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Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by author Diane Mott Davidson directly on the title page; The first Goldy Bear Mystery. Someone put rat poison in the coffee at the banquet and police have shut down Goldy's catering business until the matter is cleared up. Since this is Goldy's only source of income, Goldy decides she'd better do a little sleauthing of her own. Laid in is a pink sheet of recipes from Goldy's Kitchen. Clean, collectible copy of the first book in the series.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 169 pages.Journal of a 14 year old girl living on a medieval English manor who is fighting her mother's attempts to make her a lady & her father's to marry her off. 1995 Newbery Honor Book, no award medal on dustjacket. Book is in unread condition.

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, with drawings by Annie Newnham and introduction by Frank Delaney, yellow slipcase with pictorial cover on yellow cloth board. Unmarked and bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Company, Inc., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar. Red cloth cover boards, white title on spine. Slight tanning to edges from age. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st , 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Spine slant, light xoil to cover otherwise VG.

Hardcover. Emmaus, PA, Story Classics, Ltd Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white linen cloth with black and maroon lettering on spine. # 827 of 3000. Contents include: Cavalleria rusticana. The Saint Joseph's ass. Ugly weather. Property. The mystery play. Home tragedy, and more. illust. by Aldren Watson in 2 colors. No translator credited. Slipcased.

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth covers worn with faded spine. 157 pages. Illustrated by Burbank. Illustrated endpapers. Small dent in top edge of covers and edge. A story of adventure and intrigue set in the Guatemalan mountains. With a glossary of Spanish/Indian words and a guide to Mayan numerals in front. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 209 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Charles Keeping. Dust jacket price clipped, has light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, large chunk gone from back of dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Green cloth. Light wear to covers and edges. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Newmarket Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SWAN on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Light soiling, small tear to dust jacket; in brodart. Small remainder dot on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BOOKPLATE WITH SIGNATURES OF BILL LITTLEFIELD AND BERNIE FUCHS. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act story follows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises her well, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts it provides. This is the first in a series of standalone stories depicting the fictional filmography of Gilbert's Love and Rockets character, the B-movie actress Fritz. Hernandez wowed critics in 2003 with his epic work, Palomar, collecting more than 20 years of groundbreaking comics called "the most substantive single work that the comics medium has yet produced," by Booklist. Chance in Hell further establishes Hernandez as one of the great cartoonists of our age.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act story follows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises her well, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts it provides. This is the first in a series of standalone stories depicting the fictional filmography of Gilbert's Love and Rockets character, the B-movie actress Fritz. Hernandez wowed critics in 2003 with his epic work, Palomar, collecting more than 20 years of groundbreaking comics called "the most substantive single work that the comics medium has yet produced," by Booklist. Chance in Hell further establishes Hernandez as one of the great cartoonists of our age.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 421 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. Prose (Blue Angel; The Lives of the Muses) tests assumptions about class, hatred and the possibility of change in this novel, a good-natured satire of liberal pieties, the radical right and the fund-raising world. The "changed man" of the title is Vincent Nolan, a 32-year-old tattooed ex-skinhead who appears one morning in the New York offices of World Brotherhood Watch, a foundation headed by Meyer Maslow, a Holocaust survivor. Vincent declares that he has had a personal conversion (never mind that it was triggered by a heavy dose of Ecstasy) and wants to work with the foundation to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me."

Philadelphia , John Winston, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Clean copy in a nice dust jacket, pages tanning. Caleb Willows, a 16-year-old slave, makes a break for freedom and later is a student at Fisk University in Tennessee. He becomes one of the Jubilee Singers, eleven young African Americans who tour the United States and England singing spirituals in order to raise money for the school.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers Publishers, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 133 pages. All 4 color plates by Sigismond Ivanowski are present. Purple cloth with gilt decor and titles. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to covers with slight fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America,, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light sticker residue to rear panel, 1096 pages. The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, quarter blue cloth over gray paper boards with pink lettering on the spine, and a blue decoration on the front board. Illustrated with full-page and in-text drawings by Joseph Schindelman. The follow up to Dahl's wildly popular books "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Dust jacket with edgewear, red title faded on spine, $3.95 price on flap. Stated First Edition on copyright page.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Yellow cloth covering with black lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge of papers stained blue. Previous owners' names written in red pen on top of front end paper. Related ephemera laid in. B&W photos from Fox Movietone movie. Cover corners bumped, front and back covers slightly marked. A couple spots of discoloration on page edges.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 184 pages.The rear panel of the jacket quotes reviews of Stuart Little before concluding with the publisher's name on two lines. Original light beige cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black and blue, blue and white spider web-patterned endpapers. 47 charming black and white illustrations by Garth Williams. No First Edition or publisher's code on copyright page, so assumed a very early reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pges. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear to cover.