Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CANNELL on title page. Clean, like new. An Ellie Haskell mystery, now the mother of infant twins who feels like the magic has gone out of her life. The fifth mystery by Cannell.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in England as "Disposal of the Living".
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Routledge and Sons, Reprint, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 269 pages. No date - circa 1880's. Gray cloth with decoration on spine and cover in black. Spine title on gilt background. Features 126 black & white illustrations by Riou. Tanning to preliminary, and rear pages. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Hardcover with no dust jakcet. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Spine loose and cocked.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st , 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color frontis, black & white illust. by Erick Berry. Dj edgeworn, chipped, with chunk missong at spine.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. First publication ever! By the Edgar award-winning author of SONGS OF INNOCENCE and LITTLE GIRL LOST (written as "Richard Aleas")Told in 50 chapters, each chapter named after one of the first 50 books in the series.Featuring a full-color insert section containing images of the first 50 Hard Case Crime covers! Publishers Weekly on FIFTY-TO-ONE: "High-speed action and nonstop thrills highlight the 50th novel from Hard Case Crime...Ardai sets an impressive standard for the new wave of pulp crime fiction...Breathless action and entertaining characters make this a page-turner from start to finish. " Like new.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, faded dust jacket. 260 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Shenton. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. 324 pages. A story of the American Revolution and what occured when the colonists of northern New Jersey became aroused and embittered by enemy oppression. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st Canadian, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, illustrated boards, Illustrations in line & 12 color plates by Maurice Boutet de Monvel. Small water stain to top of covers, w/ mild wrinkle to paper covering boards o/w bright & clean.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Adding to a fiction chronicle that has already spanned American history from the Lincoln assassination to the Watergate scandal, Thomas Mallon now brings to life the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president in modern times. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 183 pages. INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on the title page. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf. Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, between parent and child, and between estranged spouses
Hardcover. New York, Gulliver/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, illustrated glazed boards with a matching unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Co. , 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 71 pages, illustrated end papers, copyright page and title page, color frontispiece. Color plates at pages 22 and 49. Light edge wear, small tears to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, dust jacket has edgewear, chips. A phone ringing after midnight means trouble, especially in private eye Harry Stoner's business. This time the 1:30 call is trouble, all right. A motel clerk wants somebody to pick up the loser registered as Harry Stoner who just tried to kill himself. When the real Stoner gets to the Encantada Motel, he finds his old college roommate nearly dead and too many memories still alive. It's a suicide attempt that forces Stoner back into his own past, where a pretty woman, a brutal murder, and the bitter remnants of the sixties drug culture make Stoner's future look rosy...like flowers on a grave.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Edgewear, light rubbing to dust jacket. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with light chipping. This is a historical mystery novel about a police officer who is transported back in time to 1829 when the British police was first formed. Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE on title page. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Book Series, 1st Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece by Frank Tenney Johnson. cover boards bound in red cloth, has just a little chipping to edges/corners and very light fading to spine (normal agewear, see image). Pages and edges have a small amount of tanning from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black top edge. Edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A juvenile novel about two runaway children during the London blitz. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 97 pages. Black & white illustrations by S. Saelig Gallagher. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. 5th in the Thursday Next series. Promotional postcard laid-in. ("Tricks of the Trade Revealed" postcard #7 showing Fforde and his clones manically signing books.). Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st U.K., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 398 pages, several b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket, 286 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated covers. Illustrated in color. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1958 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. 48 pages. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Soiling to endpapers. Edgewear. Dust jacket with two small chunks missing from spine. "Harper Blue Ribbon Book" sticker on front of dust jacket. Bottom of front flap clipped, but not price clipped.