Hardcover. London, Harper Collins, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth, blue lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Spectra, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 434 pages. Winner of the 1999 Hugo award for best Science Fiction novel of the year,

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages, B&w and color illustrations. The Anatomy of an Actor series takes ten roles by a single actor, each studied in a dedicated chapter, and identifies the key elements that made the performances exceptional - carefully examining the actor's craft for both a professional audience and movie fans alike. This title looks at Hollywood icon Tom Cruise. First cast by Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders (1983), he gained international notoriety in the mid-1980s thanks to Tony Scott's Top Gun (1986). One of the most sought-after actors, Cruise has oriented his career to blockbusters, with a predilection for action and science fiction, starring in such movies as Michael Mann's Collateral (2004), Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005), the Mission: Impossible series (1996, 2000, 2006, 2011) and Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion (2013). Still in publisher'sshrinkwrap.

Hardcover. London, Harper Collins , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth, purple lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Orbit Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 404 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. In great shape. No rips or tears. Binding tight. Clean inside and out.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war." Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Urbana, IL, Golden Gryphon Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 78 pages. Pictorial cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. #43 in signed copy series limited to 500.

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 80 pages in color. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Lourie skillfully describes the delicate three-way relationship that exists among the Inupiat of Alaska, the bowhead whales, and the scientists who are there to collect data and study the animals. The Inupiat have hunted bowheads for thousands of years and their very existence depends upon the harvesting of the leviathans. The scientists are there to determine whether the whaling done by these communities is sustainable and not decimating the bowhead population. Using a day-in-the-life format, Lourie follows one particular scientist, John Craighead George, as he goes about collecting the necessary data. The biologist is careful not to disturb the integrity of the harvest and, in fact, works closely with the Inupiat to do what he needs to do. Interwoven throughout this daylong saga are historical information, scientific facts, and cultural tradition. Crisp color photographs on every page provide a lush complement to the engaging, informative text. Young readers will come away with a stronger appreciation of the bowhead whales, the people who both hunt and respect them, and the scientists who straddle the traditional and modern worlds to gather important information. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 391 pages, poor dust jacket tattered with a chunk gone from spine and rear panel. An anthology edited by Derleth, collecting previously published stories by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Theodore Sturgeon, Algernon Blackwood, and others. Grey cloth with green titling and decoration, with b&w illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. Spine square. Binding sound. Clean copy.