Softcover. New York, Bloomsbury, uncorrected proof, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, number 153 of 300 limited edition. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known professionally as Quarry has spent the past decade killing for money, first in the service of an agent called the Broker, and then as a freelance hitman. But he's always been on the right side of those contract kills--until now It seems someone has taken out a contract on Quarry himself. But who? And why? And how does a mysterious figure from his past figure in? Quarry will find the answer--or die trying. Since his first appearance in 1976, Quarry has been the star of a Cinemax TV series, a graphic novel (Quarry's War), and a dozen other novels. But he's never faced an assignment deadlier or more personal than this... Like new.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 423 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover Limited edition (No. 1075 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in publisher's brown leather over gilt embossed khaki boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt mystic maze decoration on covers. Illustrated with 16 full-page, full-color plates (including two double-page spreads) hand-colored by Frank Hudec, as well as in-text drawings, historiated initials, and head and tail-pieces by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Slipcase with light wear, soil. Book very good with a mild misty odor.
NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 177 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. When Charles Sabini, a popular kid from a large, happy family, got a Poison Chain Letter in the mail, it led him to Chris Pomeroy, who had never fit in. Their friendship changed them both. Clean copy.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with light fading to spine. The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939-1945.
Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane Company, 3rd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. 180 pages, color frontis. In this historical romance, Katrina Trask brings to life the story of King Alfred's Jewel, a precious gem from the time of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs. The novel follows the jewel's journey through the centuries, and the lives of the people who owned and cherished it, from medieval times to the present day. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, BC Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with a short close tear, 275 pages. With their discovery by the CoDominium Imperial Navy ending their one-thousand-year isolation, Prince Samual's World will become a lowly administrated colony, unless the monarch can discover the secrets of space technology. Spine sunned. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages, illustrated in b&w by Charles Keeping. Ex-lib with stamping and residue to endpapers. An adventure story from a 13th c folk-poem with elements from invasions of the 9th and 10th century, redone by a well known modern writer and illustrator. Prince Horn, driven from his father's kingdom at 15 by Turkish invaders, flees to Westernesse and becomes a page at the royal court. Then his love for the Princess is treacherously revealed and he is exiled to Ireland, from which he battles to free his kingdom and win his princess. Published when the author was 24, and the second of his many vivid translations and retellings of traditional narratives.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 398 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.INSCRIBED BY GAVIN on front end paper. Slight bottom edge soil.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Very minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound.
Hardcover. London, Arthur A. Levine, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket, in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Tight and bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The award-winning young adult author gives us his personal story. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, with illustrations by Paul Brown. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and foxing on top and fore edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A humorous spoof on the hard-boiled detective genre. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.