end papers, boards covered in a rough printed cloth pattern with the author’s signature on the lower right front cover. 8.75” x 5.5”, 104 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Ouimet, Francis, A Game of Golf: A Book of Reminiscence (1932, limited ed. by The Old Golf Shop, Cincinnati, 1978, No. 57 of 250). 20 year old former caddie and unknown amateur Francis Ouimet stunned the sports world by beating the godlike Harry Vardon in the 1913 U.S. Open, making the front page of the New York Times in the process. Ouimet (1893-1967) changed the perception of golf as the game for the super-rich and became a beloved figure in golf through the decades. This very limited edition is part of an annual series reprinting of books by the honoree of the annual Memorial Tournament, started in 1976 to honor those- living and dead- who did the most to advance the sport. A very rare edition of an excellent autobiography. Green boards with gilt edging and titles, no dust jacket, very good condition. 8.75” x 5.75”, 274 pp. HBB price: $175.

Bell, J. Pettigrew, Animal Locomotion, Or, Walking, Swimming and Flying, With A Dissertation on Aeronautics (Appleton & Co, International Scientific Series, 1st American ed., 1874). Bell (1834-1908) was a renowned medico, naturalist, and museum director who developed an international reputation in the field of animal locomotion. This volume was his most popular work. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Embossed red boards, duodecimo, 264 pp, with 10 pp of advertising at back for other volumes in the series. Very good condition; illustrated throughout by 130 black-and-white wood engravings. Front end paper inked-in notation by ex-owner: “B.F. Stern, 1874.” Rare. HBB price: $175.

Thurston, Robert, A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine (Appleton & Co, International Scientific Series, 1st ed., 1878). Thurston (1839-1903) was a Civil War naval engineer, professor at the Naval Academy, Stevens Institute of Technology and Cornell. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Embossed red boards, duodecimo, 490 pp, with 2 pp of advertising at back for Appleton textbooks. Very good condition; illustrated throughout by 162 black-and-white wood engravings. Front end paper inked-in notation by ex-owner: “B.F. Stern, 1878.” Rare. HBB price: $175.

Pinsky, Robert, The Figured Wheel: New & Collected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar Straus Giroux 1996, 1st ed.) ISBN 0-374-15493-7. Former US poet laureate’s collected works. Inscribed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $60.

Proper, Datus C., Pheasants of the Mind:  A Hunter’s Search for A Mythic Bird (Prentice hall Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-13-662750-1. A Montana naturalist philosopher (“It is impossible to read this without being reminded of Garrison Keillor at his best,” famed food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote), contemplates nature and the challenges of hunting for pheasant. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

Proulx, Annie, That Old Ace In The Hole (Scribner, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-684-81307-6. Bob Dollar, a bit at loose ends, takes a job as a land scout for Global Pork Rind. His mission: the scour the empty bits of the Southwest, looking for old people with now-worthless spreads in areas where the kids have left and the towns have dried up and blown away. Buy ‘em out and turn the land into hog farms is the goal. Basing himself in a cabin in Woolybucket, Texas, he slowly works his way into the community, he- and his mission- take some remarkable and unexpected turns. A sort of panhandle version of the classic film Local Hero. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. HBB price: $30.

Pynchon, Thomas, Vineland (Little, Brown, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). That special brand of fiction known as Pynchonesque, this time set in a northern California town in an alternative version of 1984. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, near-fine condition. Rare. HBB price: $250.

Pynchon, Thomas, Against the Day (The Penguin Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 1-59420-120-X. Sprawling historical fantasy set in the United States between the CHicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. A real doorstop of a novel: 1084 pp. HBB price: $65.

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, Cross Creek (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1942). Hardcover, unclipped but worn dust jacket. Some yellowing to the edges of the text block. Copyright page bears the Scribner “A”.  Original purchaser’s bookplate on the endpaper; her name is written on the half title with the date, April, 1942. Good condition overall. HBB price: $49.

Rinella, Stephen, The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine, (Miramax Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2005). ISBN 1401135237-5. A bracing account of one man’s attempt to assemble all the ingredients required to produce the 45-course feast laid out in Escoffier’s 1903 book, Le Guide Culinaire). Praised as “part memoir, part cookbook, and a love song to hunting, fishing and the American wild. Hardcover, octavo, 319 pp. Fine condition. Rare. HBB price: $100.

