The Book Cellar

100 Gifts

Biography and Travel Books

History and Political Science Books

Comic Books

Scrabble

Beacon Scrabble article

Books Wanted

On-Line Catalog

New Hope Links

The Name Game

Directions

Happy Holidays!

 


100 Gifts for 2004

The New Hope Book Cellar

Anglophilia

Winkle's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales

Moule, Thomas, Illustrated by Robert Garland. Charming full leather oversized book from 1836. First Edition.

Art and Archeology of London

The English: Are They Human?

New York, New York

New York; Island of Islands
Photographs by Joseph Crilley

1965. Hard Cover in dust jacket. Presumed First. Inscription from Crilley reads: "To my great friend Henry Day, Joe Crilley."

NJ/ PA History

The History of New Jersey from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Carpenter WH and TS Arthur, Editors

Lippincott, Grambo and Co. 1853. Brown cloth with blind stamp. Tissue intact. Advertisements in rear.

The Difference Began at the Footlights: A Story of Bucks County Playhouse
Morigi, Gilda

1973. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Stated First American Edition.

Lebanon Township 200 Years: An Historical Retrospective of Lebanon Township, New Jersey

1999. Hardback in jacket.

First Editions

Red Dragon
Harris, Thomas

The first appearance of Hannibal Lecter.

Putnam, 1981. First Edition

Open House for Butterflies
Krauss, Ruth, Illustrated by Sendak. Maurice

Early Maurice Sendak illustrations.

Harper and Brothers, 1960. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Apparent First Edition. Points: Price 1.50. Harper and Brothers, not the later Harper and Row. 4 reviewers on the back flap. Front DJ flap reads 30-70 No. 9429A. Rear flap has Harper and Brothers over No. 9430A. black cloth spine on yellow pictoral boards.

Grand Canyon
Sackville-West, V

Doubleday Doran, 1942. Hard Cover. First Edition.

The Human Beast

Emile Zola

First American edition with dust jacket. 1948.

Science Fiction

A Handful of Darkness
Dick, Phillip K.

Panther, 1980. Mass Market Paperback.

Operation: Outer Space
Leinster, Murray

Fantasy, 1954. Hard Cover. Stated First Edition. Jacket has beautiful vintage SF cover art.

Golden-Fire

Stephen Donaldson

Outtake from Illearth War. 10 illustrations by Fabian. Hardback in dustjacket.

Frank Frazetta art collections

Comic Books

The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told

Hardback with dustjacket. As new.

Neil Gaiman's Harlequin Valentine

Grateful Dead Comix

Art

The Art of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe
Bialostocki, Jan

Cornell University Press, 1976. Hard Cover. Wrightsman Lectures.

The Fauves: The Masters who Shook the World of Art
Brodskaya, Natalia

Parkstone Aurora, 1995. Pictorial Cover.

Masterworks of American Impressionism
Gerdts, William

Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, 1990.

Art of the Medieval World

Klimpt

Chagall

Wyeth at Kuevners

Whistler

Toulouse Lautrec

Picasso

Essays

The Quality of Life

James Michener. Illustrations by James Wyeth

Limited edition in slipcase. Book is as new. Commissioned by The Girard Company as a companion piece for its 1969 Annual Report. With insert "To Shareholders and Friends."

Essays on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments by CPE Bach

History

Mediaeval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and His Times: 2 Volumes
Vossler, Karl

Ungar, 1966. Hard Cover.

The Molly Maguires: A Thrilling Narrative of the Rise, Progress and Fall of the Most Noted Band of Cut-throats of Modern Times

Reprint of original.

D-Day Atlas

Civil War

Katherine Graham's Personal History

Mythology

Dramatic Myths and Legends Book One Norse
Sims and Harry M. Lavars

World Book Co, 1915. Soft Cover. Illustrated.

Campbell's Power of Myth

Classical Deities and Heroes

Sherlockania

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes.

Two oversized volumes in slipcase. Indispensable.

The Baker Street Irregular

Austin Mitchelson.

The unauthorized biography of Sherlock Holmes.

Hound of the Baskervilles. Like new hardback.

Philosophy

The Emotions: An Outline of a Theory.

Jean Paul Sartre.

In beautiful dust jacket. 1948.

Pooh and the Philosopher's. Hardback in dustjacket, like new.

Besanquet's History of Aesthetic

Cookbooks

All like new hardbacks.

Foods of Israel Today

Barefoot Contessa Family Style

White Dog Café Cookbook

Aquavit

Recipe for a Coutnry Inn

American Vegetarian Cookbook

Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook

Celebrities

Yul Brenner: Photographer

  1. Coffee table photography book. Beautiful.

Cary Grant

Elvis

Grateful Dead

Jimmi Hendrix

Judy Garland

Marilyn Monroe

Jim Morrison

Travel

Bella Tuscany. Like new hardback.

Of Maps and Mapmaking. Hardback with jacket.

Pop Culture Landmarks. Like new hardback.

Kids books

My Book House books. Beautifully illustrated classics.

Complete Works of Lewis Carrol.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Like new hardback.

Snickets' The Wide Window. Hardback like new.

Beatrix Potters.

Fiction

A brief selection of our like-new hardbacks.

The Corrections

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Shelters of Stone (Auel)

The Fool's Progress (Abbey)

Elementals (Byatt)

Underworld (DeLillo)

Paddy Clarke Hahaha

Poisonwood Bible

All the Pretty Horses

Stone Diaries

Excuse Me?

The Correct Sadist
Sellers, Terence

ViTRIOL, 1983. Soft Cover. Signed by Author. Shiny black wrapper.

Hypnosis of Man and Animals
Volgyesi, Ferenc Andras

Williams and Wilkins, 1966. Cloth.

Creatures of the Night: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Experience

Sal Piro

Oversized paperback. 1990

Splatter Movies. Hardback in jacket.

Disaster Logs of Ships. Hardback in jacket.

Dictionary of Imaginary Places

Other

Personalized gift certificates of any amount.

Blank journals. Like new.

Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion, Outdoor Companion, Winter, Summer, Spring and Fall.