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Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one that will leave him either a killer -- or a corpse.Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books , 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design, 864 pages. Based on the translation of Margaret Hunt, with 212 beautiful illustrations (many in color) by Josef Scharl, an Introduction by Padraic Colum and Folkloristic Commentary at the rear by Joseph Campbell. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Esslinger, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. Decorated color illustrated front cover board. Red quarter cloth. Attached red ribbon bookmark. In beautiful condition. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JACKSON ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Black boards with cloth spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages; a very clean, tight copy in great condition. Grootka, retired from the Detroit Police Department, returns as a mentor to Fang Mulheisen, and the two lives become dangerously entwined in a thirty-year-old unsolved case of rape and murder.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This seventh novel in the Gabe Wager, Denver PD Homicide series has Wager trying to help one of his childhood heroes, Tommy Sanchez, an aging ex-rodeo star find his two adult sons who may be on the wrong road, endangering themselves and Wager. Clean copy.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 128 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear at spine top.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, including bibliography. History of Pennsylvania mining from a century ago. On nearly every page are photos of kids as young as seven working in the mines. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W drawings by C. Walter Hodges. 189 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing Co., 2nd.pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Set in South Carolina, this novel explores class distinctions in a black community.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 128 pages. B&w illustrations by Robert Patterson. Book store stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, reprint, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 439 pages. Mustard cloth with gilt and black decoration. Hinges cracked, spine cocked, shelfworn. Illustrated with a b&w frontispiece, text sketches throughout, no artist credit. Howard presents the story of a young girl living in the village of Plouvenec who works packing sardines. She falls in love with an artist while supplementing her income by modeling for artists in an artist colony.

NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like-new in colorful dust jacket. When the new owners of the bed and breakfast arrive, they soon realize they're not the only ones who are interested in the place. The guests start arriving, one by one, and soon they're all trying to solve the mystery of who's behind the haunting.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Decie Merwin.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light soil. 253 pages. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on the front fly leaf (to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife). Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all black crew, searching the sea for their livelihood and battling the sea for their lives. Musty odor.

Hardcover. London, Theophilus Barrios, 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather binding with gilt border design and gilt initials "PPP" on upper and rear cover. All edges gilt. Volume published in London and sold in Paris. 460 pages plus a 4 page catalog of English books to be had at the Paris store. Includes a brief life of the author. Solid binding, text pages with some waviness, ink name on title page and dated 1829. Otherwise clean. Edgewear to cover edges, corners.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Rand, McNally & Commpany, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Hardcover with gilt decoration on front. Heavy soil and darkening of spine. 33-36 pages ripped in half. Illustrated by Milo Winter.

Philadelphia, John Winston , 1st illust., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages. 4 color and 10 B&W plates by Edwin J. Prittie. Green cloth with cover label illustrated.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, in a worn dust jacket with chipping and light soil.Dust jacket says Cupples and Leon, actual book states W.A. Wilde, Boston. Gumpy the runt is given his chance to be a sled dog by a boy who didn't know any better.

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on the title page. Discussion of the really bad English and American crime novels of 20th century. Introduction by Ed McBain. Index, bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he'd saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he'd saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY LETHEM on title page. Note signed by him laid in.