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Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In the middle of the bustle of London's Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and pubs, there sits a building. It isn't par-ticularly assuming, but its location is prime, and Agatha Howard, a young millionaire with a fortune of mysterious provenance, has decided it's the perfect spot to build condos. First, though, she has to kick out all the tenants. And Precious and Tabitha, two of the women who live and work in a brothel housed in the building, are determined not to go quietly. A colorful assortment of other charac-ters also find themselves caught up in the fate of this property: Robert, a one-time member of a far-right group and enforcer for Agatha's father; Bastian, a rich and dissatisfied party boy who pines for an ex-girlfriend; Jackie, a policewoman intent on making London a safer place for all women; and Cheryl, one of the many homeless people who occupy the building's basement. As their lives converge, surpris-ing hidden connections emerge, shadowy pasts are uncovered, and the fight over the property boils over into a hot stew. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 241 pages. Black & white illustrations by Richard Bennett. Corners a bit bumped. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping. Small chunk missing from top of spine. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. Translated by Richard Howard. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. A story of old New York in Peter Stuyvesant's time. Dust jacket with major chipping, wear.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Sticker residue on front of dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Little Brown and Co., 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, black cloth covers with red lettering. Nice, clean copy of the novel which the Hitchcock film "Spellbound" is based.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, like new in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia. The book's anonymous narrator--a Red Army veteran and unapologetic war criminal--and his passive, poetic half-brother, Lev, become pinned in a politically dangerous love triangle with the exotic Zoya, though their tactics (and intentions) are as divergent as their personalities. Swept up in the wave of Stalin's paranoid purges, the brothers are sent independently to Norlag, a Siberian internment camp where their respective fates are cast through their contrasting reactions to the depravity of the prison. Zoya and Lev share a night in "The House of Meetings," a room provided for conjugal visits with the prisoners, and the events of that night reverberate through the decades, the details of the liaison remaining concealed until the story's devastating denouement.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, A novel of Indians in Hudson Valley. 191 pages, including bibliography, illustrated in B&W by Larry Toschik. Dust jacket faded at edges with edgewear and creases.

Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 254 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles. Pages are clean, unmarked. Dust jacket missing 2.25" of paper from bottom portion of spine, chipping and pieces missing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 281 pages. Ruth Rendell writes as Barbara Vine.

Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Third novel published by "Vine", psuedonym of Ruth Rendell.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners name and date at top of front endpaper. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, David White, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illust. by Paul Giovanopoulos. Small number lettered on dust jacket spine and rear panel.

Hardcover. New York , David White Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages, black & white illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. Spine faded, library binding with sticker, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards. Some fading and dame to spine (see image). Slight tanning to boards and pages from age. Two-color illustrations throughout. Some light fingerprint smudges throughout.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 276 pages with index. INSCRIBED BY BODGER on the front fly leaf. Over fifty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and two children went to Britain on a special literary quest. They were seeking the world that they knew and loved through children's books. In Winnie-the-Pooh Country, Mrs. Milne showed them the way to that enchanted place on the top of the Forest [where] a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. In Edinburgh they stood outside Robert Louis Stevenson's childhood home, tilting their heads to talk to a lamplighter who was doing his job. In the Lake District they visited Jemima Puddle-Duck's farm, and Joan sought out crusty Arthur Ransome to talk to him about Swallows and Amazons. They spent several days messing about in boats on the River Thames, looking for Toad Hall and other places described by Kenneth Grahame in The Wind in the Willows. Mud and flood kept them from attaining the slopes of Pooks Hill (on Rudyard Kiplings farm), but they scaled the heights of Tintagel.

Hardcover. Great Britain, Abelard-Schuman Limited, Reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. In beautiful condition. the classic Grimm tale of the origins of the moon is brought back to life.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. embossed blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Mild fading to spine. B&w illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, otherwise clean. Wonderful whimscal traditional short stories that detail how various animals got their name. It all starts in God's workshop where he fashions shapes out of clay and breathes life into them. What is interesting is that Hughes gives the animals free will to choose themselves - both in terms of what they will eat, how they will live, what they will do and what their name will be.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 222 pages. Lovely copy in brodart protected dust jacket. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, in a protected sleeve. Intelligent and heartfelt short stories. Rough-cut edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , rep, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Dj with chipping and wear, back panel repaired with tape. Internally clean, black & white illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Investigating the mysterious death of the local librarian, Ellie Haskell is entranced by the arrival of romance cover model Karisma, whose muscle-bound fund-raiser is upended by second and third murders.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CANNELL on title page. Clean, like new. After her obnoxious mother-in-law moves in permanently, Ellie Haskell falls in with three other local women also living with tyrannical mothers-in-law, and their imaginary scheme to solve their problems suddenly turns lethal.