Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel which takes a deeply irreverent look at literature, politics, patriotism and religion.

Hardcover. NY, The Crime Club/ Doubleday, Doran & Co.,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in red. Dust jacket cover panel tipped onto inside front cover with flap copy opposite on front fly leaf. Attractively done. A Hildegarde Withers mystery. Classic crime tale from the 1930s set south of the border in old Mexico. 293 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 287 pages. Translated from the Russian by Gordon Clough. A novel by the author of The Yawning Heights. A Professor in Moscow slowly realises that Communism isn't all it's cracked up to be. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations by Harper Johnson. A 13 year-old boy's adventures in Haiti. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with color illustration pasted on front board. Title in red on front board and spine. Short chapters which originally ran in serial form in The Chicago Tribune, now published here as a series of connected vignettes in book form. Each section with a b&w cartoon by McCutcheon over a color block. Light wear, corner bump. small bookseller's stamp inside front cover. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. The Retreat is a hotel on a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna. Its patrons are all Jews and it provides lessons in assimilation: how to look, talk, and act Gentile. This is a look at the assimilated Jews of central Europe on the brink of a Holocaust that they cannot believe is winding up to take place. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WILHELM on the front fly leaf. Clean copy. Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the problem at their school is bigger than anyone knew. The school principal wants to clamp down on the operation, which she does when the trio, in their zealousness for revenge, libel a fellow student in what turns out to have been a setup. Now a new plan of attack is needed . . .

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Super-bankable, way-hot movie star Nadia Wentworth has found her dream role: the all-powerful, eternally beautiful Kali-Ra, Queen of Doom-- one of pulp fiction's most famous characters. That is until a cast of mysterious characters descends on Nadia's exotic Beverly Hills mansion.. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. During the summer before her senior year, a Catholic girl runs away from her well-meaning but narrow-minded mother to live with a sociology professor she saw on television. But life there has complications, too. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Citadel Press, 1st illust thus, 1948, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cream jacket decorated in black and green. With 12 black and white woodcuts by Helen Munro.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. In a dust jacket with light edgewear and chipping. A crime novel set in the Kentucky mountains involving lawless gangs and horse racing. A Hubin listed Mystery. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1050, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in yellow. No dust jacket. Clean copy. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st illust thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, geen cloth with 4 color decoration on front and spine. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne, No date (circa 1910). Tight, clean copy.

New York, Viking Press, Book Club, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Rook. Dust jacket spine slightly faded otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple and black boards with black lettering on the spine label. 162 pages, b&w frontispiece by Ray Garnett (his first wife, Rachel 'Ray' Garnett). Top edge gilt. Tells the fictional story of the racism and hostility experienced by an interracial couple in Victorian Dorset. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. When Richard inherits the family estate in Herefordshire, he finds it has been leased to a charitable organization which is not as it seems. Attempting to break the lease, he is endangered by a sinister intelligence organization. Clean, very good in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with lettering on dj in gilt. First printing with all numbers present including 1. Rushdie's most controversial work, for which he received death threats and a Fatwah post-publication. 'Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.'- Rushdie. The book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. Related news clipping laid in.

Hardcover. NY, William Sloane Associates, 2nd pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Bright, clean copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket. A man crossing a London street is killed. He is carrying four blackmail letters. Mostly set in France, the basis for the 1968 MGM film directed by Richard Thorpe.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial paper-covered boards; color frontis, some black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne. Short splits along spine edge, bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, 299 pages, color frontis by Harold Cue. Spine gilt faded, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st thus, ND (1924), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, blue cloth binding with black lettering. Black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout featuring scenes from the 1924 film starring Milton Sills, rear panel of dust jacket shows scenes from the photoplay of Scaramouche, starring Alice Terry and Roman Novarro. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver pattern and lettering. Novel about three young merchant navy officers on a ship captured by pirates in the 1930s their imprisonment on a fortified island and their escape by sea. Has black and white frontis and plates. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Two identical twin sisters--one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia--are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves. As one sister prepares for the toughest trial of her career and the other faces a stalker who knows details of her life that even her husband doesn't, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by discoveries about their husbands that shock and disturb them. THE SECRET LIVES OF MARRIED WOMEN is an intense, psychologically penetrating tale of fears and fantasies, the desires that drive us, and how far men will go for the women they love. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A nine-year-old girl recounts the changes in her family's life after a young Navajo girl comes to stay with them. Ex-lib with light stamping, endpapers have scarring.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 342 pages. Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . . ." The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001. First printing (with full number line including 1). Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. Young Merlin, triumphant after his first encounter with the dreaded Rhita Gawr, has brought new hope to Fincayra, the enchanted isle that lies between earth and sky. Yet when a renewed tide of evil arises, its first victim is Merlin's own mother. To save her, Merlin and the forest girl Rhia must follow the perilous path of Seven Songs of Wizardry that has claimed even the lives of great wizards. Most difficult of all, Merlin must discover the secret of seeing not with his eyes, but with his heart.The eagerly anticipated second book in The Lost Years of Merlin epic combines all the passion, power, and spiritual depth that are T.A. Barron's hallmarks.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by William I. Neuman. Novel set in 1922 in post-revolutionary Mexico, described as "a blending of roman noir with magic realism, a cross between Raymond Chandler and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two of Ozick's most widely admired pieces, "The Shawl" (a story) and "Rosa" (a novella) were published together in this book for the first time. Very powerful writing from the author of Trust and Levitation.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty color cloth with spine stamped in black and blue. 1st printing with no additional printings on copyright page. Light tanning to endpapers, mild shelf wear, clean copy. Bowles first novel.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 335 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 326 pages. Bound in original dark red cloth with lettering in black.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards with a young Shirley Temple on cover. 250 pages with several b&w photos from the movie. Paper tanning. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine and double blind stamped ruling around border of front and back.

