Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Moderate wear and tearing to dust jacket. Covers clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, minor wear and soiling to white dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Winner of the Booker Prize.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 379 pages. As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. Advertisement and biographical brochure from publishers laid-in. Light blue boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Color illustrations. Stamped decorative covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Ditko's Shorts is a fun and incredibly fascinating compilation of short comics one, two and three pages in length. Only a brilliant master could tell a dramatic, compelling tale in such compact form. You'll thrill as Ditko walks this exciting high-wire act without a net! The many stories contained in this hardcover are fast-paced and sport terrific, compelling artwork as only Steve Ditko can draw it! The genres show the artist's great range. There's horror, fantasy, science fiction, western, and even humorous stories. Taken from rare comic books from a who's who of publishers, all the comics are meticulously restored and printed in a beautiful, large-format book.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRIFFIN on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unc;ipped dust jacket. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into a bustling Indian eneighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world. Young Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and rumors of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Tor Publishing Group, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 492 pages. INSCRIBED BY SZPARA on the title page. K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Pantheon, 1st, 2014-09-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Canadian author's first book, a novel of late eighteenth-century London featuring young George Cautley navigating his way through London's high society, finds that nothing is as it seems and everyone wears a disguise. Illustrations by John Lawrence. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Translated from the Italian by Stuart Hood. 257 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, embossed design, bumped corners and edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear. Inside is very clean and bright. A nice copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #360. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear.
NY/Philadelphia, Jr. Lit. Guild/Macrae-Smith Co., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robbie. Dust jacket with closed tear, small chunks gone top edge, spine edges. A post WW2 look at the exciting world of radio announcing told through a the eyes of aspiring young broadcaster.
Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the Edgar award, and basis of the Michael Douglas film. New York City psychiatrist Nathan Conrad possesses everything required for a good, normal life--a successful practice on Central Park West, an adoring wife and a lovely daughter. He also has a reputation for dealing with the hard cases that most of his uptown colleagues prefer to pass on: catatonics, schizophrenics, the criminally insane. In this taut, superbly plotted thriller, Klavan, an Edgar-winner also writing as Keith Peterson, interweaves Dr. Conrad's disparate worlds to riveting effect. Soon after he begins treating a young woman accused of a particularly brutal murder, Conrad receives a chilling phone call at home. Suddenly his safe private life becomes a nightmarish game board, with Sport and Maxwell, two vividly drawn psychopaths, key players in his terrifying ordeal. Maxwell smiles and hums when he hurts people; Sport finds this a handy behavior in an accomplice. And the reader, meanwhile, roots for Dr. Conrad all the way to this brisk novel's heart-stopping conclusion. SIGNED BY KLAVAN on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An historical novel based on the exploits of the colorful John Paul Jones who battled pirates, the Royal Navy, and the short-sighted legislators of his adopted country to achieve fame for himself and freedom for America. Publisher's circled "R" logo indicating a First Edition. Hardcover, 442 pages, wrap-around full color jacket illustrated by Louis James Nolan.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an nclipped dust jacket that has fading to spine. Basis for the 1976 award-winning film directed by Bruno Barreto, starring Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca. Dona Flor is an adorable woman - with a body made for love, a mind of her own, a cozy disposition, a witty tongue, a kissable face, high moral principles - and she can cook, too. One wants her to have everything. And she gets it all-but, alas, from two different men! The question: is it possible for a moral woman like Flor to enjoy two husbands at once? Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Bros., reprint, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth stamped in maroon, making the front cover hard to read. Spine stamped in bright gilt. Many b&w text and full-page illustrations, not credited. A story of twins brought up in Europe by their uncle, whose full story remains a mystery. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, UK, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, illustrated in b&w by James McDonald. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lacks dust jacket. Light wear to edges, slight rubbing to spine, previous owner's inscription of front paste-down, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 473 pages plus ads. Hardcover. Some darkening and fading to endpapers. Blue cloth covers with title and illustration in gilt on spine. Covers show light wear with minor rubbing to corners and edges. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blind-stamped green cloth. Gilt decoration to spine. Light yellow end papers. Frontispiece with Iilustrated title page. B&w illustrations. small stain at top of gutter to first 5 pages, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A cultured, upper-class man finds himself drawn to the beautiful, helpless plaintiff in an assault case for which he is juror, only to be lured into a world in which nothing is what it seems. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration. In the aftermath of a bloody heist, Nolan and Jon find themselves flying home to count their ill-gotten gains--but a skyjacker taking the same flight has other plans. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, someone is offing members of the Mob-connected DiPreta family and the Mob thinks maybe Nolan can make it stop. Maybe he can--for a six-figure fee. Originally published as two separate novels (and unavailable in bookstores for 40 years!), DOUBLE DOWN finds Nolan and Jon pursuing the American dream in their inimitable criminal fashion. Flying high off his recent return after more than three decades in SKIM DEEP, Nolan is one of MWA Grand Master Max Allan Collins' most unforgettable characters, and DOUBLE DOWN is Nolan at his hard-boiled best. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Remainder line top bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy in a dust jacket.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend--well, one of his girlfriends (not to be confused with his wife). Will the unlikely crime-solving partnership he forms with the investigating police detective keep him from the film noir ending he deserves? On the opposite coast, movie star Dawn Devayne--the hottest It Girl in Hollywood--gets a visit from a Navy sailor who says he knew her when she was just ordinary Estelle Anlic of San Diego. Now she's a big star who's put her past behind her. But secrets have a way of not staying buried. These two short novels, one hilarious and one heartbreaking, are two of the best works Westlake ever wrote. And fittingly, both became movies--one starring Jack Ryan's Marie-Josee Croze, and one starring Fargo's William H. Macy and Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a unclipped dust jacket with mild fade to spine. Detective R.J. Decker's investigation into corruption in the professional bass-fishing industry reveals that the multimillion-dollar enterprise makes a lot of people rich enough to cheat and even kill if necessary. The author's second solo novel. The 1 to 10 number line on the copyright page indicates first edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsy-like assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forced to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forced to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 2nd pr., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Maginel Wright Barney. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil. A Newbery Honor Book for 1927 set in 1820s Nantucket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Shamus Award-winning Estleman's eighth mystery featuring Detroit private detective Amos Walker.
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. 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.
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