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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 222 pages. Story of the boy who helped William Tyndale smuggle into England his new English translation of the Bible.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Black & white illustrations by Berry. Edgewear. Dust jacket with spine fade, chipping, tears, edgewear. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Walker and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHANKMAN on title page.Distraught over her ex-boyfriend, Harry's new girlfriend, Samantha Adams, is eager to forget her troubles at a friend's blowout engagement party but finds them multiplying when the prospective groom is kidnapped and held for ransom. Sixth novel in the Samantha Adams series - this one is set in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers lightly faded. Light wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf and name on end paper. Illustrations by Paul Quinn.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering. Mild edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Illustrated by Paul Quinn.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY WERTMULLER, Italian screenwriter and film director. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for Seven Beauties in 1977. She is also known for her films The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy and Swept Away. Tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught from the chimney. But hiding beneath the soot is nothing less-Martin believes-than a lost work by Bruegel. So begins a hilarious trail of lies and deceits, desperate schemes and soaring hopes as Martin, betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't, embarks on a quest to prove his hunch, win his wife over, and separate the painting from its owner. The book was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize . Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 145 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1259. Cover art by James Meese. Ink notationon first pge. Light creasing to spine and covers.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY COCKEY title page.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Illustrations by Peter Kuper.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, bright copy. Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $2.50 on flap, 304 pages. Stated First Edition with M-I code on copyright page. Title-page printed in red and black. Original gray cloth lettered in black, backstrip decorated in red and lettered in black. "George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois and into the soul of America itself."

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ilonka Karasz, title page and end papers decorated in pink and black. Black cloth covers stamped with with stars and type design. Mild soiling to covers, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with 3-color pictorial decoration on the cover. Five b&w plates by Harry Burgess. Covers with edgewear, front hinge cracked, binding shaken but still holding. Dog advntures set in the northern wilds of Canada, told from the dog's viewpoint.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. New York , Armchair Detective Library, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 297 pages. Introduction by James Ellroy. Blue cloth covers with silver lettering and design with author cameo on front cover. Spots on back of cover otherwise very clean. Originally published in 1946 and unavailable in any edition for over 50 yrs.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the Thompson classic.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters--so jail is where Harold Kunt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose. HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the MWA Grand Master returning to stores for the first time in three decades. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser. Light edgewear to dust jacket.