Softcover. New York, Faber, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Berkley Prime Crime, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. The 6th mystery set in the small town of Pecan Springs, Texas, featuring former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles. Bayles investigates the murder of retired Texas Ranger Roy Adcock which hits surprisingly close to home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends Saturday mornings watching cartoons and eating Cocoa Puffs out of an Empire Strikes Back bowl, and devotes the rest of the weekend to his other favorite hobbies: sports and girls. His credo, to think and act like a thirteen-year-old boy at all times, has worked well enough to land him a decent job writing headlines for the New York Tabloid. But neither his personal life nor his professional life has any forward momentum; he's occupied the same cubicle since the first George Bush was president and is currently "between girlfriends." At thirty-two, it starts to occur to him: There's a fine line between picky and loser. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DAHLOV IPCAR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Dahlov Ipcar. Degree of fading to spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Brodart cover to dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the S. Miriella Gable Prize. Amy Hempel has said "Victoria Redel's contribution to the literature of obsession is rendered with unusual delicacy and daring." In this exquisite debut novel, Victoria Redel takes us deep into the mind of a very singular mother, and yet through her we see the dangerously whisper-thin line between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all devotion. After all, "Who has ever wanted to share a love?" Clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, August 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 224 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #1654. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light crease to covers. A Carter Borwn Mystery Series.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BAKER on title-page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Delta Fiction, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY BARRETT on title page. Advance Reading copy. Tight copy. Light wear to spine.

Softcover. NY, Delta, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Corner and edge wear otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston. MA, Little Brown & Company, 1st US, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages. Hardcover. Light green cloth. Light sunning, soiling to spine. Faint foxing to edges. Nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Sundial Press, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Morgan Dennis. Dust jacket shows moderate chipping and wear. Clean, bright copy internally.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran , 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 309 pages. Color frontis and endpapers illustration by Morgan Dennis. Blake Carson adopts a mongrel named Luck off a dock in Seattle. The dog lives up to his name when his dog team is stranded on an ice floe in Alaska. Front fly gone but otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action--but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing wife of Bill's latest mark. Together they hatch an ingenious scheme to get rid of her husband. But in life as in poker, the other player sometimes has an ace up his sleeve.LUCKY AT CARDS is a major discovery: This is the book's first publication in 37 years, and first publication ever under Lawrence Block's real name! 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. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1942, Hardcover, 290 pages illustrated in b&w by John R. Neill. Blue-green cloth covers with color illustrated pastedown on front. B&w endpaper drawings by Neill. Exceptionally bright, clean copy. A small light green bleed from cloth cover to front plate along 3 inches at bottom.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 89 pages. Illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Light soiling to contents page. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Stain to bottom corner of cover. Corners bumped. Dust jacket with chipping, creases. Small chunks missing top & bottom of spine. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 339 pages. "Probes compassionately into the life history of a woman in pursuit of love. The moment in time which is decisive for Lucy Crown and which irrevocably changes the entire pattern of her own, her husband's and her son's lives arrives when, on summer holiday, unexpectedly and almost by accident, she finds herself involved with a man much younger than herself." (from the jacket). Musty odor.

New Jersey, Prentice-Hill, Inc., reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victoria de Larrea. Light discoloration to top back panel of dust jacket. Library discard stamp inside front and back cover. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 53 pages, illustrated in b&w by Franz Deak. SIGNED BY GALLICO on the front fly leaf, additionally INSCRIBED BY VIRGINIA BARONESS LUDMILA VON FALZ-FEIN just below Gallico's signature. Dated 7/6/57. This charming tale about a little Liechtenstein cow with great ambitions was the first of his works to be published in Liechtenstein. The story was first printed in the Christmas issue of The Sketch (London). Mild edgewear to dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. Quick, Vaduz, Quick, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with edgewear, Signed and inscribed to former owner by Paul Gallico and signed by Baroness von Falz-fein (Mother of Ludmila), otherwise unmarked clean and solid copy. Charming story of The Weakling, a cow with great ambition to be the champion milk prducer in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Gallico was a resident of Liechtenstein at the time the book was written. Later, in 1963, Gallico married the Baroness, 30 years his junior.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, price-clipped. B&w drawings by Emily Arnold McCully. Luigi, who lives on the streets in the French port of Marseilles, believes a gypsy has put a curse on his family. Against a vivid background of assorted characters, the author has created exciting and humorous story.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover. Blue & black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright, full color illustration to dust jacket with gold printed decoration & titles. Very clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with 3-color design on cover of young man holding telegram, 346 pages, publisher's ads in rear, b&w frontispiece. Pencil inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean. No date other than 1889 on copyright page.

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 74 pages, b&w illustrations by Diane deGroat. Fading to endpapers. "Chronicles of a young boy's search for security after his stepfather leaves home, his mother becomes ill and goes into the hospital and he and his brother are placed into a childrens home."

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 277 pages. Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz. Soiled edges. Markings to covers. Edgewear. Corners a bit bumped, rubbed. Illustrated endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. Black & white drawings by Richard Amundsen. Light soil to rear of dust jacket..

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #901. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #750. Spine fragile. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, with illustrations by Sarah S. Stilwell throughout. Gilt titles and top edge. Minor corner and edge wear, frontispiece illustration loose, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Light pencil markings throughout. Ex-library copy with all usual stampings and markings. Light soiling to cover board edges., two abrasions on rear fore edge. Retro printed graphic to cover and spine, printed in black & wine. Toning to pages throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 5th pr, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Library of America, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1408 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, fine condition with ivory slipcase decorated with gilt design. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction, and an ALA Notable Book. With an African American protagonist, this is a young adult coming of age book set in hills scarred by strip mining. Newbery Medal on front jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Quartet, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 168 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, minor edgewear to dust jacket. Madame Aubry is a lovely seventeenth-century sleuth who does much of her best thinking while in bed with her lover.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #106. Light peeling to laminate. Map on rear cover. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Pierre Louys Society, 1st Thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. 12 Full color Illustrations by Clara Tice. Limited edition of 1250 copies - this being hand numbered #47. Front hinge cracked with front cover still attached firmly to spine cloth. Text and illustrations clean and bright.

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Pennington Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in maroon. Two-color drawings by Lonnie Stern. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st Edition, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 151 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear with chipping about the edges and fading (see image). Boards are bound in pink cloth, black title on spine and front cover board. Some tanning to edges and pages (see image), doesn't affect text or illustrations. In great shape. A charming children's book, early Maurice Sendak illustrations. Great for a collector.

Hardcover. Mount Vernon NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st yhus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover very good in glassine dust-wrapper and slipcase. Illustrated with gravures from Eechings by Sigmund Abeles and #1370/2,000 copies signed by him. Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau. Quarter black morocco spine decorated in gilt over gray striped cloth, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very nice condition, some very minor wear to dust jacket but otherwise new-looking. Nice color illustrations by Demi.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in 3-colors by Wallace Tripp. Page 26 has crease. Back interior paste down has production flaw- does not effect inner pages. Light marking on cover. Otherwise, Clean, tight copy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 93 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bill Sokol. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Library bookplate front end paper and residue from paper pasted onto rear endpaper. Residue from library label on dust jacket spine. Otherwise very good.

Softcover. NY, Grove Press, Special Reader's Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 266 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Maroon cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is a second printing from 1923 with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Short tear to top of spine at rear edge, cover plate with light rubbing, mild soil.