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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. 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.

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.

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.

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..