Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy fraying to cover boards and gutter fragile throughout. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and one page.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-367, 120, 136 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.

New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by David Diaz, his 1st book. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue. From family pictures to pinatas, from the "gato "with a meow like a rusty latch to Fourth of July fireworks, the poet celebrates the startling and often overlooked moments that define childhood. Affectionate without being overly sentimental, the collection provides a good introduction to contemporary poetry as well as a fine homage to a Chicano community.

Hardcover. NY, W.J. Watt & Co., 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Blue-gray cloth binding with black design on cover. Light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Robinson. Sometimes Robbie wishes his family were just a little more normal. With the toddler twins, life is happy, wild, and a big mess, but when the teacher is invited to dinner, Robbie worries about how to explain them and his stay-at-home father. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Babbitt. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 419 pages, dark blue covers with two color decoration. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on the spine and front cover, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 365 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. No markings.

New York , Bedrick/Blackie, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 24 pages. Color illustrations by Ambrus. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. After laughing at a bear, a farmer must do some thinking in order to keep from losing his cow and his hens.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, Reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Keith Ward and Eleanor Campbell. "Public School 201, 155 St. & 65 Avenue, Flushing, N. Y." stamped at top right left corner of title page. Light rubbing, surface soiling to covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Preface by Jorge Luis Borges. Translated from the Spanish by Richard and Lucia Cunningham. Published originally as La Ultima Niebla, by Editorial Orbe, Santiago de Chile: 1976. Maria Luisa Bombal (1910-1980) was one of the most important Chilean writers of the 20th century. The stories in New Islands, written in the 1940s, represent the best of Bombal's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Fawcett, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. On Mardi Gras, civic leader and socialite Chauncey St. Amant is about to be crowned Rex, King of Carnival, when someone costumed as Dolly Parton shoots him dead from his best friend's balcony overlooking the parade. Is the killer aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Female rookie cop Skip Langdon uncovers a cast of intriguing characters, all as much Chauncey's victims as they are suspects in his murder, most of them inhabiting a "poison garden of corruption" and substance abuse where it's not just on Mardi Gras that everyone wears a mask. The first Skip Langdon Mystery. Clean copy. Edgar Award Wimmer, 1991.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 121 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP EDGE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Black & white illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear, small tear to front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Novelist and critic Colm Toibin provides "a fascinating exploration of writers and their families" (Entertainment Weekly) and "an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires" (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work. Colm Toibin--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, Toibin examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Clean copy.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1079. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge is cracked and separated from spine.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941`, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Black & white drawings by Armstrong Sperry. Bright dust jacket with closed tears to top and bottom edges, spine edgewear.

NY, Viking, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 173 pages. Fore-edges stamped. Bright dust jacket painting by Larry Raymond. College freshman Gerald McQuillen is recruited by a government agent to infiltrate an elitist international student society suspected of right-wing extremist tendencies.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY DENNIS LEE ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color and black & white by Frank Newfeld. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, tight copy. A collection of thirty nonsense poems including the tale of Nicholas Knock and his friendship with a silver honkabeest.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Out of print. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with small dent to spine. Dust jacket with slight soiling, chipping and small tear to front cover. Overall a very nice, tight copy in protective, clear brodart cover.

Softcover. NY, Pegasus Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 344 pages. A new Pegasus Crime edition of the landmark noir novel by "the supreme master of suspense." (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review)In Woolrich's iconic tale, Detective Tom Shawn saves a lovely young woman from a suicide attempt one night, and later hears her story. She is in despair because the death of her wealthy father has been predicted by a confidence man seemingly gifted with the power of clairvoyance; a man whose predictions have unerringly aided her father in his business many times before. Shawn and a squad of detectives investigate this dire prediction and try to avert the millionaire businessman from meeting his ordained end at the stroke of midnight. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 150 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket worn with foxing, short closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with a black cloth spine, 273 pages. Grubb's first book which was made into a Charles Laughton directed movie with Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. One of a thousand copies specially autographed for friends of the author and publisher. Small scar to blue paper on boards along cloth on front cover, other wise clean, bright copy. Lacking the glassine wrapper.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO LEE BY AUTHOR. Otherwise clean, tight copy with light edgewear on cover boards.

Softcover. Greenwich NY, Fawcett, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A paperback original. A very good copy in the original thin card pictorial wrappers as issued, light wear to extremities, Gold Medal Book #s1083. Stated first printing.

Softcover. New York, Harmony Books, proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED on the title page by author.

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a fair to poor dust jacket. Tommy Hambledon joins the chase when an innocent Londoner flees to Paris, pursued by Soviet agents convinced he has secret plans. 192 pages, bound in blue gray cloth, spine lettering white, pages tanned due to cheap postwar paper used. Dust jacket is worn, chipped wit a big chunk of spine gone.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tim Gabor. When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger's name. But David's nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason--and had driven his wife to murder. Now David's got to make his way through a shadow world of suspicion and deception, of dirty deals and brutal crimes, and he needs to stay one step ahead of enemies whose identity he doesn't even know--since if he can't, his impersonation of a dead man is about to become a lot more realistic. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KING on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Warner Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Softcover. Berkeley, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1947 Goodis classic. A flawless copy of this Black Lizard reprint.

Hardcover. Natick, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Translated from Danish by Anthea Bell.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket illustrated and black & white frontispiece by Jerry Pickney. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Berkley Publishing / G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. First edition. Gilt title on spine. A bit of chipping to top of spine. Light wear to dust jacket and pages lightly yellowed due to age. Otherwise, clean inside and in good shape. Science fiction tale based 100,000 years in the future.

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. The first English translation of the last work of Gogol to be published during his lifetime. The only important nonfiction prose work of the Russian novelist, the*e thirty-two critical essays, written in the form of personal letters, define Gogol's views on religion, morality, and aesthetics and provide a key to the underlying motives and messages of his earlier fiction, including Dead Souls and The Inspector General. Translated from the Russian by Jesse Zeldin.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 171 pages. Black & white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Dust jacket price clipped and lightly soiled. Dust jacket chipping at spine.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1837, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, J.H. Sears & Co. Inc., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Cloth boards with color paste-down illustration of Nip and Tuck on cover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and six full page color illustrations by Leila C. Freeman. Faint rubbing on front cover along spine approx. 1". Minor wear to spine top and bottom and corners. Printed bookplate has light crayon printing over letters. A beautiful book.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Two private investigators--Bill Smith and Lydia Chin--investigate a construction site plagued by thieves and a murder, in a case that leads them into the darkest depths of the underworld.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 192 pages. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety? Clean.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a $2.75 price on flap. 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Garrett Price. SIGNED BY JOHNSON "with best wishes" on the 2nd blank page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on covers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine wrinkled.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading along spine edge. Clean. The eighth literate mystery featuring English professor/sleuth Kate Fansler.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Palazzo, previous owner's sticker on front endpaper and minor edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth over boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Color frontis and b&w plates by W. C. Trout. A story set in the Caucasus Mountains follows the adventures of a Georgian boy named Gogi and his sister Keto. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stalking a serial killer in Miami. Remainder line to top edge.