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Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious of the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, Uncorr. Proof wraps, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Uncorrected proof. Like new.The book opens with the disappearance of a man named Franko Bradovich in Kosovo. Franko, a native Montanan posing as a local, was a spy of sorts, an operative who was helping the Lucani (a loose affiliation of DEA, FBI, CIA, etc. agents operating outside the law) bust a drug trafficking scheme from Bulgaria through Kosovo and Serbia to Europe. Franko was living with the family of a farmer named Daliljaj (and was in love with the farmer's daughter Fedima) and an apparently helpful American-raised Slav (Bozi Bazok), who's become part of the Serb army's shock troops, has warned Franko that the army was headed toward them with bloodshed in mind. Later, though, Franko, who's been posing as a drug trafficker, is brought in by local police for questioning and is beaten--making Bazok's helpfulness questionable at best. Either way, Franko can't really afford to stick around. Bazok agrees to help him and, reluctantly, Daliljaj, Fedima, and their relatives, escape the sweep, in exchange for the massive quantities of drugs he believes Franko is hiding. But Bazok betrays him and slaughters Daliljaj and all of Fedima's other family while they wait for Franko to return with transport. When Franko returns, Bazok has disappeared, taking Fedima with him.

Hardcover. London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate wear, chipping and fraying on edges. Covered with brodart. Gutter cracked on title page. Previous owner's name in pen on title page.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 251 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Reminder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, illustrated in color and translated by Jonathan Hammer. Illustrated by Jonathan Hammer. Introduced, edited, & annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball's visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st , 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Merle Johnson. Paper on spine chipped. Light lettering on spine. Some wear to front cover. All pages clean and legible. Gutter cracked.

Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 195 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Erik Blegvad. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine faded. Endpapers drawing in 2-colors, b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. American First edition as stated on copyright page. The classic adventures of a young deer growing up and learning about life in the forest until he becomes as his father was, a magnificent stag. John Galsworthy was an advance reviewer, reading the galley proofs in March 1928 and he described it thusly: "Clear and illuminating, and in places very moving, it is a little masterpiece."

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Hardcover. Front hinge tender. Top edge stained red.Small spot of discoloration at bottom right corner of front cover; small black spot at front cover hinge/spine edge. An early Max Brand spy adventure written under his Frost pseudonym.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Joseph A. Smith. Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of "Yankee" riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Joseph A. Smith. Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of "Yankee" riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. We return to District 8--the underbelly of Bangkok's underworld--where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It's bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer appears to be Chanya--a tough, sweet working girl who's the highest earner at The Old Man's Club, jointly owned by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves Al Qaeda and Thailand's porous southern border where, since 9/11, the CIA has been an obviously covert presence. But the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever-more-delicate balance between his ambition and his Buddhism, while running the gamut of Bangkok's drug dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, worse military, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart (Chanya!)--most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is not prepared for what he discovers at the end of his investigation.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover, 64 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white by Christine Chisholm. Previous owners signature on top right corner of front endpaper. Light rubbing to corners of covers and top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles & green embossed graphic to front, gilt titles to spine. Rear hinge cracked. Light toning throughout.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 254 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean and bright except for faded spine lettering.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 63 pages. 18 three-color illustrations by Desmond Smith. Child's writing in pencil front endpaper. Edgewear. Corners worn. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping. Brodart cover. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in color, b&w by the authors. In a lightly chipped dust jacket with fading to spine.

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gray boards, red cloth spine. Very good in pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 6thpr., 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Ex-lib copy with stamping on front pages, rear endpaper and text block edges. The dust jacket is very good, clean, unclipped with just a small sticker to bottom of spine. A great historical novel for young people of a Kentucky family and their lives at the turn of the century with b&w Illustrations by Berkeley Williams, Jr.

hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by John Floherty, Jr. 141 pages. Young adult fiction, the story of a boy's first year in the big leagues.

Dubuque IA, William C. Brown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, no dj issued. There are more than 1,300 baseball fiction titles listed in this bibliography. You can find the books by the Author's Name Alphabetically, Chronologically from 1868 to 1990, Alphabetically by Title, By Adult or Juvenile Mysteries, Books About Integration and Race, Books About Women, Girls, and the Game, and Books About Major League Teams. Clean copy.