Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #994. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers and pages in rear.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket, 301 pages. Adventure on the High Seas in Which Stuart Ormsby is Shanghaied Aboard the Tramp Steamer 'Nanking' Bound for Ports on the China Coast.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. When 15-year-old Angeleno Shanny Adler comes to spend the summer on aged Aunt Adabelle's ranch in the boondocks of Idaho, she brings along a purple punk hair-do, a drum set, a collection of esoteric trivia and a standard YA protagonist's pressing need to "find herself." By the end of the book she has found not only herself (and turned out to be a Pretty, Talented, Caring and Generally Worthwhile Person) but also the love of talented, caring "superhunk" Thor. She also drives the local theatrical enterprise from failure to smashing success, inspires old Adabelle not to give up her ranch, resuscitates a newborn kitten and generally turns everything she touches to gold. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ELLISON on the title page. Ellison's sixteen previously uncollected stories and new novella further his reputation as an intrepid explorer of odd psychological corners and a master of pure horror and black comedy. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. Eight months after being horribly disfigured in a car accident, Dan Marriott has his face rebuilt by plastic surgery, but he must still struggle with an amnesia that could mean his death as he is stalked by an unknown killer. Originally titled "The Plastic Nightmare". Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Honore Guilbeau, in rear, marbled covers with gilt title on leather spine, black slipcase. Minor corner bumps and light chip to spine edge, slipcase lightly cracked, overall, clean and tight.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHINE on title-page. Clean, tIght copy.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cover boards. What appears to be written on title page under author's name is "and Elizabeth Kent Tarshis" in black print letters. Black & white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Light foxing to copy throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Pess, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 79 pages. A children's chapter book following the story of a Turkish girl. Author McDonald was a pioneering journalist. Charming detailed full color and black and white illustrations by Weda Yap. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. NY, GP Putman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 374 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. A bright copy. When a man dies on live television, everyone believes it is a tragic accident. Kathy Mallory does not. The death was simply a performance planned for pagentry and spectacle. Mallory is on the trail of a killer whose mind makes the same dark twists as her own. The suspense builds steadily throughout the story until the compelling denoeument.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BROWN on the half-title page. An historical mystery based on and incorporating writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner--at his death the best-selling American author of all time--comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder--and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever, and a fitting conclusion to Hard Case Crime's revival of this classic (and long-unavailable) detective series. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1/4 black cloth. Silver lettering on spine. Black/purple decorative dj in protective clear plastic. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Avon/Bard, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. National Book Award Finalist sticker on front. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 82 pages. Black & white illustrations by Erick Berry. Pink stain front cover. Story of a slave girl who lived at Mt. Vernon and was Nellie Custis's servant. Takes place at Mount Vernon in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey consumed in a mysterious cafe called L'Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told before, perhaps the only important one he will ever tell. North's chosen interlocutor-who could be his doppelganger-is transfixed by the revelations and becomes the narrator of North's tale.

Softcover. New York, The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Some foxing throughout. A little age wear on the covers and damp stains throughout at bottom of spine (not on text). Light foxing on front flyleaf. Still intact and a cute look into the privileged and pampered life of Shirley Temple as a child star.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1st thus, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles on spine very faded, 12 color plates by Edmund Dulac. Endpapers foxed, rear covers with discoloration, light wear to top and bottom of spine. No markings.

NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 209 pages. Life in prehistoric Europe is recreated with drama and suspense as Shiva is kidnapped by an elder and must face the Ordeal by Poison. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, bright copy with only minor wear to dust jacekt and covers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers with stamped desin in black, 231 pages, with illustrations by Barbara Cooney throughout. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New york, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 756 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on bottom page block corner, as well as a few pages with short folded corners. Yellow decorative stain on top page block, light foxing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Gregg Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Part of the Gregg Press Science Fiction Series edited by David G. Hartwell and L. W. Currey. Features examples of storyboards from the film production, and black & white stills from the movie. No dust jacket as issued. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Paul Galdone. Edgewear, rubbing to corners and spine. Edgewear, chipping, soiling, rubbing to dust jacket. Price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, R. F. Fenno & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in white, unpaginated but approx. 120 pages. Features two short stories by the Polish writer: Sielanka and Orso. This book is NOT to be confused with a book near the same title: Sielanka: A Forest Picture and Other Stories, published the same year by Little, Brown. A small tear to the half title page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub in 1960, this edition probably early 70's, dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Very minor edge wear. Very minor spots on fore edge. Protective clear dust jacket cover. A very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 215 pages. John Tunis vividly imagines the drama of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkerque Sergeant Edward Williams of the Second Battalion was among the first British troops to land in France, just across the English Channel from his family in Dover, after the declaration of war in September of 1939. Battles have been few and far between since then, in what the Germans have been calling der Sitzkrieg--the sitting war. In May 1940, under the leadership of their new prime minister, Winston Churchill, the British are hoping to stem the tide of invasion along their southern border. But now, flanked to the east and west by German troops and cut off from the Allies further south, Sergeant Williams and his battalion must retreat to Dunkerque in the north, and escape by sea is their only hope. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY LOWRY on title-page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Black & white illustrations by Harold Jones. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. Bos, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 93 pages, with line drawings by Uri Shulevitz throughout. Light dust jacket edge wear and creases, front flap clipped, otherwise, internally clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 235 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has heavy wear to edges, and light chipping and tears to spine. Covered with plastic. Cover boards clean and bright with minimal wear to edges. Pages darkened, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 40 pages. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Rubbing to dust jacket. Small stain on back cover.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 255 pages, b&w illustrations by John R. Neill. Light blue cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing. Cover title in silver, drawing of Mandy on spine. Books published after 1936 lacked color plates except for the cover. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Endpaper drawings neatly colored in at both ends. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London/N.Y., Frederick Warner , 1st U.S., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 323 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Valerie Sweet. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and in protective brodart. Color illustrations throughout. decorated endpapers. Dust jacket has some age-yellowing. Cover boards decorated in same design as dust jacket. Small superficial tear to top of front cover at spine. Clean inside. In beautiful condition for its age.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 121 pages. Black & white drawings by Alan Tiegreen. Dust jacket price clipped. Black cloth binding with edgewear. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips. A Cinderella story with a magical feeling, but no actual unreality. Thursey works for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters and dreams of going to the ball and meeting the prince.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and World, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 178 pages. The first biographical and critical study of the most prolific and widely read living author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GENNADY SPIRIN opposite title page in gold ink, and SIGNED BY JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS in blue felt pen ink in title page. Tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY HIJUELOS on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 254 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE.

Hardcover. NY, Phoenix Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edge wear. A pulp romance from World War II about an office love affair. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Books/ Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 245 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings by Carl Moon. Soiling and spotting to edges. Spine darkened. Red top edge. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Berkeley, California, Parnassus Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by John Larrecq. Very minor wear and soiling to dust jacket, otherwise clean.