Hardcover. Long Beach CA, privately printed, 3rd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 527 pages followed by author's 9 page catalog of ads for his titles. Maroon cloth with black lettering. Gilt lettered spine with Upton Sinclair at foot of spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR'S WIFE on front fly leaf, "With best wishes Mary Craig Sinclair, Long Beach, Calif., July 6 '28". Minor soil to covers, slight cock to spine, overall very good.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 264 pages, yellow and black boards with black cloth spine, spine label. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF by author but not signed: "To my Ol' Man William (otherwise Little Father) from one of "his chillun" (otherwise me) with love and gratitude for a brief but happy visit. July 20/29/ Claman Towers, South Duxbury Mass" Book slightly cocked, front hinge fragile, light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 170 pages, top edge gilt, 8 color Illustrations by H.C. Christy. Light wear to cover decoration in gilt and 2-colors by Margaret Armstrong. Light corner wear to cloth.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 pages, light blue cloth, silver lettering on spine. "A" on copyright page with the Scribner's colophon. Bright, unclipped dust jacket with the $3.00 price, author's blue-tinted photo on rear. A real collector's copy. Wrapped in clear, protective mylar.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, illustrated in b&w by Henry Gillette. INSCRIBED BY DEAN on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Book has a slight slant, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Edited by Henry F. May. First published in 1869, this is the first modern edition of the novel many think is the author's best work. 614 pages, small closed tear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED "Liz" ON THE TITLE PAGE. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.

Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, First Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket, price-clipped with light wear to edges, light toning. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 13th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light gray cloth with red stamping, 239 pages. Color frontis and b&w illustrations by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. With 10/7 Thirteenth Edition D-V on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate, mild residue on front endpapers, otherwise clean. Nice early reprint of this classic.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 170 pages with b&w drawings by George. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. All numbers including 1 on copyright page. A like-new signed copy of the sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning, My Side of the Mountain. This time, Sam must save both his younger sister and his trusty falcon, Frightful. Dust jacket art by Ted Rand.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Longman's, Green and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers stamped in black. B&w illustrated in b&w by Sanford Tousey. An authentic adventure story of the California gold mining camps, contrasting east and west coast cultures. Author was Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SHULMAN on half-title page about the woman's group to which the book was donated for an auction dated 1998.

Hardcover. New york, Doubleday, Page & Co, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover with colored stamped decoration on front. Light rubbing to cover boards. Light fraying to corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Red Ozier Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Shelton CT, First Editions Library, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages. This is a facsimile reprint of the Viking Press first edition originally published in 1962. Only 5,000 printed then. Bright, unclipped dust jacket (with the $4.95 price on flap) and a matching slipcase.

Hardcover. Seattle, Sasquatch Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 4th printing, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. INSCRIBED BY LOIS LOWRY on title page "for Karen with love." Dust jacket shows light wear. In protective plastic jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. The sixth novel in the 'Thursday Next' series. Clean, like new. Collectors postcard included.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages. A fast-paced thriller about a psychopath stalking Brooklyn. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-419, 160, 159 pages. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket that's been price-clipped. The author's first novel and first in the Joe Gunther mystery series. Joe drives to New York State to confirm the identity of a man who?s been stalking the Brattleboro area in a murderous rampage, and who up to this moment has been known only as Ski Mask. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Grossman, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Light wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy of author's first book.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , J.B .Lippincott, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, light blue-green covers with two color plus gilt decoration. Color frontispiece by Douglas Duer. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Great b/w illustrations by Deborah Kogan Ray. Tale of a young girl in Massachusetts during WW II, who moves to a French-Canadian neighborhood where she meets Kathleen O'Hara & learns about Catholicism. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate-protection. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. "Narrator Kyle Malachi, writing as Stokes Moran, is a syndicated mystery reviewer working on his first mystery novel. His "beautiful agent, " Lee Holland, convinces him to take a $25, 000 assignment from Playboy to find and interview a reclusive bestselling mystery author. The only clue to Seymour Severe's whereabouts is the New Orleans setting of his books. Kyle goes there, spends some time in a dark gay bar, passes out and wakes up in bed next to a naked, dead boy. He flees back to Connecticut, but Lee convinces him he's been hoaxed and must return to the Crescent City where the puzzle finally assembles itself--without any help from Kyle". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black and white Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Original green covers w/ gilt, red, black & white design. Spine rebound with brown cloth. Green spine label with gilt lettering. 16 pages of publishers ads in rear. Original brown endpapers.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, 100 b&w illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lovely clean copy.

Hardcover. West Kingston, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Stephen Fabian. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHULMAN on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Review copy. 260 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 258 pages. Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born This novel about a Norwegian retiree reflecting on incidents from his youth was an international success, received several awards and was named a Best Book of 2007 by the New York Times First published in Oslo in 2003, this first English translation was published in London in 2005. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 346 pages plus publisher's ads. Blue cloth with red shirt loading a musket on front board. 8 b&w plates by William Rainey (1852-1936) was a noted landscape painter and figure artist who regularly illustrated books for Henty. Hinge cracked at title page. Moderate shelf wear. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A series of dazzlingly successful armored-car robberies, with no link to the underworld, takes place in the New England of the 1970s. . Young urban terrorists, turned on by the radical politics of the sixties... unwilling to bother with distinctions between ends and means. In this fiendishly well-crafted and explosive novel about betrayers and the betrayed, Higgins shows how the establishment... takes revenge by forging alliances that move its members beyond the law. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 111 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Hodges' version of a true story of the Lynmouth lifeboat crew which hauled their boat over Exmoor to Porlock, the next harbour along the coast, during a raging storm in 1899. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in gilt and dark brown. Four b&w plates not credited. This novel set in the late nineteenth century provides heartwarming tales of faith and love. Gossip, family failures, and errors in judgment threaten the lives of Ralph Bramlett and Estelle Douglass, but hope is found in the darkest of times. No date on title page, copyright page states 1896. Part of a uniform set so assumed a reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Chicago, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Three-color and b/w illustrations by Harve Stein. Minor wear to dust jacket edges other wise very good. A young adult novel about coal mining in Illinois in the early 1890s.

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 274 pages. Ox Olmstead, a fifteen year old from Palm Beach stirs up things at a staid Vermont summer camp.

Hardcover. Denver, McMurray & Beck, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. This gritty first novel takes us into the world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish farm ponds, does all the dirty work his boss requires, and silently shares the family home with his sister Daze, who is nearly blinded by bitterness and disdain. Since his early teenage years, Ned's life has been marred by anger that erupts and then quickly disappears, leaving him filed with secrets and regret. 280 pages. clean copy.

New York , Bloomsbury, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. SIGNED BY SCHULMAN on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages. Hardcover. Foxing to bottom half of foredge. Unclipped dust jacket with light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 676 pages. Hardcover. International Limited Edition #959 out of 1000 printed sets. B/w illustrations/plates with tissue guards. Covers bound in dark green cloth (Some rubbing to front and back, and slight fraying top and bottom of spine). Paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to label, but in good shape and legible). Gilt top edge. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A perilous round-the-globe chase ensues when a pair of astrologers discover a priceless stolen painting at a client's home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 189 pages, decorations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, creases, tears at spine, price clipped - still Good. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.