Welcome to our 2017 list of books for sale during the Fair in August. Check back often, and read through all the listings, as we will be adding additional entries as the months go by. We will also post announcements of collections donated. We have a fine assortment of signed first editions, donated by a private collector. We will offer a collection of books from the estate of a local magician. From The Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz Signed by author on front end paper - no inscription. Published by Bantam, with full number line. A signed, limited edition privately published by Charnel House, in publisher's black leatherette covers with silver lettering $50.00 A Son of the Circus by John Irving Signed by author on title page. First Trade Edition stated (2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3) Published by Random House 1994 $45.00 Bag of Bones by Stephen King Advance Reader's Copy Inscribed and signed by author on front end paper Publisher: Scribner $250.00 My Stroke of Luck by Kirk Douglas Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page Published by William Morrow, 2002, stated First Edition with full number line
Trophy Widow by Michael A. Kahn Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page Published by Tom Doherty Associates, 2002, stated First Edition $20.00 The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion Advance Reader's Copy in slipcase, still in publisher's shrink-wrap Signed by author Game Plan For Life by Joe Gibbs Trade paperback published by Tyndale Publishing Signed by author on cover, as well as inscribed and signed by author on half title page $20.00 Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer Inscribed and signed by author on front end paper Published by Random House, stated First Edition (24689753) The Real War by Richard Nixon Published by Warner Books, 1980, stated First Printing Inscribed and signed by Richard Nixon on half title page (not on book plate) $75.00
My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates Published by Dutton, stated First Printing, June 1998 Inscribed and signed by author on title page $20.00 The Secret History by Donna Tartt Published by Alfred A. Knopf. 1992, 1st Edition, 8th Printing Author's first novel Signed by author on half title page $150.00 We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land by Jimmy Carter Published by Simon and Schuster, 3rd Edition Inscribed and signed on bookplate affixed to half title page by Jimmy Carter White House Diary by Jimmy Carter Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, stated First Edition Inscribed and signed by Jimmy Carter on a bookplate affixed to front end paper The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter Published by Simon and Schuster, First Edition Inscribed and signed on bookplate affixed to front end paper. There is also a letter from the Carter Center offering this book as a gift
Keeping Faith By Jimmy Carter Specially bound limited edition, signed by the author (no inscriptions), published by Bantam, 1982, with full number line Hardcover in slipcase $100.00 Flash Boys by Michael Lewis Published by W. W. Norton Stated First Edition, but with 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Signed by author on half title page. $10.00 The Rhine From Its Source To The Sea Volume II Translated by G. C. T. Bartley Published by Henry T. Coates & Co., 1899 $10.00 Susie Cucumber She Writes Letters By Cynthia Richardson Published b y Saml. Gabriel Sons, 1944 Copper-Toed Boots By Marguerite de Angeli Published by Doubleday Doran, 1943 $7.00
The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown By E. Phillips Oppenheim Published by Little Brown (c.1911) $7.00 The Story of the Gravelys A Tale for Girls by Marshall Saunders Published by L. C. Page, 1904 Fine Old Dixie Recipes Southern Cook Book, 322 Old Dixie Recipes Edited by: Lustig, Sondheim, Rensel Culinary Arts, c.1939 In wooden, ringed covers $10.00 The First Chouteaus River Barons of Early St. Louis By William E. Foley and C. David Rice Published by University of Illinois Press, c.1983 $5.00 One Bridge To Life By William Samelson Published by Clark-Davis, c.1989 Inscribed and signed by author $15.00 Beer, Brats & Baseball German-Americans in St. Louis By Jim Merkel Published by Reedy Press, c.2015, Second Edition Inscribed and signed by author
Discovering African-American St. Louis A Guide to Historic Sites By John A. Wright Published by Fiedler Printing, stated First Edition Paperback $5.00 Lands and Peoples The Grolier Society, 1955 Set of 7 volumes, complete Nice condition $35.00 The Works of Theodore Roosevelt in Sixteen Volumes, Illustrated Published by P. F. Collier & Son, date not shown Complete set in nice condition $50.00 Set of 51 Volumes Harvard Classics (Complete) Plus 1 Index Volume Published by P. F. Collier & Son, c.1909, but appears to be later printing The Five Foot Shelf of Books Blue boards with silver lettering $100.00 The Diary of Virginia Woolf Edited by Anne Olivier Bell Published by Harcourt Brace, in Five Volumes (Complete) Stated First American Edition Very Good Condition $50.00
Combat and Survival What It Takes To Fight and Win 28 Volume Set (Complete Published by H. D. Stuttman, 1991 $45.00 Doak Walker 3-Time All-American by Dorothy Kendall Bracken as Told by Doak Walker Published by The Steck Company, 1050 Diseases of Cattle and Cattle Feeding U. S. Department of Agriculture Prepared Under the Direction of Dr. D. E. Salmon G.P.O. Washington, 1896 Many illustrations The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer Published by Little Brown and Co., 1914 $8.00