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Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, green cloth stamped in gilt, 393 and 426 pages, Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. Dickens first published book from 1837--sketches originally published in various London newspapers and periodicals between 1833-1837, to the delight of Londoners. Tales, stories, portraits of life and cultural mores, characters, places in London in early 19th century, often hilarious, from farce to tragedy. With the original illustrations, most by George Cruikshank. Reprinted from the 1867 and 1868 editions published by Chapman and Hall. Light shelf wear, Vol. 1 with fraying to top of spine. Spine cloth faded to tan color. These are heavy and oversized books and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Mark Eastbrook. It's been 33 years since the world-class thief known only by his last name--Nolan--last appeared in a novel by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Max Allan Collins. Since then, the big man has gone straight and even proposed to his longtime lover, Sherry. But when their honeymoon plans take them to a Las Vegas casino with Mob connections, it's going to take all of Nolan's survival instincts--and the help of his old friend and frequent accomplice, Jon--to keep him from an unmarked grave in the unforgiving desert. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Ontario Review Press, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light shelf-wear. Nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Princeton, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, a clean, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY POVERMAN on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on the dedication page, dated 1966. No dust jacket. With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdoor work and play, but Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be cross, Master Christopher Dock is kind, firm, and patient.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy, otherwise.

Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red covers with white stamped lettering, with some smudging and decoration on front. Illustrations by Ernest Fuhr. Black & white frontispiece. Front hinge torn on preliminary page. Light edge wear to covers, previous owner's markings on front end paper.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Young Readers, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 124 pages illustrated in b& w and color by Jon Klassen. Badger is a quiet, solitary geologist intent on his important rock work. Skunk is an outgoing, friendly, unwelcome new roommate. They have nothing in common. Aunt Lula must have been crazy to suggest it-this is never going to work out. But, the more time they spend together, the more they learn about each other. Maybe they have more in common than they realized, and maybe being roommates is just what they both needed. And who knew chickens were such conversationalists and story lovers? In a classic odd-couple pairing, Badger and Skunk show how opposites attract and that making friends means opening yourself up to possibilities.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. , 1st, 1963 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 62 pages, illustrated in B&W by Douglas Gorsline. dust jacket with light edgewear, price clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, 1st, 1969, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 284 pages. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author (1930-2008), a ribald satire that became a small-scale literary cause celebre after an excerpt published in The Paris Review in 1967 ignited a somewhat bizarre censorship attempt in the Long Island town of South Farmingdale, N.Y.; in the course of the kerfuffle, TPR editor George Plimpton interceded to speak out against the censorship, and subsequently agreed to published the full novel under the Paris Review Editions imprint. Better known as a poet and essayist, Wiebe enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Cincinnati; at least one critic has declared his work to be in the same darkly comic literary vein as that of Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs and Flannery O'Connor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 355 pages. An illustrated collection of thrilling tales from science fiction masters such as Bradbury, Asimov, and Vinge focuses on life in space habitats and includes essays by scientists that discuss the potential realities of space stations and homes. Clean copy.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s817. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, signed copy with only minor wear to cover edges. A tight copy. Front cover has diecut with "signed first edition" sticker on front.

Softcover. New York, Vintage, 1st paperback., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, softcover uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor corner wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 78 pages. Black & white illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. Dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing. Remainder mark bottom edge.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play Press, 1st U.S., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 on flap with the number 8021 underneath it, and the number 0369 on the bottom rear flap, indicating a true first edition jacket. Stated fifth printing June 1969. Light blue boards, gold and red titles on spine, gold facsimile signature on front board. There is tanning and light soil to the dust jacket. No markings. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages, stated 5th printing. Dust jacket unclipped with light tanning. ($5.95 on front flap; 0369 on back flap). INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY VONNEGUT on the half-title page. Appears to inscribed by Vonnegut to a third party; "Earle F. Hiscock/ May 27, 1969 from RCH & Lynn SH/ Kurt Vonnegut Jr." Related newspaper clippings laid in at front.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Historical novel for young adults about a slave doctor in the West Indies in the 1680s. Originally published in the Netherlands in 1965. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. David Cleveland, the official investigator for the English Jockey Club, is sent to Norway to help investiagte the disappearance of an English steeplchase jockey.

Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, Uncorrected proof, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, b&w drawings by Karen Usborne, INSCRIBED BY WILSON to Irving and Joyce (Adler) on the title page and dated August 1970. Wilson has also added 3 titles to the list of his previously published books on the opposite page. Joyce Adler wrote several books on Caribbean literature and Harris. She has marked up this book in pencil and pen with underlining and marginal notes. This edition published before the hardcover printing. Peach color wrappers faded..

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, with drawings by Karen Usborne throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.