Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current times. Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), one of nineteenth-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men brings together sixteen of Laboulaye's most artful stories in new translations. Filled with biting social commentary and strong notions of social justice, these rediscovered tales continue to impart lessons today. Inspired by folktales from such places as Estonia, Germany, Iceland, and Italy, Laboulaye's deceptively entertaining stories explore the relationships between society and the ruling class. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers, 317 pages. Corner of first page of book torn. Rubbing to extremities.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 317 pages, yellow cloth with brown lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. An attractive copy.

Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages, hardcover. Illustrations by Vee Guthrie. Illustrated green boards. Soiling to front and rear panels. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards as well. Corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TILE PAGE. Book and dust jacket show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Headline Book Publishing, London, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 533 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, supplemented with an interview of the author, a short story by the author, and discussion questions. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. Cloth boards. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with two small closed tears. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, also INSCRIBED by him on blank prelim page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Three-color illustrations by Richard Cuffari.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. An uncommon biography of strong-willed Greenwood, Mississippi professional studio photographer Lillian Spurrier with the autobiographical musings of her like-mannered daughter, Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963), who taught creative writing at Ole Miss, authored one book of fiction titled IN THE PINK (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), was a close friend of Eudora Welty, and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1935. Topp family b/w portrait images upon front and rear endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. Orange cloth-covered boards, black cloth spine, black illustrated dust jacket. Clean covers, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, 308 pages. B&w illustrations by James. Front fly leaf with bookplate, residue, otherwise clean. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt titles on spine, color illustrated on cover pastedown, 263 pages, 6 color and 8 b&w plates by Will James. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Otherwise clean copy.

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 190 pages. Dust jacket illustration by Alan Cobe. Gerald Briggs runs away from his home, a thriving sheep farm, and from his stepfather's crooked ways. He and his lamb Smudge stay quietly with an old hermit until he uncovers thefts and violence. Dust jacket price-clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design and lettering. Illustrated with four 2-color plates and endpapers art by Richard Rogers. SIGNED BY STACKPOLE on title page. Light pencil marking to pages throughout otherwise a nice, tight copy. Uncommon title of an adventure set on Nantucket Island.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and yellowing dust jacket. Tromp Kramer, Africaner police detective, and Mickey Zondi, Bantu police sergeant, in Trekkersburg, South Africa, are featured in this fourth detective novel by McClure. Exotic dancer Eve?'s sensual act features a five-foot royal python. When she is discovered in her dressing room dead of strangulation, her dancing partner turns out to be the murder weapon.

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Friends of the Library of Middlebury College, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet with cream colored heavy stock paper. Black decoration on front. Limited to 350 copies. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Patrick Faricy. Whether it's a Middle East oil crisis in the 1970s or the London Blitz during WWII, world events have a way of breeding trouble on the home front, too. That's how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N. Ambassador, wound up kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and how Robby Burnes, orphaned son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the snowy streets of New York City. But as Robby's famous namesake taught us, the best laid plans don't always work out as intended. Especially not when you'e a kidnapper in the hands of Gregory Mcdonald. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages in an unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy. The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals, Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress, Laverne, a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops, fried potatoes, and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere, long-gartered silk stockings, and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR ON TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.