Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care?On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings him back for a dark and deadly mission where the last quarry may turn out to be Quarry himself. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION. Like new.

Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st , 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light wear on 3/4 cloth binding covers.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 152 pages. Black and white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Events, including the massacre of his father, force young Eduardo to roam the countryside on the Gaviota. He survives for two months in the midst Spanish Civil War. Unlike his Nationalist relatives, he learns to understand many sides of the conflict. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DAVIDSON on the title page. Goldy Bear's fiance, Detective Tom Schultz, discovers the Reverend Theodore Olson lying in a pool of bloodright before Tom and Goldy's wedding ceremony was about to begin, but when police arrive to investigate Olson's murder Schultz is nowhere to be found. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Chiaki learns of the death of her and her mother's former landlady, Mrs. Yanagi, she feels compelled to go to the funeral, although she hasn't seen Mrs. Yanagi in years. As she prepares for the trip, she also begins a journey through memory, beginning right after her father's death, when her mother took an apartment at Poplar House. Chiaki, six at the time, is overwhelmed by the recent changes, falls ill, and cannot attend school. Mrs. Yanagi ends up looking after her during the daytime. The landlady initially frightens her new charge, but as Chiaki spends more time with her, the two begin to form an odd alliance. One day Mrs. Yanagi tells Chiaki that she has been charged with a divine mission to carry letters to the dead when she goes to the grave herself. Inspired, Chiaki then begins a tentative one-way correspondence with her father, diligently entrusting her letters to the landlady. And it's through remembering this time of her life that the grown Chiaki is able to confront her confusion about who she is now

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Four stories about the lives of four young people in different circumstances whose lives are changed by their encounters with books. Clean copy.

Softcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, reprints, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover books, like new condition. The first volume INSCRIBED BY VOINOVICH on the half-title page and dated September 27, 1996. Clean copies. Published in NUP's European Classics series.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzman, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and INSCRIBED on half-title. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine. 145 pages, b&w photos from the movie. Inscription on the half-title page otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, 194 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w line plates by Swain. Binding a bit worn. An attractive later printing of the popular English novelist's 1874 bestseller. Previous owner's name on blank pelim page.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and author's initials on front cover. #253 out of 300, numbered and SIGNED BY DILLARD and in a printed slipcase. Dillard's first novel, a tale of rough settlement life in northwest Washington state in the 1850s. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. The book is made up of 18 chapters that form short-stories in themselves, and each usually explores a different character (usually eccentric) or aspect of the life of a FSO - 4, Political Officer, working in the American Embassy in London. A biting, sarcastic, and satirical series of stories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Udall's second novel introduces Golden Richards, a builder, with four wives, 28 children and a propensity to create trouble for himself and his family. SIGNED BY UDALL on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Co,, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket art with wraparound illustration. Historical novel of missionaries in 19th century Hawaii.Author's first novel. "Beneath the white sunlight of Hawaii brown kings and queens, traders, ship captains, missionaries shape the destiny of one woman - and of an island empire." 1935 on title page but no first edition on copyright page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. A young man's search for his father, believed lost from a whaling boat in the South Pacific. Set in the late 1800s. Light price marking in front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated card wrappers. What better place to hide a collection of priceless jewels than among the glitter and ostrich feathers of Rio's Carnival parade? The film-director narrator suddenly finds himself the custodian of such a valuable horde after the nocturnal visit of a young dancer who is soon found murdered. First published in 1988, the novel was a bestseller in Fonseca's home country of Brazil, as well as in Italy and Mexico. The English edition I read was published in 1997 in Britain, translated by Clifford Sanders.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue tweed cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 246 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark blue lettering, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 401 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.

Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla Editions, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, with pastedown plate on cover, gilt stamping. The creator of Sherlock Holmes dabbled in many other genres including science fiction, and in this 1912 fantasy he transported readers to the wilds of the Amazon for a rollicking adventure among dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The Lost World is the first and best of Arthur Conan Doyle's five stories about the eccentric paleontologist Professor Challenger. This splendid hardcover edition reprints the tale as it first appeared in The Strand Magazine and includes the original brush-and-wash illustrations by Golden Age masters Harry Rountree. Doyle, using his Maple White alias, provides artwork as well. No dust jacket issued.

Softcover. NY, Avon, 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 222 pages. Avon T-449, 35 cents cover price.

