hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FRAYN on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 372 pages, b&w illustrations. There has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era--until now. Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next six novels, Spillane quickly amassed a readership in the tens of millions, becoming the best-selling novelist in the history of American publishing. Surrounded by controversy for the overt violence and suggestive sexual content of his iconic Mike Hammer private eye novels, Spillane was loathed by critics but beloved by his readers. There is, however, more to Spillane's life than the books. He also starred as Hammer in a movie, was a circus performer, worked with the FBI in capturing a notorious criminal, and starred in Miller Light beer commercials that were so popular they ran for a quarter of a century. Max Allan Collins became Spillane's friend and collaborator, continuing the Mike Hammer series for years after the author's death, building upon unfinished manuscripts the writer left behind. Now, with co-author James Traylor, Collins has produced the first comprehensive and authoritative profile of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth stamped in purple, 288 pages. Stated first edition on copyright page. When Bart Paget is found clawed to death in his library and Susan Remington has disappeared and her wild cats let loose, Asey Mayo must act quickly to avert the panic sweeping over Quanomet. Very minor fade to spine, otherwise a tight clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 406 pages, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies, introduction by John T. Winterich. Decorated cloth board with gilt title and slipcase, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., reprint, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 179 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Green cloth covers with embossed design and bright gilt decoration of rifle, drum and flag. Seven b&w plates and title page drawing by F.O.C. Darley. Previous owner's signature otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Avon Books Comapany, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #112. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Rubbing to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green tweed cloth with black lettering on spine, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 321 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED. Doyles's hastily scrawled signature on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, original gold Holt Library Edition sticker to spine, 290 pages. After being jilted by her fiance, a young girl persuades her father to let her enter the business world rather than a convent. A young Renaissance woman defies tradition and wins independence in the world of commerce. Edith Martha Almedingen (1898-1971), was an Anglo Russian novelist, biographer, children's author and member of the Royal Society of Literature. Published originally in England in 1956. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, UK, Secker & Warbug, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, uncipped dust jacket, 584 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR in front endpapers. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's/Minotaur Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TAYLOR on title page. Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent suicide soon after she handled the piece, more than twenty-five years ago. Going on with the exhibition without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, Sweeney can't let it drop altogether. Nor can she forget the student, Karen Philips, who died just a few months after working with the piece. A little digging shows that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed, that same year, and Sweeney becomes even more curious. But her interest in mysteries past pales when a present-day murder brings Sweeney and her colleagues at the museum under the Cambridge Police Department spotlight in the person of Detective Tim Quinn, whom Sweeney has worked with before. In the fourth installment in this rich and fascinating series, Sweeney and Tim go after a killer, trying to resolve questions both immediate and decades-old before it's too late.
Hardcover. London, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st UK, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Scarce in hardcover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated by Jean Harper;
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 651 pages. Clean, tight copy. Few writers of the past quarter-century have so consistently surprised, startled, and delighted their readers as has the masterful Richard Bausch, whom the Washington Post Book World calls "a virtuoso of language and literary grace." His nine critically acclaimed novels have established him as one of the most important fiction writers of his generation, a visionary stylist with an acute eye for the minute detail that illuminates the deepest wells of human experience. Yet it is for his award-winning short fiction that Bausch is perhaps most admired. The Stories of Richard Bausch celebrates the work of a great American artist, a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with a blue title block on the spine strip. Illustrations: Blue and white seascape scene on each endpaper; b/w frontispiece; a b/w illustration at the head of each of the 17 chapters. Dust jacket is edgeworn. chipped. Adventure novel for young people and adults of Labrador life, an intelligent Indian dog, and the great outdoors.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint , 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Top edge gilt. Embossed cover with gilt decorations. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Decorated front panel. Gilted top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by noted illustrator A.B. Frost. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Heavy bumping to all board corners, all edges slightly frayed. Mild fading and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, with eight illustrations and a pictorial spine and front cover. Minor edge wear and rub, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original beige color binding with the front board that features a large illustration by Oliver Herford of two young people upon a large black horse with the title above in bright gilt. 198 pages. Edges stained green. 25 black & white illustrations by Herford. Slavery, pre and Civil War saga of Georgia plantation life and loyalty of one Aaron. a foreman of slaves, himself a Black man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, blue paper-covered boards. Light wear to book and dust jacket. SIGNED BY TREVOR on blank page proceeding the half-title page.
Softcover. London, FABER AND FABER, uncorrected proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial cover. Light wear to covers. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Illustrated with 10 color plates by Peter Hurd (1st edition by this illustrator) Tight copy. Light rubbing to lettering on spine.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean. It's the last swimming season for Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff, and their coach is building their self-discipline in a grueling four-hour-a-day test of stamina designed to bring them to the outer edge of their capabilities. As it turns out, Stotan Week is also the week in which secrets are revealed, and the four friends must draw upon their new strengths for an endurance they never knew they'd need.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #914. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover. Black cloth covers with red decoration. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Quartet, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Nicholson's 1st book in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Street Sleeper brings the road novel to England and into the 1980s. Ishmael, a renegede librarian, goes "on the road" in a customized Volkswagon Beetle which he names Enlightenment. He soon finds that the M62 is a poor substitute for Route 66.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Remainder line bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Trumpet Club, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 179 pages, b&w illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run. And because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, The Modern Library, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Three novels in one volume: Young Lonigan (201 pages); The Young Manhood Of Studs Lonigan (412 pages); Judgment Day (465 pages). Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to create a single, powerful work of art that would fully expose the evils of capitalism and lead to a political and economic overhaul of the American system. Farrell chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a portrait of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Irish-American Roman Catholic Church of that era are described at length, and faulted. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 218 pages. Color frontis. and b&w illustrations by Addison Burbank. Light shelf ear, no markings.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover New in new dust jacket. 326 pages. Quarter bound in cloth over paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. SIGNED on the title page by the author. An exceptional copy of a classic.
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