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Hardcover. Philadelphia , John C. Winston, 2nd pr., 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in yellow, in a chipped dust jacket. Color frontispiece, b&w drawings, and endpaper illustration by George Avison.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. In excellent shape. Clean and bright inside and out.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover,170 pages in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. When Nick investigates what he thinks are screams coming from the bushes in the park, he discovers the school outcast practicing his trumpet. Ratbag, a lanky, unkempt black boy who has a reputation as an unpleasant loner, may be different, but he is blessed with phenomenal innate musical talents. His talent is brought to the attention of the school band director, who uses his teen prodigy to lead his British school to the national playoffs in Amsterdam, where a mystery begins. Nick and Ratbag become unknowingly involved in a major drug-smuggling operation, and the boys are used as bait for police.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 158 pages. One of Henry Williamson's lesser-known novels: a cart horse and two monkeys decide they want to have a go at winning the Epson Derby. Dust jacket profoundly worn., tape repaired. Name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Rubbing Edgewear and soil to covers. Illustrated end papers. Scarce 1st edition.

New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Light soiling to front end paper otherwise very good. Dust jacket with chipping, small piece missing from front cover. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Alferd A. Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a special blank tipped-in page, one of an unknown number of such copies specially issued by publisher. The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 276 pages. light fraying to cloth at top of spine. Dust jacket worn, with chipping and chunks missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 624 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Green fabric bound covers, very well preserved for its age. Covers still bright, gilt title on spine. Just a bit of wear to spine, as well as some age wear at corners of covers (shelf wear). Edges and pages lightly yellow with age. No rips or tears, spine very much intact. Previous owners signatures and address label on first few pages (endpapers, front flyleaf).

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in the UK 1994. Remainder line top edge.

Hardcover. London, Oliver & Boyd, 1st UK, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 232 pages, illustrated in b&w by Robert Hales, translated by Evelyn Ramsden. Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was a Swedish children's book author and the author of the Pippi Longstocking series. Seacrow Island was published in Sweden in 1964. This volume from 1968 is the stated first English edition by Oliver & Boyd Ltd., London, published before the Viking American edition (Copyright page is at the back of the book). Light yellow cloth binding with illustration of a boy holding a dog on front board and printing on spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Binding is tight, square, clean and bright.

Softcover. Calcutta/Chicago, Seagull/University of Chicago, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, flexible cloth in a bright dust jacket. An elaborate catalog published by Seagull Books, a venture begun in Kolkata in 1982 by Naveen Kishore, a theater practitioner. They focus on world and Indian literature in English translation, serious non-fiction, culture studies, performance studies, art and cinema. 372 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages, illustrated in color by William Pene du Bois. Ex-library with light stamping to endpapers, envelope residue.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with some discoloration to rear bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Boston, A Nonpareil Book, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. Three novellas filled with humor and insight by one of America's modern literary masters. In Searches & Seizures, Elkin tells the story of the criminal, the lovelorn, and the grieving, each searching desperately for fulfillment - while on the verge of receiving much more than they bargained for. Infused with Elkin's signature wit and richly drawn characters, "The Bailbondsman," "The Making of Ashenden," and "The Condominium" are the creations of a literary virtuoso at the pinnacle of his craft. Mild soil, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Fiction Collective, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 153 pages. Banks' first story collection published in the same year as his first novel, Family Life.. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Persea Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by author. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 168 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, yellow wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. Black & white illustrations by Judith Gwyn Brown. Dust jacket with color cover illustration. Chunk from bottom spine, closed tears.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear and light small tearing. Covered in plastic bro-dart. Clean, tight copy with light foxing to fore edge text block.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light foxing to end papers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Gutter cracked in front. Illustrated by Richard Floethe. Spine faded.