Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BEGLEY on the front fly leaf in the year of publication. This autobiographical Holocaust novel won the Hemingway/PEN Award in 1991. The French version (Une education polonaise) won the Prix Medicis etranger in 1992. Begley's debut novel. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Baskerville, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light stain to top edge, not affecting pages. Dust jacket corner chips, edgewear, otherwise VG/VG. When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends, Kate, Annie, and Oola, are determined to turn the tables on the stalker
Honesdale, PA, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages, Black & white illustrations by Christoher Zhong-Yun Zhn. Review copy. An intimate look at family and village life in southeastern China, approximately 50 years ago. Ying, 10, is raised by her beloved grandmother. Ah Pau is thrifty, wise, and firmly rooted in her culture's traditions and superstitions. She guides Ying and her cousins with a firm and loving hand. As in First Apple (Boyds Mills, 1994), in which the little girl was a year younger, Ying must raise an ambitious amount of money. This time, she must bargain with her mercenary cousin Kee, and deal with the class bully.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in pale yellow, in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A novel about a San Francisco journalist who matches wits with a gang of drug dealers. With illustrations by Chauncey Maltman. Clean.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Poseidon, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 309 pages. Clear brodart cover on dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, minor wear to jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's debut novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages. As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.As the Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house. In an unapologetically severe story about four boys who victimize Karen Jerome and her family, Cormier once again explores the potential for malice in all of us. The teenagers leave the Jeromes' home in ruin; Karen is assaulted and subsequently hospitalized in a coma. Not for the squeamish, Cormier's novel doesn't mince words: "The vandals shit on the floors and pissed on the walls and trashed their way through the seven-room Cape Cod cottage." Like Robert Westall ( The Machine Gunners ; Blitzcat ), Cormier surpasses most other writers by the sheer force of his words. Much more than a pulp thriller, this compelling, richly textured novel is told from several points of view, including that of the vandals themselves. Cormier illuminates even the darkest characters with humanity, so that in the end, readers see the complicated fabric of life itself.
Hardcover. London, George Bell and Sons, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with lettering and decoration in white. 8 color plates by M. V. Wheelhouse. 315 pages plus publisher's ads. Spine lettering worn, front bright.Top edge gilt, ribbon marker, clean tight copy. Classic adventure novel for boys.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and sailboat. Endpapers are illustrated map of the voyage of the Goblin showing how she went across and came back. Author's b&w drawings throughout. Part of the Swallows and Amazons series. Front hinge a little tender, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, price clipped, still bright. Covers have moderte rubbing and wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 333 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by author. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. A ten-year-old Danish boy goes on a whaling hunt. Drawn from the author's life. Clean copy.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 164 pages. When David's parents, who argue all the time, decide to take separate vacations, they agree to send him to his Grandma Ruthie's--whom he hardly knows--for a whole month! But the quiet town she lives in offers David the people, events, and ideas that help him realize what is best for his own future. Clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, Lippincott , 1st, 1977, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The summer after his high school graduation, Ted meets a young woman who helps him make some decisions about his immediate future. Remainder dot on bottom edge, o
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Edward Gorey.
Hardcover. New York , Edward Clode, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 349 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece illustration. First few pages loose. Small blue pen writing back paste-down. Previous owner's sticker front paste down. Partial wear on front paste-down from missing sticker. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 159 pages. Publisher's 'Library Edition' sticker across foot of spine panel. A tale of prehistoric conflict inspired by an archaeological discovery in Yorkshire. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with orange cloth spine. 232 pages. From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII.When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them.
Hardcover. New York, Granta Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing to back. Authors first book.
Hardcover. NY, The Baker & Taylor Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt. 302 pages, top edge gilt. Nostalgic picture of a boy's childhood in the 1900s. School, Goin' fishin," baseball and the circus are all part of this story with line drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Mild shelf wear, spine slightly cocked. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. National book award winner, no award medal on dustjacket. Book is in unread condition. Stated first edition with all numbers 1-10.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. National Book Award Winner. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. McBain's first book to feature Benjamin Smoke, a retired Police Officer now Private Detective.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 214 pages. Dust jacket worn and slightly foxed with chipping to upper edges of spine and front cover, protected by clear brodart cover. Overall a nice, tight copy.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When sixteen-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land. In his most ambitious novel to date, Newbery winner Paul Fleischman traces Brent's healing pilgrimage from Washington State to California, Florida, and Maine, and describes the many lives set into new motion by the ingenious creations Brent leaves behind. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first novel in the 'Detroit Crime Series' in which the city is treated as an organic entity through various decades of the 20th century, "WHISKEY RIVER" spans from the Prohibition Era to the late 1930s. Constantine ("Connie") Minor is a Detroit-based journalist who has made a name for himself covering the crime beat in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This was a time in which bootleggers and mobsters carved out Detroit into spheres of influence over which they exerted and established firm control over, not only, the illegal importation of alcohol, but also the numbers rackets, and prostitution. Many of the city's cops often looked the other way, picking and choosing what crimes to solve or ignore (courtesy of a bribe). All the while, Detroit's industrial might (as evidenced by the auto industry) continued to grow, giving the city a dazzling prosperity soon to be tempered by the ravages of the 1929 stock market crash and resulting Depression. Clean copy.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with 3-color cowboy design on cover, 421 pages. Notable for the 4 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Hinges cracked, pencil inscription on front fly leaf, spine faded, otherwise good.
Hardcover. NY, Soho, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in the UK in 1969.
Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 194 pages.A fox hunt--a memorial to the late Harold T. Van Fleet--becomes a disturbing and sordid event in which the connection between sexual and artistic dominance is explored.
UK, Goldmark Uppingham, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus acknowledgements. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Sinclair brings together an impressively predatory and seedy group of contemporary antiquarian book-dealers and an investigation of the 19th century Jack the Ripper murders. The double plot fuses a hunt for rare books and the Ripper.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. A nice copy of Bulgakov's 1920's novel that became the play 'The Days of the Turbins' in 1926. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Half cloth boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Number 77 of no more than 100 copies authorized for distribution by Signed Editions Limited. Dust jacket has light crease on front flap.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in an orange cloth binding. Light shelf wear, soil. By the author of the Fu Manchu stories, this novel is a mixture of romance & secret-service intrigue set amidst the milieu of a vaudeville troupe of the East.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with some fading to spine. 152 pages, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise very good. The story of a 15 year old loner runaway who finally gets another chance. Not wanted by her mother, a Mexican-American girl chooses to live in an old woman's home rather than be sent to a juvenile hall. Influenced by the Los Angeles Police Department Explorer Program.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, illustrated in b&w by James MacDonald. Black cloth with yellow lettering and design. A tale of stagecoachs and highwaymen in New Hampshire. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, illustrated in b&w by James MacDonald. Black cloth with yellow lettering and design.
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, small 1 centimeter chunk missing from top spine edge. Small bump on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED TO "GEORGE" by AUTHOR ON HALF COVER. Otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls--also named the year's best novel by Time--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Chicago, A.C. McClurg, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth. Eleven color illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. Mild wear to covers. "When Mr. O'Callaghan dies after a long, severe, and expensive sickness, he leaves his widow a state of unlimited poverty and seven boys." The dialect is said to come close to the speech of Irish immigrants in 1900. Clean copy.
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