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Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Hardcover. No slipcase. SIGNED BY KENNETH ROBERTS AND N. C. WYETH. One thousand and seventy-five numbered copies of this Arundel Edition have been printed on all-rag paper, bound in natural finish cloths and autographed by the author and by the artist - this being hand numbered #147. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - illustrations are clean, and bright. Cloth covers with areas of strong fading. Spine cloth darkened, with some shallow abrading to leather title label. Interior is clean, and tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 395 pages. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Degree of darkening to spine cloth. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Author's 1st novel/ dj reviews from Mary Robison, Carolyn See, W. Kittredge. "In her highly acclaimed debut novel, Karen Karbo combines her caustic wit and compassionate observations to paint a brilliant portrait of Soviet emigres to Los Angeles."

Hardcover. New York , Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Author's 1st novel/ dj reviews from Mary Robison, Carolyn See, W. Kittredge. "In her highly acclaimed debut novel, Karen Karbo combines her caustic wit and compassionate observations to paint a brilliant portrait of Soviet emigres to Los Angeles."

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Hard-boiled novel set in Chicago - this was supposed to be Izzi's breakout novel, but unfortunately it was a commercial failure - and caused a contentious falling out between Izzi and the publisher, with Izzi accusing Bantam of failing to promote it, With yellow wrap-around band present.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations by Tomie de Paola. INSCRIBED BY HARDENDORFF on half-title page. In a bright dust jacket with small clear tape repair.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, illustrated in b&w by Pamela Johnson. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

NY, Abingdon Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by Robert L. Jefferson. Trina's father works for the railroad, and the family moves into a snug boxcar home in a little town in Wyoming in the early 1960's. Unlike her brother, Trina is a shy little girl and is hesitant to speak English, but she has a happy year. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages, extremely clean, dust jacket unclipped in protective mylar cover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcpver in green boards with dark green cloth spine, titles stamped in gilt. Dust jacker shows edgewear and chipping, with $7.50 on flap. Top edge stained green. Framed gilt facsimile of Miller's signature to front of green boards. Clean, tight, bright. 348 pp. First published in 1939 in France, it took over 20 years to be cleared for publishing in the United States. Despite the ban, Miller has been one of the most influential figures in American literature. "The completion of his seven-volume autobiography, if it fulfills the promise of what he has already given us, will put his name amongst the three or four great figures of the age."

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Inscribed by Doreen Baingana on title page. Clean copy.

NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth binding with brown cloth spine. Illustrated with b&w woodcut drawings by Margaret Wetherbee. 124 pages. Story of a year in the life of a village schoolboy and his dominant elder brother - both are poachers and bird trappers, but both have a certain devotion to their victims. Through the eyes of these boys we see the change of seasons, the habits of birds and animals. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with minor wear, 56 pages, illustrated with drawings by Stan Skardinski. Set in Holland during the siege of Leiden in 1573. Thousands died of starvation during the months-long revolt against colonial rule. Trudel helps her family deal with hardship. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. 394 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy. But what if Stan Lee wasn't who he said he was? To craft the definitive biography of Lee, Abraham Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee's life and work. True Believer tackles tough questions: Did Lee actually create the characters he gained fame for creating? Was he complicit in millions of dollars' worth of fraud in his post-Marvel life? Which members of the cavalcade of grifters who surrounded him were most responsible for the misery of his final days?

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY. Winner of the Booker Prize. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt and orange, 13 b&w plates. A dozen tales of incidents in American wars. Light pencil note on front fly leaf dated in 1887. Otherwise clean.

New York, Morrow, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages. Previous owner's sticker on inside of front end paper. Cover has light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HIGGINS on title pg. Tight copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1971. Clean, bright copy in color wraps.

NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, Nd , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages. Black & white illustrations by Grace Huxtable. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket. Translated by Rose Fyleman. Originally published in Switzerland under the title Muck: Lebenstage eines Alpenhasen. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Cornerstone Books, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards. 152 pages. This is the large-print edition of a book first published in 1975. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 86 pages plus publisher's promotional exerpts from previous series books in back. "Summary: When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture during the Mexican War." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER on half-title. Caldecott Winner. Bright, crisp copy. Second printing, without Caldecott sticker on front. Wiesner won the first of three Caldecott Medals for this charming and humorous pictorial story about clever frogs and their adventures as they migrate from a swamp through a small town.