Summer Highlights
I can't believe we're more than halfway through August. Family groups are beginning to dwindle, I'm starting into "couples season." Summer has been good here in Belfast both selling and buying. For me, it's a balance between the thrill of the "hunt" during house visits and like my birthday every time someone brings in a bag or boxes of books.
I'm going to keep it short this week and just focus on some highlights that have walked in the shop or I've found on one of my many house visits. And yes, even a signed Stephen King!
Richard Bachman [Stephen King] The Regulators (1996) -- Signed!
I've had them on my shelves and enjoyed them, now it's time for them to grace your shelves... As always, the next time you're in the area make it a point to visit Craig Olson Books at 99 Main Street in Belfast, Maine, where we have a large selection of books in all subjects. ~Craig Beck, Simone; Bertholle, Louisette; Child, Julia.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
Hard Cover. First Edition. Second Printing; October 16, 1961. xv, 684, xxxii pp. Dust jacket has scuffing from shelf wear, small chips at edges, 1/4" loss at upper right corner of front panel, hint of darkening along edges of inside flaps, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Dust jacket printed with "1061" in read at base of front inner flap, indicating the original dust jacket with this edition. Light scuffing and wear to cover boards, quite clean overall. Publication date of 1961 published on title page and verso on copyright page.
Years in the making, the book catapulted Julia Child (1912-2004) into the American food scene where she became an icon. (#31001)
Price: $350.00 |  | |  | Bemelmans, Ludwig.
Madeline.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. Folio. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, chipping and small tears at edges, 1" diagonal loss at upper right corner of front panel, now in mylar cover. Cover board illustrations reproduce dust jacket at front. Bumping to corners with small losses. Illustrated endpapers, very clean within. Copyright date of 1939 at base of title page as well as on copyright page, and "They went home and broke their bread" illustration and price of $2.00 printed on base of inside front flap.
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) seventh book and his biggest blockbuster that spawned more books, films, and so much more! Quite scarce in a first printing. (#30980)
Price: $850.00 |  | | | Branch, Taylor.
America in the King Years Trilogy: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 (3 Volumes) -- Signed!
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988/1998/2006.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. Vol I: xii, 1064 pp.; Vol II: xiv, 746 pp.; xiii, 1039 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket of Vol. I and in Very Good condition, Vol. II has light spotting on the title word "Pillar" as is common with this edition and in Very Good condition, Vol. III in Fine condition. All dust jackets are in mylar covers. Cover boards of Vol. 1 has some scuffing and wear, other volumes in Fine condition.
Taylor Branch's magisterial biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement in the United States. All signed by Branch on the title page -- no inscriptions. (#30938)
Price: $850.00 |  | | | Bachman, Richard [King, Stephen].
The Regulators -- Signed by Bachman/King!
New York: Dutton, 1996.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 450 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small crease at upper left corner of rear flap, recto of dust jacket has light spotting. Red paper covered boards with light brown cloth spine. Endpapers have light foxing front and rear, heavy spotting along foredge of text block, light spotting to head and foot of text block. Tipped in is the auction donation form from a local library fundraiser to which Stephen King donated the book.
Stephen King wrote 3 novels under the pen name Richard Bachman before being "discovered" as the true author in 1984. The seventh of eight books in under the Bachman name it is signed by both Bachman and King on the title page (#30993)
Price: $1,250.00 |  | | | |
