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Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright blue, green and gilt design to front cover and spine. Romance of America's History series. Stated First Edition. Includes 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs and Charles Hargens. Many b&w drawings in text by various artists. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, et al. Woodcut engraved endpapers, color frontis, 506 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, with b&w illustrations by Lewis Parker. Dust jacket price clipped and minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Denny Meech is accustomed to being teased at school, especially during hunting season. There was a time many years ago when the Meeches were unruly mountainmen who lived off the land and ignored the game laws. But that was long ago. Now Denny finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Where are those silent flashes of light coming from in the middle of the night? What is Boot, his dog, barking at when Denny can see and hear nothing? Denny must get to the bottom of this. But how? He convinces Uncle Frank and his cousin Bert to help him, and together they solve the mystery and capture the deer poachers.

Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good in slipcase. This limited edition, one of 1500 copies hand numbered and signed by illustrator Edward A. Wilson at colophon, contains b/w and color illustrations in gravure throughout. The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo.

Hardcover. Portand, ME, Thomas B. Mosher, 1st Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Hardcover (soft cardboard) with foreedge overhang to protect edge (see image). "This First Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies". Untrimmed foreedge. Tan covers, brown title on spine and front cover board with design. Tanning throughout from age. Clean, tight copy in very good condition.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 335 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Lockwood. Review copy with laid in slip. Edgewear. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping, large chunk missing from top of spine, small chunk from bottom. Brodart cover. Rust residue from metal paperclip on half title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 250 pages, clean copy. Includes a preface by Nin of several diary entries from the early 1940's, explaining the origin of these stories (written for $1 a page, when in need of money.) Posthumous publication of these erotic stories: The Hungarian Adventurer; Mathilde; The Boarding School; The Ring; Mallorca; Artists and Models; Lilith; Marianne; The Veiled Woman; Elena; The Basque and the Bijou; Pierre; Manuel; Linda; Marcel.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's gift inscription on front end paper. Black & white illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Cover has some light soiling, gilt lettering and decoration.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Boyle's 1st book, 2,500 copies printed, dust jacket unclipped w/ light nicks to top edge. The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author's first book, a collection of 17 short stories gathered from various literary magazines and journals.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1st US, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages plus publisher's ads, light blue cloth with 3-color decoration, 32 b&w plates by Sidney Paget. Light flecking to cloth in small areas, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth cover boards with gilt reverse lettering on front and spine. Corners bumped, rear board has moderate soiling, spine shows heavy rubbing and wear. Illutrations by W.H.D. Koerner. Spine slightly cocked, but tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A former Las Vegas showgirl names Stacey Wilson is jailed for the murder of her husband, Marvin, a rich playboy whose marriage to the showgirl was a local scandal. Stacey staunchly claims innocence; despite a life sentence, she refuses to disclose her whereabouts on the murder day. When the police see the case as closed, Father Dowling, uncomfortable with the verdict, privately seeks the truth. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Front flap creased. Clean.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, 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. New York, Knopf, 2nd Printing, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 273 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's first novel, set in Berlin, in early 1933 as the Nazi regime is gaining power, and Jews, radicals, and other undesirables are leaving the city. Based on film director Fritz Lang and his wife Thea. Praise from Thomas Pychon, among others, who called it "daringly imagined and darkly romantic - a moral thriller." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Sinclair Stevenson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 195 pages, in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOYD on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Arcade, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 248 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton receives a phone call at the reception desk of his hotel informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming?

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. America has had a love affair with the hard-boiled detective since the 1920s, when Prohibition called into question who really stood on the right and wrong side of the law. And nowhere did this hero shine more than in crime fiction. In Detectives in the Shadows, literary and cultural critic Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of this truly American character type from Race Williams to Philip Marlowe and from Mike Hammer to Jessica Jones. Lee explores how this character type morphs to fit an increasingly troubled world, offering compelling interpretations of The Wire, True Detective, and Jessica Jones. 216 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear. Hardbound. When Lucifer hears that Mother Crump is "meaner than the devil", he pays her a visit to find out himself. And sure enough, she out-deviled him! Even when she dies, and he won't let her into his domain, Mother Crump manages to best the devil one last time.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.

NY, Methuen, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 83 pages. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.