NY, Lincoln MacVeagh. Dial Press, 1st US, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and vignette on front cover, 290 pages. A Story of Northern Ireland before the Revolution. Rich in humor and humanity, it was one of the six novels chosen, out of thousands by Harrap, the English publisher for a cash prize. The green cloth has discoloration, washed out splotches mostly to rear cover and part of spine. The interior is clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Maisie Danston, a rich, sexy senior at Dartmouth College, has everything. brains, beauty and a boyfriend. But Teddy Leskovitch becomes obsessed with her, spying on her at every opportunity until his overwhelming desire drives him to kidnap her in a wild, desperate attempt to prove his love. The author's first novel.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, soiled with fading to spine and gilt on cover. 327 pages. Despite grubby exterior, interior is clean, tight binding. Stated First Edition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 309 pages. Library Edition with spine sticker (NOT EX-LIB). Complete number row. Horn Book review, 1983: "The author interweaves black folklore with her own family history in a tale remarkable for its total integration of the novel with the imaginative possibilities of legend." An African god-child and her older brother travel as albatrosses on a slave ship to Georgia, witnessing two centuries of history in two god-days! Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 304 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Foreword by Fraser Heston. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 science fiction cult classic film the Planet of the Apes, a handsomely designed commemorative volume full of rich, behind-the-scenes detail and exclusive, never-before-seen photographs and illustrations. Based on Pierre Boulle's novel La Planete de Singes, the original Planet of the Apes was one of the most iconic films of the 1960s. Starring Hollywood stalwarts Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, the movie captivated audiences and sparked a franchise that included eight sequels, two television series, and a comic strip. Now, five decades after its theatrical release, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Rinzler tells the thrilling story of this legendary Hollywood classic-a film the book's author thought would be impossible to make. Clean, bright copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, reprint, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with light tanning to edges, blue flexible cloth covers with gilt stamping. Blue top edge stain. Introduction by author copyright 1934. Price 95 cents on dust jacket flap. 246 titles on reverse of dust jacket, so NOT the first printing of this edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in textured green boards, white lettering on spine, 190 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped, with a scar on front panel where a sticker was removed. The book itself is clean and tight. A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como - and evaporates. British Intelligence Agent Hambledon's job: find him.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A former intelligence agent now living in Florida, Marion "Doc" Martin, along with his hippie sidekick, Thomlinson, must clear his uncle of kidnapping and murder charges stemming from his discovery of the Fountain of Youth. Often cited as the "best" Doc Ford novel, the third book to feature Ford. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Soho Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A mystery set in Alaska, the author's first novel. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that's price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and rule on front. B&w frontis. illustration. A story of personality exchange set during World War I. The same German bullet passes through the brain of one French soldier, killing him, but lodges in the head of another (his close friend), causing only a slight injury but transferring the dead man's personality to that second soldier. This produces great psychological consternation in the wounded man, especially when he returns home and courts the widow of the first soldier. Bookplate on front fly, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The critically acclaimed, award-winning lawyer/author's follow-up book to his "Wartime Lies" debut. The story of the last two years of Ben's life, told by his closest friend, Jack, who pieces the facts together from his own memory and from the personal papers that come into his possession as executor of Ben's will. It is the story, most particularly, of Ben's tumultuous love affair with Jack's cousin Veronique, a woman whose dazzling beauty masks darkness and disquiet. Wi th Veronique, Ben discovers "the vast bliss of being loved." But when her husband learns of the affair and a commitment to Veronique is required, Ben discovers his own fragility-and the brutal hold his past has on him." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The critically acclaimed, award-winning lawyer/author's follow-up book to his "Wartime Lies" debut. The story of the last two years of Ben's life, told by his closest friend, Jack, who pieces the facts together from his own memory and from the personal papers that come into his possession as executor of Ben's will. It is the story, most particularly, of Ben's tumultuous love affair with Jack's cousin Veronique, a woman whose dazzling beauty masks darkness and disquiet. Wi th Veronique, Ben discovers "the vast bliss of being loved." But when her husband learns of the affair and a commitment to Veronique is required, Ben discovers his own fragility-and the brutal hold his past has on him." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear. 160 pages, unclipped. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Penguin Classic, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 412 pages. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages, b&w illustrations by Brian Floca.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Doris Lessing's 1974 novel in which a woman watches the world sink into barbarism,'.where people huddle together in tribes for self-defense.'

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BARRON on front fly leaf and also SIGNED on the tiele page. Blending Arthurian legend and modern oceanography, this lively tale boasts finely developed characters as well as fast-moving adventure. The author achieves a solid balance of mythology, environmental issues, and scientific research procedures. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Albion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The fictional story of one man's obsession with the Grateful Dead, and the revelations he experiences while following the band from show to show at the turn of the millennium. INSCRIBED BY BARUTH on half title page. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Oneiric Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Franny Fuller, a frightened girl from upstate New York, becomes the nation's number-one sex symbol, hiding her personal misery and fragile personality behind a mask of glamour and ambition. Novel set in Hollywood around the late 1930s. Unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. When a legendary freedom fighter is kidnapped, his close friend the Libyan dictator angrily blames the CIA. In retaliation, the Libyans kidnap the U.S. Presidents brother. Enter the Mordida Man--an independent fixer and bribery expert who must find and free the Presidents brother without causing an international incident.