New Listings, March 18, 2015: Lusty vampires!

Here’s what Henry has added today:

Acevedo, Mario, Four Felix Gomez novels (EOS/Rayo/Harper Collins). Felix Gomez returned from Iraq a vampire, and in these four novels from Mario Acevedo’s Gomez private investigation series we get a character not unlike Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden- dealing with all manner of species and types- but with a remarkable, gourmet taste for hemoglobin, too. All softcover, trade size, good condition: The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (Rayo, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006, ISBN  10-0-06-08336-2); X-Rated Blood Suckers (Rayo, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-083327-5);  The Undead Kama Sutra (EOS, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-083328-2); Jailbait Zombies (EOS, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-156714-8). HBB price: $30 the set; $7.50 ea.

Alexandrov, P.S., Combinatorial Topology (Dover Publications, 1998). ISBN 0-486-40179-0. Trade paperback of the standard text on this field of maths, reprinting the 1956, 1957, 1960 Graylock Press three-volume edition, translated from the original Russian edition of 1947. Very fine condition. HBB price: $50.

Bailey, Harold H., The Birds of Florida (limited edition, privately printed for the author by Williams & Wilkins, 1925). Ornithologist Bailey (1878-1952) was the son of a prominent American ornithologist; his two great works are The Birds of Virginia and this volume (he was also noted marrying the widow of another great ornithologist, Eugene Law; their papers are in the collections at Virginia Tech). The Birds of Florida bears comparison with those of Audubon; 475 species and subspecies are covered, and the 76 color illustrations by George Sutton are breath-taking. A singular volume for birders. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $175.

Boyer, Rev. Harold B., History of Morgans Baptist Church, Moneta, Virginia, 1771-1971 (White Printing Co., 1st ed. 1971). Well-written and illustrated history of a Bedford County, Virginia church. Red boards with gilt lettering; some foxing on the front end papers. HBB price: $40.

Bronte,Patricia, Vittles and Vice: An Extraordinary Guide to What’s Cooking on Chicago’s Near North Side, (Henry Regnery CO., 1st ed. 1st printing, 1952). A history-cum-cookbook from one of the Windy CIty’s hoppingest neighborhoods half a century back. FIne illustrations by Patrick McMahon. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $15.

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.

Corning Glass Center, (Western Printing, 1st ed., 1958). LOC 58-12805. Fine little volume on the history and uses of glass, featuring the sleek, then-new Corning research center. 61 pp. HBB price: $20.

Gann, Ernest K, Ernest K. Gann’s Flying Circus (Macmillan, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1974). ISBN 0-02-542-400-9. A collection of the author’s short pieces on the history of aviation. Highly entertaining. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket, good condition. HBB price: $10

Gardner, Lawrence, Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark: Amazing Revelations of the Incredible Power of Gold (Hammersmith/London: Element Books, 1st ed. 4th printing, 2003). ISBN 0-00-714259-1. Monatomic gold, teleportation, and other things most often discussed on Coast to Coast AM. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition, autographed on the half title. HBB $50.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Robbins, Hollis, editors, In Search of Hannah Crofts: Critical Essays on The Bondswoman’s Narrative (Basic Civitas Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-465-02714-8. Essays by 22 scholars on the then-newly discovered mss of The Bondswoman’s Narrative, the first known novel by an African-American. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $25.

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.

Jay-Z, Decoded (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). ISBN 978-1-4000-6982-0. The singer’s lyrics, with commentary and photographs illuminating his life and times. Hardcover unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Kane, Harnett T., The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall (Doubleday & Co., 1st ed. 1957). LOC 57-11426. A biography of the wife and widow of Civil War General Stonewall Jackson, whose long and eventful life ended in Charlotte, NC in 1915. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, mylar cover, very good condition. Inscribed by the author to Charlotte NC arts maven Gladys Lavitan.  HBB price: $50.

Le Carre, John, A Most Wanted Man (Scribner, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2008). ISBN 978-1-4165-9488-8. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB $35.

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.

Herbert R. Mayes, An Editor’s Treasury (Atheneum, 1st edition, 1968), LOC 68-26101. Remarkable collections of aphorisms and quotations from the ages by a publishing industry veteran. Hardcover, two volumes, unclipped dust jackets with some wear, good condition. HBB price: $25.

