Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown boards with green letting on the front cover and the spine. Dust jacket is fair only with tape repairs, chipping and a chunk gone from bottom of spine. Novel about the Quaker City Quakers, a major league team closely based on the Whiz Kids-the Philadelphia Phillies, with the main characters of the book closely based on the real Whiz Kids. For instance, Phillie coach Bennie Bengough was portrayed as Bennie Benson, Robin Roberts as Rossiter, Richie Ashburn as Robbie Ashton, etc. O'Rourke made no attempts to hide the connection. The book is dedicated to the Phillies, and O'Rourke thanks many of the Phillies by name in the introduction. Name in bold pencil on front fly leaf, otherwise clean

New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 305 pages plus a reading list at the back of the book. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, light discoloration at top of rear flap. Sequel to Go Saddle the Sea and Bridle the Wind. A tale for young adults set against the revolutionaey backgroung of 1820s Spain.Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1879. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Tale of a penniless boy who finds a job as a telegram messenger boy. The "Telegraph Boy" completes the series of street-life tales in New York; inaugurated eleven years prior with the publication of "Ragged Dick." Front hinge cracked, slant to spine, light circular water stain to first 3 pages including title page and illustration of telegraph boy opposite.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SEYMOUR on the half-title page.

Hardcover. Ontario, Viking Canada, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FINDLEY on the title page. Vanessa Van Horne investigates the seeming connection between the tearing down of the Aurora Sands Hotel and the mysterious death of wealthy businessman Calder Maddox. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 359 pages. Vanessa Van Horne investigates the seeming connection between the tearing down of the Aurora Sands Hotel and the mysterious death of wealthy businessman Calder Maddox. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark brown lettering, 143 pages. B&w illustrations by Bacon. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on the title page wih a black marker. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time, the place, and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. Collection of stories about a platoon of soldiers in the Vietnam War. First trade edition with 1 in number row. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray textured boards with red cloth spine stamped in black. No dust jacket. Suspense and action in post-war Vienna. True First which preceded the UK edition. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Cartoonist Jack Deacon is astonished when a colleague he had not seen in years, Mutt Shermer, dies in his yard from gunshots. He is even more surprised when he finds beautiful Sally Westerland hiding in his closet. Jack and his fellow cartoonists ponder these events at a Connecticut diner, but it is not until a package addressed to Sally arrives at Jack's house, where Sally once lived, that things fall quickly into place. In the package is a "Tijuana bible," and in its pages is a coded map leading to a collection of "Golden Age" comics worth millions. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 46 pages, b&w illustrations by Diane de Groat. Chunk gone from rear dj panel, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Julia MacRae Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1995, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 355 pages. Unclipped dust jacket wit slight rubbing, sticker residue. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The lives of two very different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. The hard winter that Analdas, the old Rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for the dwellers of Rabbit Hill when the "Folk" go away and leave a neglectful Caretaker with a mean Dog in charge. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 238 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With the sticker on cover stating" "Selected By The New Yorker As one of the best American fiction writers under 40". A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a surprising cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower. Two lines underlined in Preface, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thirty years after leaving Eunola, Mississippi, to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer, Leland Standard returns with her son, and a dinner party given in her honor brings to light the secrets, desires, and life stories of the guests. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound, 309 pages. 8 color illustrations by Henry Pitz. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Brodart cover. Meigs' first book for young people, this won the Beacon Hill Bookshelf Prize Competition and was the first original work in that series.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 302 pages plus publisher's ads. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 86 pages, b&w drawings by Donna Diamond. 'Golden Kite Award Silver Medal' on front panel of dust jacket. A boy & a girl become convinced that the white deer they discover is a unicorn. Tale of a beautiful white hear & the friendship it nurtures. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Originally published in paperback by Signet Books, December 1961. Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's spent too much time in the region's small towns to adapt to another place. And that's all right with him. What's not all right is being a deputy sheriff, where if it weren't for family misfortune, he might have been a doctor instead. Lord's got one ace-in-the-hole -- the land deed that makes him the biggest landowner in the county, just as the oil companies have started to move in. When Tom's approached by Aaron McBride of Highlands Oil and Gas with a contract to set up pipelines on his property, he's more than happy to sign on the dotted line with barely more than a cursory glance at the paperwork -- it just might be Lord's way out of a life he never wanted in the first place. But when Lord finds out just what that contract entailed, things start to go sour for Aaron McBride -- and fast. Because in this Texas town, Lord's the law -- and there's nothing more dangerous than a cop with nothing left to lose. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. A Jewish folk tale set in the Sinai. Mild shelf wear.

NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 143 pages. Yellow cloth, blue design/lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket shows very minor edgewear. Spine of dust jacket is slightly toned. B/W illustrations throughout by Marvin Besunder. Previous owners' names in ink on a blank page at back otherwise clean. " Lin Li-ti, parted from his family during the tumultuous evacuation from mainland Communist Chino to the Nationalist island of Formosa, found himself hungry and alone in a land where no one seemed to care about a lost boy." Written by a woman who lived in Taiwan, as well as other places in the world, who is a teacher and author.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. Unavailable for 40 years, THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson's killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. Unavailable for 40 years, THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson's killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell returns for another hilarious mystery that begins when Ellie's long-vanished father reappears in her life, carrying the ashes of his lost love and drawing Ellie into a murderous puzzle. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.

Hardcover. NY, Mystery League, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 286 pages. Shelf-worn copy, spine faded, but otherwise a clean, sound copy. A man carrying diamonds in his pocket that are worth a fortune, is traveling in a train with only five others in the compartment. The train enters a tunnel and after a few seconds of darkness, emerges into the light. The man has a small red hole in his forehead and the diamonds are gone.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with minor wear, 94 pages, illustrated in b&w by Symeon Shimin. A young boy's adventures growing up in a Caribbean fishing village.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a black-lettered leaf-green cloth spine over grass-green boards; in a illustrated dust jacket with striking artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon. Historical novel of the XVIII dynasty pharaoh, Akhenaten, told from the perspective of his strong, proud mother, Empress Tiye, who effectively ruled Egypt for years. Gedge's earlier Egyptian novel, CHILD OF THE MORNING was hailed by critics.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1988, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 142 pages; color plates by Yvonne Gilbert and black and white illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert. 19 folk tales from across the world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.311 pages, illustrated in b&w by David Small. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 311 pages. Illustrated in b&w by David Small. Remainder mark to top edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of two kids who witness a violent crime they think was committed by their neighbor (an undertaker). However, since these two are always telling made-up stories nobody believes them. They have to find the evidence. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Missing front fly leaf, clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. Originally published in 1877, the first of Darwin's books to be published after the Origin of the Species. It is his detailed study of orchid morphology and insect pollinators and their close coadaptation. Orchid fanciers will appreciate Darwin's meticulous research and the many elegant drawings that illustrate this facsimile edition. Name on half-title page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Baker & Taylor Company, 2nd pr., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated olive cloth covers with titles in black in ruled border. Titles on spine in orange. 396 pages. Five black & white illustrations plus frontispiece with tissue guard by F.R. Gruger. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Rubbing to corners and spine. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that's the life she was trapped in--until she met Jack.Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery and walk away with a suitcase full of cash. But there's nothing like money to come between lovers--money, and other women. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories--observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his bestselling fiction. Now, The View from the Cheap Seats brings together for the first time ever more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts the author's experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Limited to 504 signed copies, this being no 265. Bound in original publishers quarter vellum, with green cloth boards, vellum dusty, cloth faded. An anthology of the author's writings from 1921 to 1930. The work concerns the history of an unnamed fictional village, and is divided into alternating chapters with different headings. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with Williamson's familiar owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece and two brief sketches by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some uneven fading to the cloth and a little darkening to the vellum backstrip, as is common with this production.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Orange cloth cover, minor wear to cover and dust jacket. Inside is clean and bright. A very tight copy. The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, in pictorial green cloth stamped in 3-colors. 84 pages illustrated with 3 b&w plates by W.H.D, Koerner. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. One-color and full-color illustrations by Fred Marcellino. Dust jacket spine has a tear, price stamp on flap. Clean copy. While other young weasels dance under the pines, Bagley thinks about Bridget, the mesmerizing fish who lives in a pond down the brook from his den. Only a true hero can save Bridget from the gruesome death that awaits her.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine, 246 pages. Four color plates plus numerous b&w drawings by Rosalie K. Fry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillian and Co., 1st illust thus., 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Decorative-gilt red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. 330 pages plus publisher's ads. New Edition with 100 b&w illustrations by Linley Sambourne. Water-Babies, a children's novel written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863; written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. Mild slant to spine, bump to front cloth cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color pastedown on front cover, white lettering.