Rogers, John R. and Amy T., Charlotte: Its Historic Neighborhoods (Arcadia Publishing/Images of America series, 1st ed. 1996). ISBN 0-7524-0515-2. Lavishly illustrated, well-researched account of Charlotte’s inner, “streetcar” suburbs. Softcover, very good condition, autographed by both authors. HBB price: $50.

Sams, Ferrol, Epiphany: Stories (Longstreet Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 1-56352-164-4. Three classic tales by the doctor-writer of Fayetteville, Georgia, author of Run With the Horsemen, who died in 2013. A great read. Hardcover, unclipped transparent dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $35.

Sanders, Zoe D., Entertaining at The College of Charleston (The College of Charleston Foundation, 1st ed., 1998). ISBN 0-9638620-1-4. A former president’s wife records, “through pictures, text, menus and recipes her gracious and elegant style of entertaining,” in pursuit of her goal that the College “live up to Charleston’s fine and rich culinary heritage of entertaining.” Lavishly illustrated. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price $35.

Sarazen, Gene, with Herbert Warren Wind, Thirty Years of Championship Golf (1950, limited ed. by The Old Golf Shop, Cincinnati, 1979, No. 109 of 260). Sarazen (1902-99) was one of the world’s best golfers in the 1920s and ‘30s, and one of the five pro golfers to win the Grand Slam. The book recalls his remarkable career. This very limited edition is part of an annual series reprinting of books by the honoree of the annual Memorial Tournament, started in 1976 to honor those- living and dead- who did the most to advance the sport. A very rare edition of an excellent autobiography. Green boards with gilt edging and titles, no dust jacket, very good condition. 8.75” x 5.75”, 276 pp. HBB price: $75.

Schwing, Ned, The Browning Superposed: John M. Browning’s Last Legacy (Krause Pubs., 1st ed., 1996) ISBN 0-87341-350-4. The first full account of the Browning Company’s history from 1926 to 1995, and of the design, development and production of “the last of the high-quality, hand-built, and hand-engraved over and under shotguns.” 496 pp, over 600 illustrations, 100 in color. 11.25” x 8.75”. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. Rare and highly collectible. HBB price: $350.

Sedaris, Amy, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (Warner Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 13: 978-0-446-57884-4. Helpful tips and recipes. Want to train nosy guests not to be? Fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Hardcover, oversized, unclipped dust jacket, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Smith, Lee, Guests on Earth (A Shannon Ravenel Book/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2013). ISBN 978-1-616230-253-8. North Carolina novelist Smith recreates life in an Asheville women’s asylum, among whose patients is Zelda, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Autographed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $50.

Steinbeck, John, Sweet Thursday (Viking Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1954). LOC 54-7983. Steinbeck’s sequel to Cannery Row (1945), Sweet Thursday finds Doc returning to the Row after World War II and trying to restore his neglected biological supply lab and Hazel coping with a vision that he is to become President of the United States, among other neighbors’ issues. A number of plot lines from Sweet Thursday were incorporated into the 1982 film, Cannery Row. A delightfully funny novel filled with vivid characters. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket. Octavo, beige-green cloth; very good condition; dust jacket near fine, very clean and bright. 273 pp. HBB price: $850.

Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ecstasy (Doubleday, 1961; Illustrated Edition, 1st ed., 1963). Stone’s string of biographies of artists and intellectuals extended back to 1934 when Lust For Life came out, but this time he hit Michelangelo’s life story out of the ballpark. By 1965 the book had been produced as a lavish Hollywood film with Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison. To extend the sales of the book, Doubleday put out this slipcased deluxe illustrated edition. Our copy is in very good condition; the slipcase shows dirt and wear and the clear plastic dust jacket has a small tear at the upper right corner of the cover. A book worth having. HBB price: $35.

Stone, Irving, The Origin: A Biographic Novel of Charles Darwin

(Doubleday, 1st ed., 1980). ISBN 0-385-12064-8). The famed biographical novelist (Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Schliemann), takes on the father of evolution. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, sunning on the spine, very good condition. Octavo, 743 pp. Autographed on the half-title. HBB price $65.

