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Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with pictorial design of girl on a horse stamped in white and black. 153 pages illustrated with 5 b&w plates by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's historical fiction novel, partially written from the point of view of Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, Soldier Boy. This novel was first published in two installments in August and September 1906 in 'Harper's Magazine'. Twain's daughter Susy Clemens, who died in 1896 at age 24 of spinal meningitis, is understood to be the inspiration for lead character Cathy Alison. When Twain provided the story to Harper's, he included a photograph of Susy for the illustrator to use for Cathy. Spine is lightly faded, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Second printing, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Light green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some light foxing to spine. Pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Illustrations by Frederic Remington throughout, one of the plates has come apart from the binding, page laid in. Decorated (4 color) red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Boards have agewear, light soil, scratches (see images). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages clean. Page and edges have some light tanning from age. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and preliminary page.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with stamped colored cover illustration of a winter mountain scene framed by a holly leaf wreath. Top edge gilt. Thick card pages all have pictorial borders in soft pale yellow and black by Remington. Remington end papers, tissue covered frontis and two additional full page Remington plates. Christmas story featuring Lin McLean. Beautiful illustrated book. 92 numbered pages. Some rubbing/flecking to red cloth, especially spine and rear cover. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 353 pages. A lonely veteran's gruesome discovery throws him right into the face of danger as a twisted investigation unravels the secrets of his dark past. One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim--Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel. Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he knows he is still not safe.Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her newly minted partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the dead man's pocket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with residue and stamping to endpapers and top edge.

NY, Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on blank prelim page, Clean copy. A wildly exuberant, wily new novel about a race that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country (and continent) as it does about the three audacious individuals who take part.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Lawyer-sleuth Lennox Kemp becomes involved in a twenty year old murder case, and must discover if secretary Queenie Mangan really died in a fire--and if she didn't, who was the victim?

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. 60 black & white illustrations by H.A. Ogden. Bright gilt decorated cover with 3-color decoration. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover with an orange slipcase with a tipped-in plate to the front panel. . No dust jacket. Limited to 350 copies. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 23/350.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEAVER on the title page to fellow writer Barry Estabrook. A school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. Waiting for them are three escaped convicts with nothing to lose. Now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything to gain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering, 380 pages. Edgar Watson Howe (May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937) was an American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was perhaps best known for his magazine, E.W. Howe's Monthly, which he wrote from 1911 to 1933. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town (1883), was also his best-known. Howe's subsequent novels were neither critically nor popularly successful. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Historical novel of a Boston pastor drawn into the Abolitionist movement. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated with color photos by Larry Carrara. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND AUTHOR on front fly leaf. A Moose for Jessica is a non-fiction book about a moose named Josh that spent some time in Shrewsbury, Vermont with a hereford cow called Jessica. Josh was attracted to Jessica and stayed in the vicinity for 76 days.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Entrusted to transport two prisoners to death row, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux is wounded when one of them, Jimmie Lee Boggs, escapes, an act that causes Robicheaux to put all of his efforts into revenge.

Hardcover. Chicago, self-published, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and design on front cover and spine. 270 pages. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot's classic work on parenting and family life is as relevant today as it was when it was first published over a century ago. Drawing on her experiences as a kindergarten teacher and mother, Proudfoot offers practical advice and insight into the challenges and joys of raising young children. This is the original first printing, dated 1897 on copyright page. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking on about a dozen pages.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in a windblown resort in Cornwall, a tale of passion, greed, and murder unfolds as Lennox Kemp is drawn to a beautiful, mysterious women, a gruesome killing takes place, and he searches for clues. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's , 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.. 270 pages.

Hardcover. Hopewell NJ, Ecco Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 191 pages. The insular tranquility of a group of suburban New Yorkers is shattered by two vivacious sisters from Paris in a comic novel about the pretensions of America's upper-middle-class by two of America's foremost poets. Originally published in 1969. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1891, Hardcover, original decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt, with a paper black and white oval cameo laid on front board. First edition. A cornerstone collection of 24 New England regional tales, including the ghost stories "A Gentle Ghost", "The Twelfth Guest," and "A Village Lear". Spine gilt lightly faded otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 163 pages. The sequel to "A Day No Pigs Would Die"novel. Clean.

Hardcover. Philadephia PA, Penn Publishing Co, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 224 pages. Black & white illustrations by Henry Pitz. Green cover with black writing and color illustration pasted on. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Corners bumped. Spine wear. Small dents to spine. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unread copy of the authors second novel. Jeremiah Bembo, the landlord of a local pub, never talks about his former role as the most respected and feared of Her Majesty's executioners. Until an old friend asks a simple question, prompting him to go back to the beginning, and to turn over the events of 1964. During the war an accident leaves him with one moving eye, warm and watchful, and one still eye, unflinching and unfeeling. The two halves of his life grow apart as, on occasions dictated by the law, Jem travels the country to fulfil his duties as executioner. But the balance becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as a murder is committed which touches his own life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth with brown lettering, 246 pages. B&w drawings by the author and Ruth King. Nice vintage copy of a book instructing children on the care of all kinds of pets. Mild slant to spine, clean copy.