fiction

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with light chipping. This is a historical mystery novel about a police officer who is transported back in time to 1829 when the British police was first formed. Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE on title page. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Book Series, 1st Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece by Frank Tenney Johnson. cover boards bound in red cloth, has just a little chipping to edges/corners and very light fading to spine (normal agewear, see image). Pages and edges have a small amount of tanning from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition for its age.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black top edge. Edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A juvenile novel about two runaway children during the London blitz. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 97 pages. Black & white illustrations by S. Saelig Gallagher. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. 5th in the Thursday Next series. Promotional postcard laid-in. ("Tricks of the Trade Revealed" postcard #7 showing Fforde and his clones manically signing books.). Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st U.K., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 398 pages, several b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket, 286 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated covers. Illustrated in color. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORBES on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Creative Education, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Nice color illustrations by John Howe. Lovely, clean condition. Hardcover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket, 112 pages with 12 drawings by the author. Fit for a duchess, indeed, was the splendid up-to-date privy which the Budd family finally achieved, after generations of living with a noisome hut in the garden. But, as usually happens, there was a canker: the marvels of modern technology defeated them. Here splendidly remembered as in her previous books, Dust to Dust and A Prospect of Love, is this and more of life in southern England in the 1930s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with heavy wear to dust jacket. Small closed rips and open tears on bottom. Moderate aged soil throughout, light odor. Otherwise tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, visiting his friend Melrose Plant in Long Piddleton, looks into the murder of Simon Lean, whose body is discovered stuffed into an antique secretaire a abattant. Working with help from the usual cast of zany characters, Jury goes about his business in his customary leisurely and self-assured manner and pieces together a very strange tale of greed, jealousy, and murder.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.

Hardcover. Boston , D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt, red and black letters and illustrations on front and spine. Assumed first edition and printing since only date is 1892 and no indication of number of printing on copyright or title page as with later printings of this book. 527 pages, book ads in rear. Black and white illustrations by Mente. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house". Previous owner's bboplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing and name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle, Co., 3rd printing, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Pictorial dust jacket with soiling and slight wear. Pink boards, black spine. Front flyleaf clipped. Foxing to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st wraps, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 308 pages. A collection of short stories from the winner of the National Book Award 1n 2013. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon-color pictorial boards with green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Profusely illustrated by author with color frontis. and many b&w plates and text drawings, Thomason's semi-fictionalized first book, based on his own experiences as a career officer in the Marines as part of the AEF. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover and on blank preim page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon-color pictorial boards with green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Profusely illustrated by author with color frontis. and many b&w plates and text drawings, Thomason's semi-fictionalized first book, based on his own experiences as a career officer in the Marines as part of the AEF. A clean, bright copy.