fiction

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY McBAIN on the half-title page. A Florida orange grower visits the Big Apple and stumbles into twenty-four hours of wild and funny trouble, finding himself robbed, framed for murder, and hunted by an assassin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 294 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. A collection of short stories, from the author's earliest fiction in 1937 to her new novella "Dr. Heart". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 369 pages, cover design by Decorative Designers, 12 b&w illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Dust jacket with several small pieces missing. A tale of teen-age drag racer Jet Johnson and his adventures in his hot rod club. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-63, 201, 127 pages. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages, b&w drawings, color dust jacket illustration by T.C. Farrow.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co, reprint, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A fine adventure story for young people. Soon after their dragonship lands on the coast of Vineland, Erik--the youngest of the Vikings--is captured by a raiding party of Mengwi warriors. How heescapes with a friendly Algonquin Indian with whom he lives for many moons, and how he and a rescue party from the dragon-ship aid the Algonkins to defeat the Mengwi make a story full of excitement. 199 pages, b&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Text pages tanning, probably a book club edition.

NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, Newberry Honor Book. Light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth covers, 240 pages. As Menolly uncovers magic and intrigue, mischievous Piemur discovers the rhythm of adventure in the final book in the Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffrey's beloved and best-selling Dragonriders of Pern series. Mischievous Piemur is used to getting away with a lot. He has one of the most impressive voices at Harper Hall and, in the world of Pern, there are few things more important than the ability to sing and write songs. But when his voice begins to change, Piemur loses all confidence and questions everything he thought he knew about himself. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st , 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped , otherwise bright & clean copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. Hill writing as Patrick Ruell. Light wear. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. For a penny a dream, the old blind Dream Weaver weaves dreams for seven sets of passers-by. Here are seven compelling fantasies to haunt the memory and stir the imagination. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt title on cover and spine. 342 pages. Spine is cocked, faded. The book is a bit shaken but clean. No dust jacket.

NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. With bright, but chipped dust jacket (mostly on top, bottom edge of spine, tiny chipping at corners).

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows some very light wear but otherwise nice and clean. Hardbound. Charismatic and deeply spiritual Jamie Waters pursues a destiny compelling her to struggle against complacency and leading her to a decision to be ordained as a priest in defiance of the canons of the Episcopal Church.

Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A first novel about Moses Highness, brought up in an English village that nobody had ever left. Moses moves to London and begins to unearth the bizarre and chilling secrets of his past, of his mother who ate raw yeast to rise out of her misery and his father who stayed in bed for 15 years. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 431 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1st, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I contains 329 pages followed by six pages of ads. Volume II contains 370 pages (including the appendix) followed by one blank leaf. Hardcovers. Gilt text on the spines, as well as to top and bottom text block edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpapers in both volumes. Volume 1 has rubbing and edgewear to boards and slight cracking to spine. Slightly unhinged front flyleaf. Mild creasing to top edges of page 25 and to fore edge of page 291. Moderate bumping to corners. Volume II has rubbing and edgewear to boards and slight cracking to spine as well. Slightly unhinged front flyleaf. Two inch tear to front flyleaf fore edge. Moderate bumping to corners. Unmarked. Bright and clean copies.

NY, Delacorte, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 166 pages.An Indian girl and a blacksmith's son are separated from their Northwoods Colonial community in the early spring, and they struggle in the wilderness to survive and return. The story is symbolized by the boy's beautiful knife; the girl is scornful of its dullness, but when she uses it to save their lives, returning it razor-sharp but bloody and chipped, he is equally disgusted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Many wonderful black & white engravings. Green cloth with bright gilt & black decoration. 372 pages.Rear cover has a half-dollar size spot of soil, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages. Author's first book. Light wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy in protective mylar cover. Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick and Angela uncover a ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution.