Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. Exposing the humor in violence and the seamy side of riches, Canning follows the maneuvers of Sir Anthony Swale, an aristocrat who has spent his privileged life in quest of rare art treasures, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain. Small inials on front pastedown otherwise clean in a bright unclipped dust jscket.
Hardcover. NY, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to bright dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Slight creases to pages 239-241. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in pale yellow, cover label illustration, 288 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Copeland who also did the endpapers drawing. Previous owner's signature on blank page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. U. S. O. stamp inside front and back covers. Remnants of label on back end papers. Black cloth covers with green lettering on front and spine. Some white spots on covers. Clean. Scarce. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner's girlfriend. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Archaia, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout by Fincher/Hyman. Clean, tight copy with minor if any wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Crime Club/Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages, orange cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, small soil smudge to rear cover. Otherwise, very good.
London , Collins, reprint , 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 255 pages. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Soiling, edgewear to dust jacket. Being the life story of Ralph Rudd, his early adventures, perils and misfortunes on land and sea, including sundry close encounters with high-jacking, mutiny and violence off the African Slave Coast.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, library binding. Illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. An atmospheric and chilling thriller set in 19th century London. Bartholomew Dorking finds himself inexplicably tied to the murdering villain Black Jack, who should have hung from the gallows - but who has now, it seems, come back from the dead!. Leon Garfield was one of the most celebrated children's authors of the twentieth century, and won the Guardian Award, The Whitbread Award, and the Carnegie Medal. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve boards with yellow lettering, maroon cloth spine. 321 pages with a (2) on last page indicating second printing. Quite scarce. Top corner of cover bumped.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. From the Academy Award-Nominated Screenwriter of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Comes a Breathtaking Story of Murder and Mischief...IT'S THE STORY of a big-game hunter, fisherman, fighter, visitor to Cuba, drunk, and Nobel Prize-winning author, recently deceased of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, whose final unpublished manuscript could fetch a mint... IT'S THE STORY of a short, balding man with a high-pitched voice and a vicious wit, whose cocktail parties are the talk of the town, especially when a beautiful woman dies at one of them. And it's the story of Dick Sherman, intrepid New York publisher, on the trail of the literary find of the century--and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it from being found. Like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Wilson C. Dexter. Bright gilt-decorated cover, spine faded, stamping to front paste-down otherwise VG.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this tenth novel of the Gabe Wager, Denver PD Homicide series, he confronts the gang violence that takes his nephew's life and threatens to ignite the city.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book, a mystery introducing Long Island detective JoeLaLuna, a "great cop who has hit a bad spot." And then he discovers that the wealthy husband of his former high school sweetheart has been murdered - and she is the most likely suspect.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in the UK in 1993.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 391 pages. A very clean, tight copy. In Blood Work, Michael Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's. Blood Work won the Grand Prix, the highest honor for a mystery novel in France. It also won the Anthony Award and Macavity Award for Best Novel of 1998.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Juvenile, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Eleven-year-old Tessa deals with the death of her older brother and the grief affecting her family. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City Publishing, reprint, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket and pictorial covers. Light edge wear to covers. Illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Previous owner's name and bookplate in front.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth with red and black design, 311 pages. Volume in the Motor Power Series for older boys. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & McClure, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with illustrated label on front cover, 350 pages. An early printing of this dog classic. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.
Softcover. London, Serpent's Tail, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.
Softcover. NY, Vintage, Unc. Proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Co., 1st , 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Six black & white plates by F.A. Carter. Some spotting to covers otherwise very good internally.
Hardcover. New York , Margaret K. McElderry Books, 4th Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY COOPER on title-page. Stated 1st edition - 4th printing. In excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York , Margaret K. McElderry Books, 7th Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY COOPER on FRONT FLY LEAF WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATE PASTED IN. In excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing top edge, and a couple small spots of foxing to right edge. Dust jacket with thin line of foxing top edge. Otherwise clean tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 369 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Lovely copy. Minor shelf-wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Color frontis and 8 b&w plates by George and Doris Hauman. The story of Deborah Owens and her adventures during the War of 1812 in a small Vermont town near the Canadian border, 272 pages. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Light shelf wear. Uncommon title.
New York, Charlotte Zolotow/ HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 101 pages. A young adult novel by a Newbery medalist, about an Ohio farm girl's life. Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.
New York , Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages, b&w illustrations by Peter Spier, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, note card from author also laid in.
Hardcover. Boston, Dana Estes & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in green, red and blue. 112 pages with b&w drawings by Bridgeman and others. Small corner chips to 3 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Constable & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 54 pages. #514 of 1025 copies. B&w and some color illustrations by Clare Winsten. Cloth pictorial boards. Gilt lettering along spine. Gilt top edge. Some tinting to end papers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial front cover. Light fraying to edges. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and bookplate on next page. Illustrations by Frnak Schoonover.
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