Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR ON TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The story of the Ill-fated Donner Party and the ordeal of being stuck in the Sierras through winter in the 1840's. The late author lived in the house once occupied by Patty Reed, the Donner party survivor whose family is the subject of the book.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 2nd pr., 1961 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Light tape repair on dust jacket and light tanning to pages, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages. First appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker. The traditional tale retold. In a series of short chapters the captious heroine is obliquely revealed as a woman regularly pleasured in a shower cubicle by the seven dwarves for whom she performs 'horsewifely' duties; the prince is a fop, and the stepmother is almost an incidental presence in relation to the potently amoral Hogo (one of several 'introduced' characters to the fable). Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago , Albert Whitman & Co, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 128 pages. Scarce book. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Color plate on front cover. Soiling to covers, endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Residue from color sticker p. 28-29.
Hardcover. New York, Robert McBride, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. 157 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Dugald Walker. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Spine and edgewear. Corners bumped. Sort tear to cloth spine. Little is known about Hal Garrott, but he did write this title and Squiffer (1924). Both are fantastical fairy tales intended for children designed by better known Dugald Stewart Walker. Walker was a prominent early 20th century illustrator and known for his ethereal and fantasy based illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Robert McBride, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. 157 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Dugald Walker. School bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean inside, no marking, tight binding.. Covers with light edgewear and soil. Little is known about Hal Garrott, but he did write this title and Squiffer (1924). Both are fantastical fairy tales intended for children designed by better known Dugald Stewart Walker. Walker was a prominent early 20th century illustrator and known for his ethereal and fantasy based illustrations.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered--Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds, in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Oakley Hall, is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake. Unpublished for more than half a century, SO MANY DOORS is Hall's masterpiece, an excoriating vision of human nature at its most brutal, and one of the most powerful books you will ever read. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered--Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds, in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Oakley Hall, is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake. Unpublished for more than half a century, SO MANY DOORS is Hall's masterpiece, an excoriating vision of human nature at its most brutal, and one of the most powerful books you will ever read. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, barely scraping by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse--as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead...and 16 ounces of pure heroin missing. On the run from the law, desperate to prove his innocence, Ray also faces another foe, merciless and unforgiving: his fierce and growing craving for a fix. Ed McBain was one of the most popular mystery writers of all time, creator of the 87th Precinct series and recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. SO NUDE, SO DEAD was his very first crime novel--and this is its first appearance in print in more than half a century. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise very good.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #196. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Laminate on paper wrappers starting to peel. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #479. Mild soil to covers. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1980, 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, Robert M. McBride and CO, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Hardcover with no dust Jacket. Moderate rubbing and fraying along edges of cover boards. Sticker residue on rear end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line to bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young, female university student, is found murdered. The signs point to sexual molestation, a probable rape. Bert, retired now and ailing after an operation, falls under police suspicion. He knew the girl, befriended her even, but did he kill her?
Softcover. London, Canongate Pub Ltd, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it--but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet's working for the other, and to the dead man's beautiful sister, who has flown in from Las Vegas to avenge her brother's murder. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY RUSSO on the title page. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool. Russo, who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for "Empire Falls", has added this third novel to his stories about life in Bath, New York. It's been about 30 years first novel, "Nobodys fool" that turned into a movie starring Paul Newman and Jessica Tandy (in her final performance) and so a number of the characters are now dead, but their presence echoes through the minds of their children and friends who are now the central characters in "Everybody's Fool." Russo masterfully tells a story about a single weekend in a town that has been consumed by its bigger and more robust town to the north effectively erasing it from maps. His characters are fully developed and by the time we finish the book we know them all well. And we like most of them and even relate to some of them. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, with SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY THE AUTHOR laid-in. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, b&w illustrations by Edward Gorey. A reissue of a 1970 edition with a new preface by Paula Danziger.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1t, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 166 pages. Story of two cousins & their mothers, one of whom has run away. Dust jacket illustration by James McMullan.
Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there some 35 years, bringing up a little girl who later becomes a victim of experimental biological warfare. Despite being set in China, Smith had never traveled there before writing the novel, the background gleaned from extensive research at the British Library amongst other places. An exciting novel set in a China almost unknown to the outside world, a chilling account of an army deserter living through a Cultural Revolution. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, William R. Scott , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Illustrated with black line drawings by Mary D. Shipman.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid in. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 3rd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket that has light edgewear. Illustrated with b&w drawings by William Stobbs. 248 pages transl. from German by Isabel and Florence McHugh. Clean copy. Against the dramatic background of hardship and adventure of his fourth voyage of discover to the West Indies the author has set the enigmatic character of Columbus himself, and the moving story of his son Fernan's friendship with the Red Indian boy Tahaka. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 633 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder and Co., 1st thus, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 47 pages, blue boards with gilt design, beveled edges, tan spine. Limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade paper, deckle edges, top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges of spine.
New York , Crowell, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Multi-color woodcut illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A small African boy helps his father locate the right tree to make a new canoe to replace the one broken by an alligator. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 359 pages. minor shelf-wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever--and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers could blow the lid off New York City's sex trade...if they don't kill him first.Richard Aleas' first novel, LITTLE GIRL LOST, was among the most celebrated crime novels of the year, receiving nominations for both the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Shamus Award. But nothing in John Blake's first case could prepare you for the shocking conclusion of his second. Like new.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dj.
Hardcover. NY, Lancelot Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color Illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, Illustrated cloth covers with light soil. No dust jacket.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,150 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marvin Friedman. What happens when Pinch and Sorrow Nix tend to an injured crane and try to protect it from The Zoo Man and others who want the bird for their own profit.
Hardcover. NY, MacMillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Red boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. Spine very faded, edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped, slight foxing to inside of dust jacket and endpapers, pages clean, crisp and marked; overall a neat, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with yellow lettering on spin and front cover, 280 pages. Map endpapers, color frontis and 17 b&w illustrations by John Whiting. This is a fictional account of an Antarctic expedition that appears to be based on the Scott, Shackleton and with a little of the Byrd Little America 1928-30 expeditions. Includes a Forward by J. S. O'Brien, an engineer on the first Little America expedition commenting on the writing skills of the fictional "Jack Meredith" for "... the most realistic of any I have every read." Brief inscription on blank prelim page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on dedication page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. West Kingston, RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Roy G. Krenkel ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket shows heavy rubbing and wear with tears, chipping and rips. Currently covered in plastic brodart. Internally clean.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1935, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacker. Red cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine. Spine is worn and faded. End papers have green and white map design. Very good condition overall.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 2nd pr., 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with blue stamping. B&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Light shelf wear, mild soil to covers. A tale of the Spanish coast, of Basque fishermen, and a mystery of the sea about a 12-year old boy who comes to live with his. brother.