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORBES on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket, 112 pages with 12 drawings by the author. Fit for a duchess, indeed, was the splendid up-to-date privy which the Budd family finally achieved, after generations of living with a noisome hut in the garden. But, as usually happens, there was a canker: the marvels of modern technology defeated them. Here splendidly remembered as in her previous books, Dust to Dust and A Prospect of Love, is this and more of life in southern England in the 1930s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with heavy wear to dust jacket. Small closed rips and open tears on bottom. Moderate aged soil throughout, light odor. Otherwise tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, visiting his friend Melrose Plant in Long Piddleton, looks into the murder of Simon Lean, whose body is discovered stuffed into an antique secretaire a abattant. Working with help from the usual cast of zany characters, Jury goes about his business in his customary leisurely and self-assured manner and pieces together a very strange tale of greed, jealousy, and murder.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. Boston , D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt, red and black letters and illustrations on front and spine. Assumed first edition and printing since only date is 1892 and no indication of number of printing on copyright or title page as with later printings of this book. 527 pages, book ads in rear. Black and white illustrations by Mente. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house". Previous owner's bboplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing and name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle, Co., 3rd printing, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Pictorial dust jacket with soiling and slight wear. Pink boards, black spine. Front flyleaf clipped. Foxing to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st wraps, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 308 pages. A collection of short stories from the winner of the National Book Award 1n 2013. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon-color pictorial boards with green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Profusely illustrated by author with color frontis. and many b&w plates and text drawings, Thomason's semi-fictionalized first book, based on his own experiences as a career officer in the Marines as part of the AEF. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon-color pictorial boards with green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Profusely illustrated by author with color frontis. and many b&w plates and text drawings, Thomason's semi-fictionalized first book, based on his own experiences as a career officer in the Marines as part of the AEF. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover and on blank preim page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st , 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 242 pages. Tan cloth cover. Rear hinge cracked. Illustrated endpapers. Stain to front cover, mild soiling to spine. Corners bumped. Small hole to about 20 pages on outside edge. An adventure set in the North African desert, uncommon.
Hardcover. Mad Cave Studios, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover , pictorial boards, 203 pages illustrated in color. Science fiction's most enduring icon Flash Gordon returns in newly restored editions, collecting his ongoing adventures on the mysterious planet Mongo. Reprints all of Alex Raymond's Sunday strips from January 19, 1941 to August 13, 1944, and includes an extensive essay examining his final years on the series by writer Doug Murray. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Titan, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Featuring four years worth of non-stop exhilarating, science fiction action-adventure as Flash battles a rogue's gallery of villainy to protect the innocent, the wronged and a bevy of beautiful women from the likes of Kang The Cruel, Queen Valker the Violent, giant birds, lizards, sea-beasts and rock men, as well as wolfmen and gas spiders!
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY LEVINE on the half-title page. Pro football player turned lawyer Jake Lassiter is savoring a drink at a South Beach bar when a beautiful young woman shoots the man on the next bar stool and faints in Lassiter's arms. It's one way to get clients, he figures. The woman, Chrissy Bernhardt, is charged with the first-degree murder of her father, whom Chrissy believes abused her as a child. Lassiter takes the case, which is complicated by the fact that Chrissy's repressed memories of her father's abuse have been "unlocked" with the help of a therapist who turns out to be her late mother's former lover. The seventh Lassiter novel continues the series' steady improvement. Lassiter is smart, tough, funny, and very human. He's coming on fast as one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction. Clean copy.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Ms. Moxie Mooney is Hollywood royalty--and she's in trouble. At the summons of his on-again, off-again lover, Fletch drops in on Moxie's film set, located in sunny Florida. If being called up for help by the box office beauty isn't work enough, Steve Peterman, Moxie's sleazy manager, is murdered while the cameras are rolling, and no one managed to see a thing. Despite the obvious lack of evidence, the rumor mill is still quick to churn up a potentially plausible suspect: Moxie. Realizing the need for a little R&R away from prying eyes, he hastily flies Moxie and her drunken father off to Key West. But trouble follows Fletch, in every sense of the word, and soon enough he's playing host to a full house of Hollywood's brightest.I n true Fletch style, he delves into the investigation, dodging police inquiry, betting on race horses, taking a leisurely sail, and talking up his elite houseguests to get the dirt and solve this perplexing murder.