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Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages. Author's first book. Light wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy in protective mylar cover. Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick and Angela uncover a ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #m2889-95c. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Spine lightly cocked.

Hardcover. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1st, 1928, Two hardcover volumes 291/266 pages. Black cloth spine with gilt decoration over boards with patterned batik paper. Limited numbered set #2025/2050, signed by the publishers on the limitation page. 24 two-color semi-erotic plates by Ralph Barton. Edgewear to cardboard covers and corners worn. Some gutter cracks throughout. Overall, a good plus set.

Hardcover. NY, J. F. Taylor & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 259 pages plus publisher's ads. Drawings by Florence Scovel Shinn. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Clean.

Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor edgewear and very faint soiled spot on top and fore edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. The Pulitzer Prize winner's first book, a collection of short stories.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 2nd, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #2821. Moderate crease to center front cover wrapper.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it. Like new.

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Remainder line to fore-edge. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, Mylar dust jacket cover. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, a classic novel of the American Revolution. 14 color plates plus title page, 47 pen line drawings by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial label on front cover, 409 pages. 14 color plates, color title page and endpaper illustration and b&w pen drawings by N.C. Wyeth. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 409 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, pictorial paste-down on cover. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Ed., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover. 14 color plates, pen drawings, endpapers design by N.C. Wyeth. Cover with some rubbing and scratches, overall very good.

Hardcover. London, UK, W.H. Allen / Virgin Books, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Sag Harbor NY, Permanent Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEFILIPPI to fellow author Barry Estabrook on the title page. Fate-driven story of boyhood friendship and its unraveling. A nostalgic revisiting of childhood shenanigans during the 1950's and 60's in a tough section of Long Island called Duck Alley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Haunted by the memory of the hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager, Lowell has been receiving calls from a stranger obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64 badgering him for information about the flight she was also on as a child. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Tor Books, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 394 pages. Duel, Stephen Spielberg's terrifying first film, was adapted by Richard Matheson from his nail-biting short story of the same name. But "Duel" is only one of the many classic tales in this outstanding collection of stories by the award-winning author of I Am Legend, Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. Here are over a dozen unforgettable tales of horror and suspense, including several stunning shockers that inspired timeless episodes of The Twilight Zone.

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A story of growing up in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression of 1929. Small check mark on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 83 pages, black & white drawings by David Hockney. Dust jacket cover with faint soiling, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, reprint , 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W frontispiece illustration, 262 pages. Green cloth covers with faint spotting, otherwise very good, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Linden Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tight, clean copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUNNE on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Sauk City, Arkham House, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy. The author's final collection, stories from Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Amazing and other sources. This includes two macabre mystery stories which feature Judge Peck.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED AND DATED BY DAVIDSON on the half-title page. Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she's preparing decadent dinners and posh society picnics--and enjoying the favors of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink, and Tom Schulz, her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop. Until, that is, the dishy doctor drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Convinced that Philip's bizarre death was no accident, Goldy begins to sift through the dead doc's unpalatable secrets. But this case is seasoned with unexpected danger and even more unexpected revelations--the kind that could get a caterer killed. Clean copy