Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY RANKIN on title page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's , 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket with light stain on top edge.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #412.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover wrinkled. Cover by Paul Burns.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages. Hardcover. Brown tweed cloth with brown & black printed titles to spine. Navy top edge. Toning to edges. Original dust jacket, bright with light toning & edgewear. Very clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Severn House , 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Vikki Corbett, a junior reporter for a provincial newspaper, joins forces with Dr. Jeffrey Flint, an irreverent archaeologist lecturer with an interest in alternative lifestyles, to investigate the disappearance of one of Flint's students.Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 278 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, First Edition, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with white titles to front & spine. Purple top edge. Dust jacket with age toning, some soiling, price clipped, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning to endpapers & edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY., Norton, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 399 pages. SIGNED BY BAXTER on title page. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy. When assistant city manager Wyatt Palmer enters into a shady business deal he faces consequences that have a profound impact on him and those around him, including brother Cyril, lover Alyse, and mother Jeanne.

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 399 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with his typical abbreviated signature on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. When 15-year-old Angeleno Shanny Adler comes to spend the summer on aged Aunt Adabelle's ranch in the boondocks of Idaho, she brings along a purple punk hair-do, a drum set, a collection of esoteric trivia and a standard YA protagonist's pressing need to "find herself." By the end of the book she has found not only herself (and turned out to be a Pretty, Talented, Caring and Generally Worthwhile Person) but also the love of talented, caring "superhunk" Thor. She also drives the local theatrical enterprise from failure to smashing success, inspires old Adabelle not to give up her ranch, resuscitates a newborn kitten and generally turns everything she touches to gold. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Honore Guilbeau, in rear, marbled covers with gilt title on leather spine, black slipcase. Minor corner bumps and light chip to spine edge, slipcase lightly cracked, overall, clean and tight.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHINE on title-page. Clean, tIght copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner--at his death the best-selling American author of all time--comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder--and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever, and a fitting conclusion to Hard Case Crime's revival of this classic (and long-unavailable) detective series. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Avon/Bard, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey consumed in a mysterious cafe called L'Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told before, perhaps the only important one he will ever tell. North's chosen interlocutor-who could be his doppelganger-is transfixed by the revelations and becomes the narrator of North's tale.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1st thus, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles on spine very faded, 12 color plates by Edmund Dulac. Endpapers foxed, rear covers with discoloration, light wear to top and bottom of spine. No markings.

NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 209 pages. Life in prehistoric Europe is recreated with drama and suspense as Shiva is kidnapped by an elder and must face the Ordeal by Poison. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, bright copy with only minor wear to dust jacekt and covers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Gregg Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Part of the Gregg Press Science Fiction Series edited by David G. Hartwell and L. W. Currey. Features examples of storyboards from the film production, and black & white stills from the movie. No dust jacket as issued. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Paul Galdone. Edgewear, rubbing to corners and spine. Edgewear, chipping, soiling, rubbing to dust jacket. Price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Very minor edge wear. Very minor spots on fore edge. Protective clear dust jacket cover. A very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 215 pages. John Tunis vividly imagines the drama of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkerque Sergeant Edward Williams of the Second Battalion was among the first British troops to land in France, just across the English Channel from his family in Dover, after the declaration of war in September of 1939. Battles have been few and far between since then, in what the Germans have been calling der Sitzkrieg--the sitting war. In May 1940, under the leadership of their new prime minister, Winston Churchill, the British are hoping to stem the tide of invasion along their southern border. But now, flanked to the east and west by German troops and cut off from the Allies further south, Sergeant Williams and his battalion must retreat to Dunkerque in the north, and escape by sea is their only hope. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY LOWRY on title-page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. Bos, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY HIJUELOS on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 254 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE.

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

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...? Long before he became the award-winning creator of Matthew Scudder (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES) and an MWA Grand Master, Lawrence Block penned this tough, unforgettable crime novel, his very first. But as he describes in a new afterword, the book wound up published only eight years later, under a different title and a fake name--and was then lost for half a century. Now appearing for the first time under Block's real name, with revisions by the author, SINNER MAN is revealed as a powerful work by a young novelist destined to become one of the giants of the mystery genre. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...? Long before he became the award-winning creator of Matthew Scudder (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES) and an MWA Grand Master, Lawrence Block penned this tough, unforgettable crime novel, his very first. But as he describes in a new afterword, the book wound up published only eight years later, under a different title and a fake name--and was then lost for half a century. Now appearing for the first time under Block's real name, with revisions by the author, SINNER MAN is revealed as a powerful work by a young novelist destined to become one of the giants of the mystery genre. Like new.

London, Gardner Darton Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages plus publisher's ads. B&W illustrations by Gordon Browne, fold-out map. Binding a little shaken, still solid. Top edge gilt, residue to front end paper where bookplate was removed. Torquoise cloth covers with 3-color decoration.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Translated from the French by Gwen Marsh. 175 pages. Black & white illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, TOR, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 252 pages.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #96. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on rear.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Mark Eastbrook. It's been 33 years since the world-class thief known only by his last name--Nolan--last appeared in a novel by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Max Allan Collins. Since then, the big man has gone straight and even proposed to his longtime lover, Sherry. But when their honeymoon plans take them to a Las Vegas casino with Mob connections, it's going to take all of Nolan's survival instincts--and the help of his old friend and frequent accomplice, Jon--to keep him from an unmarked grave in the unforgiving desert. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. The third Florida based thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him "the Mark Twain of the crime novel" and Elmore Leonard described this book as "the funniest I've read in a long,long time." In this book, he skewers the cosmetic surgery industry.

Hardcover. Princeton, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, a clean, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY POVERMAN on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, 1st, 1969, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 284 pages. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author (1930-2008), a ribald satire that became a small-scale literary cause celebre after an excerpt published in The Paris Review in 1967 ignited a somewhat bizarre censorship attempt in the Long Island town of South Farmingdale, N.Y.; in the course of the kerfuffle, TPR editor George Plimpton interceded to speak out against the censorship, and subsequently agreed to published the full novel under the Paris Review Editions imprint. Better known as a poet and essayist, Wiebe enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Cincinnati; at least one critic has declared his work to be in the same darkly comic literary vein as that of Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs and Flannery O'Connor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, signed copy with only minor wear to cover edges. A tight copy. Front cover has diecut with "signed first edition" sticker on front.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 on flap with the number 8021 underneath it, and the number 0369 on the bottom rear flap, indicating a true first edition jacket. Stated fifth printing June 1969. Light blue boards, gold and red titles on spine, gold facsimile signature on front board. There is tanning and light soil to the dust jacket. No markings. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages, stated 5th printing. Dust jacket unclipped with light tanning. ($5.95 on front flap; 0369 on back flap). INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY VONNEGUT on the half-title page. Appears to inscribed by Vonnegut to a third party; "Earle F. Hiscock/ May 27, 1969 from RCH & Lynn SH/ Kurt Vonnegut Jr." Related newspaper clippings laid in at front.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Historical novel for young adults about a slave doctor in the West Indies in the 1680s. Originally published in the Netherlands in 1965. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.

Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, Uncorrected proof, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, b&w drawings by Karen Usborne, INSCRIBED BY WILSON to Irving and Joyce (Adler) on the title page and dated August 1970. Wilson has also added 3 titles to the list of his previously published books on the opposite page. Joyce Adler wrote several books on Caribbean literature and Harris. She has marked up this book in pencil and pen with underlining and marginal notes. This edition published before the hardcover printing. Peach color wrappers faded..

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, with drawings by Karen Usborne throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 151 pages. Small name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.