Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Black cloth with green lettering and design. Light rubbing to front cover, spine and back cover. Light tanning to front end papers and slight foxing to back endpapers. light musty odor.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages, like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In The Dangerous Husband, they meet and almost immediately fall in love. Like everyone, they have been alone. He is perfect for her - charming and sexy and awkward and sweet. They are forty; it is time for them to marry and shelter each other. When the honeymoon ends, as honeymoons always do, real life begins, with its surprises. He trips up stairs, falls going down. He cooks a tasty dinner and the kitchen ends up looking like a slaughterhouse. Absorbed in sexual experimentation, he shatters the coffee table. He tenderly wrenches her neck; he breaks her arm. It was turning out that my husband's dishevelment was incomparable, potent, ramifying. It could destroy whole little worlds. It will surely destroy her. Unless she can kill him first.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Compnay, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 425 pages. 8 b&w illustrations. Illustrated frontispiece. Paste down plate on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 165 pages, b&w illustrations by Milton Johnson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young Nathan and his older brother set sail from Nantucket with a quest to discover the reasons behind the sinking of the ship Amy Foster. A mysterious death and a strange Captain add suspense to the adventure. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 198 pages. Remainder mark to lower edge, else like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. Early Book Club Edition, with H-H code at copyright page, blue cloth with green stamping, lacking "first edition" statement. Burnett's well received novel of a gambler, his love for a dog, and his marriage to a woman "who could never understand his hunger for easy money and excitement, his belief that five might always get him ten, his love of cards, horse racing and dog racing". Very good in bright and attractive jacket (printed without price at front flap), few nicks and light wear. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 295 pages, blue cloth with green design featuring greyhound racer. Novel about a compulsive gambler trying to quit with little assistance or understanding from his wife, was made into a movie in 1934 starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin, remade as "Wine, Women and Horses" in 1937. Spine has major fading, otherwise a clean, square copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1sy, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, which is in a protective sleeve. Remainder mark to bottom text block edge. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. GERMAN TEXT. Long previous owner's inscription on half title page. Red boards, cream colored cloth-label on spine. Beautiful dust jacket with only one tiny spot on lower edge of front cover, protected in clear mylar sleeve. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with color label illustration pasted to front cover, title stamped in white. 346 pages, illustrations by B. Martin Justice. Minor shelf wear. This story set in the American West centers around the adopted daughter of the town marshall and the mystery surrounding her parentage.
Hardcover. New York, Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover shows some light wear but otherwise internally clean. Black & white illustrations by E.W. Kemble. An early American novel featuring Italian immigrants in New York by a respected journalist who was familiar with the people there. Clean copy.
hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 249 pages. Clean copy. To preserve his relationship with his best friend, Jonathan, Hank becomes enmeshed in Jonathan's struggle to save his cousin, David, a Holocaust survivor, from his horrific memories of the war and his self-destructive behavior.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 3rd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. B&w illustrations by Margery Gill. During the London Blitz the lives of Derek and his friends turn from make-believe to dangerous reality.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor fading along red cloth cover boards. Dust jacket shows light amount of rippling to front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages. When their friend Tommy Apple dies leaving them a million dollars and unanswered questions about his drug dealings, Joe and Judy Constantine are pressured to cooperate both with Tommy's cronies and with federal agents. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #909. Cover art by Arthur Sussman. Light warping and creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 82 pages. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson with 62 pen and ink drawings, gilt decorated blue boards, all edges gilt, previous owner's book plate on front endpaper, minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1954, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #784. Cover art by Griffith Foxley. Ink notation on first page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear and small tears to dust jacket, minor foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy. At the open we have 22 people, some Biblical while some are clearly not even representative, literally dragging God, not quite dead, through various roads, countryside, and towns in order to reach the plot in which He will be buried. Of course, it does not matter that He is dead when they reach their destination. The novel is one of Barthelme's more powerful tales and, as always, full of humor. One cannot read this without thinking that the Monty Python crew was somewhat influenced by this work, philosophically as well as from a creative standpoint. The one surprising footnote to this work is that it is a rather easy read,