Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with orange cloth spine, paper spine label chipped. First printing with Doran logo on copyright page. With a preface by Hilaire Belloc, 333 pages. "Bramah attained commercial and critical success with his creation of Kai Lung, an itinerant storyteller. He first appears in The Wallet of Kai Lung which was rejected by eight publishers before Grant Richards published it in 1900. It was still in print a hundred years later. The Kai Lung stories are humorous tales set in China, often with fantasy elements such as dragons and gods." Covers rubbed, edgeworn. Clean internally.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages, hardcover with like new, bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Collectors, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Masterpieces of Science Fiction Series. 281 pages, lovely color frontispiece by Richard Powers. Blue genuine leather with gilt decorations, no dust jacket as issued. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark. Lovely copy, like new. Collectors notes laid in.
Hardcover. Glens Falls, Champlain Publishing, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Blue cloth covers with title rubbed from spine and some rubbing to gilt title on cover. Book has slight damp smell. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Despite the disapproval of her mother and three sisters, Katie Thorne persists in her search for a husband, approaching her goal along an open road of initially promising but ultimately unsuitable candidates
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Ex. library copy with stamp to endpaper. Red cloth covered boards with black design & black printed titles to spine. Illustrated in black & white by Al Savitt. Dust jacket with dime sized chip to lower right corner, light toning & pen mark to price corner, non clipped. tone to top edge & light scuff marks to rear. Clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. Alpharetta GA, Black & White Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, also INSCRIBED by him on dedication page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Co, 2nd Ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with 3-color decoration. Four Illustrations in color by W. Herbert Dunton. Illustrated end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Roschl. Dust jacket price clipped, spine faded, has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. A Stone Age boy takes a far journey on the Great River (the Danube) to find special rocks (obsidian?) in an island in the sea.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the start a young man who finds himself at the wrong end of the system, a system he will never beat, one that he suddenly finds himself at the end of a noose for rape and murder. Set at the Time of Crecy, young Martin finds himself going from a life of routine drudgery to one where his life depends on those around him a soldier in the Kings army.
Softcover. Evanston, Triquarterly Books, First Thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Bright cover with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st Thus, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED BY ILLUSTRATOR HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER ON LAST PAGE - THIS BEING #1472 OF 1500. Bound in rust colored cloth. Title in silver on black leather on spine. Slipcase slightly age darkened, with pea size chip missing from top left corner. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Garden City Publishing, reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket and pictorial covers. Light edge wear to covers. Illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Previous owner's name on end paper.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages, with drawings by Annie Newnham and an introduction by Frank Delaney, blue slipcase and pictorial cover on blue cloth board.
Softcover. New York, Dagger House, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Paperback. Red Dagger Mystery #25. Crease to front cover. Light wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DAVIDSON on the title page. This fifth culinary novel filled with 'five-star' recipes finds Caterer Goldy Schulz called on to prepare a banquet for a cosmetics company who induced animal rights protestors. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and Black/white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Bloomsbury, uncorrected proof, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, number 153 of 300 limited edition. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known professionally as Quarry has spent the past decade killing for money, first in the service of an agent called the Broker, and then as a freelance hitman. But he's always been on the right side of those contract kills--until now It seems someone has taken out a contract on Quarry himself. But who? And why? And how does a mysterious figure from his past figure in? Quarry will find the answer--or die trying. Since his first appearance in 1976, Quarry has been the star of a Cinemax TV series, a graphic novel (Quarry's War), and a dozen other novels. But he's never faced an assignment deadlier or more personal than this... Like new.
Hardcover. NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover Limited edition (No. 1075 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in publisher's brown leather over gilt embossed khaki boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt mystic maze decoration on covers. Illustrated with 16 full-page, full-color plates (including two double-page spreads) hand-colored by Frank Hudec, as well as in-text drawings, historiated initials, and head and tail-pieces by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Slipcase with light wear, soil. Book very good with a mild misty odor.
NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 177 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. When Charles Sabini, a popular kid from a large, happy family, got a Poison Chain Letter in the mail, it led him to Chris Pomeroy, who had never fit in. Their friendship changed them both. Clean copy.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with light fading to spine. The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939-1945.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages, illustrated in b&w by Charles Keeping. Ex-lib with stamping and residue to endpapers. An adventure story from a 13th c folk-poem with elements from invasions of the 9th and 10th century, redone by a well known modern writer and illustrator. Prince Horn, driven from his father's kingdom at 15 by Turkish invaders, flees to Westernesse and becomes a page at the royal court. Then his love for the Princess is treacherously revealed and he is exiled to Ireland, from which he battles to free his kingdom and win his princess. Published when the author was 24, and the second of his many vivid translations and retellings of traditional narratives.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 398 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.INSCRIBED BY GAVIN on front end paper. Slight bottom edge soil.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, with illustrations by Paul Brown. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and foxing on top and fore edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A humorous spoof on the hard-boiled detective genre. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.
Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 338 pages. Light edgewear to dj, remainder dot bottom edge. A novel of Henry Knox's 1776 winter raid on Fort Ticonderoga to bring cannon to beleaguered Boston. Endpapers map. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Top edge gilt. Gilt title on white cloth spine, front cover with sea motif in silver over gray paper. Title on pastedown in upper right corner of front cover. Hand numbered #93 of 675 copies. Features 10 full color tipped-in plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Cover corners with light/moderate rubbing. Hinges intact but tender. Nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Photo of author laid-in, translated from Japanese by Simon Grove.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sam's friends, Oscar and Fred Arm, identical twins, are of opposite opinions as to whether or not he should marry Claire, a wealthy young debutante, and work secretly to alter their wedding plans.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth with blue lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Inscription, date on front fly leaf, with Christmas stamp, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf, otherwise VG.
Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Americans remember him at all, they no doubt think of Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) as the author of Hunger or as the Norwegian who, along with Vidkun Quisling, betrayed his country by supporting the Nazis during World War II. Yet Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his novel The Growth of the Soil, was and remains one of the most important and influential novelists of his time. Knut Hamsun Remembers America is a collection of thirteen essays and stories based largely on Hamsun's experiences during the four years he spent in the United States when he was a young man. Most of these pieces have never been published before in an English translation, and none are readily available. Hamsun's feelings about America and American ways were complex. For the most part, they were more negative than positive, and they found expression in many of his writings--directly in his reminiscences and indirectly in his fiction. In On the Cultural Life of Modern America, his first major book, he portrayed the United States as a land of gross and greedy materialism, populated by illiterates who were utterly lacking in artistic originality or refinement. Although the pieces in this collection are not all anti-American, most of them emphasize the strangeness and unpleasantness, as the author saw it, of life in what he called Yankeeland.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DORFMAN on title page.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Eight b&w plates by illustrator (not credited). Decorated yellow cloth covers with light soil, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Paterson NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering, 114 pages. Five b&w plates by Anthony A. MacGrath. From a private school library with light stamping, gilt faded.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. At the core of L.A. Requiem is Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past. When Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the woman's father to monitor the police investigation. But Pike's no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge. With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's classic The Long Goodbye, L.A. Requiem is the apotheosis of Crais's writing career--a gripping novel that envelops Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets, and mortal passions that threatens to destroy their friendship, and leave one, or both, dead.
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