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.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. In this witty, fast-paced sequel to Getting Even, seventh-grader Iris Bloom can handle anything, whether it's a fashion crisis or the despicable Corky Newton. What's more, she is certain she doesn't need a baby-sitter. But when a visit alone to the mall ends in a frightening near-assault, she changes her mind.
Hardcover. Huntington Beach CA, Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Limited edition #114of 150 copies. Pink marbled covers with leather band on spine. Acetate dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Spiegelman. Clean, tight copy. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem, basis for two stage musicals and a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch. Remainder dot to top edge.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 241 pages. In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time--or the wrong thing, every chance he gets. But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get ugly, fast--and odds are, it'll have something to do with the bombshell wife of his Bugs' new employer. In WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from THE KILLER INSIDE ME that made his reputation, in a virtuoso, multi-character portrait of how one man's life can take a turn for the worse. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow,, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Private detective Moses Wine becomes involved with author John Hecht in an attempt to clear him of the murder of a TV anchorwoman.
Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 185 pages. Black & white ilustrations by Raymond Lufkin. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips to top & bottom edges, price clipped. A boy's adventures on the Mississippi River.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 321 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FORD on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1117 pages. The Library of America edition of Faulkner's work publishes for the first time new, corrected texts of The Unvanquished, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, and The Hamlet. (The corrected text of Absalom, Absalom! was published by Random House in 1986.) Manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, and published editions have been collated to produce versions that are faithful to Faulkner's intentions and free of the changes introduced by subsequent editors. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages. Black cloth. Ex-library with stamp on front endpaper. Tape on inside flap of dust jacket and inside cover of book - front and rear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Willow doesn't know what to do. Her mother has taken off again, she has to look after her brother Twig, and they're out on the streets of Vancouver with nowhere to go. Then Willow remembers her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Gram doesn't even know Twig exists, and Twig is, well, difficult. But Gram is her only hope now. After a few urgent phone calls from a police station in Vancouver to Ontario, Willow and Twig are on their way across the country to a grandmother they hardly know, and a strange household made up of an eccentric uncle, a hostile aunt, and a motley crew of animals. Clean, like new.
New York, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 109 pages. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. Conrad, the boy who gave Annie a willow whistle, improves her father's opinion of him when he helps save his classmates stranded in the schoolhouse by an early blizzard.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, blue cloth, later printing, first published in 1935. Black titles on spine. Name stamp on inside front cover. Paper tanning but a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Endpapers map in red with b&w illustrations in text by Ernest H. Shepard, 159 pages. Copyright page with 1926, no date on title page. No other printings stated. A child's ownership signature and date (Dec. 25, 1926) on half title page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy. Top edge stained green. Spine gilt with mild fade, very readable.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in white, 350 pages, illustrated by Helene Carter. Front hinge cracked, shelf worn.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in gilt, orange, black and gray. 353 pages. Publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis, map & 6 b&w illustrations by Wal Paget. A bright, clean book in the original pictorial binding.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pink lettering on the front cover, the spine with white lettering. Tommy Hambledon's first postwar adventure and it leads him on a dangerous chase around London in a search for money and murderers. Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Yellow cloth cover with gilt lettering and color embossed illustrations, b&w frontispiece and 7 illustrations by Charles Copeland. Cocked spine, wear to cover corners and edges, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 210 pages. Color illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. Pages yellowing slightly at edges. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with price clip. Clear plastic protective cover. An adventure tale set in the Middle Ages. Fifteen-year-old Gervase, recently knighted, defends his father's castle against the soldiers of a tyrannical king.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie and Ben Haskell, along with their employee Mrs. Malloy, travel to Cragstone House in Yorkshire after Ariel Hopkins, daughter of Ben's cousin, Tom, asks for Ellie's help in investigating the strange, somewhat ghostly goings-on at the gothic manor. Tom and his wife, Betty, recently purchased the manor from the financially strapped Lady Fiona after they won the lottery. Betty is convinced Lady Fiona murdered her husband, who has disappeared. With the cook laid up with an injured ankle, Ben takes over the cooking, and Ellie handles the investigating. Ellie's life becomes more complicated when Ben meets up with an old girlfriend, and it seems the flame has been rekindled. Humor, quirky characters, and gothic underpinnings. The 12th Ellie Haskell mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran & Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green and white, 469 pages. Irish descendants of a horse thief sacrifice love and freedom for position and security in Victorian period. Woodcuts by Freda Bone. When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family. In turn, his son Anthony builds a fine house in the country for his wife and children--most especially for his adored son Dennis. Little does he know that when Dennis grows up he will threaten the toil of generations with his love for a peasant girl. A stirring family saga of divided loyalties and individual freedom; of matches made and lost; and of the constraints of religion and family pride. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novel written in poetic form (like her Newbery Medal winning "Out of the Dust"), and telling an historically accurate story in 11 voices. In 1924 Vermont, a small town falls under the influence of the Ku Klux Klan; two girls, Leanora Sutter and Esther Hirsh, one black and the other Jewish, are among those who are no longer welcome in their community. An intricately woven story of prejudice, poverty and hope, and ultimately of the beginning of understanding. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative cloth in a blue cardboard slipcase. 678 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. This novel tells the story of Molly Gibson as she moves from childhood to womanhood in a complex series of interwoven plots. The sphere of action is small, but the implications are wide and carry truths of universal significance. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #134. Cover art by Gerald GreggRear end paper unglued from hinge. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Covers slightly askew.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in color, black & white by Nelson Grofe. Retold by Martin from Child Christopher by William Morris. Gilt decorated cover with color label. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 337 pages, like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED -MORE LIKE INITIALLED - BY SMITH on the title page.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Mylar cover. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Hailed by Time as an "extravagantly comic" novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America's South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool shark On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a "woman named Drown." He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they're heading farther south together--to Florida--where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life's laboratory is about to get quite contradictory.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DOYLE on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth stamped in white. Black & white illustrations by W.B. King. Bright. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Mylar protected pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. A collection of three novellas, featuring: a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from Montana who smells like wheat.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, illustrated in b&w by Neill. Rust colored cloth with color plate on front cover. Some faint marking to front end paper illustrations, otherwise clean, tight copy. Musty odor.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where in 1910 they are the only blacks.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages, b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. A tale set in pre-WW1 England. A generous impulse prompts Pansy to change clothes with a girl from the workhouse, beginning a series of strange adventures which involve Pansy being mistaken for a workhouse child, being chased hither and thither, being locked in a butcher's cellar, and being forced to hide on top of a haystack at night terrified that she is being hunted down by dogs.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages (Vol. I) and 528 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 56 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. Frayed wear to spine tops (more so on Vol. 1). Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
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