Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences--but coming after Quarry has consequences, too. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on title page.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders--and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders--and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. West Kingston RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth covers. Collection of Lovecraft's nonfiction writings covering: Science, Literature and Esthetics, Philosophy, Travel, and History. Light wear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Fisher Unwin, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black and gilt decoration. Sepia photograph as frontispiece, top edge gilt. Covers show edge wear, rubbing. Preliminary pages with foxing, tanning. Internally clean, solid copy.

New York , Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Illustrated in color by the author. In very good condition. Beautiful full-color illustrations based on Renaissance paintings complement the whimsical story of the foolish Queen Ruby, whose vanity and love for getting dressed up to go for her carriage ride almost bring her country to ruin.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. In a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The Brevitt brothers find themselves being tracked down by two ruthless murders when they undertake a search for hidden treasure. Set in Australia.

Hardcover. London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. This classic work of world literature by the 1994 Japanese Nobel laureate is a devastating and moving blend of memoir and fiction. An uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction, A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain-damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical composition; and her mother's life is devoted to the care of them both. Ma-chan and her younger brother find themselves emotionally on the outside of this oddly constructed nuclear family. But when her father accepts a visiting professorship from an American university, Ma-chan finds herself suddenly the head of the household and at the center of family relationships that "are movingly illuminated" (The New York Times) through Oe's unique and unpredictable genius.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982. INSCRIBED BY UPDIKE on the front fly leaf: " for Dee- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Harry Angstrom and his friend John Updike". Stated First Edition of Updike's most famous book of the four-part Harry Angstrom saga. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Black & white illustrations by Wallace Tripp. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, short closed tear. Rabbits and his fellow citizens save the town from takeover by the evil Mink Mumsey. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 306 pages. The author's first book. The dust jacket has a big chunk out of front (takes out A-H in last name of author & CE in title). $3.50 on front dj flap. Stated first edition with code B-D. Light wear, chips to spine.

Hardcover. New York, DK Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 101 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.

NY, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor, worn and chipped dust jacket. Bright blue cloth covers stamped with a treasure chest on the cover. INSCRIBED BY IVY BOLTON (SISTER MERCEDES) on the front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations by William M. Berger. When Captain Raeburn and his wife sail away on an important mission, their five children go to live with an uncle on the Kennebec in Maine. Lost treasure, mutiny on shipboard, French and Indian plots of war are woven into this historical adventure novel for young adults. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor soil to rear panel. 107 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black stamped decoration. Mild fade to spine. 315 pages, Blue endpapers design and b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford U. Press, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 85 pages. Black & white and 2-color illustrations by Jones. Soiling to endpapers, covers.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. Yorkshire 1855. Colonel Aubrey Tarleton is a man respected by his neighbors in the small Yorkshire village of South Otterington - as much for his heroic feats in the army as for his social position. So the community is left stunned when Tarleton, deliberately, walks into the path of a speeding train. He is crushed to death on the track, but it is not his broken limbs that attract the attention of the train driver; rather, it is the note pinned to his chest, fluttering in the breeze: 'Whoever finds me, notify Superintendent Tallis of the Detective Department at Scotland Yard'. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, finds his superior officer in great distress when he arrives at the Yard the following morning. Tallis is clutching a letter from his now-deceased friend. In it, Tarleton makes it clear that he no longer wishes to live if he has to do so without his beloved wife, who has disappeared. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has light wear to edges of spine. Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Villard, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dr. Crandall Taylor--or rather the actor who plays him--is enjoying a cushy new life in the City of the Lights where his now-cancelled American soap opera has become a prime time retro cult hit. This newfound stardom isn't wasted on him. Anxious to keep his brutal past a secret from fans, he's enjoying all the fruits that fame has to offer: adulation, entree into the trendiest clubs, and sex. What he really wants is to fund a feature film.Crandall uses his charm and intellect to draw into his narcissistic web four women: a horny network executive; an internet porn star; a bookish university student with a nasty bent; and the fetching starlet wife of an arms dealer. Crandall accepts both the crime lord's cash and his beautiful wife's advances. Big mistake. Now Crandall must channel his violent, megalomaniacal dark side just to stay alive--and on the run.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed-not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught. In a brilliant yet daring spy scheme to protect Britain's shores, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French High Command-and the penalty for failure is the guillotine. Pages tanning. Otherwise a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company, 1st U.S., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 226 pages. Very good.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages, hardcover. Gilt labeling intact on green cloth boards. Mild rubbing to boards, slight cocking to spine. Bumping to corners. Previous owners name stamped on front endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece intact. A bright and clean copy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth, 260 pages with 5 b&w illustrations by Henry J. Peck. Previous owners inscription on front fly. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier. 297 pages, six full-page black & white illustrations, top edge gilt. Spine faded, Last 10 pages with top edge of paper scuffed, frayed. Beautiful gilt drawing on red cover.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Scarce, early Frost work. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Back endpapers have a mended rip at gutter. Cover boards bound in orange. Covers have some age wear. Pages are age-yellowed with a touch of foxing in places. Does not affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row., 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY VAN GIESON on title page.

hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Roughly opened at pg.120, otherwise VG.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 2nd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Trina Schart Hyman. This retelling of a favorite fairy tale, illustrated by award-winning artist Trina Schart Hyman in an edition Publishers Weekly called "spellbinding," has been lovingly restored. Digital technology brings back the clarity and brightness of Hyman's original watercolor paintings to illuminate the terrifying woods, handsome prince, and Rapunzel's lustrous hair, as Hyman originally painted them. Originally published in 1982

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Brattleborough, William Fessenden, 2nd, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Miniature hardcover with heavy rubbing to leather covers. Pages browned by age, moderate soil. Ex-Library with sticker on spine, and embossed stamp on front fly leaf. Tight copy for age. Previous owner's name on sticky note.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price clipped dust jacket.545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. While visiting her brother, who is researching the biochemical properties of snake venom, mute Zoe Carver attempts to discover the truth about the tragedy that claimed her voice.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 177 pages. Perhaps the most significant and influential figure in this century's wave of American realism, Raymond Carver (1938-1988) is credited not only with reviving the short story as an artistically legitimate form, but also with perfecting minimalist fiction. Moving chronologically through Carver's complete short fiction canon and examining key stories in depth, Ewing Campbell traces the author's development through and beyond literary minimalism, into the tradition of tragic allegory. He explores Carvers persistent use of myth and archetype; motifs of the grotesque; religious iconography; and oppressed, spiritually paralyzed characters. From the earliest stories through the latest, Campbell illuminates Carvers constant fascination with the way individuals connect or fail to connect with one another. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire.In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light spots to top edge otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Roger Rasmussen travels to the Boy Scout Jamboree in Southern California. 180 pages, b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1997-04-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and damp-staining to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrup, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 black & white illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Red cloth spine faded on parts of spine and rear panel. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Attractive gilt-decorated front cover.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, turquoise cloth with black and silver stamping. Bright unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY LURIE on front fly leaf .