Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. 189 pages, a Tommy Hambledon mystery, some fading to dust jacket. 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. New York , Boni & Liveright, Limited, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volume set. Translated by John Payne, illustrated by Clara Tice. Edition limited to 2000 copies. This is number 85. 374 + 355 pages. Light wear and sun-fade to black cloth covers. Binding on both volumes is a little shaken but still intact. There is a small hole close to the fore-edge on rear cover of volume 2. Overall a nice set in good condition.
Hardcover. London, John Leighton, 1st, 1845, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 579 pages. Brown cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design on spine. Edge wear, rubbing to covers; spine faded. End papers wrinkled. Hinges starting to crack. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages. Interesting novel by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman, a "biographer of modest accomplishments" who is asked to write the authorized biography of a World War I flying ace who became an influential British politician until his rather mysterious death in an automobile accident during World War II. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Ivory covers with green band on spine. Minor flaw on front of cover. Dust jacket pristine. Comes with an acrylic cover for jacket. Very good condition.
Hardcover. Portway, Bath UK, Cedric Chivers Ltd., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in 1936, a novel about coal mining in Lancashire, England. INSCRIBED BY HODGKISS in 1975 on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good in slipcase. This limited edition, one of 1500 copies hand numbered and signed by illustrator Edward A. Wilson at colophon, contains b/w and color illustrations in gravure throughout. The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo.
Hardcover. Portand, ME, Thomas B. Mosher, 1st Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Hardcover (soft cardboard) with foreedge overhang to protect edge (see image). "This First Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies". Untrimmed foreedge. Tan covers, brown title on spine and front cover board with design. Tanning throughout from age. Clean, tight copy in very good condition.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1st US, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages plus publisher's ads, light blue cloth with 3-color decoration, 32 b&w plates by Sidney Paget. Light flecking to cloth in small areas, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth cover boards with gilt reverse lettering on front and spine. Corners bumped, rear board has moderate soiling, spine shows heavy rubbing and wear. Illutrations by W.H.D. Koerner. Spine slightly cocked, but tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Front flap creased. Clean.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, 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. New York, Knopf, 2nd Printing, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 273 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's first novel, set in Berlin, in early 1933 as the Nazi regime is gaining power, and Jews, radicals, and other undesirables are leaving the city. Based on film director Fritz Lang and his wife Thea. Praise from Thomas Pychon, among others, who called it "daringly imagined and darkly romantic - a moral thriller." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arcade, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 248 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton receives a phone call at the reception desk of his hotel informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming?
Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 61 pages. Cloth boards. Two color Illustrations by Hogner. Dust jacket has minor chipping along edges and all corners clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 317 pages. Four friends walk and tell tales while hiking over moors. A light hearted narrative in which Henry Williamson intended to evoke a holiday spirit. The conceit of four friends on a hiking holiday and telling tales to one another links six short stories. Williamson focusses on presenting Devon and its people as it was in the mid 1930s. Covers with fading, chipping to spine cloth, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 190 pages. A mystery novel about the adventurous librarian lifestyle. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf.
Paperback. New York, Pantheon, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY MALLON on title page. Tight copy. In 1948, the small town of Owosso, Michigan, is electrified by the presidential campaign of native favorite Thomas Dewey. Just as voters must decide between Dewey and Harry Truman, so must bookstore clerk Anne Macmurray choose between two suitors-the ardent United Auto Workers organizer and his polar opposite, the wealthy young Republican attorney with political ambitions.
Softcover. New York, Pantheon Books, Uncor. Proof, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Softcover with moderate creasing and wear to edges. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's notes throughout. Previous owner was novelist, Jay Parini. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 317 pages. Remainder mark to top edge, light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, Ltd. ed., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 354 pages. Padded blue silk covers with gilt lettering and design. Illustrated in color by Reginald Marsh. Edges speckled blue and yellow. Limited edition copy #880/1500 and SIGNED BY MARSH. Very good condition. No slipcase.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A146. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Ink notation on first page.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Violet cloth stamped in blue, 240 pages. No date but appears to be 1940s. 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. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Faint foxing to top edge, light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Previous owner's gift label on front flyleaf. Tan, speckled cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning from age, a couple of very small tears (barely noticeable--see image) at top along edge of dj. Part New England gothic, part fantasy, and pure rollicking adventure story, this book traces the history of a unique clan of hardy Vermonters who have survived in Kingdom County, near the Canadian border, for several generations.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Moderate wear and tearing to dust jacket. Covers clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, minor wear and soiling to white dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Winner of the Booker Prize.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 379 pages. As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. Advertisement and biographical brochure from publishers laid-in. Light blue boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black gilt-stamped cloth. Copyright page states 1924 with a K-Y code. No date on title page. A collection of satires written by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay under pseudonym as "Nancy Boyd." Millay offers a preface under her own name to "Boyd's" work, and writes, "I take pleasure in recommending to the public these excellent small satires, from the pen of one in whose work I have a never-failing interest and delight." Millay had written and published these dialogues and short-short yarns in a range of monthly magazines during the early twenties, the period of her greatest popularity and the period during which she wrote some of her most memorable and somber poetry. Gilt lettering is bright on cover but faded on spine. Spine cracked at half-title page, name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Color illustrations. Stamped decorative covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Ditko's Shorts is a fun and incredibly fascinating compilation of short comics one, two and three pages in length. Only a brilliant master could tell a dramatic, compelling tale in such compact form. You'll thrill as Ditko walks this exciting high-wire act without a net! The many stories contained in this hardcover are fast-paced and sport terrific, compelling artwork as only Steve Ditko can draw it! The genres show the artist's great range. There's horror, fantasy, science fiction, western, and even humorous stories. Taken from rare comic books from a who's who of publishers, all the comics are meticulously restored and printed in a beautiful, large-format book.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRIFFIN on title-page.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unc;ipped dust jacket. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into a bustling Indian eneighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world. Young Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and rumors of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Tor Publishing Group, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 492 pages. INSCRIBED BY SZPARA on the title page. K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Pantheon, 1st, 2014-09-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Canadian author's first book, a novel of late eighteenth-century London featuring young George Cautley navigating his way through London's high society, finds that nothing is as it seems and everyone wears a disguise. Illustrations by John Lawrence. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Translated from the Italian by Stuart Hood. 257 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, embossed design, bumped corners and edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear. Inside is very clean and bright. A nice copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #360. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear.
NY/Philadelphia, Jr. Lit. Guild/Macrae-Smith Co., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robbie. Dust jacket with closed tear, small chunks gone top edge, spine edges. A post WW2 look at the exciting world of radio announcing told through a the eyes of aspiring young broadcaster.
Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the Edgar award, and basis of the Michael Douglas film. New York City psychiatrist Nathan Conrad possesses everything required for a good, normal life--a successful practice on Central Park West, an adoring wife and a lovely daughter. He also has a reputation for dealing with the hard cases that most of his uptown colleagues prefer to pass on: catatonics, schizophrenics, the criminally insane. In this taut, superbly plotted thriller, Klavan, an Edgar-winner also writing as Keith Peterson, interweaves Dr. Conrad's disparate worlds to riveting effect. Soon after he begins treating a young woman accused of a particularly brutal murder, Conrad receives a chilling phone call at home. Suddenly his safe private life becomes a nightmarish game board, with Sport and Maxwell, two vividly drawn psychopaths, key players in his terrifying ordeal. Maxwell smiles and hums when he hurts people; Sport finds this a handy behavior in an accomplice. And the reader, meanwhile, roots for Dr. Conrad all the way to this brisk novel's heart-stopping conclusion. SIGNED BY KLAVAN on the half-title page. Clean copy.