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Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers stamped in black, 162 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. A classic account by the step-son of Amelia Earhart who travelled with renowned Captain Robert "Bob" Bartlett to Baffin Island in Arctic Canada.

Hardcover. New York, Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth binding with color label on front.246 pages. Black & white illustrations by Maurice Day. Cover has light wear to corners and spine edge. Cover has very light soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 3rd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. B&w illustrations by Margery Gill. During the London Blitz the lives of Derek and his friends turn from make-believe to dangerous reality.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor fading along red cloth cover boards. Dust jacket shows light amount of rippling to front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages. When their friend Tommy Apple dies leaving them a million dollars and unanswered questions about his drug dealings, Joe and Judy Constantine are pressured to cooperate both with Tommy's cronies and with federal agents. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #909. Cover art by Arthur Sussman. Light warping and creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Congdon & Laffes, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Fourth book in highly praised series of Harry Stoner mysteries. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight fading to rear dust jacket panel. Light age toning to top text block edge. Dust jacket in protected plastic sleeve. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 82 pages. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson with 62 pen and ink drawings, gilt decorated blue boards, all edges gilt, previous owner's book plate on front endpaper, minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Spectacular gilt cover decoration. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Knopf, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1954, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #784. Cover art by Griffith Foxley. Ink notation on first page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear and small tears to dust jacket, minor foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy. At the open we have 22 people, some Biblical while some are clearly not even representative, literally dragging God, not quite dead, through various roads, countryside, and towns in order to reach the plot in which He will be buried. Of course, it does not matter that He is dead when they reach their destination. The novel is one of Barthelme's more powerful tales and, as always, full of humor. One cannot read this without thinking that the Monty Python crew was somewhat influenced by this work, philosophically as well as from a creative standpoint. The one surprising footnote to this work is that it is a rather easy read,

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 341 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Responding to a late-night disturbance call only to be reassured by a blonde woman that nothing is wrong, Paddy Meehan is horrified to learn the following morning that the woman, a lawyer from an upper-crust community, has been murdered.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. McKinty's second novel is a brutal tale of revenge starring a young illegal immigrant from Ireland who chooses a criminal career in New York over unemployment in Belfast. Arriving in the city in the early 1990s, the antihero Michael Forsythe lands a spot as an enforcer for Irish mobster Darkey White. Though Forsythe at first keeps his hands relatively clean, he soon racks up a significant number of kills in skirmishes with rival crews as well as with Dominican gangs warring for control of the streets. An affair with his boss's girlfriend leads to a setup: he and his mates are trapped in a drug sting in Mexico and abandoned in a remote prison. "If someone grows up in the civil war of Belfast in the seventies and eighties, perhaps violence is his only form of meaningful expression," McKinty writes early in the novel, and the bulk of the story recounts Forsythe's grisly efforts to escape and avenge himself, including a stint with a Dominican group seeking to oust Darkey White. The pace is brisk and energetic, but Forsythe remains a cipher-a self-educated intellectual who listens to Tolstoy on tape during a stakeout but exhibits puzzlingly little interest in finding an alternative to the gun and the knife. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st published as paperback in 1953; this is 1st hardcover edition; dust jacket price clipped. 160 pages.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 3rd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #963. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Novel Selections inc, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Mystery Novel Classic #81. Light soil and warping to spine.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Murder amidst the members of the ultra-exclusive Palm Isle Golf Club lures San Francisco dick Amos McGuffin to the spectacular duffer's paradise where his suspects run the gamut from predatory yacht-owning widows to sinister voodoo priests. Remainder mark bottom edge.