Strunk, William Jr. and White, E. B., The Elements of Style (Macmillan, 1st ed., stated 1st printing, 1959). LOC 59-9950. Fine hardcover, very good unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, 71 pp. Some foxing of the endpapers. Scarce and highly collectible. HBB price: $395.00.

Styron, William, Sophie’s Choice (Random House, 1st ed., 1979). ISBN 0-394-46109-6. The remarkable, bestselling tale of a Southern boy and a Polish death camp survivor who meet in post-war New York. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed on the front endpapers by the owner, Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan, inscribed to her by Styron on the half-title.  HBB price: $125.

Talese, Gay, Unto the Sons (Knopf, 1992, 1st ed.). ISBN 0-679-4130401. Sweeping saga of the Italian-American experience in the 20th century. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $75.

Tallant, Robert, Mrs. Candy Strikes It Rich (Doubleday & Co., 1954, 1st ed.). LOC 54-7663. Comic Mardi Gras romp featuring the social-climbing, nouveau-riche Mrs. Eustacia Candy Petit of Cairo Street, N’awlins. Third of a series of Mrs. Candy comedies. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, good condition, inscribed to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan.  HBB price: $50.

Taubert, Clifton L., Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored (Council Oak Books, 1st ed., 19890. ISBN 0-933031-19-X. A Tulsa businessman looks back on his childhood in segregation times, in the little town of Glen Allan, Mississippi. Elegantly laid out, with lots of photos. An engrossing read about a time and place long gone. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $20.

Vidal, Gore, Burr (Random House, 1st ed. 1973). Recreation of the life of the vice president and adventurer who got the better end of the duel with Alexander Hamilton. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $100.

Walsh, Christy, Baseball’s Greatest Lineup (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1st ed., 1952). LOC 52-8286. Christy Walsh, a cartoonist and sportswriter, saw the future of baseball one day, and its name was Babe Ruth. He dogged Ruth to see him for two years, and when he finally got in, he asked Ruth how much he’d been paid for a newspaper article. “Five dollars.” “I can get you a hundred,” Walsh replied, and for the next 27 years he made Ruth a wealthy man through better contract negotiations and product endorsements. Walsh was the first great sports superagent, representing the cream of American sports- Ty Cobb, Knute Rockne and Lou Gehrig, among others. Baseball’s Greatest Lineup is a collection of profiles of sportswriters’ picks for baseball’s greatest, 1900 to 1950. Thoughtful, funny, the book makes you think Walsh invented fantasy baseball as well. Hardcover, no dust jacket, very good condition. Autographed with a Walsh caricature of himself, for Wilton Garrison, longtime sports editor of The Charlotte Observer. HBB price: $100.

Wolfe, Tom, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-374-28158-0. Wolfe’s novel of turn-of-the-century American college life managed to come out just around the Duke University lacrosse scandal. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $69.95.

Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny (Doubleday, 1st ed., 2nd printing, 1951). The first printing was of 22,500 copies, but, as First Edition Points notes, “It is unclear how many came  with first issue dust jackets.” The jacket was changed to correct the misnaming of Wouk’s 1948 novel, City Boy, as The City Boy. We assume this copy is a second printing. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, and in very good condition. HBB price: $150.

Wouk, Herman, Marjorie Morningstar (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1955). LOC 55-6485. Well-regarded story of a Jewish girl who takes on Broadway, and the bad choices that follow. Made into a hit movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. good condition. HBB price: $35.

Wouk, Herman, The Hope (Little Brown, stated 1st ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-316-95519-1. Now in his centenary and still writing (his last novel- The Lawgiver- was published in 2012- Wouk is one of America’s masters of sweeping historical fiction. The Hope tackles the first twenty years of the State of Israel through the lives of four couples living through those turbulent times. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. One small scratch on the back of the dust jacket removes this from a “fine” classification. HBB price: $49.

Yardley, Jonathan, Our Kind of People: The Story of An American Family (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1989. ISBN 1-55584-174-0. NC native, book critic and Pulitzer Prize winner’s story of his family, centering around his parents’ half-century marriage. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Presentation copy inscribed to Charlotte NC-based jazz musician and songwriter Loonis McGlohon. HBB price: $75.

Yoshimoto, Banana, Kitchen (Grove Press, 1st English language ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-8021-1516-0. Two novellas by a Japanese publishing phenom. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $25.