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Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1869, but a later 1880s printing. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Slight spine slant.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 142 pages. Humoroue instructions for the man living on his own. Cartoons by Quenin Blake. Book is clean, very good, dust jacket is worn, chipped.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Originally published by Lion Books as a paperback in 1954. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, unread copy.

Softcover. NY, Mysterious Press, reprint, 1989, Softcover, mass market paperback, 163 pages. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive.A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 147 pages with b&w illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. This book was reprinted in the early sixties with a different illustrator. Covers have edgewear, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Limited edition. Brown leather with elaborately decorative 22Kt gold gilt embossed to the front and rear covers and to the spine, gilt embossed titles, rules and decorations to the nicely hubbed spine, sewn head and tail bands, all page edges fine gilt, satin moire end-papers, and bound-in silk ribbon marker. A collection of thirty-five of the best stories by Lardner. 569 pages. 2-color illustrations by Gerry Gersten.Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 205 pages. Black & white illustrations by Howard Simon. Review slip laid in. Residue from paper clip front endpaper. Top corners a bit bumped. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. In matching slipcase.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in very worn, chipped dust jacket with tape repairs, 241 pages, frontispiece by Edward Shenton. Novel based on the historic 1780 Indian raid on Royalton, in the White River Valley of Vermont. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Escaping into the fantasy world of the movies, where fathers don't disappear, mothers have no secrets, and little brothers don't cry over missing stuffed animals, twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, while performing community service for a crime she didn't commit, is forced to face the reality of her life. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. 2 color, 8 tinted illustrations by Howard Pyle. Tissue guard over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear and soil to covers, but gilt & design bright. Previous owner's sticker on inside front cover at bottom right. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover . NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with 2 color, 8 tinted illustrations by Howard Pyle. Tissue guard over frontispiece, top edge gilt. Light edgewear and soil to covers, but gilt & design bright. Previous owner's name and date on reverse of color frontis.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Green cloth covers, gilt design, some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing on a few pages, otherwise inside is clean, with b&w illustrations by A. B. Frost throughout. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Green cloth covers, gilt design, some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing on a few pages, otherwise inside is clean, with b&w illustrations by A. B. Frost throughout. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 64 pages, illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos. Dust jacket with mild edgewear. Tale of the young son of a Georgia sharecropper who loves animals & wants to be a zoologist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Baudry's European Library, 1st, 1838, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, calf binding with title label on spine. Illustrated with 8 b&w engravings. Well written, entertaining legends, history and folklore of the Rhine, including the Mouse Tower, Hildegard von Bingen, St. Ursula, etc. Cover is scuffed with surface scars, but binding is firm. 354 pages. Minor foxing. Aside from cover appearance, very good.

hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Color comic illustrations make up this graphic novel. Bottom corner bumps otherwise, bright, and lean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Red decorative staining to page block and black satin ribbon marker.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration.Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 201 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with red decoration, 279 pages. B&w, some color illustrations by Will Crawford. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Will Crawford. Dust jacket with some heavy chipping.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine of cover faded. Tight copy. Illustrations by David Hendrickson.

Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st , no date (1949), Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with mild soil, gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY BOWEN and dated September 1954 on front fly leaf. Color frontis, B&W drawings by L. R. Brightwell. The adventures of a large angora rabbit named Sultan when he escapes from his life in "Show" business.