fiction

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated by Doris Lee. Dust jacket edge wear, creases and rub, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st US, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Kipling's classic poetic tribute to his beloved Scottie. Seven black and white full page illustrations by Cecil Aldin, whose name is misspelled on the cover. There is tanning to the cover , light corner wear to boards. Previous owner's notation on front fly leaf. Aldin's charming drawings are clean and bright.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1954. Clean, bright copy in color wraps.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Black & white illustrations by Susan Bennett. Library discard stamp in front end pages, die-cut library stamp on top of title page. Price-clipped dust jacket with very slight chipping to top edge and spine. Otherwise a very nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st U.S., 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue, 576 pages. First published in England in 1891. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Green cloth hardback with gilt borders and green lettering to the front and spine. Color frontis, black & white line drawings in text. Corrected and revised by Cecil Hartley, originally published in 3 volumes, 1783-89. This is a modern reprint, probably the 1920s.Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Bros, unknown ed., n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 6 color chromolith plates. Decorated blue cloth, gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

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

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently. Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business. "What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved. Now there are guys doing this who cope with it by making it personal. They find a reason to hate the guy they have to kill. I don't know what's a sin and what isn't, or if one person deserves to go on living and another deserves to have his life ended. Sometimes I think about stuff like that, but as far as working it all out in my mind, well, I never seem to get anywhere."But while Keller might be a pragmatic and crack assassin, he's also prone to doubts and loneliness just like everybody else. There was a psychotherapist once. A dog. Even a woman. And though he's got Dot, his wisecracking contact and sometimes confidante, and his precious stamp collection, these days, it doesn't seem to be enough.

Hardcover. NY, Context Books, 3rd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 292 pages.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. Previous owner's inscription opposite half-title page. Dust jacket with price clip, big chip on rear panel. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kinderstey, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Norman Messenger. Hob now has his own full length novel, in which he behaves in his usual brave and quirky way to guard the inhabitants of his house. Yet now there are not just Plastercracks to defeat and kettles to keep singing: dark shapes threaten to overwhelm all. Clean copy.

Chicago, Follett Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Leonard Shortall. A Beginning to Read book about the Prehistoric Stone family. Nice dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Jr. Literary Guild/J.B. Lippincott, Book Club Ed, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, 348 b&w drawings and photographs by the authors. Scarce in the bright orange dust jacket, light edgewear and chipping.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell, Gregory Manchess. After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. What he found was Corliss Mason: sensual, irresistible--and deadly. Soon Swede's helping Corliss cover up a killing, but how long can they get away with murder? And why can't he shake the terrible suspicion that he's being set up? Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 346 pages, 48 b&w drawings by James. Classic piece of Western literature, recalling life on the fictional Seven X ranch, presenting a realistic depiction of cowboys, their work and the land in which they live. Date on title page and copyright page match, publisher's seal present but no "A", so assumed 2nd printing.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, first printing of the Tower Books Motion Picture edition, August 1946. In a very worn, tape-repaired dust jacket that shows scenes from the 20th Century-Fox film starring Peggy Ann Garner & Randolph Scott.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st published in England in 1987.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2023, Hardcover, pictorial boards. During a golden moment in the early 1950s, EC Comics lovingly adapted 25 classic Ray Bradbury stories into comics form, scripted by Al Feldstein and brilliantly interpreted and illuminated by all of EC's top artists: Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Roy Krenkel, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson, and Wallace Wood. This special companion collection to our EC Comics Library series features all 25 official adaptations plus an additional ten related stories with stunning art reproduced in generously oversized coffee table dimensions! Highlights in this singular volume include: "Home to Stay"- a clever combination of two Bradbury science fiction stories that Bradbury himself proclaimed topped his originals (available in no other form or medium), masterfully woven together by Al Feldstein and Wallace Wood. "A Sound of Thunder" - the classic time-travel-gone-wrong story brilliantly illustrated by Al Williamson and Angelo Torres. "Touch and Go" - an obsessive psychological thriller tautly executed by Johnny Craig. And many more, including "The Million Year Picnic" (Elder), "I, Rocket" (Williamson and Frazetta), "Zero Hour" (Kamen), "Mars Is Heaven" (Wood), and "There Will Come Soft Rains..." (Wood). Plus a cornucopia of bonus features, including introductions and commentary by Greg Bear, Ted White, Dr. Benjamin Saunders, Bill Mason, and Thommy Burns; a wry reminiscence by Ray himself; and two full-color paintings by Frank Frazetta. DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's second book.

Softcover. New York, Viking, uncor. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Softcover with minor wear to wrappers. Signed on title page. Tight copy. Crease on front top right corner.