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Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece by Howard Hastings, repeated on cover label. Dark blue cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight.

hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Paul Quinn. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Coward-McCann, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 223 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover. Brady learns the importance of keeping a secret when he discovers a runaway slave in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Summit Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise clean. Marge Piercy, whose earlier novels have chronicled the female experience in the turbulent '60s and 70s, now turns her considerable skill and passion to the 1950s in this portrait of women in transition from repression to freedom. Through the intense friendship between Jill and her cousin, Donna, we see and feel what it was like to grow up in Detroit in the '50s and go to college when the first seeds of freedom were sown. Through Jill's childhood friend Howie, and her relationships with Mike and Peter, we come to understand the danger that sex posed when abortions were illegal, making the outcome of a chance encounter of a night of love a matter of life and death. And, through Marge Piercy's brilliant, thought-provoking novel, our lives are illuminated.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2014, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a special set of rules: no relationships, no ties...no alcohol, no women...no talking...and never, ever look inside the bag you're carrying. For more than ten years, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder, Paul Page was the perfect bagman. But that ended the day he say a beautiful Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every one of the rules he's lived by to protect the woman he loves--even if it means he might be left holding the bag. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise like new.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth covered boards with black graphic & orange titles to cover & spine. Frontis illustration, "....Let that hand down slowly, keeping it away from that gun," in black & white. Original dust jacket with the same illustration in full color, tears to edges, now protected with a plastic sleeve. Tight binding, light age toning, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 277 pages, black cloth spine over beige color boards. Lettering on spine faded, light fraying to top of spine. Front pastedown with previous owner's bookplate and small bookstore sticker. Otherwise clean, tight copy of a scarce book.

NY, Seabury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Imero Gobbato. In a bight, unclipped dust jacket. A young soldier battle a dozen devils after being locked in the turret of an old mansion. Based on a Latvian folk tale.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Wittily sending up the "child prodigy'' (if not biography, history, and high seriousness itself), Yorinks and Egielski trace the course of Minski's genius. A child of the 18th Century, Minski prankishly ``discovers'' gravity and electricity, soon followed by his serene introduction of the telephone, airplane, automobile, aspirin, light bulb, etc. Leonardo da Vinci appears in 18th-Century Vienna to applaud Minski's ``noodle.'' But when Minski hears the (historical) Farinelli sing, he labors feverishly on a formula to transform himself from scientist to artist, and achieves a triumphant apotheosis as ``unequaled singer.'' Egielski's exuberantly detailed, warmly colored pictures make the most of the anachronisms, the caricatures, and the Old World setting.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compelling portrait of the disintegration of the members of the Caldwell family, who have retreated to a horse farm from the city rat-race and their painful struggle to confront the problematic relationships they share. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, small spot on front cover. Light pencil markings to some pages, previous owner's bookplate to rear endpaper. Tight binding, tight signatures.

New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 209 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Rook. In a very nice turquoise dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, John W. Lovell Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 539 pages. Hardcover. Decorated covers, gilt title on spine. bound in green fabric. Former library book with remaining markings, seals and residual labels. Spine broken on back endpapers, but still intact. Pages and edges age-yellowed. Covers in good shape with some chipping/fraying to edges and spine top and bottom. In excellent condition for its age.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages, color frontispiece illustration by Gary Kelley. Deluxe edition by the Franklin Library. Bound in jet black cloth with attractive gilt decorations and titles. Three raised bands to the spine. All edges gilt. Printed on high quality, acid free paper. After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "In transposing to an Iranian setting the conventions of the thriller--the hard-drinking detective, the threatened heroine, the frantic escape from a brutal adversary--Koenig invests his story with unusual resonance. Here the familiar figure of the honest cop plays his role in the unfamiliar milieu of Teheran's fundamentalist Islamic society, as he becomes a threat to the government itself. Conducting a routine murder investigation to solve the death of a sexually mutilated young woman, chief homicide detective Darius Bakhtiar discovers the existence of a state-sponsored terrorist group, the Brides of Blood. This secret sorority of virgins, fanatical in their religious devotion, are trained to martyr themselves in terrorist aggression. After Bakhtiar uncovers evidence of sanctioned efforts to arm Iran with biological weapons, he and Maryam Lejavardi, the beautiful former Bride he has begun to protect and love, are tortured in Iran's feared Evin prison. The unimaginable horrors of Iran's torture factory might have overwhelmed a lesser novelist, but Koenig artfully blends assiduous research and superbly maintained suspense as he builds to the thrilling, unrelenting--and very cinematic--final pages."

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell visits three elderly women, the bridesmaids from her late grandmother's wedding, who have informed her that her grandmother needs to communicate a message to her from beyond the grave.

Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1st, 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight tear and creasing to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement."

Hardcover. London, Cresset Press, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. 1st UK. Covers bound in red fabric with gilt title on spine, very good. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age wear, light chipping to edges and spine, scratch on front cover (see image). Edges and pages have slight age yellow, but clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Bookseller's label on rear end paper. Black & white illustrations by Charles Copeland and color frontispiece. Green cloth covers with gold decoration and lettering. Rubbing to spine and corners. No dust jacket. Gilt top edge.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.

Hardcover. London, Metheun, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Collector's Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Black leather bound, gilt lettering and design. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Patterned end papers. Collector's notes laid in. Introduction by Larry Niven. Illustrated with full-color, full-page, plates by A. C. Farley, printed on glossy stock. A 1953 novel of alternate history. The point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the "War of Southron Independence" on July 4, 1864 after the surrender of the United States of America.