Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st UK, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 96 pages. Text illustrations by Laurence Irving. Perdita West, secretary to a famous author, visits Lanzarote on a research trip and begins to fall in love with the unusual, beautiful little island. When, while snorkelling, a landslide traps Perdita in an underwater cave, her efforts to save herself will reveal what happened to the ill-fated couple who fell in love at this very spot almost a century ago . Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Navarro and Briggs mystery. "Missing drawings by a German artist of the '20s and '30s and art masterpieces hidden by the Nazis provide the motive for two murders in this absorbing mystery.A tough female police detective, a triple-crossing dame and an alleged Mafia biggie complicate Navarro's and Briggs's task..."
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, First Edition thus. SIGNED by Updike, with "special message" by him and b&w illustrations by Michael Deas not in the trade edition. Basis for the movie of the same name starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon as the three repressed women who accidentally conjure what they believe to be the perfect man (Jack Nicholson, playing the devil). Full green, gilt-decorated leather; all edges gilt; ribbon place marker. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, faded on spine, 315 pages. Science fantasy adventure involving the resurrection of a Viking woman, who has been frozen for a thousand years, by a lost community of Vikings in the far north.
Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enright is author of seven novels, most recently Actress. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Lifetime A.hievement Award . An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather's poetry seems to guide her home. The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of McDaragh women who must contend with inheritances-of poetic wonder and of abandonment by a man who is lauded in public and carelessly selfish at home. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fifth mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Follows the lives of Frances and Hart Drummond, married nearly forty years, and their grown children, as they cope with communication problems, love, marriage, and Connecticut real estate. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tyler Jacobson. Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them...and then removing that problem as well. So far he's rid the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights? Like new.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First printing of this critically acclaimed novel set in 1943 (when pennies were made of zinc to conserve copper for the wqar effort) in Los Angeles. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 14 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green. First Printing (with the requisite "A" & colophon, no numbers (which would indicate a later printing) of this beloved novel about the Baxter family in the Big Scrub of inland Florida, centering on the boy, Jody, & his relationship with the little fawn. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize & basis for the 1946 film starring Gregory Peck & Jane Wyman. In 428 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout text by Edward Shenton. Covers with light soiling, tanning to front edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two lifelong lovers sort through their shared history of secrets and suspicions, dating back to World War II, to find the truth behind a fatal weekend that became a public scandal. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige color cloth stamped in dark brown and gilt with two boys riding the rapids in a canoe. Four b&w plates plus map. Mild wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 252 pages. Black & white illustrations by Mary Whitson Haring. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Corners a bit bumped. Wear to corners and spine. Darkened spine. Title rubbed off of spine. Markings to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Mystery House, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages. Turquoise cloth binding with titling in red on the spine and front cover. Author's first book, A Jigger Moran mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket worn, chipped. Sizeable chunk out of front top corner. Book is clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with decorative illustration on front. Light soil on covers. Illustrated throughout by Woodi Ishmel. Tight copy. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded.
Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army, who've decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 340 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. A gossipy, humorous story of middle-class angst in a New England town in the 1950s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Masterpieces of Science Fiction Series. 220 pages, b&w illustrations by Vincent DiFate. Red genuine leather with gilt decorations, no dust jacket as issued. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark. Lovely copy, like new. Collectors notes laid in.
Hardcover. Toronto CA, Doubleday Canada, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jack won the Leacock Humour Award for his Bandy series. It's 1924, and Bandy is making a solo flight across the Atlantic in the Gander, a seaplane of his own design. Not for fame though - he's fleeing from arrest for train robbery, from his job as Minister of Defence, and from his would-be assassin and friend George Garanine. From Iceland, to Iraq, to St. Pancreas Hospital in London, Bandy's career has never been more complicated, or his luck more of a roller coaster. When he finds new employment as Deputy Supreme Being of a mercenary air force, Bandy begins to feel that the whole British Empire has a grudge against him. But at least the pay is good.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. London, Secker and Warburg, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Author's 1st book of fiction, and 2nd under his name. Rear of dust jacket with water stain - book unaffected. Publisher's stamp on front flyleaf stating "Showroom Sample." Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Joe Gunther and his team-the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)-are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and back-up. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd, seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen year old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.At the same time, an old, retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn't murdered. And a patient who calls herself The Governor has walked away from a state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out that she was indeed once "Governor for a Day," over forty years ago, but that she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her from revealing something that she saw all those years ago. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a bright gilt, black and red design. Illustrated with 31 b&w drawings by F. O. Small. Small, previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf (dated 1891). Rosalind, Marjory, and Ida are the three eldest children of Col. And Mrs. Peel, who are off in India with their younger children. The Three Little Maids live with a governess back in England and this is their tale.
Hardcover. NY, Richard R Smith, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 348 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light toning throughout. Red dyed top edge with some fading. Original dust jacket with tears, chips, and age toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding.
Hardcover. Ipswitch UK, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Horizontal quarto (10-7/8" x 9") in a three-piece binding of linen sides printed in a pattern of scarlet, slate, and yellow vertical stripes with a shelfback of ochre buckram stamped in gold leaf; 224 pages. Introduction by Stella Gibbons. Designed by John Lewis and printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd. Illustrated by John Griffiths with 2 double-spread color drawings and numerous black-and-white part-page and marginal sketches. Copy #1370 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, illustrated in b&w by James, green cloth covers with a black and gilt design. Square, bright copy with a small brownish stain to top inch of spine, Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Mild soil to covers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with orange lettering on the cover and spine, 433 pages. No colophon on title page or copyright page. Red top edge faded. This was Dos Passos' second book -- published when he was just 25 years old, and having spent the end of WWI as a volunteer with the ambulance corps in Spain and Italy during WWI. This is a profoundly anti-war book - and remains a high-water mark of realism in war writing. Second state with the correct "singing" on page 213. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark green lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 309 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, reprint/BC Ed., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, clean unmarked copy with front gutter crack. In a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FFORDE on the title page "Jasper", postcard laid in - The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular series. Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Clean copy.
London, Collins, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light soil, small stain to bottom of dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Roger Payne. Bruce joins his father, Dr. Barnett on an expedition to Australia's outback to look for the Queensland marsupial tiger which is supposedly an extinct mammal.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, author's first novel. Black cloth with light soil, dust jacket is bright, unclipped, but has a light pink line about 5 inches in length along right of cover. SIGNED BY LLOSA WITH HIS INITIALS AND UNDERLINED ON TITLE PAGE. Author signed at a reading at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket and foxing to fore edge. Light soil on top page block. Light fading to black cloth cover boards, otherwise tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small Library of Congress stamp on front fly leaf otherwise very good. A young adult novel about tin mining in Australia.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, light scuffing to edges of cloth. Bright dust jacket. Priscilla's vagabond family finds an unexpected home in Massachusetts but not until Priscilla accepts herself and her unusual family does she find contentment.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 6th pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 254 pages. Historical novel centered around the alleged ringleader of the Salem "witches," Tituba, a slave from Barbados. Clean.
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, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TROCHECK on the title page. The second mystery featuring cleaning lady and sometime sleuth Callahan Garrity Set in Atlanta, Georgia.