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Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages, plus 8 pages of publisher's advertisments. Illustrated by C.S. Reinhart, Green cloth covers with dark green and gilt decoration and spine gilt lettering. Dated previous owner's inscription front end paper. Light edgewear to spine, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Gas City, IN, L-W Book Sales, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Haas. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 pages. B/W illustrations by E.W. Kemble, A.B. Frost and others. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf (dated 1891). Light fraying to top and bottom edge of spine.

Softcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. The au pair for the Porter family, Haitian-born Simone, becomes witness to the family's casual cruelty, observing the activities of Rosemary, a sculptor, her philandering husband, her mercurial friends, and her strange children. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Arrow Editions, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with darkening, chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black. Illustrations with color frontis, 10 black & white plates and endpapers drawing by Marguerite De Angeli. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 411 pages, illustrated with 192 line drawings. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover design is bright, spine a little less so, with a touch of cardboard showing through cloth at bottom edge and corner. Front hinge partially cracked. Back cover with several small white spots. "Ladies Library Association #246" in ink on front fly leaf, contents page a little frayed on fore-edge. Interior pages clean, very good. This is the First Edition, second state. Copyright page states Franklin Press, corrected text on pages 124, 263 and 362.

Hardcover. Chicago / Philadelphia / Toronto, John Winston Co., reprint , 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Four-color illustrations by Robert Lawson. Some wear, chipping and soiling to dust jacket, small tear to front cover, but internally clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Edward Stern, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated cover boards. Author wrote "The Roosevelt Bears", 7 color plates by C. Twelvetrees. An adventure told in verse about a little boy, Prince Domino. He and his siamese cat, who is very smart indeed, travel to far-off lands where they are helped by a little black and a little Japanese boy (the depictions of whom are slightly stereotypical). Moderate wear to front and rear cover. Loose binding. Light soil. Rear hinge torn half way up from bottom.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 110 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Soiling to covers, especially spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st illust thus, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue with prince on flying carpet on front, Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson, 110 pages. Some wear and soiling to cover, but internally mostly clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Sauk City, Mycroft & Moran, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 83 pages. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in plates by D. Howard Hitchcock. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Brown cloth with gilt titles.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition, NOT EX-LIB. Stated First Edition.

NY, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in white with titles and drawing of a cow's head on front cover. iBlack & white illustrations by Hans Kreis. A Story for young adults about raising diary cattle. Light wear, spine slanted.

Hardcover. Boston, J.E.Tilton & Co., Rep., 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. (C) page states 1869. 261 pages. Red cloth with gilt illustration on spine. NIce copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The betrayals and radicalism of the 1970s come back to haunt Bay Area attorney Willa Jansson when she becomes involved in the machine-gun slaying of Christine Rugieri, a woman who twenty years before had testified against her husband and his extremist cohorts.

Hardcover. Bristol, England, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1st Edition, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. Arrowsmith's 3/6 Series, Vol. XVIII. Hand-written letter from author [dated 27th Febry. /(18)95] laid in and attached to front flyleaf. In the letter, Hope mentions another book in comparison to this volume. Date of publication not indicated within, but correspondence accompanying and mentioning volume is dated 1895. Spine slightly cocked. Deep maroon cloth, gilt title on spine(slightly faded) and front cover board (still bright), boards have some rubbing, agewear, very light fraying at corners of boards, spine has chipping to top and bottom. Pages and edges have tanning from age. Some chipping to hinges of front and back endpapers, binding not affected. In very good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W drawings by Burt Silverman. In a nice, crisp dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Emily McCully. Dust jacket with small piece gone from top on rear panel. Review slip laid in. Small chunk missing from dust jacket rear by spine.

Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MAYOR on the title page. Ben Kendall was a troubled man. Coming back from Vietnam with PTSD and scars that no one else could see, he hid away from the world, filling his house with an ever-increasing amount of stuff, until finally, the piles collapsed and he was found dead, crushed beneath his own belongings. But what at first glance looks to be a tragic accidental death of a hoarder, may be something much more-and much deadlier. Ben's cousin, medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom, unsettled by the circumstances of his death, alerts Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. Orange top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy. Texas family as big and brash as their home state, the Renshaws are united by their fierce loyalty to one another and their ruthlessness in destroying anyone who threatens their interests. When the Renshaw matriarch, Edwina, takes to her deathbed, her ten children are summoned home to stand vigil. Past humiliations and long-simmering resentments soon boil to the surface--a son's forbidden love affair destroyed by his imperious mother, a daughter's dutiful attentions greeted with nothing but disdain. But the most painful wound of all is the absence of Kyle, Edwina's favorite son and the only member of the family to leave Texas. What drove him away, and can his siblings get him home in time to see his mother before she dies? As the ties that bind the indomitable Renshaws stretch and fray, Proud Flesh builds to a stunning climax of passion and violence. It is an unforgettable story, and one of William Humphrey's finest.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This black, bleak comedy tells of parallel lives in Providence, R.I. The Dwyers are middle-class, settled, safe in their lives until the day that Adam, a lawyer, finds out he's going to die of leukemia. Skippy, Babe, and Lisa are young sociopaths on the lookout for fun and fortune. When the lives of these two "families" cross, no one survives without trauma. The result is a diverting gallery of grotesques and grotesqueries, a litany of sex, perversion, violence, crime, and corruption. Providence is a fairy tale with no Good Fairy. Virtue ensures no reward; neither merit nor normal precaution provides sufficient protection to the unfortunate Dwyers. This novel is breezy and entertaining, enjoyable even though it depicts a world that is chilling in the indifference it shows toward ordinary people's cares and concerns.