Hardcover. Barre MA, The Imprint Society, Ltd. Ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue and beige cloth covered boards with gilt vignette of telescope on cover and gilt titled spine. 80 pages, wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Limited edition, one of 1,950, this unnumbered and unsigned. A science fiction tale set in Boston, a tasty satire. Book is bright, clean, housed in a lightly worn slipcase.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. A signed collectible first edition copy of this short story collection from this National Book Award winning and PEN/Faulkner and Pulitzer Prize nominated author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A captive British Intelligence Agent, after he is freed in a prisoner exchange, goes after the ones that betrayed him.
Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown of stagecoach on cover, black lettering and design. Gilt title on spine. 232 pages, 4 color plates including frontis of airships, many b&w illustrations throughout. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with a bright gilt design, 66 pages. Top edges gilt. Two color illustrations by Schoonover tipped in. A novel of a World War I soldier and Joan of Arc.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon.Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon.Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Tan boards, black cloth spine with silver titles, red dust jacket with color illustration and acetate protective covering. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, spine very stiff and tight, covers and pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sixth novel, and one of the best, in the award-winning Block's bestselling mystery series featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, New York City bookseller and burglar. Bernie's second-hand bookstore is turning a small profit until his new landlord wants to raise his rent $10,000 per month. So going back to his former profession of burglar, he slips into a supposedly un-tenanted apartment, steals a very large amount of untraceable cash and spots a naked man, dead, in the bath. The apartment just happens to be his new landlord's brother-in-law's, and, not only is the cash missing, but a million-dollar baseball collection is also missing and Bernie's been framed for it. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 265 pages. Collection of short stories by the acclaimed poet and novelist Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995). Printed on English sheets. States printed in Great Britain 1936 on copyright page but no indication of subsequent printings. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light fade to red cloth on spine.
Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCPHERSON on the title page. The author's second murder mystery story featuring Dandy Gilver. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY MORRIS on the half-title page. The author's third book.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket art, b&w illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Children's adnture story set in Africa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press,, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. "When Calder Pillay travels with is father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery...including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place...and then, on the same night, they disappear!" Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages. Second book of the "Homecoming" series. On the planet Harmony survivors from a ruined Earth live in a utopia maintained by a computer, which is failing. The only repair lies light-years distant on Earth and the only way to get there is to teach forbidden technology to a few select people. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on spine and decoration on front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, wraparound color art by Frank Street. 291 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 94 pages. B&w cartoon illustrations by Gluyas Williams. In a dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 211 pages. Number line starts with "2". Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated burgundy cloth stamped in white and green, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Thorton Oakley, William Rogers, Henry Hutt. Short stories including "The Stolen Stradivarius", A Girl of the Period" and more set in the Victorian Era. Clean copy.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, 244 pages. Clean copy. A new Perry Mason story, originally published by Morrow in 1943. Murder, embezzlement, cross examination, a buried alarm clock make this another gripping Perry Mason mystery. Clean copy.