Hardcover. Toronto, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 148 pages, b&w illustrations. In white-lettered blue cloth spine over gray boards, no dust jacket.The winter Karin loses her hearing and her father disappears at sea, the mystery of the origins of her mother, a beautiful and unusual woman, unfolds.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 279 pages. James Facos evokes the tension, the triumph and the tragedy of an American bomber crew in England during the height of the war over Germany in 1944. 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, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The author's first novel, set in the Big Pines area of the Canada/Minnesota borderlands. Publisher's Weekly called this "A provocative, potent debut" and went on to say that "Johnson evokes a community of disenfranchised Indians, the Ojibway and Chippewa, as its members slowly leave their cultural enclave over 30 years from the 1950s to the 1980s. . . . Each chapter is in fact like a powerful short story that could stand on its own. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 281 pages. South African mystery featuring Afrikaner Tromp Kramer and Bantu Sergeant Zondi, set in a small town in northern Zululand in 1962. This book is a prequel to the other Kramer and Zondi mysteries - the story of how they first met each other.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Chatwin's third and perhaps best book. Features a special introduction by Chatwin not included in the trade edition. A fine copy in full leather binding that attempts to match the aboriginal motif in the book with all edges gilt and a silk book marker. Two color plates of Aboriginal bark painting following the title page, color decorated chapter headings. Publisher's promotional letter loosely inserted. SIGNED BY CHATWIN. One of the more attractive volumes in Franklin series. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Charter Books, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages. With a new introduction by the author. Presents the story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. Written in Henry's own words, this funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. First published in 1953. Price blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. The Speed Queen is the gripping story of a twisted love triangle's drug-fueled killing spree across the desert plains, told in the voice of Oklahoma death-row inmate Marjorie Standiford, who is recounting her experiences for a best-selling horror writer researching the murders. It's a chilling, unputdownable crime novel in the tradition of James M. Cain -- a voyage into the dark soul of the American West.

Softcover. NY, Random House/Vintage Contemporaries, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1st printing of the first American trade edition SIGNED by Ford on the title page with a black pen. No inscription. A trade paper original with glossy card covers. March Date: 1986. First edition is stated on the copyright page. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell and husband Ben live in Chitterton Fells, where he runs a restaurant and she keeps house, tends their three-year-old twins, and occasionally investigates local murders. While attending a club meeting, Ellie discovers the fallen body of her new chairwoman, immediately suspects murder, and begins some insistent interrogating. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.

Hardcover. London, Duckworth Overlook, 1st UK, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 290 pages. A novel based in Stalinist Russia around an historical episode involving the poet, Osip Mandelstam.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 235 pages, top edge gilt. A novel from English author Henry Williamson in which he uses the concept of the stars - a regular feature in his work - to explore the nature of good and evil, with the author describing it as a celestial fantasy. With full plate and vignette wood engravings from Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1857. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the charred remains of his body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked? It's the question Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Lemming ask when they arrive in Exeter at the request of the South Devon Railway. Yet, as they investigate the stationmaster's life, they realize he is not as popular as they first believed. With a scorned jilted lover, a resentful colleague and a violent elder brother among the many suspects, the detectives must use all their skill and wit to solve the case. Clean copy.

New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Top corner creased on page 11. Dust jacket shows light edgewear at cover and spine corners. Otherwise very good. A year after her father, a poet who identified with fauns and satyrs, has been found dead in a motel swimming pool, a strange faun-boy appears to Melissa, seeming to be the reincarnation of her beloved father's spirit. Clean copy.

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, circa 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a chunk gone from top of spine, 365 pages. First published in 1911 this reprint is from mid-40s with Wartime notation on title page. Set on Prince Edward Island, Sara Stanley has the ability to delight and thrill listeners with her tales, many interwoven in this story. Clean copy.