Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in dark brown, 192 pages, endpapers illustration (not credited). Light shelf wear, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages, illustrated in b&w by Dugald MacDougall. The story of 6-year-old Zulu girl who has many adventures when she goes to the store for the first time. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Junior Guild and Doubleday & Company, Book Club Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on the spine and illustration in black on front cover. 220 pages. Illustrated by Grace Paull. A tomboy's hilarious escapades in her attempts to be a proper young lady. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 347 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice copy in brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 347 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice copy in brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt, red and green decoration. Frontis. with tissue overlay plus 10 plates illustration by Bernard Partridge. The sequel to Sentimental Tommy, continuing the adventures of a young man in London as he attempts to find his way as a writer.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Features 48 black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Mustard colored cloth covers with green and orange illustrations, Light wear along edges. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Graham, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 126 pages. Some discoloration to endpapers. Black & white illustrations. Light wear to corners and spine. Covers a bit warped.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Albert D. Blashfield. Rear hinge cracked. Light rubbing to cover corners. Slight cock to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped with red title. A Mexican Adventure about young Tonio and how he helps a hungry wounded stranger & fulfills his own dearest wish. Many b/w illus by Wilfred Bronson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions CLub, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in forest-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt with printed label attached. Introduction by Norman H. Strouse with color and b&w illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Copy #794 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Wells felt that this was his best novel. Very good in a bright yellow slipcase with some darkening to one area.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #593. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light Pencil notation on first page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Spine wrinkled.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #995. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Spine lightly cocked.
Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Cardboard covers, illustrated endpaper. One-color illustrations by Walton Brashears. Some edgewear and soiling to covers.
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Foul Play Press, 1st, 1999, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 284 pages. Previous owner's light marking on front fly leaf. "Possibly she even realized, or half-realized, that there was something wrong with her life.... She wondered whether what had happened to the park had happened to her: a dark, rushed change that would never change back." This is England's mystery writer Bill James describing a 13-year-old girl known as Noon, soon to be shot dead while working as a drug courier near a rundown park. Her death sets off a series of explosions in James's latest book in his wonderfully dark and exquisitely written Harpur & Iles series.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 198 pages. Black & white illustrations by Scott Lusby. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to edges, covers, especially spine. Corners a bit bumped.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Bill Nelson. When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, it's up to P.I. Donald Lam to get to the bottom of her disappearance -- and of a mining scam, an illegal casino operation, a double homicide, and an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune...if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in! Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-colored cloth stamped in black, 270 pages illustrated in b&w by Pelagie Doane. A mystery for young readers. Alice Ware spends a summer vacation away from home with the Frasier family and their daughter, Theodora. Adventures follow. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 2nd pr., 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with embossed decoration on front cover, gilt faded on darkened spine, 325 pages. Drawings by Roese. Title page dated 1932, publisher's design on copyright page but no First Edition stated, so assumed 2nd printing. Topper, now a retired bank executive, is galavanting in the south of France with the very same mischievous, sexy, prohibition-despising ghosts as accomplices. Basis for the 1938 feature film starring Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray. Mild edgewear, clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Black & white illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Dust jacket price-clipped with light soiling, HarperCrest label on spine.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In a future world, which looks back on ours as the fabulous, inventive age of Ago, a group of young people take over the guardianship of a marble torch and set out on a journey to find its true home. 176 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 469 pages. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. In a stunning follow-up to his acclaimed 'The Congressman's Daughter,' award winning novelist Craig Nova portrays the consequences of reckless desire between two people, consequences that shatter the lives of all those around them.