McCarthy, Matt, Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound With a Minor League Misfit (Viking, 1st ed., 2nd printing, 2009). “When I was twenty-one, I could throw a baseball 92 miles an hour. This led to a strange courtship between my left arm and a series of pencil-moustached, overweight men.”  Yale molecular biology major McCarthy got signed with the Provo Angels for a year before going to Harvard Medical School. This is the hilarious tale of a twelvemonth in The Show. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, mylar cover, fine condition, ex-library. HBB price: $15.

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.

McPhee, John, The Founding Fish (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-374-10444-1. In the days before Tina Brown, The New Yorker ran series of articles on all manner of topics, drilled way down into by the always entertaining John McPhee. Tina moved on, as she always does, but Eustace Tilley has never been the same. This post-Tina work is a look at shad, the fish made famous in Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It,” and other matters piscatorial. Fascinating reading. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $35.

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.

Meynell, Alice, The Poems of Alice Meynell: The Complete Edition (Scribners, 1st ed., 1923). Suffragist and editor, Alice Meynell (1847-1922) was also a highly skilled poet. This is the first American collection of her complete works. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $15.

Michalowski, Kazimierz, Art of Ancient Egypt (Harry N. Abrams, 1st ed., 1968).  LOC 68-26865. 600 pages, 900 illustrations: this is an extraordinary work. Folio size, Very fine condition. HBB price: $175.

Paget, Russie H. The Clemson House Cookbook (Jacobs Brothers, 1st ed. 1955). Built in 1950 as a hotel and conference center, Clemson House’s cuisine inspired this 474 pp cookbook. Part I is of Heirloom Recipes from the South Carolina Upstate region; Part II is made up of Contemporary Recipes- Native and Foreign. Illustrations include a hungry tiger at the dinner table, leaning over his plate, knife and fork in paws; at the end, he’s leaning back, tum bulging, looking quite sated. A delightful regional work. Hardcover, no dust jacket, some staining and wear but overall in good condition. Rare. HBB price: $69.95.

Phillips, Robert B., One of God’s Children (Celo Press, 1st ed. 1982). A longtime school principal and leading apple grower, Phillips wrote this memoir of his life in the North Carolina mountains in sight of his 80th birthday; he lived to 96, dying in 1999. An engaging tale of his life and times. Hardcover, duodecimo, 163 pp. Inscribed to Charlotte Observer editors Wilton and Eudora Garrison, friends to many regional authors. HBB price: $25.

Reid, Christopher, ed., Letters of Ted Hughes, (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st American ed., 1st printing, 2007). ISBN 13: 978-0-374-18530-5. Fifty years of correspondence by the husband of Sylvia Plath and poet laureate of Great Britain. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Sayles, John, Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie ‘Matewan’ (Houghton Mifflin, softcover, 1st printing, 1987). ISBN 0-395-45399-2. Fascinating, step-by-step discussion of how to make a movie, by the famous “nonstudio” director of Return of the Secaucus Seven and Brother From Another Planet. Includes the working script for Matewan, a story about a coal miner’s strike. A few marginal notes/underlinings by a previous owner. HBB price: $15.

Shute, Nevil, Vinland the Good (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1946). The famed Australian author of On The Beach turns his hand to drama with this modern retelling of Eric the Red, Leif Ericsson and the exploration of America in the form of a movie script. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with some wear and tear about the edges. The book itself in very good condition. Very rare. HBB price: $95.

White, E.B. and K.S. A Subtreasury of American Humor (Coward-McCann, 1st ed., 1941). A good bit of humor pieces by New Yorker writers, rounded out by other bits going back to Ben Franklin. Hardcover, dust jacket with some wear about the edges. good condition. HBB price: $20.

Wingard, E.A., Echoes and Other Poems (Newberry, SC: Lutheran Publication Board, 1899). Wingard (1849-1900) was ordained in the Lutheran Church in 1875 and called to St. Paul’s in Columbia, SC in 1887. He served in that pulpit until his death; this book was published the year before he passed away. 170 pp of poetry covering a variety of subjects, ranging from war to memoria, religious poems and hymns and a miscellany that includes his Ode on Laying the Corner-Stone Y.M.C.A. Building, Columbia, S.C.  Hardcover, red boards, no dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Wyler, The Book of Old Silver: English, American, Foreign (Crown Publishing, 1st ed, 1937, 32nd printing, 1976). ISBN 0-517-00089-X. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with some wear and tear, overall good condition. HBB price: $25.

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.

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